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4 house without .children, did you ever observe it?'
i* a desolate D anedon cverahadowed by glean;
ate lane, silent chambersre.eaho your footsteps,
And shadowy apeotree alt oftthreugh your room.
There dyspepsia is rampant, the bluea they assail
Pau,
And traubiee crowd' thickly of like kith and Ida ;
There the agile or the doctor ie 01* esen standing,
And crape on the kueoker tells of sorrow within.
hoa+e without children 1 gray don't advertise
Neeplhe street and the nuutbera secret, ins friend ,
Let the clock tlekiaalienee the few fleeting momenta
Tee have yet in your louoly spartrneate fR spend.
I wonder it any one knew of a dweU'ng
Where tee neighbors would Uke to hear voices of
glee?
could bring them, I'm ease, in ourrlahsl and Annie,
Delightful eanspanione. it they'll notify rue.
Per the nun breaksupon them the first in the morn-
steel the birds they love dearly to come day by day
And pick up the ern nbewhich their Uttle hands scat-
ter.
When, bone4tng with We they run; out to ,play.
Pose anyone know of any such dwelling?
1* neide*nus* 1e small, for onrmeans are uotl
'Where the landlord. blase hire t for tl.e sale g l
tka ehBJren.
Will throw is the rent at a nominal charges.
CHOLERA. COMING.
'Alae E 4-tra Quarantine 1l*easuree taken
the 4leverstruent.
In anticipation of the invasion in
Canada of the Asiatic cholera, which has
now alarure4 the world by its, appearance In
the Mediterranean porta, the Dominion
government, at the last amid= of Perlia-
anent, tools steps to be prepared for, and
prevent the et:Mar a obtaining a foot hold
In this country. Two new quarantine
stations were eraetad ; arm at Sydney, N. 8.,
and the other atVictoria, B.C. Station* now
exist at all the principal porta of entry on the
Atlantic coast of the Domino's, In addition
to the regulations of 1365 and 1573 govern -
tag these stations, the following new orders,
passed specially *a connection with the
present spread of the epidemic, ars being
sateadily enforced ;-
1. That anis vessel, steam or selling, from
y port of Spain or of the latediterraneau
Sea, or having stopped et any of such porta
on their voyage, be reputed °owing from an
infected port, and suspected of being capable
of introducing cholera tato Canada,
'.'. That any weasel, steam or 'Olio
.:timing from the port of London, in Erigleu
or having called at the said port on their',
voyage, be reputed Doming front an infected
port and suspected of being callable of intro-
ducing sanall-pox into Canada.
3. The fact of ouch vessel or venal* con-
ing from or having stopped an their voyage
at the said porta, shall render them object
to the application of quarantine regulations
,in force for the ports of Quebec, St. John,
Halifax, Plctou, Sydney, Charlottetown and
Victoria, and to too quarantine regulations
in force concerning all other porta of the
Dominion.
4, Time mediae' superintendent of the
zegular quarantines established and above
:mentioned, and the collector of customs of
.each and every port of Canada, except the
said regular quarantine stations, ave to
apply the regulations defining their clutter
to each such vee Cel or veeeels coming from
nr having atopp`d on their voyage at the
dsorte of Spain. or of the Mediterranean Sea,
or London, dealing with said ships, ipso/acto,.
m if it were ascertained that they apertaln-
•ed to the class of weasel ordered to be
visited or dealt with by the said medical
-superintendent and colleotore of customs for
the purpose of quarantine.
here are only a
HI Quick -Witted Wire,
"Several years ago l bad a station ona
rail road way out on the plains. There had
never been any train robberies near ue,though
there was much talk about 'em. One time
the engineer of a passenger train stopped
his engine in a hurry at the 461st mileposts
and then backed up. Re declared that
train robbers had placed obstructions an the
track, and were lying in ambush. Inveotiga-
tioashowed that what he had thought tib.
structiona was nothing but some of the big
rolling weeds which had blown across the
prairie and gathered on the track. Of
coarse, the Engineer was laughed at for hie
error, and after that whenever train robbers
were mentioned somebody would inquire
if they were the same kind that William
Roberta saw at the 461st mile -post.
"One night I was alone in my office, wait-
ing for No. 3. She was en hour or more
late. 1 was dozing over my pipe, when, an
looking up, I saw revolvers pointed at me
front both ticket windows. Of course I
threw up my hands. They were train rob•
bers. Sure enough. There were only three
of them, but such desperate fellows I never
saw. They told me what they wanted me
to do. I was to write a despatch for the
nducter of No. 3, aping the Stipulators -
memo to it, ordering him to leave his
t my station, in my care, and take
the and several armed men and go
arch' Plum Creek, moving cautiously
epared to attack train robbers,, Thia
despatch I was to hand the conductor
through the window when he cave up far
orders, as neral, two of the men biding in
the office ready to shoot me if I attempted
t*give the alarm, The scoundrels expected
by tbiameans to have the train, left at their
mercy. I told them No. 3 was four hone
late, and tried teacarts them out that way.
Then I tried to delay matters se that No. 3
would coxae Woof got the telegram ready.
But they meant business, and itt ten nlin-
utee the despatch was written as they clic-
rated. I oadgeled my brains for some
means to defeat the robbers, but I could not
think of anything for slang time. Sudden
y I remembered my wife and the telephone
I had put up connecting our residence with,;
the station. I made that telephone myself
and, though crude, it answered very well.
I told the robbers that Iwanted to tole
phone my wife that the train was late, and
Oust the ahauld, go to bed.
"'If I don't let her know,' I added, 'the
will be clown here—you know how queer
women are—and you'll have trouble,'
"Then I was given permission to talk to
her, but waa cautiouod that any attempt on
my part to give the alarm would send a bul-
let through my head. So I Called to my
wife and said:
"' Number three late; trouble at 461st
mile•poet;, go to bed, as Ishen't be borne till
ate, Good. night.'
"That was all, but I was eatiseed it was
enough, I felt that my wife would detect
in my tone that there was trouble, and
never be satisfied until she had sent down to
see. Besides, I had mentioned the 461st
mile•poet, to which my captors had no ob-
jection, as they knew nothing of the scare
that Roberts had had there, and I hoped
this would alarm her. Thesninutei that fol-
lowed seemed like house. The robbers were
beooming impatient and vicious, and they
more than once threatened to kill me if I
tricked them, In about fifteen minutes we
heard the tramp of feet upon the platform,
and in walked my wife with four sten all
armed, whom she had aroused in the village.
The two robbers were captured, but they
afterwards escaped. My wife said she knew
I was in trouble, and it was her duty to
come to me with assistance, as if I had told
her so in plain word,. I tell yon I've had
pretty high respect for woman's intuition
and sense since that night."
Artificial Ica in the South,
There is not now a city of any size in the
South without its manufactory, and ice can
1 Tee had at retail for $1 to $1,50 per hundred
pounds. No Northern ice can find a market
except along the seaboard. Lumps of
:Northern ice and cakes of artificial ioe have
been placed aide by side in the sun, and in
each instance the artificial lasted the longest,
There are two processes of manufacture,
but we will take the simplest, which is
mailed the ammonia process. The building
may be an odd barn or rough shed, and the
engine of from ten to twenty horse -power.
As witnessed Ina Georgia town the water was
pumped from a canal, and it was too muddy
for a fish to live in. Fill a barrel with it to
stand over night and there would be two
.inches of mud in the bottom of the barrel
,the next morning. The water is first pump-
ed into a large condenser and is there pur-
ified an passed to condenser number two.
3t is again purified, and ie then pumped into
the baths. Each bath is a huge square bin,
'provided with apertures ;for holding ninety
six tin molds. These molds are 16 Inches -
long, 8 wide and 4 thick, and are open at
the top. Each can, when filled with water,
is placed in the bin in a compartment by it-
self, and a large lidshun down over all.
,As the water reaches the molds it is so clean.
end transparent that you could easily per-
ceive a grain of sand at the bottom of the
.can. Through the bins and around the cane
ammonia gas is constantly circulating in
„pipes, and salt water is churned about and
kept in constant motion by means of paddles
worked by machinery.
It takes seventy pounds of salt to make a
lath for three bins holding 288 molds, and
sit is renewed once a week, One barrel of
ammonia will last a small factory about ten
days. Let the factory start with all the
molds full of water, and it is only about half
:au hour before the men begin to take out foe.
The molds are lifted out of the bin and
oarried to a .vat of hot water and dipped.
`This Leosene the ice, and it is flung on a
*table.: Each cake weighs twenty pounds,
and three of them are placed together to
freeze solid,: This makes a cake 16 inches
long, 12 inches thick and 8 inches wide.
It is so perfectly clear that it reflects your
;image like a glass, and: you can read news
paper print through three feet of it. There
is the engine pumping up the muddy water
.at one end of the old building and the men
}handling the purest, nicest ice ever seen' at
A Waterloo Medal Found.
An extremely rare and curious military
medal was recently found under the kitchen
on the premises of E.R. Chapman. at Charles-
ton, S. C. On one side it has the words:
" For courage, good conduct and faithful
service. Hindoatan, 71st Highland Light
Infantry. Ten years' service." On the
other side are the words : " Peninsula,
Roleia, Vimiera, Vittoria, Almaraz, Nive,
Pyrenees, Orthea, Waterloo, Fuentes
D'Onor."
The medal ie made of composition metal,
and is about one and a half inches in diame-
ter. Above and below the worda "71st
Highland Light Infantry " are a crown and
a hunting horn respectively, and on the
other aide is an oval-shaped figure inolosing
the cross of St. Andrew, beside which is
standing a barefooted pilgrim, the beauty of
whoae visage is destroyed by the abrasion
of the metal and the lapse of time. As may
be inferred from the names Vittoria, Vim-
ieria and Waterloo, the original possessor of
the medal was one who followed the English
flag through the Spanish Peninsula in the
war which ended at Waterloo in 1815. The
other legend of the medal indicates that the
battle -scarred Highlander won new honors
and laurels in a later service is East India.
How the medal got to Charleston would be
hard to divine, but it is evidently a genuine
military relic. It tells us a very eloquent
tale,: and is the'mute historian of an old sol-
dier's proud record in peace and in war. It
resembles many good things of fiction and
romance only in the respect that it is an-
onymous, The kilted warrior left every-
thing his name
to tell the story
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A woman and a fiddle are something alike.
They always come out strongest when there
le a beau about.
DERE AND UHEItE,
Base ball is now played in Siberia, the
game having been introduced by the mili-
tary authorities as a reoreative reward for
meritorious convicts off duty.
Lord. 3 -leathery has given up racing, and
his horses in training have been sold. He
has let hie house and atablea at Newmarket
to Lord Durham„
The Seis-X'P'vsrci, a Japanese monthly
pubiioation, says that Western mediciuse is
gaining a permanent hold in Japan, and
within a few years the old: atyle of native
praotioe will owe,
A group representing Princess Beatrice in
bridal dress and Priaee Henry of Batten-
berg in the uniform of the German. Cui.ras-
aiere is the latest addition to Mme. Tua-
aaud'a famous, waxwork gallery in London -
The six -feet gauge ie rapidly disappearing
from American railways, The five -feet
gauge in the South is aleo being repiaoed,
and the probability Is that the standard
gauge will soon be a rule to which the nar-
row gage will be the only exception..
The deepest sea sounding* known were
made in the Pacific, where the line reached
down 4„576 fathoms, and off the east coast
of Japan 4,600 fathoms. Thus itaeenrs that
the greatest heights' of mountaine and the
greatest depths of the ocean correspond very
nearly.
A, little knowledge is a dangerous thing
among the Nevada 1.*lute Indians. They
recently killed a squaw and. her little boy
because she could apeak French, which
they thought was the language of a witch,
f Sar husband assisted at the sacrifice of hie
wife and child..
,d;farmer near Middletown, who was
losing his potatoes by parties digging thein
up at night, resolved to watch life patoh.
Re and his friend, awned with guns, took a
position near the patch, but both fell asleep
and,. upon awaking, found that two rows of
potatoes had been deg and their guns were
stolen.
What a Century has Draught
Forth.
From 17S4 to 1884 is only a oratory, hut'
it embraces almost all the invention* which
we Anise useful in daily life. Even nanny
inventions once deemed indispensable, but
now being rapidly superseded by others,
were Bern within Otis century. 1t was only
in 1781 the first mail coach was seen, and
yet "the Wild Millman” and "tire Flying
Dutchman" express tralne travelling a mile
a minute, have become household wattle the
world over, The firet .Arc balloon was sent
up in 1784, and today monstrous develop-
mente of the :idea are heiog need In war-
fare, A Century ago the all lamps, to yam.
iliar, were unknown ; candles would not
burn without snuffing ; the wax candle even
was unknown, .and gas for illumination was
uninvent°d. Sine° then gads being sban-
Boned for illumination but applied ;or heat-
ing and cooking purposes as fuel saving in-
ventions. The flint and tinder ware the
means of obtaining light until as late as
1527 when the matches we value so lightly
were invented. Really good looks and the
manifold adaptions of the use of a. spring
were all discovered during this century. The
looks of the past being olumey and easily
disarranged eontrivanoes. Labor saving
machinery in almost every 'branch, belongs
to this oeutiny; and in agricultural machin•
erg the inventions have received their great
iuoentive through the abundance of land and
scarcity of labor upon this continent. Pho-
tography, tejr, hasplaced within the means
of the muses a s a priceless boon—the facility
of preserving correct impressions of their
relatives, features—and strengthened the
hands of justice in tracing criminals. This
wondrous invention belongs to this century
also. So on we might proceed with an as-
tonishing list embracing every br:noh of
science, and affecting every walk of lite.
The Care of the Hair.
The Dare of the hair is an important
branch of fashion at all, times, though often
fashion diotatea an injurious treatment and
peacribes modes against the rules of health
and reason. Such importance has been
given to the hair that some philosophers
make the chignon, coils, and puffs the index
of civilization, and show who eccentricity.
in headdress and coiffure marks the degrada-
tion of the time. It is well understood that
masses of false hair injure natural growth,
but a freak of fashion which seems harmless
may be equally hurtful. This apparently
innocent fashion is that of fluffiness and
lightness of the hair produced by continual
washing. The best speoaliste on treatment
of the hair any that the hair should be wash.
ed once in six weeks and not oftener, and
that castille soap and not borax soda, or any
other drying material, should be used, Af-
ter washing it is well to rub the scalp with
some reliable ointment. The natural oil,
which to some appears objectionable, is the
life-giving ointment' of the hair, and should
not be destroyed. Dry hair has a dead ap-
pearance, the ends split, and growth -is re-
tarded. The fine comb is moat hurtful, but
a"soft brush used judiciously gives vigor to
the scalp and keeps it in a healthy condi-
tion. The practice of cutting the ends of
the hair is useful, and can be accomplished
easily by braiding the hair and then cutting
the ends. The care of the hair is certainly
as important as that of the teeth, but is
much more neglected. The rules of its
preservation are simple and important,
Vigorous brushing, cutting the ends when
necessary, washing with caatile soap onoe in
six weeks, and the desirable avoidance of
false hair should preserve and strengthen
the hair. But if the hair cornea out and :be-
comes lifeless and thiix'in spite of this treat-
ment the best remedy is to seek a reliable
speoialist on scalp diseases, and to, submit
to thorough professional direction,
THE DEAR CRiI ATTHES.
A young lady belonging to a pug dog hal
trained him to lick poatage stamps for her.
One of the popular pastimes with giddy
Gotham girls when in bathing attire is to.
bury each other with sand.
Says Balzac : "In the lowe r classes women
are not only superior to men, but, as a rule,
govern them completely."
Female dentists, report says, are inereas-
ing in the cities of Germany. Children and.
ladies prefer themoftentunea. to male practi-
tioners.
A seaside landlord said he would "rather
board a bear than one spirituelle girl," She
may be able to eat more than bruin, but
when it comes to hugging she will have to
forbear to preas her claim for superiority.
A man who has traveled much claims that
only about one married woman in forty-five
is free from a look of worried Case. Possibly
the fact that most husbands now get their
hair cut with clippers may have something
to da with it.
The mother-in-law who poisoned her
daughter's mind so that she got divoroed
from her husband has been served just right
by their elopement and remarriage, The
funny part of it is that the detective she
hired to watch her daughter turned cat to be
an active emissary of the husband and plaza
wed the elopement.
Wisdom front Sam Jones.
" The worat eneluias we have aro our tem.
pers. Temper is au odd word, It's not in
the Bible, but cornea from the blacksrnith
shops. I would rather face a universe, than
a merciless temper. It is always backed by
endless topgue. The tongue is the bullet,
and the temper le the powder. I bac never
got mad stave 1 made a bargain on my knees
that I would never get mad at any man un
ill some mea treated me worse than I have
treated God, I helm not been mad ainoe,
" The tongue ie another peat. How many
dollars have our tongues coat, and how much
blood has been spilt and lives loot by our
tongues? About nine -tenths of the people
in perdition will lie down in the Aroma say,
' I am tongue damned,' The Baptist puts
you clear under, the Methodist sprinkles,
but the tongue come* out at dry as ever.
People pat the head in the .church, feet in
the church, handi in the church, but leave
the tongue clear out,
" I don't go muck (ma religion that strikes
in spots. Religion le like the' ineasloa„ If you
got it broke out good, it is all right; but if
it goes in, it kills you. I want a man's pro
kotbook broke out too.
"If you want to be right with God be
right with your fellow man, We have too
many Christian* that aro boarding with
their wives. 0, be a man,
" The devil has good enough mannore not
to stay where he i* not welcomed. If he is
with you you are treating him good.
"Well, I'm done, I suppose the curl city
has worn off. That s what you came here
for. I tried to 811 you. 1 hope you are full.
I want you to come back again. I propose
to run this meeting to .east myself. I pro.
pose to hit you, too. You can come when
yon please and go when you plasm. If you
don't like the preaching get up and leave,
and no one will miss you, I am here to la-
bor for your profit, and hope I will help you,
From this out I mean business."
A Telliun Temperance Lecture.
Two colored barbers, one an old man and
the other a young one. The young one took
off his apron and started out of the door,
"Yo's gwan to get a drink, Jim ?" raked
the elder.
"Hat's what re gwan to do."
"Go and git yo' drink. I yooat ter do de
same ting when I wuz young. When I wuz
fust married dah was agin-mill next to de
shop who' I wuoked, and I spent in it 50 and
70 cents a day outende dollah a' half I eahned
Wall, one mawnin' I went into de butohah
shop, and who *hood cumin but de man wat
kep' de likker shop.
"'Crib me ten or twelve pounds po'ter-
honee steak,' he said.
"He got it and went out, I sneaked up
to de butohah and looked to see what money
I had lef.'
"'What do you want ?' maid de butohah,
"'Gib me 10 bents wuf of libber,, wuz my
remark.
"It wuz all I oouldpay fur. Now you go
and git yo' drink. You'll eat libber, but de
man oat sells yo' de staff will hab his po'ter-
house steak. De van behin' de bar eats po'ter
house—de man in front eats libber. I ain't
touched de stuff fo' thirty yeahs, and I am
eatin' po'terhov ' myself."
Those who believe that English into be
the universal language of the world, will
find their theory strengthened by the fact
thatin the negotiations recentlyconolnded at
Tientsin between the Chinese and Japanese
with regard to Corea, the discussions were
conducted wholly in English. The Chinese
Commissioner knows no language except his
own, but his aeoretariee and interpreters
have been in Europe, and acquired English,
while the Japanese Plenipotentiary under-
stands English thoroughly. Asa consequence
he spoke throughout in that language ; and
it' was agreed on both sides that this course
was advisable, inasmuch as there was in
English an ample vocabulary of clear and de-
finite diplomatic terms, which cannot be
found in either Chinese or Japanese.
A cynical opponent of woman's suffrage
insists that the invention of shirt etude is the
cause of woman's fnouraion into politics and
other isms. 13e says that in the days of shirt
buttons she had so much occupation in stew-
ing them on that she could not give het at
tention to anything else. He sighs for the
return of, the good old Wiles.
England and the Soudan,
Englandhae responsibifitiee in the Sondra
other than those imposed by her suzerainty
over Egypt, The rueoessity of suppresaing
the slave trade, which remained in abey-
ance while the struggle with the Mand
was progressing in Upper Egypt, now looms
up prominently once more, The horrors of
the African slave trade have taxed the dis-
eriptive powers of every traveller in the
dark continent. From their writings we
gain some slight conception of the desola-
tion spread throughout the Congo district
by the annual incursiong of the tioudanese
slave traders.
Merry a time has the sun set an a happy
African willege, embowered in the luxurious
vegetation of the tropica, and rIzen on a
blackened tract of ashes, encumbered by
the bodies of the decrepit and those too
young to rnarolt, or those who had struggled
for their liberty and the freedom of their
kinsfolk against their assailants. ?,*ar
after year the system of pillage, ruin and
blood -shed has been kept up, until a land
formerly dotted with smiling villages, and
inhabited by happy and contented tribes
hes become a desert, over which an ahem.
ination of desolation rests. That portion of
Central Africa which has been for many
years practically a slava nursery for the
Soudaneae Arabs la a tract of 150,000 square
miles lying between the headquarters of the
Congo and the Nile, and is, popularly knows
as the lhbr Gezello province,
Such a etate of affairs aroused all the
chivalry of General Gordon's nature, and
when some years ago he was pointed Gov-
ernor of the Upper Nilo region, he loot no
time in precipitating a conflict with the
slave traders, whom he reduoed to oubrnia-
olea in 1879,. While he retained that poli.
tion, the poor blacks_ of the Congo enjoyed
a respite from their cruel foes, but with his
return to Eoglancd, the slave trade revived
in almost az greet proportion* as formerly.
Recognizing the impossibility of stopping
the traffic through, the indolent Egyptian
authorities' he transferred bin attention to
the plan of colonizing the district via the
(longe, and Was making preparations to be•
come a coadjutor of Stamey in the work of
opening up a Congo and oraating native
governments stable enough to resist Arab
incursions, when the outbreak occurred in
the Soudan, and at the request of the gov.
vernmont he departed on a minion from
which be was doomed never to return.
With his death the blacks lost their star -
divot and ablest companion. Ile was the
vee man who could have gone Into that re-
gion and et%otually stamped out the slave
trade, He baingdead, however, tho*e who
bad been associated with him in his
their have determined to ap:xial to the
British nation, At a meeting of the Anti. -
Slavery Society a few days ago, henry M.
.Stanley made a atirriag speech, :in which ha
urged that Begllahmea, in whom behalf
Gordon had died, should carry on his work.
The plan he proposed was sending a auf-
fiafent number of white men in the Congo
aouutry to oolleot the scattered remnants
of the trihee, and form states capable of re-
pulsing Arab attacks, For this purpose a
yearly tum of £5000 will be redo red, but
the outlook is that there will be no difficulty
in seising that amount. If the appeal be
successful, and the outcome of it be the en-
tire suppreaeionn of the Central African slave
trade, it will be, as the London. Tekkraph
well says, the noblest monument which oould
be raised to the 1' heroism, the courageous
work, the Christian charity" of General
Gordon.
CANADA ABROAD.
The Prince of Wales Visits the C. P. B.
lexhiblt-
The Royal .Agricultural Show of England,
held at Preston, Lancashire, intim middle. of
July, passed off with more than usual eclat
this year, owing to the visit an two of the
principal days of the Prince of Wales, and
other noble and distinguished visitors. His
Royal Highness, on entering the grounds,
first visited the handsome stand of the
Canadian Pacific Railway, organized by Mr.
Alexander Begg, one of the Company's chief
representatives in Europe, the exhibit being
specially railed off on the occasion for the
convenience of the Royal party. First to
attract the Prince's attention were the grains
from the Canadian Pacific railway experi-
mental farms west of Moose Jaw, which he
examined minutely, the exact locality of.
growth being indicated on the map. The
mineral specimens and the varied and nu-
merous samples of prairie grasses from the
Northwest next claimed attention, and this
led the Earl of Lathom, who formed one of
the party, to direct his Royal Highness' at -
t notion to the nutritious qualities of these
for stock raising -a subject on which he
speaks with authority, being associated with
Mr. Stavely Hill. Q, C., M. P., in some of
the finest of the Alberta ranches. Not leas
surprising to the Royal party was the series
of views . giving an excellent idea of the
wealth of scenery a'ong the line of the Cana-
dian Pacifio railway throughout the North-
west and Rocky Mountains, in examination
of which his Royal Highness spent some
Mete. Expressing his gratification at the
comprehensiveness of the exhibit, the Prince
then proceeded to inspect the other sights
of the show which has altogether proved
one of the most successful on record.
There has been a steady increase in the
number of convictions in England for smug-
gling during the last ten years. Ten, years
since—that is, in ] 876 -the total number
was 1,114, whereas in the fianoial year just
ended it amounted to 1,950. The author-
ities, however, do no attribute these facts
town increase in the practice of smuggling,
but ascribe them' chiefly to improvement
in the system of guarding the coast.
1111NO FROM TUB .: BD -ARK.
The Execution or" himree Aiteged Mutineers
en $htpboard,
"I was, a boy in the United States Navy,
on the. brig,' Sonora,' in 1842, when those
three men where hung that were referred to
some time sego," said John W. Davis.
"Tire sight cf those three young leen hang-
ing at the yard-arna, and their burial at sea.
at night, has haunted me all my life. It
often comes up before me when I'm walking
along the street. I can never forget it. I
knew Spencer, the midshipman, well. Re
was a wild, dare -devil sort of a fellow,
about 19 years of age, but good natured and
not maliciously inolined, I think the ex-
ecution;of all the men was a grave mistake,.
and in looking batik at it now believe that it
was foul murder.
"We sailed from, New York on the 13th
of September, 1842, for the coast of Africa,
het drat began cruising is the West Indies.
In tiro latter part of November, before we
method St. Thomas, Midshipman Spencer,
who was the son of the Secretary of War,
was suddenly seized one day, put in double
irons and kept a prisoner in close confine.
went. Two other men, the boatswain's
Mate. who was acting as boatswain, and
whose name was Cornwell, and a seaman,
who was captain of the maintop, named
Small were arrested a day or two afterward,
followed ;by the arrest of four othere. All
were put In double hone. we had n.,o
ruarIn* ,guard on board. The li.rers op -
peered to;be frightened to death avoid some.
thing, and the men of the fillip's company
were afraid to be seen talking to cacti other.
After Spencers arrest it was noised about
docks that he bad formed a plot to seize the
ehip, along with a few of the ship's crew,
ad he oommunieated hie plan to the purser's
steward, who got a list of the aonspir*tora
and told the whole story to Lieut, McIntosh,
the executive officer.
"Two or three days after the meets a
number of the offscera met in the ward -room:
and called in a number of the ship's crew
and exaaained them. Tho statement and
even the opinion" of each were taken down
bat the a0000ed men were not allowed to
face their *wooers ; were not told what the
chargee wore in detad, and ware not granted
any opportunity for explanation or denfense.
On the tat of December, lour days after
Spencer's arrest, be along with Cromwell
and Small, were told to get ready to die;
that they were going to swing at the yard.
arm et once. Spencer and the captain of
the top aoknowledged their guilt, and were
willing to die; but the acting boatswain pro.
touted his innocence to the beet, and Spencer
declared, also, that he, Cromwell, hadno-
thing to do with the plot. ',Call, all hands
to witness exeontion,'said the first Beaten.
ant. The ship's company sullenly ranged
themsolvee on the quarter deck and et other
points, while the allots of the Ship stood.
around with drawn and Sharpened swards
to out down any one who faltered in inflict-
ing the awint penalty. 1,Vhen everything
was ready Spencer and his two companions
were allowed to bid their friends good-bye,
then Capt. Mackenzie gave the signal, a gun
was Pared, the colors were hoisted, and at
the same time three mea, with caps over
their fame, were swung out on the main
yard -arm. It was a horrible eight to look
at. All of the men died game, Cept, Mac -
kende then made a speech to us about the
neeeaelty of discipline and the itv"eful crime
of n'utiny. At night funeral services were
read, by the aid of the battle lanterns, and
the bodies were put on the 'tilting board'
and dropped into the sea, It was a solemn
scone, I assure yon, and it made an impres-
sion on my youthful mind that can never he
eradicated. In a day or two we ran into
St. Thomas, and then set sail. for New York,
arriving there on the 14th cf December,.
"There was a deal of excitement when the
news of the mutiny and hanging got noised
around and hundreds of people came down
to the ship to see us. All; of the others
arrested were dismissed from custody.
Capt. Mackenzie was court-martialed about
a month afterward, and the cont sat for
forty days, bat acquitted him. It was com-
posed of hie brother officers. Mackenzie
was not liked by the men. He was a brutal
martinet, anyhow. • Flogging was allowed
in the navy in those days, and he was very
fond of administering the 'oat' for trivial
offenses. The friends of the executed men
tried to have Mackenzie indicted in New
York for murder, but the judge decided
that the oivil law was not applicable to his
case."
SAINTS .AND SINNERS.
Losing chants—A breaking -down choir.
A good chants for flirtation—Inthe choir.
•The church choirs are enjoying their an-
nual vacation, and people now attend church
from purely religious motives.
A fashionable church has a lady itornetiat.
She finds it a very uncomfortable %ask, as
she is unable to flirt with the male portion
of the chbir while she is engaged in playing.
A philosopher wants to know why it is
that the man who whanga an old copper cent
into the contribution -box generally leans
back with a twenty -dollar look of . benevo.
lenge.
Never size up a man by the amount: he
puts in the contribution box. > Some fellows
never put in a, cent unless they think the
eyes of the whole, congregation are upon
them.
Account not him a saint
Who goes to ohurch and prays;
Then lays aside his Sunday paint,
and lets a weaker brother faint
Through intervening days.
i Borrowed thoughts, like borrowed money,
only show the poverty of the borrower.
Unkind language is sure to produce the
snit of unkindness --suffering in the bosom.
of others.