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Home My WebLink AboutThe Exeter Times, 1885-9-10, Page 6� Guardsman's Luck. " Sentry, will you kindly keep your eye on 'my bag fora few minutea? I am going to have a plunge intim Serpentine," said a well 'dressed, middle aged gentleman to me,, one warm Summer morning a few years ago, as I waa on duty at ` the park gate of Knights' bridge Cavalry Barracks. " An right, aura" I replied. " If I am re- lieved before your return, I shall hand it over to the next sentry.,' "Oh, I shan't ae more *ban half an hour at the latest, as I roust be in the city by nine. It doesn't contain very valuable property— only a suit of clothes and a few documents of no use to any one but the owner,' as the saying ie. All the same, however, I have no desire to lose it." So saying, the gentleman turned away. The repeat to look after big property did not In the feast surprise me, as numerous robberies from the clothing of persons bath- ing had for some time before been reported to the police. The barraok's clock struck eight. Fully half an hour had elapsed since the owner of the bag departed, and as yet there was no sign of hits ; the "quarter past' - was obirned from the neighboring clocks, and still he did not turn up. About half past eight I peroeived a great commotion in the park. ?Mae were rushing from all quarters in the direction of the Serpentine ; and soon .7afterwarda I ascertained from a passer-by that the excitement waa canned by one of the numereue bathers having been drowned. An newsy auapicion waa at once excited within me that the person who had come to suck a sad end was the gentleman who had left his valise in my charge, which suspicion waa in- tansiped when I was relieved at nine, with the article still unclaimed. I lauded over the bag to the sentry who relieved me with- ' tut mentioning to him any of the efroum- *Weise of the cane. I went on sentry again at one o'clock and'', no one had come for it. It was the height of the London Season, and Hyde ('ark pre- sented its cuatornary gay appearance, but', the imposing array of splendidly -appointed equipages, dashing, egue:Ariaua and faahle — ably-dreesse ladies and gentlemen, which at ether times waa to me a meat interacting epeetacie, that afternoon passed t+y =heed- ed, ea all my theughta were mitred on epee. Watione regarding the fate of the owner of the bag, I3af ere being relieved at three I had it conveyed to my room 'lathe barracks, and aftercaming offguard placed it for great. er security in the troop stare. After stables, I left bsrraeks for my cus- tomary walk, and purchasing a copy of the Ls',rl from a javanilenewavc;cdor, I read the particulars of the fatality of the morning. Friends had i leetitied the body, whieh was that of a geutlemen named Nixon, who bad zesided at Bayswater. 44 Nixon f That cerreapouda with the ta- ttle! ' N"" on the bag," I thought to myself, now perfectly convinoed that the deceased was the person I bad seen in the morning. I saw aa^erteined trent the newspaper report that a amen had been apprehended, on euapi. oion of having attempted to rifle the pockets d tele clothes of the drowned man, and who had ham roughly heretic' by the crowd, be- fore a policeman could be procured to take ?nf i into caatody, After a moment's reileo tion I decided to call at the address given in the paper, in order to arrange about tbe res- toration of the bag to the relatives of the da- eeaaed. I was shown into a room, and immediate- ly afterward was waited upon by a young lady, the daughter of the deceased, who nat- urally enough, was perfectly overcome with grief. I explained to her ins few words the object of my visit. "I am uncertain whether poor pane had a valise of that description when he left this morning, ' she maid; " but possibly you may recogeize him from the photograph," sub- mitting one she too"a from the table for my inspection, I experienced a strange sense of relief—the features in the photo were those of a person bearing no resemblance whatever to the in- dividual who had Id; his bag in my charge. The young lady thanked me heartily tor '+e trouble I had taken in the matter; and I *he house of mourning and returned to ks in a very mystified state of ie owner of the bag be the thief ght in the act of plundering the !othes ?" I asked myself, but dismissed the idea from my absurd and improbable. 3 bag ceased to interest me, as aracter of its contents caused lees on the unaccountable aseasor in never returning 'rwards I was on Queen's ;er. I had just mounted n np position in one of the arliament street, when a opposite me and scanned dressing me, he said, sr me ?" .king the voice it was 'me bag t Otherwise he he had denuded him- uskers and moustache u previously. ig?'' I asked. til a fit that morning water, and was tak- asoious state ler since, re fire t timf once. ,...tg at .. " I have to oaten the six train for Liverpool, as I wish to sail by the steamer that leaves to -morrow morning for New York, Couldn't you ewe across with me to get it?" "You forget that I am on sentry," I re- plied. " I won't be relieved until four. I daren't Ieave the guard." During. the interval that elapsed until my period of duty was ended the gentleman paced about in a moat impatient manner ever and anon seeming to relieve hie feelings by stopping to pat my horse. At length I left my poet, and dismounting, led my char- ger to the stable, and handed it over to a comrade; then divesting myself of array cut - rasa, was ready to proceed to Scotland Yard. One of the corporals on guard received orders to accompany me ; so, together with the gentleman, we started, and crossing the street reached the police headquarters in a minute or two, and on making enquiries, were directed to the "Lost Property" de- partment. We stated our business, and an official, after receiving an assurance from me that the applicant was the right person, speedily prodeced the valise, "Why didn't you see about this before?" he asked, addres- sing the gentleman, "Because I waeto° ill to sea about any thong," was the reply. The gentlemen then signed a book, certi- fying thatt his property had been reetored to him, giving as he did so the name of Nobbs. Having thanked the official,. 114r. Notbe caught up his property and we left the office, When we got to the door we found awns - bled a email crowd of men employed about the eetabtislunent; for the unusual spectacle of twohelmeted, jack -booted guardsmen had caused a good deal of speculation as to our bu,inees there. Mr. Nobba hurriedly brush- ed past them, and gaining the street hailed a passing cab, and the driver at once pulled up. "here is something for your trouble," he said, slipping a sovereign into :my hand. I, of tours, thanked him heartily for this munificent douoeur. Declining the offer of the driver to place his bag on the dicky, he put it inside the vehicle ; then shaking hands with the oorporal and myself, he said to the driver : " Emden, re fast as you can," and entered the cab, The driver released the brake from the wheel, and was whfppfug up hie +maraggs. horrewith a view of ,tasting, when thepoer animal slipped and fell. The man belonging to the Seetlaud Y erd. who had followed us into the street at once rushed to the driver's assistance, unbuckled the traces, and after pushing hack the cab, got the borse on be feet. All the while Mr. Nobby eras watch - lag the operation from the window, and I' noticed that one of the mea was anrveying him very attentively, "Your name is Judd, iru'tit?" the man at length remarked. "No It iac't. What do you mean by ad- dressing me, air?" indignantly replied Mr, Nobbs, " E'4 ell," acid the man, who I at once aur - mired was a member of the detective force, "that's the name you gave Raylmow, when pending the Civit War in the United States you were had up on the chary° of feeling the to hey ap a party in 3iesi .n. They were pockets of the gent's elother who wee drown- called* party, but were really a lot of mock ed in the Serpentine a week ago. I know you, although you've had e. clean shave." - I stetted on hearing this statement ; my. suspicions, ridieedoua as they seemed at the time, had turned out to ha correct after all ; while Mr. Judd, alias Nobbs, tarred as pale as death. " Come out of that tire. "You've no right to detain me," said Nobba, "I was discharged this morning." " Because nothing was known against you —But look here, old man, what have you got in that bag ?" "Only some old clothes, I asanre you," said the creat -fallen Nobbs. " Come inside, and we'll see," said the de- tective, seizing the bag. "Out of the cab —quick 1 and come with me to the office." Mr. Nobbs complied with every bad grace; while the corporal and I t Cowed, wonder- ing what was to happen next. We entered a rt'om in the interior, and the bag was opened ; but it apparently con- tained nothing but the olothes. " There is certainly no grounds for de. taining this man," said an inspector, stand- ing near. Mr. Nobbs at once brightened np and cried ; "You see I have told you the truth, and now be good enough to let me go," "All right;" said the detective. Pack up your traps and clear out." 1cA sovereign 1" cried the inspector. "Lot me nee it," • I took the ooin from my °artenche-box, where I had placed it in the absence of any aocesible pocket, and handed it to him. He smilingly exxantined it and threw it on the table. "I thought as much," he remark- ed; it's a bad one." Mr. Nobbs, alias Judd—these names were two of a formidablestring of aliases—turned out to bean expert coiner, burglar and swin- dler, who had long been "wanted" by the police. He was convicted and sentenced to a lengthened period of penal servitude. A few weeks after Mr. Nobbs had reoeiv- ed hie well-earned punishment, I received a visit from a gentleman, who stated that he was cashier in the jeweller's eatablishmeet in which the robbery bad been committed. He informed me that his employer, having taken into consideration the fact that I war to a certain extent, instrumental in the re- covery of tbe stolen jewellery, bad sent me a present of thirty pounds. I gratefully ac- cepted the money, which, as I had been enough of soldiering, I invested in the pur- chase of my discharge from the household Cavalry. AN BMPRESS' rLTB. The "latrine. Death ",.1' P,rtateess Carlotta. Surely the meetmournfui of all the sad stories of rnodernbistoryis that of Carlotta, the daughter of that .Leopold of Belgium whom* the great Napoleon deaeribes as "the tiniest man he had ever aeon," The young Princess, when but 17 years old, was married to Maximilian, younger brother of Francis Joseph, Emperor of Au *trla, This was in 1537. From 1857 to 1863 Maximilian and Carlottadwelt, es in Edea, at the palace of Miramar, on the East coast of the Adriatic. It meow that their life there was a perfect idyl, love and literature supplying ita thy thmi° tones, Art in all shaper, mude, sotilp- ture, painting, worde—aU combined to make their brief six years of happiness one of those delightful episodes the mere reading of which euggeste Impiiiueas and lore to all mankind, But the tempter came. Maximilian was ambitions of worldly renown ; he knew the awaete of acquisition as a scholar; he was brave, a sailor, and a Ilapabnrg, An empire waa offered him. The tinsel Emperor of a great nation, the fellow who inherited a name without a particle of blood -right to the inheritance; the smaller Napoleon, before whore the lbnao-Tlgres kneeled far a few years, gave vent to one of his grandiloquent dccreea. Ile would "create r» Latin empire in the West to redress the balance of the East Plagiarist, avenin this rotund phrese, he blinded men's eyes to hie folly, and Max hellion was reduced into becoming his la- etrumant, Poor Cerlotta, the faithful wife and brave woman, followed her Austrian husband to Mexico, where the new empire was to be founded and maintained. The echenmo was akilfnily contrived, 1!,'apaleoa the Little Intl money and preertigo enough cab," sale the deter. Mr. Nobbs this time complied with ex- ceeding alacrity, and began to replace the articles of clothing, when the detective seemingly acting on a sudden impulse, caught up the valise and gave it a vigorous shake. A' slight rustling sound was dis- tinctly audible. " Hiilo ! what's this ?" cried the officer. Emptying the clothes out of the bag, hepro- duced a pocketknife, and in a trice ripped open a false bottom. and found about two dozen valuable diamond rings and a magni- ficent emerald necklace carefully packed in wadding, besides a number of unset stones. The jubilant detective at once compared them with a list which he took from a file, and pronounced them to be the entire pro- ceeds of a daring robbery that had recently been committed in the shop of a West End jeweller and which amounted in value to • wired pounds. e, alias Judd, now looking ter- : %tad abashed at this premature 'Is plan to clear out of the booty, was formally charg- nosaession of the stolen 'so reply, and was led nuard, I remarked eht, sir, when he. eking after his ` waa worth : mistaken." NT8 TO YOUNG HUNTERS No gun shoots where it is pointed. Damp or corroded shells ought neverte be loaded. A bullet never travels In straight line, even for a short distance, A bullet Is deflected from its course of changes of wind and temperature. Hold your gun level" The longer therange the more important this rule becomes. Good results should not be expected with one gun and one kind of ammunition at all listened* and for all purposes. A gun barrel clamped in a vise will not shoot its bullets so close together as when a good marksman shoots it from a rest. Violent exercise just before shooting will ruin any man's score. Dissipation of any kind will have the acme effect. The muzzle of a gun is always dangerous; if not so considered, one soon contracts the habit of being careless with loaded firearms. It is any easy matter to shoot when the trap is up, or to ahoot on the wrong target; both these errors should be guarded again* at each shot fired. Primers should be seated carefully to avoid crushing of fulminate, and when seating them care should be taken that powder's out of therange of any that may explode. Not one-half of the gnus made are worn oat; by far the greater number being ruined through lack of care or on account of being tinkered by their owners. In aboating, the longeat rauga of the gun should be taken into eonaidaratiau. ,Ask yourself > Mere will the bullet drop? The xsan who uses a long range rifle to shoot at a bird in a tree, is either very oarebese or very ignorant. Examine your firearms fr▪ equently toleee if runt has begun to form. Make it *point to prevent meat ratherthau more It., *Keep guos away from deem walls, and do not cave them is poeithate that $atedLto warp the stocks. A gun may ahoot poorly because it is not fitted with lime sights, a fact which some- timee is not fully appreciated. For mets :me, a tattooers, apirit•level and vernier add no. thing to the ansuracy of a gnu, but only ed. feet the power of direeting shots. Hold your gun in the ,arae wiener every time it it fired ; that is, with the same prete- sure to the shoulder, and do not hold the toe to the ahonider at one time and the heel to the shoulder at another. The properway is to hold the centra of the butt pielo to the shoulder. The man that dcean't leave his wits at home is the one who snoceede la any kind of shooting, whether In the fold, at the trap, or' before the target. Ds not imagine that lwoava° you are malty exalted, h is Impos- elble to keep cool. Try a l:ttie enforced caoleaas; perhaps your excitability may be only a matter of habit. Powder is very susceptible to mnleture of any kind and will be metertalty injured if left exposed eveu for ahnrt time in a damp atmoephare. The resl,luum, that the bursted powder remaining lathe Larsel, has the ewe ati'iatty for nieature and may be as effectually softened by means of breath - lag in the barrel, as by the application of water. Tea, aoaording to Chinese writarr, was first discovered in the 18th century. An impost was placed upon it by the Emperor Te.Tsang in 751. It was introduced into Japan from China is the 9sh century. The Dutch introduced it into Europe in 1501; it was used in England on soma rare occasions prior to 1657, and war sold at from £G to £10 per pound. Millions of pounds weight of sloe, liquorice, and ash -tree leaves are every year mixed with Chinese teas in Eng- land, The annual consumption of tea in Great Britian is 30,000,000 pounds, while that of all the rest of the civilized world only amount to 22,000,000. A paper by Admiral F. S. Tremlett on quadrilateral constructions near Cernae has been read before the Anthropological Insti- tute, London. The enclosures were explor- ed by the late Mr. James Miln, In each case the boundary walls are formed of coarse undressed stones put together without any kind of cement, and have built up within them a aeries of small menhirs or "standing stones." The enclosures also contain bee- hive structures for cremation purposes, red- dened and become friable from the effects of great heat. It wonld appear that the pro- cess of cremation had been a very perfect one, as not a particle of calcined bone waa discovered in any of the enclosures. jobbers and speculators who, with hearta ab• solutely cold as to hum*city or pstriatiem, eounht to make a profit out of limican bands—to say notbirg of Mexican blood, They went to Miramar, mid in name of Mex- ico, offered throne and fealty to the hapless Prince. Through one of those miratees of bltndnesa which .sometimes affect the beat educated men Maximilian swallowed the bait. Napoleon III. not only needed a new Latin empire in the Wentern world, but the prestige which a political alliance with the Efapsbarge would give hien. Maximilian became his tool, and the faithful Carlotta followed her lord. But the imperial pair —to use the phraseology of the European Court journals—had not been many weeks in Mex -eco before the wife, with true wifely instinct, saw and understood the false poei- in which she and Maximilian were placed. Carlotta fled from Mexico, having besought her husband in vain to fly from the death- trap. Ile, haughtily declaring that a Hapsburg had better die than 4, remained. She went to Prance, to Paris; saw the spurious Bona- parte and begged for aid ; begged for the only aid that could save her husband's life —military aid. Her answer was a cold de- claration that France could not sustain the Mexican Empire, whioh the French Emper- or had created ; that a war with the United States would be certain to ensue ; and that, instead of sustaining the Emperor of Mexico the French army under Bazaine would have to be withdrawn. This almost broke the poor woman's heart ; but, with a woman's faith in the impossible, she sought for com- fort in Rome. A Protestant herself, she deemed that the Papacy would come to the rescue of her Catholic husband —compel the Catholic Mexicans to become Maximilian's obedient subjects. She knew nothing of politics. All that she knew and all that she considered was the danger of her husband, who was all the world to her. When her peayer was denied at the Vatican she stopped not . to reason out the right or wrong of her unhappiness ; she could not. Reasen swoon- ed, and from that time to within a few days past, for nineteen long years, she has been an amiable maniac -dead to the world. The tombstone of the Gladstone family, in Leithchurchyard, has been reatored by Sir Thomas Gladstone, brother of the ex - Premier. The monument is a simple con- struction, resting on a base having six pilas- ters with an entablature and intermediate panelling, surmounted by a moulded table. The Superintendent of'theElmira Reform- atory says that drunkenness can be traced in the ancestry of more than a third of the convicts sent there : that only one in four of their parents has received a common echoed education ; and that, as nearly as can be as- certained, the home influence in half the cases has been distinctly vicious, KILLED BY HIS QWf 80N- A• quarrel in a Farm House Over a Came oe litonal*oes. The county of Morrie, N. J. has another murder case, which, following bo closely after the killing of James Laurent by Sam- uel Wade, causesunusualexvitement. Thom- as Smith, about 45 years of age, was tae farmer who managed White Meadows, the country residence of County Collector Mah- lon Ilcagland, about two miles from the village of Rockaway,. He is very excitable and hot tempered, although not addicted to liquor drinking. He has a son named Lodi, aged eighteen years. Late the other even- inj this boy came into the village and gave himself up to Constable Daniel Morgan, with the startling information that he had killed his father. The etory of the fungi- cide which the young man gave is as fol - Iowa In the evening leis father and mother, Bridget Nolan, the work girl, and himself sat down to play dominoes, the two former and the two latter being partners. The first game was won by the boy and girl, which so incensed the father that he swept the dominvea from the table. The second game was won by the father and mother, which put the former in a more happy mood, but in the third game the boy and girl won, and the fathers anger became uncon- trollable. Ile again swept the dominoes from the table, and struck his wife. Ile al- so °aught up from her chair a little girl who was sitting at the table, and threw her to the floor. The eon feed into another room. The father followed him with astiok of wood, and dociared, with an oath toohurrible to be repeated that he would .kill him. The boy ben drew a 52'calibre revolver and fired at him, The father turned and made a move to coma toward him. The boy fired and eeoond time. Still the father owe on, thou the bey Freda third shot. With tine abet the father fell to the floor. Ile lived only a short time. Ile uttered noth- ing but groans. One ballet had struck bine in the left shoulder, another in the upper part of aha 070, and the thirdwent into the forehead. The boy then started ter Reekeway at once to give himself up. Ile expreaaad re- gret at what had ownrred, and said nothing but a fear of danger to his Ufa would have induced him to do what he did. Ile had Always been a quiet, well-behaved boy, and waa much liked in the community. The father was a war veterau, ("armor J, P $ti'kler next day cemmited young Smith to the county jell at Morristown and pro- eteded to bold an inquest, During the pro. eoediaga Smith made a volnntery statement to the jery. Tne other members of the family correberated hie &cement of the homicide Printers' Errors in Bibles. The recent revision of the Bible has call- ed attention to Bibles generally, and espe- cially those famous for their curious mis- prints. Tho earliest is the " Place -makers' Bible," printed at Geneva in 1561, in which the letter 1 was substituted for an e In the seventh beatitude. The " Vinegar Bible " was published at Oxford in 1717, the word vineyard being misprinted vinegar. In the " Wicked Bible," only four copies of whioh are now in existence, the negative was left out of the seventh commandment, and the printer was fined £3,000 by Archbishop Land, though it is said to have been com- muted to £300. The" Persecuting Printers' Bible," in which the Psalmist is made to say Printers have persecuted me without a cause," dates from 1702. The "Ears -to -ear Bible" was printed at Oxford early in the presen` century, the mistake occuring in Matth w xil, 43, and no less than three edition , the latest being 1823, transformed the word fishers, in Ezekiel xvii. 10, into fishes, so that the phrase rears "fishes :ghee' stand upon it" There was alsowhat was called the "Breeches Bible" (1579), so called because Gen. iii. 7 was rendered, "The eyes of them bothe were opened and they sewed figge-tree leaves together, and made themselves breeches.''' The proceedings were edjeurued until next Tuesday for further testimony. The son segs that his father .bad on several other oma cedars Mimed his family and bad threaten- ed the lives of all, Some time a.Jo they were compelled to flee from the house lathe evening and they remained hid in a barn throughout the night. The Dead Sea, The 1)u ui Sen is an old and dt.erep.t salt lake Lia very advanced stage of ovapnration, it lion several hundred feet below the level of the Mediterranean, just as the Caspian lien several feet below the level of the Black Sia ; and as in both caeca the surface must ones have bean continuous, it le clear that the water of either sheet must have dried up to a very considerable extent. But while the Caspian bas shrunkonly to 85 feet below the Black Sea the Dead Sea has shrunk to the enormous depth of 1,292 feat below tho Mediterranean. Every now and then some enterprising De Lesseps or other proposes to build a canal from the Me4iteranean to the Dead Sea, and so re-establish the old high level. The effect of this very revolu- tionary proceeding would beta flood the en- tire Jordan Salley, connect the Sea of Gali- lee with the Dead Sea, and play the dickens generally with Scripture geography, to the infinite delight of Sunday school classes. Now, when the Dead Sea first began its in dependent career as a separate sheet of water on its own account it no doubt occupied the whole bed of this imaginary engineer's lake —spreading, if not from Dan to Beersheba, any rate from Dan to Edom, or, in other words, along the whole Jordan Valley, from the Sea of Galilee and even the Waters of Merom to the southern desert. (I will not insult the reader's intelligence and orthodoxy by suggesting that perhaps he may not be precisely certain as to the exact position of the Waters of Merom ; but I will merely re- commend him just to refresh his memory by turning to his atlas, as this is an op- portunity which may not again occur.) The modern Dead Sea is the last shrunken relio of such a considerable ancient lake. Its waters are now very concentrated and so very nasty that no fish or other self-repeot- ing animal can consent to live in them, and so buoyant that a man can't drown himself, even if he tries, because the sea is saturated with salts of various sorts till it has become a kind of soup or porridge, in which the swimmer floats, will he. nill he. Persona in theneighborhood who wish to commit su- icide are therefore obliged to go elsewhere; much as in Tasmania, the healthiest climate in the world, people who want to die are therefore obliged to run across for a week to, Sydney or Melbourne. The timid man, who yet is not a coward, and who has conscience and convictions to inspire his determination, is the man most. to be depended on for effective conflict. A doctor says we take too many baths and keep too clean to be healthy. It is inferred that he has been taking a diagnosis of a live tramp. A tramp is never sick, never bathes and is always provided with an appetite as voracious as a steam sawmill. BRILLIANTS. Expect nothing from him who promises a great deal. Have not the cloak to make when it be - gine to rain. The most menifesir sign of wisdom is con- tiuued cheerfulness. Love is like honesty -much talked about but little understood, A pleasing countenance ie a silent com- mendation. You may shrink from the far reaching solitudes of your heart, hut no other foot than yours can treadthem. One who is content with what he has done will never become fatuous for what he will do, he has lain down to die. Plato will have disciples, but Socrates will have adorers ; because if the one knew bow to think, the other knew haw to die. The beautiful is a manifestation of the secret laws of nature, which but for this ap- pearance, bad been forever concealed Prem ue. The Winter's treat must rend the burr of the nut before the nut is seen. So adversity tempera the human heart to discover the real worth. Those who, 'without knowing ns, think or speak evil of us, do us no harm ; it is not us they attack, but the phantom of their own imagination. Feeling. come and go lie light troops following the victory c+ no peasant, but principles, Eke troupe of the line, are undla tubed and standfast. Politeness may preveut the eaant of wit and talents from beteg °baerved, but wit and talents cannot prevent the discovery of want of poliieneas. The beginning of hardships le like the Etat taste of bitten f.mad it eiseth r for a moment unbearable; yet, if there is nothing else to satisfy our hunger, we take another bite and find it possible to go on. Ruoil. (Waking about Ramage, The average society journal devotee about one column per week to the dieousamion of the so•called merrier problem. Itt tide the teedeuoy toward oelibacy is again And again repented and. every remedy which could possibly be thought of is invented at some time and plana. In nine meets out of ten, while some reaponalbility is attributed to stem the t latae for the fallln off lea mar- riages le plaoal altos women, They aro ae- cuood of beteg vain, extravagant, Incompet- ent, and frivolous*, and utterly without quallikation for any sterner work than dieting or Idilog away whole da)a avor sen- sational novels. The merits of the young man who minds his owe businem and doesn't get married are lauded to the sloes; those of a girl who does exactly the *arae thing are never mentioned. Of course, the young men are not to Memo for the falling coif in the number of marriages. Who ever heard of a young man who was lacking in any riogie or double respect? As *rule, they never smoke, drink, or idle thir time away, but ' aro busy day after day developing their mental qualities by industrious ftutiy, and saving their hard-earned wages for the purpose of getting married at a later day. Girls frequent beer saloons, play pool, and organize expatiate° clubs, but the y'auug ntsn has no tiara for stack -frivolous enter- tainment. If he did ho would fall quits to the level of his sister, and such a fate must be escaped at all hazards. The marriage problem will doubtless solvo itself in a little time, as moat evils work out their own solution. At any rate, there is no reason to fear the depopulation of the country from the falling of in the number now. Nearly every institution that the world has ever sanctioned at some time or another has passed through some species of trial. The desire for congenial feminine society is natural to every man, and will continue to be gratified in spite of high rents and extravagant markets. And while it is being gratified, just a little less of the one - aided arguments against women would be acceptable, On the whole, women are as sensible as men, very often more so,—and given a fair opportunity, with a husband worthy of the name, they are usually able to do their part towards keeping the wolf from the door and making home pleasant for those who share in its happiness. •4 t Fire Torture by a Black Boy. A little girl named Minnie Kaiser was the victim the other evening of the cruel- ty and maliciousneas of a little negro boy named Williams. The little girl is six years of age, and lives at Louisville. Her negro torturer lives two doors distant, and la about thirteen years of age. One evening the little girl was swing- ing on her front gate in a little cotton dress, when the negro sli .ped up behind her and, striking a match' touched ib to her garments. In an just ' er clothing was a fire and the blaze was running up her waist. Crying with pain and fright the child started for her home. A colored woman named E swards, who was standing ab her gate a few doors die • tent, and a witness to the deed, ran to the little girl, and by enveloping her in the folds of her ";.n dress smothered the Samoa. She was then carried into the house and Dr Leber was summoned. It was discovered, on examination, that the little girl waa burned from the knees to the waist, the flesh about the : hip being' cooked to a considerable depth +l She is suffering great pain and is said to be la a very serious condition. The negro bay is said to be very vicious for one so yoeng and seems to take enjoy ment at the sufferings of where. 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