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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1885-10-29, Page 7Idh THE LITTLE SPY, Au Incident of the rrauco.Prus. slap Wan. He wars called Stenne—little Stenne. He wee a child of Paris, thin and pale, who wee perhaps' 10 yea re old, perhaps 16; one cannot tell the age of such raidgets. His mother was dead; his father an old seedier, of the marine corpa, had charge of a Name in the Quieter du Temple. Babies, mutineer, reuses and old women—, everybody who fez quented the square -- knew Pere Stone and loved Wm, They knew that under that grim moustache, the terror of doge tied trainee, there lurked a good bantered aniile, and that to see it one had only to ask ; "How is your little boy 7" Pere Stenne loved hie bey so much. lie wm so happy when be the afternoon after hie game the boy °erne for him, and together they made a tour cf the equare, stopping at each beech to speak to the cccupaets and replyipg to thole mlutations. With the terrible ranee everything was changed. Pere Stenneti equare wart mooed. It waa placed under patrol, and the poor emu, forced to keep up an unrenettting watch, primed hts dam among deeerted an ruined .e.alle, alone, and without hie pipe, only aeolug hie boy when he Othine horn late at night. You alit/aid have meen h.1e0 uetaihe when he apt Ice of the retreat As fir . e Sterine, he did not com. pieta of ehe new erder of thiuge. .d, alege 1 It was an eanueement to children. No rnore school! Vacation ail the time, and, the etreete like; fair grcund. The boy was ruuniug out of doom all day until evening. He followed the battalioeis of the (meter= their way to their ramparts, chooelug frone preference them whichhed the heat baucle, and aboub that little Stenne was welliuformed. He couldhave tolclyou thatile band of the Ninety-aixth waan't worth much, but the band of the FLfty-fifelt wail excelleut. SooletImea he watched the blebilea at their drill • what filea of them there were! Els baaketi uudeiblearm, he Mood with thelotrg rows+ of people that termed the shadows of the dark Wintermorning at the grating of the buteher or baker. There, Mending with one's feet in thewater, onemadeacquaint- awes and talked politica, and, an the ten Of X S tenni everybody lurked hie opinion. But even moneymaking than all were the ratios du bouchon, that lament+ play of " galoche" which the Breton Mobitee hail introduced during the 'step. When lit- tle Stenne wits nob at the ramparta or the baker"): you might be sure to find him at the Peseace du Chateau d'Eau, where they played " gaicohe." He didn't play of mune, that coat too much money. He contented himaelf with. wataing the players. One of them,a imp boy in a blue coat, who never deiced lee thin 100 eons, excibed We admiration. When he ran one could here the coin clicking he the pockets of his coat. One day in picking up a piece which had rolled alma's+) under the feet of little Stenne, the large boy said to him in a low voice : "That na you equint, eh I Well, If you want, take you where you can find 'em." The playing nished, he took him into a corner, and proposed that he should go with him to eell newepapere to the Prusidans ; there were 20 francs a trip to be made. At fled Stan refused very indignantly., Hs wan althea° days with- out goinv to see the players. Three ter- rible days' 4.1ie neither ate nor elepie At night be $eer a set of "galoche" plac- ed at the foot of hie bed, and pieces of 100 Stotts each lay glittering all around him. Tho forth day he returned to the Chateau d'Eau, saw the boy and yielded. They act out one morning with seeks over their shoulders and the pspera hid- den under their bloom When they reached the Porte de Flandres day was jumb breaking. The large boy took Statue by the hand, and approachingthe sentinel —a good old fellow with a red nose ands. kindly air—he said to him in a supplica- tory voice: "Let us pan, bon monsieurs. Our mother is eickandfather le dead. We are going, my little brother and I, topick up potatoes in thefielda." Be began to cry. Stenne, ffile3 with shame, hunghis head. The sentinel looked at them a mo- ment and then looked out over the road, white and deserted. "Go on, quick," he mid to them, slip- ping aside, and they were on the way to Anbervilliera. The large boy laughed. Confused as in a dream, little Stenne saw factories transformed into barracks, barricades with wetragr clinging to them, long chimneys which pierced the fog and mounted toward heaven, empty and bro- ken. From time to time they passed a sentinel or officer with their heads muff- led up, who looked out across the fields through their lorgnettes or little tents that were soaked in the snow that was melting before the dying fires. The large boy knew the way, and went acme the fields to avoid the outposts. Presently, before they could escape them, they came upon a guard of france-tireure. The frailes- t/rears with their tents were encamped in a fosse by e etreara of water along a rail- road to SOssons. This time the large boy-toldithi atory in vain. They would not let hhn pans. Then, while hecried, them came out from the guard -house in- to the road an old sergeant, white and wrinkled, wh.o looked like Pere Stenne. "Hallo ,there, brats !Don't ory," he said to the boys. "They will let you go after ., their Potatorti. pet holden, come in and warm yourseivee a bit. The little chap ' eolos frosen." ' Alien 'it eras not from cold that little Stance trembled. ,It was from fear and dime. beide ' they fond some soldiers cowering, around a small fire'a veritable vridow's fire, overwhioh theytried to thaw out some Moults which they had faetened on their bayonets. They crowdedtogethee to make room for the boya. They gave them a little coffee to drink. While they drank, an officer came to the door, called the Sergeant, apoke tohim in a low' tone, and went out. "Why, boys," said the sergeant, coining back radiant, " to.night we shall have toe • baths°. They have gob the Premien WW1= temign. I believe this time we shall re- take that accursed Bourget." There was an explosion of bravos and laughter. They danced, they sting, they flourished their sabre bayonets, and, profit - lug by this tamed; the boys deseppeared. Ono petit the twitch there was nothing beftre them bat the plain, and at the end of it a long white wall pierced with loop. holes. Towatds the wall they directed their way, stopping at every step to pre. tend to pick up potatoes. "Dont let's go. Let's go baolr," little Stenne kept +saying all of the time. The ether ahrugged hie shouldere and went on. Suddenly they heard the click of the oeckingief a gun. "Lie down, Wit thelarger bey, throw. Ing himself on rho ground. Once down he whistled, Another whietle anewered him forms the enow. They advauced, crawling upon the ground. 13efore the vs all,out oftheameeth ground, appeared a pair of yellow mous- Melees, uuder a dirty cap. The large boy jumped into the ditch by the Pruesian. " Title is ray brother," he amid, point - Ing to ble companion. Stenne was se small that the Premien laughed ab seeing him, and was obliged to take him in hie mem and lift him up to the opening in thews% Ort the ether side of the wall weregreeit embankmente of earth, fallen teem and his ck holes in the snow, and from each hole looked out the same dirty cap and the rietne yellow- Inflation thet laughed at the beers As they perused. In one corner WM a gardneee house casereeted with trunke Of trem. Below were A crowd of eoldiere plaeluverds or Makingeoup over a greet bre. Hew good It smelled, the cabbages and the bacon Efove different from the bivouac of the franca -tire= 1 Beyond were the (Moore. One could here themplaying the planer drinking champigne. When theParlisiane entered St hurrah of joy met them. They gave out their impure, then they Dive .them, something to drink and made them talk. All of the officore had a proud and disdainfut sir let the Urge boy anumed them with lite impudence and leis +slang. They laughed, and repeating the words af- ter him, rolled with delight in the dirt of Parts Wid0b be had brought them. Little Stenne wanted, teemy romething, too, to prove that he was not stupid, but eonteehing held Kin back. Beier() him, apart trent the ahem, steed a Pelletier), who read him, or seemed to do so, foe hie eyes never quitted Woe. Re booked at him with roudernets and reproach, aslfhe heel et twine a little boy of the same Age AO Seven, andwould say: "I had rather die than me my boy doing tittle" At Omit moreent Steen felts," if a hand had been Wel upon hie heart to atop its beating. To escape from We torment be began to drink. Presently everything whirled Around Idea. Ile heard vaguely,. in the midat of loud hiughter, his mocking the Neional Guard, their dente, a plumage at erns, a night -guard ou the ramparts+. Then the largo bay lovrered hie voice, the dames ripprombed him and wore grave. The wretchedboy was tellicg them of the intended attack tithe franadireure. Sad. clonly little Menne sprung up angry and sober. " Not that Iwon't have it 1" But the other only laughed sardkopt on. When he had finiahed all of the (Aeon were stirring about. One of them opened the door to the boys. "Oat of the °Amp wlthyoul" he said. Then they began to talk among them- selves in German very fast. The large boy strutted out large as a doge and elinkhig hie money. Stenne followed him withhis head hanging down When they passed the Prussian whose look badso troubled eim, he heard a sad voice, which mid; "Not goat 1 Not goat 1" Tears COMO into hie eyes. Once on the plain again the boys began to run and return rapidly. Their sacks were full of potatoes which the Prussians had given them. With them they patted unquestioned the trenches of the francs- tireurs. They were preparing for the night attack. Troops were silently arriv- ing and massing themselves behind the walla. The old Sergeant was there, and was placing hie mon with finch a confident air. When the boys passed he recognized them and smiled pleasantly. Ah, how that smile hurt little Stenne. For a mo- ment he wished to call: "Don't go out; we have betrayed you." But the other said, "If you speak out we shall be shot ;" and fear kept him still. At Courneuve they entered a deserted house to divide their money. Truth ob. liges me to say that the division was hon. aptly made, and theft he heard the click of the coin ander hb blouse and thought of the games of "galosh° " in the future, little Menne found that his crime was somewhat less frightful. • But when he was alone, he was unhappy 1 When, after they were through the gaterethe large boy had lefts him, then hie pockets began to grow heavy and the hand upon his heart more weighty than be- fore. People who passed seemed to look upoultim severely, as if they knew from whence he had come. He heard the word spy in the noise of the etreete, and the beating of the. drums which were marching by the side of the canal. At last he reached home, and, glad to find that his father was not yet in, he hurried to his chamber to hide under his pillow the coins that weighed him down. Never had Pere Stenne seemed so joy. one ands° happy as when he came in thab night. News had just been receivedfrom the provinces and affairs were going bet- ter. As he eat the old soldier looked at his gun hanging on the wall, and said to hie boy : "My boy, how you would go for the Prussians if you were larger." Towards 8 o'clock they heard cannon. "It's at Aubervillers. • They are fight- ing at Bourget," said the good man, who knew all the forte. Little Stenne grew pale, and pretending that he was tired he Went to.) bed, but not to sleep. The can- non thundered continually, He imagined the frannetirearts arriving by night to our - prise thePrussiana and falling themaelves into ambaecade. He remembered rite sergeant who had ;smiled on him and saw him lyieg in the arrow—. and hoer many others were with him. The price of that bleed was hidden under hie pillow, and ie Wee the.seir of M. Stenne, "die son of a' moldier. Team stifled, bhp.% From the bed by his side he heard his father walk to the window and open it. Below' betthe street the toll was sounding and a battalion of Mobiles were gathered to do- nut. • Pealdecliiit was a 'battle. The wretched boy could nob keep back a sob. " What's tire wetter 3" said Pere Stenne, coraieg beck. The °hied threw himeelf ant of the heel, and at the feet of hie fa- ther. At the moveraent the cam rolled upon the floor. "Wheeitthati You Wive been ateal- ing retired the old man, trembling. Then'all in a breath, little Menne told that hellad been among the Prueelaue and what he had done there. While he (spoke he felt Ws heart grow freer. It tad atoPped its aocumelons, Pere Stenne liatened with a stern and terrible facie, When ill was finished he hid leis face in hie henda and wept. "Father! father!" need the child. The old man pushed Win away without replying and picked op the money. That is all?" he asked. Little Stoma made a sign that it was. The elci man took down Ws gun awl his cartrldge-box and put the money in hie pocket. "'Tie well," he said. "1 will give it baok to them." And -without adding a word, without ever turning hie head, he went clown to jots], the Mobiles who were going out into the night). They never saw him again. Auiau lute no more right to my en un- civil thing then to (WO QUO; no mere right to say A rude thing to another than to knock him down. If we could read the moot history of our eneznies we +should fied Ip web man's life sorrow and aufferiee enough to diearni all hostility. Laughing, if loud, ende in a deep sigh. wrote Jeremy Taylor, suid sil plemures have a eting in the tell, though they carry beauty on the fem. It is much easier to find A aeons of men wise OAQUgh to diacover the truth than to Oxidants intrepid enough, in the face of op. position, to stud up for it. Every man ban hie chain and hie clog, only it is looser and Fghter to QUOnIUM than *mother ; and be it mos e at ease wbo takes it up than he who deep ie Ilea work hurts no cue; it would *Os perhapa be myleg too mush to anent thet thee* who have lived wbee animated "busy" livestuive kart the vitaleperk loegeat aglow. Men and worrier, to Iced worthy lives, must have a just reepect for themselves and a just respect for others. Whetever tends to realize and to strengthen them promote' human welter°. Noway has been found for making hero - Isar easy, even for the !choler. Labor, Iran labor, im for him. The world wee created AO an audience for him ; the atom. of which it is made aro opportunities. Our homes are like inetruments of musie. The strings thet give melody or discord, are the members. If each is rightly attuned, they wid all vibrato in harmony; but a single disoordent atring deetroye the sweet- ness. Who mu toll the value of a audio ? It oosta thogiver nothing, but is beyond price to the ening and relmtleg, the sad and cimeriese the lost and forsaken. It disarms =dice, subdues temper, team hatred to love, revenge to kindness, and paves the darkeat paths with gems of sunlight. It is the triumph of civilization that at lest communities have obtained such a mas- tery over natural lawa that they drive them and control them. The winds, the water, electrioity, all agents that in their wildform were dangerous, aro controlled by human will, said are mede useful servant's, Row tb.e Salmon Jumps. erotessor A, Landutreek, thief director of the Norwegian Fisheries, bas publisher' some interesting partioulers of hut studies of the capability of salmon to lump water- falls, He is of opinion that the sump depends as ranch on the height of the fall as on the currents below it. If there be a deep pool right under the fall, vrbere the water is comparatively quiet a salmon may jump six- teen feet perpendicularly, but such jumps are rare, and he can only state with certain- ty that it has taken place at the Rellefos in the Drams River, at Ilaugsend, where two great masts have been placed across the river for the study of the habits of the sal- mon, so that exact measurements may be ef- feoted. The height of the water in the riv- er, of course, varies, but it is as a rule, when the salmon is ruining up stream, Eixteen feet below these masts. The distance be- tween the two is three and one-half feet, and the professor states that he has seen salmon jump from the river below across both masts. As another example of high- jumping, he mentions some instances of Carratunk water fall, Reumbec, in North America, where jumps of twelve feet have been recorded. Professor Landmark further states that when a stihnon jumps a fall nearly perpen- dicular in shape, it is sometimes able to re- main in the fall, even if the jump is a foot or two short of the actual height. Thie, he maintains, has been proved by =overwhelm ing .quantity of evidence. The fish may then be seen to stand for a minute or two a foot or so below the edge of the fall, in a trembling motion, when with a smart twitch of the tail thereat of the fall is clear- ed. But only fish which strike the fall straight with the snout are able to remain in the falling mass of water; if it is struck obliquely, the fish is carried back into the stream below. This Professor Landmark believes to be the explanation of salmon passing falls with a olear descent of sixteen feet. The professor believes that this is the extreme jump a salmon is capable of and points out that, of course, not all are mpable of performing this feat. Women On Wheels. • An Englishman—an enthusiastic tricyoler —declares that "the woman who has never been on wheels has not tasted half the innocent joys of life. Your tricycle is at the door ; you mount the saddle and press the pedals with feet which seem as languid and tipiritlees as the heart within you. • A few turns and the quiekened cironlationbe- gins to not upon you. Your sad eye bright- ens ; the colour mounts to your pale oheek ; you draw a long breath, and settle down, to longer limpidly, to year work. A few minutes and the dreary town surroundings are left behind. You ride and ride, till the calm fair beauty of wood and stream sinks deep'into your weary heart, and you feel young, and strong, and happy again all on a sudden, and you reach home refreshed and invigorated in body, and mind, feeling as you alight as if you were treading on air and could scarcely keep frombusting out into singing as blithe as that of the lark you left • behind you an hour ago. That night you deep the sleep of tired childhood, and you 'Wake to feel the world a very good plaoe after all, and duties not so irksome by half as you thought them Yesterday.", H Eik12193. Vemination, • BY D. B, VATZIOVQN, W. D. The prevelenoe of tonall pox throughout New Ragland and Canada at the present time has suggested the above subject as tirade topic for our health talk this week. The +Ave leading to the diecovery and do. monateatiou of moot/mei= have now passed into history, and are too well known to re quire repetition here. Like every discovery which has proved a blessing to mankind, vaccination has been obliged to contend with ignorance, euperatition tied meliclaue in- trigue on every hand, It ia not difficult at any time to find certain persons who are ever reedy to set then:melees up against any As 09MO one has apt)), remeeked, "Weise and exertion are the *took in trade of each people." Their principhs is the old one, "That a lie well situ* to Jo AS good am the truth." It took yeere, and a large amount of moutuulated faete and statiaties, to demorotrete conclusively the positive benefits to be derived from, ouch a promise as vieschuition Although the oetatettnial of its discovery has not yet been celebrated* yet there le no axiom more dear than are the eaible aohlevements of veocinetlort. Te- at( the treth of thbi statement bt admitted by all candle thinkers, and deeded only by the wilfully ignorant. In proof of this *martian we have only to tette An array of facto gleaned from steed- erd authorities to aubetentiate thle truth. Them have been am plainly stet forth by an eminent svelter that they are here given without obenee, The oottehreione retorted to are AO follows; "(L) That this dissease, *QV pax, causally ortmmunioeted to MAI; bAO the power of ren- dering hire antersoeptible to ,ernall pox. (2 ) That the aptelflo me pox alone, and not other eruptione effecting the ow which might be confounded with it, had this pro- tective power. (8.) That the oow pox might be communicate:A at vtinfrom theme,. to the hand of man by the baud of the our - goose, whenever the re quhite opportunity existed; and (4) That the cow pox mem ingrafted on the human AUbjlitet might be continued from individual to Individual by aucceseive traueralealone, conferring ou mole the same immunity from =mil 130X AO wee, enjoyed by the one first iefected from the cow." Through the Balite and shadows of over three-quertera of a tottery them fecte !UM been Moroughly totted, *gain and &pin, =der aimed every oneeivable condition. As si result of them inveatigatIous it may be safely stated that with ouch exemptions as are oilmen allowed in everything, persona who are thoroughly, properly and autficient. ly vaecinetee will not take the ereell pox. Icatencea without number mu be gathered from medical and other erithoritice where paeans have beeir suceemfally vac:ideated, and whotheve served as asslatents and 11121104 In small pax hospitele for weeks itud month', without the cliseme. Again, if there is no virtuein vac/ideation, as some claim, why it that only a few generetione ago email a.pox was ea prevalent and fatal that one ie six of the whole mut- ation in Serape died of that digests° ? Cer- Minty during the past twentyttive years no such record as thee can be found in that or any other muntry. 11 13 true that epidemios have cocasionly broken out in difierent looelities of each, but it le not difficult to prove that it was often in theme very towns and cities where the claims of vaociostion were the least regarded, and in some in - *tam almost exittrely ignored. The queation here properly came up for discussion, when and how often Shell a per- son be vaminated. In order to rightly *newer thia question, a careful and thorough examination of a large amount of medical literature upon the subject htus been made. From thia atady and inveatigetion the fol- lowing deductions are here offered. It la well known that whenever an quid - arida of small pox has occurred, there tIAS always been * larger rate of mortality among the ohidren of a few week' old to five years of age than among older children and adults. It is therefore logical to suppose that a child should be vaceinated as early as potable, cf oeuvre other things at the seam time being faeorable. If a child is strong and healthy he may be vaccinated any time from six weeks to three months old. But if the child is of a feeble, delioate constitu- don, or is sickly, then a much longer time is beat to elapse. Of course if email pox should be prevalent in the community it would be necessary to be governed by the surrounding circumstance]. A child thoroughly vaccinated before he Is one year old, is protected from small pox until he reaches the age of from twelve to tomteen, provided he has continued in fair health during those years. But if he has been subjected to a long succession of severe attacks of illness, re-vaecination may be necessary several years earlier. At the age of twelve or fourteen a person should again be vaccinated. Subsequent vaccination will depend largely upon person- al habits, modes of living, occupation, and general -condition of health. Certainly once In fourteen years every ono who has not had either small pox or vanoloid should submit to the protective influence of vaccination. If at that time the vacchmtion does not take It ohould again be repeated within two or three years for the old inoculation may nob have continued to prove effectual. In conclusion, one word with reference to bhe best means of vacoination. • In reply we have but one word to say; that is, use only bovine virus. There are those who make it a business to provide this virus, and the process has been perfected so that now the danger or the possibility of obtaining any but pure matter is reduced to a minimum. From these firms, whose names are house- hold words among physioians, good and re- liable virus can always be obtained. It is not white to vacoinate from one person to an- other. This was formerly the custom but it in now fast going out of use, and their is no good reason why it should not soon be entirely oet aside. Vaccination, if properly performed, is safe, and it should be employ- ed by all, as in this way the scourge of small pox may eventually be reduced to a few isolated oases.- • A remarkable salt lake, vvhioh has attain. ed a widespread celebrity, is eituated in the county of Hidalgo, 'Texas, about :40 miles north fromBdinburgh, the county seat, which fronts the old Mexican' town of Rey- nosa. on the opposite side of the Rio Grande. del Norte, and about 70 miles north-weet from Brownsville. It le in fortn an eclipse, about one mile in length and five miles in its circumference. Its depth nowhere ex- ceeds three or four feet, and its bed cenobite of pure rook crystal salt.The water is a brine pf minimal strength, whichoryetallizea with such rapidity that no matter how barge a quantity of mit is removed from the bed of the lake one day, its place will be found filled with salt of a eimilar(quantity thenext. This indicates thatthe supply of salt is practically inexhaustible while in purity it ranka with the best roollealt productions of this continent or of Europe, being composed of 99.0897 parts chloride of sodium, or pure Belt • Tali WORLD 01F,ER, A carrier pigeon —started front Mont cry, Ai*.'the middle of August reaohed it home be Fall River, Muse, lam week in good condltion. Meier Powell if the Geological Survey hem disoovered in New hlexice, neer rile hfountsen, what he proeoeume to be the oldest human babitatione upon the American oontinent. The larged apotheoaryti elstablithinent le earl t be that of Welderaer Ferrain of Mos- eow, in which 800 laboratory and other AB- eiatente are employed and over 1,000 pre. ioriptione are dispel -seed daily, A. paler:411e° writer *aye that alcohol le one of the cop/tent mind neoettesry requite of the proc.ese of yeast fetreentetiors, and it worm A plet that about 1,000 pitons of it should be wasted daily by evaporation in the making of bread for New York alone. While riding in a prompsion at New Haven a few days ago, Lieetenant Rower d of Gat - ling -gun fame in the Rice Rebellien, was throwa from an ugly horse, vehicle then at- tacked him with both bind heels ante fore feet. Howard oorqaered the araznol, never - theism, remounted, and owe inuedbie much. Doctors say that mothers wit° take pride he the weight of their +rawly -bora article= &torrid weigh thorn as atom as possible lifter birth. Children lose weight during ttte fleet three diem of life, end the live sonte- them amounte to twelve onom or more. It tokQR them nearly is week to recede the weight they had at the time of Man. A tivelvd-yeernle Dakota glrl, taken up 430 the air by a cycloue, canted out of sight, and brought estelly down las OW a quarter of a mile away, deacribee Iter eeneetiorra while irs transit as that of being nightly and ormetantly mitered by thousands of needles, Since her experienoe she has been affected libeller to a peraon with St, Vinueo demo, A manufacturer in Breslau hap:reeently built at hie factory a obitusrey over lifty feet isa heleht entirely of peper. The blocks used Isa ita oonstructlan, instead of brisk or stone, were made ef !agora of oompremeel paper jointed with a silicions content. The advantages are the fire -proof miter° of the material, the minimum of danger from light- ening, and great eleatioity. Senator 'Welker of Nevada ICAO attacked by a b,snd of coyatea near Wemitley Gulch recently, and WAX obliged to bike to a tree to sem We life, He bad a rifle with hire, and killed &number of the animate, which were quickly devoured by their oonsreeles, lie remained in the tree ail night, closely watched by she coyotes, but was reamed in the morning by a party of hunters. The gird= ot the Tuileriee ere just now being taken resseettime of by groups of Peri* roughs, who render thie fevorite resortun- appreecheble by visitors. Thom ruffian* mutilate the Matzos, and theirlateet exploit hin been to break off the quiver held by a aymph. The Director of the Louvre haa ex- preesed the intention of wiling back Into the building all the atetues under Ina rehnin- htration which are now in the gardens. It ia said that the first restrictive liquor law ever peered isa theStateswas enacted in town in Rhode Island and read as followe "Every saloonkeeper who sells more than one gallon of liquor to a minor flbAll be fined one dollar and coats," The first temperance pledge remembered, in olroulation in New England was thus worded "1 aolemely swear to abstain from the me of intoxiost. • Ing liquors on all °comforts exoopt on train- ing days, wedding days, bentenets, and other great oocesions," In the register of deaths of the what of San Lorenzo, Seville, there'll' an entry under ditto of the first of November, 1788, of the burial in the crypt of of the church of Don Juan Manuel Buternanteey Calder- on, vicar And chaplain, of tire church, who died at the age of 130 years. He was mar. ried five times roadbed fifty-one children be. fore he became prieat He was ;toted for his piety and benevolence, and at the time of his death was engaged in writing a religious work. He was 90 years old when he was or- dained priest. Mrne. Lotinga, a very smart ammo, uho, in imitation of Mrs. Weldcn'has been pots- ing as heroism lawyer theEnglia courts, pursued gentler and more effective methcds. She came to court every day with a very beautiful daughter, who set beside her. One day cf the promedinge she offered a photograph to Mr. Justice Hawkins, who is trying the ease with a special Jury, His Worship refused 13. She quietly turned to her daughter and desired her to give it to his Honor, which, with muchgrace. Rebecca did. The Justice blushed beneath his wig and took it, This has not been tried here yet. The ROY, Dr, George Jeffrey, of Glasgow, Scotland, has preached more than forty-six years to the same congregation. To ore of his former parishioners, now a New York merchant, Dr. Jeffrey explained the secret (if his being able to interest the same audience eo long. "I read every new book that has a bearing upon my speoial work" he said, "and make extracts from it, and index them, so I can find them when wanted. In this way I keep myself from.moving ih a mt. I work as hard as I used to at twenty, and I keep so far ahead with my -sermons that there are always ten or more unfinished ones ly- ing in my drawers ready to receive the re- sults of my latest readings. I call them 'sleeping sermons,' but it is they that sleep, and not the people who hear them." Amottlreag Falls, on the Merrimac River, was once the great fiehing place of New • Hampshire, It was here Passacatnawey and his tribe of Indians lived and had their not- ed fishing place in primitive times, when the water teemed with salmon, shad, and lamprey eels. Forty years ago a high dam was built at Lawrence and another lower down. These stopped all the fish, of course, and the upper river became barren.. Ten years ago fishways were put in the dame, but they did little good. In 1881 a citizen carried 200 lamprey eels above the dams and put them into the Merrhnac. The result Is this year thousands of edit have appeared, gone up the fiehways, and up the river 150 miles above Amoskeag Falls, showing that the river has keen successfelly restocked. • Mr. Bouoicault is 63, not 68 as stated in the Australian papers, hewing been born in Gardiner street,Dublin, on the 22nd of Fele ruary, 1882. His birth is registered in the Episcopal Church, in that street, He was aunounced by Mr. Charles Mathews, onin- trOduoing him as the author of "London Assurance" to the Covent Garden Audienoe In 1840, as 18, but with hie then blade cur- ly hair andvery boyish appearance he seem- ed inch younger. His prompt fair bride, who isnot asold as repreeented, is of res- pectable family; but her fatherland a Ma- jorGeneral, and has never been on the +staff of the Prince +if Wales, which is elready crowded with fictitious creations. She was educated for a governess and turnedto the stage, and is very pretty and accomplished, He has been three times married. His Bee- ond wife, Apes Robertson; is atill aud though his present marriage may pos- sibly hold good where British law reigns, it °mut in the States , JILTED matasr AT W4 ALTAR. Antialon(XACed 5wlnTaks *Inds Wed. The Vieille* and Cam re were. A diepatvh from lewrenoeville, seys An ititereeting love episode has jut bran - *mired. here, in which the urinal order of thew, was reverted. Inetead of the moil - being and t tedeterrained bridegroom sud• deely diseppeming, thie time it was the pretty bride herself. Some time ago Wil- liam Lemke,a German ivied 22 years, emir- ed13 thia vicietty from Saxony. Being A gardener he soon obtained a good pItuatiou. On an adjelning farm lived Ruth, Fulton, the cleughter of A well -to do land- owner. The gardener frequently met the pretty blend' e and soon the two became quite 'estimate.The gardener was warned by hes empieyer not to put too much con fidene in the girl, sasbo had already pley- ed sad litsvm with several hearts in the neighborhood. Tbe German, however, con - Untied bis attentioae, and appeared to make Bo mach progress that many believed he would eueeeed isa whening her Finelly be proposed and was accepted. The wedding day wee exed, and he spent nearly 8100 for hie wedding outet. The nelehboring minister was ergaged to perform the serve's in chorale and all was going on merrily the repletion merriege bell. Oa the mon:zing of the day appeirsted for the wedding, and while the gardener was almtogine Inc toilet, he received A note from the girl oiling that tbe wedeln would have to be postponed. Tee young man Imeteteed to her parents' berme lied tweed that oho had mysteelouply dieepperired, no no pre- tending to know where, lie promptly went aoout his burliness's, took off Ms wed- ding °loam and quietly proceeded to hie work, It le +surmised that the lady is visit - lug friends 13 Philadelphipt 11 1* AbI4 be- lieved that she really letended to merry the gardener, but at the tut hour changed her mind, GASTBONOMIO PIO Women can spin very Ivo% but they can- uot make a good Book of Ceokery. Johnson. The remipte of cookery are sweiled to a volume, but A good ttomech excele them a—William Penn. The sweeteet honey le Icatesoree isa iteovrn deliclowineee—Shakeepome. Small cheer and groat weloorae wake a merry feast. —Shakespeare. We cultivate literetine on A ItttIO oatineelt sayp Sidney Smith. Yet the reverend:gentle- man was not altogether averse to A s i.rloin(1 beef and a plover -pudding, Bid rim to * calre heed and a OnX42,-,-- UU013 Ado about Nothing, v,:. And moreeeer puddings lied liarejecks —Periolei, if, 2, And milk °oases fromn home biteai Levees Leber Lest, v, 2. I never did apply hot and rebellious 11. quora in my blood,—As You Liken, 11,3. Temperance and labor are the two beat physicians of mare Leber alarms' the ap- petite and tanipernace prevent' Wm itemize. trudging to exoess.--Roeseau. Timed of living eaauly, es to money, is to pitch your meant of living one degree Lebow your metene—Henry Taylor. I risme:sok at the sea without lamenting the beak:yard stete of Its apiculture. Were every eatable land anima extinct', the hin man raoe could dine andsoup out a' the ocean WI e eternity. * • • • Luncheons are the disturbers o' a' earthly happiness. daurna trust myna' we a inneheen. In ray henna it becomes an untimeous denner— for after a bootie o'cauld meat, muir fowl - plait, or even butter and bread, what reason- able cretur can be ready afore glossinise for a het dewier? So whenteer Int betrayed into a luncheon, I mak' it a hue:therm wi' a vengeance; and then order in the kettle, and finish efewP a jug or twa, just the same as gin it bad j beet a regular runner tebleoloth. Bewaur the tray.—The Et. trick Shepherd. WET BORT? 'What tort of morality is that which satis- fies a man in the non-psennent of a debt aa long as his creditor tefratne from "dunning?" What sort of morality is that which satis- fies itself in non-payment el a debt hem rule it is a small amount—a (ride! What sot of rcorality is that which calls the attention of the creditor to an over- charge, but is anent about an undercharge What sort of morality is det which seeks to evade meeting his oreeitcr +est he should be more plainly reminded of his indebted- ness! What sort of morality ill that which sat- isfies itself in the non-payment of a debt be- cause the creditor is presumed be the debt- or not to need what the debt calls for ? What sort of morality is that which sat- isfies i self in the non-payment of a debt be- came of a failure in farming, or other enter- prise or undertaking! • What sort of morality is that which gets offended when asked to pay a debt which the debtor promised to pay long before the time of dunning? What sort of morality is that which pro- vides for his own wife and children by de- frauding the wife and children of an- other man, dead or alive, to whom he is justly indebted for things which have been used by the debtor's family for their own en- joyment or profit? What sort of morality is that which ig- nores mord obligation as to a debt, and pays only when the civil law compels? What sort of morality is thatwhioh light- ens he obligation to pay a just debt in pro- portion to the length of time since - it was contracted In short, what sort of mordityls that which disregards the command, "Thou shalt not steal 1" Your Little Child. The bright girl that God took? Ah i you would not have een away so many nights if you had thought she was going so, soon. Your wife has never brightened up since then. She has not got over it. She never will get over it. What a pity it is that you cannot spend more mislays at home consol- ing that, greet sorrow. Oh, you cannot drown that krief in a wine cup 1 You cannot forget those little arms that were thrown around. your neck while she said "Papa, do stay home to -night, do stay home to -night lueYou cannot wipe from your lips the dying kiss of that little child. And yet there hair been many a man so completely crverborne by the faciimidons of a:dub-house that he went off the night the child was dying of soarlet fe- ver. He came hack about midnight, and it was all over. The eyee were closed. The The undertaker had done his work, The wife lay unconscious in the next room from having watched for three weeks. He came up stairs, and he taw the emptycradle and saw the window was up. He said, "What • is the matter." In God's judgment day he - will findsout whatwas the matter. Oh, man atitray, God help you 1—Dr, Palmage.