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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1886-4-8, Page 7THE IoDONALDS Alomance of the Canada Line in 181-15. DT T. of:B. (Concluded CHAPTER III.—Tan OTrn R Sw . Lot us leave the valiant Rory in hie tent s and turn sleeping the alae of the just return to the girl, still fondly remembered, wham he left on the southern bank of the blue St, Lawrence. When Rory pulled away from out her sight she returned sadly and thoughtfully. to her home, where she found her father applying an anoient olayu1are, that looked as if it had done good service in many a Highland' ay, to a grindstone, and her young brother turning the Drank thereof with all his might and main. " Whaar hag ye been, lassie ?" asked the old man, as he tried the edge of his sword on hie thumb as Jade came in. " Well father' I was down at Doolittle's house," (which was tree as she used to wait there until her lover hove in eight) " for a little while and coming home I met Rory McDon- ald from Glengarry, and had a—long talk with him, that's wbat kept me. it's hard to get away from a bedy sometimes," said the artless Jessie. " Aye, just so, especially if the body is cad Rory McDonald," said the old man, though not unkindly. "See here, Jessie, I rather like the Gallant Rory, for he seems a true and manly young fellow. Don't blush, my dear, I'm not blind, I know all about it ; but It would be well for yon to think no more of the young man ; war with England will certainly be deolared in a few days, and your chances of ever oeeing your sweet• heart again are very few. There, dear, don't cry 1 Bat, Jessie, make up your mind to try and give him up."' " Never i never ! father. I will never, I cannot give him tip." and the poor girl sobbed and pried, as all proper young girls do, or should -do, under similar agonlz Iugelroumstances... Even war, as we have said before, was de Glared sure enough. The New York Militia were called out and Hector MoDcneld, ord. while Laird of Craig -Karl in that part of Groat Britain known as Scotland, but now an American citizen, was gazetted to a cap- taincy in the Railtown Rifles, N. Y. S. V., and Josh's father was ordered away to the front with the army on the Niagara frontier and was in active service during all the dif- ferent campaigns of the war, and gaining his " Majority" through " distinguished conduct on the field," leaving in the meanwhile the forlorn and disconsolate Jessie fatherless and lovorlese (her mother had died long ago in Bonnie Scotland) in the house of Hiram Doolittle, Esquire, atrue born Yankee of the old Puritan stock, whore she was re- ceived into the bosom of the family as a daughter. In fact, if young Hezeklah Doo- little hadtleaglown way she would have be- come a da ghter in earnest, but Josaie, like the true girl that she was, remained faithful to her bold soldier laddie, albeit she knew not by this time he had not been bayoneted or shot and lying with his face looking up to the dalaies. One day a letter came for her, not in the dear familiar hand of her father, dated fromtheAmerican Headquarters. It merely eaid : "Madame,—Your father is badly wounded and otherwise very I11, He desires to see you and begs that you come at once," It was signed by a regimental surgeon. Jessie stood not on the order of her going, but paok ! ler traps and started at once and in due tfine reached the American camp where she found her father very low in- deed. " God bless you, Jessie 1 My dear girl, I'm glad you've come," said the sick and wound- ed man. Don't leave again till you see the end of this. " Never fear. I'll stay with you, father," replied the almost heart -broken girl, and turned away to hide her tears. CHAPTER IV.—PEACE, On the 25th day of July, 1814, the sooroh• lag summer sun arose over the gentle elopec and fields of waving grain tltilielooked down upon the rushing rapids of the mighty Niagara below the falls, to witness as bloody a fight as ever occurred in the annals of warfare between contending armies of simi- lar size. The Americans, under Gen. Brown, con- tended against the British force under Gen. Riall, and successfully, for Riali was taken prisoner until the arrival of Drummond from Toronto, with 800 men, turned the earth and Brown was defeated and fell back on Fort Erie, whioh ended the bloody battle of Lundy's Lane. It was a hard day for both sides. Men and guns were captured and re -captured several times and the wheat was trampled to the ground reeking with the blend of the com- batants. In one of the many fierce and obstinate bayonet charges poor Rory McDonald came to grief. He was wounded, taken prisoner, sent to the American rear and subsequently conveyed 'with the retiring troops to Fort Erie, where he was sent to the hospital. While our hero lay etretohecl in his cot with his wounded shoulder bandaged, a number of American ladies and gentlemen used to visit the hospital, bringing comforts for the poor stricken soldiers, and one day as Rory lay wide awake lamenting.his hard fate, a, o d gentleman in the undress uni- for., an American officer approached him, stood for a while looking at him intently. "I. think we have met before, young man," said he. " Don't know, sir," replied Rory, with military curtnees, "I've mot a good many of your countrymen lately," and, adding rather quietly, " sec how they've need mem " Tell me, young man, did you ever rescue a prisoner from the hands of your Mende, the Indians ? "Yea sir. Many a one," "Did you ever release an °faser from two Indiana who were going to tomahawk him, He was wounded, and one ofd your follows bayoneted out of his captors 7' 'Yes, I reeolleot. It was protty nearly all? day ,with the old gentleman that tinge„ Then let me tell you L'm the same officer and I've never forgotten you. Anythin en want shall be rovided for yyou and iP will try and get yon exchanged as soon as you are able to move, Bat stay, here is my daughter. Jessie, thin le the young man who saved__" • Before ho could finish the sentence, he found his daughter and thetryoung man" in fond embrace, "Hallett 1 halloa 1 What's all thio ?"paid the old gentleman, astounded by the eight. "Why, father, Ito Rory,m y RoryMoDon- ald." y wades, Josh," said Rory," and-" (grand tableau , "yours always, And go it was, Joneie and Rory were again together after the g g Ir long and maxim welt- ing, Rory had no ceoaalon to ehouldor hie musket ag tint for before he got convalescent the cruel war was over, and he carried the now b'ooming Jessie down to his home in Glengarry, her father "thereto consenting," Indeed he went with them, and shortly after their arrival a wedding took place, the like of which never was known to the oldest in, habitant, and great and uproarious were the rejoicings thereat, at the'wild Highlandmen, a good many of them Rory'e erstwhile coal.. reties, formed a ring, and while the pipers made the adjoining country for mike around resound, they danced while they sang : "Rey I for Ronald McDonald 1 He o Y for abottle Uf beer 1 Hey' for Ronald McDonald! And hey for a bottle of beer." [TITS END.] Religion in a Paok of Cards. A sergeant in an English company one Sunday, marched his soldiers to church and commanding thein to take out their Bibles or prayer books ; each did so, except one sol- dier by the name of Richard Lee, who took out a pack of cards, and spread them be. fore him. The sergeant said : " Richard, put up that pack of cards.' The soldier said : " I shall not do so." The sergeant said : "If you will not de oro I shell arrest you after the service is over." When the service was over he brought the soldier be fore his lordship, the Mayor of Glasgow, who asked the sergeant, " Why dost thou bring thio soldier here before me?' " For playing ,cards in church, your worship." Hie lordship says, " Soldier, what haat thou to say for thyself 7" " Much do I pray your lordship to hoar me." " It is well, if you do not well excuse yourself I will pun- ish you severely. Go on and explain," The seldlor said, " Your lordship, I have been six weeks upon the march and I had neither Bible or prayer book, nor almanac. I shall attempt to convince your 1ord,A?i , that this pack of cads has eer red me for all these." " Go on," said his lordship, "When I look upoh the ace it reminds me that there is but one God ; when I look upon the deuce it reminds me of the Father and San. And when 1 look upon the tray it reminds me of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost. When I look upon the four it reminds nee of the four evangelists that preaohed, Mathew, Marls, Luke and John. When I look upon the five it reminds me of the five wise virgine ; there were ten, but five were foolish and wore shut out, When I look upon the six it reminds me that is eh: days God created the heaveue and earth. When I look upon the seven it reminds me that upon the seventh day 13e rested and hallowed hie work. When 1 look on the eight it reminds me of the eight righteous persons who wore saved in Noah's ark, namely, Noah, his wife, his three sons and their wives, When I look upon the nine it reminds me of the lepers that were clensed before our Lord. And when I look upon the ten it reminds me of the Ten com- mandments which God handed down to Moses, upon tablets of stone at Mt, Sinai." The aoidier then laid aside the knave. " When I look upon the Queen it reminds me of that great and good Qaeen the Qaeen of Sheba, who was as wise a woman as Sol- omon was a man ; she brought fifty boys and fifty girls all dressed in boy's apparel be- fore King Solomon for him to tell who were the boys and who were the girls. King Solomen ordered water to be brought before him for them to waeh; the boys washed tr their wrists and the girls to their elbows, so that he told by that. When I look upon the King it reminds me of the great King in heaven, who is God Almighty.' Hle lord- ship eaid : " Soldier, thou has well ex- plained every card except the knave." The soldier said : " If your lordship will not get angry." His lordship alts : "I will not get angry, provided you do not term me to be the knave." " No," says the sol- dier, " the greatest knave that I know of is the sergeant who brought me before ycu, When I count the pack of cards I find there are 52, which is emblematical of the weeks of the year. When I count the suttee I find there are four, which is emblematical of the seasons of the year, When I count the tricks I find there are thirteen, which is emblematical of the weeks in each quarter, When I count the spots I find there are 365, which is emblematical of the days of the year. So, you will observe, year lordship, that this pack o cards has answered mo as a Bible and prayer book and almanac," His lordship says, "Richard, you are die - charged," A Significant Story. A wealthy banker in one cf our large cities, who is noted for his large subscrip- tions to charities, and for his kindly habits of private benevolence, was called on by his pastor ono evening and asked to go with him to the help of a man who had attempted to commit suicide. They found the man in a wretched house, in an alloy, not far from the banker'e dwell- ing. The front room was a oobler's shop; be- hind it, on a miserable bed, in the kitchen, lay the poor shoemaker, with a gaping gash in his throat, while his wife and ohrldr in were gathered about him. " We had been without food for days," said the woman, when he returned. " It is not my husband's fault. He Is a hard -work. ing, sober man. But he could neither get work, nor pay for that which he had done. To -day he went for the last time to collect it debt due him by a rich family; but the gentle- man was not at home. My husband was weak from fasting, and seeing us starving drove him mad, Ss it ended that way," turning to the fainting, motionless figure on the bed. The banker, having fed and warmed the family, hurried home, opened his desk, and took out a file of little bills, All his largo debts wore promptly mot, • but ho was apt to bo gargles anout the account of milk, bread, oto-, because they were so petty. He found there a bill of Michael Go -odor's for repairing children's ahoee, $10, Michael Goodlow was the suicide. It was the bank- er's unpaid debt which bad brought these people to the verge of the grave, and driv- en thia man to desperation, while, at the very same time, the banker had given away thousands in charity. Tho cobbler recovered, and will never want a friend while the banker lives nor will a small unpaid bill ever again be found on the banter's table. No man has a right to boenero s aid and theu unn l his debts are P moat. efficient use of money is not alone in alma giving, but to payliberaily and promptly the people whom we employ, If oil has been recently spilled on a carpet or floor, put on plenty of wheat -flour or whiting to absorb the oil as much as posed. ble. If the spot is, near a seam, it is well to open the carpet and place the whiting under- neath as well. The next day awecp up with a stiff brush the flour above and beneath the carpet, and put on plenty of fresh flour. If epote persist in remaining after Meta treat - monk they can be removed by rubbing with flannel dipped in spirita of turpentine or benzine. Others use a preparation made by mixing a little soap in a gallon of soft warns water, and then adding half en ounce of borax, Wash the part well with a clean cloth, and the spot will boon disappear, THE FATME. ,. A ,Rural Eemonstranoe.. 010 farmer Wlnrow Weed his head, Andlaid astde hie paper ; Hie apeotaoles eild down his nose And rested on its taper, Wall, I dealer' I" he cried aloud ; This beats the very dIekena 1 They've gone en' shitted roan' the time, As surd as ohloke le chickens, "I never heerd, upon my wor , W anything to beat it, 1 rally think V theme t C folks Hey got their miracle unseated, ' An whet Is this I read In hoer Great Cwearl nave the flock 1 They're goln' to stretch the boars out To twenty-four o'oleek 1" Tho worthy farmer scratched his ear In deepoet meditation, He gazed perplexed upon the clock With mentalagitation. " For sixty years I've plowed along As reg'lar as the eun, sir, An' used the good, old-faehlaned time W.thout a hitch, by gum !sir. They string my flelds with Wel hones, Or some new -tangled trashes, They send out one•wheeied railway traits To everlastin' smashes, " An' yet. they be not satisfied With the customs they hey slander'd, But they must go an' riginate A new an' fresh • thne-standard." " I rally shouldn't be eurprlsod, N 1r my old woman, 'ither, If them thar city luaatios Should drop time altogether. " An some fine day, when we arise, Our daily race to run, Well find thet while we've bin aeleop They've turned around the eun 1 "But really now I didn't think (Nor my old Sal, I reckons) They'd go an' steal from Father Time Some fifty score of eeoonde. " Ah 1 now I see thcer Iittlegame 1 Ae I'm a calculator They've backed their clocks a quarter-hour To sleep a little later. Large Crops from Cnt Potatoes. A suooeseful cultivator of potatoes says : When the Early R713e was first brought out I planted 5 Il;, which cost V. They were out to single eves and each placed 3 ft. apart, making 47 hills, and the produce was 331 lbs, or 5a, bushels ; at therate of 550 bushels per acre in round numbers. The next year I planted a quarter of an acre, using about half the previous crop, cut to single eyes and twoisets in a hill. The 1.200 hills gave 125 bushels, not counting a few bushels dug early in July. One acre of Harisons the same year planted in the same' manner gave me 660 measured and counted bushels. The next spring every Early Rose used in the house was peeled thickly and the eyes kept for planting. These thin sets gave fully as large a yield ae those bulky ones cut from the large tubers. I have planted similarly ant sets in boxes in the greenhouse for transplanting later into the garden, and the yield was as good as that of the ordinary Drop from large cuttings, The largest yields of potatoes ever grown were produced from rooted cuttings of the stem of the young plant which had no por- tion of the tuber to draw nutriment from, Last year I took from six to eight sprouts from each bud of a sweet potato and these planted out in the field grow vigorously and yielded over 800 bushels per acre, some of the tubers weighing eight pounds, and the average of the crop being four and three- quarter pounds. Sweet potatoes are all grown in this way : the sprouts being pall- ed from' the sed and this is left to. throw out more sprouts. Is it reasonable that the oommon potato differs wholly from every other growth ? And are we now to cast aside theiresults of thirty years' practice and ex- perience for a new way which is opposed to all this gathered knowledge ? I nevr.r found sell too rich far potatoes. I raised a crop equal to 1.200 bushels per acre on an old barnyard ; the vines covered the ground in a mat more than knee- deep, and the majority of the hills turned out 12 quarts. Last season I saw over 700 bushels of Peer- less turned out of a 3 acre plot. Both of these crops were from cutting° of two eyes each and three sets in a hill, which has been as long aa I can remember the common way of planting. It is not the cutting of the seed which makes the present email yield but the loss of fertility ; the big yields are always upon rich soil. Potato varieties "run out" only by reason of a continued course of poor eon. Ttvo years ago 'I hacl 450 bushels per acro of Early Rose, which was very nearly equal to my first Drop grown on bettor soil. " There is a Wrong." A level-headed farmer writes as follows : Farmers do not obtain more than half of the amount the customer pays for meat, The butchers are too greedy, and many of them apparently conscienceless. They are selling cuts now just as high as when live atock cost them from one-third to one• half more. Sev- eral butcher] offered me for a lot of email nut nice lambs from $1 to $1 50 each, I had them butchered and sold the quarters to the village people at nine cents a pound, and they brought me from $2 50 to $3 each and the pelts about 65 cents. The other parts of them paid for all the trouble and time spent. There should be closer relation between farmers and consumers. It is for the inter. oats of both. I have no objections to the "handlers," but I do most seriously object to their gouging me and robbing the comm. er, They should be satisfied with a fair re oomponee for their labor. The producer ie entitled to hie share of what Consumers are willing to pay. If consumers, who are mainly manufacturers or tradespeople, were not so stupid they might see that the more a farmer can 8011 at a remunerative price the more means he has to buy their wares with. The privilege and duty of the consumer is thus plain -to go around the greedy mid- ditmen and put himeif to some trouble to encourage the backbone of prosperity in this country, the fanners, to raise good meat and other things and buy direct from them. This eort of trade would revive moat produc- tion, now deadened and supplanted by the Western dressed meats; and it would also help dairymen to find some prosperity in their calling. Consumers are paying almost twice as much for good butter as the dairy- man gets ; and it is an (lutfage that the re- tailer or grocer should get nearly as much for more handling as the maker for all the oust and labor of production, Preparing P for Spring Work. P The comparative idleness of winter makes the horses' shoulders tender, and unless they are hardened, plowing will soon make them sore, The best hardener its strong, pure brine, Apply it with a rag tied around the end of a corn cob. During the work season, Soon as the collar is removed, waeh the shoulder and apply the Salt water. It toughens the fresh, and also cool) the shoulder, allaying all irritation and inflame malign, Discard all dollars emelt worn, and ticket new ones how when you have plenty of time, Take the horse to the harness shop; de not buy a collet until youof ono, that fits well, It is a common fault that one Bide is harder than the other; be metal to get a collar of &peel firmness throughout, and not lumpy, and if it fits perfootly the firmer it le the better. Give all the harness an oiling now, because the oil w11l be absorb- ed better than when the weather is warm Take the harness to piece and waeh it glean with lukewarm water, using a dull knife about the buckles to remove the dirt. TJde pure Mate foot oil (you will have to pay a god prion for it but um no other), with enough castor oil to scent it, and keep the mice away. Apply the o!1 moderately warm on both ei d ea ofp the leather, all that is ra- pidly absorbed. Then hang the harneeu in an airy place to dry thorougbly. Two oil - Inge a year of harness, except the collars, ie enough, bet;'the collars should be oiled every two weeks during the work season. and the sweat and dirt removed oaoh morn- ing with a dull knife. Give the woodwork of the plows a coat of paint, Mineral paint is very cheap and answers this purpose as well as more expensive paints, But use the best oil. If the plows are dull, take them all to the shop now when work is not pressing. Strengthen weak planes. Dr not wait for breaks, they always occur when the article IS in use, hence when they 000asion delay, Give the whiffletroes the same attention re- oommended for the plows, About the Basi• est way to make a dollar is to take time by the forelock, FOR THE THOUGHTFUL. Speak well and little if you wteh to be considered as possessing merit. The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living. A gloomy Christian is lik e a cloud before the rainbow was vouchsafed. The borrowing friend ie an enemy to whom no quarter should be shown. The highway of the upright is to depart from evil ; he that keepeth his way presorv- eth his soul. There are two classes who do not bear prosperity—one of them being those who do not get a chance to bear it. Tho more we do for God, the more we are indebted to him; for our eafiiciency Is of him and not of ourselves. The rose wept for a gift and the Lord gave it thorns ; the rose wept until it Saw the antelope eating lilies. Envy feeds upon the living ; after death it ceases; then every man's well-earned honors defend him against calumny. The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise are gond nature, truth, good acme and good breeding. In civilized society external advantages make ns more respected, A man with a good coat upon his back meete with a better reception than he who has a bad one. Not by literature or theology, but"only by rare integrity, by a man permeated and per- fumed with airs of Heaven—with manliest or womanliest enduring love—can the vision b3 clear. The pleasures of the world are deceit #al ; they promise more than they give They trouble us in Seeking them, they do not satisfy us when posseasing them, and they make us despair to losing them. There is nothing so delightful as the hear- ing or the speaking of truth. For this reason there is no conversation so agreeable as that of the man of integrity, who hears without any intention to betray, and speaks without any intention to deceive. Capturing a Slaver. Slavery has lost its reality to the youth of our day, and the following description of a elave ship's capture seems entirely out of date. But it was no longer ago than last August that the affair took place which is thus described in a letter to the " St. James Gazette :" Tho steam cutter, being short of coal, left ono man and an interpreter on the loskont (with orders to mark down any dhows arriving, but not to get into any danger) while she ran down to the depot Leland to fill up with coals. Suavely had she got out of sight when in came a dhow, The captain and crew eagerly scanned the surrounding bays and !elands for men•of- war boats, and, finding none, dropped their anchor, Perceiving that she was a doubt- ful and suspicions vessel, the interpreter obtained an old canoe, placed the blue- jacket in the bottom of it with strict in- junctions not to show himself, and pro- ceeded to pull off to the stranger. Arriving within a few hundredyards of the dhow, the captain espied the blue-jackat in the bottom of the canoe, and, together with his Drew of Arabs (five in number), proceed- ed to load their guns and flourish their swords. At this crisis the blue jacket, sailor -like, wanted to make a dash for the dhow ; but the interpreter, with poor Cap- tain Brownrigg's fate fresh in his memory, was more wary. " Wait a bit, Jack," said he, " we'll get them aright ;" and polling the canon on the shore, he ran along the beach a little way to a small bay where the boats lie generally hid, and began to shout and shriek to two imaginary beats, telling them to be quick, " Come on, come on," he shouted; "they are going to jump over- board and swim on shore ;" and sure enough these five Arabs sprang overboard, and swimming to the shore four of thorn bolted into the bush, and were not seen again. Ono of them, the captain of the dhow, finding that the boats did not turn up, made toward the bluejacket with his gun, Every time the Arab attempted to take aim Jack flung himself down in the nand ; and, on the other side, the Arab, who was up to his waist in the water, ducked underneath whenever the sailor covered him with his rifle. Jaak did not seem to realize the danger of lotting the Arab coma within range of his gun un' 11 the Interpreter had repeatedly told him that if he did not " pink " the Arab, the Arab would " pink ' him. So the next chance he got ho End and must have struck the Arab sow ewhere in the chest, for ho just shrieked "• Allah 1" throw up his alma, and sank beneath the water. When the officer returned he found his man and the interpreter in quiet poaeselon of a 57 - ton dhow, whit thirty-five slaves in her. The dhow has been condemned, the Slaves liberated, and the court expressed an opin- ion that the Arab's death was perfectly justifiable. A Stab at Liberty, First Sooialist—"Ramember the meeting to -night, Josef. Important questions to b dieoussed. Assassination of Bismarck, blow- ing up the Waahiegten Monument, kidnap. inn Viotorie-- Second Socialist—"/ have 00 many antler, Heinrich, I cannot attend, 1 am-----" "We are also going to deolde whether or not we shall have beer at our nrootingel in future," " What I Have our rights been luoation. ed ? Aro our llbertfed invaded ? Fleas, Loh When Juatico galls X am at my peat, 1 will be there," Bicycling. I've ee: u a tags'y ('6we. 002 a tomtit) Ona wheel ea 1 one wheel on I one wheel oh! And I sale to atm ; "Dlokoybird, hoar can you sit On a wheel oh! one cheel oh 1 one wheel oh 1 Ie i6 .balance or trickery, Birdie," I oiled, "That suablns you eu your one wheel to bestride 7' No notice he took, but continued to ride His wheel oh 1 one wheoi oh 1 one wheel oh 1 I thought that I, too, would so much like to ride on a wheel oh 1 one wheel oh 1 one wheel oh I Whoa l started, the loohkere•oLot ried; "Get inside I am oovereetj wi$h Dote, sed bs brut the te core, ., 1 said : nothoratlon J" Don't thick thatI swore, BO n a whee l l,1 ono wheeI ever l oh 11oone wheel oh 1 OAPI'. ZABE'S GHOST. A Thrilling Adventure on Lake Huron. Capt. Smithery of the bark Wandward, relates the following curious , adventure Which w he had on Lake Huron, "We ware," he says, " in the Lake Superior ore trade, running out of Cleveland, and on the re- turn trip we generally managed to pick up a light freight ef maohinery and general cargo. At the time of which 1 speak I had command of a slhocner called the Black Eagle. "Well, one eight late in the summer, the tug had scarcely let go of us at the foot of Leto Heron, when it came on to blew great guns, We got the schooner snug and ship• shape for weather and let her slip, hav- ing the wind from the southeast. This gave us our course up the lame, bat within an hour we had everything double -reefed and two men at the wheel, The sea began to get up in a terrible way, and as I stood on the quarter, and looked baok at the waves following ue with racehorce speed, it seem. ed as if every one must break over us. It was near midnight, and we we were abreast of Lexington or a little above when I sud- denly heard a hail from off our starboard bow. M'n 1 you, the whole orew were on deck at this time, and the schooner was climbing up on hill end hill and eliding down another in a way to make you think her bottom had been greased for the occasion. 1 had two men on the lookout forward, but they had reported nothing, Schooner ahoy I' came from the water "I ran forward to the starboard shrouds of the foremast, and peered into the storm and darkness, but could se nothing. " Schooner ahoy 1' came the hail again Stand by to take my line 1' " Nort instant the end of a heaving line flew over my shoulder, and as I pulled in on it, assisted by one of the lookouts, a skiff drew alongside and a man climbed upen the rail. I was that weak in the knees I could hardly stand up. A man coming aboard of of to in each a cookle shell in such a sea as that was truly remarkable, and you must add to this the fast that he eat there on the, schooner's rail as cool as ice and bawled out tome: " 'Hope I haven't put you to any trouble, Capt. Smithers 1' "Who are you, and where do you come from ?' I shouted in his ear. ,'I'm Capt. Zane of the brig Petrel. Don't know your old friends, eh ?' " That made me jamp, and such of the crew as had crowded around us gave him sea room pretty quick. Capt. Zane left Beff.tlo in the Petrel five years before that, and his craft had gone down in a blow with all hands. I had known him well, and in truth thia chap on the rail, now that I Dame to look closer, was as near like him as a• twin brother, except that his hair had grown whiter. "'You—you can't be Capt, Zane,' I shout- ed. "'Oh, I can't, eh ?' he replied, and taper• el off with a laugh which set my blood to tingling. 'Pretty fairish blow, Capt, Smith- ers. Maybe you have some good whiskey in the cabin ?' Like one walking in a dream, I went to the oabin and secured a flask of whiskey and returned with it. " 'Ah, that's more like it,' he chuckled, as he reached out for the flack. 'Here's to a speedy voyage both ways.' He put the flak to his lips, and, as I'm a living man, he didn't let go until he had drainen the last drop. The crew had all crowded off to be out of his way, and, though' wanted to follow them, my pride held me back. As he handed the flask beck, I said to him: " it thought the Petrel went down years ago ?' " "Yams 1'' he chuckled, "And Capt. Zane went wlth her ?` ""Oh ! he did ? Ha I hal hal Say, Smithere, you'd better keep her head up a point more, for the wind's drawing more to the east !' " He reached out his hand as if to lay it on my shoulder, and I started back, At that instant there Dame a flash of lightning so bright that I aonld have told the color of a man's hair 200 feet away—a report as if a dozen cannon had been fired at once—and I felt myself struck down, When I came to, the cook was fussing over me, and the rest of the crew were eittiag about in a dazed way or had crept down into the fo'castle. Morning was jest breaking, and, though the wind had gone down some, there was a heavy sea running and the schooner was head to it, wheel lashed, and drifting with dry decks. It was a long time before I could comprehend what had happened or get at the facts. It seemed that the cap on the mainmast had been struck by lightning, While little injury had been done, the shook had knocaed everybody except the cook senseless. Some of the men r000vered after a quarter of an hour, and some re- mained as if dead for nearly two hours, I was one of the last ones up. "Now as to what happened after I wont down I give you the word of the cook, who Wall a respectable colored man and not given to lying, Capt, Zane jumped down off the rail, flat go throat and peak halyards all around, and while he went aloft to stow fore and main topsails the schooner steered herself. When he Dame down he took the wheel, held the craft up until the jib was full, and then brought her about with her nose to the wind without shipping a pail of water. Then he pulled and trimmed, hauled the mainsail up a bit to counterbal- ance, and when the wheel had been inched amidships the Black Eagle bowed and nod- ded and drove off before the gale In ship- shape fashion. When I got my bearings Port Austin light was less than five miles away, and the wind had gone down so that we had little trouble to bring the schooner. back on her course. As soon as we reaohed. Houghton every blessed man of the crew, mate and cook inolnded, gave me the slip, Money couldn't have hired one of them to make another voyage in the Black Eagle while I was in command, believing at they did, that my old friend was likely to come aboard again any time. d• Isaaos (in/grading his eon)—"" Von you The incurable ro tapsiem prevalent in z),1 a goat to a man vot vents a coat dot's England prevents the extension of out -door nodding; ober von you zell a coat to ' relief to thousands of starving pinwale, vot dot want a cot dot' a man P a peezbi oss, my though the workhouses ars admittedly so pot'—dot's psozinoss;" overcrowded as to afford no further accomi wet the strong dolor to the weak, the heat. thy to tho sick, the wino to the unlearned An exchange asks how to prevent eider p , the skillful to the unskillful, the righteous from working: Wo would Suggest that it t..s. gg to the ening, and the roots oto tuft: will... be placed on the detective force to leek up Strengthened, and the rich Piauite y, the wont; robberies in this vicinity love and happiness Wilt -' FOREIGN EOHOE$, The yearly exports ,of umbrellas from land are valued at T581,000, The PFinoe of Wales is 'selling large ]sante of hie Cornwall estateg in email thold- loge, ,,,. -""ti There are old to be 500 Amorloana im London living In absolute squalor - or char- ty. The import duties levied by P,ngland on s'inMS made in her own colonter are so high 4e to be aimoqt prohibitive. . bitty P e. According to the Bishop of London wheel life is shorter in England than in my other well inetruotod country In Europe, A member of the new Government in England is eaid to have refused to appear in court dross, Mr. Bright met the dffizoaity )y black velvet.` Three hundred and fourteen members off the present House of Commons are in favor of women suffrage, while only 104 are known to be opposed to it. A recent never° outbreak of scarlet fever in Darla ,Square, Marylebone, wan traced to the drinking of milk from a cow on a model farm at Hendon. French temperance people have not yet reached the point of recommending total tbatinenoe. They advise the restriction of drinking to meal times, 'The Paris Petrie, which calls the month of January, 1886, "the red month," shows that onevery day of J.tnuary there was a murder or an attempt at murder in France. The life of the missionary in Persia is not happy one. A postacy is punished with death, and those instrumental in bringing it about are liable to the baatin- ado. A patent has been granted in Russia for a Lucifer matoh that can be need an indefin- ite number of times, the wood being impreg- nated with a special chemical solution that will allow of some re -use. A re u. phrat s bids fauna disappear altogetheorts that the River r in the spreading marshes just below Babylon, whiandh arenow a ruined a channel obliterating navigation for rowboats. The Nineteenth Huesara have taken their fox hounds to Egypt. In the first rum sen old cow -buffalo charged one of the hunts- men, and he barely escaped with his life, after achase almost as arauous as the fox wasp calledtupon to undergo. Germany has eight schools of forestry,. where five years' training is required of thee& who seek positions under the Government,. although a course of study half as long may be by amateurs. France supports a single school at Nancy. The newest Paris sport is snail racing. The race coarse is a emocth boned, at the end of whfch is a lighted candle, toward which the snails begin to creep when the room is darkened. There are miniature hurdles on the course and a river, and the famous racing ensile aro handicapped with pellets achy. Sir Andrew Clarke, the celebrated Eng- lish physician, at an inaugural meeting of a comae of lectures in London, defined health as " that state In which the body is not concionsly present to us, the state in which work Is easy and duty not over great a trial, the state in. which it is a joy to see, to think, to feel, and to be." Such a condition, Sir Andrew thinks, is not common among men, and, judged by this rule, he declares that one-half . the popu- lation of London is permanently ill. The Leland ef Juan Fernandez, upon which Alexander Selkirk, the prototype of Robin - en Crusoe, spent his four solitary has °never since been inhabited until twelve years ago, when the Row. foo- ted upon it with asmall colony.ent c Rodt is a Switzer. In 1866 he fought for Austria against the Prussians, and in 1870 for France. After the emigrated to Chili and defeat French ade himself useful to the Gevernment, at whose invitation he undertook the colonization of Robinson Crneoe's lonely island. Resale has resided for the last twelve years as Governor and Judge. Meat of the settlers over whom he presides are German and Swiss. Nearly all the vegetation of the temperate zone thrives upon Juan .Fernandez, The London correspondent of the Gazette says : One of the first emigration pamphlets of the season is that issued by the 0, P, R. people here, entitled "What women nay of the Canadian Nsrth•West," The very nov- elty of the idea which is accredited to Mr, Bigg the company's representative, must at- tract attention to the pamphlet. On such matters an the formation of the new home on the prairie, the suitability of the country and climate to child growth, the Indian question, the demand for servant girls and dressmakers, religious and educational facil- ities, eta, women are specially qualified to ezprees an opinion, and herein lies the practical value of the three hundred or so published replies from all parts of the North- West, Space of courae forbids any detailed treatment here of the replies, but there are one or two points worthy of note. Firstly, we cannot help but be struck on reading the replies, ropresentiog all clause ofset- tlers, with the indomitable pluck and cheer- fulness shown by most of the answers, Why do we Have Eggs at Easter ! Easter is observed among all Christian people as the anniversary of the great event of the resurrection of Christ. He was dead, but returned to life. The egg is taken as emblematic of a return to life. It is to all appearenoe dead, but we know that if placed under proper conditions, life will come forth from it, The use of eggs at Easter was adopted from an usage older than our era. It was the oilstone in very early times to oeloiQrate the return of spring by making presents of eggs. " Why does not Easter always fall upon a fixed day. Christmas is always on De- cember 25%, why should Easter be fixed with equal certainty ?" Easter must be on Sunday. It is not a partionlar date that is observed, but a particular Sunday. Haw to decide upon the Sunday, gave very early churches much trouble, and there were dif- ference on the aceount,'but the matter was Settled at that council held at Nice, in the year 325, The minima adopted that: "Easter day is always the first Sunday after the full moon, which happens upon et next after March 214, and if the fall moon happens onia Sunday, Dieter day is the next Sunday after, This gives Easter day a wide range of dates, as it may occur' on any''Sunday from March 22nd to April 25th.