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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1886-4-22, Page 7TEEL'' ROU , �', OL.1 The Mother'tl Work, The fact that le Is no trifling affair tomaage te house is never ;pore fully reabzed by the feminine head of the establishment than whenehe ie unable from ilinese to tollowthe beaten path. The rest of the family also sud- denly realize that ohs ie the mala evoke in the wheel. He has to hunt up hie gloves and newspaper himself! and it misfortune appears in the shape of a loot button he be -comes truly wretched. It is strange how utterly helplesethe married man he generalsoon ,becomes when he has no one to look after him. Individually and collectively he bas a great love for being waited u u, all the wa from havin hie; boots blacked to bein read or sung to,aleep, tl nother ono .da in a fit of Aladysaidtoa yconfidence, " Twioo a week for twenty years, John has caked me where he should find hie clean shirts, and' all this time they have been in the arae drawer of the same bureau, and I have c tell Ulm every time," she oon- luded d l u 1 . o aHer companion buret into a hearty laugh, "Why," said rhe, "for over thirty years James has asked me the self same question and I have always answered calmly, ' left hand nide of the drawer next to the top." Then each oongratulated herself that she had not the only forgetful man in existence to wait upon. It generally seems easier to pick up after and wait upon the members of the family than to insist on their doing It for themselves, but with children it ie Dere fainly the wiser plan�to make them wait upon themselves as much as possible. The first essential step is to provide places for things like hooks for clothes, bureaus for undergarments, bags for shoes and etookings, ahelveafor books and a box for playthings; then you can well ' insist that things shall be kept in their right places. If you have boys you may be the means of training up a Jobn who will not have to be told a hundred times a year where his clean linen is, provided he bee an orderly wife. There le no danger but what there will be a call for all your strength if you do not keep continually on the jump for the real or imaginary wiahes of ail the rest of the family. As a rule, with few exceptions, the life of a mother is one continual giving up of mind and strength for others. The thin worn hand of an aged mother le a sym- bol of self-sacrificing toil. ngbid thirst were abandoned. At viae' 4'olook hie temporeterewas 10311 rad hie glee i60, 'He was removed fr ali P _ em hibed toe acfs near a front window. 1 very r ndraught oaueed aonvuleions, and every hour the norvoue symptoms were ag;ravatod, Oae of the off'ioere motion in front of the .window and We shadow fall upon Neal. With a cry of agoey he started front the sofa and put hie hands over his eyes. "Go away, for heaven's sake ; go away. You torture me," he cried. A DEVOTE[` WIFE, Hla wife was constantly by his side. When rational the unfortunate man placed hie betide in those of his wife and eat in eil- enoe, It was just after a fearful convulsive straggle that he turned to her and said ;— " I won't suffer long. It will born be over," He saw the teara fill hie wife's oyes, and it troubled him, Again becoming deli &• ons, he oried :—" If I go, I want Maryto go with me. I can't be separated from her " Another injection of morphine was made, and he wad calm for a few minutes, After a slight tremor had passed over him, he aafd in a low tone to hie wife :—" Mary, I wish you would leave me, when I am about to go into convulsions. I am afraid I will injare you. Do go away," Mrs. Neal never flinched, Even the po- licemen and the physicians recoiled from him at momenta, shuddering at the thought of coming in contact with the deadly virus which flaked from his lips, while struggling in convulsion, but the brave woman never ahowed a sign of fear, and her devotion never faltered. At noon he experienced the moat violent convulsion, He suddenly sprang from his bed, and cried :—"There, there 1 see those doge 1 They must be drowned ! Say, Sabold, how many more did we get to -day ? Look, look, at that big blank dog 1 Don't let him oome near me. He's mad, mad, mad 1" Again he sank baok exhausted, but all the time muttering about Sabold, hie twain tent at the dog pound ; and the doge, big, little, blaok, and mad, seemed to be an ever revolving kaleidosoopio vision. In three days his form had grown attenuated, His face was white as marble and his eyes wild and frightened. USELESS REMEDIES. At a quarter to five Dr. Bradin made the first inj lotion of ourara. An ordinary needle point syringe was used, and the in- jection was made in the back of the neck, oelow the base of the brain. The patient did not seem to be affected by It. A. vapor bath was then arranged, Lint was planed in all the window cracks and all air passages closed. A kettle ef water was placed upon a hot fire, and the steam which arose soon filled the room. At half -past five the ther- mometer registered SO degrees, The patient rested quietly for over an hour. Then he was seized with a violent aonvnlaion. He clutched the pillow upon which his head rested and uttered the strange, croup like sounds peculiar to the disease. The muscles of hia neck became rigid and the flash became hard. His body twitched convulsively, and before he could he reetrained he threw himself upon the floor and drew himself up. Cocaine was in- jected and he rented easier, It was deemed advisable to let him real on the floor, and with his head resting on a pillow propped against an overturned chair he lay quiet under the soothing inflaenoe of the narcot- ic'. Everyday Cooking. A BEEF'S HEART. —Make a pint bowl of dressing from bread orumba, a Ohm or two of salt pork chopped fine, and an egg, the whole well seasoned with pepper and a pinch of sage. Onion is good to flavor a dressing with, but it le never safe to use onions in cooking, unless you know the peculiarities of the tastes of those who are to iartako of it. After thoroughly soaking and cleansing the heart, fill it with the droning, and bind round with a narrow strip of cloth ; then boil gently three hours or until it is tender, and when nearly done allow the water to boil away to a emelt quantity. Take up the heart and thicken the broth remaining, which will .airich gravy. GINGER .trimDING.—One cup of butter, measured lightly, two mpg of sugar, one cup of milk, four cups of flour. one table- spoonful of ginger, one teaspoonful of haler- atue, two teaepoonfuia of cream tartar, and four eggs. Beat the sugar and batter to a cream, then stir in the eggs which have been well beaten, then the milk and last the flour, in which the saleratus, Bream -tartar and ginger have been thoroughly sifted. Bake three-quarters of an hour. After the floor is added beat only a little. Serve with a sauce. PUDDING SAUCE.—One-half cup of batter, one oup of peered sugar, the white of one egg, one-half on of cream, one teaspoonful of lemon or vanilla, Cream the butter, add the sugar, then the white of the egg, the flavoring, and last the cream. Placa the bowl over another of hot water ; atir until foamy, but be sure not to cook it until it turns yellow. Bonen CUSTARD,—Two tablespoonfuls of corn starch, one quart of milk, two eggs, a little salt, four tablespoonfuls of sugar, and one teaspoonful of flavoring, Boll the milk, and add the torn starch dissolved in a little milk, then add the eggs well beaten with the sugar; let it boil up once, stir it and it ie done. Add the flavoring after it ie re- moved from the fire. PAN CASES.—Sift one teaspoonful of cream -tartar and one-half teaspoonful of soda into one pint of fljnr, a pinch of salt, one teaspoonful of cinnamon, and two table- spoonfuls of sugar. When ready to fry, mix with new milk rather stiff. Have the kettle of lard boiling hot, and drop them in shaped in balls about as large as half of a small egg. They will roll over, and when brown are done. Take out with a skimmer and drain in a colander. Serve hot, RAISED ROLLS.—Take a pint bowl full of light bread dough ; beat a freak egg and add to it ; knead it thoroughly—it will take ten minutes. Roll out an inch thick, out into bieonito and lay them upon a tin ebeet and let rise in a warm place. Bake In a guide oven, THE AGONY OF RABIES. Dreadtnl Sniferings Ended by a Terrible • Death. George W. Neal, the keeper ef the New. ark dog pound, who was bitten by a Spits dog, died In great agony the other evening at nis home, The physicians declare pos- itively that he was a victim of hydropho- bia. He had passed a restless night, notwith- standing potent narcotics, At four o'clock on the de 'd ,is death, while his guardians, Policemen - .: ti y, and Cosgrove, were in an- other room . e leaped from bed delirious and arming himself with a poker, dashed up stairs to the rooms of his father-in-law, John I', Moore, uttering wild cries, The officers pursued him, "Go back 1 I'll not ba taken ; go back 1" he cried, with the poker Maid threatening- ly, Mr. Moore calmed hint. At that mo- ment the opening of a door caused a draught of air to blow on him and he leas seized with the lame laryngeal oonvalsiona winch were produced at the sight of water. He was led to his own room and quieted with an injection of atropia. THIRST NOT TO ]3E QUENCHED. Early in the morning Drs. Bradin and O'- Gorman called. As soon as the patient saw them he exclaimed :— " Don't send me away ; please don't," " Aro you thirsty Y" asked Dr. O'Gor- man. '• Yea, very," wan the reply. Dr, O'Gor- man out an apple into very small pieces and fid Neal with it. This was his first nour• iahment in three days. It w as only a little, for convulaioes began and atropia was again used, Dr. Beadle tried to moisten the eufferei'd lips with the use of a sponge, YAM Neal'e ey ea were cloned eo that ho ehonld not the the water, As soon as the nponge touched hie lips he cried, "Oh, don't 1 take it away 1 I can't stand it,,, Again the experiment. wan tried, but with the same result, and all attempts at quenoh. DYING. Drs. O'Gorman and Herold called at Neal's house at 6 o'clock. . They found him free from spasms, but the nervous twitoh• Inge of his limbs continued. Dr, O'Gorman saw that the end was near and that further injections of curare was welcome "Take me to my bed," gasped the man. The sufferer's face and hands were livid. The two stalwart policemen assisted him to his feet, but he sank again to the floor. The shadow of death was upon him, and all in the room saw it. His wife's aged' father and mother stood by her aide comforting her, The four men who took care of him seemed appalled at the sight. The dying man's two sons recoiled as if in fear. " Oh, my—," and Neal clutched at his throat, With a sob his wife sprang to his side, and, pushing aside the officers, sup- ported him in her arms, aad half carried, half dragged him to the bed, The men, and brave men, too, involuntarily recoiled. The sufferer suddenly seemed paralyzed, and sank nerveless in his wife's arms, " Ob, my God, those dogs 1 Take them away 1 On, pity me and take them away 1" he cried, Dr. O'Gorman and Mra, Neal placed him on his bed, wbere he lay as if in a stupor, His hands were cold and rigid, the blood- shot eyes` protruded from their sockets, and his bower' limbs were aa' marble. Another injection of morphia was given, andthe auf- ferer seemed to rest more easy. THE L6 ST SCENE, At twenty minutes of seven Neal Weed himself np in bed and cried, "There 1 there 1 Do .you` see that dog 2" The terrible earnebtness of the words, the look: of terror on the fade and the quivering of the pointed hand, /fent a shudder through the group around the bed, "There In that corner," and he pointed into the next room, " I must leave this bed. It will kill me," he exclaimed in his frenzy, Hie wife caught him in her arms as he was failing over the edge of the bed and bore him into the next room, where he was laid in the same position from which he bad struggled shortly before. His wife knelt beside him and looked into hie bloodshot eyes. " I am burning up 1" he exclaimed. He gaaped for breath. Groat beads of perspir- ation stood on his brow, Hie feet and hande were cold. At ten minutes to seven ho groaned. A strange gutteral sound came from his throat. Hie distorted featnree relaxed. His chest heaved, and with a feeble groan the suffer- er sank back into the arme of hie father -ba- lm, dead, His wife, who had borne up bravely through the terrible ordeal, gave way at last. She was led from the room by her `nother, and a sheet was thrown over the corpse, Nears death occurred jest fifty-seven hours after he was seizmd with the first par- oxysm. The time elapsing since the first bite inflicted on Neal le seventy days, He was within the limit of the time allotted for the development of the dieean a the time being from eight to ton weeks. The first symptoms were developed in Neal's case in sixty-seven name although the first intima- tion was two days earlier. ' The usual time for the ,disease to become fatal is from thteo to nix days, and .Meal's limit wad, from the first iotimation, six day e, and from the first symptours, three days. The Digger Iadlane of the Pacific slope rejoiced in the great locust ewarma of 1875 es a diaper/Elation of the Groat Spirit, and laid in a store of dried locant powder sufficient to laze them for several yearn. Mr, Henry Labouohere, the British .Democrat, is in hid 55th year, Ho is allied to some of the moat aristocratic families of England, is rich, able, witty, a fine writer, a bold thinker, and withal he is sincere. DATE DEALING ARTILLERY. .A Sketch of the Royal nun Factories at WWoplWleh. The operations at htstorio lwioh in with connection theW44 w. connection Qf British ordnance are Titanic in their proportions, In what is called the Etst Forge were oast the moneter guns to which have bsen given the nettle of " Woolwich Infante;" Down the length of this forgo are furnaces in which are heated almost to a white heat the bars of the Dolls from which those Reno are built: np. At the mouth of the futnaoe is a me- chine whioh, when the bar is of the proper temperature, trete is it and winds it round and round in a glowing spiral. There are several eteam-hammers at work in tide forge varyingfrom:3,000 to 6,000 pounda in weignt, used for welding together short bare of iron to form one long bar for Boiling. In the West Forge are two steam -hammers of im- mense power. The largest, a twelve -ton hammer, is used for producing the large forgings for the trunnion hoops. The force of its heaviest blows is computed at 400 tone, while it is under such perfect control that a blow can be struck by it which will crack a a nut without wounding the kernel, THE FORTY TON HAMMER Is in a shed close by and was first weed in May, 1874, on the 000aeion of the visit of the Czar of Russia. Ito falling portion, or "hammer -head," weighs exactly forty tone, and the "striking fall" le fifteen feet, but ay the injection of steam into the cylinder aaove, it is driven down with each immense- ly increased force, that the blo w is equal to what it would be if tho hammer' fell of itself from a height of eighty feet The framework required fo sustain aloft this weight is formed of two immense iron piers, which at about ten feet from the ground bend over so as to form an imperfect arch, open in the center for the rise and fall of the hammer, and bearing tb e upper portion of the apparatus, The entire height is forty- five feet ; the base covers an area of 120 feet rgaare, and the entire struoture weighs 550 tons, It rests upon a foundation of blooke of iron weighing 650 tons, under which to a depth of thirty feet is conorete and timber. As nearly as percussion can be represented by weight a blow from this hammer oouate for 1,000 tons. THE MUSEUM OF THE ROYAL ARTILLERY Is at the east end of the long front of the ar- senal : is supported by the eubecriptions of the officers and, though 000aelonally assisted by the government, is a private institution. It includes a large collection ot guns and arms of all sizes, dates and countries. There is also a most extensive and varied collec- tion of stuffed birds and beasts, sent home by officers from abroad, brought down by their guns in several parts of the world, and cent home to be kept at their former quar- ters. There are skulls of the elephant, wal- rus and mammoth, mummies, heathen gods, groupes of geological specimens, modals of saddles, etc. ; In fact, objects of all kinds which are likely to instruct or interest those for whose benefit the museum was inetitued, THE EAST LABORATORY Is isolated from the rest of the arsenal and is closed to visitors unless by special author- ity. Here the email arm cartridges are made ; aa are the rockets, Dannon cartridges and other articles, the manufacture of which are dangerous. In these portions of the ar- senal a few men and hundreds of boys are employed, and so perfeot is the system upon which the work is conducted that accidents are of very rare occurrence. Machinery has been devised by which risky operations are performed in a tubs, through which the force of an accidental explosion is carried away, and otherprecautions are taken by which the chances of the loss of life through acci- dent are reduced to the norroweet limits. E very body employed in these works changes his clothes on entering so as to avoid the possibility of taking in any dangerous era - eta, and they all put on boots in which there are no nails but Dopper ones. Large nippers in which persona entering the in - closure on business encase their feet are also provided. Within the limits of the arsenal is a 500 yard range for testing small arms and ammunition, and outside is a "longer range for testing larger gnus. The very large gena, however, are taken to Shoebury- nese, off the Nore, for testing. OTHER PLACES OF INTEREST Are either directly or indirectly connected with the arsenal, but the limits of this arta. cle will permit only a passing reference to two of them. The Berracka ' far the Royal Horse and Foot Artillery are the beet in the Kingdom and the principal front is one of the finest buildings of the kind in England. In con- nection with the barracks as a theatre and a handsome church, while everything possi- ble to devise for the comfort and pleasure of both eaters and men is provided. The Reyal Military Aoademy was ori- ginally established in 1719, but was not tully organizid unti1l741, when George II., by royal warrants directed the founding of an academy "for instructing persons' belong- ingtothe military part of the ordnance in the several branches of mathematics, forti- fications, etc., proper to qualify them for the service of artillery and the cffi m of en- gineers. Prince Arthur and the Prince Im- perial of France were educated here. BIeck hosiery is worn by men, women and THAT OTHER BOY. Ru MRS. 0L14 AI,1dAIR wuxuux. For every light, a corresponding shadow for every cod, its counterpart of evil • ever tc n in a family,P , fo Y other boy, wh ie nobody'e boy; for every boy in a home the homeless boy, Wnat Is this va rant uuowned bo vagrant, y2 Ii is the malting of the future tramp, oriminai pauper; a burden and • a terror to the corn triunity, able to undo all the good your bo may grow up to a000mplish. Whore ie this boy of the dangerous class ea t In a hovel attic, collar, a stayin plane, dominated by a drunken father, by drunken or ignorant, or reckless mother ; he is an orphan, allowed a cruet and a spelt- er by criminate, who hope to nee him in crime when ho is a little' older ; he is a poor- house; he is bound outto some irreepoasible party, who regards him as uo much muscular toroe, ignoring the tact that he has a mind and a soul ; be he perhaps, a little higher iu the eootel scale, with parents and a home, but the parents " let him run," have no Ida; of goveruing or counselling him ; the hone - offers him no attractions ; he goes to school when ho likes, plays truant when he pleases, races the streets at night, hangs about core ners, groceries, bar -rooms, never goes to church or Sunday -school, swears, plays for keeps, and Knowe the taste of beer and brandy ; he is a rioh man'e boy, perhaps; hie mother pays no heed to him, his father seta him a bad example, ruffians deooy him, he aa too much money in nis pocket, and le just as surely set on the road to end •' black -leg" as the boy from the slums. In tide last case, as in the others, he le realty "nobody's boy," for to have merely begotten or brought forth a child is not to be a pa- r eat in any proper sense of that potent word. What is to become of this multudinous nobody's boy germ of the mob ? If society does not speedily rise up and master the mob, the mob is bound to master society. We must dominate our criminals now, or we shall be presently destroyed by them. But how shall we do this ? Mere force le not the remedy ; ions, stone walla, an army of policemen will not meet the case. France had once a B tetile and an army as ready to fire on Jacque as on Hane. But the Bas - tile crumbled suddenly, the army fraterniz- ed with the mob, there was a revolution, above which, sole landmark, rose the guil- lotine, pouring forth a river of blood, Mobs and criminal classes are to be man- aged successfully only by moral means, and moral means can only be applied successful. ly when the mob is in embryo, the plastic state of boyhood. Nobody's boy is the danger of our future ; we can and must make hint the corner -atone in the fabric of our hope. But how to do this? Whatever our boy needs, nobody's boy needs. We at will make our boy good, safe, reliable, will make that other boy safe, reliable, good. All that we give our uoy of encouragement, of fortunate prejudices, of moral environment, we should give nobody's boy. We must make up to him of his dims - trona lack of home, of parents, of morali- ties. Largely considered, this may be an affair of compulsory education of the alpha- bet and the ten commandments insisted upon for every one ; of no vagrants and State -schools for industrial arts ; but there are outgoings of the question too large for the present article. We prefer the simple and practical. That village is clean where every villager sweeps welt about hie own door -stone. If every neighborhood solved the problem of ate own neglected, vagrant, destitute boys, the problem of the country at large would straightly find its solution, Lit us drop the consideration of the great centers, the cities, for the moment, unless they may choose to share in these simple hints for the towns, villages, rural districts. We can not expect to entirely aeggregate our boy from nobody's boy. • We must not be so fearful of exposing our boy to the !, other boy's precocious evil, that we devote onraelvee merely to separating them, as far as possible. Their lives will lap some- where ; let ns arrange the meeting point where it will do the one good and the other no harm. No wise, sober, respectable, use- ful family should rest easy ono hour, so long as within the reach of their influence' a any lad left to evil influences, or no in- fluences at all.; for, in this last case, the evil will come in fast enough. Here is not a matter of collecting funds, establishing costly libraries, reading -rooms, and so on. Good indeed are these when one can come to them, but the 'thing is to begin at once, and to bring personal influ- ences to bear on the personal boy. The primary danger to nobody's boy ie from intemperance. All that our boy needs to develop temperance prejudice andprinci- ple, the other boy needs. Canvass the neigbberhood for him, bring himto a tem - permute society, buy him a badge and a pledge card. It meets little to get together ten, fifteen, twenty boys of the neighbor- hood, in some clean, bright kitchen or din- ing -room well lit and warmed, to talk tem- perance, sing it, tell temperance riddles, read stories, speakpieces and end up with r plate of ginger cakes or a basket of apples. The effect will be beyond mere opinions concerning beer and alcohol, You will find these boys goirg to school more regularly, that they may read and °peak better ; you will find them coming to the meeting with clean hands and shoes, with brushed hair and clothes ; their voices will moderate, their language will be cleaner and civiler. children I remember a neigbhorhood numbering r 0 a , Y g a. Near-sighted Old Gentleman (entering Store) .` Hewn voti Awe' LINEN DUSTERS ? Mom y Sraobson (with his most sarcastic manner) ; I AM NOT A GLERR IN THIS ESTABLISHMENT yet, SIR, 117 S. 0. G. Nor YET A o.LERE, 31,12 ERRAND BOY, I minethm1'? WELL, LEGS BRE As BOOP AS BRAINS Th SOME DEPARTMENTS, forty or ,dity boys, from eight to sixteen years. Oae lady established each a tem. peranoo epolety at her home us I have Men - Wined ;badges, pledge mares leailete, giu- gerbread, poet about $5 or $6 a year, Toe other lady collected all the bootie the could beg in the neighborhood from friends or front religious sooietaee, raised a subeorip tion of $20 andbought, emcee more hooka, turned one of her rooms into a circulating library, chatted with the °'toys on Saturday afternoons where they came for bopka, help- ed them ohoose, helped them think, and in eighteen menthe the boys of that locality were new creatures, They wore superior boys—mannerly, intelligent, enter riain — not the making of a rascal among the whole of them. If there are only three boys in a neighbor- hood given to running the streets at night, those three should bo looked after. If there are ten, twenty, fifty, who loaf about, all the more need to provide for them. Fol low them up, ?peak to them, encourage them, interest yourself in them. What, clothes dirty and ragged? Find them work that will buy a new suit. Get some one to make work if there is none ready. Make it a personal favor to you'that they ehonld Dome to your church and sit in your pew or your clans in Sundayechool, or to your home and borrow a book. Don't worry them with dull books; nonsider the stuff yon are dealing with Sive up ail your papers, espeoially illustrated, to give them. Make a huge sorap book for them to look over, treat them, as Italians say, in fiesta, a cookie, a glass of milk or lemonade, an apple; stand treat cheerfully. Where is the neighborhood where some empty room cannot be found, and where, among all the neighbors, a table or two, a few chairs, a condemned stove, a few pictures, some window shades, oan not be begged or bor- rowed ; orerowed; where some books, magazines, pa- pers, can not be contributed ; whore some genial father can not make a few packages of jaok-strawa, two or three fox•and-geese boards, a box or so of lettere to play games of words, a little stationery for who would write a letter ? Do you know if such a place le open for the loafing boys, they will stop loafing ; they will make the fire and sweep and scrub the room by tarns, and will re- frain from swearing and spitting on the floor, and will avail themselvea of the wash- bowl, oake of soap and towel set forth in entry or corner 2 Then with one good friend or another to keep the paaoe evening after evening, and detail wonders of natural science, or stories of adventure, or Mighty deeds of history ; to lay bare the manysided evils of strong drink, and sketch the bright fortunes of honest enterprise and industry, the horizons of these neglected lives will widen, they will breathe purer airs. No- body's boy will feel that he oan be the eon of his own deeds, and the father of his own fortunes ; his dormant manhood will awake and his nesclent brutehood will be eliminat- ed, and the communistic rabies of the nine- teenth century will die with the century, as died with the earlier centuries that scourge, the black plague. Finally, to sum up, whenever there is a boy neglected, pressed by evil example, re- sponsible to nobody, there Is work for the nearest person whose eyes fall upon him, work for which that person is responsible to God, the country, the community, PERSONAL. Aroher and Wood, the two noted Eng- lish jockeys, according to the Income tax assessment, made last year respectively $50,- 000 and $45,000. One of the wives of King Thebaw was presented by some British officers with a bottle of gin, which she used to perfume her clothing, refusing to drink it. It is said that Tom Keene, the tragedian, has a lot of ground on S.aten Island for which the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad will pay him $300,000 at any time. The Pundits Ramabai, now visiting Amer boa, is a daughter of the Pandit of Poona, who devoted hie wealth and life to the cause of emancipation of the women of India, The late M. Gbegnel and General Gordon were the only Europeans authorized by the Chinese Government to wear peacock's feathers bn their oapa and tunics of imperial yellow. Miss Braddon's next novel will be enti- tled "The. One Thing Needful," and will first appear a9 a serial in journals at home and abroad. It is the twelfth novel of the author thus published. F. Marion Crawford, the American novelist, lives in his beautiful villa in Sor- ento, near Naples, situated en a cliff over- looking the sea. Near by it Milton, more than two hundred years ago, found hospi- tality, Mr. Crawford is a tall man, the picture of health and beauty, and not yet 32 years old. " Poor Carlotta," the once beautiful Empress of Mecico, is reported as nearing the close of her tragic career at the old cas- tle of Bonohot, near Brussels, Happily, the tragedy which eighteen years ago blighted her life and darkened her reason, left her no remembranoe of the horrors through which she had passed, and she has dwelt since in an imaginary world of regal magnificence —an empress in bedlam. • Cruelty to Brazilian Slaves. The poor slave girl, Joanna, who had been so cruelly beaten by her mietresa, D. Franoianmsea Silva Castro, a resident of the aristocrattoo suburb of Botafogo, was meroi- folly relieved from her sufferings by death on the 14th Inst„ (February,) That was a generous action of the editor of the Gazeta da Tarde and the Cenfederaoao Abolicionista in oaring for her and another unfortunate slave girl, Eduarda, who was discovered in the same house. Both of these girls, one 17 and the other 15 years of lige, presented a horrible appearance—their bot. lea covered with old and fresh antra, bruises and sores, their wrists out and swollen from cora, and their heads and faoes bruised and swollen from the blows received. Fortun- ately, both of them wore immediately photo- graphed, so that there can be no q lepton hereafter of exaggeration. The older girl, Joanna, was so aeriouely injured that she died on the 141h, and the death scene was one that will never be forgotten by those who witnessed it. In herdelirium she call- ed on her companion, "Eduardo 1 take off the cords, so 1 can rest better l" And id a' brief time merciful death released both body and soul forever from the bonds of an inhuman institution which must anoint hereafter for crimes like this, Tho mis- trese has been palled upon to answer for the cruelties infltoted upon these two slave girls, but as in all the cased heretofore recorded nothing will be done. Brazilian justice has no punishment for the crimes and creel - ties of the slaveholder, nor has Woven aym- pathy for the sufferings of such helpless, downtrodden creatures as these two poor slave girls, "Hello, Judnon, how aro you 2" "Pretty well, thank you." • ".Flow are you at home 2" "Wrie lays I'm rather grumpy," A SHOT FROM THE SADDLE An Adventure with Apaches. I never hear the Apaohe0 mentioned with, out shuddering, It was is the summer of 1878 ; the Apaohes were then peapefal but en outbreak was expected at any moment. Onea d q, w.htle travolli>}g by rail in Now Mexico, and while engaged in conversation with an old settler about the probebllities of an outbreak, the old' gentleman suddenly called my attention to A SERIES OF PECULIAR SIGNS which he discerned in the distance. Point - hag his long, bony finger to a range of moun, tains, he said : " Young man, your eyes are better than mine; see if you can make at oat." The clearness of the atmosphere rend- ered objects many miles away perfectly, d e- oernible. On the top of the Fiorito moan tains, and on either side of a pass which outs the range in twaine, I could easily see two bands of Indiana, From the midst of those on the south aide of the pass there arose a perfectly ROUND BALL OF SMOKE, the signal of the Apaches. That signal was answered by the waving and turning of a blanket fastened to poles, by Indlana on the opposite side of the pass. The latter were renegade Navajoes. The old settler said the signs were unmistakable, the Ap- aches were about to go on another raid, but in his opinion_�b�oey were going south and wanted the Di'lival oea to g o with them. When the train arrived at Deming the facts known were reported to the troops stationed there. While staying in the town I learned that a party of miners had attack it rloh in the Fiorito. mountains, at a point about fourteen miles from there, and I resolved to visit the camp. I bought a beautiful blood- ed horse, fully sixteen hands high, very powerful, and which seemed possessed with the intelligence of a human being, and rode away. I found tho camp without any trou- ble and learned that the stories of the min- er's great find had been greatly exaggerated. In fact, they were pulling up stakes prepar- atory to leaving that day for a camp some miles distant. They begged me to a000m- pany them, giving as a reason that the INDIANS WERE AROUND THEIR CAMP the night before and it was unsafe for me to return, As I had an engagement in Deming that night I refused their offer and started on the return trip. The men accom- panied me to the trail, where we parted. The trail at the foot of the mountain was abrupt, and ran through a small canon. Just as I emerged from the gorge I saw a eight that fairly 'chilled me to my marrow. About a quarter of a mile to the right of the trail were seven of the moat hideoue-looking scoundrels I ever looked upon. They were a portion of Jaronimo's savages seated on ponies, and a glance thawed me they were heavily armed with Winchesters. Besides having their war -paint each wore a sort of skull cap, on the sides of which were fast- ened the horns of a deer. The moment I came out they set up a shoat that MADE MY BLOOD BUN COLD I couldn't go back to the miners with any certainty of finding them, for we had been separated an hour. To go ahead would probably result in a horrible death. To retreat and hide in some canon was impoa- eible, for the devils would find me ; to fight them in their own style would be madnees, for they would starve me out. My only re- course was to make a race for my life. I knew I could depend upon my horse unless he should meet with some mishap, and my mind was quickly made up. I urged the splendid animal forward. He, too, seemed to appreciate the situation, for he leap- ed down the steep incline without a mis- step, and THE RACE FOR LIFE BEGAN.. The red devils, too, were urging their po- nies to the utmost, and it looked as though they would head me off. At the touch of the spurs my horse fairly flew over the ground, and as the distance to the obj active point grew leas the excitement inoreaaed. t thought ef her to whom I was to be join- ed the following month. It was my last trip, and ehouldI be killed who would know it ? Would the red devils leave enough of me by which I could be recognized, ehonld they catch me ? All these thoughts ran through my . mind like lightning. I had reaohed a point where it was imp iseible for them to head me off, and I knew that unless my horse stepped In a hole I would win the rape. I had still about four miles to travel when MY HORSE STUMBLED, Fortunately, however, I caught the horn of the saddle and saved myself from being thrown over the horse's head. He raised himself and was away like the winds, while the Indiana, with a yell, began firing. Here was another trouble I had not anticipated. I did not fear being hit myself, but what if my horse should be disabled? The houses and spires of the churches could easily be seen, and of I could only attract the atten- tion ot the people by firing I would receive their aid. I turned in my saddle while the BULLETS WERE WHIZZIVG ABOUT ,li'E and taking a hasty aim fired at the nearest Apache. Whether 1 hit him or his horse I know not, but horse and rider rolled ever and over on the ground, The Indians stop- ped, and, with demoniacal yells, clustered around the fallen brave, while I, having no time to investigate, rode into town a very thankful man. An Incident. BY CHARLES R. BOLTON. I. Three men talked gayly on a west -bound train, Andlaughing, now and then became profane. II, A little girl near by could hear them 'wear, And blushed until her face was doubly fair. III. Then, rising from her seat, she softly went To him who seemed the most icreveront, IV. And placed her pocket Bible in his hand ; The strong man colored cher reprimand. He ceased t'o talk, and scanned each Hel3 and scar, Until cosy halted, when he left the car. VI. But soon he came with roses white and red, And giving, kissed her, as he bowed and said VII• "Good-bye, my child ; I'll keep the book you give, And read its pages long as I may live." There is said to be a kind of sympathy be- tween extremes. To illustrate, many a homely man's head has been turned by a pretty girl's foot. "The cockroaches in thia house are re- markably veasatile," said an actor at a hotel table, picking up a biscuit, "I netlse that they appear in different rolls every morning,', A writer soya that corporal punishment is no longer practiced by parents possess• ing comm an senate This may be true in re- gard to boys, but we notice that girls are still brought tip with a "switch;"