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Ili seerued to ma that I had,been asleep,
and waking up gradually was the prey of
the etrangeeb sensations. I experienced
first of all a tingling sensation, singular i3o
that which is felt in the extremities after
a momentarly stoppage of the circulation,
then a feeling of cold around the throat
which shortly gave way to one of bore,
tug heat which lasted for a considerable
time.
Little by little the venae of myself re•
turned to me, but aceampanied by a sorb
shrill murmuring of ', m n fah macre
g wh d for a
moment the olearnesa of my perception.
Moreover, for what reason I know not, I
thought tab my whole being was plunges
into some tepid Haid, emitting a peculiar
odor, and from time to time sparks inter-
mingeld with black, red and yellow spots
danced before my eyes and then vanished.
At last I was able to distinguish, con-
fusedly at first, and, as It were, through
a fine mist, the persons and obit cta ens -
rounding me.
I was in a large hall, strewn with all
kieda of eclentifio apparatus, in the mid-
dle of which waa a good sized oval table
made of black marble. On the table,
bound between two wooden boards, an
unfortunate dog, horribly mutilated, was
at its last gasp. Further on, dimly dia.
cernable in a corner, were the rigid
corpses of cats, rabbits and rats, martyrs
ofacience, which, having fulfilled their
end were disdainfully can aside and piled
up one above the other.
On the wall hung dog collars of various
sizes, cords and bite of string ; shreds of
linen, stained with blood, lay strewn
about the chairs, and pails, scalpels,
knives and saws, in short the whole
paraphernalia of a surgioial laboratory,
were scattered over the room in hideous
confusion.
All these things I saw with extraordi-
nary clearness, and I only mention them
to show how completely 1 had recovered
the use of my eight. Several persons of
different ages stood around me at a little
distance off and eyed me with feverish
curiosity. One of them, a man of per-
haps fifty, carefully dressed and wearing
the insignia of several orders, waa haran-
guing the group. He looked an intelli-
gent man, of a cold, inflexible physiog-
nomy. While speaking he had his eye
on a young man near me who was manip-
ulating a curious shaped aparatua.
" This," he said, addreesIng himself
more particularly to a personage whose
appearence denoted that he held some
high official posh, "Is a most beautiful
physiological experiment. We have to
thank Legaliois for the first conception of
the idea, but I may conscientiously add
_that I, alone, of all my honorable con-
freres, have been fortunate enough to
make the experiment on a human body.
Thus, this head, which ,was severed from
its trunk at least ten minutes ago, all
trace of excitability having consequently
disappeared and reflex action being thne
rendered impossible—thfe head, I say,
which you see before you, livid, inanimate
almost cold, I shall now by a , seemingly
prodigious miracle bring back to life. To
do this we inject into it through the
caritid and vertebral arteries a stream of
blood from which the fibrous matter has
been extracted in order to prevent coagu-
lation, and which has been previously
oxygenized—because oxygen furnlebee to
the blood its vivifying properbiea. More-
over, we are careful to maintain thte
blood at the temperature of the human
body, thirty-eight degrees centigrade.
"Observe, gentlemen. how the color
gradually returns to the flesh, the eyes
open, the cornea recovers its natural
limpidness, the mgsolea of the face con-
tract and this face is called back to life ;
the cerebral functions areat the same time
brought into action, that is to say, the
power of thought and the perception of
his individuality are restored to him."
What this man said waa really true. I
saw, I heard, I thought. Strange to say
however, his cold-blooded words impress-
ed me but slightly. First of all I could
hardly believe my ears ; then by one of
those nervous phenomena whloh biology
explains, this body from which I was
separated appeared to me still to form
part of myself, and I did not doubt that
it could be made to recover its animation
ender the directing impulse of my will.
I wanted to move, walk, get away from
this horrible place, and I perceived that
though some cause which my reason was
unable to appreciate I was incapable of
earring a limb. Then I tried to turn
my head, to bend it, to raise it, but the
hese, which felt alive, remained immov-
ble. I thought that I waa stricken with
paralysis.
At last the perturbation of my mind
threw me into the strangest suppositions,
and it appeared to my overwrought im-
agination that I was some kind of animal
or plant.
However, the horrible truth was not
long in presenting itself to my mind—I
learned it in this way.
By one of those refinements of cruelty
which scientific experimentalists olafm
the right of practising without the slight-
est feeling of remorse, one of the students
fetched a mirror from the corner of the
laboratory and gravely placed it before
me. The spectators at once congratu-
lated him on Chia ingenious idea, which
would demonstrate beyond a doubt to
what extent I retained conecioneness of
my horrible position.
When I saw in the mirror the trunk
which had belonged to me carefully laid
on a table, and the frightful, bleeding
head, in which were inserted a aeries of
strangely formed tubes reaemblina shreds
and fragments of arteries, an indefinable
terror came over me. My face was bath-
ed in a cold sweat, and I felt my flash
creeping.
I attempted to cry out ; my lips moved
—bub in vain—they were enable to ar-
ticulate a sound. Burning tears filled my
eyes and slowly ran down my face. All
my past life rose np before me in a swift
review. I say myself a child again, sur-
rounded by a mother's tender. care, a
young man with ambitions droanaa and
enthusiastic ideafi ; with my first love,
:»are and slucere ; I thought of all those
I bad loved, who were mourning me per-
haps, but for wham I was already nothin g
nitro than a regret or a remembrance.
Aray of sunlight which, juat then shone TELE I"A )
upon me reminded inc of the blue sky,
e When to Cut Wheat and erase,
the tree's, the flowers and all the infauit
beauties of nature wbioh 1 had left be-
hind me, alas, forever, and I felt eine
weeping,
The: mirror was taken away ; it inter-
fered with the demonstration.
•' You see, gentlemen, said the learn,
ed lecturer, almost beside himeelf with
joy, " that the experiment had aucceeded
beyond all expectation. The head lives,
it thinks, and perhaps 16 could even. speak
for the lips move, were not the apparatus
which producea sound wanting,"
. Then in a, voice he intended to be
melting, he added :
"Thie unfortunate subject presents at
this moment all the manifestations of a
perfectly natural emotion. He saw him
self in the glass and hie eyes suffused with
tears. 1, myself, gentlemen. If I must
confess it, 1, too, am moved by thie sad
epeotacle, bub the cause of science impo-
ses terrible duties upon us from which
we must not flinch."
"To tell the truth," said a young span
with a beaming countenance, "I shouldn't
care to be in hie place."
"I should think he was to a somewhat
perplexed frame cf mind," exclaimed a
second.
Then a third student, bending close to
my face, cried :
" I hope you will not bear ns any Ill
will, my dear sir, but it is really beyond
our power to mend yon again the eur-
gloat operation 3 cu have undergone ren-
ders it impoesible. Accept my hearty re-
grets."
How cruel they appeared to me, these
men who were pursuing their fiendish
work of studying the phases of life in my
death, and throwing at a head, which
they knew to be stall endowed with
thought and feeling, words of such bitter
irony. It was like children throwing
stones ab some helpless animal and float-
ing over its agonized sufferings.
After this 1 no longer regretted the
death which had severed me from my
fellow creatures ; on the contrary, I long-
ed for it and ardently deaired the moment
to arrive when it should make me its own
f sever.
Here the lecturer took up a scalpel and
pricked my cheek with it ; 1 felt the
sting. Then he suddenly poked his
finger into the globe of my eye ; a thou-
sand lights danced before me ; the pain-
ful sensation which accompanied them
made me close my eyes immediately.
" The shutting of the eyelids at the
contact of my finger with the ocular
globe," the lecturer went on to explain ;
" the contraction of the facial and more
eepeclally of the superciliary muscles—
the latter existing only in man—the
quivering of the lips sand the pricking
sensation on the cheek, all go to prove
in a most inconteatable manner tbab title
head is not insensible to pain. I could,
if I wished, continue to provoke for a
considerable time similar manifestations
of coffering ; but the voice cf humanity
commands me to rest satisfied with the
results already obtained.
"I will now, sir," said he, turning to
the official he had at first addreaeed, •'re-
quest you and theca gentlemen to affix
your etgnaburea to the minutee of these
proceedings, which will form part of a
report I intend addressing to the in-
stitute."
"With pleasure," said the official per-
sonage ; " 1 will also say a few words to
his majesty on the subject."
The learned professor bowed his ac-
knowledgments and his joy at the sue -
case of the experiment combined with the
eatiefaction of his personal vanity prob-
abyl getting the better of him, he so far
forget his dignity as to explode in a loud
sneeze. Some of those present grimly
suggested that it emanated from me.
The callous joke enjoyed a good deal of
success and was greeted by roars of Ho-
meric laughter.
The profeaeoa'a assistant, however,
being unwilling to relinquish bis prey so
soon, still went on with his delicate ope-
ration and suddenly, strange to relate,
my eyes became covered with a thick
mist which soon enveloped my whole
being. 1 lost all perception of sound.
Could this be death? No, my mind be-
ing freed from exterior impressions and
hfe entirely to itself recovered its perfect
lucidness ; it was lit up with a thousand
rave, as if some one had placed a strong
light inside my head.
For a moment a complete forgetful-
ness of things terrestrial, an entire free-
dom from pain, came over me ; dleeoln-
tion of ail matter seemed to have taken
place ; nevertheleae, life was not extinct,
but it seemed like a new life—like the
life which might come after death.
I soared in an unknown atmosphere
fall of delicious perfumer ; 1 aaw without
eyes all kinds of splendid but inexplic-
able things. I heard without ears
strangely melodious harmonies.
Was I a 'spirit or a vapor ? No, I was
a quint essence.
Everybhing that was good, every sweet
and pure eenaation, every vast concep.
tion developed by the most magnli;cent
brain, all theme, I say, seemed to be con-
centrated in me and to form an Impalp-
able whole which soared and soared to
unknown regions.
This state of beatitude lashed only a
few moments and soon yielded to a new
sensation.
I felt myself being pulled by the hair
and wrenching myself away by a sudden
movement heard a mild voice saying to
me:
"Come, get np, my dear; therm late
hours are really disgraceful."
elft The time ie approaoblug, ethers the quell,
tion, of the proper time to reap and mow
will again begin to interest the farming
world. Too many thinge affect the ability
of the fernier to reap his grain and mow his
grace exactly at the proper theoretical time
for doing this work to make It worth while to
lay down a positive rule. Yet ignorance of
the subject and general oareleaenees often
sauce mistakes to be made which do great
injury to the quality ot the crop,
In the tnatter of timothy the time of cut-
ting varies very coneide ubiy with different
farmers. Some out when the bloom is first
en, some when the bloom le going oft, come
wait1
tl 1 the seed k fully formed and be
gine to harden. Many do not finish gutting
till the need shatter badly, Evidently the
extremes to avoid are : Cutting when the
grase is so green that in curing it will dry
up and leas weight excessively, and wait
ing till the stalk has largely turned to
woody fiber. There is very little queatfon
that a leaning to the former Is better than
to the latter. If the orop could be out all
at once the ideal time would be when the
bloom ie just off. If the crop to be out will
take some days, begin before this time. It
is not good policy to attempt to make of
grass both a bay orop and a grain Drop. If,
therefore, the grasaeetands long enough to
mature the seed sufficiently for it to for m
an important element of food. the gain
will be more than offset by the rapid con•
version of digestible matter in tho stalk to
woody fibre. The digestibility of the hay
being the most important factor in the
question of haymaking, this point should be
kept constantly in mind.
As to reaping wheat when the grain alone
le ooneidered, there can be little doubt that
the proper time to out wheat ie when the
grain is ripe, not hard and flinty, but fully
rounded and' growing hard, The old say.
lug that wheat ehoald be cut when "an the
dough" is too unreliable to do duty as a rule
to go by. When the heads aro golden, but
before the stales begin to bend over and
here and there let a head drop as if with a
broken neck, is the best time to reap wheat
But it is better to be cut after this than be
fore, With the approved appliances of the
present day, when grain may be out with
so little handling and oensequent shelling,
the Drop may be permitted to grow riper
than in old times.
Cutting too green is a heavy lose, The
writer remembers observing, a year or two
ago on a certain wheat farm, the great dif-
ference in yield and quality of the wheat
out too green and that allowed to stand, or
rather which was last reached in the order
ef harvesting. The portion of the crop cut
the first few days of harvest &hewed a de-
preoiation of fully 25 per cent, from that cut
in a similar length of time at the end of
harvest.
England owns 25,000,000 fowls, and
1,000,000,000 eggs were imported in 1885,
A dozen Bridgeport, Cann,, men have
hired 1,500 acres of wild land near that
city, and liberated 200 quail upon it, as the
foundation for future sporting operations,
They were sitting as oloee as the sofa
would permit. She looked with ineffable
tenderness Into his noble blue eyee,
"George," she murmured, with a tremor in
her voice, " didn't you tell me onoethat yeti
would be willing to do any great act of he -
Totem for my sake ! " Yes, Fannie, and I
gladly reiterate that statement now," ho re-
piled in confident tones, "No noble Re-
man of old was farad with a loftier ambition,
a braver resolution than L" "Well, George,
1 want,you to do something real hereto ter
!nee' "Speak, darling ; what kit 2" "Ask
me to be your wife. We've been fooling
long enough."
Timely Suggestions.
We suggest that an acre or two of good
land, located convenient to the hog pasture,
be planted in some early maturing variety
of sweet corn, to be fed off during the first
half of September as a prelude to begin-
ning on the main crop. If an oecaeional
hill be planted in pumpkins these will have
an extra opportunity far growth ; or, if pre-
ferred, turnips may be sewn in the corn
about the let of August, and if the eon be
good and the season favorable a good yield
may be expected,
It is said that sheep may be effectually
marked with dry Venetian red by efmply
taking a pinch of the dry powder and draw-
ing the thumb and finger through the wool
at the spot you wish to mark, loosening
the powder as you do so. It will combine
with the oil in the wool and make a bright
red mark that the rains will never wash
ent, and which, without injuring the wool,
will endure from one shearing to another,
while it can be readily cleansed out by the
manufacturer.
Fed to pigs, skim milk and buttermilk
are worth one-fourth as much as cornmeal.
Fed to calves, they are worth, on an aver
age, 25 cents per 100, Warm+to 98 degrees
for feeding, feed three times a day, and feed
eweet. As the calf growe add oatmeal
gruel, and finally olear oatmeal. The skim
milk of one good cow and $2 worth of oat-
meal will raise twe calves through the Bea-
son—spring and fall.
While not believing mach in dosing any
farm animals or even human being's, there
can be no doubt that occasional doses ef
turpentine, sulphur, and charcoal, mixed
with their feed, help to keep pigs in good
condition. If these aro given once a week
the hog cholera will not appear,
Reoreene oil will take rust from iron if
time enough is given ; but for quick work a
few drops ef eulpburio sold rubbed on the
gnat is preferable. But the hon must be
well econred and a little ell poured on as
soon as the rust Is remeved, The acid will
eat into the Iron and form more rust unless
this precaution Es attended to,
The Enel sh Language in Japan.
There are a couple of Japanese journals
published in Tokio,the,capital of Japan,
and not to be behind thtimee, Kfoto now
boasts a publication modestly styled " the
pumphlet of the Kyoto association of eng•
lfeh language, ' The enterprise of the pro-
prietora of the "pamphlet" evidently evok-
ed sympathy, for, in the specimen number, is
reproduced the following advice tendered by
a well-wisher :—
On first publfoation of Yeigi Shinehie.
About the middle of november 1885, on the
Hinode enfnbun saw an advertisement that
you have the intention to publish a first
book nailed Yeigi Shinehf to give the con-
venient method to the beginners whe
may want learn English Language themselves
This however owing to the progressives of
knowledge At present condition Japan
shows great rapidity on commerce and
trade if the people are ignorant with
English language in some case take no small
nnprofit to oarry an extensive business
both on delivery and selling and en
many other oocaslon It is therefore
necessary for the Japanese to barn
Eoglleh Language before gettieg into
trouble consequently the editor will
perhaps take strict attention to,epellingpro.
nounoiation etc currently for the New Stu.
dente Kobe
ream ..-- - .
A Haverhill woman refused to shoo her
hens because her husband, a shoemaker, was
on strike."
As to the Cree translation of Banyan's
"Pilgrim's Progreso," .it has been stated
that this laborious work was done by the
Bishop of Albany. This le a misconception,:
Archdeacon Vinoent, who is himself of In.
dian blood, has spent years of labor on the
work, and is now in London revising it for
the press, Tho misconception, probably
arose from the; fact that the book, which is
being published by the church Missionary
Society, is to be issued with the Episcopal
imprimatur,
A reetyKnot. Ship,
Prof, R. H. Thurston oloeoe a paper In
the Forum on 'e The Limit of Spend in ll :ean
Travel with these words ,• "It may, how.
ever, be considered as not at all improbable
that these of in who live to the next century
may see the Atlantic armed in Wee than.
four days,"
To accomplish euoh a result veneers must
be built capable of attaining twioo tbo speed
o' the faateet 'steamers now plying between
Europa and America. The two great. Cu-
nardcre, the Umbria and Etruria, can make
in a smooth sea about twenty knots, or
twenty-four mike an hour. Tbo beautiful
and Il! -fated Oregon was scarcely inferior,
and the American and the Aatania are of
but little less speed. Therefore a ship equal
to the work expected by Prof,
Thureto
n
must steam at the rate of forty knots, or
about fortyseven miles an hour. So doing,
she would prose the Atlantioin eighty houre,
or in lees than three and a half days
The Oregon was 500 feet long, 54 feet
breadth of beam, and of 7 500 tons measure.
went, The Etruria is 520 feet long, 57 feet
beam, and of 8,000 tons burden. Tee be.
v.athan suggested by Prof, Thurston as the
chap to erose in 80 hours, he makes 800 feet
long, SO feet beam, and 25 feet draught,
and 38 000 tons burden. To make the speed
of the Oregon, such a vessel, under a rule of
naval architecture, would require 35 000
horse power, as against 12 000 in the smaller
steamer, The law is that to double that
opeed, or raise it to 40 kn its, eight times
the power needed for 20 knots would be •re.
quired ; but inasmuch as the law of resist-
ance bowmen much more favorable at these
higher rates of apaed, Prof. Thurston fixes
the limit of the probable power required at
250,000 horse power.
The weight cf the steam maohirery for
the new ship he estimates at 7,500 tons, or
'the total tonnage of the Oregon, and the
consumption of coal at 175 tons an hour,
3 200 tone a day, or 10,300 for the voyage,
The weight of fuel and machinery would
would therefore be 1S,00Q tons, Allow
12,000 tone, en aocoraing to the present
oonstruotion, about one-third of the total
displacement, for the weight of the hull,
and 8,000 tone would be left for paasengera,
orew, and cargo,
Of course many problems would have to
be solved in the construction ot the ma-
chinery for a ship so enormous, but expert
eine indicates that they would be corquered
if there was a demand for the vessel. The
engineer and the shipbuilder will be equal
to the work when they are called upon to
perform it.
Tbere is, however, an important economic
obstacle. To -day, as Prof. Thurston says,
the fastest ships do not pay expenses, and
there will be no incentive to increase the
speed so long as teat is the case ; but
" when more passengers and more precious
freight can be found to pay for the faster
ships, faster ships will be built."
He estimates that the coat of running his
ship would be not less than $75,OtO for each
voyage, to pay which cum the passage
money of 500 passengers at an average of
$150 a head would be required. Then the
profit could be made on the freight and
melte carried. Would the saving of three
or four days' time induce sufficient
travel at such rates as to make It worth
while to ge to the enormous expense of
building and running the vessel? Just at
present it is hardly' doubtful that the steam-
ship companies would give a negative an -
ewer to that question.
A Bet -Back for Panama.
The visit of De Lesseps to Panama ap-
pears to have been a desperate effort to
armee enthusiasm for hie canal &chemo,
The oompary was in urgent need of more
than $100,000.000 in order to complete the
work. The energetic director then planned
his visit to the Isthmus, inviting represen-
tatives of the commercial intereets of Eu-
rope and;Amerloa to see with their own eyes
the progrees of the work. The party was
received at Panama with great honors, De
Lesseps made a triumphal progress over the
route of the canal crowned with flowera and
hailed as the originator of the greatest en-
gineering undertaking of the age. But this
display did not blind the commiasionere.
The American representative reported a few
months ago that the canal was so far ad-
vanced that its ultimate completion was cer-
tain ; but no opinion can be formed of the
amount of time and money which would yet
be required. De Lesseps laughed at this
report as absurd, and promised to, sail
through the great out in 1S89, It was even
announced that he would °barter a steamer
in that year and go round the globe with
his family passing through hie two marvel-
ous canals of Suez and Panama. The pros-
pects cf the canal have received a hard blow
from the report of the Frenchmen who re-
presented French interests In the party
which accompanied the garlanded engineer.
the company hoped that this report would
reinstate them in the confidence of the
French nation, and that the government
would allow them an additional loan of
$120.000,000, The report has dashed their
hopes. The commissioner ',aye that the
statements of the company are fraudulent,
The boasted progress bas not been made,
The government annonncee that nnlees the
company can prove that its accounts are re-
liable, no further aid will be given to the
scheme. Without this aid it will be years
before the canal to oompleted.
AJapanese City.
Prof. Morse, in his recent book upon life
and scenes fn Japan, points out many our•
fou& contrasts between Eastern and West-
ern civilization. Perhaps the difference is
most marked in the general appearance of
the large cities.
A view of Tokio, from some elevated
point, reveals a vast sea of reefs, the gray
of the shingles and dark elate color of the
tiles giving a somber effect to the whole.
The even expanse is broken here and there
by the fireproof buildings, with their pep-
derous tiled roofs and ridges. and pure
white or jet-black walls. The templea also
are conspicuous as they tower far above the
pigmy dwellings which surround them,
Their great black rode, with massive ridges
and ribs, and grand aweepe and white or
red gables, render them striking objects
from whatever point they are viewed, Green
masses of tree foliage springing from the
numerous gardens add some life to this
gray sea of domiciles. There is, of course,
no church spire. It is likewise a curious
sight to look over a vast city of, it may be,
nearly a million inhabltautd said detect no
chimney with its streak of blue smoke,
From the absence of chimneys and the al -
moat univemal use of charcoal for heating
purposes, the cities have an atmosphere of
remarkable clearness and purity,
The compact way in which in cities and
towns the housed are orowded together,
barely separated by the narrow streets and
Lanes which oresd like threads in every di•
rection, and the peoulfarly inflammable ma,
terfala of which most of the buildings are
composed, explalne the lightning -like ra.
pidity with which a conflagration spreads
when once fairly under ,way.
ATTAOBED BY VAMPIB,B BATS,
iA Experience in Denies,
Some years, ago, ()apt, 0. R. &teeter of
the ship Phoebus, with a small party of gen-
tfemen, was ascending the Llmbaug River,
in Borneo. They same to the place where
it receives the waters of the Madihltae small
current Bowing in an easterly direction,
Nominally, the party was out on an explor-
leg expedition, but it is safe to eay that the
love of adventure brought them thither
more than the intereate of edema),
While travelling onward, and quietly on
the watoh for deer, they dfeoerned tomo•
thing lying on the ground not far off, above
which hovered a swarm of what they sup-
posed to be insects, Their firat thought
wee that some beast had fallen dead, and
was thus being devoured, Capt, Rogers
remarked that the supposed insects could
Mit be bleeds ; they wore altogether too
large, and altogether too small for birds of
prey,
Here was a mystery, whloh needed only
to beexplored. h art advanced to the
T e dva d
spot as urriedly as p esibie, when lo 1 to
their utter aatonishmont, it was found that
It was a man who bad fallen, instead of e
beast, and that this mean had been beset
and overcome by vampire bats.
What to do first, they did not know.
They dared not approach too near the opt,
for fear of being attacked in a snnlliar man-
ner, But not a moment was to be lost.
The poor, unfortunate fellow was yet alive,
for every now and then there was a visible
movement of the body.
" 1 have an idea," raid Capt. Rogers,
which may work well In this case. Let ns
charge our rifles well with powder, and firs
into the midst of them."
The party thought the idea a good'one,
and made haste to carry it Into effect.
The disoharge was heard, a dense, sul-
phurous gas was generated above the pros-
trate vi*tina, and the vampires, in terrible
consternation, flew away with rapid speed.
After the smoke had cleared away, the
gentlemen approached the epot. Many of
the vampires were lying around, evidently
disabled from the effects of the powder,
These were mercilessly crushed by the butt
ends of the gens.
With all possible haste, attention was
given to the victim. He wore only a breech
cloth. The sight was fearful to behold,
and we forbear to picture It in the vivid
language of Capt. Rogers. The fellow was
literally punctured all over ; the ground was
moistened with the blood flowing from his
vain,, and the blood still poured out.
Not one of the party knew enough of sur-
gery to be able to suggest any rem-
edy for relief ; and all of them were too
much excited too oorjure up a remedy from
common-sense and experience.
Several minutes elapsed before a thing
was done, except to give the man a draught
of fresh water,
At length, ode of the gentlemen, recalling
to mind the fact that the tobacco -ashes are
available for the sting, and believing that
vampires sting rather than bite, removed a
quantity of tobacco from his pouch, and,
laying it on the ground, at once set it on fire.
Two of the other gentlemen did likewlee.
Soon enough ashes were obtained to try
the experiment. Having washed away the
bloody gore, they smeared these ashes over
the lacerated portion of the man's body.
The sole effect was to atop the blood, and to
cause an intense smarting.
The fellow seemed at last to rally from
his miserable plight, and, failing to raise
hie head, he made ague of gratitude to
these who 1 ad no kindly befriended him.
After a short time, he was enabled to
speak ; and, through the Malay interpreter
who accompanied the gentlemen, the fol•
lowing facto were obtained :
He said that he was on the way to a
neighboring village, and that, when night
had creme on, he had lain down to sleepuntil
sunrise. Towards morning he waa euddenly
awakened by a load noise, and was terribly
frightened to find himself lying in blood.
Strange to say, he felt little or no pain ;
but, on endeavoring to get up, he fell back
completely exhausted, end soon he was so
weak as to be unable to move at all.
These are the facts gained after many
pauses ; and it was with great difficulty
that even this alight information was ae-
qufred. The fellow could speak only with
the greatest effort, and then it was so nearly
inaudible as to be barely understood.
The remainder of the story is beet given
nearly In the words of Capt. Rogers, who
concludes:
"There was no nee talking further about
the matter. I suggested to my friends that
there was q,nly small chance or saving the
man's life ; for 1t really seemed as if fully
two-thirds of his blood had flowed out, Mr,
H— said that it might be well to carry
him to a spot, only a few rods off, where
the trees would shelter him from the sun,
It waa a goad idea, and we did so, For
nearly four hours and a half we sat and
watohed the man, trying our very beet to
think of something for his good. He was
too far gone to eat anything, and we had to
poor water down his throat by degreea,
" Well, the worst came at last, as we
knew it would. Suddenly the man thren
his arms upwards, They fell with a thud
—and all was over,
" We merely laid the body In a hole near
by, and covered it with leaves."
Helpless Against Britain's Navy.
The New York Tribune, after rebuking
its bellicose oontemporarien which are talk-
ing so big in connection with the fishery
dispute, there epeaks :-" Have the people
of this country reoently stopped to consider
what a war with England would imply or
what an abeolnte condition of unprepered-
nese for the defence of our seaports we are
in should the English fleet appear in onr
waters ? Every seaport in onr Atlantic
eeaet from Portland to New Orleans would
be at he mercy. It could demand indemni-
ty and destroy, if refused, without any ef-
fective resistance. We have not a foot on
our coasts, Atlantic or Peale°, that could
stand against its terrific ordnance, Its
scorer of light -draft armoured gunboats
could go up the Hudson to Albany, np the
Delaware to Philadelphia,' up the Potomao to
Washington, up the Mississippi to '?sy. Louie,
np the Ohio to Louisville, and we have not a
gun or a vessel to stop them, In the war
of ,the rebellion our wooden boats, with
nothing but a thin shield of boiler -Iron,
went all over our inland rivers in spite at
shore batteries, How much lees resistance
could be made to these six-inch steel -plated
English eraisere 1 Snppoee some of these
same ironclad cruisers should go up the St.
Lawrence and get through the Weiland
canal before our foroee oould seize it and
dextray the locks, what is there to save Baf•
foie, Cleveland, Detroit Toledo, Duluth,
Milwaukee and Chicago from bombardment?
Not a vessel, net a gun 1 There is not a
port on the 'coasts of the United Statee, nor
a city on its great lakes and inland rivers
that is not absolutely helpless against Eng-
lish naval power,"
Schwatka, on being interviewed, says
"No, you never can reach the pole with a
balloon; but you can roach the balloon with
a polo, if it sails pretty low.
A Noble Siboarnaker.
It to but a oorpperatively abort time
since Count Leo Tolstoi became known,
through translations, to American read.
ere. Here was the peer at leaet—sortie
critios said more than the peer—of Tur-
genial, a novelist of such power that his
dazzling future war a sunlit certainty.
Then, suddenly, with the ball at hie feet
the world waiting upon his words, we
are told that he laid down hie pen, so far
as fiction was concerned, and we hear of
him as hard at work at shoe -making, '
It le a singular pia'are—this count, of
the haughty Russian Empire, of the btu.
est blood in Europe a man of wide and
exquisite culture and of commanding
him tithing gonias—bo see s bb g on his shoe-
maker's bench, and earning his daily
bread by his daily labor.
Man of imagination as he ie, he is very
literal In hie interpretation of Scripture.
" If any would not w k, neither should
he eat, meant, to hi , work with his
hands. He may be , Dia Waken
n r� t in this y
for to work with the Tien of the author,
is to work, not less truly than it is to use
the awl of the shoemaker—but if it be a
mistake, what a noble, heroic, self-eacri-
ficing mistake ib is 1
"What shall I do now ?" said one of
his sons, who had jest completed his
courae at the university.
" Whatever honest work comes to
hand," was the father's answer. "Sweep
the streets, if nothing else offers. I can-
not help you. Yon, like me, must earn
your own bread ; for I am bidden to sell
all bhab I have, and give to the poor ;
and I must obey."
Here again, political eoonomista would
say, is a mistake, If all the fortunes in
the world, the wise men tell ns, were
equally dietributed.to day, to-morrow,—
or if not tomorrow, then next year—
would find the conditions of men as
various as now, since atilt there would
be thrift and nnthrift, care and careless-
ness, wisdom and folly. They may be
right, bub if what is told. ef Count Leo
Tolstoi is true, his literal obedience has
in it something deeper and higher than
their statistics. Hie is an example not at
all in danger of being too widely followed,
The Count may be extremist --but
the extreme of unselfishness, the extreme
of brotherly love, shall we not contem-
plate it' and be lifted thereby somewhat
above the sordid uses of the world ? The
teachings of the religion which has turn-
ed the haughtieat'of counts into the hum.
bleab;of shoemakers—have these toad Ings
no message for us ? Does not idle luxu-
ry accuse and reproach those who possess
it ? When our Lord gathers up His
jewels will He not find them among
those who prove their love for the God
they have not seen, by loving and help-
ing the brother whom they have seen?
To spend many hundreds of dollars
on a single dinner -party, while pale wo-
men and little ohiidr ' a few streets
away, ache with cold and) faint with hun-
ger—surely this is not loving one's broth-
er as one's self. It were better to make
ahoes with Count Leo Tolstoi,
What madness so great as to forget
how soon this brief life ends—how soon
we shall go where its utmost riches can-
not ease our tuntrodden way, its utmosb
glories cannot adorn our unseen path 1
What will It profit ue then to have
owned a peach -blow vase? Nay, what
will it profit ns to have possessed all the
transient gains and glor as of this transi-
ent world ? The on Latton will be,
whether we have obeyed the voice of
God in our own souls.
An English Railway Car.
When a Canadian first entero an English
railway carriage, he le pretty sure to de-
cide that it is mnoh lees comfortable than
the care of hie own oeuntry, and to wonder
way their pattern is not adopted. He is
put into a first-olaas compartment, a email
apace athwart the vehicle with three Beate
on eaoh side, and at each end a space whloh
resembles as much as anything else the pad-
ded cell of an aristocratic lunatic asylum.
The roof le low, and he looks along it in
vain, for the glass ventilators, the glitter-
ing silver lamps and the frescoed embellish-
ments to which be is accustomed. The dec-
orations are of the simplest oharaoter, usu-
ally polished woods, and the luxuriously
cushioned soots are covered with plain cloth
of a sombre color—dark bino, or drab, or
green. He certainly cannot find fault with
the oushiona,Ithey are so deep and pliant,
and perhaps he thinks the omieaion of the
exuberant frescoing of the Canadian car ie
not wholly lamentable, Most irksome to
him is the unsociable confinement and the
narrowneea of the bounds. The chances are
that though there aro seats for six he only
has one or two follow passengers, and he
may have all the compartment to himself,
If there are others with him they are almost
sure to hold their peaoe and to crush any
conversational overtures with a distant and
smileless nod. Each of them bas hoped to
be alone. The Interoonrs° among the pas -
mangers and the many diverting episodes of
a Canadian train are missing. The train
boy with his peanuts, candy, and pile of
papers is not here, and no. blaok• mustached
conductor appears from time to time to ur-
banely inspect hie passengers. The quick,
begrimed brakeman does not dart out just
before the stations are reached and myster-
lonely disappear a moment afterward, The
Canadian oar Is so spacious Weis so well
filled that there are always sonirpassengers
who are interesting to speak. -'to ,or to sur-
mise upon. There is always at least one
pretty girl, who piques one's ourioeity and
seta the mind to work in knitting together
a thread of sentimental speculations con-
cerning her, In the Canadian train one be.
longe to a community and feels no great
change between exietenoein it and existence
elsewhere, But in the English train it le
impossible to forget that we are travelling,
and that travel is attended by many re-
strictions,
Although the late Sir Henry Edwaris
was an ardent lover of horse racing, acid
owned the winners of many famous ranee he
never bet a sixpence in hie life.
On the suggestion of the Earl of Eaaex,
the Church of England Funeral and Mourn-
ing Reform Asaoolation has issued an ap-
peal to all the solloltore of the country urg-
ing them to advise their clients' to insert a,
oletme in their wills giving clear and posi-
tive ordere as to the manner iu which they
desire to be buried. The following form is
suggested : "I desire my executors to con-
duct my funeral in a plain and unostenta-
tious manner, and to avoid all unnecessary
expense and display, I wish my body to be
pial ell in a perishable oeffia, and to be
buried in the earth itself; and, not in a lead
or a brick vault, And I de&ire the mourn-
ing worn by my family and eetvante to be
of the elmplett description,