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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1886-6-17, Page 2BEHEADED, Men la$ I�'RElio xr1.A2�is1GA,2Ep . .4 s~ el;, 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,