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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1886-7-1, Page 7On one stormy night the rain descended In torrents, the wind whistled, vivid flash- es of lightning played upon the horizon, the thunder rattled, and the echoes were long and loud, filling the hind wlbh tern tor, Only men faced the atorn; of these, one was hastening to his home in an arietooratic pert of theolty • while ,another er was plodding his 'way through alleys and dark streets. They reach their homes; silence reigns. The inmates of the differ ent if %r- ent heuaes walked softly ; epake only' in low voices ;;faoea were pale, and sad Ceara could hardly be repreReed. The threads of life seem about to Bever, But look l Lights gleam as they pass through t different apartments. Two lives are ea d ; one to love and rlohee ; The on a and boil T e d r the other to e e e a P for a IN of ease we will call Edda ; the one for poverty, Hope. Ecluse)` thing of dream. obtains a smattering of this and that ; learns to drum on the piano ; though when inclined, she plays with great one and effect. She is a modern belle. She epeede'the beautiful mornings dczing -in bed, when she might be doing good. The evening is passed in recreationwhile, for the pleaeatre of finis finishing an interesting ' story, the'nlghb'in:itnine.] -Into day. • Edna was very beautiful ; she had dark bine, eyes, shaded by long dark lathes ; hair, light auburn or golden hue ; the features were faultless ; the expression charming and 'pleasant. The world moves on. Ab length she condescends to accept the hand of one who was living on the sunny aide of life -but her heacb; was with another who could only offsrrlove In a cottage," but whom she rejee! d with a sneer, saying,— "Bread and water are not for me." While preparations. are being made for the wedding, we will -spend a little while with',Consn Hope who was a 'great trial to her relatives. Her home is not made elegant by qqrb or fine furniture trom over the sea,; It firs but few rooms, and sup- plied only with appointments to meet immediate necessity. Hope was lovely and gentle ; email in stature, with dark lustrous eyea ; her face had an eastern cast which contrasted beautifully with bhe rose of her cheek , her expression betrays the working of a mind at once noble and generous. She was taught to work—to earn her own livelihood. She passed little time in achool ; but our merry -hearted Elope never stopped half way ; she made the beat of everything, and her leisure time was devoted to the culture of her mind. Years have slipped away and Hope is on the eve of marriage ; her choice a poor but respectable carpenter. They are married without fine laces, silks and pre- sents ; and they- then repair to their cot- tage to Berl—the " world ewes them a living." Edna has a trousseau from Paris and goes to a fine residence ; what money commands is hers ;'but were the heart is not the hand should not be. Hope has a true lovinghusband ; he is kind to her' and saves her many a weary step; tries to give her all the comfort he can with his scanty means. Hope is a saving wife and makes the beet of a penny ; so, by industry and economy, they olimli the ladder step by step ; and, long since the happy family have left the cottage fon-blown stone front—are rich and, as ever respected. The little woman who graced poverty so well graces the elegant home equally well. She loves to do good and so bene- fit the -poor ; their children rise up and call thein blessed. But where is the blushing bride—the beautiful Edna 1 While, the honeymoon laated all was bright as a dream of fairy- land, but by an nnlooked for shifting of the clouds a dark one floated out upon their horizon—the scenery began to ap- pear ragged. When at tea the common phrase from her huaband'e lipe was,— "Burnt toast and dish -water tea, as usual I" Not knowing the art of housekeeping, she left everything to the servants and thought no more of, household duties until the harsh sentenoe fell from his lips. Then angry words 'ensued ; so, from meal to meal, bhe estrangement became more apparent. To 'drown her unhappiness she filled the hoose with company, and was a mar- ried belle ; while he sought to drown his sorrow in the wine -clip. Edna was bind ; she could not and would not see the mischief he was mak- ing. But she was awakened from her folly at a late moment. Oh 1 her anguleh, Oh l to recall the truant husband who had so cruelly deserted her in a time of affliction. She was beginning to feel how base had been her conduct ; she wail to eat of the bitter bread of sorrow and drink of the cup of wretchedness. She did not return to the world. Ah, no 1 for remorse was tugging at her con- ' science, and now, too late,:tco late 1 she was trying to win bank her husband. The blame did not all ,tie at Edna's feet. Her husband was one of those con- ceit ill-natured, over -bearing men, whop ink they should be oarried around c, n the w"eels-• on flower beds of ease.'' y But it was his wife's careleasneas alone that caused him to Beek solace In the wine - cup ; so, little by little, the ruin was wrought. (a home of wealth, knows no - re ; her 11fe is bun a pleasant !fie is sent to boarding -school ; ,a. When Edna aaw what she had done great was her euffering ; and many ways did she try to reclaim him. She learned to cook ; made home atbractlye ; never frowned or grew angry when he returned home intoxicated, but met him lovingly ; for, poor woman 1 at her own door lay all the blame. Her aim was to win again the heart so proudly laid ab her feet ; but all her ef- forts failed to bring the desired reward. He soon spent his fortune and her own ; they left the fine house for a wretched hovel ; onffered'the mot humiliating dis- merely en the morale Of tome of his people. ' Jameo Hawkins thought the coat fitted him gxae. ' Many and many a tearful prayer arose bo Heaven far the drunken hus-. baud, Theybroughb him home one night.in wretched state ; he lived bub a few short hoard and then went into another world to be judged by a just Judge. When he palmed awayEdna realized that she was free from trial, bub her • eerrow—oh •how terrible l' With handa clasped and tear leas eyes she eat all the long night, thinking of one soul gone into eternity, not ready to meeb hie ,Maker, " Oh," thought she, "am I the ernes V' - Then gentle, loving Hope came and took her home with her. The bright apots on the cheek told that she was a prey to that. deadly diseaee, consumption. They gave her everything which love and wealth could provide bo make her happy. When they gathered around her death- bed elle �Arned Hope, and ea 1 di -- "My dear eouein, bhe enffering I have had these many years fa all my awn fault.. In youth, had I learned to live truly, I might have been happy. But I would not see the folly of my way and my path became narrow and rugged ; the rooks oat nay feet ; bhe flowera bloomed along my pathway no more ; the song of the birds ceased; the sliver lining of clouds was lost. I leave you now to meet my loved ones— the donde are breaking—I leave you now to go through the valley of death." A sweet smile broke over bhe careworn countenance and all was over. We knew she bad passed away from sorrow and from all earthly vara to her heavenly home. AN ANCIENT TOWN. Where Thirteenth Century Fortifcationa Still Exist. It is written in olden records that Julius °reser had a beautiful breastplate, made of gold studded with British pearls, which he dedicated to the Venue Genitrix. One .of the pearls in the English crown is said to have been found In an English river, but the balmy days of English pearl fishing are over. Few and far between are the rich pearls found in English rivers now, One of the most famous rivers in all Britain for pearl mussels was the Conway, in Wales. Here were great fisheries, and it was doubtless from the Conway that Julies Caesar drew his fine pearls for the breastplate of the Venus. The Conway rises In a little dark tarnamong the Welsh hills, and wends its way for 30 miles through a ensiling country to the Irish Sea, where its waters mix with. the briny flood. THE TOWN OF CONWAY stands en the river's bank, about four miles from the sea and about forty-five miles from Liverpool, and is one of the quaintest of medimval town. It is almost Incredible that there should exist auoh an ancient, sleepy, romantic, little walled city near a great, beetling, nineteenth-oentury place as Liverpool. In two and a half hoursthe steamboat carries the traveller from Liver- pool to Llandudno; and a few minutes in the train takes ene away from this modern watering place to the peaoefnleese of a thirteenth century fortified town. The cas- tle of Conway is one of the most beautiful in a country of beautiful castles, towering grimly and grandly over the ragged little town that nestles beside - it. Very qdd It seems to atand'on the crombiing•battlements andlook down on the town which is en- closed within the battlemented stonewalls e of the same age and fashion, ae the. castle. S`tz "`lens` •`oentnriea have''oome and gene einoe the First Edward oerTieredWales, and built his strong fortreseeed to keep:the the wild Cymry in subjeotion; lut every hilltop and valley is full of suggestions ef the ancient and little known race. .A few names have came to us from out the mists, such as Caractacuo, Llewellyn, and Owea Glyndwr; but few today have any idea of the fierce bravery of this ancient race or how desperately they fought tor their father- land, On every mountain -side and hill -top there are remains of .2 ANCIENT FORTRESSES. of a rude type, built for defence in the long past time ; of cromlechs, built for worship or for sepulture , of traces, in one form or another, of a brave and home-leving race, There is a :Baying among the Welsh that "Wales was Wales beforeEngland twasporn look you " ; and an old Welsh family had written, in the midst of their familyreoerds, "About this time, the world was oreated." How old these ancient Britons were when Wales was first peopled, no man can say. Certain it ie that the little principality has borne a brave part in the world's history, and its people have been true to their tra- ditions, Oonturieahave passed since Edward conquered them, but they still speak their own language. Many a ohange has come over the fashions of the busy world; but the frugal and industrious Welshmen still fears God, an lifts hie voice in tuneful praise on the Sabbath day. The towers and walls of Conway are nought save crumbling runs ; the ivy and the wall- flower have taken possession of lordly hallo; the grass grows green In the banqueting places of the forgotten great ones. �r� ► , $sem PERSONAL. The Queen Regent of Spain will maintain and eduoate at her private expense the child- ren of these who perished in the reoent tor- nado at Madrid, Mr. Henry M. Stanley is now in Paris ; to some extent, as the guest of Mr, James Gor- don Bennett. He is considering a United States visit in next December. • The wedding present of the Oounteaa of Paris to her daughter, now Crown Princess of Portugal, was a white morooeo prayer book, posting about a hundred dollars. Frank D. Stockton, the story writer, de• dies the published statement that he is " al- most blind." "On the contrary," he writes, "my eyes are very good, I dictate all my stories, it is tree, but this method ef com- position is so satisfactory to me that under no circumstances would I employ any other." The balance of the sum raised by popular subscription for the statue of Sir Robert Peel at the western end of Cheapside, is to be used for endowing a " Peel scholarship," It has lain idle for tome years, and amounts to $3,150, The scholarship will be for poll - tical economy. Parson Gray, who in at tho head of a congregation of oolored folk, in Denver, has been preaching sermons that reflected se - grace and poverty. Alas 1 the once proud woman was glad to do anything to keep the wolf'fronf the door. le we: a comfort to her Chet her blessed parents had been saved the scene: they had long been peacefully sleeping ; she was thankful her troubles had not brought their gray hales in sorrow to the and not only put it on but talked book say- agely to the pastor, Then Parson Gray got a pistol and put it in, his pocket, and the next time he and Hawking met there wore more high words and the pistol wont off and Hawkins was hurt. And now the .paator is on trial, charged with assault against this black' eheep. TUE RY 1UI $FLO k Removal of Spots and Stains, The followin melee rules are extracted from a Germanjournal Matter AdheringMechanically—Beating, bruitinf, and ourrnto of water, either en the upper or under Bide. Gum, Sugar, Jelly, etc. --Simply washing with water at a band heat, Grease—White goods, wash with soap or alkaline lyes. Colored oottons, wash with French chalk or fuller's earth, and dissolve away with beniene or ether, Owl Colors, Varnish, and Reeine—On white or colored linens, cottons, or woolens, use reotified oil of turpentine,, alcohol lye, and their soap. On silks, ruse bet zine, ether, and mild soap, very cautiously, Stearine—In all cases, strong, pure alco- hol, ol, Vegetable Colors Fruit, Red Wine,and Red Ink- on white goods, sulphur fums or chlorine water ; colored cottons or woolens, wash with lukewarm soap lye or ammonia; silks the same but more oautiouely, Alizarine Inks—White goods, tartaric' aoid, the more concentrated the older are the spota ; on oolored cottons and woolens and on silks, dilute tartaric Gold le applied' cautlously. Blood and Albuminoid Matter—Steeping. In lukewarm water. If pepsin cr the juice of carioa papaya oan be procured the spots, are first eoftened with lukewarm water, and then either of these substances are applied. Iron Spots and Blank Ink -White goods, hot oxalic acid, dilute muriatio acid, with. little fragments of tin. On fast -dyed cot- tons ottons and woolens oitrio acid is cautiously and repeatedly applied. Silks, impossible. Limo and Alkalies—White geode, simple washing. Colored cottons, woolens, and alike are moistened, and very carefully dilute citrin acid is applied with the finger -end. Acids, Vinegar, Sour Wine, Must, Saar Fruits—White geode, simple washing, fel- lowed up by chlorine water if a fruit color a000mpanies the acid. Catered oottons, woolens, and alike are very carefully moint- ened with dilute ammonia with the finger- end. In case of delicate colors it will be found preferable to make some prepared chalk Into a thin paste with water and apply it to the spots. Tanning from Chestnuts, Green Walnuts, eto., er Leather—White goods, hot chlorine water and concentrated tartaric aold. Col- ored oottons, woolens, and alike, apply dilute ohlorine water cautiously to the spot,' washing it away and reapplying it several times. Tar, Cart -Wheel Grease, Mixtures of Fat, Resin and Acetic Aold—On white geode, soap and oil of turpentine, alternating .with streama of water. Colored cottons and woolens, rub In with lard, let lie ; seep, let lie again, and treat alternately with ail of turpentine and water. Silks the same, more carefully, using benzine instead of the oil of turpentine. Scorching—White gooas, rub well with linen rage dipped in chlorine water. Color- ed oottons, re -dye, if possible, or in woolen raise a new 'airtime. Silks, no remedy. Hints. An improvement on making rag carpet : Measure your strips exactly the length of the room, then take to thesewing machine and stitch through the middle of each rag, until you have stitched through four rags in succession. Then out between the middle stitching. It will not require binding, an eaves work and carpet and looks so muo neater. h- one o>jince e€ powdered g m tragacanth be mixed inx thewhite of f e 1 a s well beat - If �B , en, and applied to a window, it will prevent the rays of the sun from penetrating, Articles of a delicate bine that must be washed are often ruined in the process ; this may be avoided by adding an ounce of an - gar of lead to a pailful of water and letting the article lie in this for an hour and a half or even for two hours ; let it dry then, after which it may be washed without injury. This is said to be: a perfect remedy for the trouble referred to. Never put a particle of soap about your silver it you would have it retain its origin- al luster, When it wants polishing take a piece of soft leather and whiting and rub hard. The proprietor of one of the oldest silver establishments in the city of Phili- delphia says that "housekeepers rain their silver by washing it in soap• suds, as it makes it look like pewter," A little borax put in the water in which scarlet napkins and red -bordered towels are to be washed will prevent them from fading, To remove ink stains, wash the oloth thoroughly in milk, then in hot water with soap, and the stains will dist ppeer, No Wonder the Shippers Kiok. " Do you know, I never until recently felt the iron hand of a gigantic monopoly close on my throat, and so realized how slowly it was tightening its constricting folds, like the deadening upas tree, over whose blighted valley there flies no living bird and comparatively few dead ones, as It wore, upon the life of the nation ? (Ap- plause, and loud cries of go on.') Needless is It to say that I refer to the railroad. I live in a small village on the line of the Pennsylvania Railway. We have no com- peting line. We lie at the feet of the mon- opoly that hau%a us in and out of town ; we are passive and holpleas. The other day I had two boxes of freight to send west by Ws monopoly. I went orouohing into the office of the freight agent. When I told him I had two boxes ef stuff to send to Chi- cago, a distance of about 800 miles, I saw his eyes light up with the keen glare of sav- age greed. He said he would ark Harris- burg for rates, which I knew was a mere subterfuge to gain time while he could guess how muoh money I oould raise this side of the grave, and then the grasping tool of a soulless corporation charged mo 69 Dents for parrying two big boxes S00 miles. What's more he made mo pay it. It's no wonder that shippers kick. I am only surprised that they don't boycott the rallroado, Let us return to the days and the quiet ways of eur good old fathers, when, by paying only one-half of the price of the boat, T could have sent my boxes to Buffalo by canal and the rot of she way by lake boat, and got them through to Chicago er the bottom the ame year." Revolvere and mince pies should always be handled with care. You never know how the things are leaded. As an illustration of the trivial causes which sometimes bring about a severance of the pastoral relation, the Presbyterian Banner tolls of a pastor who had to resign hie charge because the Sunday School 'superintendent objeoted to his using a plum -colored silk ,handkerchief in the pulpit, and the Herald and Presbyter men• tions another good man to Whom objection was made beeauee of his wearing an un- ter erring moui+taoho and the praotioe of rolling up hie trousere in wet weather, TUIRTY-TRUE YFASS. The Length or Time vlau Must t'pend iso Reniteallary. Louis Vion e trial is ended. Late the ether afternoon be was found guilty of hew log endeavored to escape, and the Clerk of the Court then road to him the third indict ment of having escaped from the pottiten• tiary,Vlau admitted that he had esoaped, but said that It had been with the aid of the guarder, They had opened doors for him, and he had pimply walked away, The oterk again maid guilty or not guilty, and he Fie Plied, "I am guilty, I got out, tut as every- body ,knows, he added with a mile, '"I was reoeptured," The Clerk of the Peace then asked Viae If he had anything to say why sentence should not be passed upon him, " Well," said the prisoner, "I have this much to say ; I have Nor HAD A PAIR roue! 1 should have enjoyed rights similar to those of other prisoners, I have not had fair treatment, and see a proof look here 1' Vias here raised his foot oyer the dock and exhibited the manacle uhained to hie leg. "Thio ball," he Wald, "weighs eleven pounds, and I have novel been free from it for one moment since my naso has been going on." He then complained bitterly of the meagre diet to which ho had been subjected Fence his attempt to eaoape, which ham the affect, of Injuring his health, and that he had not long to live at any rate. . Hie Honor, the Chief Justice, then pro- ceeded to sentonoe the prisoner. It was aseless, said he, to urge him to do better, He had been a orlmnal almost from child• hood and he had no hope that he would ever improve. He would therefore sentence him to TWENTY•YIVE YEARS OP PENAL SERVITUDE en the tint ndietment of felonienely shoot- ing with intent to murder Guard Chartrand, while sentence on the other indiotment was suspended. When his Honor had finished speaking; all eyes turned towards Vian to see what impression the knowledge of baying to spend ao many years of his life imprisoned between four stone walla would make upon him, and to everyone's astonishment he was aeon to smile and without a word turn round and leave the dock. Then, with a deep scowl, he whispered to a guard : "I will be free In less than three months or again attending in this very dook 1" He was driven back to the penitentiary aho gy afterwards. Virtu is now thirty-three years of age. lie had eight years to spend in the penitentiary and this additional sentence has increased hie term to thirty-three years. When he is allowed to breath the air of liberty again he will be an old man of aixty-six, AN HISTORIOAL TREE. A ellen tWitnese of the Terrible Massacre of British Soldiers. The obliteration of a landmark in the his- tory of Detroit and the northwest has been commenced on the property of the Michi- gan stove company, on Jefferson avenue, Tradition says that the old whftewood tree wag a silent witness to the terrible massacre by Pentiao's Indians on July 31, 1763. Pon- tiac was carrying out his great conspiracy against the whites, wbioh was agreed to at a council of Ottawas, Pottawatomies and Hurons, held at Ecorse en April 27, 1763. His Brat movement, to massacre the gent - eon, was betrayed to Maj. Giodwin, the British commandsr, byIndiangirl, ire on an May 9, and, with his braves, he was order- ed out of the stockade.The a sort was after.. ,wards invested, Pontiac hoping to starve oat the garrison, lie -captured supply boats and trains, and the garrison retaliated with several sorties. On July 29, Captain Dalyell arrived with 22 barges and 280 sol- diers of the Fifty fifth and Eightieth regi- ments, and 20 rangera commanded by Ma- jor Robert Rogers, of New Hampshire, with ominous and provfaiona—all under Dalyell's orders. The latter, who had been an effioer, under the daring Putman, besought permission to lead an expedition against Pontiac, and was finally given that privilege. He started befere daylight on the morning of June 31, 1763. Dalyell marched up the river road with three detachments, and anpported by twe batteries armed with swivel guise on the river. The wily Pontiac] had been informed of the sortie, and was lying on the banks of Bloody Run, then called Parent's Creek. As the British forces neared the bridge the Indians poured in a withering volley. The soldiers charged across, but the enemy was invisible, and their niirnbere melted away under the terrible fire. The troops retreat- ed, and DalyelI, while trying to gave a wounded soldier, was shot dead. The Brit- ish loss was : Killed, 17 ; captured, 3 ; wounded, 38. Detroit was virtually besieged by Pon. tiao'a forces till that great warrior signed a treaty of peace, Aug. 17, 1786, Detroit was the only western post that held out against the Indians under hie command. Old residents in the pity tell that hun- dreds of British and Indian ballets entered the tree, and that the nutting of them out was one of their juvenile pastimes halt a century ago. A New Line of Railway. A party of wealthy Canadians visited Bah falo reoently to arrange for the building of a line of railroad from Table Rook, en the Canadian Park reservation, to Qaeenstewn, Ont, They exhibited a apeolal charter (granted by the Dominion Government), and claimed they had gemmed the co -opera• tion of the Canadian Reservation Commis- sion. The road is to ran close to the river bank and will be connected by an inclined railroad at Table Rock with the Michigan Central. A grand hotol at that point Is an important feature in the scheme. At Queens - tom n theypropose to conned with the steam- er Ch icora and the Michigan Central Railroad, They claim they are to be given free right of way over Government property, as their road will help to make the Canadian reser vation attractive. This is a different view from that taken by Commissioner Dor- aheimer, of the New York State reservation, who recently urged that a bill be passed preventing the Niagara Fall & Whirlpool Company, chartered to build a road on the Amerioan bank, hem crossing the State's pi operty. The offioiala of this corporation, however, feel good over the bill Governor Hill has just aignod, which allows them to charge passengers ten cents a mile, Wonderful Instinot of Flies, " You are a telegraphist, Herr Maier, t. presume ?" " Certainly." " When out• walking to -day I noticed that whole myriads of filen ' covered the telegraph wires for a considerable distance, Hew de you explain this 2" " At what time WAS it t" "About four o'clock." " Just'. then we had a'meeeage conveying the last quotations n auger and molasses," YOU NQ FOLKS. home Remarkable 1'arxota, History and tradition tell us of some moat remarkable parrots, In the eve teenth century, during the government of Prince Maudeo In Brazil, he had heard of an old parrot that wee muoh celebrated for anew'ering like a rations', creature many common gnesticnc, Tile ,parrot was at s great distance from his residence, but se much bad been said about It that the prince% cariosity was aroused, and he directed the bird to be sent for. When pretty Poll was introduced into the room whore the prince was pitting in oompany with several Dutch- men, the bird fmmedlatoly exclaimed in the Brazilian language, " What a ocmpany of White' men arc here 1" They raked, " Who is that man ?' point- ing to thenc P r e, The parrot answered, "Some general or other,'' The prince was ignorant of the iauguege, and when the attendants carried the bird to him, he asked it through tae medium of an interpreter, " To whom do yell belong ?' The parrot anewered, "Toa Portuguese," He asked again, ' What doyou there ?' The bird answered, " I look after ohiok- eue," The prince laughed, and exclaimed, "You look after chickens 2" The parrot in slower said, " Yes, I, and I know well enough how to do it 1' cluck- ing at the same time in imitation of the hen to call together her young, Early in the present century, there died the celebrated parrot of Colonel 0 Kelly, who lived in Half Moon Street, Piccadilly, London, This wonderful parrot sang a number of songs In perfect time and tune.. She could express her wants and give her orders very much like a human being. She could' repeat a number of eentenoea and anewer many questions put to her. When ainging she beat time with all the appear- ance of sofento, and she would often oen eat her mistakes In singing, Thie parrot died at the age of thirty years, Parrots frequent- ly live to the age of one hundred, In a bird -stere once upon a time, the keeper of the shop taught hie birds to say outs things, and when a young lady oalled to buy a prrrot he brought out a green par- rot that was small and meek -looking. The dealer asked the bird to "Say something sweet to the pretty lady." The bird, to the aarpriae of all, rolled one eye knowng- ly and croaked out, "I ain't as green as I look." A common gray parrot having been brought from Guinea by a sailor with a coarse, rough voice, and '5111048d with a Dough, the parrot learned to imitate the exaot tones of his master, even to the Dough, so 'closely that the sound of his voioe was often mistaken fuer that of the sailor. The bird was afterward taken 1n hand by another instructor and taught a softer tone, but it never forgot the harsh voice of its former maeter, and often amused by -stand - ere by relapsing into sea 'tang, interspersed with the cough of the oiler. While Dean Stanley was a canon at Can. terbury, a gentleman who had been invited to breakfast with him found all the servants assembled in the garden, where the master's parrot was at large in a tree. The master came out at that moment. The parrot look- ed down at him, and said, in a low but dis- tinct voice—exactly like the dean's-" Let ns not pray." The bird was eventually cap tared by the aid of a flahng•rod. AYre parrot was stationed in a n B nesse Y, where his greatest delight was to see the baby bathed. The child becoming ill, the parrot was removed to the kitchen. There after a time he set up a terrible cry : "The baby ! the dear baby 1" All the family rushed down to find the parrot in a state of the wildest excitement watching the roast- ing of a mucking pig. A gentleman in Yerkahire was attacked with a fever about Chriatmaa time, and his parrot was removed from the dining -room to the kitchen, where its voice was less like- ly to disturb its reader. It remained there for several weeks, during which time it stole the raisins intended for a plum pudding. The cook n.anger threw deme hot grease at it, and scalded its head. When the gentle- man got better the parrot was removed to the dining -room. The master came in with his head newly shaved, whereupon the parrot turned one eye upon him, and slowly said, " Yon bald-headed ruffian 1 So you stole the ooek's plume, did you ?" A parrot belonging to a hotel In Philadel- phia walked about on the window ledge one night, The window was open and the bird lost her balance and fell en the pavement below. A policeman picked up the bird, and as he carried Polly into the hotel, she said, " Polly'a sick." Bleed trickled from Ito green feathered head, and as the ffioer handed it to the clerk the bird said again, as it cloned its eyes, " Polly'' sick," While its wounded head was being wash- ed and bathed, the parrot repeated several times, " Polly's sick," For an hour it lay perfectly quiet with its eyes closed, and then suddenly repeated again, " Polly's sick," A moment later the parrot fell ever dead. Made to Order. TSB Ialaal,1414, QPM. When the llgllte had been turned u strong, and Elder Toots had sea teed a l. nut -shuck out of hie throat,g I3rottor, Gard. ers- ner arose and Bald; " I find eah on m #� desk a hoe f y p o Melt - toes, watchwords a?Rd maxims withoh hev bin gathered together by de Comgllttes on Judiciary wid a view of re lapin' de stook now hangin, on do walle, I has bin keerfull conrlderin' de matter in m ;mind fur a eek par', an' 1 dean' like du ideate week of a changed. De paaoon who vault stink to one motto fur rno' den six menthe can't be de ended on to stick by a job sur me' P "If I ws out o' cash, one, b, iriendlees,'laid up in aarret evict a sore heel B an' a oarbuttole, an' 'Teethe' ebery day to be toted off to de' poo' house. I dean' know but I might fur- nish de world wid some watchwords an' satin's, but it would bev to be under some slob are i aameta ttcea About a mouth ago T begun tradin' wid a butcher who had hung up in hie shop de motto ; 'Live and Let Live.' It struck me dar de ideate was ar good one, He wanted hie dues, an' he would grant de same to adders. In about a week he slipped a plugged quarter Into my change; two days later my two pounds of beef was short three ounces ; de ns x' week he o Karg - ed me up ;wid forty,eight oenta' worf ef pork which I.nebber had. I dean' trade dere any mo', an' my respeok far his motto hal dropped fifteen pegs, " A naybur o' mine took in a motto 'bout a y'ar ago. It was : 'Da Airly Burd (hitches. de Worm,' In a Meths time I mislead my hoe. Den the buok•eaw went, Den odder naybnre' loose property begun to go. We got a policeman up dar' to watch, an' when he caught de thief it preyed to be de man wid de motto. He was de sirlfeat bard en tda hull street, an' de way he took de worms was sad fax us. " If dar' am any members of die club whit can't keep to work widout some motto 'bout industry behind 'em—who can't pay doir honest debts widoptsome motto, 'bout honesty above 'em—who can't be good husbands an' fathers widest some scriptural quotaahnn parted In dolt hate, suoh pastime had better sever dein connexus to onoe." BOUNCED. The Committee on the Interior, through,, the Chairman, Judge Ohewso, then report- ed back the case of Prof. Ashfoot Smith, an honorary member residing in Milwaukee, He had been oharged with being an Anar• ohiet, and an investigation had resulted In - the dieoevery"that he believed in and Done - tended for : ",No taxation," " Death to the riot," "Equal divlaion of all property.'' " Neither laws ner prisons," The committee were`nnanimons in recom- mending that hie name be stricken Prem the relic. " Which the name will be did to onoe," said the President, " an' it may be sot dawn as de sentiments ef dis club dat de gov'ment should take eioh akahun as will prevent oon- from Yur p findln' aeafe asylum in de iliate and criminals United States." NOT INYORaxED. Giveadam Jones arose tor information. He would like to be informed whether any correspondence bas passed between the Lime -Klin Club and Congress in reference tel, the summer adjournment. He had nnderatoed that neither body proposed to adjourn unless, the other followed' Reit, •' I kin inform de member," answered the President, 61 data ' d r am no late corres- pondence ondenc, s e P to be submitted. While der am no direct coldness between dis club and Congrees, we dean' waste much postage writs' to each odder. It am my opinyun, however, dat we shall boaf take a vacashun doorin' July and .August. Many of our members will be away Burin' dose two months, an' de ocoaehun will probably be seized to make some necessary repaira to Paradise Hall. If dis program am carried out eioh ef us as remain will meet in de Library once a week fur muohal improve- ment. I has been axed to deliver a series ef eight or ten short Ieokture to etch as gather, an' hev partly promised to do so." PROBABLY DOES. Some time since the following query from Toronto was reepectfully submitted : "Dees our mental progress keep pace with that of other nations ?" The query was given to the Committee on Social Science for inves- tigation, and Prof. Hackensack Johnson, Chairman, new begged leave to report. The committee bad kept their eyes open and their tongues going. They had discovered that where one work on history cr totems was sold 10,000 fly sheets of some new leve story were thrown upon the doorsteps of aa many houses and eagerly read by the mother and her daughters. They had found that for every one book ef solid reading carried' home by an adult 20,000 boys purchased dime novels relating to Indian slayers er " Old Sleuth " detectives, For every eoheol- book in America there were five novels. Where one woman reads her Bible 100 read a story paper. The committee were there- fore of the opinion that " she dees," and they asked to be discharged from further consideration ef the sabjeot. NOT THAT FAB, Shindig Watkins also desired information. He wanted to ask how far the fraternal feel- ings of a member of the Lime -Klin Club should carry him. He expected to lend his coffee -mill, his hoe and his lawn mower to Alderman-- "Yon are charged with enter- a brother member, but was there a point ing the complainant's tent, while camping where the line meet be drawn ? out, with purposes of stealing. What have " Dor' am," answered Brother Gardner, yen to say!" "an' dot pint am reached when yen oon- Prisoner—" I didn't Intend to steal, your elude to give a leetle party at your cabinHonor. I only went to see if there was any- an' hev ion cream an' strawberries fur re - thing I could do for him." freabments, Atatoh an epochasdot a pine. " Oh, yea; then you admit that you were son am supposed to pick hiz own company, found in the complainant's tent 7" an' a member of dig club livin' next doah "Yee, sir." must not lay up any hard feeln'a bekaae he " Then it is for the in -tent I sentence you am not invited." to sixty days." Wendell Phillipe was buried en the spot he aeleoted for his grave many years ago—a wooded rise of ground at Milton, Maas, Philips is laid beside her husband, and their names are inscribed just as he used to like to write them—" Anna and Wendell Phil- Iipa," A lest dispatch of General Garden has just been found on the person of a spy new- ly-esoaped from captivity. It is dated Deo, 29th, 1884, and addressed to the " Sover• oigns'of the Powers." It concludes patheti. Dally : "Daring the twelve months that r have been here these two Powers [Great Britain and Turkey] the ono remarkable for her wealth and the other for military force, have remained unaffected by my situation perhaps relying too much on the news sent byHussein Paoha $halifa H ,who u surrendered ef his own accord, Although I personally am too insignificant to beg takeInto taken count, the Powers were bound, neverthelose, to fulfil the engagement upon which my op- pointment was based, so as to shield the honor of the Governments, What I have gone through I cannot describe. The Almighty God will help me," Two Kinds of Suspense. A murderer ander sentence of death had a number of influential friends who were exert- ing themselves to secure a respite from the Governor. The Sheriff believed in capital punishment, but he was a charitably diepor- ed man and had been doing a geed deal of running around for his doomed guest. One morning he returned from tench a trip and went to the prisoner, " Well," said the man eagerly, " what did the Governor say ?" " My dear sir, he hasn't said anything yet ; he wants tirno to think.""Great heavens, man I This suapenso is terrible," exclaimed the orfminal, drama- ttoally, " Don't mention it," responded the`Sher- iff in a oheerful tone ; " it ain't anything to what it will be if the Governor doesn't fn- terfore." Mamma—" Why, Nellie how pale you leek Have you ben sick T" Nellie (1st returned from an unusually complicated sup- per)—" Yee ; but I unswallowed myeelfand I'm better,"