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The Exeter Times, 1886-7-29, Page 7c4 ri HEAtatt, Sleep Habits of Children. Many habits and eastoms, the deleterious offeote of willoh are recognised, would be. Donne tbtnge of the haat it a praotioal and simple remedy can be devised, I have ne. ver met with, any plainly written advisory arttolce on the training of childreminroper Sleep habits except as to time. A resent experience has taught me to "" study up," on the subj of to the meet raotical way, 7v yr by askingveations of motbe r an nureos- 9 a d My little patient, whose habits and condi. Clone led tjo this investigation ie`ten years old. A serious and ohmic affection of the kidneys has reunited from exoeeaive use of sweets and oonstgnentlyWok of appetite for, and aaaimulationof nutritious toed. She peraietently sleeps prone on the back with the arae flexed,ebeve her head •, 'watchful - nese reunite in her turning on one side from eight to ten times every night, but, of course, a farther result h diminiehed sleep, although it h not more reetlees than usual. Whether the habit can be permanently broken up is difficult to say, From her birth she exhibited a preference for that po- • sitien,'and had been indulged in it, with the inevitable esalta of catarrhal effeationa, dry throat, nervating,retitleee Bleep;' and aggravation of the kidney difficulty, as the opine was duly heated by constant oen- tact with th bed, From the hour of birth a babe should be laid down, to sleep, with great care, never ahonld it be permitted to to on the back while sleeping, atter it be. gine to play, the reetleee limbs are very bene efiolalty exercised while lying eo, but eo soon as sleep Domes the little one ahonld be gently lifted and planed on the side with the head raised only aefiiolently to insure the spine from any curvature, seeing that there are no hide in the clothing to torture the tender flesh, especial care being taken to lay the ear emoothly back. Alternate the sides or there will bo an nnneoeaeary unevenness of j contour when the child ie grown; do not permit the knees to, be so flexed as te crowd the viscera, Lyingon the stomach occasionally ie not injurious if the arms lie et the side and the face if free te the air. Frequently that proves to be a very restful petition to a play.weary child. Itis not a difficult matter to teaoh•a child to sleep with the month closed and without snoring or "gritting the teeth." A lady of thirty-five who had habitually gritted her teeth from their first possession was cured of the habit in a fortnight by 'persistent waking at thg first indication ef the sound, the habit has hot been resumed during the five years since passed. If mothers mould realize how many people auger from bad sleep habits contracted in childhood, they would pay a little attention to their children at night-time, beyond the " hustling eff to bed, out of the way," and the "keeping covered " which to a esti of "dim religious duty" kept sight of out ef fear of the doo- tor's bill, rather than of any ether consider- etien,—A Lady Physician. Some Fallacies in Reeard to Diet. 1. That there ie any nutriment in beef - tea made from extracts. There is none whatever. 2. That gelatine is nutritious, It will net keep a oat alive. Beef -tea and gelatine, however, possess a certain repara- tive power, we know not what. 3. • That an egg i equal to a pound ef meat, and that every sir��k' vermin Dan eat them. Many, es- pecially Mee of nervous er billious temper- ment, cannot eat them, and to euoh eggs are injurious. 4. That because milk is an important article of food it must be forced upon a patient. Food that p person cannot endure will not cure. 5. That arrowroot le nutritious, 'Itis simply etaroh and water, need as a restorative, quickly prepared. 6. That cheese is it furious in all oases. It is as a rule, contra-indicated, being venally in- digestible but it is concentrated nutriment, a waste -repairer, and often craved. 7. That the cravings of a patient are whims :,and sheuld bel denied. The stomach often needs, craves f r, and divide articles not laid down ie y dietary. Such are, for exam- ple, fruit, pickles, jam, cake, ham er bacon, with fat; cheese butter and milk. That an inflexible diet may be marked out which will apply toevery case, Choice of a given list of articles allowable in a given case • must be decided by the opinion of the stom- ach. The stomaoh is right and thoery wrong, and thejudgment admits no appeal; A diet which • would keep a healthy man healthy mtghtkill a sink man; and a diet suf- fioient to sustain a sick man would not keep a well man alive. Increased quantity of food, especially of 'liquids, does not mean in- creased nutriment ; rather decrease, since the digestion le overtaxed and weakoned. Strive to give the food in as concentrated a form as passible. Tiook-Jaw. Cured, That form of look -jaw which is produced by a wound Is known to physloians as trau- matic tetanus. A New York paper recently reported a case of this .disease which had been treated by Dr. Robert Taylor. The patient recovered, and a000rdiug to the re- porter, the Doctor declares that it is "the only case of cure oftraumatio tetanus in the history of the world," Is not thio etatement erroneous ? In the London Lancet ' of June 12, 1886, ` Mr. William Thomas Jackman of the Reyal College of Surgeons describes a case of trau- matto tetanus which Dame under his mare in the March previous, The patient was a lad fifteen years old, whose fingers had been crushed by Dogged wheels, and, the lockjaw was complete. Chloral hydrate was ad- ministered in twenty -grain doses every three hours for ten days. The results were not satiefaotory, and Mr,' .Jackman deter- mined to try the new hypnotic drug ure- than. The chloral was discontinued during the night, and four grains of urethan were Given him every two hours from 6 o'clock in the evening to' 6 in the morning, " The first night of this trial showed a marked de - ase in the severity of the symptoms, and atirnt made gradual and uninterrupted progress until April 20, when his recovery was established." In the ode treated by Dr, ,Taylor, mor- phine appears to have -been the only drug, employed, Any phyaioian who is fortunate enough to treat this diseaee sucmenefuliy is entitled to credit and congratulation, but the Bronxvllle case does not seem the only one which bas resulted in recovery. Quick On the Trigger. An ineurance examiner and adjuster, who was called npoh to investigate a loss, inquir ed of the polloy bolder : ‘4Where were you when the alarm was given f" "1 vhae asleep in my bent," " Did any one wake yon uli i" " Vhell, my clerk oomoe and pounds on dor door and says our shtoro vhaa gone oop,' "What did you do 2" "1 goes down town to telegraph for Bos ton to neo if your 'inenra:me company vhas gene sop' tee," Through the ffapid& ft I am Milli alive, althoulih ilomq neo* ple thought I. was a ,crank and courting fate in braving the dangers of the whirl pooh" eaid Graham to a reporter, `.` but I tend here a wltneee of the faob that a man can ride the Whirlpool Ra ids in safety. 1VIy experience in the barrel Why, certainly i will tell them to you," and after answering a dozen queettone by admiring friends he began : " When they pub me in the water I closed the manhole plate and wafted for developments. The barrel, dying in the oda all day, was awful hob, but I made up my mind I would atand it. When I got. into the barrel bhe heat was terrible, and I thought T should roast. I ought to have waited until the Inside got cool, I tied the bolt around my waist, but seeing that it would clip down I fastened myself with a rope which I had tied on after they had dropped me from the boat. When we got out in the middle of ' the stream I glees Hazlitt was afraid I would back out. He asked me eevorgl times if I was ready to go en, and despite the fact that I eaid yes he held me, At last he called to me and asked me : 'Don't you want to get out ?' I answered, 'No, drop me,' and in a few minuted I was sailing down stream, the manhole being olosed by mo se they dropped the barrel. I had the plug out of the top of the barrel and held It in my hand expecting to pub It as soon as Y struck the rapide I could plainly see the Cantilever and Suspension bridges as 1 passed under them, and a short time after was about to put bhe plug inwhen I felt the rush of the rapids and finding the barrel pushed for- ward had all I could do to steady myself. I held that plug in my hand as I held nn to the iron handles on the side and at times I pressed so hard on it that I al meat orf d out with pain. I wanted to get a chance to put it In, but I could not. In the whirlpool I managed to get the manhole open and waved my hand, but I stopped the opening quick as the water dashed in on me and gave me a slight wetting. I found that just enough water to wet my feet had entered, but I guess It was a good thing, as it cooled me some- what. The whirlpool is nothing compared to the lower rapids, or the Devil's lisle, as they are called. I badmy worst ex- perience in them. Sometimes I would be on my back, then I would be tilted up- right, and suddenly I would be whirled round as I stood. Twice I was turned on my face but the barrel quickly, righted. I had to stop up my -air hole several times In the Devil's Hole in order to keep myself from being flooded out. 1'11 tell you something, though, before I quit. The rolling of the barrel was such that if I had not been picked up in fifteen min- utes I would have grown 111 from the dizziness canned by the motion of the barrel," An inspection of the barrel showed but few signs of the trip through which it had paseed. Here and there on its red - painted sides could be seen marks as if it had grazed against rooks or some other hard substance, but to all appearance the barrelwas as sound as ever. r• -•was A Clever Arrest. A rather gooa story Is told . by the Melbourne .4qe with reference to the oaptare of Bernard Von Sanden, who wassentenoed to three years, impris- onment for forgery at the sessions recent- ly. The detective officer who was en• trusted with the capture could not find anything of Von Sanden', whereabouts for some time, though it was known that he was not out of Melbourne. The officer in question knew that Von Sanden had a friend, another alleged for- eign nobleman, and to this man the de- tective went and said : " I want you ; you have been at it long enough. Paok up now, ana come with me." " What do you want with me 1" replied the man ; "I am a genuine gentleman. I can assure you you make one grand mletake: I have not done anything. My friend, the Baron Von Sanden, will tell yon I am a gentleman." "I don't believe tt," said the officer quickly jumping at his clue; " he surely would nob corroborate your statement." " I do assure yon, sir, you are wrong. If on can come with me I will pay for a cab and take you to him." " Very well," • said the detective, "I have half an hour to spare, I will go with yon." The foreigner never moved with more alacrity in his life than when he gob a conveyance, and the two drove to the residence of the Victorian representative of the house of Von Sanden, and on the gentleman in question quiokly making his appearance, he was immediately taken into custody by the cfficer. " Then you do not want me ?" asked Von,Sanden's friend. "Not yet. I only wanted to find your distinguished companion, the Baron. The man then gob away as quickly as poes(blo, glad, no doubt to escape. The detective then marched off his prisoner. Religions Intolerance in Russia. The deplorable inteleranoe in reltgfoue matters which distinguishes Russian rule has just obtained fresh victims—one named Tikhanoff, an inferior functionary of the telegraphs; the ether, Vekedine, aoountry- mau. These wore a fow days ago summoned before the court of Novgorod for an offence against orthodoxy; an offence detailed in the 189th paragraph of the Penal law, The two men charged with the offence were sentenced to hard labor. A great orowd attended the trial, consisting for the most part of sympathizers with the defend- ants. Only ane of all the Russian papers and reviews has bad the courage to make any remarks about this senteuoo. That or- gan, a review, called the Vieetrik Tevropt (the European Messenger), asks what the adherents of Tikhanoff and Vekedine, who attended the trial, oan think of the menet 1 is oan scarcely be aupposed, the writer says, that this sentence will, in their eyes, be judged a sufficient proof that Tikhanofl and Vekedine are wrong and the Orthodox Church right. 'It is rnuoh morn probable that the condemned men will be cenaidered rnartyrg to truth, and that the number of their worst adherents will increase. All that the Orthodox Church ban gain by its severity is to increase the nuniber of religi- oua hypocrites, "The rambling oici farmhouse" in not confined to the East afnoe the Wed began to enjoy a monopoly of Optioned. THE PORTI Y Of? C$UROHYARD$. BY I. A. OHMIC, "The pith of ii oryleede bet t0 the grew" -Green Liegy. In the quiet little country ohurohyard of &okie P09ie, Grey sought and found iw epiratton for hie Immortal Elegy, The per. stye melody of the voree befraya' this, Se who posseeeea ' the true poetic eoui cannot fail to be impreteed with such anrroundinge, But for those' who live only for the living it oan have ne oberms. All teen think all men mortal but themselves," Am write Dr, Young a bun dreg and fifty yearn ago, and the good old man had abundant evidence in the men around him. The sad court of George Id, had fow sadder sights then that of the good old morallet striving vainly to turn the minds of the courtiers of St, James to the faot that, " our life le in the end dried up by old age and extinguiahod by death for want of matter, as a lamp for defoot of ell to maintain it." , We sec him bending above that mooklog oongrega tion, that yawning, chattering eenembly of men to whom righteouenese and judgment are less than nothing, and we wonder not at the tears in his dim eyes. Ho oompares the minds of his audienoe to the airy and the sea which retain no impression, " de from the vring r o sear the sky retsina. The pasted wave no furrow from the keels." And as we read him we grudge him to that thoughtless generation, Bat to -day he has found listeners, His favorite topic, mortali- ty, is not yawned aside as wottnleee. • Thie is a thinking age. Life, love and all thins,, including death, receive oonaideration; The " let there be light," of the initial morning is now the universal watchword. 11 the spirit of the age be hypercritical it is at leant earnest and devoted. But whether the popular habit of questioning all things brings happiness to the questioner is another matter. We fear is nanny oases of our mo- dern eolentists and philoaophera there must be a spice of Dare in most of the good things of life. Just as amid sighed ever the me- taphor of the withered grass, and as Solo- mon grew sadder by merely puraniog hie "all is vanity," no must the thinking men of to -day make trouble for themselves by accepting nothing, believing nothing,. Neither the annshfne that fructifies the earth nor. the worm that crawls in darkness, escapee the teleroope of far reaching thought or the microscope of patient exam- ination. To these the lichens and moss on the tembatonee .possess more charmthan the hallowed thought° of the dead, the, col- or and formation of the atone more interest than the rudely engraved history of a life that's passed away. But to the lover ef nature all things are beautiful. The untu- tored architecture of the little country church, the moss.covered stones, the name- less mounds all possess a subtle inspiration. Our Canadian churchyards may not possess the antiquarian Miasma of these in the land of our fathere. They may not possess these quaint flat tombstones, centuries old, deep- ly imbedded in rank gi ass, their records ob- literated by moss and the effects of Time. Still they possess the seclusion and the rev- erence. We know of a little country ohurohyard chained to our heart with the golden threads of memory. What a beau- tiful little place It ie. Hew we loved to sit alone in the solitude and day -dream the hours away, How the fond leeks of a face now hidden beneath the sod seemei to pass before us. How the scenes of childhood came bank vividly to our memory. How we lived our boyhood over again, those happy boy- hood daye, until there name a great blank when that dear face kissed ne farewell, and with a blessing on our youthful head passed into a better world. And a great pain seems to grasp at our heart and a stray tear perchance glided down our cheek an• we think of "Mother." The perfume of the red clover steals gently from the neighboring meadow. And what a grand chorus of woodland eongatere comes from the woods close by where robins, grey - birds, canaries and perchance an odd whip -poor -will have their happy home. This monotony of tone is the very perfection of woodland peacefulness made audable, and its " never-endingness" has a special charm which all other bird made lacks, This little churchyard is like many another, though to ua it has the peculiar ooneeoratien of ancestral dust. Jnat such a place was it the wearied states- man was imagining when on his doatbbed they spoke to him of Westminster Abbey. "I would rather," said Edmund Burke, "sleep in the southern corner of a little country churchyard than in the tomb of the armlets." Just ouch a plane was the poet' Morris recalling when he wrote in— "A ="A little country churchyard On the verge of a olifr by the sea g eh 1 the thought of the tong years past and gone, That vision cringe back to me. For two ways led from the village— One by the rippled sande, With their pink ,belle :saki from the rippling wave For ehildl*h lltrle hands. MAnd ns'mid the be and o. ih oaV aud begs t1$b ttheeR)' llow thigh% nice lied, iwinkliog petgt the e'oleen turem, 'The war velli RY lizittei dies. I remember the obureh and etudd 4 With pennants Wia. /o led and tread The pad little legends, half Matted, On the tnose•Krown: tombs et the dead. Md thegwy braves of !lois children, Fashioned like tiny Cote; + Wath ebeir rosemary and southerwood Aud blar•eyed lorget•me•nota" # , Matthew Arnold lane ileaoribed for us the graves of Charlotte Bronto and of-Heine— the one in a ohurohyard high 'mid the moors of Yorkshire and the other in " Titbit Mont martre,"with the feint "murmur of Paris.. outside, and on Abe graves the yellow and black ro ss p evurlarting flowers," And 02 we receive all we know of those two we are glad for the one and sorrow fel for the other; glad' that Charlotte Brent, sleeps beside the eiders and among the econee sho loved • with a passionate devotion, equal to her devotion to art, and sorry that the dead Seine was not car- ried away from Paris—the Paris of which he had grown eo unutterably weary ---and laid to rest in that German village in the Hartz -sheltered valley whore as a boy he knew no weariness, no scornfulness, no un- friendliness, Thera is on the southern shore of ono of the great lakesfar from any habitation of the living, a little burying place peculiar- ly weird and impressive. It fords on an abutment of clay cliffs, the outer edge doming in danger of fallipgaway ea perpen. dionlar is the escarpmentto the sea, We vialted it for the first time on a Nov ember evening, when the light was fading; and the moon's fine crescent floated above th in the leaden sky. Below the waves were breaking siowrly, because so heavily, and that interchange of venni with silence as each mighty 'curve atrnok itself to foam. edged fiatnese, and then swept baokwards,. was indeooribably rolemn. The enduring strength of nature and the mutability of human life were never more strongly Don- traded, yet "there shall be no more sea." "Yet heart when sun and cloud are pined, And drop legother, And aft a bloat which is not wind The forests wither, Thou from thy darkening deathly curse, To glory broken." This is the gospel of mankind, a gospel whioh makes the rolationehips ef life reason- able, and the partings of death endurable This it is that enables ns to Bead the true poetry of the churchyard. Killing His Brother. In the Wilson case, Montrone, Col,, the defence put their olient on the stand. He teld his story in a plain, straightforward way, without emotion, giving a minute de- scription of hew the tragedy occurred. He said : "Prentles was my brother. When in a passion he was a maniac. On Sunday he struck me in the fade, nearly breaking my nose. Toward evening he ordered me te get supper. I told him I did not feel well, and asked him to get it, I then went in and laid down on the bed. Soon after Prentles entered with a lighted Dandle in one hand and a butcher knife in the ether, He asked me if I intended to tell the people what he said about hie being a highwayman, and striking at me with the knife. I jumped and grasped a hammer and bit him over the head, striking him again as he fell on to the bed. Then I grasped the Winchester and fired without aim. " Then all was quiet, and I realized that I had killed my brother. I saw his pocket- book half out of his breeches packet, and I took it. It contained $142. I walked the trail back and forth all night, not knowing what to do. I did not want our mother to know of it, end, to hide the sot from all, I dragged the body to the well and buried it, I had been in Paradox nine months, but owing to Prenttas's wish I did not immolate with any one ; in fact, I hardly knew any- body there. "On Tuesday morning I went to Mr. Galloway's, intending to tell bim all about it, but he was not there, and I returned to the cabin, took the horde which lather had bought for us and started to leave the coun- try. I drank liquor in Mentroee to drown my grief." Workins of the Mind. Ern ployer—"Dldyou get those stamps 3" Office Bey—" Shure, .sor, an' I forgoth it, sor, an' niver thought a word of ib '111 I saw the posth ofiiah sor I" Employer—" Well, why didn't you get them then 1" Office Boy-" Shure, an' I niver thought ev that, sir." Speaking of drinking it may be observed that the man who " oan take It or leave it alone" generally takes it, Committeeman—" What animal is the most capable of attaching itself to a man 1" Head of the clads—" The leech, sir," VOODQ ‘eer'l;e,t , Eorachler's 1Roath said to be Due to a We fe x Ev H t e>x, ..A white man'namod •George A. 'Penciller, 24 ycare of ago, died the otherafternoen at hie residence in the old French eeution of New .Orleans, from the:,effects, as tale friends believe, of a voodon ,harm. y The symptoms which the young nran exhibited were like paraiyaie lie could not move , hie limbs andcomplained of a terrible noise in his head resembling that made by a steam oar, EIie lege and body were very mach swollen, The belief in the power, of the voodou. letfsoh to work good or evil to human beinge at the will of the magician or medicine man, who .00ptrgle this mysterious secrets, le not confined to the colored people. Many Whites have implioit.faith in these oorjura. time, and hold them in dread, It le said that a mysterious drug was ad. mtuletered to him, and that a fetleoh or oharm has been buried somewhere en the premises to destroy his eenaee,by aoree.00cult power; Hie fether.aaid that his eon; deme. three months age, was taken siok. He call•' ed a colored dootor-Dr. Solomon—who eaid;thathis son had been given somothing to hurt him. On St, John's Day, the young man was pont for by Dr, Salomon to come to the lake, and told that he would there be bathed. St. John's Day, the 24th of June, is a Mose peculiarly snored to the voodoo mys- teries, and at that time the negroee are ao- ouate,nod to gather on the shores of Lake Pontchartrain, where secret, andmyaterione rites are said to be performed. Dr. Solom- on did not allow up at the lake on the ap. pointed day, although the sick man was duly carried there, and the patient's friends then lost confidence in the sable physician. A medical man who could oembat the powers of voodoo magio was neueseary, and the family next called in Dr. Glopien, another colored practitioner, who declared that the patient had been made a victim of the aooaraed powers of the voodoae. The father of, the victim said : "On the 25th • of June, inthe evening, I requested Mr. Glapion to see if there was anything like a voodou fetisob buried on the premises, Mr. Glapion examined the pre- mises, and found that there was something buried under the hlase, and that it was neoeseary to oat the flooring to get at the, buriedfetisoh, This was dine by one of my employees, and after half an hour's work Mr. Glapion . caused the charm to show itself, and took it out. It •consisted of a package showing red silk cord,, wrapped around gold leaf, stook full Of large steel needles in all kinds of positions, the whole enveloping a bottle. Mr. Glapion took hold of the paokage and unwrapped it, The silk nerd was of unusual length, fully sixty feet; The gold leaf was folded equare in four folds, andthe needles rudely repreeen ted the shape of a star. Tho battle was uncorked by Mr, Glapion, who found it to contain a mixture of vinegarand gunpowder, with other substances whose nature was net ascertained. The "same evening the fetlaoh was thrown into the river. After this the patient appear- ed to improve, and his appetite, which had diaappoared, returned, But Glapion was unable to overcome the evil apeUs, as the patient took another bad turn and diad, Glapion is of medium height. spare, nerv- ous, and sinewy. Hie almost jet-blaok skin is lustrous and of a peculiar oiler. He wears a thin moustache, pointed at each end, and Odd a nice way of talking the French lan- guage, which he speaks rather fluently. His eyes are large, prominent, and restless, A South African Adventure. The barking of the jackals and hyenas woke me two or three times ; but, with that exception, I never slept more seundly than I did that night in the bush. At dawn I woke and was rubbing the sand out of my eyes, not feeling quite sure where I was, when my eyes lighted on a humanface,oniy a few yards off, ite gaze steadily fixed on mine. I seized my gun, but the being, who ever it was, did not flinch, and I thought I must be mistaken, and rubbed my eyed harder, but the only effect was to drive the sand more firmly in than ever. There, straight in front of me, was a human being —a bushman by his zolor—staring and grin- ning at me, all but hie head and shoulders concealed behind a bush, er beneath a slight covering of sand, I approached and called out, but the being answered not or moved, It would never speak. again. It was the dead body of some poor bushman who bad perished miserably while out hunting, for at his side lay a gun and on the bush was bung a bunch of ostrich feathers, somewhat weatherworn. but still worth, £20, The desert winds had performed the last office of burial, covering his body with a pall of sand leaving, only his head exposed. Not an- imal had molested thin grave, a sure sign that the man had died of thirst ; at least so the natives held, asserting that nothing will touoh the body of such a man, LII• 11 la i(I 1 1' i 111ll,, �IU1I! l(II 11 1(10 r -- • r. • wee marrement ten A FACT. Young Lady (gating for the fret tithe Upon the windows of the 1?ehash Boarding $'ottee) r WHAT alISiiE' IS is' THAT noose 1 ime irrAllan„L1rAMILSd` OF BOYS 9 On BY Othihrre relnarorr IrAwlpr Where dim Meditate,l the Moot en sloped, Away where dpcay perrpmesxise, W here bi, de to fairy knees oped Their tzoaeyed lips ua duznbsu rise, rk.:. Aare son s trona featheryole ers d u ., g tippet Balt lazily, lrko angold showers, 'When cloude in ienderaesa•liave dipped To bathe the food of the figwort), Fretted by Moue and trailing vine, A rivulet [eloped through tiro green (Mol stllinesre. audio dreams divine, I bowed to ljtten and to lean Out o'er its ceeplymatted way, yor in the rhythm of he tint' ,1 I taught the music of a I Myr dro d down boyhood Y pp0 da long ago. And leaning, loung but to hear l _ The it wid o flow of that Jost air, I saw a rage reflected olear Deep shaded o'er with auburn bait. A, Lace I dost when youth broke o'er A iragraat hedge of roses white, To trail mid labyrinths that bore Hope's flowerets emulate in the light. „ o woods of youth with memory's stream Threading thy silence with a tear, I linger in thy lap Rue teem To hold my vanished boy hood here. SHORT 2UMMEKSERMON$, BY BROTHER GARDNER, When I h'ar an indiwidual rix up an' d - 0 olar' disgust veld de world I sot him down as a pvaeon wbo has contributed his far share to'rds bringin' de world to its present con- dishum,;,.;,,m.„ r=ra! Dar' am sartin people who war' bo'n Into dia iife fur no pertickler reason. Dey as outer place BB a blind hoes befo' a lookin'- glaee. Dey haven't de smartness to steal nor de apeorit to work. Dey am t0000ward• ly to suicide, an' not brave 'nuff to face de problems of life. Dry am mean 'nuff' to covet, but not reckless 'nuff to steal. Dey begin en Sunday mawnin' to predict short crops, an' wind up Saturday night by a prophecy of airtbquekea or cholera. On de front doah of ebery etch manabould be nail- ed a sign readin' : "It am better to pass on de next co'ner an' take de emall•pes instead. I sit dewn wid my pipe of an eavenin' are boil Bertin matters down an' frow away de ekimmina. I'ze bin gamin' two or three pounds ef flesh a y'ar fur de lee' ten "y'ars. What rich man has done better ? I'd :get a tight roof ober head an' a geed cellar be- low, Jay Gould's roof may be higher an" hie cellar bigger, but why should I envy him when I have room 'nuff? On any table am oa'n beef, 'tater!, cabbage, bread, an' adder frogs which please my taete, satisfy my hunger an' put fat on my ribs.. Does any millionaire do me' dan eat to please hiseelf De panes in my windows am small but clear, I kin look out to de east, no'th, south or west. De Vanderbilte.can't do any better. Deis glass may be larger aa' oast mo' money, but it dean' keep out any me' weather, 1 z get a bit of a garden in which I'zo grewin"tater,, lettuce, onion, beets an' de like, De Queen of England kin have a bigger garden, but her wegetabies must strew in de same way, an' weuld taste no better.% ; z I'ze got plenty of fuel fur cold weather, an' fly soreens to keep out de duet an' flies in summer. De king's palace am' warmed by de same coal an' his ecreens made frum de same wire. I want neither his heat nor his 'skeeter,. I'ze got good health an' a pretty fs'r jib. Dar am plenty of millionaires who haven't get no health 'tall, and whose worry" am mo' tiresome dan any labor. I'ze got a lot all paid fur in de grave- yard, Some men may have two, but liken' envy 'em. By an' by me'n de old woman will be laid away up dar. By aa' by de doh man an' hie wife will she be laid away. Dey may have a monument towerin' above our tembatune, but dey'li sleep ne sweeter nor awaken any sooner. Deir ocffina may be richer, but de same aitch will bring all tee decay. De great trouble wid aiverage humanity, as I see it, am de faok dat people grasp fur too mach. What was riches to de las' ginoraehun am jilt nuff to make die one dis- contented. What was comfort den am poverty now. De wages of eur gran - fathers would hardly buy ap'one fur de wives of workin' men to -day. We ani full of froth an' show. Hypooricy an' deceit am part of our stook in trade, Envy an' jealousy am driven'. outcharity an' con- tentment. Fifty y'ars hence, if dey should dig down to my orffin "an' >:nd dat I had turned ober, de papers needn't make any senraebun. It sin quite sartin, onions a great change tikes place, dat de nem generashnn will make us ole dead folks tired. The First Seen in Those Waters, The fishermen of Gabarus, N. S., have been excited over the appearance ef a mer- • _ maid seen in the waters by some fishermen a few days ego. While Mr. Bagnell, ao- oempanied by several fishermen, was est in a boat, they observed floating en the sur- face of the water a few yards irem the beat what they auppoeed to be a corpse. Ap- proaching it for the purpose of taking it ashore for burial, they observed it to move, when, to their great surprise, it turned around in a sitting position and looked at them and disappeared. A few momenta af- ter it appeared to the surface and again looked toward them, after which it disap- peared altogether. The face, head, shoul- ders, and arms resembled these of a human being, but the lower extremities had the appearance of a fish. The back of its hsegi. was covered with long dark hair resembling a horse's mane. The arms were shaped ex- actly like a human being's, except that the fingers on the bands were very Long; The oiler of the skin was not unitise that ef a human being. There la no doubt that the mysterious stranger is what -Is known as a mermaid and 'the fir et tete in Cape Breton waters. So Innocent, You Know. Tiey were taking a Lepey ride together He, pulling up sbert, retreats : " Ian' that Jaok Sparks end Nelly Jones coming,'i round by that road there t" " I think it is, dear," she replied uniue ploiously, He—" Then we will take the lane, It's'! bit further, but apooney lovers don't want to be interrupted, you know," She (innooently)—" Dan't they, dear ?' A late invention is a matoh which may be used over and ever again, This will fill an aohing void, If there is one match that hat, been. etruek, lying in a box with 10, 000 good ones, a man is always auto to got that fdenti»'. Dal seocnd•hand match when he has occasion to light the gas at midnight,