HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1886-8-19, Page 7The gritio'e Apostrophe.
W. P. SYOTrL
We Live, and breathe, and move, and nip, and
dWhichiMeritloa a belt gla
Who holds within the hollow of his hi d,
The universe, and, tit his slight command.
A demon may become an angel bright,
Or gf adsome virtue wrapt in hideous night.
Theworld itself be held, and time be enaine
And atagnano prevail. fa o one restrained,
His power to do evil or do goon
Bet all revered the awful fatherilrod,•
But bora what insures did thin great bola
sn
.And whpriy l'ugr all celestial worlds, ,one gtr g I
It one from nothing came;'hen,why not mere
Why not one thousand on that mystic shore,
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h.And made the laws that gave,ail Worlds the
ocy should this God of mercy and of love,
power and justice,frcm baa throne above,
Look down, unmove, upon ,lie world's career,
. Upon the sea or love and hope and fear,
On vilest passions of the twinau mind
Which stab at love and leave the taint behind
Onbieai eved r
/pallor!. sordid wealth.
On leper sighiror the cheek of health2
Theeo evil aa u,odo 1Eoeev ni dPraurassoilbe ts heon but omits to the aures.
Oh, God!
My drlubtir,g soul blasphemes no
The'Tie that I fail to see thy Majesty.
'Tie th..t my aching soul Inquires with sighs,
If man may live as surely as man dies.
Oh, devotees! Oh, men and women blind 1
Throw out the Bock and what is lent behind 1
We see a world that spins in empty space,
`Which is but one of many, and its race
tiay run throughout a calendar of ages
.And destiny alone, e'er read its pages.
W+at surety we have is earth -confined,
That other home is only in the mind,
Oh, earth 1 thy minion is the waiting grave,
Whose arms embrace all there is worth tg save.
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REPLY Op Tun OHEISTIAN,
Brother, my heart doth feel for t lee, and burn
With love and sympathy intense. Oh, turn,
Am; give thy heart to ain( who gave thee birth.
To God, the Quiet, the ruler of tale earth,
The stars, the sun, the planets, all that shine ;
All these Ms glories, and His glories thine.
Throw out the Book 1 Ah, there is where you
touch
Our ohristtan dignity - and thus we clutoh
With nervous grasp that legacy, that; prize.
Whose value is not found beneath the skies.
ThTake allbegin'nee, our
the Chretinalthis.
By all Thingd s g good ur that mortals ols a dew',
;
By every drop of red on palvary'a Cross;
By Chri stian'again and sinners awful loss
By Chriet's last breathing, gasping, moral
groan ;
BBy that eh his
passion,sinful
wercreatures e died for thee.
Ab, brother 1 start now, ope thine eyes and see.
Bare ilthyt proud heart and God's own rays of
Shall baht
from thy soul the gloom of night.
Ana love lli bloomlwithinthy wieldy
again.
ONE NIGIIT°,
A Story of the Far West, and ot a
Woman's Pluck.
"There's the shot -gun, Molly, and here's
my revolver. Both loaded."
" Yes, Tom."
"Now, mind, child, there isn't one
chance in ten thoueand that there will be
a soul near y u. If I thought there was,
Molly, 1 won 't ave you. You under-
stand that ?"
" Yee, Tom."
" If any one does come, ib will be a
neighbour or a neighbour's boy. The
bandits and desperadoes have all joined
travelling shows. If you don't go soaring
yourself, you will be all right."
" Yea, Tom."
" But there's a lot of moral support in
a shooting -iron, and maybe you'll feel a
little safer with these."
He scooped to kin her, feeling her
lips trembling" little as he touched them.
Bat she smiled. elle raised her head,
and her good -b a was quite steady.
"Plucky little thing," he said to him-
self, as he rode down the trail at a long,
swinging lope.
At fourteen Mary Allison's mother died.
Then her father, with broken health and
spirits, gathered up the wreck of his for-
tune and went away to the green wilder-
ness of a North-West ranch, leaving the
girl in an Ontario schooL Tom's college•
course being at an end, he went with his
father, and presently found himself mak-
ing a profitable business of sheep•raising
to the rhythm of Greek and Latin
classics. When, four years later, Miss
Allison had been properly graduated with
much ceremony and white muslin, her
father, too, had "joined the majority,"
and she found Tom living in a precarious
fashion at the hands of a native house-
keeper, and enthusiastically glad to wel-
come even this inexperienced head to his
email household.
That was in July, and on that radiant
September afternoon, Tom found himself
imperatively called to the nearest town,
twenty miles away. The woman who
ruled the kitchenhad taken herself over
the creek to "visit her kinsfolk," and
the herders were all at the ends of the
earth with their flocks, when Tom sank
out of eight behind the low prairie -swells,
Miss Allison had the whole green world
tb herself as far as he could aee.
Over her arched a wide sky of tender
cloudless blue. Oat of the bounding ring
of the horizon swept the world of green.
From sky -edge to sky -edge a full tide of
summer sunshine seemed to rise and fall.
in great, firehearted billows as the south
wind surged anon ,the apace. There
were no ahadowa, butthe soft glare _did
nob blind nor scorch. And before ehe
knew it oh was feat asleep.
She aa, with a audden start, broad
awakeaft
e � most unaccustomed �, atom
' All her senses came bank to her instantly.
The whole wide heaven was aglow with
sunset, an unbroken, :inflected arch of
color fading down through every tender
tint to the cool gray of the short twilight.
She took it all in ab a single gland, and
spinet the glory a man's figure standing
black and motionless.
Sho was on her feet at once. Not a
neighbor nor a nelghbor'e boy; somebody
anthems, bareheaded, with a white, drawn
face and a helpless atm swan in a blood-
stained bandage.
She stood speeohleaa, 'motionleoc, an
awful, helpless terror clutching her heart.
The moral support of Tomo armory was
quite but of reach in the house. ;That
the man was already wounded -that he
looked as if the merest pneh of her un-
armed hand would be too much for him,
did nob matter. Such an appearence in
the heart of that cairn lenelPness was not
to be avec:mated for in any ordinary
fashion. Ho might bo the climax of an
dreadful sequences of events. If Mise
Allison had reasoned, she would have
found herself afraid of what had happen-
ed, rather than of what csm
might ,
,, g t o
What do you want ?" She came for-
'ward a stop to say :it, and titled not to
let her heart choke her voice.
The figure g e pub out one weak, appealing
g
hand, uttered an inarticulate Sound and
dropped forward fee° .downward on the
grate..
Misr Allison looked about her a minute
All the little, flashy pools in the grains
caught the reflection from ,above, and
'Ilene red in the gathering gloom about
them, A slender new moon and a single
great, white star hung calm In the fading
glow. She saw ` it all, and now herself
alone with bhab prostrate figure lying
black before her.
She went toward him over the grass.
,lin neither spoke nor stirred. She
gathered eyed back her dress and touched him
viith°her foot. Ib was an involuntary,
half-unconeoions gesture ; bub she woman
In her reacted spontaneously. In an in-
dent she was on her knees beside him,
touching the cold hand and forehead.
"• He has fainted 1" she said aloud,
quite coolly. There was that redeeming
quality in Miss Allison. Her wits were
at hand in an emergency.
In two minutea camphor and ammonia
had done their appointed work. The
stranger lay gasping feebly, but with re.
stored consciousness. b
What is the matter with you'?" she
asked, crisply.
He looked up at her, standing straight
and ball in her white dress.
"I'ye eaten nothing for forty-eight
hours," he said quietly.
Spec:ale and voice were clear and soft.
Mies Allison found heraelf conscious of a
glimmer of friendly interest.
" can yon get into the house Ti with a
matter-of-fact 000lnesa. " I will find
you something to eat."
Ha raised himself weakly as she turned
away. Miss Allison, looking up present-
ly from her struggles with the cooking -
stove fire, found him standing in the
doorway, regarding her out of hollow
nuken eyes. She had lighted a lamp,
and Tom's revolver lay within reach.
A faint smile crossed the man's lips.
Mise Alllaon saw it, and a libtle flash of
emper sent Dolor and light into her cheeks
nd eyes.
"I need accounting for?" answering
he flash.
"Yon do certainly," sharply. "There's
read and a glass of wine beside you.
rink it and lie down until this coffee
oils."
When Miss Allison went to him pros.
ntly with her ooffee, she found him
sleep. And from the wounded arm a
ark stream dripped slowly.
Mlas Allison set down her tray, and
rned faint and sink. Then she roused
m gently..
"Look at your arm. What is the
atter with you ?"
"I have been /hot," drowsily. " It is
eeding again, Can yon -get--_" fall -
g off into unconsciousness, half -sleep,
f•atupor.
" Oh, dear ?" desperately. " He''
ing to bleed to death 1 Yon mut wake
1" seizing his shoulder, and speaking
th a ring in her clear voice.
He opened his eye again.
" I will help you bandage your arm."
The apron that she had tied over her
te dress was in strips, and she was
nding over him, her hands not quite
ady, her face pale. There was blood
her hands and gown before the work
s done.
`I am very sorry," looking up depre-
ingly. He had long lashed, womanish
s, and his face, if not handsome, was
fb
tainly not rtenly nor coarse.
he poured his coffee and cut his foo
an with one hand is not expect
e expert with knife and fork ; but
and drank with a refinement th
e his evident eagerness more mark
touching.
ot a word was spoken. Miss Allis
nd a table, with a revolver lying
lap, watched him closely. All
a conclusion flashed on her mind a
her breath away.
Yon are one of the horse -thieves
said, slowly, She was leaning b
him, her lips apart, her eyes ver
open.
e laid down his knife and fora, an
ed at her silently.
nd then the inconsequent woman's
asserted itself. The man was
ive from justice, certainly; but they
was was in her power—hungry
ded—and uninteresting. And, som
the Allison blood had a, trick
g the losing side.
e; rose impulsively.
They are after you," she said, in
whisper. "" The whole community
robing."
know it," despondently. "" I have
in the bush for two days. Some
gave me'this," touching his arm.
an starved out, worn out, and came
o surrender."
iniah your gupper," abruptly.
n she went away, and on the porch
steadily up and down for ten good
es in the starlight. Through; the
window she oouid watch hdr visitor
e had her revolver firmly clutched.
had finished his meal when she
ask.
don't know anything about you,"
id severely. "1 don't wane to.
e a young man, and you do not
if you were entirely hardened : In
I am going to give you another
I don't know whether I sin
�ight or wrong," breaking down In
ral tone. "I don't care !" She
d and caught her breath. Then
rried on, forgetting everything,
-fashion,' in the exoltement' of the
h. "The eastern train passes at
k. It's only a signal -station and
will bo' nobody there. I'll take
wn in time for it, and that will
nix hours for sleep. Tom isn't
home, and you can have his
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give you
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clothes.
Sho
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room.
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come ;
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warning
lie ob
the lock
the cone
minutes
It did
time 'led
ing bed
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ten mint
the coat
d.
ed
he
at
ed
ra veliingehawi. The horaesare ready,"
She was waiting for hire as he came obit.
A slight, dark -clad figure ; a white face,
wish wide, shining eyes and resolute,
firmly set lips.. Afber all, being clad with
a serpblanee of order and decency, he
was not euoh a desperate looking oharag-
ter.
There:was more (lob' coffee,
"" dome," eke said curtly, as he put
down Iiia cup.
Re paused ab the door.
" Who harnessed ?''
I
did
at
"
And A you aro aging alone ?
" Quito alone."
And coming back alone ?
t, Yea."
She was whiter than ever, and her
eyes filled with teary an ate looked up at
him.
Anything
lees alis
a 'Ikea a her i
figured in an adventure. ono never
"" You poor child 1" There was noth-
ing bub kindly pity in his voice. "You
will take your revolver 1" glancing toward
it
aa it lay on the table,
"" Yes."
"` Hsdn't youibatter," gently,
load it ?"
"" It is loaded. Tom said so."
"" Tom wan metaken. See,"
her the empty chambers.
There was the faintest light in
carefully screened from outald
vation. She had sunk back in her
the, discovery of Tom'a blonde
face was in strong relief as,
hand, he did his work slowly an
wardly.
" You are sure you can nae it ?
Somehow there seemed a
change in. their relations.
The swift ponies knew the firm
hands holding the reins. The tr
smooth as a floor, and the fiv
vanished behind them. In tie
darkness of the west burned a 1
light.
"There's your train. The st
jun ahead. I shall wait here til
that you get away." It wan t
word that was spoken.
She pulled her horaes down to
"I hope," forcing herself to i
the occasion, "" that you won't
again."
" Get caught for a horse. thief 1'
antly. "" I certainly shall try to
it."
It did not sound penitent. Mis
son expeelenced a revulsion of feels
"" You had better get down here
said, severely.
He alighted slowly and with dlffi
Then he turned towards her, an
saw his face pale in the shadow of
slouched hat.
"I do not want you to think tha
not know that you are saving my
and that not one woman in a th
would have had the nerve to do wha
have done." There was no quesbi
earnestness in his voice now.
"I hope you'll mend your ways, then.'
" Will you tell me your name 1" not
heeding her speech.
•" Mary Million."
"" Thank yon." F. a turned and boo
a few ateps away. "" Exense me," diffi-
dently, forgetting his abandoned charac-
ter. He was at her side again. "" Have
yon—have you—" desperately, "got any
money 1'
is
then," dr dropping a purseyinto �his k hane d.
"And I wish you'd tell me," with a sud-
den impnlae, "did you take the horse 1"
"" Upon my word, no."
She bent towards him.
"Good-bye," putting out a bare white
hand.
"" let me
showing
the room
e obeer-
ohair at
r. His
with one
d awk•
,curious
, little
ail was
e miles
e clear
ow, red
ation is
1 I see
he first
a walk.
mprove
do it
' pleas.
avoid
O Alli -
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onify.
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Tom'e
t I do
life,
the
t you
on of
k
•
He took it with frank held
on ib a brief minute, and then thendarknees
in swallowed him up.
at Miss Allison sat and waited. The low
an rumble grew more and more distinct—
the red light name eliding towards her
?" out of the gloom with an awful unawerv-
o- Ing certainty in its advance. She saw
y the pause—the signalling swing of the
conducked
d motion tb gan lantern
the and turned cher
horses' heads towards home.
a, If Miss Allisonliweti a hundred years
ahe' will never. forget that drfye, Now
e that she was free from the companionship
— of a desperate character, and behind a
of • pair of thoroughly -broke$, swiftly -paced
horaes, with Tom's revolver really loaded
beside her, and not one chance' in ten
thousand of wanting it, she was frlghten-
a ed. The air was full` of starshine ; in the,
east a faint, white glow .just indicated
the coming dawn. The awfulness of the
night oppressed her beyond endurance.
She cried all the way home, sobbing con-
vulsively while she ` unharnessed her
ponies and restored everything to order ;
after which, with her cold little feet in
the stove -oven, she drank a cup of still
hot coffee, and then went bo bed and to
sleep, where Tom found her the next
morning.
A month later Tom wanted that coat
and hat, and failing to find them raised
the usual masouline whirlwind about
their' disappearance.
"Molly Allison, you're responsible 1
If tho'oountry produced image -venders I
should say you had been making a trade 1"
She shook her head, bat with the Dolor
mounting In her face.
"" Tramps i" -he said, accusingly,
Poor Molly shuddered bo think how
much, much worse it really wee.
"` You wouldn't like it, I dare say, if I
should go encouraging pauperism with
your frocks and things," he grumbled,
trying to reconcile hirnaeif with another
garment.
He came back from the station that
night with news.
"t Vlattore coming Molly."
Who and when 1"
"Rob McKenzie: You don't
Rob. He was a classmate know
of mine. Re'a
coming next week to apy out the land. I
haven't heard of hini since I came` out
here,"
Rob, McKenzie
alighting at the small,.
sunny signal -station one day in the next
week, found a atyliah apparition in white
dread, and pretty garden -hat waiting
the platform, on
"You Lire Mr. McKen "
voice sal " ziA a pleasant
Tom d. I am Mary Allison. Tom
sprained hia ankle last night ht an d '
oonle," g d couldn't
Mr, 11cKenzie aeemedd rah'
young man. Misa All t ear a quiet
ponies and chattedfan drove her
awayln the anrosbrain.
ed delight of having a stranger to talk
opened the door of a anal( room be
or --an orderly, half.filied store
-
can stay here. Nobody will
and if they do–I am' armed 1
y giving the information as a
as well as an asentanoe,
eyed her epeechlesely. He heard
click as he stretched himself on
h that awaited him, and in two
he
waa asleep.
not eeern mach rnore'than that
ore he awoke, to find her nand.
de him.
e are Tom'e clothes. You have
tea to get drowned. I've ripped
aieeve, yott Sae ; and there's a
with—or rather to—and some one beet
from the good times that seemed doubly
good In reoolleotion.
"I suppose everybody hereshoo
more or lase. Are; you an experb with
firearms, Mies Allison ?"
They were sitting within g w doors in the
alight chill of the Ootober evening. Tom
answered for her.
" Molly says she can, but I don't ; be-
lieve it. An awful little little coward
Molly.'" is
t
1a she ?" quietly. "I shouldn't
think ibbod."
Somey opened a door inn ubio
and in the strong draft the Dight went
c.ut, It was McKenzie who relighted it
and in the faint light glow as he bent
ever the he
rekindled alis
e lamp,
b
out with an odd effect a e face came
background, against the dark
" Oh, my 1" in a grasp from Moll 's
corner. Molly
'e
turned towards her as
lamp flamed up.the
p She was staring at him
with wide eyes full of perplexity.
Are you civilized beyond lynoh,law
yet"Why
asked irrelevantly.
y ? A private grudge agalnat
any one?"
One likea to see all the peculiar in-
stattutions of the country. Do you, ever
hang se thieves for instance ?"
"
We dont always catch thein," dryly.
" Did you ever miss a hat and coat,
Tom ?"
" Molly gave them to a tramp," in slow
wonder at his companion's drift. And
then, catching his sister's blank face.
" What have you been telling. Mary Al.
lleon 1"
" Oh, Tom, I—I gave them to the
borne -thief, and I believe it was Mr.
McKenzie."
Tom sat staring.
" Truth, Allison." And then came the
story. "There were two of us taken to-
gether.I don't know whom they mis-
took us for. I dodged the most and took
to the timber. I never knew whatbe-
name of the other man."
"I suspect he is the one I helped out
of the State, the night I left you alone
Molly."
Kent and gold Water,
be In the seaport towns of southern Bean
sunstrokes are as common as chilblains in
Canada, and the popular remedy is both
Wimple and tffiolent, A think liners hand.
age Is wrapped around the head and kept.
maturated with cold, water," " per near el
fuego," as they call it, " to draw out the
fire." Every two minutes or so the water
is, renewed, till the patient has recovered
affi,sley
u nil ,
to alt up and continuo cooling
We temples witha wet sponge, I have
never known that method to involve any
irjarlous after effeete, and believe that its
en:ploywatt wculd often break the lnoip
lent symptoms of olimat fevers, though the
popular prejudioe against the influence of
cold
n all
ittlor
f m
s may roc less
rational epeelfios, bleeding, forminstance,
wbioh at beat exobanges'a momentary
stupor for a week-long languor and liability
to relapaes, But It seems lana easy to me -
count for the egregieue obstinacy of the
prejudice againet fresh water as a beverage
for healthy persona under the Maw:um of
excessive heat, A soldier reaching hie
noonday camp in a shady grove, a wayfarer
halting at a publio well, a bey returning
from a butterfly ohne, are sure to be
warncold waterg"- nat 'the disastrous effects of
" drank in the heat.��" Wait
till you cool eft" " Take a drink of ooffee
first." " You'll catch your death at that
old epring," etc. Yet even the popular
night, dr dread is not more utterly grata, -
taus, We might as well be asked to bo d
Ileve that a wayworn feet traveler must i lI
not sit down without first renting a few h
minutes in a standing position, We might w
as well warn a dreway child against shut- a
ting both eyes at once at the risk of falling °h
asleep too abruptly. The truth is that a w
drink of cold water is healthiest when the If
system la most urgently In need of It, and oh
at no ether time the stomach more readily
forgives the abrnptnesa of sudden repletion.
Only drunkards and persons whose di-
gestive organs have been debilitated by
long abuse risk the least unpleasant con-
sequences from a free indulgence in the
But,meatural of all di.
on the other band,( hutente ere is ref ne doubt
that previous exposure to excessive heat
increases the danger of surfeiting the
system with calorific food ; that pork eaten
in quantity after a warm day's work
often results in a delirium equaling the.
worst symptoms of cholera morbus.
Greasy ragouts become more indigestible
in summer ; a quantum of suet pudding,
which at other times would produce only
a slight heartburn, has in sultry weather
to be expiated by a fit of distresotng costive-
ness. Tourists on returning from a dog -
day excursion, or farmers after a swelter-
ing harvest day, ehenld therefore confine
themselves to moderate quantities of food,
and If poeeible abstain fer a meal or two
from all heat-preduoing viands. A joily
pudding, with cold milk and sugar, or a'
plateful of odd fruit and cakes, will
abundantly satisfy the demand° of nature,
which on snob days are never exorbitant.
The feeling of oppressive heat, in fact, di-
minishes all appetites except the desire for
refrigeration, ,
Some weeks later Rob McKenzie was
going through the ceremony of fitting a
diamond solitaire on Miss Allison's left-
hand Index finger."
"Oh, the beauty 1 Where did you
get it ?"
" I brought it with me, coolly.
" Upon my word, Rob McKenzie 1
And you took this for granted ?"
" I made up my mind one night in
September, between here and the Missi-
ssippi river, thee I would marry Molly
Alllaon if I could get her ; and I did my
best."
Something to Drink.
In the hot summer weather that is cern.
Ing "'something to drink " will be the con-
stant ory. Fathers and brothers returning
from the hay er harvest field, frem the
cricket fleld, from aohoal or frem shop, will
be sure to ask fer something to drink 1
The following advice will be found very
useful In helping to satisfy these de-
mands :--
If
-If you wish to keep in good health,
never touch beer or spirits. Save the
money you would spend in beer fer good
food and clothes for yourself and family.
It la astonishing how mnoh may be done
with the money spent yearly on beer. In-
stead of beer there are several good and
nourishing drinks—
No. 1. -If a Little rice is washed in oold
watheter, liquid and boiled in with a little sugarood oal of added, fa water
pleasant nourishing drink ; in winter, it
may be drunk warm, in summer cold. It
Is much used in India by our soldiers, in
hot weather, You can bay an ounce ef
oitrio acid and put just a pinoh into it, and
you will find a very refreshing' acid drink.
Yon can use the boiled rice as food, season-
ed with pepper and salt ; or, fer the
children, mixed with sugar, or cheap jam.
Ne. 2,—When you have heavy, tiring
work to do, do not take either beer, eider,
or spirits. By far the boat drink is thin
oatmeal water, with a little sugar. The
proportions are Ilb. oatmeal to two or
three quarts of water, according to the
heat of the day and your thirst. It should
be well belled, and an ltoz, brown sugar
added, If you find it thicker than you like,
add another quart of water. Before:you
drink it, you must shake up the eatmeal
well through the liquid. Yon . will find
that it not only quenches thirst, but it will
give you mere strength and endurance
than any other drink. In very long har-
vest days you can take dlb,, or even jib,
oatmeal to three quarts of water. Y en
will find this meatand drink also. It must
be boiled fresh every morning, or ever
night will do. You can take it out in kegs
or stone jars, and keep it under the shade
of the trees just as you do your beer,
It le quite a mistake to suppose that beer
or spirits give atrengeh. They do give a
spurt to a man, but that quickly gees eff,
and spurts, in hard, heavy work, too often
made, certainly lessen the working powers,
One mime of coffee and Jaz, of sugar
boiled In two quarts ef water and cooled, is
a very thirstquenching drink ; se is cold
tea, but neither of these is so supporting
as the oatmeal drink.
A Prediction Fulfilled.
The Emperor Napoleon III, was by na-
ture very eaperatitiona, The following
anecdote was related in 1864, long years be-
fore the fulfilment of the prodietion that it
contains, Napoleon I1I, one day took it
into hia head to consult the celebrated chi-
remanofen, Deabaroles, who died the other
day at a very advnoed age. Desbarelles
told him soma 'curious facie . reepooting his
character, his tastes, and lois parte life,
" Now," quoth the Emperor, "tell. me
teetotaling about the future. Where will
my death take place and by what malady
shall I die 2"' Deabatollea hesitated for e
moment, " Sire," he said at length. ""yo
have asked me for a frank response, and I
will reply to yon frankly, You are dentin-
od`ro breathe your last en Englieh soil and
you will peiiahby the knife.'' 'Verycur .
onWas the prediction fulfilled iongh
the knife peeved to be not that d fulfilled,
e.
sin, but that of a surgeon, '
An experirnont to teat the s
, coed of the
swallows flight has been me de at Pawl ' le
Italy, Two hen birds were taken from
their breode, carried to Milan, and there re-
leased at a given hour. Both get book to
their note in thirteen minutes, which gave
theft rate of speed at eighty.00ven and a half
miles an hour,
4 W$H E I$ my CHI P? r'
Aetalfls 01 the Ceentbai f Irak- la Ta4urla
Fannin Georgia,
The full a000uut of the Ta
Georgia, cannibalAltair altai seas :seatow
days ago same of the colored people In the
lower end of the county had a Plenie.
had engaged as cook and overe They
eullaary department an old ear et the
Weare woman.
Great preparations had been made
feetivities, and the sport ran for the
phigh. It w
a hungry band' that gathered
red�as
8 for dinner
and
awaited nit
e
dt
nD
ear
the
summons- on
s.
It
was
served
red
at last, and the merry -makers fell to with as
will. Hardly had the edibles
appear when began to die''
A STRANGE BOSH
fell open the boisterous One had
been served with a piece of meat that
Mang
to a email jointed bene. It did net loots
like anything he had ever seen Deme from a
frying.pan befere, and he showed it to his
neighbor, The other looked at it attentive-
ly for a moment, "It le the finger of a
ohild," he said
There was a sensation which quickly
spread into a panic. A hasty examination
of other plate were made
4108E P1NGER : WERE SOUND,
and pieces of meat that were evidently hu-
man flea$ were held upon forks and gazed
at by the new thoroughly excited negroes.
They gazed at each ether in a frightened
way, and then there was a simultaneous
break for, the cabin, in which the cook had
prepared the meal. She met them at the
oer, brandishing a large knife. A wild
ght—like that of a maniao--gleamed from
er epee. The crowd paused as the knife
as flourished over their heads, all but one,
woman, who rushed forward with a
rieb, "My child ; what have you done
ith my child Y There was no answer
am the old cook. "I left it here in her
arge," cried the excited mother, appealing
to the friends about her.
" w8$&E IS MY CHILD 1
She hag killed it," With fiendish yells the
dusky army, fired by her agonizing Dries,
bore down upon the cook and in spite of her
frantic struggles tore the knife from her
grasp. Evidences of the murder were about
them, there was bleed en the floor and the
table was emeared with it. The living
child was not here te be seen, but in its
place was a portion et a little hump belly
which had been
TAKEN PROM THE OTEN,
PIeces of flesh had been carved from it;
The excitement among tho eearohers was
of the wildest kind. They tore everything
to pieces in the cabin in their fury. It waa
plain enough that the old woman had'mur-
dered the child there, and then cooked half'
of the body. Where was the ether half ?'
There were of bleed anon the floor.
Someone, let exalted than the rent, followed
the tell-tale trail. It led to a barrel just
eoteide and behind the shanty. .A shout
informed
he misain
portion had been companionst
found.They rushed out
to find him pulling it from the barrel,
where it
HAD BEEN SALTED DOWN.
Self-Oure.
The body, to a large extent, Is a ma-
chine which, when disarranged, repairs it-
self,' Physicians tell ns of the vis medics
rix nafurce—the power to heal inherent in
nature. It is natural to get well. The
body's reonperative resources are not equal
to every need, but they are very great. It
Is because of this even that the well man
tends to; keep well, If he oonforma te na-
ture's laws, for the system is ever full of
poison frem its own waste, the disponi ef
which nature has provided fer, better'
than any pity has fer the disposal of its
deadly sewage.
Take the case of an ordinary wound. It
needs only to have Its disrupted parte
brought together, and nature does the heal-
ing ; and even in many eases where the
parts are not brought together, nature fills
up the space with new flash, So nature
will mend a broken bene, on the afmple
condition that the adjusted parts be allew-
ed the requisite rest,
Dyspepsia, whether lndnced by improper
eating, the neglect ef exercise, brain over-
work, or Dare, worry and fret, will in time
wholly disappear on removal of the cause
and compliance with the laws of nature.
The beet physfofana now freely admit
that typhoid patients, in the groat ma-
jority of oases, would recover without a
drop ef medicine; that they need medicine
mainly te promote ease and comfort, and
that pure air is better for them than all
drugs. The same -is true of some other
diseases, More and more is it being ad-
mitted that, in no ease, do drugs have any
curative power, but only aid nature, as the
surgeon rads in the case ef a badly broken
limb, by removing irritating bits, apicula3,.
etc., and teaming the proper adjnstment
and fixation of the parte.
The eld•time doctors greatly overdosed
people—in rnultitndee of oases literally
deeed people to death. Within lees than
twenty years a personal friend, palled to
watch with a neighbor far gone in consump-
tion, was shown eleven different medicines.
each of which the was to adminiatr during
the night, according te the varying Blimp.
tome,
It gannet betoe strongly emphasized
that those whe observe the lawe of their
physical nature are likely to keep well—and
even infections diseases have little power
over such persons, and would wholly dis-
appear if all observed these laws.
A Beautiful Incident.
A poor Arab travelling in the desert met.
with a spring of clear, sweet, sparkling
water. Used as he was only to braohieh
wells, such water as this appeared to his
simple mind worthy of a monarch, and fill-
ing his leathern bottle from the spring he
determined to go and present it to the
caliph himself. The peer man travelled a
long way before ha teohed the presonoo of
hia sovereign and laird hie humble offering
at his feet, Teeoaliph dict net d,tupioe the
little gift, brought to him with to much
trouble. He ordered tomo of the water to
be poured into a cup, drank it, and; tbanki
ing the Arab with a tone ordered him to
be presented with a reward. The courtiers
around pressed forward, eager to taste of
the wonderful water ; but to the surprise
of all, the caliph forbade them to touch a
single drop. After the poor Arab had
gafttod the royal preserlae With a light; and
joyful heart, the caliph. turned to his
courtiers and thus explained his oolduot
" During the travels of the Arib,'a said ho,
" the water in his enhern bottle booamo
Impure and distasteful. But it was an
offering of love, and as each I have received
it with (pleasure, But I well knew that
had I suffered another to.partako ef it, he
Would not have oeaoeaied hie dioguet ; and
therefore, 1 forbade you to touch the
draught, lest the heart of the poor man
should have been wounded,"
Then there was a general cry for ven-
geance, and the frenzied shouts rang
through the trees. Some euggeated.lynch-
ing, but there wise ne rope. Others wanted
to hack
that took the nf
life of theeces tittle chilh the d Still
another cried " burn her," and: the ory was
taken up and repeated until all the exalted
crowa were burn her."
She fought likeaf wild be st." barnheShe crenohad,
she But her strucnpterehwere to se usedomany to teethaoopee with
suooeaefully, and she was led ent te the
slaughter kicking and shrieking. They
dragged her te a tree and
BOIIND HER TIGHTLY TO IT,
Then fired t in a ds en places, ed brush around Aoe
o eref fire
surrounded her, and from the midst ef it
she begged for mercy ane moment and
shrieked her imprecations the next and
around her the excited Degrees watching
the flames as they scorched her flesh and
seized upon her clothing and enveloped
her in a sheet of fire. It was a Scene too
terrible to paint, but not ene ef them took
their cyan from her until she fell into the
ashes a blackened corpse. The woman waa
undoubtedly insane.
Animals' Medicine,
A Frenoh physician and savant says that
animals are as good practitioners of medi-
cine as a majority of the human species,
and that In hygiene man may take a lesson
from them. Elephants, stage, birds and
ante wash themselves or bathe. Some
animals get rid ref parasites by the -use ef
dust, mud, or clay. These suffering from
fever restrict their diet, keep quiet, seek
darkness and airy places, drink water, and
cemetimea plunge irate it.
If a dog lens his appetite, he eats'" dog's
grass." Sheep when ill ecek eat certain
herbs, and puss also finds an emetio er a
purgative In a certain species of grass or
su
hebrbst,
Whennoes a dogwith is avidity. An animal suf-
constipated, he eats fatty
fering from rhenmatlam keep! in the sun.
The warrior ants have ambulances, and
when an investigator out the antenate of an
ant, ether ants covered the wound with a
mouthstraneparent fluid, secreted from theft-
.A
he, ft
.A wounded ohimpanzeestepe the bleed-
ing of a wound by placing leaves and grass
en the wound, • A dog en being stung on
the muzzle by a viper, plunged bin bead
repeatedly for sever aldays in running water,
and recovered.
A sporting deg was run ever by a car-
riage. During three weeks in winter he re-
mained lying In a brook, where his feed
was taken to him, and he alae recovered.
A terrier deg hurt its right eye. Be re-
maimed lying under a counter, avoiding
light and heat, although he had previously
been in the habit of keeping close te the
fire. Ha rested, abstained from food,link.
ed his paw, and applied - it to the wonded
eye.
A Preference for Lone FTiehts.
" Oh, isn't it a lovely night, Adolphus
Just fancy hew delightful the nights neat
be in the Orient 1 The azure blue slay, the
perfume of the fioworie the soft tinkling—"
I toll you, Miranda dear, I prefer the
nights they have in ,Alaska. They're just
immense."
"Immense, Adolph 1"
for courting, They're so long,
you knowYes,," '
Two small boys of Middletown, Conn
saw a man wading in the OonneotiotRiver,
and apparently bout on suicide, They pur-
sued him,, dragged him out, law that he
was orazy, nduced him to take a walk, and
'ben had him in the grounds of the Stat
Asylum, wheaca he had escaped,
'_
A Nautical Vfew,—Mamma,-•--" Don't
you know .that your father is the nlainsta
of the family ?" .1±'rodrty.--�" Gaily ain't he
though i .And the spanker' tee i'