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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1886-9-9, Page 61 6 0anitary Precaution, The present is a peoaller tea*on. The Iranian of the early sluing was about the. taverege, but May was exeeesively wet, and the Widen of the month was nearly all oon- fined to one week, Tho ground at the end was saturated vita) water. Bet from the end of May only a very small amount of water has fallen, and the dry season, which eften oomea between the middle of July and. the let et September, commenced June 1st. The effect open the crepe in all this region ie obvtone, and already many complain of languor from the effect of the dry air upon the, body, The ueuel depresslonof dry sea- son has been relieved by the amount of scone whioh has been prevent in the air, and 'which stimulates the body as well as puri flee the air, for ozone is nature's dieinfeot ant, Now this condition denude seine speolal care to preserve the health, pardon tarty in country horses and at summer re- sorts. All should look eat for impure water. Meet °emery henna are oupplied with v a. ter from1 euriaae wells and springs ; that ie, wells whioh are filled frem the grounds in their vicinity, The water falls, upon the ground immediately around, and simply trickles down through the soil and loose earth into the well. When aurreundinga are °leanly, these wells usually contain pure water ; otherwise they bourne filthy and dangerous. In seasons of drouth like the present, all such wells •become law, and the danger et impurity is Increased many. fold. The result is teo often seen in the great number of zymetio diseases In the country (perhaps better called filth diseases) in every period of dreuth, The danger cannot be exaggerated. Tee writer once ex- amined the water from a well and found seventeen grains of organic matter to a gal- lon, when the limit of safety le twe 1 Ty- phoid fever is emphatically a disease of the oenntry in the fall, and it comae because of danger in the well. There is ne reason why, with proper care, the country should not be free frem all these diseases. Far ten often the weary man of affairs leaves. the city for a few days, only to go to some country resent where there is no care to era cure pure water, there to miler from same ef these filth diseases. Then, again, care mnat be taken to re- move all masses of decomposing matter. Waste material always accumulates around dwellings. These refuse heaps teeter in the nun, and then they usually reveal their presence and the danger tbrengh the oder, Bat it is not always se. Sometimes there is just moisture enough to trickle down into the ground and so poison the water. The gases which arise from them are debilitating, tbough net often directly deadly. But it le very easy to remove them completely, fer a thin layers ef dry earth will absorb all the products of deoempeaitien and the danger is gene. Dry earth to the proper disinfectant for cannery use, and it is always at hand when meet needed—in eeasona of dreuth. Then there is ene mere caution whioh applies to city and country alike. It le te avoid all unhealthy feed. There ie mach fruit in the market whioh was good feed once, but le always en the point et deoempe• altien. Frequently dangerous substances are produced by enoh chargee, and dargor lurks in all decomposing food. This source ef danger should be shunned. All should keep the body well. It is a earned trust A little care at this season will enable these ef erdinary vigor te pass the season in health and comparative comfort. The Germ Thorny of Disease. It really seems re if there le nothing now under the sen, We have all along been supposing that te Paatenr and his contem- poraries beleng'the credit of first establfah- ing the fact that the propagation of diseases in animal system was due to the reproduc- tion of invisible bacteria within the organism; but a Doter Guiffon, whe published a work en the " Origin of the Plague," in 1721, an- ticipated Pasteur and his aeseolates by ever ene hundred and fifty years. His statement of the theory is se precise that it is worth reproduction here, He says : "Minute in- seete or worms alone can explain these die• eaten: it is tree they are not visible; but it dee' notherefore follow thinethey are nen. existent, It is only that ear microscopes are not at present powerful enough to chew them. We can easily imagine the existence ef creatures whioh bear the samePe ro r- P tion to mites that mites bear to elephants, No ether hypethesia can explain the frets. Neither the n malign g Influence of stare, not terrestrial exhalations, ner mtaamata, ner stems, whether biting or burning, acid or bitter, could regain their vitality once they had lest it. If, en the other hand, we ad• Writ the existence of minute living creatures, we understand hew infection can be convey- ed in a latent condition from ane place to break eat afresh in another," Yet this acute and wise anticipator in medical science was not only ignored in his day, but was regarded as a crank. Near at Hand. It is stated that Howard spent his youth in dreams ef heroin deeds and imposeible ventures for the help and elevation of un• civilized nations. Being captured while at sea by a French privateer, his attention was drawn to the cruelties practised en prfaonere, and en his release he began an. inspection of the jail in his native village. The reform he inaugurated spread through- ont all the prisons in Europe. Charlee Dickens, while a boy in Jones's school, was in the habit ef writing romances for the amusement ef his companions of of the meet vague and lofty character. His great fame name te him through his pictures ef Mre, Minnie ever the way, of the policemen, ehep-boye, butchers and ceche whe came 1n his way In his daily waike in the etreete of Leaden. A middle aged merohant is ene of our large cities complained a couple ef years ago that he had been thwarted in his true work in lite. "My hope was to parry Christfanity and civilization to some heathen nation, Then I should net have lived in vain, But I have been anchored here inexorably," The heathen have come to you," said his friend, nodding te the Chinese laundry- man, with his Weeden shwa and pig•tatl, who was peeing. The hint was taken. Mr, Blank went to Ah Sing'e laundry and made a friend of him,persuaded him to come with four of hie friends to his house, twice a week,', to learn " Mellon 'legion." There are now nearly seventy Chinese men in a Bible class taught by Mr, Blank, of whom a largo percentage are einoore Christians, it is the habit of young and imaginative people to eeereh the lar horizon for their career,' their work and rewards In life. Of elle last they may be euro, that when `hod' has work for a man to do bi the world, ' puce it within hie reach, ea° greet authors and painters of all gee have earned ouc+ress by depicting that Which . wpm most familiar to them. Here in our every day Ilio, he the 'Qom monpheoe kinsfolk, trades -,people and servants tbat snrreued us, le material far all the power he our brains er souls. The religion, too, which will save a man is net a far•off, vi*Lenary rapture , it Is in. his heart and In his mouth while he ,is about his daily work. An humble work -woman taught an English shoemaker the happiness of a eplritual life. On the shoemaker's wall was a map, and the shoemaker looked at it at times while at work, and it conveyed. to him the impression that the large part of the world was ignorant of the inward light and joy that made of hie life a psalm, The -map haunted him night and day, It became an inspiration and in the heart ef this man English evangelical missions were begun. He ie hemmed here, but we can not doubt that the poor work•womao has her reward in being among there who, having turned many to righteeneness, " thine as the stare. ' Mise Alcott, whose awn life has been very practical and useful in meeting the duties of her home and town, woe once handed an autograph book,and asked to write a sen- r ., •m n t kr e t is it She wrote Do the do that lies nearest you." The thought re calls those simple but telling words of Soripture,—"He first findeth hie own brother Simon." Bat work for ethers does not end where It began ; It is progressive ; Its influence grows, and is eternal. • FOREIGN FLIITTERINGS, Peet Browning has gone te law to obtain pessessfon ef a Venetian palace he had con- trasted to buy, Gaspedin Lub'moff, the Russian tragedian, has been created hereditary honorary citizen ef St. Petersburg, a title conferring distinc- tion and certain eeobel privelegee upon its owner, The latest nevelttes on English railway platforms are the "Sweetie" posts, by plan- ing a penny in whioh a small piece ef teflee er chocolate la ebtalned on the automatic principle. The Cremation Society of England has forth a statement, cengratulatin its friends en the steady progress whioh t� society le making. It appear., however, that it has only cremated six corpses in the last two years, In Ruda a very large proportion of the marriages are between bays and girls under twenty years of age, and no lase than from 60 te 70 per cent. of the ooneoripte, who cannot be twenty-one years of age, are al- ready married when they Dome te be enroll- ed in the army, It is proposed to plane a marble medal- lion of large size in the Poet's Corner of Westminster Abbey, as s memorial to Sir Walter Scott, The medallion, whioh is te be the werk of Sir John Steell, is te oeet £157, and it will scarcely credited that the fees to the Dean and Chapter fer the site amount te the soandalenely large sum ef £101, At Madras the ether day a,Eurepean em. pleyed en the railway, previous te commit- ting suicide, seated letters to two ef the of- ficials saying that he had been en the look- eut te take their lives, but, since that :could net be ,managed, he was resolved to take his own. Hie correspondents must have been rather glad that he ohanged his mind at the last moment. A great number of policemen at Amster- dam have tendered their resignations in consequence ef their fund -lens having be- come too onerous and dhagreeable. No- where, perhaps, does there exist a mere stupidhatred ef the police, aa the guard. lana ef public order and safety, than among the populace ef Amsterdam and the other large towns of Holland. In fact, the bait- ing of policeman seems to be °eneldered by the Dutch rabble as even a more innocent and legitimate game than eel -baiting. A glance through the last repeat of the British Registrar -General revesls some very interesting information, Fer instance, ac- cording to this authority, the English are a people very mach Given te matrimony. Net only is their average annual marriage - rate higher than those ef all ether European countries, with the exceptien ef the German and Austro•Hnngarian Empires, but they alae marry at an earlier age than iv the case in any other European oenntry, excepting Retsina, Aristocratic society in Landon is rejeioing ever the tact tbat the aristeoraoy has no re- presentatives in the Crawford -1)11k° affair at all. Mrs. Crawford'' father was a mer- chant and shipowner; her mother, the daughter of a gentleman in the East India Cympany'a service. As for Sir Charles Dhk°, although he cornea ef a highly res- pectable family, there is not the slightest tinge ef blue blood in his veins. His mother was the daughter of a captain in the Mad- ras Army, while his father owed his baron- etcy to the Qaeen'e favor. Levers of art have been long puzzled to account for the disappearance et several frescoes and other decorative paintings des- cribed by Jacob Ves in his account of the Museum at Amsterdam. They were net to be found any longer, and there was no re• cord ef their fate. Same years age M. Greeve, the Curator ef the Academy ef Soienoe, discovered a fresco on a ceiling in the museum which had been painted over. This fresco was by Niklaae Held Stekade, according to Ves. He has again lately, in the hall in whioh Rembrandt'] " Night Watch" Ie placed, discovered a series ef frescoes, whioh seem te be nearly as old as the building. They were all covered ever with a think paper, whioh had been painted and grained to imitate walnut wood. It is cenjeotnred that this was dens about the time ef the French invasion, 90 years age," to protect the picture" from appropria- tion by the French' generale. On the whole hey are in a fair state of preeervatien, Force of habit,=Customer--" What have you this morning ?" Waiter—" Beefsteak and ebad; shad all gone, :Will oh'll yen have?" Count Slago, g , m inieter of marine of Japas and commander in chief of the Japan'nv io:at NiagaraFallswith a 'suite f eleven. Like all other educated Japanese, he speaks English alniest perfectly. The entree ef M. de Leasepe amens in raising the Panama Canal loan is his persua- sive power with ladies, He has inveigled no less than 16,000 ef the gentlior sex Ante hie scheme, and still they come. "Say, stranger, why don't they, ut a sign ' dangerous' down here at this ford, drove through there just new and e j,,, ,t Demo near getting drowned, , Wall, now, I' geese everybody that goes aortas finds out If's dang'rene, so we don't need no ei8 n," Jfashionable Lady a "Don'ton think, Dooter, that my husband ought to Bend me to same faebionab10 watering -plane for my health l" leader "Why, madam you have a pbeiaemenonally robust pbyalquo. Fashionable Lady : - " I know there wan something the matter with me, Where l have I to go to get rid of it."— TUE I30USEE QLI Tasted:Reoipee, .A DArtiry Disu..- ThfM fs for breakfast or luncheon, and hi made of fresh orlsp toast, battered very slightly. 'Oe each shoe put salmon end cucumber,' or field meat and shutner, sprinkle with pepper and wrap each ghee in .s lettuce loaf that has been steeped in vinegar. TOMATO Sour'.—Te ono quart ef boiling water add one quart of tomatoes; bell again and put In one teaspoonful of soda ; ane as soon as it bas ceased foaming, add one pint of milk, four relied crackers, butter, pepper and wilt, and serve very hot, CREAM POTATOES, -Chep cold, .boiled potatoes, put two or more tablespeonfnle of butter into a frying pan when hot, rub into It a spoonful of flour, but de not brown, Add a cup of rioh milk, and when it boils, a tablespoonful of cheeped parsley, pepper and salt, then the patentee. Boil up well and serve, a little onion may be added if de- sired. Tem Fe TTI — II One quart ef rich cream, one and one-half nun nes ofseat I s almonds, chopped : fine, nne•half pound of finger; freeze and when sufficiently congealed add one half pound et preserved fruits, with a few white raisins chopped, and finely sliced nitron, Cut the fruit small a'nd mix well with the Dream, Freeze like ice dream, Keep on toe until required. CURRANT CASE.—Cream three ounces of butter with two ounces of powdered sugar and three eggs, one at a time, tieing one ounce of flour with each egg, and beat well until quite smooth. Add ene ounce of nitron, dimly minced, and pour the mixture into buttered cups or moulds. Have an ounce and a half ef currante nicely cleaned, and eprinkle them over the tops ef the cakes, Bake in a moderate even until light brown. COTTAGE PUDDING, -Two eggs, one cup ef sugar, batter, size of a walnut, 1t cups of flour, twe teaepeenfulle of baking powder. Bake in a loaf like a Dake twenty minutes and serve with lemon sauce. Two eggs, yelk of ene, cup of sugar, ene-half cup of butter, one tablespoonful ef corn starch, Beat egg" and anger till light, add grated rind ant juice of one lemon. Stir the whole into three gills of boiling water, and cook until sufficiently think fer the table. SNow•Feeza CAKE.—Beat half a cupful of butter to a cream, add gradually a cupful and a half ef sugar and the juice of half a lemon ; when verylight, add ene fourth of a cupful of milk, the whites of five eggs beat- en to a stiff froth ; next add two cupfuls of flour in whioh a teaspoonful and a half ef baking powder, er enc teaspoonful ef cream of tarter and a half a teaspoonful ef soda, is mixed. Bake in sheets in a moderate oven, For frosting, beat the white of three eggs to a etifffroth, add by degreee two large cup- fuls of powdered sugar, half a grated cocoa- nut and the juice ef half a lemon. Hints. Remove flowerpot stains frem window Bills by rubbing with fine woed ashes and rime with clear water. Washing pine floor in a solution ef ene pend of coperas dissolved in one gallon of strong lye gives oak soler. Stains on 'very may be. taken out by washing with soap and water and ;plaiting it, while wet, in the air te bleach. If matting, counterpanes or bedspreads have ell spilt on them, wet with alcohol, rub with hard eeap and then rinse ;with clear cold water. To take ink inane out ef table clothe, napkins etc., put the article te Beak hume- dtateiy to think Boar milk, changing the milk as often as neoeeeary. Wash hair brushes and combs In sett water and liquid ammonia In the preper- tien ef four teaspoonfuls of liquid ammonia to one quart of water. Kitchen table. may be made as white 'as new if washed with soap ,and weed ' aehee. Fleere leek beat eorabbsd with cold water, soap and weed ashes. Egg shells candied fate small bite and shaken well in decanters three parts filled with oeld water will net only clean them thoroughly, but make the glass look like new. To prevent lamp•wloks frem smoking they should be soaked in vinegar and then thoroughly dried. It Is said that they will never smoke if this proems le adapted. All of One Family. It was the firet of July. The great city railway station was orewded with gay, well- dressed people, en their way to Berne ram - mer *osert in the mountains or by the sea. In edd contrast to them was a group of rag- ged Italian emigrants, with whom a uniform, ed cffioial was arguing, " I tell yon this is not your stamen 1" rale Ing his voice, as pimple are apt te do to foreigners. "At the other end of the city, Emigrant station. Two miles. Come, clear out 1" The man of the party shook his head stolidly, muttering " Tollldo" as his sole answer, and holding out a bit of written paper. "Toledo, Ohio," read the train•hand. "The idea of a let ef wretches as stupid as doge going half round the world with noth- ing bat that scrap of paper to guide them 1" he ejaoaiatedto hie companions, , He beetled away, and the emigrants shrank baok into their corner. The man looked at hie pale, hunger -bitten little girl and hie wife, and then at the groups who were chattering and laughing about him. Some young girls drew their light dresses aside as they passed him, and a soar -look - big, middle-aged woman muttered some- thing to them about "the country being an asylum" fer pauper,," The poor ' Italian scowled with bitter envy at a party of young fashicnable men. He carried a duck, with a few raga in a bundle ,• they were equipped with costly rifles and fishing tackle. Maletesta looked as though he felt him self an outcast from the happy human rage. There was no tie between Wm and these well -to, do people, A moment later there was a cry, a fall, and a sudden rush of the orowd toward him, His child, a pretty little girl, had slid from her mother's kneeand lay en the atone floor art if dead. The wretched Italian threw himself down beside her. "Ah (Dila 1 Figlia inial" he cried, ' in a voice that made the tears .tart to the oyes of many a woman: In a moment the great room Was alive with help' and friendliness, One of the young men had theehild on his knee, " 1 am' a physician," he maid,uietl , "She is not' dead. It is q the heat, and— unbring"—lowering Jona, go to the nearest drug -shop h andll get his voice, And, , g t some milk from the restaurant," The young men dropped their gone and reds, and ran ; old men, young girls, and negro wahine crowded forward with help. Wuen the child reoovered, a dozen eager heads led Mahican?, ata and his tui#e to the oats lug•roo to and eomebedy"Went round with a hat, eelleoting a fund for their relief. The young •dootor still held the ohild, food• Int it carefully, when the old lady, no long, er haughty and sour, lame up to him. "As soon as the baby is fit to travel, I will take them all home with mo, The mar to a vine•dresier, it seems, and my husband is a grape -grower in New Jersey, They shall have their own roof over their heads before night." The Italian and ids wile 'toed beside her, firying and °renting themselves. They were believer' in the Pope, the dooter was a Baptist, and the good woman it Methodist, but the single touch ef suffering had made them all children of one Father. The Antarotio Ocean. The Antarotio Ocean °couples a position around the south pole nmllar to that of the Arctic Oscan at the oppoalte end of the earth. It fills all the epaoe to the south of the. Antarotio Carole. It differs vastly, how- ever, from its northern homologue, for. in- deed of having land at its outer circumfer- ence, it hes water While the North Amerl can, the European, and the Asiatic ooaete encircle the Northern h Ocean, the Paoifio, the Atlantic, bad the Imran Oceans mingle their waters with thou ef the frozen zone at the south, As it differs in physloal conditions, so also it differs in having received muoh leas attention from the world at large. While the aim of innumerable expedittene for the past four hundred years has been to find a northwest passage to Asia, to plant a flag at latitude 90°, or to rescue some unfortunate oemmander and his crew from a horrible' fate, and while thousands of dollars have been expended, and hundreds of lives have been lest, there le a etrange contrast offered when we turn to the far south. The expo• Miens whioh have been sent eat by the great nations ef the world to explore the vast watery expanse about the southern pole are se few as to be counted on the fingers ef ene hand, and all the ships whioh have left reoorde of any extensive explora- tions beyond the Antarotio Circle might be counted on the fingers of two hands, And yet "within the periphery of the Antarotio Circle," says Lieutenant Maury, "Is includ- ed an area equal 1n extent to one sixth of the entire land aurfaoe ef our planet, Most of this immense area is as unknown te the inhabitants ef the earth as the interior of one of Jupiter's satellites. Fer the last two hundred years the Arotio Ouean has been a theatre of exploration; but, as for the Antarctic no expedition bas attempt- ed to make any persistent exploration, or even to winter there." It is noteworthy, too, that in the voyages which have been made not a ship nor a life has been lost south of the oirole. " It dose net appear," says one writer, "that Antarctic voyages would be attended with any excessive de- gree ef danger, . . It may even be found that the Antarotio barriers are im- penetrable ; but this has certainly not as yet been demonstrated," L The First Crazy Quilt. The " funeral tent of an Egyptian Queen fermed part of the sepulohral trappiug dis- covered in in 1882 in the reyal tombs at Deli-al-Bahari, near the ancient Thebes. The lady whose remains it had severed was a contemporary of the Queen of Sheba, Her grandfather may have bowed before the charms of Helen when the guest of Poly. damns, "wife ef Then," Her sen -in-law, S Weak, first ging of the Bnbastite dynasty, captured Jerusalem Alertly alter the death of Solomon, Qeeen Isf•em Kheb, however, did no live se long. She died young, and her obsequies must have been celebrated within a few years ef 1000 1. C. The date of the " tent" is thus perfectly well ascer- tained. It is the earliest example extant of " °pas oensutam," or patchwork. Ceti ` etruoted of innumerable fragments ef gazelle hide, finely stitched together, its madam oven new retains the gloss of a kid glove, and displays. in marvelene freshness, consi- dering the antiquity ef their applioatlen, the feur colors—red or bright pink, yellow, (Iwo ehadee,) bluish green, and pale blue— employed to produce a striking, if some- what gaudy, decorative effect; an effect, to eur ideas, strangely incongruous with its sombre desitinatien. The shape, size, and design of this ample expanse ef variegated leather (201 equine feet in area) oorreepend unmistakably to rte purpose as a canopy fer the royal coffin, A central panel, 9 feet by 6, was aderned over ene-half of its surface with pink and yellow rosettes en a blue ground; over the ether, with six flying vul- tures, emblematic ef supernal protection, separated by hands of hieroglyphics, setting forth the earthly dignities and Immortal hopes of the illustrieue departed. Four attached flaps, oheckered pink and green, completed the covering of the mortuary shrine, The borders display, among other emblems, gazelles kneeling in adoration on either side of a sacred tree or shrub. The device (with uneasenial modifications) was prehistorically diffused in the Eaat, and is thought to bave been connected with the old Aryan home worship, An Immense Magnet. When the great hen tower, 1,000 feet high, was proposed some time ago fer the Paris exhibition of 1889, many, engineers doubted the feasibility of the project, judged from their paint ef view. However, M. Eiffel went at the problem, and evolved a design whioh was Wiesen and whioh it is proposed to execute. On the eve of 80- oomplishment, however, a French savant comes forward with a timely warning of the fearful ooneequenoee whioh the build- ing of the hen tower will entail. He says that the enormona bleoks of iron running north and south would become polarized, and that this polarization will soon invade the whole column, Then whe knows whether the four lifts, with their continual friction, will not increase the magnetio in- fluence a hundred fold ? In this case all artfolee for a mile round will be attracted tra ted to the tower, and will ad- here to 1t as a needle deem to a magnet. Then all the houses in Paris will suffer from a St. Virus's dance, and being gradually drawn toward the Camp de Mare, will finally find themselves amok to the tower. As for locomotives entering Paris, it will be impossible to atop them at the varloue ter- mini ; they will rush through the city and dash themselves to pieces against the centre of attraction, r _�^., Women are not often philosophers, but they are proverbially clothes obeorvere, Probably the'yonngeet preacher in the world is I, E, Bill, Baptist, only 12 years of age, who preached a sermon on Sunday, the 27th tilt, at St. Martine, N. B to a large oongrogation. Ho is the eon of Rev. L E, 13#11 and the grandson of Rev. L Bill, D, D, "Now,Mr. "Vieitnese " eaid a Ia " are you willing to solemnl e e stet:, 8 y w ar the, the chair war facing the east ? Remember, Sire the awfulness of perjury." Witness-- " Well, I won't swear,' but t'il bet you $10 it Was," OSA8QBD BY RBOC" An Incident •r amt Ante I41benion„ The country was rough and broken, and the Indians had gathered until their number Was estimated at 1,200. It was evident from their aotlon, that they were determtu• ed to oppose further progress. Tee idea had first been to find the In- diana and fight them, The Damp on the bank of the stream was a good defensive. position, being eu a bluff well covered with trees, and the ground pretty well broken, The camp extended along a front of half a, Mile" taking in a sort of grove, To the west there was an interval of a quarter of a mile, and then a smallergrove, while to the east the ground was clear for miles, The attack first Dame from the Indians, At oaylight'they sent forward` aharpsheotere, who crept es near the Damp as possible and opened fire with oonetderable effect, This was speedily returned from the riflesof the snouts and the carbines of the treepere, but after an hour the men were ordered to save their ammunition, During the firing a large number of Indians °reseed to the north side of the stream and ne froma opened fire that di. P reotion, but they wasted their bullets. It was afternoon before the fight opened In real earaeet, At least 500 dismounted Indians then advanoed upon the frena ef the camp, taking advantage of every reek and and hollow, although the camp could not have been better sheltered a number ef men and horses were hit within an hour, It was soon disoovered that the real attack was to be made on the right flank. MOUNTED INDIANS to the,riumber of 300 gathered en the open ground between the groves for andash into the damp, With the troop] strung out on such a long front and having plenty to de, a flank attack meant disaster, and the com- mander prepared to checkmate it. Fifty men were ordered Into the saddle ander cover of the trees, and at the blast of the bugle they charged full at the force of red. ikfae, Afters volley from the carbines the men drew sabres, and with the war cry whioh had euheed on a score ef battlefields of the South. they rode down upon the dusky foe, The Indiana at first seemed de- termined to stand, but as the line Dame nearer and the naked sabres glittered before their eyes they suddenly broke and fled. The orders te the cavalry wore not to push the Indians any distance, but simply to break them ; but in the exoitement some of the men allowed their enthusiasm te oarry them too far, As they funnily drew rein at the call ef the bugle seven troopers found themselves out offfrom the main body. One of them was a corporal, and, as seen as he caw the situation, he ordered the equad te make for the second grove. They reaoh- ed this to find It about half an acre in ex- tent, the ground not only well oevered with trees, but broken late natural rifle pita, and dotted here and there with boulders. The troopers reached the grove amid a Mower ef bullets and arrows, whioh fortun- ately injured ne ene, and instead of trying to °ever the whole ground they took up a position at the eastern end, and threw up a breaetwerk of legs and reeks. While they were working at this every ene ef THEIR HORSES WERE KILLED, and the men added the bodies to the breast- work. The entire force of Indiana now crowded in between the two groves, thus ontting off all hopes that the seven troopers might be reamed by a oharge. The larger body was held ander a very het fire, and every man in it felt that the squadron thee out eff would be butchered within half an hear. It was well for the seven that the oerperal was a °eel and level-headed fellow. His first instructions were te count their cartridges. While some had sixty, having just been served before the oharge, ethers had as high as seventy-two, thus making the average sixty-five rounds per man. In addition to their Spencers each man had a Remington revolver with abundance ef am- munition. From the moment they intrenoh- ed in the grove at least 500 Indiana turned their whele attention to wiping the little command out. A fire was, maintained on a complete oreeoent, and the troopers did not fire ene return shot for nearly an hour. Then, as the emboldened Indiana began to creep nearer, the Spenoere were brought int to play ter ten refunds apiece, and at least twenty Indians were killed er wounded. From a tree in a larger camp ens of the manta saw them bear eff fourteen warriors in their arms, and six or eight more went limping eut of the fight without help. Five hundred bullets a minute daring the' hottest of the fire struck the breastworks, but net ene ef ite defenders was injured. About an hour before sundown it was seen that the Indians were getting ready for a grand advance en the isolated troopers. A SUDDEN RUSH FROM ALL SIDES would result in the capture ef the men. Not ene of their carbinee had been heard for the laet hour, and no ene oenld say whether they were dead or alive. The general belief was that they were dead, The ground was favorable for the Indians to advance en horseback, and some two hundred ef them formed in the valley in one long, eingle line. The firing all at eine ceased, and with a YI ! yi 1 yi !" the redskins dashed fer- ward at the grave, the endo of the line rid- ing the fastest, se as to oompletely envelop the positien held by the troopers, It was as square a charge as white men ever made ; but when the line was within pistol sleet ef the grove the seven troopers sprang eut of their fort, opened out in skirmishing or- der, and the way the ounce balls from these carbines screamed into the Indians was something to make one oheer. The men hadn't fired three rounds apiece before the line was wavering, and as they kept it up the oharge degenerated into a mob. There was cheering, yelling, shooting, and rushing to and fro, Between the reports of the Spencers we got the oraok of the revolvers and the snap ef the riflee, but the smoke settled down se think that all objeota were speedily shut out, While we cheered our comrades for the brave defence they were making, ne ene had the least hope of their eeoape. You can, therefore, judge ef ear amazement when, after the Spencers had seemed to fire In volleys four or five times,. the seven troopers came running in under the smoke cloud, Three of them wore wounded with bullets and two others with arrowsi but none seriously. They : had fought with a plan, and their plan had been a mama. The defonoe and escape was a matter ef wonderment to Indian pfighters as well as green hands, and particularly se Inthe lose to the Indians, Three months later, after the truce, they admitted a direct leas from the defence of these seven men of nineteen killed, eleven wounded, and ten puke kill- ed or rendered useless. They withdrew without making another serious attack upon no, having suffered a total lose of thirty- two killed and about as many wounded, Tho poonitar varnish -like tuetr° of the potals of the buttercup le attributed by 1)r, Mobius,whe has recently been investigating " it, to ahighly refractive yellow oil exlating in the epidermal colla, increased by the fans that ; the layer of cella of the , moeophyl is densely filled with minute starch grains," i}T P1i I4NDSIt autism, I had a prejudice against pry family front the flrat, Iooneidered thatm father y at r lived In q Mamie much too email for a min of hie means, and that I was deprived. of many advantages to whioh I was justly entitled. I often told my tether of thio, but it seemed to make no Impression. - He was alwaye willingthat I should as. pretentious slate with more reteio assn tie people, and when I declared at sixteen, that I was going away frem home and to a fashionable school, he made no resistance. Indeed as I now interpret it, he heaped fiery peals upon my head; 'for, besides paying • my regular tui- tion at school, he often sent me, unsolicited, package' of curreuoy whioh permitted me (tie I was a bey) to travel far during my summer vacations, and see the country. This it would seen should have reconciled me, but It did not. It made me worse. The family grew more unpretentieue my eyes eaoh succeeding year,and the o s succeedinglmax a 4 was reached when F hn - u father at fir de l y dere&'to leave the eni n i take n , his re Y idenoe farm. There was a prettystream running en a through the farm 8 ,and woods and hills, and numerous sleek cattle, whioh our new neighbors praised as being ef the beat bleed of any in the country, but I looked con- temptuously on all this, and only thought of the difference between the way we went about, all in one carriage with father driv- ing instead of e. oeaohman in livery, as my friend Harry did in the city, I condescend. ed to visit my people occasionally, and some- times in the exof tement of shooting and fish- ing, forgot our disgraceful position. Bat at night, upon my return from shooting, we gathered in the eitting•room, only to read the magazines and playwhiat, it would dome back to me how we should be attend ing brilliant receptions and making witty epeeohes in full dress in the city, and I would fall to upbraiding my father for denying me and: my sistere the advantages of city life. The most curious part ef all this, as I leek back•upen it new, le the oomplaoency with which all my oritloleme were received by my family; and the absence of acrimony, of any bickering' er strife, en the part of any of the ether members. 14Iy sisters and my mother always agreed that the way I was deprived of what other boys had was eut- rageoue, but it seemed to be tacitly under- stood that having given me their sympathy, they could de nothing more, and the moat friendly and loving relations °elated between us all ; they epending much of their time manufacturing preeente with whioh to sur- prise me, and I constantly sending to them fruit and neveltiee frem the city. That my father bore with me se patiently illustrates a peoultarity of many Canadian hemee. Whether the English etrait-jacket might not have been better, I leave you te debate with yonreelvee, Sbmetlmes he would gently reprove me fer being se fiery and impertinent, but as a rule he allowed me to do all the talking, and seemed eatlsfied that I should think what I pleased, so long as I did well at the school, and kept In geed health, If he proceeded en the.theery that only time and experience were riaed8k to convince me of my folly and hie wledom, he would be eminently satisfied If he could talk with me now : A deoade had passed, and the im- petuous and ambitions youth has lived among the fashionable and pretentious peo- ple whom he used se much to envy. More - ever hie profession has brought hlm in con- tact with their family secrete, family jars, and family griefs. Hew often has he fond: beneath the honeyed words and liveried servants, which strangers admire, en exis- tence ef selfiehnese and greed and hypocrisy ef whioh he never dreamed! If any youth frem farm fir hop, with un- pretentious home shall readite tele eketob 1? beg to remind him that, as the human body changes every seven years, so deem the mind. Let none of us imagine that what to -day is to as all important, will be next year or the year after. The moat intelligent and the meet encoesefnl men of all ages have recorded their convictions that no ambition,, no emcees, gives the lasting satlefaotion of a peaceful home and a loving family. And as I review with familiarity the pal- atial homes in the great city where I now live, and witness the relations of the mem- bers of eaoh family am they move about and addreae each ether, I remember with groat gratitude the nappy relations whioh exieted (with the exception mentioned) at the old home farm. And if you ask me today where and how I bast onj eyed myself, I mast admit that ne ambition achieved, no wealth acquired, gives me the pleasure tbat the contempla- tion.gives me of the return services whioh I afterwards rendered (as partial retributiene to my kind old father and the happy and unselfish relations that have always existed. by reason of my father's early Influence, between my sisters and myself. Such of you as are philosophers can take up the thought where I leave eff and make much more ef it. That snares of such homes, as mine was, exist all around us I have ne doubt. If some of the dissatisfied members. will be brought to reflect that experience only, as a rule, brings wisdom, and that toleration and uneelfiehnese are, after all, the badges of a strong mind and a good heart, I shall be paid for my trouble in writing. After many years of observation you may conolude, ars I have done, that - your unpretentious family, helmet, simple and affectionate, in all their dealinge with eaoh other, le, compared with the majority, of the mare pretentious ones, a ahining mon- ument to be proud of -a veritable aristee racy te whioh you are glad to belong, To My Conein. r r• BY H. 0, w. Dost thou remember the day/ gone by. When, in our ohildieh glee, we played Our innocent mirth then knew no guile. No sorrow to us was then displayed. But time with swift and fleeting wings, Has carried away these pleasant hours ; For children we were, but no longer now, Can we claim those joys that onoe were ours. For mo I have entered the battle of Life, Aye, I entered, it too, when the:struggle war hot The odds were against me, in'taking my mood But the One who sees all, is easing my lot. flow sweet to my ear, was the sound of thy voice, Its accents so clear, but so gentle and mild; How chaste Is the form, with its natural grace.. Like limbos of light, wore thy genie when thou trailed. Tho thought of thy grana bath; helped me too turn From "hs of too I"roh repatstation loading to siu, Thins ung1-llko power was msrguiding-star," That titled mo with courage to combat and win. In the trials and the eorrowa that may happen thy t, (Eros Godlohas allotted "aoh person theirehare), Romembor the bloseinge Ho so freely be�stows; And take needy thy °roes Ito has baused thee to bear. Red ante will Weser v be found tnclosets or. drawers if a small bag of sulphur be kept In. these plaoee, 1 1 e fi 8 1i 1• 1 el a+ C sr F P et m It Se et fr A ar TI vi fe: be i?e Vi) tae ye r th Cs .sz