The Exeter Times, 1886-10-14, Page 7Th Bunhi11 Fields.
Moan and De Foe are beried In Bunhill
laeg 1.4Oriden.), ,
Bunhill t in thy bosom hleep,
Beneath the mossy atone,
A gentle pair whese natne.s and deede
To gil the world ate known,
'Tie tweet to lieargthe linnet idng,
To see the graseVs blow,
,Aboye the almost hidden trave$
Of Bunyiui and De Foe.
One eve I plucked a little fiow'r,
Starkissed from elustered dome,
And laid it on the breitSt Of him
Who guided Christian home.
The twilight zephyrs gently stirred
The cloverzn the vele;
And poor blind Mary sag Mr me
Her songs from Bedtorti
and when I sought another grave,
Between a tear and smile,
I seemed to be a. boy again
With Crusoe on his tele.
I blessed the book -the best of all
My boyhood's treasures few, -
And thanked the necromancer great
For al the lava I knew i
nowfilly sleep the honored pair 1
lEer
:veilthat come and go
Bu d now lustre to the names
Of Bunyan and be Foe,
Tomit, t the stare look softly down,
The eiy its dew•drops yielde,
And Love recrowns the famous dead
In quiet Bunhill fields,
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411 ,00EA.N IITSTERY ed, each to his special duty ; and the pay-
master was directed to see that the fatal
, .
we eat in tie ct)1d, " damp, cornfertless, dirty
berth, cliseue.sing the matter with boyieh
eeaerness, the sudden shrill pipe of the
biv
eeteaie'e math burst upon ear teith,
ed. by the hoiuee cry ef : " Hands mueter
by open list 1" So, then, the captain thought
it important eriougn to mane seeioue and of•
ficial inquiry into. Then came the calling
over ef thoee five hundred names, with most
of which we had been familiar for three
years or more of our cominiesion in the Pa-
cific. But arn wrong -not quite all of
tnese ftve hundred. There came a time
When the mane of one, 0, petty officer, was
called; but no reply came to the pall, and a
dead silenee reigned over the ehip- silence,
I mean, as regards human upeech or sound ;
the gth
ide and the undei ing seas never for a
metnent ceailed their temult Then followed
the grave and searching investigation into
the mystery. Who had seen him last ?
Where was he then? In what state ? How
long ago was it? and $o on, end so on ; until
at last the whole ship's company knew thet
one cif their number had gone overboard-
, presumeyy in the morning watch ; probably
sWent, oft by it peeuliaily heave sea, well re.
membered in that wateh. But unknown,
unheard, unseen- his cry for help, if such
a try he gave, utterly drowned andamothere
ed in the ceaseless roarof the sea, the shriek
of the wind. And so the men were dismiss-
' letthri p, D. (Diseharge dead) were piked
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A ?RUE STORY. b°°ks. •
--- And now mattered a circumstance Which
, )
Though it is nearly twenty ye.h.rti age since took the whole shipby storm.as it Were,
•• ^ ertinet theunhappy net !stogie in the shipts,
and Which, mere neeident and coincidence as
the events related below occurred, yet the it Was, IVIade all the eld seadogs nod their
impression left my ninth Mind bee pener faded .
heads 'end eye the, yoniager men meaninglY,
or lost the. viaiditess of its outlines ; and
though there is nothing really explicable aewho would say, "What did, I tell you?".
while they, on their part, were firmly lin-
e:bout% yet the dash,Of , mystery conneCted pressekl With the lesson in,“cause and, effect
with it has always marked it in my memory thus so tiointedly Placedbefore thein.,1Itwas
as an incident of an unusual order. - . .
close upon, noonwhen thefac. t ofa, than being
We were driving on our way northwards
lost was clearly established; and ere the
from the gloomy and savage leighborhood afternoon watch was over, the sky had .
of cape Horn, homeward hound in Her clogren, the storm had dropped, . the wind • "Hands, about ship I was now the order; readers with profound emphasis to remember
Majesty's frigate the dear old Bruisewater,
had shifted right around, and n7asnow blow- and hi quit* succession came from the bridge that -myopia elways has a tendency to in -
now, alas, long since consigned to the shiT ing dead fair ! Thet•e was no meth for more and well-known commands in the sharp, nn- crease. unless precautions are taken • and
breaker. Thefact of our being homewart - that all myopic eyes are weak eyes to be
the scoffers were silenced. I "Ease down the helm !"-" Helm's a lee 1" looked after carefully. In his own case, the I me trough this dark valley ; for I dare not
bound, should lialin made all hearts light and argnment-the oldsters had it all their own perative voice of the lieutenant of the watch:
all faces brihtanniagour five hundred thels; . way ;
• The ship now in a few hours, rounded the ' --". Raise tacks and sheets !" &c: And as ' results of overnise and misuse, esPeciall f
Y ° said " Farewell, I must now leave thee ;
go alone ?" Then one. of the three companions
" But, my good man, if it was really a
light which you. saw, wine elee nut
have noticed it too."
"Dont knoW nettilit' about that, air ;
but I can swear to it. What I seen were
were "--
" A bright light On the starboard beam 1"
sang out the starboard waist lookout at this
moment, and "1 saw itI" and " saw it 1"
echoed several voices ; but before the officer
the watch could turn roiled towards the
direction indicathd, it was gone and the
ostfaiii•nbpoaairxeletbrkezrei bpbtreseltentsd.one uuiform sheet
" Waist there ! Whet was it 1"
" Somethin' of a flash -light, I should say,
sir," replied the lookout. " Very bright
and very short -gone in a mennent-like."
By this time the captain. end commander
were both on the bridge, and the whole ship
was alive with eurioeity. ,
"What can it be 7" I asked of the old
boatswain againet whom I brushed in the
darkness ael walked aft.
" 'Tis a boat," said he ; " that's what it
must be. The ca,p'n he allows it's a boat,
and he's pretty sure to be right. Some poor
souls whose vethel has foundered, aminigtbe
ice -whalers, most likely -took to the boats,
they neve. I saw that there light myself -
seemed eery close to the water, it did, They
.seen our lights, and burnt, flash -light. If
they got another, they'll show that, too,
presently."
'And now the voice of the commander rang
out; "Mr. Sights 1"
" Ay, ay, sir," replied the gunner.
"Clear away your two foremost. guns on
the maindeck, and fire blank charges at short
intervals; and get some blue. lights, and
shiny them in the fore -rigging. at once 1" ,
"Ay, ay, sir." And away went the gun-
nerto see his orders carried ontinstantly.
But ere his head had disappeared down the
hatchWay-e"A bright light on the starboard
quarter I" roared out the Marine , sentry at
the lifebuoy right aft; and once more every-
body turned sharp round to find nothing to
gaze at but the universal darkness.
Schools And Myopia,
. .
MYPPla Is. the scientific mune of short
sightedness, We heve more than once call
ed dttention to it in some of it e aspects. Its
importance 'elide 11B to recur to it again. The
New York Afeelicul Record says there can be
no doubt that it is . inereasieg ; that eighty
per eent. of the etedente in the PPlyteChnic
per
of France nave to wear glasses.
Sarcey, French writer, and a victim to
the disease, declares it to be spreading
through Europe like some epidemic. But
most dye hardly need to go beyond our own
observetion and experience to be setiefied of
the feet of its inerea.se. It is so common for
yoeng ochool-girls to wear glasses, that
glasses seern almost like a new and grotesque
fashion. Neither the father nor the mother
of the writer, nor any of their ancestry, were
myopic, and yet five of their children, iu-
cleding the writer, are so.
That this tendency is due to our modern
syethrn. of echools is plain. It is developed
during the school age, and, extends and in-
thnsifiee as the school years go on; and
though, when thus developed, it may in-
crease during life, it is not developed at all
afthr, about the age of twenty.
The pause is partly imperfect light, which
necessitates bringing the eyes too near the
book page, but mainly the bad habit into
whioh, children fall, and which is not cor-
rected by the teecher, of holding the head
down , too near the book when there is no
need t� do so.
Now the lens of the eye naturally changes
to adapt itself to the varying distances of
objects; but keeping. the 'eye too near its ob-
ject during the growing period of childhood
and youth forces the lene permanently in the
form suited only to near sight.
The defect inay be looked on as a slight
matter in its earlier stages, but it tends to
increase, and that sometimes to the ,stage of
organic disorganization.
Says the itecord. "M. Sarcey urges his
of ehildien when they grow up is greatly
leeeened hy too much resteietion ehild-
Creosote a Specific for Erysipelas.
Dr. J. II, Cox gives some experience of bis
OW11 in this remedy, and says: All injured
of whatever kind, have been treated with
dressings of this remedy, inn" where this has
been done from first to • last, in no instance
has there been' an attack of erysipelas,"
The usual manner of application, was in
solution, of six to twenty drops, to the ounce
of water, keeping the parts covered with
clothe constantly wet with it. In ulcers or
wounds it may be used iri the form of a
poultice, by stirring ground slippery elm into
the eolution. The strength to be regulated
according to the virulence of the attach:.
Ordinarily, ten drops to the .ounce is strong
enough for the cutaneous form of the disease,
and in dressings for wounds or regent Nur-
iee. If the irtflarnenation threathns to spread,
rapidly, it sheuld be increased to twenty or
more drops to the ounce of water.
Diphtheria.
Dr. R. Couetoux, of France, reports two
cases, aged six and. nine years, says that
when death was apparently imminent, and
tracheotomy had been refused as a last re -
Sort, he ordered Inhalations of steam, tine-
thred with cubebs, of which twenty-five
grarnmes were placed in the boiler at once,
the steam being conveyed by tubes to the
beds of the children to. be inhaled by them.
Both Made a good recovery: Dr. Couetoux
says that cubebs used in this way againstthe
diphtheria is more powerful than eucalyptus,
glycerine, ter, or the essence of. terebinthina..
The Dark Valley -A Parable,
A certain man was traveling to a far
country, and along with him went three
companions whose company did greatly be-
guile the Way, and one besides who Was very
dear to him. Now it came to pass that near
the end of his journey was a dark and dis-
mal valley, at sight of which he snood trem-
blin and. afraid, saying, "Who will go with
but for all that,. there.was a general an o his attempt to get along without glasses,
gloom in the ship, which was not to be ac- Cape which before had seemed an impossible the splendid. toldthip answered her helm like
were that he lost • the sight of one eye en -
counted for save by one. theory only -that
obstruction to her, end made her wny un- 'ca boat, and began to fill on the other tack,
hindered to the north • but the feelings en i I " Maintopsailhaul !"-for our courses were tirely, through detachthent of the retina,
of superstition. For things had not gone gendered by the event's immediately preced- furled-" Head braces 1" "011 all, haul 1" and that a cataract developed in the other."
well with us since we had hoisted out home- .
, . mg this change had taken too strong a hold ' and we were on the other tack.- ,
' - I M. Sarcey himself seys, " Remember that
neither can I linger p, moment longer." An-
other said, "1 will go with thee to the en-
trance of the valley, but farther then that I
cannot go." And -the third said, "1 will
speak well of thee to all my friends after
War( • un pennant.
out of Valpamiso Bay with tlie said pendant upon the men to pass lightly away, and in b ,The was now brilliantly dlubminated extreme myopia ends in cataract, and that thou hest entered the dark valley ; yea, I
s, many a, long ffist. or middle'. wa,thh the sub- y hal -.0.-dezeu lue lights burnt in er fore nearly all myopia may become extreme, if
ject of the disappearance of the lost ship- and main rigging ; while, as we began to the eyes are abused.' will put the trumpet to iny lips and sound
streaming e,way, and with all our " chu
thy name abroad for many yearsto come.''
ships" playing " alumni Auld Acquaintance
be Argot .?" as we passed by them; and we
had received and returned cheer upon cheer
as we mede our way to the open sec; while
from the midshipmen's berth had rolled
up in a rich volume of sound, every,
night for more than e week 'before, the old
strain so well known and so lovingly cher-
ished in Her Majesty's service:
And when we arrive at Plymouth Docks,
The pretty little girls come round in flocks,
And one to the other they do say; ,
"Oh,. here cones Jaelt with histthree years'.pan
' For I see he's homeward boMott:oundi • .,
For I see he's homewardbotend."
But sill, as I say, things had not gone
ut.
well lei ens,. ! We had speedily left the
warmth o the tropical weather, and had
gradually found it colder Mid colder each
morning as we made our waydown south to-
wards the dreaded Cope o Storms. T;n4 lest the Messing had been...given auld the
was natural and we were prepared.' for it; ct.iiiclr' sheen 'voice . of the first -lieutenant
but no sooner had we uot to the latitude of hio. . issued . the order, "Boatswain's
mate and its immediate effect upon the ele-
ments was discussed with bated breath, and
many an ominous shake of the head was
given as the opinion was moodily expressed
that "We'd not done With him yet." And
when, a few days afterwards, on a Sunday
morning during divine service, the quarter-
master ef, the Watch. carne creeping,' andtip-
toeing down the ladder to report something
to the commander, who at onoe followed him
silently up the after -hatchway, but a few
minutes afterwards returned and ,whispered
mysterionely to the captain, who in his turn
mounted on deck and did not come down
again, we all felt that something more might
be in store for us, and was even now per-
chance at hand. How impatiently we sat
as the serreon.dreggedoutits 'theiningly in-
terminable length, and then, when at
the Cape itself, than tte wind had shifted,
and we had it day after day,. night after
night, a hard gale right in our teeth. Bitter
cold. it was too, with tearing storms of snow
and hail -heavy thundering seas sweeping
us fore and aft, bursting in on our weather -
bow, and covering us with spray, that froze
ere Men Pon•our decks. Up aloft, every-
thing fr herd -running rigging as stiff
and mime 'geable as a steel hawser ; Meeks
jammed with ice and snow; canvas as Un-
yielding as a board; men up aloft for en
hour or more trying to take a reef in the fore -
topsail, and then so stiffened with cold them-
selves, as to be unable to come down with-
out assistance; while below, the close, musty,
damp, dark ship was the picture of discom-
fort, her decks, main and lower, always wet,
often with an inch or two of ice-cold water
washing about on them; soaking clothes
hung up all over the place, in -the wild
hope that they might eventually get dry;
ports and scuttles tight shut to keep out the
seas that thundered ceaselessly at them as
the ship plunged and wallowed in the angry
element; no tires allowed anywhere except
at the cook's galley, which was always fully
occupied; and no warmth to be obtained
anywhere except in yourthamthock, and even
this, in most cases, what with faulty stowage
and leaky decks, was wet through.
Day after day, night after night; this state
of things kept on, until their gredually crept
in among the men -started, no doubt, by the
older hands, always and deeply imbued with
the spirit of superstition -a sort of dim sus-
picion that the ship was under a ban -be-
witched,' in fact; that, as they said, there
was it Jonah aboard; and until he went over-
board, we should never weather the dreaded
Cape,. but were doomed to thrash continually,
to windward, never gaining, en inch on Min-
way.Y Stinat,sfe:tis may ethin, thereetvere
many; very .inanyi,, ainang ont,blue-janleets
who heldthis belief firenly;• and' expressed it
openly. It e, of course, iu the midshipmen s went on dealt to take a turn with a chum,
berth, careless and lighthearted froin our and enjoy, as we often did together, a few
extreme youth, laughed at the solemn tones eaticipetione of the delights Of home once
of:the old. quattermestersi, 'Whe eniplOyed niore. Wafi ateild-ed . very . wild night.
their hour's of midnight Watch On deck in 'There Was a small moon; but the clouds
narrating to us similar instances of vessels were hurrying overher face in ragged stream -
which had bean thus doomed to struggle ors and. in au& constant succession, that her
with the storm until some unknown criminal Edit was seldom, yisible.; and,whee she did
laid either confessahis crimepr ha,civoino- show if for a fleeting Moment,., ik upon it
turily paid the penalty. e -f. it;-' But, agrthe "black, arigry sea;whose Vatios broke
bad weather continued, and the Ship seemed into clouds of icy foam as they, fell baffled
quite unable to aelvaTiac tipon ..her offithe :how of tliegi•eatoship, or 'tried to leap
track, some of inst too, began .to savagely over her quarter. It was it hard
our minds to be influenced to a steady gale, the windshrieking and humniing
certeirrflegree by the mysterious language through the rigging, and the old ship herself
thin ominous hints of these Men; , so much pounding ponderously but irresistibly at the
our elders in .years, and our Supery is in great mountains of water before her, and.
practice' experience. creak,hig, groaning, and complainiug as she
Matters had gat to this pi1311; and no daso, masts, yards, in one strident
change appeared about to tak place in the concert togetheie as if remonstrethig at the
aspect of the weather or the airaction of the labour which she wag forced th undergo.. In
wind, When one wild and .vMtched forenoon
at seven bells (eleven -thirty) the men were
piped to muster on the main -deck for that
one drop of comfort which they could look
forward to in the day! -the nut of
ach • taan's 4' tot "of grog, Faces which at
Other times wore it loOk. of „gloom, were
brightening under the infinendenf the spirit;
the ever-present growl Was Stilled for it
while ; the joke began , to pass,around as the
blood warmed and flowed More rapidly
throngh the veins, when a whisper -a sort
of muttered suggestion, made at first with it
kind of apologetic reluctance, but with gi:ow.
ing confidence and • insistence as it gained
ground -passed through the throng 01 111011
that one of :theiraithitber was missing: Such
a WhiSPer`inakes ' way 'through it ship's
company, however large, like a current of
, electricity, and so it was hi this case
at first the, men kept it to. themselves, ,11
could not lonp'; howeVer, be concealed ; mid
mate, pipe down I" we literally tumbled up
on the deck, to learn what it was that. had
disturbed the can of tint Sabbath forenflOn.
It needed 'beta glance: "Icebergs !" 'There
they were, a. long array of .Cold, filmy,
shadowy giants, looming huge in. the mist
with which eachserrounded himself-ghoet-
ghastlyaelenney.,spectres from the yeti,
land of Death itself. Not that 'We thought
of them then as such; no, we were glad,. we
youngters ; we them: we said they
were " jolly," though any object less gifted
with an aspect of joviality one can hardly
imagine. .Each, as we neared, it, wrapped. us
in its clammy shroud of death -cold fog,. , and
chilled its to the very marrow, and, tower-
ing . fee above .our mairtroyal-mast head,
seethed to threaten us withinstant arid . ap-
palling destruction.
So we sped on, iceberg tater iceberg rising
above the horizon as we .held. our course;
and, if sources of anxiety and alarm by day,
how...much more so by night! Often we en-
tered e vest bank of imneentrable fog, con-
scious that somewhere, in its .inmost ruceises,
lay concealed, as if waiting for its .prey; it
gigantic berg, but never knowing. from. mo-
ment to inoment,when w re exactly to
expect it. . Tnis was a splendid chance for
croakers. Many 'a. greet thleinn head Was
shaken, and many a jaw Wagged with gloomy
forbedings oyer thet unusual and unexpect-
ed appearance of ice in .the Southern Sea. ,
By -and -bye the wind began to freshen, and •
signs of another gale appeared, though, this
time from a quarter fairly favourable to
us ; end. with her canvas sthigged ,down
and a bright lookout forward, the old ship.
began to Shake „her sides as. she hurried.
away
eWay from those inhospitable seas with their
speptral ,occitpants twards the inviting
warmth Of the tropics:end:the steadylAtist
of thetrade-Winds.
Anifone.,1for a breath fresh air 'tteftire
turning iii to my 'half -sodden hanimook, I
Move ahead once more, our bow guns blazed
forth from the mairideck one after the other
roar which we fondly imagined would
be more welcome than the most delicious
Doctoring For Every Little Ailment.
Many people fall ill of disease simply
music to the ears of the poor storm4ossed through fear of it. The imagination has a
Castaways in that frail boat which we now
hoped to rescue from the wrath of the raging 'nowerful influence over the 'humen body.
bne can • very easily imagine himself th be
sea. At intervals there appeared again the -catching cold at the sight of an open window,
bright but transient flesh which ,had first when if he had not known the window was
attracted our notice ; and through the roar
of the eattves and the shriek of the wind, open, or was not afraid of its effects, he
1" would escape the cold. Doctors understand
at times inutgined that we could hear human this secret, but they .do not impart it to
voiceeshouting' no doubt for help, and all their patients. Most invalids, real or sup -
eyes were strained. to the uttermost through posed, would be angry if a physician would
the blackness to tey and discern the .first
gliinpse Of the boat itself: The last flesh say to them: "Nothing ails you, you only
think so." They prefer to think themselves
had told us that we were .steeting directly
• skit, and in time they really become so, for
for it; and on we sped; our blue lights hiss-. , nature, though she struggles hard, can not
Mg and flaring - in . our rigging, our gum stand everything. Too many drugs will
ceaselessly roaring out our sympathy
our desire to save. and. ,finally destroy her healing power.
"Keep' ii sharp lookout forward there 1" 1 ' These people who love th have a box of
white pills in bottles, and a little book, all
-" Lifeboat's crew, fall in aft 1" and we kept some handy place, so that when a
preparecl th lower, the port quarter -boat, friend who has eaten too much dinner says:
which was told off as a " liieboat "-that is, "Oh, I am fearfully nervous I" they may
for any purposes Of rescue, although the run for the little book, look for "nervous -
state of the sea was anything but favourable nese," and administer so many pills of bry-
lot boataluty ; but when we thought of that onia,. When they have it headache instead
poor boat tossiug about on the storm -vexed of dieting or eating more moderately, they
sea with its freight of shivering and half- take several drops of some nice poison. They
drowned men, ay, and maybe a woman or trust nothing th nature, but call in a doctor
two among them, and then remembered the for every little ailment, when fresh bir, exer-
frowning icebergs and the fearful dangers cise, and strict temperance in eating and
which they rePresented, 110 man hesitated, drinking is all they need.
and had volunteers been called for , to man
the lifeboat, the whole ship's .company , Forebodings of Incipient Insanity.
:would have come forward. 4 Well
can I remember the almost choking 1. Irritability and tendency to take of -
feeling of thankfulness in my own hear d
t fense.
when .I thought of the wild joy of these 2. Moroseness an silence, or sometimes
spite of the moon, the night was as black as
liltehuS, and from the quarter.deck on which poor feller disappear suddently just before
we Paced, "the!,boW of the .ship Ives barely we sighted het' t Answer the that I Well,
visible; We were just turning our faces aft, then -did We ever know what became of
my Chinn and I, in our quarter-deck walk; eh ?-bliT I Very well, then That
when a voice rang out sudden, clear, and there phantom ship was to tell us as how he
loud forwaad-the voice of the , stat -board drownded, that's what that were, and
lookout men : " A bright light on the star- nobody. shan't persuade me no other than
board bow 1" Instantly we, and indeed every :the.t.11ew do I,o;plein them bright lights?
soul on deck; turned and peered herd in that Answar me this : Were them lights .ornery
direction. Not a vestige of a light Was to lights, such as it ship shows et night 7 -No ;
be seen 1 Then the voice of the officeaof the of course they ,weren't Corpse lights !-
watch was heard from the bridge, Ordering that's my answer ; and N'Vhe/1 says corpse -
the midshipman of the watch to go forward lights, I means it."
and find out if the num was dreaming, or if It may have been an honest merchantman,
any one else had seen it, ; but the Man stuck orttwareb-bound; and toe intent upon making
folds text. He had 'seem:for, ,secend4tirrie it speedy voyage to "speak" us, but never -
a bright light on the starboard bow -a ,nery thelesS, ,the boatSwain'a opinion was pretty
bright light, (mite different from anything generally accepted as the correct solttiOn ef
which Was usually seen et sea. what was considered to be an ocean mys-
" No, sir 1 yebe pardon, -sir ! tery,
Then did the traveler turn th his faithful
friend who was nearest and dearest of all,
and said, "Come thou with me, and I will
even enter this valley without fear." And
the friend said, "1 will never leave thee nor
forsake thee."
•Hear now the interpretation of the para-
ble. The three companions are Pleasure,
Wealth, and Fame. The first forsakes the
soulso soon as it comes in sight of death, the
second continues to administer many a com-
fort up th the last moment of the dying -hone;
but though there be millions of money piled
up at the entrance of the death -valley, not
one penny has ever been carried into that
shadowy vele. The third companion is Fame,
which • writes epitaphs on tombstones, and
sings of departed greatness, "waking th ec-
stasy the living lyre," afterthe soul has fled.
But the faithful friend is called Religion,
though some there be who call her by the
sweet name of Love; because she conies from
the bosom of God and doth represent his
love th man. This is it friend indeed, for
she will not forsake the soul that trusts in
her, even in eternity ; for there will she
plead his cause before the immaculate Judge;
and her plea shall prevail. Let every one
that hath a soul secure the favor of this
faithful friend 1 .
Germany's Pigeon Stations in France.
A singular story appears in one of the
French military papers, and if the details
are correct it is not surprising that the in-
cidents should have excited something like
a sensation at the French War Office. It is
stated that a gentleman at Nevers, the other
day, sliot a pigeon, and found its wings
poor outcasts at the prospect of so speedy a faultfinding with servants. I stamped with the imperial arms of Germany,
rescue, and anticipated the delight of wel- I 3. Suspicion and jealousy of best friends.
' while attached to them was a quill with it
coming them on the quarter-deck of so 4. Impairment of memory, forgetting
staunch and. safe it Ship, But all in it mo- hours of meals.
ment my anticipations and my sentiments of 5. Liettention to exercise and state of
gratitudeavere scattered to the winds. • bowels.
"Keep her away, sir I keep her away 1" I 6. Neglect of personal appearance.
came aroar from -the forecastle. "You'll be 7. Altered facial expression, notably in
right down upon her ! A large full-rigged melancholia, with marked furrows.
ship. right ahead of us I" I 8. Prominence and brilliancy of corm,
, Up went our helm and the ship's head in hysterical and puerperal mania.
id off; and as we ;trained our eyes in the I Bodily Symptoms.-
ireetiOn indicated, we could dimly make I L Harsh, thy skin as a rule, though
out, to our intense surprise Said unspeakable sometimes perspiring.
wonder, the huge, shadowy, ghostly outline 2. Sometimes a peculiar odor.
of an unusually large vessel. No signs of
life appeared about her. The light which
.had first attracted Our . netice was now no
longer th be seen. Her masts, yards, and
sails were only just visible -not as, d black tory sensations.
hard shadow, against the sky, but, pale, spec- 7: Altered conversational style, and talk-
tral, as if inerevayiour7-barely to be discern- ing to ones -self.
able, yet leaving no rot= for doubt. There
the sailed, a veritable phantom ship. All
hands gazed at her in silence. The blue
lights were allowed 10 burn out, and no.fresh
3. Coated tongue, with offensive breath.
4. Constipation and feeble circulation.
5. Headache and paler of face.
.6. Subjective deafness, or anomie]. audi-
8. Delusions and Muskeg later on.
Sour *Ur in Atonic Dyspepsia.
, This seems like a novel remedy,: yet Dr.
,mes :were lighted. The great guns ceased to, W. O'Neill ,tells us .that he has found sour
thunder oii the maindeck: The lifeboat's milk a geed 'remedy in many eases of dye -
crew muttered uneasily among themselves, pensia, or, at all eVents, it is it good PAP" -
as if dreading the possibility, of 'being order- vant in. the treatment of slaw digestion
,ed te board so nncenny it craft j while the where flatulence and a sensation of cramp in
older hands once inoi•e shook their heads, the stomach are prominent symptoms. The
and said "they knowed we 'edn't seen the geed effects of Sour milk were casually dis..
Iast of that peer feller es fell overboard. covered by lithesome months ago; and since
But there was nothing more for us to do. then he has prescribed it With •satisfactory
Who ' and what the mysterious stranger results in Many cases of indigestion. If the
hanging on .Our port quarter was We opuld curd of the milk should disagree -with the
not possibly ascertain on such. it night, ri
i-- Patient, it should be 'strained 'off, end the
such it gale; and, at length the order was Whey can then be given,. or taken a short
given to "Wear ship ;" and we once mote time .after meals; 'warm. A gentleman . who
turned: our back on the,vessel which we had suffered.ninch from flatulence and other dis-
been so eagerly pursuing for more than an agreeable symptoms after nieels 'can. nine
hoar. As we did so, we could see he too keep himself free from them by deinkiog,
altered his course; his spectral yards, 'with
1 half at hour or so after eating, a tumblerfid
their shadowy sidle, ,swung round,
and a° orhalf a, tumblerful of ordinary • cold sour
disappeared without it sign in the darkness milk, which to him is a most agreeable bev-
of the night ' erage. He believes the efficaey of sour milk
. "Don't tell me," said the boatswaio, " as .i ethnic indigestion is owing in a great
that there were a, real ship. Didn't that measure to the lantie acid which it contains,
which Mid some physiologists say is one of
the ingredients of the gastric fluid. a
' Arietoo-'—natic Babies.
,
Children who are 'constantly. held and
watched and tended rarely thrive. , They
grow fretful, uneasy and pale;' 116 One seems
to know. why., The rich woman's baby is at
a diitidvantage hi this respect, nnlose Money
as it they sometime, procure fut intelligent,
faithful nurse -a foster mother. To intrest
an infant to some ninths ie . alinost as , imich.
an net of abaadonmene at let that , of the
heathen mother, who throWS her babe, into
the iaws of the erocadile of the Sacred riVer.
The childeen who have gown ep through a.
wretehed ehildhood to it crippled and de-
formed niaturitY. caused by the carelessness
of nurses, who have let them fall or injure
themselves in other Ways; are not a few.
Citildree need freedoin .from unnatural re-
Straint in order to develop their own indi-
vidualities. DepriVed of it, they become
inore helpless And dependent. , The aility
wasn't asleep -not , sir 1 broad awake as I
presently it spread to the midshipmen s san now, sir 1 and able to swear to it. Business men who marry their type -
berth • 'text, tha wardroom heard it ; ind' 13 th t* ' 11. 1 iiii is' w r th le t
y is um..a 1 t., e e o e a i , writer girls ere Apt to find that the yomig
the suspicion. Well 1 remember, how, as ttithbled up froni below at the hall, tion after the wedding.
eooe tflo eeptafir hiniaelf was, ingite aware. of a;ha motny officers old anct young, had WOinen are not So ready to submit to dicta.
cipher dispatch. The pigeon and dis-
petch were, it is said, sent to the
Irench war Office, and. inquiries being
made, appear th confirm the belief that the
Germans have established. pigeon stations
on French territory, and that messages are
even now exchanged between these stations
and the military staff' at Berlin. Should
these statements prove true they may well
cause both rmeasiness and anger in France.
It
is a very strong step to or.ganize pigeon
stations, with a view to invasion, in a
country with which peaceful relations pre-
vail. It is certain that this system was,
Previous to the war of 1871, carried on in
France by German officers to an extraordinery.
extent, and that the invading army was far
better acquainted with every road and byway
and with every particular of the country
than were the defenders, but this establish-
nient of pigeon posts in a friendly country
for the purpose of giving assistance to au in-
vading army would certainly seem th be an
indefensible step, and one which the French
have a right &I resent.
He Was Green, But He Got the Job.
" A young man from the emmtry came in
the other day looking for a situation," said
a well-known merchant. "I rather liked
the boy's looks, and, after inquiring about
his mercantile experience, his education, his
expectation in the way of salary, etc., I ask-
ed him if he had any references.
"'References !' he exclahned. 'What are
they?'
Why,' I tried to explain, can't you
give us the name of some prominent man in
your town so we con write th him? We
want to make some inquiries about you, you
know.'
" Inquh•ies About me 7' he rejoined, with
all open month end in his frank way ; great
jewhilikens, man, if you want to know any-
thing about me just ask me. I know more
than anybody else, end there's norm writing
Way down in the country for that.'
"You couldn't have any doubt of the hon-
esty of it man, like that, could you?" con-
cluded the inerehant. "The boy is now
Workier„Q in our Store, and will make it suc.
cess, too."
Nerve Pala Cure,
Poison's Nerviline cures flatulence, chills
and spasms. Nerviline cures vomiting,
arrinea, cholera, mid dysentery. Nerviline
°tires headache, see -sickness and summes
complaint. Nerviline mires neuralgia, toothr
ache, lumbago, and sciatica. Nervilin.
cures sprains, braises, cuts, Polson'e
Nerviline is the best remedy in the worlds'
and only cost10 and 2:5 cents to try it,
Sample and large bottles at any drug store.
Try Poison's Nerviline.
Paradoxical as it may seem, the loss
" soap" there is used the cleaner aottinpaign
is likely to be.
A Last Farewell,
Dv 3018_0, JOBLISO.
Whim 1 lie l' the mOols,'gnidinan,
Beneath the tin' Sue light --
Beneath the Clover white aad red --
The gowans red and .white,
Au' ye bring Vito' the Oki kirkytird
.A.,Yetinger, fairer bride,
To look npOn illy resting place,
I'd euve ye step aside,
For 3 ani glad iny hour has come,
111 no win thro' the night,
An' yell be free again; guidnian,
Before tee Jeanne's light.
glad the years lute been sae fee',
I'm glad 1 canna stuy,
But gin ye'll sometimes think o'ene,
111 gladder gang away, .
Yell miss me I, for a while, lute doot,
Ye'll no ken what ye lack ;
Yell wander, aimless, but an' ben,
An' want me back.
It inay be weeks, it inay be nionthe,
Or days, but it may be --
Still weekly gafiging to the kirk
Ye'll surely think o' Me.
'Until ye see seine lther lass,
Are witched by her eaeet smile;
But may her heart be like my heart,
As foini and free from gulls;
An' may her eyes, unlike my eyes,
Ne'er know the.smart o' tears;
An' may her Ole, unlike my life,
Be fu' o' lure as years.
I'tlitllaIlkf al that I lea' no bairn
To wail mammie, gene;
She inicht be guid-the stepmother -
'Till she has weans, her am.
I've longed sae sairtohae a bairn,
But not) it 15 118 well -
She inicht be guid-the etemnother- •
But, oh i hoo can I tell. '
I'll lea' ye wi' 11 lichter held
Sin' she will 110 be tried,
na, 1 dinna grudge my place -
Bring lichtly hame yer bride,
But hult beside My resting plate
As ye the yaird gang thro'-
I'd not soon be lin forgot -
An' may she love ye true.
#or gin my saul can come again -
As some believe It can -
I will linger round the homestead, falai
That harbors my guidinan ;
I will smile upon the lealguid wife,
I will dant eaoli bonnie wean -
Richt glad to see ye trig and brew,
Her guldman-yet 1113 1110.
•I'll no be jealous when I lie
At rest beneath the clay;
But kiss Inc noo an' say guid bye,
For I am 'insist away.
Na, na, I've imething to reproach,
But much to thank ye tor;
As you've been guid to me, guidman,
So be ye guid to hen
My Graves.
This brave, sweet boy, against whcs4 ears
Pod pressed His hand so heavily,
It shut mit sound for all the years
'Twixt then and far futurity -
This dark-browed 'addle asks me where
Ikeep my graves, and all the while
T.7pon his face, so bright and fair,
Dimples a stmnge, enchanting smile,
"35y graves?' I look him in the eyes
And wonder if his feet have strength -
To tread the path that made me wise -
That path so rough, so great of length ;.1.
While all along its side there lie,
Beneath the overhanging bonging,
My graves, the blessed graves that I
Love better than my heaveu-set VOWS.
love my graves! the pink -hued flower •
That glows there in a slender wreath
Seems to me like a priceless dower,
Because my dear ones sleep beneath,.
Tears thread the grass like drops of dew;
And now and then a blood -red stain
Ed Shows how a heart-throb broke in view,
When some transcendent hope was dain.
High overhead, with rippling song
The little birds fill up the air,
And their sweet music makes me strong
To climb and yield confession there;
To own my faults without a frown,
To draw a heavy breath and pass,.
While green leaves catch a hint of brown.
And sweet buds wither in the grass.
Sing, little birds, above iny graves;
Blow, gentle breezes, from the sea;
Come, salty fragrance of the waves,
And make life something good for me.
What if I bear gmves in my heart?
Faith, they are mine to tend and keep!.
And what if I from life should part?
Mayhem in some heart I might sleep:
So let the laurel drop a wreath
Down on my .„oraves, and let the vine.
Run where my dead ones lie beneath.
For every grass blade there is mine,
Eventhe hands that used to tonch
Lightly ray curly strands of hair
Still are my own ; I love them much,
Though hid from sight and clasped in prayer.
But, when my harvest field appears
As bare as it can be,
She comes, and finds some golden ears
Of life's good grain for ole;
My old belief in truth and trust
She hthlgs back, sometimes yet;
Yon smile again ;-ah, well, youpust;
You never knew Arlette.
The Reapers:
When the tired reapers, with fragrant sheaves,
Come out of the corn, as the sun goes down,
And the sky is rich as the falling leaves.
In crimson and purple and golden brown,
I sit in the mellow and marvellous eves
And watch, as the loom of the sunset weaves
Its cloth of gold over country and town.
And I think how the summers have come and gone
Since we saw the shuttle across the blue
That wove the colors of dusk and dawn
When the musk of the sleeping roses flew
On the Whigs of the south wind over the lawn,
And the evening shadows were longer drawn,
And the sun was low, and the stars were few;
When Love was sweet in the lives we led
As the leaven that lives in the latter spring
To grow in the flowers, the books we read,
The romp and rush of the gmpe-virie swing,
In words and work, to be filled and fed
On brooks of honey and wasted bread, '
And sung in the songs that we used to sing.
And out of the shadows they come to me,
As flowers of the spring come, year by year,
The lovers we had when to love was free,
The stars were few and the skies were clear,
And we knew it was happiness just to be, .
Through the sheaves of the cloud -kind fair to see,
While the weary reapers are drawing near.
Though the, -ed and white roses have lost their
• leaves
In the ashes of summers of long ago,
They come, through the mellow and inervellous
eves,
With the harvest of love that we used to sow,
As rich OS the„,ttrlitilds the sunset Weaves
When the tired reapers with fragrant sheaves,
Come out of the corn and the sun 'is low.
.....••••••••• ••••1111606.
I Know Not Why I Love Thee.
AV ARCM Nisei:.
T. know not why 3 love thee,
The charm, I can't define,
Which lingers ever rotind thee,
And makes me wholly thine;
Which fills my heart with glatiness,,
With Summer's fervid glow,
Which banishes my sadness, '
My weariness and woe.
It is not that thy eyes are bright,.
Or that thy face is fair,
It is not that the sun is canght
And 'prisoned in thy heir.
it is not that a fairy grace,
Ever atound thee clings,
Nor that thy voice like inusip,
With youth and pleasnre rings.
'Tis something far more subtle
That, speaks unto my soul,
That makes thy hares affection
Towarde thee,, ever roll.
tpel its strong attraetion,
Though it I can't deene,a-
nut 3 must love thee ever,
Ity heart is wholly thine.
Lesson in manners Small boy-” Ma,
pass the bread." Ma sternly--" If what,
my son ?" Small boy, smartly-" If you
,cen reach it, ma."