The Exeter Times, 1887-2-10, Page 2Th.e Sunbeam's Mission.
sr 1. ADO{a JONIS.
Long tivae ago, whoa this old world ways you
A sunbeam from Cod's li ithouse blttlaclyy;.epreug
Out iota's taco, and seexete.!l tbreuah euxt i and ekr
'm
For 'menet. things to end ansll gle rl�v
It brightened upthe a s' erotic anal nun
I. danced ther sunbeams frolics mire
It dart e,
tt paled within the noon stet's steady glare,
,Slut testing all effects and searohlug round,
Sts bolt results in strangest things it fount
npain,.
It made a digit fond Pt a tees of
Transfor'tuin, griefs into prim -Lune 113.111;
It formed in chesty mills red eoldeu bare,
Transformed rude boats Into illumined ears
And made of raiueirops brilliant falling star's.
Far out Si; ON it glowed, deep,rich and warn,
In heart of spray cost up by wind and storm -
Iligh up on mountains teuelied'the pale, dead snow
With swift enchantment into wannest glow ;
It made of mists st,auge forms with gilded wings ;
lo gloomy eaves—where silent darkness chugs --
Its golden Angers searched for hidden things.
Bat, bettor still, one day a cloud it suet --
A sombre pall with surface black as And
t—
And straightway o'er its velvet surface traced.,
with threads of gold and crimson hitcrlaced,
Such grand designs as earth had never known,
Such rich effects of color and atone,
It seemed a copy of God's very throne.
Its darkling fleece turned to molten gold,
Its deep recesses—lined end crimson scrolled—
Its billowy banks, with marvels richly spread,.
Ot priceless genas upon a prieeless bed
Of curve and color, joined with matchless grace,
Until the awestruck soul could plainly trove
}leaven's splendors mirrored on the sky's broad face
And so throughout succeeding days and years
Sunbeatue love best to glow in falling teats;
To change'te mold the chill, swift -falling rain.
To forge gold bars in dark abodes of pain,
And, finding those in ,gluon, to visit such
With kindly light, with magic skill and touch
Transforming ills which haunt them overmuch.
Then, best of all, when veiled in darkling clouds,
Which seem to wrap the world in ebon shrouds,
The sunbeams love its blackness to transform
To dreamlike beauty, rich and glad and warm ;
God's promise in its grandeur glorified,
while light from heaven's gold streets, a radiant tide,
Sifts through like blessings to its earthly side,
And so the heaven -light's richest work appears
On darkest clouds, enshrined in hearts of tears ;
Love's pattern woven Into lives and years.
which washes its base,—e feat of vision of- ever, the deep blue of space so far ovcreanle
ten, indeed, accomplished by star -gazers, the roseate tint that one }eight fancy he wore
though I had; never done it to my complete eti11 on berth.
eatistaetion before. I As I looked about me I saw many mon,
1 was int greased with the idea that if T women, and children. They were in no re- l a you describe could bo combined with
ever made au original .discovery in regard spect dissiuuler, en far as I can see, to the Merely lntnien faculties is more than our
t Mars,i would en. that evening, and I men, women, and ohndron of the Earth, Philosophers have ever dared to dream," 1
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believed that I should do it. 'I trembled save for something almost childlike in the said. "And yet who shall say, after all,
victual careers on this planet. Each of us
foresees the course of his Own life, butsot.
that of other lives, except so far as they are
invelved with Ida." "That moll a power
With ; mingled exultation antianxiety,itntiwas untroubled serenity of their faces, ne-
abli ged to pause to recover nfy self-control. farrowed as they were by any trace of
Finally, I placed my eye to the eye - pickle, care,, of fear, or of anxiety, This extraor-
nd directed my ase fit orf the portion of Binary outhfuluess of aspect made ib
4lifli-
a t Y S p �'
that it is not in mercy tlsat God has denied
it to us ? If it is a lfappiitess, as it must be,
to foresee one's happiness, it must be most
depressing to foresee one's sorrow, failures,
the planet in which I was s eoially interest• cult, indeed, save by careful scrutiny, to yea, and even one death, 1! or if you fore-
p t i the 'on. from the t t•ddle•a ed see :our lives to the end you must andel-
absorbed My attention soon became fixed and � disttn� i sh tl young fi n l �• g your ,
absorbed niuoh beyoud my wont, when ob- niaturtty from advanced years, Time seem- Bate the hour and mariner of your �death,,--.
serving, and that itnpliecl no ordinary de- ed to Have no tooth ou Mars, is it not so ?' ' Most assuredly, was the
gree et abstraction, To all mental intents I was gazing about me, admiring the reply. a Living would be a very precarious
b faculty, o •intson-li rbted world,and these eo.>lo who business, were we uninformed or its limit,
aud purposes I was on Mars. Every �, t g P 1 ,
everysusceptibility of sense and intellect, appeared to held happiness by a tenure so Your ignorance of the time of your death
gradually pass lute these and much firmer than men's when I heard the impresses tis its one cif the saddest features
seemed btaduatly to i eeye,
beoouie concentrated in the act of gazing. ' words, " You are welcome," aud, turning, of your condition." "And by us," I an -
Every atom of nerve and will power own- saw that I had been accosted by a man with t swered," pit is field to be one of the most
biped in the strain to see a little, and yet a the stature and bearing of middle age, meroiful, "Foreknowledge of your death
little, clearer, farther, deeper. though his countenance, like the other
��ii on the bed fats which had noted wonderfully eom-
Tlie noxa thin I knew 1 was h e f y
gthe observing- bi ted the strewth of a man's with the sn-
that stood in a ooriiar ofi g ere'd
room, half raised on an elbow, and gazing ity of a child's. I thanked him and said,
,
intently at the door. It was broad daylight. 1" You do not seem surprised to see me,
Half a dozen men, including several of the though I certainly am to find myself here."
professors and a doctor from the village, "Assuredly uot," he answered. " I knew,
were around me, Some were trying to of course, that I was to meet you to -day.
may ane lie down, others were asking me And not onI' only that, but atfy I ani al
' what I wanted, while the doctor was urging ready ie. a sense acquainted with you
1 ate to drink some whiskey, Mechanically through a mutual friend, Professor Edgerly•)
spelling their offices, I pointed to the door He was here last month, and I met him a
and ejaculated, "President Byxbee—tom- that tune. We talked of you and your in
I ing," giving expression to the one idea which terest iu our planet. I told him 1 expected
my dazed mind at that inoment contained. you." "Edgerly 1' I exclaimed. "It it
And sure enough, even as I spoke the door strange that he has said [nothing of this tt
opened, and the venerable head of the col- me, I meet hint every day." But I Wit,,
I lege, somewhat blown with climbing the reminded that it was in a dream that Edged
steep stairway, stood on the threshold. ly, like myself, had visited Mars, and of
With -a sensation of prodigious relief, 1 fell awaking had recalled nothing of his exper
back on my pillow. ence, just as I should recall nothing of ming'
It appeared that I had swooned while in When will m$n learn to interrogate tit•
the observing -chair, the night before, and dream soul of the marvels it sees in its wanj
I had been found by the janitor in the morn- derings? Then he will no longer need t7
ing, my head fallen forward on the teles- improve his telesoops to find out the secret
co d, rigid, pulseless, and apparently dead, Earth in the same manner ?
In a con le of days I was sill right again, companion. "certainly,"
cope, as if still observing, but my body of the universe " Do your �eop ae visit th
1 ' asked m
1 he replied
The Bldman s YOrld, and should soon have forgotten the epi- ," but these we find no one able to recogniz
sode but for a very interesting conjecture us aud converse with us as I am conversin
which had suggested itself in connection with you, although myself in the wakinj
The narrative to which this note is intro- with it. This was nothing less than that, state, You, as yet, lack the knowledge Nal
ductory was found among the papers of the while I lay in that swoon, I was in a con- possess of the spiritual side of the hums'
late Professor S. Erastus Larrabee, and, as soious state outside and independent of the nature which we share with you." "Thi
an acquaintance of the gentleman to whom body, and in that state received impressions knowledge must have euabled you to lear
they were bequeathed, I was requested to and exercised perceptive powers. For this much more of the Earth than we know
prepare it for publication. This turned out extraordinary theory I had no other evidence you," I said. "Indeed it has," he replie
a very easy task, for the document proved than the fact of my knowlege in the mo- " From visitors such as you, of whom T
of so extraordinary a character that, if pub- ment of awaking that President Byxbee was entertain a concourse constantly, we ha
c anae. appears thate professor cue was, itseems me unmistakable m f , your manners,
would not, indeed, prevent your dying
once, continued my companion, but it
would deliver you from the thousand deaths
you suffer through the uncertainty whether
you can safely count on the passing day. It
is not the death you die, but these many
deaths you do not die, which shadow your
existence.
(TO E CONTI.NNUED,)
fished at all, it should obviously be without coming up the stairs. But slight as this acquired familiarity with your civilized It th f did 1 d to o your and even y
really, at one time in his life, have an at-, its significance. That knowledge was cer- literature and languages. Have you Ct
tack of vertigo, or something of the sort, taiuly on my mind on the instant of arousing noticed that I am talking with you in Edg-
under circumstances similar to those des- from the swoon. It certainly could not lish, which is certainly not a tongue indi-
cribed by him, and to that extent his mama- have been there before I fell into the swoon. genous to this planet?" "Among so many
tive may be founded on fact. How soon it I must therefore have gained it in the mean- wonders I scarcely observed that," I an -
shifts from that foundation, or whether it time ; that is to say, 1 must have been in a swered. "For ages," pursued my compan-
does at all, the reader must conclude for conscious percipient state while my body ion, " we lieve been waiting for you to im-
himself. It appears certain that the pro- was insensible. prove your telescopes so as to approximate
fessor never related to any one while living
the stranger features of the experience here
narrated, but this might have been merely
from fear that his standing as a man of
$ science would be thereby injured.
Edward Bellamy.
THE PROFESSOR'S _NARRATIVE.
At the time of the experience of which I
am about to write, I was professor of astron-
omy and higher mathematics at Abercrom
bie College. Most astronomers have a spe-
cialty, and mine was the study of the planet
Mars, our nearest neighbor but one in the
Sun's little family. When no important ce-
lestial phenomena in other quarters de-
manded attention, it was on the ruddy disc
of Mars that my telescope was oftenest
focused. I was never weary of tracing the
outlines of its continents and seas, its capes
and islands its bays and straits, its lakes
and mountains. With intense interest I well-nigh valueless.' " Foresight !" I re -
watched from week to week of the Martial exchange I might be shown the record of sated, "Certain}y you cannot mean that
winter the advance of the polar ice -cap to- • what I had seen and known during those Pp„ «
g memory showed it is given you to know the future. It is
ward the equator, and its corresponding re- hours of which my wakin
treat in the summer ; testifying across the
gulf of space as plainly as written words
to the existence on that orb of a olimatelike
our own. A specialty is always in danger
of becoming an infatuation, and my interest
in Mars, at the time of which I write, had
grown to be more than strictly scientific.
The impression of the nearness of this planet,
heightened by the wonderful distinctness of
its geography as seen through a telescope,
appeals strongly to the imagination of the
astronomer. On fine evenings I used to
spend hours, not so much critically observ-
ing as brooding over its radiant surface, till
I could almost persuade myself that I saw
the breakers dashing on the bold shore of
t..
f
If such had been the case, I reasoned the power of ours, after which conmiunica-
that it was altogether unlikely that the tri- tion between the planets would be easily es -
vial impression as to President Byxbee had tablished. The progress which you make is,
been the only one which I had received in however, so slow that we expect to wait
that state. It was far more probable that ages yet." "Indeed, I fear you will have
it had remained over in my mind, on wok- to," I replied. "Our opticians already talk
ing from the swoon, merely because it was of having reached the limits of their art."
the latest of a series of impressions received ".Do not imagine that I spoke in any spirit
while outside the body. That these impres- of petulance," my companion resumed.
sions were of a kind most strange and start- " The slowness of your progress is not so
ling, seeing that they were those of a disem- remarkable to us as that you make any at
bodied soul exercising facultibs more spirit- all, burdened as you are by a disability so
ual than those of the body, I could not crushing that if we were in your place I
doubt. The desire to know what they had fear we would sit down in utter despair."
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disability do you refer ?"I asked.
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alon it v a
grewtill it becamei T w
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longing
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it
to be m -And which left me no repose. It warned intoner.. You. seem ea like
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able that I should have secrets from myself, we are," was the reply, "save in one parti-
that my soul should withold its experiences cular, but the difference is tremendous.
from my intellect. I would gladly have Endowed otherwise like us, you are desti-
consented that the acquisitions of half my tue of the faculty of foresight, without
waking lifetime should be blotted out, if to which we should think our other faculties
no trace. None the less or the conviction given not only to us," was the answer, "but
of its hopelessness, but rather all the more, so far as we know, to all other intelligent
as the perversity of our human nature will beings of the universe except yourselves.
have it, the longing for this forbidden lore Our positive knowledge extends only to our
grew on me, till the hunger of Eve in the system of moons and planets and some of
Garden was mine. the nearer foreign systems, and it is conceiv-
Constantly brooding over a desire that I able that the remoter parts of the universe
felt to be vain, tantalized by the possession may harbor other blind races like your own;
of a clue which only mocked me, my physi- but it end nly seems a speunlctacle
that se
be
cal condition became at length affected. My strange and
lamentable One suchillustrat illustration of thea ex -
health was disturbed and my rest at unordinary deprivations under which a ra-
night was broken. A habit of walking in tional existence may still be possible ought
my sleep, from which I had not suffered to suffice for the universe." "But no one
since childhood, recurred, and caeedane can know the €eters except by inspiration
b
frequent inconvenience. Such had been, in of God," I said. "All our faculties are
general, nay condition for some time, when ins irations of God " nuns the re 1 > "but
Kelper land, and heard the muffled thunder awoke one morning with the strangely there is surely nothing in foresight to cause
. sof avalanches descending the snow -clad weary sensation by which my body usually it to be so regarded more than any other.
mountains of Mitchell. No earthly land- betrayed the secret of the imposition put Think a moment of the physical analogy of
scape had the charm to hold my gaze of that upon it in sleep, of which otherwise I should the case. Your eyes are placed in the front
far-off planet, whose oceans, to the unprac- have suspected nothing. In going into the ofour heads. You would deem it an odd
ticed eye, seem but darker, and its conti- study connected with my chamber, I found mistake if they were planed behind. That
nents lighter spots and bands. ' a number of freshly written sheets on the would appear to you an arrangement calcu-
Astronomers have agreed in declaring desk. Astonished that any one should have lated to defeat their propose. • Does it not
that Mars is undoubtedly habitable by being been in my rooms while I slept, I was as- seem equally rational that the mental vision
like ourselves, but as may be supposed, I tonished, on more closely, to observe should range forward, as it does with us,
. was not in a mood tat be satisfied with that the handwriting was my own. How illuminating the path one is to take, rather
. considering it merely habitable. I allow- much more than. astonished I was on reading than backward, as with you, revealing only
ed no sort of question that it was habited. the matter that had been set down, the the course you have already trodden,
What manner of ke'ngs these inhabitants reader May judge if he shall pursue. For and therefore have uo more concern with ?
aright be I found a fascinating speculation. these written sheets apparently contained But it is no doubt a merciful provision of
• The variety of types appearing in man- the longed -Tor but despaired -of record of Providence that renders you unable to real -
kind even on this small Earth makes it those hours when I was absent from the ize the grotesqueness of your predicament,
most presumptuous to assume that the body. They were the lost chapter of my as it appears to us."
citizens of different planets may not be char- life ; or rather notlost at all, for it had been "But the future is eternal !" I exclaimed.
acterized by diversities far profounder. no part of my waking life, but stolen "Haw can a finite mind grasp it ?" "Our
Wherein. such diversities, coupled with a from that sleep -memory on which myster- foreknowledge implies onlyhumanfaculties,"
general resemblance to man, might consist, ions tablets may well be inscribed tales as was the reply. "It is limited to our indi.-
whether in mere physical differences or in much more marvellous than this as this is
different mental laws in the lack of certain stranger than most stories.
of the great passional motors of men or the' It will be remembered that my last reeol-
possession of quiteothers,were weird. themes lection before awaking in my bed, on the
of never -failing attractions for my mind. morning after the swoon, was of contem-
The El Dorado visions with which the virgin plating the coast of Kepler Land with an
mystery of the New, World inspired the unusual concentration of attention. As well
early Spanish explorers were tame and as Ican judge,—and that is; no better than
prosaic compared with the speculations any one else,—it is with the moment that
which it was perfectly legitimate to indulge, ' my bodily power succumbed and I became
when the roblem; was the 'conditions of unconscious that the narrative which I found
life on another planet. on my desk begins. i
It was the time of the year when Mars is
most favorably situated for observation,
and, anxious riot to lose an hour of the pre-
cious season, I had spent the greater part of
several successive nights in the observatory.
THE DOCUMENT VOTIND 0:7 MY DESK.
Even had I not come as straight and swift
as the beam of light that made my path, a
glance about would have told' me to what
I believed that f had some original observe- part of the universe had fared. No earth-
tione to the trend of the coast of Kepler ly landscape could have been more familiar.
Land between Lagrange Peninsula and I stood on the high coast of Kepler Land
Christie Bay, and it was to this spot that where it trends' southward. A brisk west -
my observations were partially directed. erly wind was blowing and the waves of the
On the fourth night other work detained ocean of De La Rue, were thundering at nay
me from the observing -chair till after mid- feet, while the broad blue waters of Christie
night. When 1 had adjusted the instrument Bay, stretched away to , the southwest.
friar look at Mars, I remember Against the northern horizon, rising out of
and took my
being unable to restrain a cry of admiration the ocean like a summer thunder•hea,d, for
which at first I mistook it, towered the far -
distant, snowy summit of Mount Hall.
Even lied the configuration of land and
sea been less familiar, 1 chould none the less
have known that I stood on the planet whose
ruddy hue is at once the admiration and
The planet was fairly dazzling. It seemed
nearer and larger than I had ever seen it be-
fore, and its peculiar ruddiness more strik-
ing. In thirty years of observation, I re -
all, in fact, no occasion when the absence.
of exhalations in our atmosphere has coin-
cided with such cloudlessness in that of ! puzzle of astronomers. Its explanation I
Mars as on that night. I could plainly now recognized in the tint of the atmo-
make out the white masses of vapour at the sphere, a coloring comparable to the haze of
opposite edges of the lighted disc, which aro Indian summer, except that its hue was a
the mists of its dawn and evening. The faint rose instead of purple. Like the In-
snowy mass of Mount Hall over a slant
Kepler Land stood out with wonderful
clearness - and I couId unmistakably detect
dian summer haze, it was impalpable, and
'without impedingthe view bathed all oh.
jecte near and far in a glamour not to be de.
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n
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wlu ue iouno at -i it is
also not improbable tha4 near the city it
will be found to be paved with lava, like
the cel brated street of tombs on the west-
ern si e. Should the whole be found to be
as closely lined with tombs as is the portion
laid bare, it will be one of the most import-
ant discoveries lately made in this part of
the world. Unfortunately, money is wanting
and the excavation is going on but slowly.
The ancient level of the street being here
very low, the road is first covered to the
depth of ten or fifteen feet with pumice
stones ejected from Vesuvius during the
great eruption of 1872. Then comes a thin
layer of ashes ; then again a stratum of
pumice about ten inches thick, another
thin line of ashes, and over all earth several
feet deep. Just below this upper earth
were found seven large statues, which had
evidently surmounted the tombs beneath.
Misused Words.
Accoustics is always singular.
Cut bias, and not cut on the bias.
Allow should not be used for admit.
Come to see me, and not come and see
me.
Bursted is not elegant and is rarely cor-
rect.
Almost, with a negative, is ridiculous.
"Almost nothing" is absurd.
The burden.of a song means the refrain
or chorus, not its sense or meaning.
Bountiful applies to persons, not to
things, and has no reference to quantity.
Affable only applies when speaking of the
manner of superiors to inferiors.
" Methinks is formed by the impersonal
verb think, meaning seen, and the dative
me ; and is literally rendered, It seems to
me."
Admire should not be followed with the
infinitive. Never say, as many do, " I
should admire to go with you," etc. This
error is singularly fashionable just now.
Allude is now frequently misused when a
thing is named, spoken of or described. It
should only be used when anything is hint-
ed at in a playful or passing manner.
FARM. LATE DOMINION NEWS.
Two-thirds of a teaspoonful of ginger in a
Tint of strong ale will excite the appetite of
s sheep that is prostrated.
A writer in the Dairyman says : The
very poorest ensilage I have ever seen has
been in the s.4los of agricultural colleges.
Fact."
Even in the coldest weather the manure
from horse stables should be drawn out 011
the land at least once a week. It heats
rapidly and soon. bootees "tire -fanged,"
whiclt greatly injures it.
One use for old tin cans is to cut thein up
into strips two or three inches wide i41
tack them over mouse holes in the house
or barn. We line the corners of our corn
Drib with such strips, and think it will be
proof against rats and fnioe, front below,
et least.--Incliamta Farmer.
It is never best to churn all the Dream on
hand. That which was ekinumed last has
not had time to get into uniform condition
with the rest, and most of its butter goes
into the buttermilk. 1t also makes butter
come slowly, and after a long time has been
needlessly spent in churning.
It is important that land plaster be sown
early enough in the season to have it
thoroughly dissolved by rains. Any time in
the winter is better than after dry weather
has come in spring. It is a common practice
in places whore it is used largely to sow it
on clover in the winter before other aud
hurrying work begins.
A New Sect of Philosophers.
" Well, Jane, this is a queer world," said
Joe to his wife, " a sect of women philoso-
phers has just sprung up."
"Indeed," said Jane, "and what do they
hold ?"
"The strangest thing in nature," said he,
" their tongues !"
Two of a Kind.
Is: lonely Skating Rink met a Toboggan
Slide the other day. " How are you feel-
ing ?" asked the Rink in doleful tones. "I
ani Hunky," replied the Aide. "I am fast
Making Barrels of Money." "Come and
see me in about Two i ears from now," said
the Rink, " and we will Condole together.
Ihave Been There myself."
A farrow cow niay be fattened by high
feeding while still giving milk, But unless
there is especial use for the milk it is not
good policy to do so. Dairymen who can
make evey quart of milk pay high prices do
it, but farmers who rely on turning milk
into buttermilk will do better to dry early
and fatten all the faster. They thus get the
profit of making oleomargarine without its
attempted fraud.
It is slow, hard work to cut stalks by
hand for a number of cattle, requiring one
or two hours per day, which, if time is valu-
able, as it ought to be, should not be wasted
in this way. For a few dollars a horse -power
cutter can be got, which in a single day will
cut all the stalks to be used during the win-
ter. The farmer is a poor manager who can-
not use the time of himself or men thus sav-
ed in some better way than competing with
horse or steam power.
The old-fashioned buckwheat bran is ex-
cellent feed for milch cows, as it is very
stimulating to milk production. In many
families where the old-fashioned buckwheat
flour is used the finer portions of the mid-
dlings are sifted and mixed with it as a
measure both of economy and healthfulness.
If good old-fashioned buckwheat flour could
be had there would be an active demand for
it at half a cent a pound, or even more ad.
vance on prices charged for that adulterated
with wheat flour. This extra price would
about represent the profit that the manufac-
turers snake by the adulteration of the gen-
uine product.
Machinery is not labor-saving. The man
who works with a threshing machine, works
as hard as his father did with a flail, but
he produces greater results. To those who
think only of the price of wages, machinery
is a fraud, but to the c onsumer of manufac
tured articles it is a boon. Our mothers
used to card their own wool, spin and
weave aud wear it, and it is no disparagment
to our wives and sweethearts that they do
not. They can't afford to. If it were not
t race of women
lve the resew
too expensive, P hd more too. and iris would do thisan o
g
Ma-
chinery has not obviated the necessity of
work, it has only given it a new direction.
Good machinery is a good thing, but the
man who expects it to do his work will be
fooled ; it helps him to do more work.—Ex.
There is diphtheria at Valloyfield.
At the Johns Hopkins Uuiversit , Balti-
more the •
te arep y
at present seven Canadians
bolding fellowships, Of these five were stu..
dents of Upper Canada College,.
A boy arrived at Port Iope the other
night almost frozen and famiehed, He had
walked all the way from Toronto. Efforts
are being made to find him employment,
A motion has been introduced into the
Winnipeg City Council to extend the anuni-
ei al franchise to unmarried womon and
married women holding property in their
own right,
The women of Toronto are getting up a
petition to Mayor Rowland to initiate a
a movement looking to shorter hours for
saleswomen in retail stores. They base
their application on the feet that Mr. How-
land was supported by women in the late
mayoralty contest,
Duncan Cameron, of Dun)1,
, who was
sentenced for forgery twos ago .has
served his tern ill the Kingstenitentiary
and has returned home. was visited
while in prison by Rev. Thos, Bone, mis-
sionary, who states that he has become a
converted man and has had charge of a Bible
class in the penitentiary for a number of
nioriths past.
At the inquest on the body of Michael De -
lana, a section man from Cataract, who was
found dead on the Canadian Pacific Railway
track, the verdict was that he came to
his death purely by accident, no blame be -
ng attached to any of the railway employ-
ees. His left arm was torn off, his
right leg fractured, the neck dislocated
and the base of the skull fractured. He
leaves a wife and fancily.
There is a big sensation in Frankford over
the recent death of a lady and the early
marriage of her husband. After the death
of the lady, who was beloved by a large
number of the villagers, a few days only
elapaed before the husband sought another
wife, which aroused no little gossip. It is
now hinted that the first wife may have met
with foul play and her body is likely to be
exhumed.
A brutal murder was recently committed
near the mouth of the Fraser River, B. C.
A man named J. A. Harris, not having been
seen f' r some days, a neighbor visited his
house, found the body on the floor with
three cuts on the head and one on the
throat, the latter nearly severing the head
from the body. There is no clue to the
murderer. The knife with which the mur-
der was committed was found near the body.
The house was ransacked and the door clos-
ed and locked from outside.
The latest report from the discoverera of
spirits on the ship Squando at Bathurst, N.
B., is that the spirits are engaged in unload
ing and reloading the cargo every night.
Two good men and true swear that the side
of the ship opens at midnight and the spirits
proceed to move the deals out on the ice, be. Alter
discharging part of the cargo they reined.
There are four ghosts in all. One of them
has no head, and he is thus enabled to carry
deals without makin imp if lopsided.
Mrs. Cooper, whosehus and met his death
in a gravel pit last summer, has removed to
Salem and is keeping house for Mr. Prior.
She weighs 272 pounds, and claims to be
the largest woman in the country. She is
only 32 years of age, and is the mother of
two children. Mr. Prior weighs about 1..
pounds, is in the neighborhood of thre
score, and the father of a: own•n family.
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Rumor says that this female Sampson and
this well-known Zachxus are soon to be
made one flesh.
Nervous Horses.
Finely bred, intelligent horses are very
often nervous. They are quick to take no-
tice, quick to take alarm, quick to do what
seems to them, in a moment of terror, neces-
sary to escape from possible harm, from
something they do not understand. That
is what snakes them shy, bolt and run away.
We cannot tell what awful suggestions
strange things offer to their minds. For
aught we can tell, a sheet of whi,e paper
in the road may seem to the nervous horse
a yawning chasm, the open front of a baby
carriage the jaws of a dragon ready to, de-
vour him, and a man on a bicycle some
terrifying sort of flying devil without wings.
But we find the moment he becomes
familiar with those things or any other
that affright him, and knows what they are
he grows indifferent to them. Therefore,
when your horse shies at anything make
him acquainted with it ; let him smell it,
touch it with his sensitive upper lip,
and look closely at it. Remember, too,
that you must familiarize both sides of him
with the dreaded object. If he only ex-
amins it with the near nostril and eye, he
will be very apt to'scare at it when it ap-
pears on his oft side. ,
So, then, rattle your paper, beat your
brass drum, flutter your umbrella, run your
baby carriage, and your bicycle, fire your
pistol, and clatter your tinware on both
sides of him and all around him until he
comes to regard the noise simply as a nui-
sance and the material objects as only trivial
things liable to get hurt if they are in his
way. He may not learn all that in one
lesson, but continue the lesson and you will
cure all his nervousness.
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THE PASITTON OF,`;OTIAINING DOGS TOGIiTITER, AND ALLOWIlli) tiiiM TO RUN AT LARGE IS A V
the blue tint of the ocean of De La Rue, scribed, As the gaze turned upward, how- sotdit Atoms wile ala; NO BEAUTY IN ANYTHING. -
;RY PRETTY ONE, BUT
One day recently Mr. James Poe, a Bid-
dulph farmer, was dri ' tg toward St. Mary's.
There was a heavya rm prevailing at
the time, and as he approached the crossing
he could hear or see no train near. He
drove on, but just as his horses got on the
track a snow plough came rushing along,
striking the sleigh, and throwing the horses
on one side of the track, and Mr. Poe and
part of the sleigh many feet distant on the
other side. The horses were instantly kill-
ed, but their driver miraculously escaped.
The sleigh was knocked into pieces.
Mr. J. P. Ashley, of Nanaimo, B. C.,
writes as follows to the Albany Journal :—
" I saw some time ago an extract from your
paper stating that Sergeant somebody, I
forget the name,' who was with the Greely
expedition, intended to make another at-
tempt to reach the North Pole. • I have
made a machine with which I can make the
distance from 80 to 90 degree in from 20 to
30 hours' travel and carry two persons be-
sides myself and 200 pounds of baggage. To
satisfy him that Bean do it, I will give him
a trial trip from Winnipeg, Manitoba, to
York Factory on Hudson Bay ` next win
ter' and back if he so desires. I have tree,„
veily ed on theDakota prairies in some o€8t
those blizzards that you no doubt have read`t
about, at the rate of 60 miles an hour, bu ;,I
I prefer to travel at a 25 or 30 mile an holt
rate, which, of course, can be regulated
You can put him in communication wit}
me or give him this letter if he lives in yo
vicinity. My address will be for the nex
few months Victoria, B. C., care of A. B4
Carpenter. It is several years since I firs,;
operated the machine, and I have neve*
thought of applying it to this use until la
ly cr I might have been to the North Poli
long ago, or at least have rescued the Gree.
ly party much sooner than they were."
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Very Neatly and Delicately Done.
"Ah, madam," he said as he extended:
hand to help her up. " I never saw a moP,�a;
graceful fall. You threw up your arms like,
a born actress, your little feet indulged in,
shuffle, and down you settled with a swa
like movement which
`t uperb."
"Really, sir !„ -^[;
"Honest Injun, madam."
And he picked up a No. 7 rubber which
had been flung, from her left foot, turned h
back to a dent in the snow which looked
if a cottage had been upset there, and, rai
ing his hat and making a profound bow
took his leave, while she got aboard a siret
car and continuedto blush and smile or six
teen blocks.?
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The Higher Graces of Life.
The higher graces of life belong in a nio
peculiar manner to its latter days. Tri
goodness, based upoit and growing out of i
herent worthiness, improves, like son , •,
kinds of our native fruit, with keeping
but, unlike the fruit, which cannot be kept
to advantage beyond a certain length of
time, goodness improves, and even increases
in the ratio of the prolongation of its exis
tence. It increases in quality too as well as,,..
in quantity, A heartsome smile is sweet cm
the face of seventeen—it is winsome and
captivating ; but upon the face of seventy,
if the thoughts and teelinigs have been of the
best, it is the most attractive, thing imaging.,,;;
inable.
The T.emiccaming Colonization Railway
THERE Axl: Company are about to issue $20,00 of
bends.