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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1887-6-23, Page 3The Battle of the Winclmil ••,••••••••• 1 pampa with breThe YeStlela Li --e-the .11reobtaeo, the friPon iE and the 0o4outv—Were Mounted With light Pennon, arid, eteamed ofr ditWn the river •te take part aa the final essitelt. Ihe 83rel, accornpanted by the eettllera carp si deployed into a stroeg osittoo on the rising alive to the ther of the indraill—e little farther north than the ground occupiea by Col. Frieser onTuestley —and enened a beavY cannopade on the conical ndll and the surreundieg stone houses, so long held by the inveders. This fire was hemedietely echoed front the boats on the river, and shot after shot from, both sides ploughed into this nest of rebels. After berely a half-hour's bomberdment, white flag was floated from the top of the mill ; but in spite of this cry for truce, the catmonade thundered on. Critics have bee u very fievere upon this point, condemning the British troops in sentences aglow with red-hot adjectives. They have been described es " brittes" and " barbarians," when their only crime lay in being too human It requires a machine to move with perfunctory exactuess ; and while the "regular" soldier—whose very heart fibres are replaced by steel—could fight all week without an emotion and at the command "cease firing" drop his rifle to his side ea if you had touched a spring in an automaton these young men had looked upon every death as a murder, upon the mutilation of Lieut. Johneon as ghoulish, and upon the reputed foul usage of two defenceless women as fiendish, and in their mad rage they viewed this flag of truce as an intervention of that very " machine" law which would set these " devils" scot. free • and remembering their dead Qom- rades in a dozen homes, they fired on. It was wrong, but it was the same instinct that leads a man to protect a friend. and prosecute the wretch who would violate his home. If self-preservation is the first law of nature," just retaliation makes a good second. But the officers," you say. Most of them were of the Militia, some have ing borne dead to their own homes; and the sternest veteran was only too glad to teach this daring band of marauders a lesson, hoping by their fat to chill any further dangerous enthusiasm across the border. Or 4, A. 0444.4$ S, 4,, WOAOnTo, ( Co4cluded, ) -at thie pine, Col, Friteer <kW off a portion pf his line partly es ailtse but prim- ciPallY to Preeerve it from anuihile'tion. The brave yoeng fellows pretested agaffiet even this retreat but fell baok with the obedience of veterens. A portion of the rebels, think- ing the tthops in full rout, charged eller them recklessly, but soon found their Mistake when eurrounded and repulsed, to be after- wards captured in detail, Having thus re, clued the enemy' force by some fifty to six- ty men—their boldest spirits too—the vol- unteers Again returned to the attack and charging at the a donble.quiek," heedlese of flashing rifles, whistling bullets and failing mem drove the rebels tom fence to fence, each one aitubbornly contested, until, they were fct • t ed to find shelter in the mill and adjece the ma aine veteran would at this juncture, have retired and f ,) bowies. Perhaps waited for reinforcements; but brutal war had touched these lusty fellows with his blood -red wand and they fought no more for success buefor revenge. Kin, comrades had been struck down before their eyes and borne, bleeding and struggling, back to die, Their manhood cried out for vengeance and the brute within them tapped the rifle, sniff- ed the powder and pointed to the foe. And they went—and many of them never came back. The "Partriots" wore again entrench- ed in fortifications partioulerly impervious to rifle -balls, and picked off the volunteers at their pleasure from the windows of the house e and mill. During the afternoon, an old barn that had afforded shelter to the troops, wits burned by the enemy; and thus being entirely without protection, they with- drew, grimly a,nd silently, to await the ar- rival of artillery. And all through the fad- ing afternoon and late into the starless night, these men lay, soaked through, along the kw walls that had sheltered. the rebels during the morning and kept,up an irregular spattering of musketry at the beleaguered foe which was as spa medically returned. In the morning, Col. Young sent a flag of truce to bring in the wounded, who had Iain on the field all night, and bury the dead; and the rebels' taking advantage of this same sweet giftof Peace to her burly brother, War, gave the corpses nearest the Mill decent burial. This was the last truce between the beleaguered forces; when the flag had been withdrawn and the spiteful spitting of small arms resumed, there was no quiet again until Von Shoultz lay, hand- cuffed, in prison. Wednesday, Thursday and Friday morn- ing were spent in waiting, keeping up mean- while a pretence at fight by means of a sporadic and intermittent firing from both sides, generally harmless and always waste- ful. Both parties were looking for reinforce- ments; the rebels expected swarms of their fellow "deliverers of Canada" to juin them and make this stand at Prescott the nucleus of a new Republic, while Col. Young and hie staff were awaiting guns of sufficient calla ibre to reduce the solidly built stone houses' occupied by the enemy; and the rebel hope was nor...Oil/out foundation. Thousands had gatheaed on the American shore, whence they openly encouraged and at times cheer. ' ed the efforts of the invading forces. Elo- quent and fiery orators harraneued immense assemblages in_Ogdensburg, urging them to cross over and help their "brethren" throw S\ off the "tyranny of British rule ;" and, in- deed, they were restrained from doing so with great difficulty, and then, not because of the injustice of,the act hut by its probable , failure. General Winfred Scott, whom the American Government had dispatched to ' the frontier for this very work, put before them thetfolly of endeavoring to free Cana- dians wiaMiavere evidently satisfied with their lot and beded them not to bring disgrace upon American arms; "for," he added, " I tell you plainly, that no body of undisci- , plined citizens, however numerous, can stand for ten minutes the charge ot a single regiment of British regulars." This sympathy with the "patriots" was not confined to the rabble, by any means, for one Isaac Ellwood, as member of the Board of Supervisors -.---a sort of county council— then in session at Canton, moved that the Board adjourn to enable its members "to rescue that Spartan band of patriotic friends" who were fighting against "the advocates and minions of British tyranny and op- preesion " at "Windmill Point, near Pres- cott." This motion, however, was tabled to be reworded, which was never done. . At one time during the temporary absence of the Experiment lip the River, a small steamer, aptly named the Paul Pry, came over from Ogdensburg and urged the de- fends of the Mill to get on board and make their escape, during the respite, to the American shore; but Preston, being a fiery revolutionist, persuaded the "Patriots that large reinforcements were hurrying to their support, and that they had but to hold on a little longer when they could disperse f the handful of opposing troops, at which the Canadians would flock gladly to their banner hailing them as deliverers and honoring them as leaders. Unfortunately, the garri- son were flattered by this roseate picture, and, dreaming of future fame and power, f The clouds had sullenly closed up the rifts of the morning, hurrying and deepen- ing the dusk of the early evening. The !batteries on the hillside roared on, and what had under the sunlight been puffs of smoke, now became lurid jets of flame. The large boats steamed up and down the current , keeping up an irregular fire upon the mill; and, under the orders of Col. Young, the !men were now creeping nearer the leeks,- gaered houses. The rebel fire had well- nigh ceased, but now and then a flash from one of the darkened windows told that some fellow had shot in sheer desperation at a moving shadow. Presently the scouts were joined by practically the whole line, and I the " creep " became a formal advance. A ' detailed description of the fight at this stage ' is simply impossible. The cannonading was reduced to an occasional shot, and the 'work left to the volunteers. As they sur- rounded a house, the rebels fled beck to the next one, exchanging a fee? shots in the ' melee; and the troops rushed into the place, securing in a few moments anything worth saving at such a time, set fire to the remainder which soon became a blazing New, in few words,: let us crowd ta. Ober the, etatisties ef the battle for the 44(411140On of the etudenia The "Petriets" Mutat lieVe numbered between 250 and 300, of these eome 60 odd men *ere captee. ed during the battle and 110 surrenderetl on Frielv,y night. The exact lumber of the bilied and wounded was never ascertained, but verieue mithoritieti pet the killed at different figures between .1.0 'end 70; num- here are knoWn to have escaped throegli the fields and across the river during the fight - The official .Brttish reture rihowei ;—officeee, killed 2; wounded, 4 ; men, killed 11 ; wounded 63. The officers were Limit. Johnston, 8.3rd, and Lieut. Delmage, 2na Grenville Militia, The offieers wounded were, Lieut. Gowen, 9th Provisional Battalion, slightly ; Lieet. Parker, Royal Marines, slightly; Perim, 2nd Dun- das Militia, see erely; and Lieut. McDonald Glengarry Highlanders, slightly. • The rebel prisoners were all tried befor the general courte martial in the sprin of '39 for treason and sentenced to b auged, In most cases, however, the sentence was commuted to transportation to Van Diemen's Land, but, unfortunately, the gallant Von Schoultz met his death upon the scaffold. His execution was well-nigh a necessity as a warning; but, as Britain mourned when Major Andre was hanged as a spy, all lovers of the brave and chivalrous deeply regretted the fate of Von Shoultz. -.7..._..-•••••••••••mt NV!0): 4hUnt H dregs are meetly& vine defitlea' relation Meat exalt be'W eween ein end the disease, they euret or aee eepposea to Mae. The task of eliewtrig, what this reletien 'Is, tentet deyelepe npen theee Wbe nee tbena or Whe advocate their use, , ay one 'is 'Kok, beeeuse he or the has not eaken drugs,' or re. mains sick for the ;wee reasoae the rational conclusion is that be Might to teke them aaid get well, But no advocate of drug teking ofany j pretensions to intelligence and sound udg- ment, del= that the want of drugs, or ab. stinence from them is ever properly to be considered as entitled to a place among the causes of disease. People get siek from bad habits of ; they eat and drmle, e breathe and sleep, work and taste and o g manyother things without any regard to the e physical, mental or moral laws to which they are subject. Whatever is the style of their set, or of the clique or th coterie to wid they belong, no matter how high or how low it may be in the armlet scale is accepted as a rule of thought and of action. 1f this rule prescribed the use of alcohol or tobacco; of opium, betelnut or hasheeth ; of tea, coffee or cocoa, ; of cayenne pepper or mustard; of animal -flesh or animill-fats ; of oysters, clams, frogs or any other article of food; drink or dissipation, it is used; and its use is defended with a zeal worthy of a better cause. The same remark applies with equal force to the use, and defence of the use, of drug medicines, It has not been and can not be proved that the sick need them What is and has beea taken as proof of their utility, will not bear the test of criti- cal observation or of soend logical reason ing. Is it here cileimecl that people tak medical prescriptions and get well? Peopl also get well without taking them, Man take them and get worse. Chronic invalid abound who know—whose medical adviser have told them—that their afflictions hay been greatly aggravated, if not wholl caused, by what was at the time considere scientific medication Every careful studen gOIJNDS ON THE STILL NIGHT. The Sea Heard Seventy Miles Away. There is a story that Mr. Eliot.Glover, of Portland, related apropos of sounds out of the still cky. I was in Faa.mington, said he, visiting my uncle. On Christmas night I at tended the church festival with my rela- tives, and it was a clear, starlight night, foe I remember that at the close of the Christ- mas tree festival they sent a fire balloon into the air, and that it went straight up and seemed to hang over us quite stationary. Then it took a course in another direction and seemed to float over toward Lewiston. The next day was Sunday, and after break- fast I walked out with my uncle. It was a very still day, without a breeze, apparently, from any quarter. Smoke rolled up straight into the sky. We were walking silently along when my uncle stopped and said : "What do you hear?" I listened. "It sounds like the roar of the sea," I said. It did sound like it—the low monotone of the surf on the shore, the ceaseless roar of an ocean in a storm. But, I added, of course it is not the sea. It must be the wind." "The wind? asked my uncle ; "where do you see it? Look at these trees. They are motionless. Look at the smoke. Look at that grove of pines over there. They would sing if any trees were singing, and they are quiet." Sure enough it wasn't the wind, and if not the wind what was it? It must be the ocean. We listened to it for five min- utes. It boomed and roared sullenly. I was convinced that it was the sea. 1n the after- noon I met a well-known Farmington gen- tieman wa ing an askedii hm f he heard any sound odd or strange. He said that he heard the wind in the trees. I asked him if he could see any trees in motion, and he said no. I told him I thought it was crackling mass of flame. This was repeathd e sea. e pooe at first but subsequent- ly I heard him telling a friend that he had at each of the other houees until the rebels heard the sea roaring. That night he look - were all driven into the Windmill except ed at the map and found that the nearest some few who endeavored to crawl away points at which the sea came were Boothbay down the sloping bank of the river and thus and Harpwell, and they are from seventy to through the lines, but to be seized by per. eighty miles as tiv birds fly. The next day haps not the gentlest of captors. The find- the newspapers brought reports of a fearful ing of the dead body of Mrs. Taylor in the 3 orm along the coast, with high seas and cellar of her hotel and her daughter lying damaging surf along the shore. I have not wounded—the lower jaw being literally hesitated to believe that we heard the surf blown off—did not do much to soften the at Boothbay that Sunday in Farmington. anger of the troops; and they gathered What current of upper air brought it that eround the ill-fated Mill preparing for the seventy miles ? The day was as calm as the final assault under the ghastly light of burn- calm of the ocean at rest. ing houses which lit up the scene, revealing many a dead comrade and wounded sufferer, and flashing out, red and lurid, against the The Mineral Production of the Dominion. dark waters and darker sky. Just then the door was flung back at the bottom of the ma) m LT 0 o o mill and out there stepped into the fitful Fe.,a aa light a solemn procession of unarmed men. -`2. "1 o The "Patriots" had surrendered at discre- tion. They were immediately seized by the troops, each man pinioned between the soldiers and marched up prisoners to Pre- scott. A moment's search showed that the chief, Von Shoultz, was not among the num- ber, and after the mill had been ransacked in vain he was found hiding with a few others in the low bushes that grew in great profusion along the base of the bluff on which the mill stood. He was brought up under the glare of the blazine buildings and stood pinioned and helpless but hardly con- quered, tall, slim and swarthy, a man who had left the tyranny of Poland for the broad freedom of America and found it tame. At the whisper that Canadians were in the old struggle to throw off oppression, the hot blood in his veins, fired by the fight of a dozen generations against despotism surged rom his heart to his brain, bidding himgo and help them; and he went. Ill-advised ? Yes but true -hearted and when the Patriot, Von Shoultz was led off the crest of Wind- mill Point and up to the headquarters of Col. Young (the residence of a Mr. Gains - o. g a 0 Fe to▪ , a es 1-3 ts' ° e' te o Cto C+.1 0 . Nova Scotia. t•D .6 no 0 0 CO 00 • 1-3 New o Brunswick. • P, I tri$ -0 •.= Ca3 g Ontario. ot• 19 8 11 g .0, o o ua • o ea British Columbia. 0, 0-3 Quebec P3 NW. § a Territories. 92 I ord, now standing on the corner of Centre eera a_ -2 ee, age reel pi -§ p• i nd Henry Sts., Prescott), it would be well g et' 0 determined th stay; but the highest that a "adoring Cetnadians" ever raised any of f them was to the " drop " of the ecalield. p This Preston King afterwards paid what a some would call a debt to the Fates by tying two bags of shot about his neck and drown- c ing himself off a New York pier. . I v On Friday morning, the dark, heavy i clouds that had hung over this battle -ground s all week, like a pall, broke apart, here and •t there, letting the sun shine fitfully in /a through the ever-changing rifts. The brave e boys were wearied with their week's work a watchingjand exasperated at the result. g Sine the sullen withdrawal on Tuesday afte oon, they had done nothing but crowd v aro net Windmill Point, firing a futile shot t now and then, watching the smoke -puffs at d the windows and then listening for the a " ttiang " of the bullet ; and several times s when a comrade raised himself too far above P his stoney shelter, they had seen the blood d dash from his forehead, and then watched a him roll over on the ground, limp and still. e Horrible rumors had spread through the m ranks of ill•treatment of prisoners and mu- f tilation of the dead. Two women, Mrs. i Taylor and her daughter, were captured by t the rebels in a hotel near the Mill, the b ruined Walls of which are standing in broken t desolation by the road -side, to -day. Nothing p absolutely oertain Was known at this time, t but stories of frightful ill -usage were whis- o pered about among the mon; and a scout, crawling near the beleaguered housee under s the cover of night, discovered the dead body c of Lieut. Johnston hanging mated and T horribly mutilated from the limb of m an oak a little to the west of the mill. t Thetie feats infuriated the soldiery and they b gave vent to a shout that bordered on riaeage t extiltatiot, when, ai a little after twelve on u Friday, three steamers were deseriedplotigh- t hig down the river, doubtlese bearing the a long.tax`pected teinforeements. Presently is they arrived at the wharves, when the 83rd h regiment of the line dieembetked, followed se by a detaohment af the Royal Artillery, itt or the historian to follow him; but this aper was not written to falsely flatter the ctors in this scene. We have excused the fierce favor of the young volunteers, we can ondone the desire of the officers to inflict se- erepunishmentupon the invaders as a warn - ng to any would-be imitators ; but we cannot mooth over the 'brutality, the indecency, he quintessence of meanness, shown by the unnan harpies who flocked over the black- ned and blood -be -sprinkled ground as soon s the bullets had ceased flying and all dan- er was past. For the credit of our service, we are glad to say there were few of them }-3 The .Bride Race in a Canoe. The damsel, in Singapore, is given a canoe and adouble-bladed paddle, and allow- ed a start of some distance. The suitor, simi• larly equipped, starts off in chase. If he succeeds in overtaking her she becomes his wife ; if not, the match is broken off. . . . It is seldom that objection is offered at the last moment. and the race is generally a short one. The maiden's arms are strong, but her heart is soft and her nature is warm, and she soon becomes a willing cap - a olunteers. Every rifle and vestige of a,rins tiva hat could be found were carried off. The streath If the marriage takes place where no is near, a round circle of a certain ead bodies of the invaders, that lay in mute size iseformed, the damsel is stripped of all ppeal upon the ground were heartlesslybut a waistband, and given half the circle's tripped of every article of clothing. Capt. start, and if she succeeds in running three lumb, who was engaged with Dr. Scott in times round before her suitor come up with rearing the wounded up to the town hospit- her she is entitled to remain a virgin ; if not, 1, says that on Saturday morning he count. she must consent to the bonds of matrimony, d thirteen dead rebels lying nude about the As in the other cases, but few outstrip their iib; and the same gentleman is authority lovers, or the statement that some farmers f P. n vieinity wore clothes torn from Progress ooland hese bodiee, that must still have been There has been a remarkable development leodin and warm, for four years af- ' in the manufacturing industr of Poland em the battle. e.liven the prisoners were de- during the last few years. According to the rived of their hats, boots and coats—and report of Mr. Grant, 13ritith Consul at War. his must have been, at least, Whiked at in saw, there were in .1884 over 6,500 factories facial quarters; and when being taken out , of one kind or another in the kingdoin, em'f their temporary goal in Preseott fm trans- ploying,105,200 hands, while twelve years hipment to Kingston, aii eye witnese des- before the number employed weiebut 70,000, ribes the scene as brutal in the extreme, Large fortunes are benig made by the mann- he poor fellows were pinioned in a helpless facturers, whit are principally Germans and anner and then flung several feet upon Polish jews. Lodz is the Polish Menchester. heir faces into a cart—a writhing math of The place has grown from a sinell place of ruitied humanity. During the search about 20,e00 population in 1860 to a, great manu- he mill, one refugee was found hiding facturing eity of of 150,000 souls, and con- nder a barn and ruthlessly shot dead teameg 165 mills and factories, empaoying here. These were acts of deliberate eruelty 80,000 hands, The Mills of Lodz vvork up nd fficarnate selfishness and met not every year bout 152,000 bales of cotton, e meetioned in the marine breath as the ' Sixty per emit. of the population are of Ger- cart-fell ory for memo that the eight of men nationality, and about threefourthe of offined friends sent welling up through this proportion have been naturalized ari sty young thronts Russian subjeets, v of the nature and causes of disease well 1 knows that the victims of indigestion, of in- ebriety, of insomnia, of insanity and of a I long list of functional and organic disturb- ' ances may trace the origin of their physield and mental troubles to the use of drugs, for , the remove I of ailments which, with reason- ably good nureing, might have been more ' sucessfully removed. Who dares to assert that the slave to alchol, to opium, or to to ' baceo, to chloral, bromide, cocaine or any, other like thing would not be any the bette for never having used them, if it is undeni iable that at the time the results appeared liave „WIMP too little or the wrong kind of 091PgaP) 140V4 OTOMBO. exercise, It will be observed that wrinItles usually taken dOWAWArd. CoUrSoo Tlik is Two gy sies were m pried OM be ,the wrong kind of exereise. What exercise ? Why,- the WaShing and wiping of the face/ to be sure. Reverse the pro- cess, and, Instead of 1111thieg the fee° down an Washin and wipin alWaye .rub uPward, Thie aae the e pet of coun'tereolleg the tendenoy of the flesh to depart from under the cuticle, and will iteep t face free froln wrinkles. It is rather an ewk. ward habit to acquire at flrst, but pereever- once will melte it second twelve and. the re- sult is worth Melia' Pains. Thie eXerciee is (leagued particularly fot the benefit of the °Yes and the upper porion of the cheeks, Then, for the tneadle and lower portion of the face,. Where hollewness rether than wrinkles ts 9ften aothcl, another plea must be taken. r.Phe facie' muscks are eubjected to very slight activity in tbe ordivary exer• times of eating and drinking. To fill the cheeke out round and plump it is necessary to develop the musclee there. These X11118,- cles are very slight at the best, and any epecial effort well directed will increase them in capacity and size. An excellent exercise for this purpose is this ; Take a piece of soft leather—kid or chamois skin will do—and put the end of it between the teeth; then chew gently upon it for several minutes, taking care not to raise the teeth from the leather. If the teeth are raised it will bring into pley only the ordinary mus- cles of mastidation, whereas the purpose is to develop those that are seldom used, One who tries this method will find the cheek going through a queer action that is any- thing but gra,ceful and pretty; neverthe- less, it is irranensely effective and will re- store to its youthful plumpness even the most hollow cheek. Try it faithfully and you will be convinced. Victoria at the Wild 'West Show. The Queen spent an hour at the American Exhibition at EarlsCourt the other afternoon. The visit was strictly private and extraor- ordinary precaution appeared' to be taken to exclude the public and representations of th press from the Wild West Show, which here ajesty, of her own accord, came to see The programme was to a great extent that described in connection with the opening on Monday last. There was, to begin with, what is termed in the programme a grand processional review, in which the Indians enter with their chiefs in groups according to their tribes. Buffalo Bill, as commander . in -chief, was the last to dash in, and, reign- ing his gray horse back upon his haunches, r he took off his broad -brimmed hat and bowed - low in front of the royal box; and then, at his command, the red men, the Mexicans, and - the cowboys scampered off at full speed, , leaving the large circular space deserted. The scene from the royal box was at all times full and complete, with the painted back- ground representing wild mountains and crags, and a good deal of star and stripe and red and blue blankets added when the In - diens who were not on duty were grouped to justify their use? The history of such en I slavement, in no small proportion of cases, 1 points to the administration of these drugs professionally, as the first step towards the fearful goal where all is wreck and ruin. If the wise and good men of the profession ' could be induced to inform themselves more fully, and could fix a just estimate upon the results of their work in undesirable direc- tions, could they with an approving con- science assume the fearful responsibility that attaches to it? Many of them, as will hereafter appear, have shown increasing weakness of faith, and have given it expres- sion in language that cannot be misunder- stood or misinterpreted. The changes so constantly taking place in medical theories, and in medical practice, illustrate the shal- lowness of the boast that medicine is a science. The principles of all true science are immutable. The assumed facts of med- icine are eonstantly undergoing mutations. No intelligent physician would now wish, if he dared, or dare if he wished, to go back to I the ideas and methods of fifty or even twen- ty-five years since, much less to those of five hundred or a thousand years. In a inagle decade of what is called " progress " we should hear the practice of the present styled old and stale The theory of cure by the use of drugs continues to enchain the professional and non-professional masses. "New remedies" are introduced and her- alded as reliable specifies for almost all the disorders to which flesh is heir. They are adopted, trusted and used. They are eulo- gized by medical societies and spread broadcast by the aid of medical literature. It seems, as if nothing can be successfully urged against them. But ffi a few years, or at most a few decades of years, they drop out of use if not out of memory. Such is the history of medical progress. • 'Washerwoman s Hand." ' There is hardly a more intractable disease nan clue nic rheumatism. Year after year, with now and then an interval of relief, it goes on, not directly shortening one's days, but not seldom making its victim wish them shortened. There may be a possibility of &permanent cure, but prevention is not only far better than cure, but is more practicable, because, in most cases, nothing more is necessary than to avoid exposure which may be avoided. The joints are the usual points of attack— sometimes those of the ankle, sometimes those of the knee, the shoulder, the wrist, or the fingers. The attacks, however, are not at random; thee are aimed at those joints which are overworked. For this reason, they often attack the wrist and fingers of washerwomen, the ten- dency thither being greatly increased by the violent chseiges of temperature to which these parts are subjected, and that, too, at a time when the whole body is heated by exercise, and wleek, therefore, the joints are in a specially stuiceptible state. Not only do these joints become exceed- ingly painful, and thus interfere with need- ed sleep, but the hand at length becomes deformed. The disease is a great affliction in the case of professional washerwomen; for the bread of their children, and too often that of a lazy and drunken hueband, depends on their work. But a great number of other wonaen ere exposed to it. We have now chiefly in mind the tens of thousands of heads of families who are liable to bring this affliction on themselves. They do their own washing, and do it, necessarily, in addition to their other work. These energetic but excessively imprudent Women, on' washing day, rush from hot to cold, and from cold to hot, without a thought of harm. They go with irritated joint e and open pores from the steatning washtub to the ice-cold olothes-line Coin. ing back te the kitchen, they sortib the floor, and hasten the dinner over the ceolc- stove. Is it a wonder that multitudes of our choicest wives end mothers suffer from what the doctors call "the watherwornat's hand ?" Otir necessary ailments are numerous enough, without ;tailing to them a painful and deforming trouble., whith can be avid - ed with due ear& ,p P. AcoXA)?/ ,, receAtly. When the bridegroom was asked 1 if be took the woman to he his wedded wife ahnedamthwe ewreedm:;:oleutsotf aansetyhoeur, astaty;:hey4f4t16tir the cereniOny tile lip,an went out of one dooF enfot4eoptpheearr to be le the leatit intere, ate(' in Jim young farm-ltaud, of GICA" ::118434,ermOr 4,00YirrAleoitoyhtzewb:941 manitbi,a,trateninlvtihthe the vil- lage, aed asked serone evening if e might eseort ber to an entertainment, She deolin- ed the invitation rather ourtaye Wheeettpon the enraged gallant emashed all the windows in the school -house. He was arrested, fined for his reprehensible coinittot. A Rockford, paper says that years egt; 1.°eIrd fq u eRockfordEPh rMc 0Suunni:677 rota pa eP isown ae emr acmes the Pecatopica River in the eola wea. titer and walked in hie wet clothing four miles. to marry a young couple. Albthe fee he got was 50 cents; and when he had kiss- ed the bride and said "God bless yen, My children," he trudged back to the Pecatonice vvith the Well-earned coin in his pocket, and eWam the stream th get home, Will Oakey and Lois Fritz, of Erie, ran away to get married, but were closely pur- sued by the girl's father. At Morrison the young couple warerefused a license because the girl was only seventeen years old. Tls.ey then drove to Fulton., where a, license wag again refused them. As they were leaving Fulten in despair the angry father overtook the young couple in a terrible rage. The would -be -bride promptly threw her arins around Ms neck and pleaded her cause so well that the old gentleman not only for- gave her, but actually helped them to get a license and to get a preacher to tie the knot. An interesting case in the court at Huron was recently settled by compromise. An old _ and well-to-do farmer had set his heart on a fair young widow whom he used to see oc- casionally when he came into town, but was too bashful to court her. He thereupon of- fered a handsome young fellow $100 to do the courting for him, the money to be paid. as soon as the parson had tied the knot. The ceremony was duly performed, but the check was not forthcoming, and hence the suit. When the case came up for trial the old squire realized that discretion, though it cost $100, was better than public ridleule,, and paid the money to the successful matri- monial negotiator. Jabez Hall, an aged. and respected planter living near Mariana, Ark, advertised for a wife some time ago and the answers were so numerous that he was at a loss how to choose. He has since settled the matter, however, by a very neat and satisfactory expedient. He gave each applicant a num- ber, and, writing the numbers on separate cards, put them in a box and shook them up well. Then he blindfolded his little grandchild and had her draw a card from the box. He is now corresponding with the ady to whom the card had been allotted, and it is possible that a wedding will result. about ready for action. Behind all, never. 1 theles, rose the prosaic chimney pots of West Brompton, and upon the housetops might be seen men and boys perched like 1 rooks in a tree to get what scanty view they might of the proceedings. The Red Indian Company, we imagine, could not fail to look uponthe dreary acreage of emptiness pre- sented by the grand stand as a very different spectacle to the immense and enthusiastic crowds that filled the seats and applauded the actors on the opening day. They, how- ever, went through their performances with their customary dash; the buck jumping, the tricks of the mules, the attack upon the Deadwood ooach, the war dance, (when the Indians are grouped in a circle with the women and children in the centre,) the mock buffalo hunt, and the attack on the log cabin being the principal items of the entertain- ment of the hour which her Majesty wit- nessed. At the conclusion the band played "God Save the Queen," and Buffalo Bill was duly presented by the Marquis of Lorne. After the Queen had conversed a little while with the gallant Colonel, the chief "Red Shirt," was sent for and also presented. to her Majesty. Two or three squaws with papooses fastenei teetheir backs passed also in review. Her Majesty was accompanied by Prince and Princess Henry of 13attenburg, the Duchess of Athol, Gen, Ponsonby, Sir John Cowell, Lord Latham, and other officers of the royal household. Some of the ordin- ary visitors to the exhibition, who seemed to be unaware of the arrangrnents which had been suddenly made for the afternoon, were not a little displeased on finding that a per- formance which they had hoped to witness in the comp ny of thousands of their fellows was confined to a mere handful of spectators. —London Daily News. Word Twisting& "My dear boy," once asked ahead master of a Philistine member of his sixth form, "do you mean to say that you have never heard of that magnificent statue of Michael Angelo, by Moses ?" Clergymen seem espe- cially addicted to this habit, perhaps because their excessive anxiety to be correct renders them nervous, and to those of their congre- gation who are gifted, unfortunately, with a keen sense of the ridiculous, such slips are excessively trying from the impropriety of openly testifying appreciation. "Sorrow may endure for a joy, so an Truth clergyman is reported to have read with the utmost feeling; "but night, cometh in the morning I" With the transposition of initial letters, a new field of solecism is opened up, in which a living cleric, in other respects intelligent and accomplished, works with an involun- tary assiduity that is most upsetting to his hearers. "My brethren," so ran one of his most startling announcements, "wo all know what it is to have a half - warmed. fish [i. e., half -formed wish] in our hearts." With him, however, the mis- chief goes further, extending to the mu- tual entanglement of wordswhich is terrible to contemplate. ale has been known to speak of "Kinquering congs," and 00 0110 occasion, ever memorable to his interlocutor, address- ing himself to a gentleman who had intruded upon his seat in church he politely remarked - "Pardon me, Sir, but I think you are occu- Dewing my pie." Here we are next door th the carrying out of the portmanteau princi- ple, a proximity illustrated by the feats of two other clergymen, one of whom gave out his text from "the Cokstle to the Epissians," while the other read " ktiee of a,n idol," for "eye of an needle." The Rector of an Irish country perish, when church the writer has frequently attended, was liable, out of ner- vousness, to contort and entangle his words in strange fashion. Thus, we have heard him speak of the "iinperfurities" of man, when it was quite obvious that he could not make up his mind between "inmerfeetions" and imperities," and ended by amalgemat- ing the tWo words into one. Ise To the man of large vision life, presents Wrinkles ithelf from many pail -its of view ;bet as a rule roan sees noth'ing except those things Wrinkles ere dtte to the !gradual wearing whit& lie Within the narrOW strip that Is away of flesh tinder the dutiale. Why clOCS boundal,by two lines arilWli Stritl ht from it wear away?' 13ecantie the facial intitieles,,, the tinter Corners Of his eltefil to the n0rbscin, Thaokera'sr's Letters. The most attractive, if not the most impor- tant, contribution th current literature is the publication of a number of Thackera,y's letters. Nothing was further from the writ- er's thought than that these would ever ap- pear in print, and they are truly representa- tive of the traits of a man who has long formed a wholly agreeable figure in the minds of our readers. Anything relating to Thackeray is welcome and interesting. His individuality, his humanness, his sound and genuine nature, win us at once. The fact is brought out in a strong light in these letters that Thaokemay felt aix all suajects just as every welllbonstituted being thinks that he or she ought to feel. He hated shams in the shape of men, women, , titles or what not. He closed the door to I royal favors by his " Four Georges." He ! loved naturalness. "Pray God to keep us simple," he writes in one of these letters, I alluding to a woman of fashion in Paris. He admired tenderness and gentleness above all else in women. He tells his correspondent, , Mrs. Brookfield, that Fielding's Amelia is the "most delightful portrait of a woman that surely ever was painted." His own Am- elia " Vanity Fair " is of the same type. He loved children and domesticity. The tones of a mother's voice speaking to an infant play the deuce with me somehow; that charming nonsense and tenderness work upon me until I feel like a woman or a great big baby myself—fiddle-de-dee." Children's voices set his " sensibilities into - a quiver." "These pretty brats with sweet, innocent voices • • • sing quite celestially." Surely never was a man more sympathetic or tender-hearted. Proofs of this crop out unconsciously all through the letters. No one can have a true idea of Tha.ckeray who cannot imagine him coming down the street with tears streaming from his eyes because, as he had to explain to a friend, he had "just killed Col. Newcome." Then through it all is the rare leaven of humor that takes the bitterness out of his cynicism even, He was as prankish as a Eoy, and tells Mrs. Brookfield how he has just disgusted the solemn Macaulay by proposing to him that they shall change characters before a lady whom they are th meet and who had ex- pressed a great desire to see them. Macaulay said that Ixe did not approve of practical jokes," and squelched him. It is impossi- ble not to be pleasantly affected by a per- sonality of this kind. Hence the charm of the letters. AlRevolutionary Puzzle.. The tonowing ts taken frona a collection ef odd rhymes and curious stories. It can be read in three different ways. First, read the whole as it is written; second, read downward on the left of the comma in the middle of each line; third, read the lines downwards on the right of the comma. By the first reading the revolutionary cause is condemned, by the other two it is praised: "Hark I hark 1 the trumpet sounds, the din of war's 'lanns, O'er seas and solid grounds, doth call us all to arms, Who for Ring George doth stand, their honors soon shall shine. Their ruin is at hand, who with the Congress join. The Acts of Parliament, In them I much delight. I hate their oursed intent, who for the Congrese fi ht, The Tones of the day, they are my daily toast, They soon will sneak away, who independence boast, Who non-msistant hold, they have my heart and harid, May they for elves be Sold, who act the Whiggish part. On Mansfield, elenth and Bute, may daily blessings pour Confusion and dispute, on Congress evermore; To North and British lord, may honors still be done r yowl &block and ootd, to General Washington. What Was Wrong With Itim, At a miSsiOn-hall itt Pollokshielde the clergyman's Wife was kffidly questioning at the dose of a meetire a woman whose hes- band had been long ailing, What le his tretible, Margaret ?" tuaa she. " Wel, ra see, mein, it's no very Muckle o' on kin' o' trouble. It IS jest A M& o' general ahii.