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The Exeter Times, 1887-9-15, Page 7• No04iuA144. Ontario l'Etattare• maucartirf PleaND. With scattered birch the pasture slope le crowned; The Bunburnt IOWA ihat clings to mountain sitlea, ' dropped by small mouths of timid sheep, ecarce hidee, IA° a giant coverlet, the hard dry ground, Through which, with stony ledge or.rocky knee, The Btrong wo,ld breaks. Th',1 ragged feriae that All • *on dimple on the shoulders of the hill flustle with faint sharp Bound if but the bee • Mips through their kNms to And his mossy nest. With soft, thick wilted leaves the mulleins grow, Mkt tall etraight candle/3 with pale yellow glow, Their stalks star.flowered towards the cloudless west. Tito crooning cricket with an endlese song Jr the laot wince. The crumbling fence is , grayed Ay the slow creeping lichen, held ar.d etayed • By arms of wandering rese, that tough and strong, Ihnd Arm its 'Miming stencil. The rusty brier And scarlet Angers of the bitter-sweet CaBi a light shade that shelters from the heat A thousand voiceless little lives, Higher 'Alan maiden birch or solitary pine, I ?Ms in the brooding blue, on speckled wings, ( A- awk hang•s motionless ; so straight he fifogS Xis 8 adowe to the earth, Him the pluennet.line It die s through the seas of air. AS in a swoon Of 1 it the great world lies, ano life stands Mill, Wrapped in a breathless hush; till up the hill Drift dappled bhadows of the afternoon. •!"." and colored in her confusion. Iler ban, too Were tiremblieg; therm itande that her nil:trees had deelared 4 hey° 814.0h isUre, firm touch on everything elle pleees them." Thee!, was another pair of eye e /nut on her, too beeicles those of Mr. and Mre. lon, during the progreris of the noon meal. They were the blaek eyee of William Ken- yon a neighbor who had come over to help air:Dillon at haying today, as the weather looked " ketehy " • and this was the last of the ,old fartnee's hay te get ire. Kenyon and Mr. Dillon scarcely excheng, ed o word together. There eeemed a raystery here as 'deep as that which surrounded this Armee young woman. " She helps me as neatly and aa well, ale most, am Dorothea," The woman stopped, frightened at the name she had ttttered. John Dillon looked at his wife for a mo- ment, put his hand to his eyes as if to shut mit a painfol eight, and went off to the hay- field with the men. There was still ono team in the field with He wagon piled high with the fragrant hay. John Dillon sat on it looking anxiously from the sky to his horses. "Old Bess is going to have a apell of it, I do believe," he said, as an unusually sharp crash of thunder with its accompanying Vi- vid flash of liglatning huret overhead. AFTER MANY YEARS, and wild eyes, amoment Old Bees was rearing with dilated nostrils nd it seemed fcr a BB though there would be serious trouble with the last load. Kenyon had got his team safely to the speCious barn floor and was running now to aid Mr. Dillon in atart- As early as it was on that July morning, ing his load. He seized the refractory old with the gray miet still hovering over the mare by the bridle just as she made a apring mown meadow and the sun etill in hiding forward,The unfortunate man was thrown 'behind the woods to the east of John IN1- under her reetless feet and was being tramp - lion's thrifty farm, still there were manifest led by the terrified animal. And Johr Dil- helicetions of life at the house and the barn, Ion seemed moot as much demoralized as Abigail Dillon is arrayed in a clean calico , the horse. As he was about getting down gown preparing for the morning meal of a; from the lead he was attracted by a weird busy day, -while her pale, careworn face re.' figure running like a deer from the house. veals the troubled mind within which is al- He remained on the load, exclaiming" Kate I ready wrestliiitt with the 'problem, "How I wonder what that woman thinks she can ean one pair of wornanh hands +domhass all do." Help had arrived and had drawn the duties between morning and night ?" Kenyon from his perilous position just as She and her husband are a little past mid. Kate seized the bridle of the horse, mining dle life at this time, and added to the wear- "whoa, Bess 1" With •a dexterous movement ing toils and cares of farm life is a sorrow she threw her light shawl over the terroriz- thatpressesheavily npontheir hearts. Abi. ed animal's head and with a low word , BY E. A. BOYDEN. YOUNG FOLKi. ran DOG, By T. U. OUVEODILIo. The first time I ever saw him, My grand. father was just pulling him out of his great coat pocket where he had been parried on lioreebeek foe twenty miles or more. He was a tawurcoloured, wooly, little fellow, about a mouth old, and woe my heart at sight, by the intelligent twinkle Of his dark, bright °yea and the hopeful wiggle of his • tiny tail. How hungry he was, though And what did be know about taking his supper out of a saucer, all too full of milk 't Simply nothing at all, mo I had to teaeh him. As he was to be mine, I had the naming of him, and called him "Lion"on account of his color. Hie first wail of homesickness on that first night away from hie warm nest filled with little brothers and sisters, no doubt, struck in my youthful breast a ten- der chord, for, like him, I had only lately left home and its numerous ties to conie and live with mygrand-parents on the farm. Next morning, all except my grandmother and I, voted 'Lion a nuisance, because, as they alleged, he cried all night. But I knew bettor than that, for had I not been up at learit seven times teaching him how to lap milk, and to cover Inea up head andeare in his basket to keep him warm? However this phase of -his life soon passed, and long before he ceased raoingefter hie own tail we had grown to be fast friends and true Now that I have star ed to write this hie. tory I find that it is going to turn out an auto -biography, for we were so inseparable that his atory mint be mine. From the very first we understood each other eaeily and perfectly. I had the patience of love to teach, and he the same to learn. Anything I had to do he helped me with all his might, and when it came to digging out a wood -chuck, or forcing a saucy, chattering red -squirrel out of a tree, Lion could oount on me. This ia the way it was :—I was the only boy in the house or for a mile around, for that matter, and he was the only dog. We had both been brought there to make the place more cheerful and to help, so our interests pills is a gentle womanly sorrow that un or. two she had her pacified. Mr. Dilion I and status were very Outlier. Our tastes eites !pity on the part of the 'beholder and stillheld theyems and drove rapidly to the were similar, we both were fond of the Jaunt. th'b.li ea er to her b the very arn, muttering as he went " M'Y Gml 1 ' Then we had a common enemy in the per - pathos of her sad smile. But John's sorrow, can it be—there is no stranger on earth who though, perhaps, ati poignant, reveals itself could have known that trick of old Bess." only in hard lines and a countenance that • • • . . . seems to repel any manifestation of sympa- William Kenyon was the only, bacheloi thy on thepart of others. The austerity ot past thirty in the village of Seldom He son of a cross, fault-finding uncle, an old bachelor, who always had a great deal to say, and a great deal to do, which he left undone, about thee farm. This un- happy relatiye unwittingly helped to cement hie Christian ereed teems to include that, was a fine-looking man of thirty.seven per. our lives, and to make our boy -dog -hood harsh deerawhich ferbids the approach of hap, a quiet, low -spoken moo, who :teemed, pretty much overcrowded with sunshine Lumen tenderness toward the sufferer, and like the Onions, to have had a shadow cast and sorrow, according as we were able to his countenance expresses the wends, neveri over his life in the past, which all the sun - spoken, in reference to the sorrow of his light of days since then could not dispel. heart, that "a.etranger medclleth not there -1 When they carried him, bruised and bleed - with," e.And yetthy, so unlike in outward ing, to Mrs. Dillon's kitchen, he had con - manifestations, were a devoted pair. 1 scionsness to say: ' Just as the sun 'shoed his smiling face; "Only one woman in the world could between' the parted, bratiehes of the oaks have done that" and cedar;and' juit as Mrs. Dillon badTheThe men who carried him supposed he not. Lion was with me. I talked to him as perthre Of the men to the hayfield, there knowledge that this woman possessed. ' ing and replying in language as plain to um • *erne ahimid tap at 'the kitchen door. A While Kate was ministering to Kenyon's as mine was to him. I neverstruok him, or slight female figure came waveringly into comfort till the old doctor should arrive ; refused him a share of what I had to eat, roo at Mrs. Dillon's invitationhand John Dillon was saying to his wife in good or bad. How often have I purposely • pa ear the door. This kindly -woman another room: I eaten the sourest apple I could find just to eacape his watchful and not over tender care. Inseparable, at work, or at plate. Where I was there he would be. Whether I went fishing for trout down in the brook, or a berry picking, or whether 'I went 'tatering, as I sometimes must, nut gathering or what found re brief breathiog space after,the de- meant the heroic deed and not the strange to any two-legieed playmate, heuiider8tand- topilooking at herunexpected visitor ineur- "1 tell you, Abby, there couldn't be see him eat it to, and pretend it was pod. , prise for neawig a minute without speaking. ,anOther woman in the world ,heeideyou 1 His obedience was, limited only ley his e new -Comer was a singular 'picture. and Dorothea that know. oletBeas from a powers. He would p to the farthest field e appeared like an old -young person, colt up, and her failing aboutlighthin• Ia.!' ' for ahorse or cow, by name) and bring that with rather swarthy features and with no "John," said the wife: laying a gentle particular one. He would lead a horse hair visible from under her little bop:tete hand on his head, "it is Dorothea. I've to water, and although they could enderneath which the stranger wore a close- known it from the morning she first spoke and often did, pull away from me to have a ly fitting cap 'which.concealed every strag- to me in this house. But it willcome out • run, and play, they could never get away sling lock, "if she has any to hide,"Axoujilie now naistmellawe I thooglhh als would be het- ' frornaLion. -NVatohfut sheave,' hatItheg un - Mrs. Dillon. She vas neatly attired in a ter to *la and let the' poor childliave hel d usual could escape him. He would never dark colored gown and stood with her head, own way about letting ns know, an, it's alr i betray a trust. The melons, the green corn, toward the shadow, partly, bent forward. right now." ' '" I the orchard, and the pear trees were a part 000 to he instantly chewed up were fa certainty. I Won wilfully put his °Hee- ttons thhe to the test, but lf never went to ideal> at night without assuring him that no other dog could possibly take hie place in my heart, and I say it now, none has ever been able, With one exception, he was the land of honor, and in • ell things perfecely tibedient ; but no threat of yeogeancis against leis person or liberty could ,move him to break a seeming compect between him and a nionstrous and miethichono mother -swine oontemporery tyith UI3 on the farm. The bargain between them Rented to be, as far as I could judge,—that when- ever he was sent to brine her oet of nails. thief, her part was to trot leisurely in a dig- nified way out, while his was to make a noisy show of bleodlese duty by her side. Just fancy While I was burning for ven- geance on that cunning old mischief hunter, he was escorting her gallantly out,leaving not so much as a tooth -mark on her ears. But et last in the prime of his wisdom strength and usefulness, after many anxious days of Waitiuh, wondering and searching I came to the conclusion that my good true friend and playfellow was deed. No doubt some thoughtless hunter whie knew him not, met and slew him down in flie dark woods eornewhere. It would haves been a consola- tion to his chief mourner to have known his fate and marked his grave. But all the more, perhaps, will he hold forever his i place n my affectionate remembrance. A Tube Line to Lurope. The project of building a pneumatic tube line to Europe capable of transferring pas- sengere and freight from continent to con- tinent in a few hours, is described in the Hartford Courant The principle is that employed in the " cash -tubes " of some large dry -goods stores, but the difficulties of oper- ating a long submarine line would be a thou- sand times greater. This is what the Cou- rant ventures to say: Col. J. H. Pierce, of Southington, who has been studying tke useofpneumatictubed has reached a point at which he hopes to show that a tube across the Atlantic Call be used. Following is a description of the apparatus, as he conceives it. The tubes will always be in couples with the curreots of air in one tube always moving in an opposite direction from the other, The heaviest cannon will serve to illustrate the tube. A car takes the place of the charge, the tube to beindefinitely continuous and the speed of the car to be governed by the rapid- ity with which air Call be forced through. Time is required to eltablish a current of air fidwing with great swiftness through a tube perhaps thousands of -miles in length but when once cteated the motion will he nearly , uniform. The speed of the cur- rent may be enade as great as may be desired by using the stesun driver fans ems ployed in blast'furnaces. Niagara Falls 'WHY BODIES AR,B puguDAt Steamers Have no IfieunS latent -ma affeetn, ' and leheY Depress ramsengers. When a death occure at sea a certificate is filled containing all inforinatioxi as te the probable causee -which produced death, and aleo as to the manner of disposing of the body; The bodies of persons viiso die at sea are kept twenty-feur hours. In byhoue times a reaperstitton prevailed among, sailors that if a dead body were kept eboard yea - eel destruction would be its movitalole doom, hut the notion does not exist mow; modern sailors. Recently Rev. B. B. Deytoia, of Am- boy, N, Y. while returning from abroad on the Cunerd eteetner Fitroria, died suddenly and his body was buried at sea. The ac- tion of the officers in thus dieposing ef tha body gave rise to much adveree celiac:ism, some Of the passengers said that the .ser- VICO! Were net of a cunning nature. •Thus report has reached the ears of the dead mountain sheep to enclose their cattle at man's ,wife aid family and their 'friends. nightte The Russians lieVe found these horns In order that the facts of the case might be understood the following etatement, was made by the offieers of the ship: "The body Was discovered dead in the stateroom about 9 o'clock Monday evening Immediately the doctor ofethe ship made. it ready for burial. After the usual pre- parations were completed the remaime were laid out and enshrouded with an Beglish fleg because that contains a °rose. Tuee- dciy morning the body Was owed up in cs032- vas and then deposited in it wooden box covered over with the flag. Solemnly • and with every evidence of respect the remains were carried on the shoulders of eight niI- ors to the atier-gangway, Chief pffices Seocomb, a humane and ()halation tailor, had charge of the funeral arrengemente. A few moments after 8 o'clock Tuesday morning the ship's officers and a large nuin- ber of ca,bin passeng.ers encircled the body and the funeral services were conducted by a minister, one of the passengers.* At their conclusion and when the minister read the words '1 now consign this body to the deep,' the box, heavily weighted down with iron, was slid into the ocean No secrecy pre- vailed, and everything was done in is, pro- per manner, being witnessed by any of the passengers who were so desirous," A burial at sea is a solemn and impressive event, and many passengers like to`witness it A death at sea, casts a gloom over the rest of the passengers, and neturally enough the officers try to do everything connected with the burial with as little ostentation and display as possible. On every steamer the custom is to bury the dead at sea. The captain of the ship is the soIwarbeter in this matter. Whenever it is possible the frontier, and that almost at thew feet, is the body is carried into port, providing the I Afghan State of Badakhshan which. is more offitiers are convinced that the body will ba neatly allied in sympathy, and intereet to the claimed upon its arrival. All =seamen are " Beitisian dependency of • Bokhara than to, firm supporters of the theory that aU per- Eeglanclh proetge, the Arneer. ' sons dying onstlae high seas, unlees a short The pessages' of the Alps her Hatuatle al • distance from port, should be given up to and Napoleon are famous in the history of. could drive blast fans and furnish motive the dehp. On a heavily -laden steamer no ; military exploits; but no commander , as Power to keep in motion the trains to con- room is. provided where a dead body could ; ever led his troops to such enormous° heights nect this continent with the Old World, be poseddh preserved. The medicine chest as those which the soldiers of the Czar now The temperature within the tube may usually carried does not contain the neeisie citioupy. • Tradition says that the great be regulated by passing blasts of air sary articles required to embalm a body. -• I Aryaninemeion that peopled Furopeaitarted entering the tube through furnaces The French and White Star lines carry from these Pamir heights, followmg west - weer ice. The speed attained may reach metallic coffins, and where the friends of a 1 ward the classic Oxus and Jae:sites, at 1,900 +miles hour The tube lining and deceased person manifest a desire or are ' whose fountain heads the Russians now car exteriotwould be of polished ateel with anxious to undergo the expense the body 1 water their horses. It would thus appear corrugated sides matching with wheels pro- will be preserved and carried to port if it that the lusty decendents if these Aryan ,vided with ant -friction bearings. The can be done without danger to the other ', forefathers, bent on reconquering the East surface, Will tend to overcome all weight find passengers. Numerous cases have °conned from which they spruria, have reached at where men of wealth and. distinction tray. I last the mat distributing point from which speed, owing to the curvature of the eartleas the pressure will be upon the upier f oiling for their health have been buried at their ancient progenitors passed with their the speed attainable. The inventions cover sea simply because they were unaccompani- 1 herds into the low-lying west, or southwards ed and no evidence of who they were could into the Valleys of India.. the tube • thus there is scarcely any limit to ,ege, awls of ege , — be obtained. No law exists, as some steam. ship Then Claim, tha.1 /naked it eohnithileory" ' The 1111841ns Among the Oloud$ The Russians have fairly estahlished them. selves on etie of the plateaus of the Pamir, that greatest protitherance of the world, *bleb the Chinese said a thousand years NO WM midway between heeilreo and earth, and wlaich the uatives call "The Roof of the World," Twenty yeera ago about all we lirteW of the Pamir was eontained in it single elaapter of Marco Polo's travels. The re- markable facts preseoted in this chapter were cited for many years as opecimens of the fables spun by this omen -Oil:3(3'00HW writer, In the history 9f diseovery no early writer has been se brilliantly suatained by modern reeettrehea as Marco Polo has been by the Russiau explorers who have overrun the ;Pamir tu all directions, and /Ave fohnd that hie picture is alrooet photearaphie in its accuracy. + Polo isaid that the Ileademen en the Pamir made fence e of the erientaine horns of wild neerlytfive teethe length, and a men could not lift a pair of them. Polo asserted that on theseaofry titbleb.as he could not make his fire burn brightly or give out much heat and the same phenomenon, due to the rare- fication of the air, has been observed by all recent Pamir travellers. Ile said these plains afforded the fineet pasture in the world, and that a leah beast would fatten there in ten days, A recent writer says : "The grass of the Pamir is ea rich that a sorry horse is here brought into eondition ID lase than twenty daps. These plains are diverslited. by low ridgm, and here and there a lofty mountain with snow-caPped tops, rivalling the great sum. Mita of the Himalayas. But from the plain where the traveller sees them they do not appear ho be higher than The American Washington, for + they rest upon plateaus that are from 10,000 to 16,000 feet high, and whose mean elevation above the sea is more thau twice than of the top of Mount Washington. This is the reason that the mountains of Pamir and of its eastern exten sion, that evens in Thibet on the north, are not particularly impressive in appearance, though they are among the loftiest summits of the world. ' It is just leelow the loftiest of these Pa- mirplateaus near Latte-Sarakul that the Rus- sians are building cantonments 'for their tro ope and feed ing theirhorses on the succulent grasses that Polo described. Why they have invaded these forbidding height, where no crops can ripen_ and no vegetation except grass flourishes, is a mystery that time will doubtless make clear We only know that there they are within, 150 miles of the Indians • upon the captain of a ship to bury a dead Tobacco Blindness in a Woman. body at sea. Cure for 'Whooping Cough. , • A prominent oculist recentli reported a On Thursday a travelling candyman and • • rag,gatherer, with a cart drawn by an ass, The Last Polish Rising. drew up in frontlet a row of houses knewn At Warsaw, the peaceful but impressive as Pirrat's Row a little off the, highway at public demonstrations were mainly brought Maryhill, Glasgow. Two childaen living in about by the Committee of the Szlachta. this quarter are suffering, arom whooping To it must be attributed the daganization cough. After a short conversation with the of the street processions; the kneeling clown proprietor of the ass, the motherwof the two of masses of people before the churches,while ; children took up a position one on each Aide the Cossacks, whip in hand, rodehnto their , of the animal One woman then took one midst; the singing of the national hymn in of the children and passed it below the "tan I have some work to do?"said the John Dillon broke down completely and of that trust. One morning a call came from case of tobacco blindness in a woman of ap- etre: ge yopng woman in unnaturally low cried like a child. After a while he one of the pear trees as I was turning out to parently cultivated and refined habits. Not tone n a peculiar voice. -- , ., said in a, broken voice: ,•ldo the chores, "Tom 1 Tom I Come and take suspecting the real cause the doctor made A igen Dillon- started es she looked in -1 '" And to think that to-morrOvr is the this dog away so that I can get home in a very thorough investigation of the cause, teutly at the figure, and. at. so much of the fifitenth year since, she left us to go to time for breakfast." Lion was simply show- and was much puzzled to determine its real face as she could see from its position. I Henry's out iu Oregon, and we've never him that he could not sneak off any of those nature. " Work ? Why, bless me, I've plenty ofheard from her since he died, and we've + ..- work forlveo pairs of 11 'rends, but—but—" ilupposed she was deaal.' And it was I that pears without consulting me. • "She laughed heartily, and then aonfess- • " You don't know whether I could do it sett her sway by my harshness to her about I At that time I had not the least idea, that ed that she did smoke a good deal. Natur- Try me, please, for one day at least." Kenyon you, Inow----" • 1 a bumble -bee was anything but a nuisance ally, I desired to know how one with her ' Abigail Dillon was not the woman to re- "Hush, John; let bygones be bygones shoot a farm. I knew nothing of their education and refinement had acquired a fuse soreasonable a request, and John had now. hIgekestrange that she should be here utility in carrying pollen from one clover habit so unusual to ladies. Her history the churches themselves, when. thousands , ass's belly to the other women, e c i s told her to try and get somebody te assist her again, William here, and he all bruised head to another, and thus making the rais- was soon told: "1 married when quite of persons, staying there day and night, I face being toward the ground. The woman during having. Besides, part of Abigail's and battered like that too." ,inc of clover seed possible. 1 only knew young, and went to•live with my husband were with the utmost difficulty got to leave on the other side caught hold of the child tweed was to turn no one away empty,and "Keep it secret that we know who she h t they de it ver dise reerbble for in North Carolina, where he had a very or dragged out as prisonere; the ueiverstil and. giving it a gentle somersault, banded it there always came with this hospitable im- pulse and gracious suggestion that one might perhaps "entertain angels unaware." • And this was a woman, too, a wanderer, very likely. "My own precious lost one may be a wanderer at another's door this very day." . "You xnay lay off your things and help me," said Mrs. Dillon, brushing away the ready tears that her own sorrow had start- ed to her gentle eyes. • • 'With her bonnetremoved the stranger rtp• peered rather odd, but not uncomely m her little cap and quaint headdress, and the press of toil soon claimed Mrs. Dillon's at- tention to more serious ma Were than the oddities of this new comer. ' ' is till to -morrow, mother," said John, " and me when I happened to go over their large farming interest. He owned so ex- wearing ef mourning garments by women, back to the other woman over the ass, the "And I have 'entertained an angel un- at my first letsure, with Lion at my heels, ing about real action; but this firm intention I ed three times the child was taken to whispered the happy woman. ' to stir up and evict into a perfect frenzy was known only to a few, and for a long the house and then the second child was we'll kill the faded calf, and all that, and + home with a bay -rake. So it was my tensive a tract of land that neighbors were amd so forth. On its part, the Democratic child's face being turned toward the have had no children, and during many long winters my husband and myself have been the sole occupants of our country house. My husband had always been de - 11 y f .." !delight to locate the enemy, and then far away, and I saw but little of them. 1 Committee worked with the object of bring- 1 sky. The process having been repeat - of rage, and then let him rush into time scarcely suspected by the Russian au- similarly treated. While this was going on . • • • • • • the fight when the air swarmed with dan- thorities. There is a story, apparently well two other children were brought to undergo Fifteen years can work wondrous changes 1 hog. It was amazing how he could snack a voted to his pipe, which he takes up as soon authenticated, of Gen. Gortchakoft having the magical cure. In order that the oper- as the shuttle of time crosses and recrosses , bee on the wing and drop it before being as he gets into the house after overseeing one day held a parley with one who was ation may have its due effect the ass must the woof of a life. But Dorthea was only stung.'I have seen him kill hundreds but his farrn work. Often during our early supposed to e deep in not be forgotten, and at the close of the seventeen :when the young love• between Ineveresaw him stung except by a fallen foe. months of married life, he would call upon thepatriotic Polish party. Pacing theroorn her and Williem Kenyon had been ruthless- II caught it a great deal oftener than he did me to fill it for him and at times would innervous excitement, the Russia,n Governor d hiht too.' As I think of it even dare me to light it 13y deerees I saiii he could not bear the strain of his po. Ly torn asunder by a loving but misguided + ghat serve me n father. I now I remember that I was always to blame found myself able to take several wtiffs of And here were three hearts almost burst ; ifor any mschief done; Lion could go wher- tobacco smoke without discomfort. At his ing with impatience to have their suspicions i ever I could gm By the most undogly in- request, I learned to smoke, as he said, for I confirmed by this silent stranger. I genuity he could climb ladders, trees, fences, companionship; and for many years I have "Kate" set by Kenyon's bedside on the or up into the barn where I went to "keel taken my pipe with regularity.'" The latter replied to Mrs. Dillon whenever morrow as the good old doctor ,peoriounce somersaults" upon the hay. He could and We believe in woman's rights, anal be practicable in monosllables and seemed him all right except "some scratches and a would go anywhere. lieve thaterwoman has just as good a right averse to conversation; but her lithe form, shaking up " Kenyon was looking intently ceremony each mother must carry her chil to the head of the animal, and allow it to eat something, such as bread or biscuits, out o sition any longer, and exclaimed: Why the child's lap. This proceeding leaving been do you not rise in arms? If you did, I know performed in turn by the four mothers the how I should have to not against you; but prescribed course was concluded. When it this unarmed agitation will be the death of began there were not many people piesent, me!" "But we have no arms, your excel- but before it was finished quite a crowd of lency," answered the Polish gentleman. spectators had gathered. From inquiries "Well," said Gortchakoff, "11 that is the made yesterday morning ana again last night only impediment, I shall have pleasure in it seems the mothers are thoroughly satisfied furnishing them to you, and then' shall be that their childien are the better of the delighted to deal with this question. But enchantment. this wretched unarmed agitation I cannot bear any longer." However, without wea- pons being thus furnished by the foe the revolutiontwyrising soon came, and the'Rus- sian Government was utterly surprised. her elastic step, her neiseless movements at his quaint nurse,d fi 11asked an na y her : Lion was not supposed to sleep in the to he afflicted by tobacco blindness as a and quick, deft fingers made the morning's "When did you get aequainted with old house except in the coldest weather in the man has; and why should not women work almost pastime for the farmer's wife. Bess, miss 2" winter. My sleeping room was off the "smoke for cornpantonship ?" It always Once, twice, thrice and oftener Mrs. Dil- The woman colored through her dark kitchen. 1 used to let himID any time he seemed to as very selfish for a man to sit Ion caught her breath as some trivial rout- skin and looked over nervously toward thought his comfort required it, the signal down in the midst of his family, and enjoy ine duty that fell to the lot of Kate—for Mr. and Mrs. Dillon agreed upon being one long rake of his paw his pipe all to himself. Why not let his this is the name the young woman insisted "And when did you learn all my ways on the door -sill. If I chanced to be awake wife smoke with him, and allow all the upon being called by—was executed in so about hoitsework?" supplemented Mrs. Dil- this was sufficient, but if asleep, he had to children to smoke small pipes or cigarettes, natural a manner as to recall a form that lon in gentle, persuasive tones smiling en- jump a fence and bark coaxingly at my bed- also? If tobacco is necessary for the father had passed out from her life, that once couragingly at the embarrassed' stranger. room window, until I was awake, then he it is just as important for the another; and moved in those same grooves. There was soinethingin the mother's face 'would be at the door ready to come as soon certainly the children ought not to be denied "How could a stranger know where I and manner and her+ voice had such a yearn- as I opened it. en, i o, inside, nnd he kept my °ream pots without asking or that ing, pleading tenderness it it, that "Kate" decided in his own mind to resume his check the bread belonged in that great tin box in broke into sudden sobs and started for the on melon or apple thieves, I am certain he the far end of the cupboard or that -2 But, I door. "Wait a few 'moments," she said as came to his conclusion by a process of res.. phew 1 here I am getting a, silly notion in she went out. She ran to her chamber and soning, thus : —One night I chanced to e "Who are you, any way ?" said Abigail sidenng the work she had accomplished. Net lel old head that—that— I was gone but an incredibly brief time, eon- wake walking to and from the door. I lay per - and noticed him fidgeting about, get Dillon, unable to control herself any longer, As" Kate," the wanderer, stood in the feeder quiet in order to see what he would ' when she saw Kate set the great easy ann• middle of the room on her return, there was do for he evidently wanted out. Why he chair at the right place at the table, a momentary hush of breathless astonish- did not bark or rowl would be easy enough " I am simply Kate. [have no home and ineut in the group there assembled, not ex - no friends, I think. Please don't q,uestion oepting the kindly old doctor. All eyes me any more. I will work for you faithfully were fastened on this lovely apparition. To for a borne at present, if you will have inc." the mother and the lover it was all as clear All this was said. rapidly, but in low, pe- day. But to poor bewildered John Dil- culler tones, and Mrs. Dillon mutt needs be Ion it was stilts mystery beyond his ken. content, for she had foetid Tt. master vrorkwo- The swarth 'y skin of the old -young woman man—n treasure to any tirea housewife—in they had heretofore known was gene, and a this strange woman, fresh delicate face, suffused with color, had When John Dillon. aod his hungry, tired ,thkeu its place. The odious cap and head- men came up from the meadow at noon his dress had disappeared, and the long and wife met him at the door and drew him silken golden trusses hung loosely over &side to explain the eituation of affairs in her shoulders in rippling masses, as she wore the house. He nodded assent to the new arrangernetit, and even Went se far as to press his wife's hand in token of his satiefac- *ion that her burdens were lightened at last • by this new arrival. Mrs. Dillon and Kate waited upon the tired men, and when Kate, having set down • tWo cups of steaming coffee, ono by Mr. Dil- lon and another bg the man next hint at the • table, Suddetity picked them up again and exchanged them, giving the 'old fanner the larger one with a peculiar handle to it, the • latter stopped eating and in surprise ex - Of, olaimed it when a child. With a hot cry of long -suppressed jay Mrs. Dillon clasped the metamorphosed girl tei her embrace, and sobbed out " Dor. them 1" Ticinyetri looleed. pitifully toward John lob, aod Dorothea, appealed veith her lite- sistible eye to the cermet The latter led Dorothea. VS Kenyon's side and said: all right after many years." Now cloth the man at early, dawn awake 'and nib his eyes. ;He beats the air with em ty hands, and what he says of flies is 14 flotvedid.you know that was my cup / laltogether too vigorously profate for tbis Date sill& something alinoet ih a Whisneir greet nwiralempte to publieh. a -"harmless luxury. Influence of Beer on Digestion. Prof. 11. A. Hare, M. D., of the Craver- sity of Pennsylvania, has recently been sub- jecting to scientific tests the popular idea, that beer is an aid to digestion. It has 'long 'been supposed by many that the light: er forms of alcoholic liquors, particularly to uuderstand, i the reader could but know the various forms of beer, are an aid to di - what a dreadful uncle we had snoring in gestion. The experiments made however, the next room. No, he knew as well as I verY clearly show that beer diAinctly re- did that it would never do to make trouble MAE' both salivary and gastric digestion, for both of us by any such outcry, and, This was true with reference to every' sped - therefore, he marched straight to my bed men of beer examined, scene seventeen in and poked his cold nose against my cheek, alb In more than two-thirds of the specie and thereafter always that was his method. mens of beer examined, the stomach diges- But whenever his appeals either to get in tion was delayhd considerably more than or out were carrying familiarity too far, all one hong, ad in some instances the delay I had to do wee to mention it, and the dear was nearly to hours. Some recent experi- fellow was ready cheerfully to endure un- ments made by Prof. Du gars of Baltimore, told self-denial. I could never enderstand how he knew where I was going ; perhaps it was because I washed my face before starting to the village, about two miles away, but he was never allowed to go there. • So we parted at the end of the lane, and no amount of coaxing could incluse him further. No at the john Utopian's Vnivsrsfty, shows that alcohol in all ite forms retards the di- gestion of starch in a very marked degree. These two sett of experiments together show very conclusively that beer retards the digestion, in consequence of the alcohol which it contains, When it is eoneiderea that the nutritive: value of beer is so exceed- gly small that a whole hogshead containe play in him then, only dignity. But he no more actual nutriment throe a single met Ina elinost always more than halfaWay home with's, joyful bound, ready to carrY loaf of bread, it will at onee appear that the opular faith i anything I chose to impose omen his good pn beer as an aid to digestion or to nutrition, has no foundation whatever. nature. Lion would share my regard with n° other dog. If I wanted to see trouble all Never use blue ink in Writing to a rea- 1 had to do was to speak favourably Of iee }wired girl. . Violet matehes her complexion to any dog in eight, and the chances of that best.' A Pig Offends the Czar. A witty clown, by name Durow, has just been compelled. to leave St. Petersbue g for carrying jokes too far. He was giving a per- forrnance with a pig trained to various feats. At the man's command the animal took up from the ground a number of Russian coins, includingimperials and small silver and hipper coins. When, however, some rouble notes were thrown down the pig refused to picic them up, even thoogh whipped. Great amusement was caused by this discriminat- ing not, and it was intensified as %voice cried from the gallery to the clown, " You block- head, if the Finance Minister could not raise the paper rouble in four months, how tan you expect apig to do it ?" Though a favorite with St. Petersburg audiencee the clown re- ceived orders to leave the city the following day. s -111-.J.4014411 Chinese Leprosy in Oregon. It has been three years now since the first complaint was made relative to the un- safe manner in which the Chinese lepers are imprisoned at the poor -farm, and Tuesday last the grand jury, for the first time, call- ed attention to the matter in which the lepers are inclosed, and the* only wonder is that many people are not affected with the disease. Any person who will take the trouble to cell at the poor -farm will see at once the necessity of most rigidly guarding these pests. There are Chinese lepers there in all stages of decomposition, from those who are first afflicted with thegreat yellow spot on their faces and bodies to • those whose toes and finprs are dropping off. There are lepers in that inclosure from whose bodies chunks of flesh are almost vir- Wally hanging, and they are the most hor- rible lookiug objects ever seen. Occasion- ally, getting tired of their confinement, they crawl over the fence and walk into the oity, leaving behind them in their trail the slime of their disease, which cows are liable to I take into their system, and through their milk transmit, the disease to those who un - An AdInhing Little Wife. Henry George—"My dear, this steak is fortunately purchase the fluid. burned to a crisp." Mrs. George—" Merey me 1 so it is '?" "And the potatoes are not half done." "10 I see now," "Ant the bread is sour, and, in feet, there is not a thing fit to eat, and I'm as hungry its a bear. What on earth have you been defile- with yourself all the morning ?" "I've been swinging in the hammock, dear, dreaming about how lovely everything will be When your millennium gets here." The president of a debating society hi Newdersey lately decided that the "milk of human kindness" moult niilk pinach with nutting in it. ' , • A Pretty Episode of Village Life. 'Upon the conclusion of a marriage in a vallage eleurch the bridegroom signed his register with his X Mark, The pretty young bride did the same; and then turning to a young lady who had known her as the best seholar in the school whispered to her while tears of honest love and admiration +stoori in her bright eyes : " He is a dear fellow, miss, out he cannot write. He's geiug to learheof me, and I would not shame him for the world." Something strangely winning is there in the above pretty epiaode o villege life.