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The Exeter Times, 1887-11-3, Page 7JA .R. • AIRWAY,: • For the last hour the construction train had been tro.volling elowly; for a whole hour it had centiously stumbled over the loosea. ed fish.plates with e. monotonoue chuggety- eleug, and chueketyschunk that had lone ceased to awaken any interest, sympathetic or otherwise, in our drowsy mindre, Finally it stopped aitogether with a jerlt, as if it had euddenly but conclusively realized the vanity of any further effort. The astonislt- ed care pulled at their pins and pounded their buffere as if in angry exporatuletion at this freak of the locomotive, and some (5f the men offered energetic advice to the Deity as to what ultimate course to immix° with the roaeagement of the road in general and the ak s ong ireight-links in particular. "Can't elp it, can't help it !" said the brekeeman s he came along the top of the box -car ahead. . "The rails have epread„ and it'll be two boars, may be three,before we 'kart her up again." But the time passed, the train still wait- ed, and we began to grumble stoutly, won- dering why,,in the name Of various placee • and things, they chose to dally in sneer a 'dismal, god-fereaken spot. It was rainiag pt Rat Croesing ; in /act it hut eeergrainieg, slowly, steadily, for two days with a certain' desperate pertinacity. There had been no previous drought t� render such an abund- ance of water desirable; in the country through which we tressed • we had noticed no fields of parched wheat, no withering trees, no drooping vegetables, no thiesty cattle, no traveled roads on which thedust required laying- On the contaarythe lakes were all full to overflowing, the rivers swoll- en, the ravines drowned, the -swamps soak- ed, and the tanks so full that the relief -pipes poured forth a centinuous stream of spatter - nig expoetulation. Notwithstanding this levish excess of water the air seemed no fresher than before the storm, when the thermometer in the caboose' registered 97 degrees on the shady side of the twit. Both front and side doors were wide open, and some of the boys, in a vain endeavor to produce tepaseing sensation of freshness, sat down in the semi -fluid puddles, covered with a film of cinders, and dangled their legs inthe pour outside. But to no purpose : the air was dead, the water warm, and we continued to stifle and growl. The vie* from tbe car WAS notinteresting. To the left, as far as we conld. 'see through the endless, unfolding curtain of ram, a dis- mal mtielceg swamp stretched away:to:the south of the track, broken only by rare clumps of ragged tamarack. 'Both slopes of the bank were covered by long beds of pink fire -weed • varied with patches of soggy pigeon -grass, and to the north lay the deso- late Weste of brae through which we led ' been traveling for interminable hours. Here and there among the shiny black poles of the burnt treeri little bunches,of " poppies " rustled their loose leaves with a nervous activity that seemed out of place in the dead "q10#1-tif their surroundings,tand•their silly, feeWl flattering, like • the barking of a 'frighteiaed clue waii so exasperating that we , could licarcelyrefrain from throwing a stone at the shivering thinge and callingesut shut up 1" The underbrush was thimeand the ridges of eeink gneiss, banded with black, thrust their bare, smooth surfaces throngle, the mottled mos& Ake great ,pock-metkiad shoneders of giants protruding from their tattered ehirts; in • the gullies between them the water gurgled dismally below the taegle of dead trees, and ran away unde the glossy pigeon -berry leaves, on to while eMekgreetesque pitcher-plerits, opening, widifri "A• lids, poured -their surplus wetter. Save by the patterofthe rain on the eartop and the pish-pishing of the ebgine below off steam the silence was absolute, and render- ed only More profound by the booming creek of a fe ling tree. ,•. • Besides our party of engineers,. detailed on remeasurement work, there were two stran- geh in the car ; they had blank passes from the chief and were going Westa as they kept to themselves, talking together most cif the time and not seeming to care' for our com- pany, we had paid no especial attention to them. 'Every man of us, however, turned suddenly as the younger of the two, speak- ing excitedly in a loud, swaggering tone in- tensified by a strong twang? 'said to his corn, panion : • "1 tell you, Morton, that Man lelitt Mur-. phy was the biggest coward that ever walk- ed this earth; and don't yonforget it 1" . The intonation of the man's voioe was En) Vi0i0US, SO mean, that we all felt' Convinced tilt the statemenevvas false, and, although tiffany ignorant of the facts, each of US felt an instinctive deiaire to contradict Mee. But before any one could think of what to.eay,,a deerrvolce from the end of the car condensed our feelings in the energetic and laconic an- swer : •• " That's a — lie 1" The speaker, Jack Collins, wasthe quietest man on the staff, and had acquired a certain reputation for minding nobodra business but , hie own. Jack was scereevhat of an enigma to us all • we did not understand but we all liked him, for he had a way of doing small charities and helping the boys in a pinch tnat ahoweda truly god nature and a wermlies.et. ' Wlictiliis exact work was none of us knew; he had the name of being a geed locator and explorer, especiallY among the o lder mei], with Whom he USUAllyeesocutted ; his reporm never , passed through our office, and no complaints were ever made about the irregularity of his work; he always went off befoh office - hours with his compass and note -book, but • the men not infrequently found him lying 1 in a secluded corner reading, or sleeping 1 ‘seavith his -book behind him. He was e, large, ' owerful fellow, with a heavy ,beard that , concealed half his face, of which the only i remarkable feateres were it strong,determin- ed mouth awl long, elanling black eyee that kept moving slowly round from left to • right and suddenly jumped beak to their starting -point. Sometimes, when we pres- sed him very, hard, ,, he told us a story or i some adventure that had happened to him, 1 and it Was only then that his eyes were,at,; rest, void of expression, as if he , were reada ing from some faraway book. He spoke slowly but well, in p, Iow, even voice that • commanded the attention of his hearths; we never, questioned the truth of hie stories, And whenever a,ny statement seemed a trifle exteavagant wee acknoWledged that it must be our fault if we could not understand the .eircenuateneesa For a moment after kis' usually emphatic denial no one epoke ; the etranger had risen at once, but seeing that Jack did not move he sat down again, filled ti fresh Tipeeand waited. ' Jack Wile' sitting onthe floor at Ilia mai of the car looking down peesiyely ' eV the e evelver that herrn; frein' his belt • after a short pause he looked ue at the coil'. ingaiind in his natal slow way he told us „the Story of Matt Murphy's last week' on • the road It had happened p,,vo years ebefore k MeireillYweds then eoeelearestee Lett: Canap- lien's Point, and far' from being thought a icowafird, he was looked upon as the only Man ,on the liae who ,had Pluck enough to run ,a snowidoW at the head of five engines into a choked cute and stand firm when every plank feirly managed under the strein, One day, while he was dozing in his office, for Matt was lazy when he bed nothing to do, the door epenel with a bang, and the operator, in a P tate of breathless excitement, ran into the room, "There's a bush -fire below, the long bridge, Mr. Murphy," h , called °et ; " the wind is this way, and the Pacific Emigrant is clue in an hour. Vs hat shall we el itt etarted in his chair and repeated the man's words in a dazed sort ot way. "Buss-fire-apd they are due in an hour. My Go:1 !" Then he got up, staggered across the rem, and leaned against the well. The baggegednaeter, who had overheard stepped in frem the adjoining office, and the operator with a shrug of his shoulders turned to him and Amid in a perplexed way: "Murphy's drunk as usual 1 -what's to, be done ? ' . "Dunk, you blamed idiot 1" cried Nolan indignantly; 'his Wife and kids are on that train. Get mit of here, e eit scented squirrel, and Maenad quick too, or 'I'll make your empty head SO blessed sore you couldn't see daylight through a laddet 1 Say, Matt, old man---" He did not finish his sentence, for the next moment Murphy pushed him aside and sprang out on the platform where the men were collecting to hear the news. "Boys,'.he cried in a voice that seemed m to rasp hie throat, "boys, look adhere 1 1 want three good men to go with me 1 Haul up a bumper 412 1 catch a hold there; now have away -so 1 Drop her on the track- that'a it 1 Slap on the oil, you fellows. Two hundred lives! My Gin?, 1" he continued as if thinking aloud. "'Quick, blame you! off with your shirts and hurry 1 all aboard 1 That's the style; now come sling, boys, and work 1" He was the first on the car and took the rear handle behind the brake; Long Mike • the Finlander, Jim Begets, and "Dumb Dick" jumped on after him; an oil -can, a monkey -wrench, and as axe were thrown on; the men, gave them a shove to start, and away they went down the long grade, fif- teen mites an hour. Instinctively, -for they merely knew that there was a fire below the bridge and that the train was soon due, -instinctively Mur- phy's three COMpalli0138 had understood what they had before them. They were all old hands and knew that this was a desper- ate venture, a forlorn -hope, and that their only chance of success lay, in their working well together, each man doing his duty, ab- solutely regardless of what might happen. But all this they felt rather than reasoned, for men of action reflect slowly, and the pace was so severe that they had no time for reflection, • Matt leaned over and slipped the key of the switch to Jim Reeves, who was in front. "If we haven't time to unlock her, Jim," he said so quietly that it hurt the ineia to hear him, "jump on the lever and break the chain. Now, fellews, heave away fur all you're worth." The first six miles passed Quickly; to right and left the road and the trees flew baokwarcls, and nothing was heardb t the shorteluick panting of the men, the burr of the cogs, and the clickety-click, clickety- elick ot the wheels over the fish -plates. On the half -mile upgrade to Bass' Falls they had to slacken up ' a little and bang od the handles, while the sweat ran off their ernooth barks dows over their muscular arms to the crossbar and dripped off onto the platform; b .at with their heads down and every muscle braced, they worked on steadily, pant. , iug hoarsely through their closed teeth. They had but one idea inecommon, rind that 1. WAS, as Jim Reeves tersely expressed it, that they must reach that qualified iwitoll or. bust. At regular intervals Murphy, who seemed to have rer aunced his customary , rrofanity, repeated his s ..ort, earnest Licher- 1 tation, more as a proyo eha.n as a command: " Steady, boys, stead, for God's sake 1" 1 • The top ef the grede was reached; then , came a lewel r4r oi bwo mulesbefore cure to the orxdge. Ahead of them on each side of efts) track the workmen, appre- hendin ' some disaster from the enormous volume i smoke that was blowing toward them in purplithclotids rimmed with golden scinlight, had assembled before the Falls' station; and as Mur.phy's gang came along; up acid down, up and down, every man ' lir that crowd telt his eyes grow moist and his throat dry. With one accord hrhige, the switch, end the fated train with its Minnie cargo hurrying to deetthotion, for the wied was high and the engineer would naturally tbink the fire far away until he was in the very inelet of it. Then the struggle began. The emelt° ran along the embankment towards them in great flying gusts, so dense they wild barely see the platform of the ear; the heat became in- tense, but they never wavered. Perhaps it was because women were few in the diemal country Which had become their home, and that, us is usual in purely male corn- munitiee, every inen invested the gentler sex colleetively with a romantic halo, in exact inverse proportion to the nretane okeptical contempt which he profeesed for them individually ; perhaps it was becithee some lingering spark of chivalry, driven into the West by the sneers of a higher civilization, had flamed up suddenly in the hearts of these rough journeymen • or per- haps it was merely the humane hope of sav- ing the wives and children of men who had slept under the same blanket, worked in the same ditch, and shared the same biscuit ;-- but, whatever the ?mum it was sufficient to silence selfish coninderation and make them look upon the sacrifice of their lives as no more than the fulfillment of a neeeesaeY ci All around them the trees were falling in row e ; broad flaehes of flame, quenched for a, moment iu the black smoke, leurst up and flared in the wind like shrbde f genie vest tattered canopy. Along the ground the brush wilted away, burning with a sharp crackle like that of a musketry clisenarge ; and up through the hellow tamaracks the fire swept with a noise like the bellow of a filling sail. Great trunks tottered and fell with a booming cresh like the aouncl of dis- tant cannon. The hot air quivered around them, and they gasped spasmodically as they shook off the burning spells and laughed hysterically between short howls of pain. Ahead all was red and black, a sea of fire. 1Vlurpby called out once more, laelasate.eady, boys, steady e, and they plunged. into it resolutely, with the desperation of a wounded bull charging on the espada's " Steady, my men 1 up and down, up and down 1 stiok to her, lads; it'll SCOn be over now." Then the flames closed upon them, and as they lowered their heeds before the whirl- wind of fire and innoke that was hurled at them, theyshivered at the crisp crepitation uf their hair and beard, and felt the hot grip of the fire fasten on them as they writhed in pain. Something struck the car and it reeled for a moment. s "Stand by her, boys ; steady there 1" They grasped the handles again and drug- glod on; by the hollow sound of the wheels they knew that they were on the bridge at last, and it lent them fresh strength. Then t something struck them again. "Hard, hard at work there 1 Jim, Mike Dick, all of you l -pump away, for God's Bloke, boys 1 we are nearly there. Try • again! the switch, boys, mind the switch 1 all together now, heave 1" But strain as they might,- and they strained with a fierce, deaperate energy, for there was something in Mur - 1 phy's tone that went to their hearts, -the car was fast and would not move. Then they heard a Wild cry above the thundering °rase of the bridge as it fell from under hem ; the car was suddenly shot ahead and sprang away easily over the debris that lay across the iron. The trestle was passed ; but at the rear handle Mike stood alone ; his partner,, Matt 'Murphy, was. gone; that last falling inuce had struck ium squarely TUE LIME KILN CLUB. Jou $. Gough On TODVerilI00. Qwtohueirci; ,. pwe rhmoint itthohadrAp.mtblearat4 ,e0thineeneedefueht well and lay their watning to hears, It is oenturYd Wale the scaffold, hatred, reY altY Pounded before the Innelee 14 Pal'adiee Eta" iiiie every Rae of` its readere to Ponder them It wee two minutes after the triaegie are 90 good and so tree that maims would Victor Hugo ,said: "The pellet° enth the briehnlitudly and cleveryounie.men who Tho following remarks of John B. Gough iiTe.„ and degree. will have died out, but Man will century helorige 0 woman. In the twentieth Brother Gardner said: 66 Wie0delnlie 1)0011)0ke Scott; a local gt}lienly 7rto 6tPheeeredfiolYre teoherfujeiltownisthwhdorlonekeltanted The latest Celiforeie boom story is of in- lula7tbherre:Ifndoi:bloadighe:thvaesb9cer:sg9eap;t: esa:e...' take meet care, Bat let Mr. Gough speak :- tersest to the fair sex. It rive a, Ivere, Hen. I owe belonged to a club a young emu. dy au' will not aPPmer firPrwR,,„g,ur dv dersoa recently found a $20 gole niece in sieh eihnax, an, din .triawnin,, 01,9p, a Ines. which at one time was called the "Shako- the etreets of leoe Alegeleei inveeted the same speaee Cluh,', beeemee many of its members in a suburban corner let, and in 4 fortnight rtntegrerfaitniiine,"innedwinit!atdtaatmhpet IltaeCI4istiipPis6xseei:if were theatrical gentlemen. Where MO the realized the handsome gain of young men who twelve' yearn ago asso- MIPS HOLLTietta Brooke Davis, in the ;1181eaen. old eholsesa!ieiestoal, wile ilweara all Op° !tar, tri; crated. with me in this „eoese_where ? Eche Nineteenth Century, advirses the eetablish- only ansveers, "where ?" I knew there -one meat by wsomen of e eellege in which the an' aheut fifty 'creditors. a singer, a Lean who kept horses worth duties of the household, the art of Oooking, "What sent him off? fee frame reeioes seven, hundred dollars at B,eed's establish- etc., may be:taught. The great advantage dat am daily workin' to brieg but aeodder menteat the back of the Pemberton* House, of this will be that it will raise the standard panic -de same reasons dat explain de bun. used to invite us to ride, and many a ride I of dorneetic eervice. deeds eh bizness failures -de same reasons have had with hiin to Brigleton and Brook- dat arn cripplird de efforts of thousands of iy, and vinciaity. Where is he? Dead .1, Dr. Elizabeth Beatty, of Iudcre, sent out hard workine men to secure homes of elek Where did he die? He died hie hoeso.teough by the Presbyterian Church in Canada as a own- family extravagance. No, you can't medical missioeary, has treated over 6,000 call it extravamince; foolery am a better. in the steble where he once kept hie fine was jebbin' Damen' end neskin) a dollar a Patients in the petit twelve months, and IIindoo women would make thousands of horses. No one was with him when he died name for it. lip te 4 y'ar ago 13rucider Scott thieke a holpital and training h o h o o 1 for except a pity miesionary. The thought that rn'edleol'ItjeleengdOtilaitrasitupaesrhlwineels. He wee fw4rTihnedinuselediatilvoeimWeifwpthe emntheec;lycaionnlcigd. rtallilvvaeersi 18:0 I II! IDI 11°n1Yde c°°"rtis' to Christianity. by which he 0 r W.Q411.41Vi$ WAW. Pe& Iiiin 'de house an' had debts hanghe' brow but a, city miesionary that I have c'bq , tut 11.6all was a chance t6get eben' scoffed and laughed at as a fanatic." He HOW Was it imProVed ? * In lees ciao one Month his wife WaS rigged out wid a twenty died struggling in his wretched bed, cursing those who had brought him to ruin An - dollar drePe, twelve'shillin' kid, a live dol. other, a chiesical echolar, a college graduate, nlabrmhaint,aenndi et 1: he Pe 6,144a:di - h el! . e hrandonx%Pee:ke es a man whose presenee of mind in danger or difficulty exeeeded that of any mart I ever she became too high toned to wash an' iron Ida Lewis Wilson. still keeps the old boats knew. He was the most intensely practical fur udder folkses. In two months elle want- in which she eaxed thirteen people, and, ed a better house, wid a red parlor carpet ing in joker I ever saw in my life ; one that noth. grabby as it looks, she uses it, and says if the world could daunt, who always an' can seat cha're all aroun' de room. In. (aa we say) had his wits about him. Where three months the bad to hoe° abutnlaet silk d is he ? Dead 1 Wheredid he die ? He died she were again to haye the opportunity to dress, gold bracelets, a tony in a drunken debauch falling rescue the drowning she'd take the old boat shoes an' gold tillin' in her teef. of stairs bee endeavoring to find his way down a flight rather than the handsome new one present- ed her by the citizens of Newport. " Dat foolery has reaped ite harvest. De without a lieht in a Pittsburg hotels He ....elea husband found dat he was rennin' behind, broke his neck, and soarce a dozen persons Crown Princess of Austria, during his home was bein' neglected, his Wife was went to his funeral. I spoke of another her sojourn atAbbazia, on the Adriatic, corn - mended a crew of 8ix young and beautiful pbeieihne' dg onspsipehisd. faebe about, etn, ,aenucld in spIatir was ehdaes and.die. anHothe erh.e d Andnn onete eeont his twenty-third eInrywthhiirmd , Countesses of the bluetit, blood of the Empire, natitral result. I tell you, my frens, de birthday He had bitten his tongue through who womaned a barge, which the Princess tomfoolery of de women of ds kentry ,am twice, until it grew so large that he could steered as they rowed. They were all expert atramin on de chalk line till de cord can't not articulate, and he spat out the bloody at the oars and called the Princess " Com- • ; stan' much mo', an' it am high time dat foam in his attempt to utter words. modore," somebody sots lus foot down. De man who sprang from his bed, dashed himself against He Twenty' tia- ousana' women Knights of again at $25 per week has somehow got de the wall, fell back in quivering convulsions, Labor are organized, in the city of New ideah into his head dat de world expects and was laid down upon the bed, and there York alone, for mutual protection. Like him to dress his wife AS if he aimed a he died. You may tell me, if you please tlae fabled A. ZOOS, they are ready to assert and defend their rights, but not, as tbeY banker's profite. Wives of men who can't about education -educated men become keep up wid deir houserent ani eanterin1 up drunkards as well as others. Such cases did with, the sword. They will be corn - an' .down wid sealskin sseques am' $6 shoes. are by no meansrare, but there is a tendency pelled to demand the ballot for their own Wives Omen who have to dodge de hutch- to hush their dieg.race. Men have died oe defense, and when they do the great arm y er an' grocer an' tailor am now selectin' fall dieease; have died in railway carriages, have efeerg 'zed labor will rally to the, irside. carpets an' orderin' $30 lambrequins. Wives been crushed to death by accident, have Dona Isadore, Cousin°, of Chili, is said to be of men who couldn't raise $50 at de bank to been blown up in steam -boats; we may the richest woman in the world, and her fortune is estimated to be at least two hun- dred millions of dollars, Dona Cousin° is on the sunny side of forty, above medium height, of graceful figure, and of a. Spanish type of beauty. She proposes making New York a visit; and if she does come will make her presence felt, for she spends her money freely, and is inteeested in a great variety of subjects, from art to cattle -raising. All the tritining schools for nurses in Philadelphia are free. This is one profes- sion for women that is not over.crowded, and where women can earn good Wages. The chief qualifications are good health, good temper, general intelligence, and a fair commomachool education. save der necks am rushin' to balls an' par- ties an' having deir expensive dresses dis- cribed fur de benefit of de public." " De so-cdlled society of de aige am com- posed of false hair, false -pretenses,. debt - dodging an' base decepshun. Our rich peo- ple an distinguished by deir plain dress an? quiet manners. De snides an' dudes an Speaking 111 of Women. dodos do all de swaggerin', rush or all de speak of these, but when men fall from high positions and die drunkards, the disposition of people is to let down the curtain between them and the public, and one must not speak of them for fear of hurting the feel- ings of others. colors an' monopolize de biggest sheereif de Some men, too many of them, have a mise - street. You wait 1 De naan who lives fur rable tendency to spearc of women as all bad, anodes'. ten y'ars will h'ar sunthing drap, an aa all inherently immoral, and lacking only arter de drap takes place' de thousands of .the opportunity of being as abandoned as idiots who now feel ashamed to admit dat . the worst. One of this class at a recent A European. War. Isthere to be a great European war be- fore the year is out Those who dibble in ey doan deep but two servant gale in e dinner in New York, where there were no the interpretation of piophecy and call house will go back to deir cook stoves an ladies present, gave full rein to talk of this , their speculations and guesses, wisdom, in- -t wash tubs an' take deir proper places in de kine. •When he had finished, one of the ' slat that there will be. They are already purceshun." • . party quietly remarked' that he presumed rather out in their calculations, for thy IT NAY DOM/M. ' the gentleman in his renstirks referred to his said that the struggle would be on by this I e' Judge Chews° didn't want to delay, the own mother and sister, not to those of the time. They are still cheerfully confident " reet of the company. This was getting , however ani appearances at present seem to business of the meeting, but • there was more than he bargained for, and the wretch- 1 .ndicate that their forecasts may not be so something on his mind. As he understood across the arms, a sd. evhen he saw that he it the Lime -Kiln Club had something like ed fellow seemed abasheci into silence. It far out of the way. It is all but certain could no longer pull his weight, he jumped. $2,900 on hand. The money was kept in was only what he deserved. But this young that the ,death of Emperor William, the off and Put All his rensaimng strength m the safe in the hall. The President had one man was only one of a very numerous tribe. more espec1ally if that is preceded i or fol- off last push that sent them through into key and the Treasurer another. What was and derywberiee such people ceafn be metdwith, lewed. by th.athof his son, willprec p tate t e , the comparative quiet beyond. there no surer. sign moralan even t conflict whic promises to be one of the to prevent either officer from; hawking on. tellectual degradation than the low opin- r most terrible the world has ever seen. I ' e t club hi le • " Steady, boys, and God be with you 1" the money and t Ring he c to w et ion of women which such a speech reveals. i France and Germanyeare standing jealously came once more trent out the chaos of flames axid„be hanged? e, behind them, and that was all. On the " Brudder Chewso," kindly replied the There are only too many young men 1 on the watch and some apparently trivial in Toronto, and in every city and town in ' incident limy any day preciritate the other side beyond the clay cut, they heard President, "de pint am well tooken. Dar' 1 . . Canada who have just the same idea or at rupture. The mad, gloomy Emperor of f the e owing whistle of the engine ; a few am nuffin to prevent de Treasurer or my - least affect to have it They would of course Russia is aro' on by a strong party of his • more strokes, and they reached the switch. self from robbin' de safe, an' I may add dat "Jump, Jim, for Gees sake, jump $500 ob de money would, secure de highest except their own mothers and sisters but! own friends and followers to plunge the quick l'' The next, moment the train swept legal talent in Detroit to defend an' doubt- they forget, or do not know, that the world into war as the only way out of las mothers and sisters of thousands of others domestic complications and. dangers. The round the curve over the frog and glided less Clear us. Does de Judge want to frow are just as pureand hbnorable as their's are, 1 Irish difficulte., greatly paralyzes Britain, smoothly down the siding, where it stopped; out any sugges ions ." but the hand -car had disappeared. *If the Judge did he was diseppointed. or can be. The good name of thousands of 'while Austria as nervous and ill at ease an When they came back they found Jim He had been holding a marble in his mouth most virtuous girls is trifled with and as far Italy has its own ado with foreign compli- Reeves s body by the broken lever of the to polish his back teeth, and just at that as their wretched maligners are concerned ' cations and home traitors. Nor do those switch; Long Mike too they picked up be- moment the ball started to go down his is sinned away by those who have no guide who have best opportunities for knowing side him, with a. shattered leg and an ugly throat. The result was a fit o$ gasping, but their own debased brutality, and no expect the struggle to be sharp and short standard of excellence but the opinions ancl Sharp it very likely will be, but soon over gash across the forehead, while on the other coughing and kicking, which quite laid him practices of those as mean and as degraded. no one expects to see it. It is all very well side of the track ' Dumb Dick" was clutch- up for the rest of the evening. big the broken handle of the hand -car and as themselves. Let any young man, or for to cry out over the mad =reasonableness of sobbing like a child. Strong men lifted . wterizn PRICES. the matter of that any old man either lose the whole proceeding. But, in the mean - their crushed bodies with tender care, and Giveadam Jones, of the Committee on faith in women and he ha e said gooe-bye to ' time, there it is and as such it has to be side by side they laid them on a bed Decorative Art, announced that the winter allthat is calculatedto dignify and strength- dealt with and disposed of. When will of 'ev in en his own manhood and honor. Bad wo- people be wise enough to insist upon those fragrant balsam boughs; a woman's scale of prices of whitewashing was no men of course there are, butwho made them who make the quarrel being the only ones light hand wiped away the blood from force throughout the country, except in the what they are? While there are thousands to fight ? It ought to be so, but evidently of,others who are and continue to be even in such a time is not even within sight. The a world cursed by so many mean chattering butcherly throat -cutting plan seems to be as apes of the dead sea, as pure as the driven popular as ever, and the reason for it is BIWA% much the same. People won't be reason- able and they think that the easiest way to settle a quarrel or to silence an adversary is to knock that adversary down. English and Yankee, French-Canadians and, Italians, Swedes nd Finlander s, gave one solitary • ringin cheer, and std '1 g' ,If di 1Y d by tbe sine- ple heroism of these four men, apparently rush ng consaiously, determinedly to cer- tain death,. and working fiercely as if they were escaping from some great danger instead of hurrying intb it Not a man spoke as they flashed past. 'Afew pushed their hats back and stopped as if ashamed of ti e movement watching the hand -car grow smaller end smaller above the converging lines of the rails. ' . Swearing Dan Dunn, the walking boos, stepped out into the middle of the track be- tween his men, threw down his pick, and wiped his wet forehead on the sleeve of his shirt. • "Boys,' he said, "that gang's a-goin' to everlasbin' destruction as plucky as any fellows 1 ever see, every blamed man of them, and I'll bet a barrel of high -wines toa cup of tea they know it too. Mate Murphey knows it, sure." Then, turning suddenly and pointing down the track, he cried in his usual bullying "Give them a yell there, blatne you, -all together now, and yell till you bust, or I'll break the son of tadger's head that hangs For once, although they had their custom- ary effect of insuring prompt compliance with his ordere, Dan's threate were superfluous ; for once his wishes coincided with the wishes or his men, and from those five hundred throatenthere burst such a cry that the , flames ahead seoined to halt for a moment in ' their forward rush. On the hob, fuleating air it floated away across the muskeg, over the heads of the deentedarew, and reaecheed with e 'booming roll Irons the elate walls of the rack clit through which they, pushed their ettr. But though this exprestion of their conerades'esiymptithy cheered arid help- ed them, it told each man only too plainly that this was his last job on the track. 1, " That's gcod-bye tor the log oontraet," 'read 'Reeves, and Mike in hie broken Eng lish repeated: "Yes 1 Koot-pye, pyes,-Itoot.pyo 1 het both relamied into eilenee at the sound of IvJurphy's quiet remonstrance. • 'eSteatly boys, steady 1 and mind the ineko,sjim ; we're right on the down -grade." 1 ,At the end of the level wae the grade to the bridge and the fire ; beyond the lire the Mike s rough face and held moist linen City of Buffalo, where the women white - to his bleeding brow. Soon he opened hid washed their own ceilings, and the ;.ences eyes andlooked solemnly, with a puzzled were either brushed over with tar or lef t expression,into the anxious faces of the wo- undecorated. men and children that stood around him, silently watching for his recovery. Then he Tin DM TOOT DOWN. remembered alt; for a moment a bright smile lit -up his plain features and died away slowly as he caught sight of his companions stretched beside him. Coining through the distantsmoke the rays of the Ted evening touchedsun their pale glow and wove a soft golden halo around their passive heads. With a slight quiver Long Mike passed away in the sunser si- lence to join his comrades." When Jack finished there was a pause; then we all looked up at him with the same question on our lips. He rose slowly from the corner in which he had been sitting. "You want to know where I heard all this?" he asked. "Oh 1 I am 'Dumb Dick.' To be frank with you, boys, I have been a epecial detective on the C. R R. for several years, and if I tell you so now it is beeause my contract is up as soon as I have handcuffed Mr. James Bowles over there. Don't you move 1" he called out, covering him with his revolver. "1 suppose," he continued, ad- dressing the man he had called Bowles, "that it would hevtabeen more correct to chain you first and tell my story afterwards; but I knew you could not give me the slip. That men, boys, was Murphy's partner in a contract on this road and, tried to get him to swindle the oornpany. • Matt wouldn't do it and threatened to show him ,up,- andnow that he's dead this fellow takee his revenge out in attacking his character. However, he's so badly wanted at hee.cletrara-t us now that he will keep his inotner shu ahout Murphy /Or the next ten years." Pickles Smith had been wiping off his chin and waiting for an opportunity to de- liver a great speech, and the opening now presented was seized 111)011 to state that a manufacturer of stomach bitters had offered him $7, ,for the privilege of making a new brand, " The Only Genuine Pickles Smith Tonic." Before returning a decided answer he had thought beat to bring the matter be- fore the club. " Bridder Smith," said the President, as he softly scratched the back of his neck, "I have no doubt dat you could take dat $7 an' make good use of it, but you will neer see de cash. My name am wanted fur a new town in Kansas. Sir Isaac Walpole has been offered $23 fur de use of his name on a patent rat trap. Giveadarn Jones could °wit a mule if he would father a new brand of stove blacking. Trustee Pullback has been offered a new suit of clothes to put his name on a hair dye label, an' I reckon slat moms all of us could sell out fur mo' or less. But 1 has put my fut right down pn all sich nonsense. If inartufacturere' want help to palm off deir wares in' compere& on air innercent public, let 'eni go to mem- bers of Congress Mayors of cities and Guienors of Stade, wid a pen in one lian' an' a ten -dollar bill in de oder. We mos' maintain 'our honor an' integrity or de pur- Oeediu3gs of die club will sink to de level of aession of Congress." Some time ago a law was passed by the New York Legislature making the latter One Cashier that is Safe. • half of Saturday a statutory heti. "I see you have a new cashier," remeek- dey. 13itt whet [Litho? • The law is of no ed the president of one bank to another. use. Men work on as lista and why? Be - "Yes, we set him to vverk yesterday." cense the, one evident law heeds good. No "Had any experience?" work no 'say. Workmen would very gladly "Lots of it." not work ott Seturday afternoons if they "Under heavy bonds, I suppose. Our man Were paid all the same. There, however, is under $150,000." comes in the rub. It is not possible to m ate Well, no; we did not require big eniployees pay as much for five days and a bombe" , half of labour as for six deem, at least not at "Great heaveirs, man, he'll run off in two first. Mechanics generally are paid so much vreelte With the whole bank." an hour, and they are paid only for what "We have every eonfidence in him." they work. By and by, loss work mey not "Well, you'll pay dearly enough ,for it, issue in lest pay. But fe takes time to ad - He'll be in Canada inside of a month." just things. As the labour market noW "1 think not. You see, ho has just ran stands lest work done by the individual does away from a Canadian bask With $200,000, not mean a rise of wages but an increased I think he is safe enough." number of workers employed. 1.0 Both Tired. " I have been making mince pies," said a wife, as the after-dinner coffee was brought on, "and I'M very tired." People never know what they may come • ,. + " And I've been eating mince pie, re- to, and so it is wise if they can to put the marked her husband, 4 and I am tired, ' possibility of want in their old days &bee - too," and he bowed bis head upon the lately out of doors, it is said of one literary table. Selecting a Gift. man who was at first very popular and etre- , cessful, that he spent his first earninge in the purchase of a deferred annuity, and that for years that annuity was his only means, Young Man (in Toronto jewelry store.,) of support. Wise Man he. Better tha,t "1 want to look at something that would , then to be scolded gooderaturedly for itn- be an appropriate birthday gift for a young providence as Thackereyet friend was, even lade."; thoagh the lesson were followed up by a, siroung Man. " I should say so ; St. D?ealer. "Is she a resident of Toronto, eheque for a hundred, pounds, The man who lives up or beyond his income is a fool. Y George street." It would not be at all surprising if the Dealer. " Well, sir,I can show you an old Etnpeor of Germany had 0 r - t pass exeeptionally fine line of spectacles." e I through the great sorrow let seeing his only and much -trusted son lesefe the world before ' ....____- him. The Grown Prince is evidently not eured, and to say that is alrnoet to say that "What is an epistle ?" °eke& a Sunday he has had sentence of death pronounced s,hool teacher of her class. "The wife of 1 upon him to be executed at no very distant an apostle," replied the young hopeful. day. Of course, even though he should die Visiting cards this Winter are to be very there is a grown up son ready to take the plain, We"re told. But those with pictures old grandfather's team It is sot the less and spots on them will cohtinue to be found sad on that account and but inlet another useful at evening parties. • nill,rsits4,traatiiitiongiovfestelacilovtahneili.ye of Nvhumanherewgi wherewith great - Tho absurd and injurious custom of " hoz- moral, "" We come as shadows and ing" still seems 't� prevail in Certain un- P '1" t the vanities in the States. There was an at- ; de el'aclews sve go. . , tempt to get up something of the same kind I The fight meet tho colour question in the in *Canada, but it has either died out or has Seatee goes bravely on, In the North es become cornpeiatively inricicent and ineigs ' well as itt the Smith there ere cases of rebel. niflcomt, College Authorities ought to set ,1 lion a,,astittst the co,eutteation of white and thetnselves against this stupid end idiotic I ecdored pupils., Even in Ohio there has leten craze, which is neither funny nor manly. ' quite an acute epee of e.olor' terejudice erre- 1 President Adams, of Cornell, very signifi. ing alinest in a free field.. The high and cantly hinted in his reeett inaugural a'`i.1- mighty white 1 Ike of Oxford cold not Arose that if the etudents wished to avoid , brook that colored child: et S110111(1 come to the mortifioation of climbing the paternal ; the new school room, for the ereetion of docetteps with e setchel in their bends which their patents were taxed. There le s before the college year W4S eempleted, they • been quite e fuss, and for the moment the would have to drop 4' cane-vuebleg" and ' whites hove heel theft wee, but whet of that? other ench fooleries. If every man engaged ,i They might juet as well accept elle nievii, ia " hazing" were rigorously expelled and I able with a good grace. They will have to all "hazed" who would not mei:mien who , d6 130 in the end, just as tho Georgia folee had been thole tormentore were treetecl in " will: The Mee of saying that any one who the same way, the enetom woeld soon die a has in hie veine a drop of Negro blood is untie natural death. There is DO martyrdom or to be &night in the same school with any heroism in being expelled for any each die, 'white vulgar blockhead who may turn up, is creditable reasons, ' too absurd.