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Home My WebLink AboutThe Exeter Times, 1888-6-7, Page 7NITTTIE FATITEL, Dr °MARLOWE M. YOLIND. • CHAPTER XXXII.— (Coeur))) She longed to talk to Itlx„ Dutton Elliott them, but he found hereelf dimmed to day that perhapo Annaple would heve thought more trying than her harrowed life. She Wee a little later than the had intended, and her feeler had been evaitieg impatiently to have a note read to him, in he growled at her impatienee to rim after "that Seotoh girl." And. the note happeuecl to be of an irritating eature ; moreover, the outlets it luncheon were said to be akin to India - rubber, and there was the wxong flavor in the sauce, Ursula let that cook do what she plearied without remonstrance. ' EitteetAlvvyri did net afford as much saitis- factitelineg urinal, for the bay was in high spirits and wanted to blow a little trumpet, which was more than his father could and. He was very good when this was silenced, but he then began to rush round the room daring his sister to catch the wild colt as he went tat. This had likewise to be stopped, with the murmur thet Ursula spoilt the child. She tried to convene matters by turning out the old toys ix the ottentaii, but Alwyn her only counsellor V heel etttgroWn meat of them, end did not Mine for any except certain wooden donkey, CHAPTER XXXIIL—Tnn LOST HEIR, minus one ear end a leg, wine& went by the namteof Sambo, and had absothed a good ideal of ids affection. He hadevith difficulty been consoled for Sambo being left behind, -and now turned over everything in search of him. Alas 1 Sambo could be found no- where in the room, aud Alwyn dashed off to inquire of all the household after him. His father meanwhile growled at the child's noiee, and went on trying the glasses Nuttie had brought, and pronouncing each pair in turn unlearn vowing that it was no me to send her anywhere. Upon this, back came Alwyn, terribly indignant, for he had extracted from the housemaid left in charge, who was as cross as she was trustworthy, ":What 1 that old broken thing, Master Egreraont ? I threw it on the fire I'd never have thought a young gentleman of your age would have cared for such rubbish as that." "You • are a wicked, cruel woman," re- turned Alwyn, with flething eyes; "1 shall tell papa and sister of you. And in he flew, sobbing with grief and wrath for the dear.Sambo, feeling as if it had been e live donkey burnt to death, and hid- ing hisf ace on his sister's lap for consola- tion. Come, come, Wyn," said his father, who did not brook interruption; " here's hill a sovereign to go and buy a new donkey." "Ib won't be Seethe," said Alwyn rue- fully. - • "But you should thank papa," said belittle. " Thenkeyou, papa," he sai, with quiver. ing lip, ni-hut I don't want a new one. Oh, Sembo, Sambo I burnt 1" and he climbed on Nuttie's lap, hid his face against her and cried' bub her comfortings were broken oftby, "How can you en- courage the child in being so foolish? Have done, Wyn ; don't be such a baby 1 Go out with nurse and buy, what you like, buff petit have crying here. ' Ifs:Ailed to stop in sheer amazement, but the grbund swell' of sob could not be con- trolled, Nuttie was going to lead him away, and console him with more imaginative sympathy than could be expected from the maids, but her father sharply called her back. He wanted her himself, and indeed 1, there was no question which was the worse espoilt child.eR. e might idolise Alwyn, but ` not so as to clash with his own comforts. The glasses being unsuccessful, Nadia proposed to drive back to Ludgate Hill for him to choose for himself, but he would not hear of going into the heat of the Oita and growled at her for thinking of !such a thing. They took an aimless drive instead in the park, and Nuttie was nearly baked while the carriage was stop- ped for her father to have a long talk over the prospects of the Derby day with one of his meat unpleasant associate, who stood leaning over the door on the shady side of the carriage, no one reeking how little pro- teotion she derived from her small fringed parasol. She came home tired out and thankful that her father went to rest in his own room. She climbed to the nursery, thinking to share Alwyn's tea and comfort him, but she found only nurse there. Nurse had a bad foot, and dreaded hot pavement, so she had sent Master Alwyn out with her subordinate, a country girl, to play in Mr. Dutton's gar- den till it sheuld be cool enough to go and make his purchase, and a message had since arrived that he was going to drink tea there, and Mr. Dutton would take him out. His sister envied. him the greet shades, and had just done her best to cool the back drawing -room and rest herself with a book, when Mr. Fate was announced. He talked pleasantly enough; and lingered and linger- ed, no doubt intending to be asked to din- ner, but she wan equally determined to do • no such thing. she had heard enough of races for one day, she thought, and at last he took his leave) only just before she dressed for dinner. "1 thought Fate was here," said Mr. Egreinont as he came in; no doubt told by Gregorio. "e has been, but he is gone." "You didn't ask him to stay and dine ?" "1 did not know you wished it." "You might have known that I should have liked to see him... I suppose you think your sweet self society enough for any man ?" " I am sorry—" siok of hearing you are sorry 1 believe there's nothing you like so well as doing an ungracioua thing to a friend of mine.' • Nuttie bad learnt to hold her tongue on sueh occatione. Dinner was nearly oven and her father nad beenegrembling again at having no one to take a nand at cards with him, when the door operieda little way, and Alwyn's pretty glowing face looked in. He was conic te voy good -night rather later than weal, and he ran up it, his sister with 'a little bouquet of yellow hanitoia and forgennienots. " Mithter let -atone -0o Alwyncalled him —" sent you Wit He add you would like it, 'cause it came from one that grew at Mit, tletwait. And oh, look, look 1" He Was hugging a little ship, which he proudly exhibited, white his father's brow had darkened at the message. "Did you buy that ?" asked his Olsten Yes Mr. Button went with mo, and we sailed it'. We tailed it by the fountain in Mr. litittottei garden. And we mettle a storm V' He deemed about wIth glee, and Me. Egremont obrierved, " A deer purchase for ten ohillingsi Dia it cost all that, Wyn 1" " They gived ine a big paver half.crowin attd 1 gived diet to a little boy what canto n to tpeek to Mr. Batton, and had hie toot throe h ide boot, ritel he Welt to flied.° " Mir money ie not for Innate, Wenn" he little boy was not a beggar, Papa. e eaine with a newspaper to Mr. Batton, and he is so good to his peer sick mother," Heed Alwyn. "See, tee, deter 1" turning the prow of his email emend towards her, and showleg a word on it in peueil which he required -her to tpell out, It was Ursela. "Oh Wyunie 1" she said, duly flettered, "did Mr. Dutton do that ?" "ie held my hand, and I did 1" cried Alwyn triumphantly, and he will paint it on Saturday. Then it will ary all Sunday, and not come off, so it will be the Ursula for ever and always." Here num claimecl lmr charge; and whou the good-nighte were over, and a murmur recommenced, belittle seggested that if Mr. Dutton was at home perhaps he would come in and make up the game, but she eneoun- tered the old huraour. 1' I'll tell you what, Veneto, not have that umbrella, fello encouraged about the house, and if that child is to be made the medium of isonununie cation, I'll put a stop to it." The words were spoken just as Gregorio had entered the room with a handkerehief of his master's. Nuttie, colouring deeply at the insult, raet his triumphant eyes, bit Jeer lips, and deigned no word of reply, An undefined but very slight odour, that told her of opium smoke, pervaded the stairs that night. It was the only refuge from fretfulness; but her heart ached for her father, herself, and most of all for her little brother. And was the to be out off from 'Seemed to the boy some comrade gay Led iire forth to the woods to play.,—scow. Though it was the Derby day, ;Mr. Egre- mont's racing days were over, and he only took his daughter with him in quest of the spectaeles he wanted. When they came back, Wattle mounted to the nursery, but no little brother met her on the stairs, and she tound nurse in deep displeasure with her subordinate. sent him out with Ellen to play in the garden at Springfield, and swim his ship, where he oouldn t come to any harm' " said nurse; •" being that my foot is thatbad I can't walk the length of the street; and what does the girl do but bete that there Gregorio take the dear child and go—goodi ness knowo where—without her." Pni sure, ma'am," said the girl crying, "1 would never have done it, but Mr. Gre- gory said as how 'twits his papa's wish." "What was ?" aaid Nuttie. "That he shouldn't never go and play at Mr. Dutton's again," said Ellen. "1 told her she was to take her orders off me, and no one else, ' returned nurse, "ex- cept, of courae, you, Miss Egmont as has the right." "Quito so ; you should have told Mr. Gregorio so, Ellen." "1 did, ma'am, but he said those was Mr. Egrernont's orders; and he said," cried tke girl, unable to withstand the pleasure of repeating something disagreeable, "that Mr. Egremont wouldn't have no messengers between you and a low tradesmen fellow, as made umbrellas, and wanted to insinuate himself in here." "That's quite enough, Elba; I don't want to hear any impertinences. Perhaps you did not understand his foreign accent. Did he say where he was going ?" "1 think he said he'd take him to the Serpentine to sail his ship," .aid Ellen dis- posed to carry on asseverations of the correctness of her report, but nurse ordered her off the scene, and proceeded, as a con- fidential servant, "The girl had no cell to repeat it ; but there's not a doubt of it he did say something ef the sort. There's not one of us but knows he is dead against Mr. Dutton, because he tried to get master to get to sleep without that nasty opiuzn smoke. There was al:atter feud between nurse and valet, and Nuttie could have exchanged with her many a lament, bat she contented herself with saying "1 wish he would let Master Alwyn alone. It is high time they should come The child will be tired to death and all dirt 1 His nine new sailor ouit too 1 Going grubbing about at the Serpentine with no one knows who, as isn't fit,for a young gen. tleman," moaned nurse. This, however, was the worst fear she en- tertained, and it was with a certain mali- cious aittistaction that she heard her maw ter's bell for Gregorio. Nuttie descended to explain, and whereas the need was nob very urgent, and she look. ed distreseed and angered at the valet, her father received the complaint with, "Well, the by is getting too big to be tied forever to a nurserymaid. It will do him good to go about with a man." But as dressing time came on, and still neither Gregorio nor Alwyn appeared, Mr. Egremont became impatient, and deolared that the valet, had no business to keep the child out so bong; indeed, he would sooner have taken alarm but for Nuttie's manifest agony of anxiety, starting and rushing to listen at every ring at the bell or sound of wheels near at hand. At last, at eight o'clock, there was e peal at the servants' bell, and the footman who answered it turn- ed round to the anxious crowd " Mr, Gregory 1 He just aeked if the child was come home and went off like lightning." "The villain 1 He's lost him 1" shrieked nurse, with a wild scream. "Run after him, James 1 Catch him up 1" suggested the butler at the same moment. "Make him tell where he saw him last!" James was not a genius, but the hall boy, an alert young fellow, hal already dashed down the steps inpureuit, and came up with the valet so as to delay him till the other servants stood round, and Gregorio turned back with them, pale, breathless, 'evidently terribly dismayed and unwilling to face his master, who stood at the top of the steps, white with alarm and wrath. "Sir," oried Gregorio, with a stainnaerffig of mixed languages, "1 have seerohed every. where! I was going to give noticato the police. is fared tout 1 ..re le trouveral.' "Where did you lose him 2" demanded Mr, Egremont in a hoarse voice, such as Nuttie had never heard, "In the Perk, near the bridge over the Serpentine. I was speaking for a few mo ments to a friend. Bel 1 1.1 drat pArti. Mods A le 0.ouverai. Parker, he seeks too, rear not, sir, I shall find him." "Find him, you scoundrel, or never dare to see me again 1 I've borne with your in tiolonetes boug, and now you've 'brought them to a height, Go, I say, fininy boy 1" ex- claimed Mr, Egmont, with a fierce oath and passionate getsture, and Gregorio an iohed again, is Bring elm carriage—no, call a commanded Mr. Moment snatching up hie hat "Who is this Parker The servanthesitated, but the butler maid he believed the man to be a friend of Gregerio's, employed at mitt of the elithe Nutiate Meanwhile begging her father not to go without her, fleet upetairs to put on her het, and coming clown at. full opeed feted that Mr. Datton, paining by and seeing the open door and the terrified servants on the steps, had hutted in to ask what was the matter, and Was heeling in no ineeetured tering from Mr. Epp:emote how the ehile had been taken env front his neree and lost in the park while that tamp Gregorio Wall ()batting to some goodlomothing friend To Nuttie's great relief, Mr, Dutton offer. ed to go with the father to aesist in the search, and the coachmau, far too anxious and exeited to let his 'nester go without hint in a cab, contrived to bring up the carriage. Some cif the servants were ordered off to the various police offices. Poor nurse, who was nearly :distracted, otarted ie a hansom on her own account, persuaded tha she should eee and recognize tram of her darling at the scene of hie loss, ate the Dement raced the carriage, which was bound for the sante spot. Sluggish natures like Mr. Egremont's can sometimes be mimed to great violenee, and then pour forth the long pent.up anumulations kept back by indolence and indiffereuce. Rio only occupation during the rapid drive was to vituperate his valet, the curse of his life, he said. To hear him talk, it would have seemedas if Gregorio had been the tyrant who lied kept him in bondage all then years, fully aware of his falaehood, speculation, and other rascality, but as unable to break the yoke as if he had been in truth the Slave of anything but his own evil habit and helpless acquiescence. (TO Zs Col•TTINITED.) MAN' FRIEND AND 'ALSO ENEMY. HIS An Account of the More Important Modern High ExploEdves. Few would imagine, as they watch the coal quietly glow and consume away in the grate, that there are present all the materiels necessau for producing an exploaion ; yet such is the case, and it has been found that the ignition of coal -dust laden air is a not infrequent source of dieastrous explosions in octal mines. What has occurred with coal may (moue with any combui stible solid which s finely pulverized and suspended in air, and. in this manner the explosions of flour which destroy- ed several flour mills in Minneapolis in 1878 are accounted for. The explosions of saw- dust in the Pullman oar shops and at Gel- dowsky's furniture factory, the explosions of starch inn New York candy factory, of rice in rice mills, and of dust in breweries and spice mills, are among the many examplee of the action of a similar cause; but perhaps the most ususual case of this clams of explo- sions was that of finely powdered zinc, which occurred in 1854 at the Bethlehem zinc works. Two British men-of-war, the Doterel and the Triumph, have been blown up, owing to the presence on board of a dryer for paints of wheel benzine formed a part; and the ser- ious explosion in Inwtacket and the more disastrous one in leochester, arose from naph. tha having been permitted to escape into the sewers. The modern high explosives are bodies which contain within them molecules the ele- ments necessary for ordinary combustion, while at the same time they are more or lees endothermous ; and the best example, and perhaps the most important, of thee is the mercury fulminate. This substance was dim covered by Howard in 1800, and was made by dissolving mercury in nitric acid and pour- ing the solution into alcohol. Its discovery aroused the liveliest interest, and it was im- mediately tested by firing in a musket, but, though it imparted very little velocity to the projectile, and produced only a slight reooil and report, it burst the barrel of the piece completely open; and hence it was relegated to the position of a chemical curiosity until recalled for use as a priming for percussion Its adaptation to modern uses began in - 1863., when Nobel discovered that by the ex. plomon of a fewgrains of this, substance tin tro-glycerine might be detonated, and was extended 1868, when Mr. E. 0. Brown dis- covered that not only could dry gun cotton be detonated by this means, but that if a small initial mass ei dry gun cotton Was de- tonated in contact with a mass of wet cotton, the latter would be also detonated, even though it were completely saturated with water. Baron von Leak of Austria took up the study of this material in 1853, and his efforts to perfect the methods of manufacture and to moderate the violence of the gun chargee were attended with such apparent success that a special battery of 12 pounders was con- structed for use with it, and the position of the explosive seemed assured, until 1865, when his magazines blew up spontaneously, and the article was interdicted by the Gov. ernment. While the Austrian experiments were go- ing on, Abel, the chemist to the War Depart- ment of Great Britain, was also engaged in the study of the properties of this substance, and the sanie year in which Austria proserib. ad the article he announced the invention of the process by which its manufacture has since been successfully carried on. Gun cotton constibutes the best military explosive known, for, while its explosive force vastly exceeds that of gunpowder and approaches that of nitroglycerine, it is the safest aril most stable explosive vee'possese, since it can be stored and transported web; and, when in this state, though it may ne deconeted as described above, it cannot be exploded in any other way. As much as 2,- 000 pounds of wet compreseed gun cotton have been placed in a fierce bonfire, where ib has gradually dried, layer by layer, and been consumed without exploding. Besides, gun cotton is the only militaay explosive which can be detonated with certainty when frozen. In calling it a military explosive I mem, of course, for use in torpedoes and for military mining, and not as a substitute for gunpowdmi in guns; but it may be and has been, successfully used as a oherge'for shells fired from gunitowdee glans both in this coun- try and abroad. Sheila ematitining,ati much as 110 pounds of gun cotton have been rei peatedly fired in Germany. The most prominent rival et gun cotton for Military DSOS and the best expletive for industrial purposes, is nitroglycerine and the mixtures of whith it forms a part This subseence was discovered by Sobrero in 1847, while cainying out a series of experiments under Pelouze. Ite liquid form makes ib din Arndt to store and tranoport and permits it to find ite way into unexpected Omen, where It conetitutoo a Source of danger. Cowden eratiorus each as therm led Nobel, about 1867, to invent dynamite, The name le now ap- plied to a great variety of nitroglycerine inixturee, but they all consiet of a, porous rielia aheeebent whieh mucks up the liquid nitto-glyeerine by capillarity and holds it In itis pores or intoraticeS. • The mete impertatt titrotglycerite ntix- time it explosive gelatine, Moo invented by Nobel. This is me& by heating ultro-glyt mine on a water bath and additig to it from 7 to 10 per cent, of tiolutde gun cotton, The largest single donee ever fired Were employed in the blowing up of Helleetss Reef arid Pieea tech, In the latter) widish 6O- curred Oct, 10, 1885, the charge consisted of 240,899 pounds of reekmerooki and 48,537 pouncle of dytainite No. 1, yot to nicely wee this enormous ohertee calcalated for the work it wan to do, thee beyond breaking clown the reek, booing up at eminent:Me Indy of Water to height (witimetiol for the talleet jet) of 1.60 feen and generating an eerthiWeene Which was obeerved at ler tad 40 aarabrid46§ NtafiS.$ it prodneod no Visible effect. MISCELLANBOUS. fhe High Scheele have only had five add ed• to their number in ten years, but the number of teachers has increased during that time from 266 to 378, while the nunaber of tteholers has risen from 8,541 to 15,344. The salaries of teachers are as a rule very inadectuate, and hence a large number merely teach for a few years' without ever thinking of it as their We business. And no wonder when it is told that the average Wary for a male teacher for ^the Province wee in 1886 only ili424 and the average for lady teachers only $290, Not much encouragement in suoh figures to lead any one to continue at what ought to he an honoured and well paid oecupetion. Lord Lansdowne has been favoring Cana. diens with his views on Imperial Federation and unrestricted reciprocity. Ho mildly and cautiously condenum both, while he does not hint at the relanation of the tariff being of the find and most preening importance. Commercial TJnion is as dried on both eidee great amount of official blundering and theft and it is exceediegly likely that something of the same eget is going on still. Tim great object of °mune of sueh eoares with thoee who generelly got them up is to have till more spent where so much had already been wasted, What is religion, after all, doing, when the cry is everywhere ao IneeS- spat for more being spent on waxlike army, ments, if rapine and i)loodshed, oppression and every kind of iniquity are not to be universal ? Is physical force after all the only restraining powerin this poor world and in thie year of grace 1888 ? It is pleasant to notice how some nice have in their own butinesses successfully eolved the great problem of how capital and labor are to be reconciled and led to work in har- mony and to mutual profit. The last illus- tration of the kind is that of the late M. Bowl, the great piano maker of Paris. Mr, Bord died letely, and in his will left to every one who had worked five years in his factory $200; to every one who had worked six, $260, and so on increasing the amount by $60 for every additional year. But this was as Ramses the Great. The only wonCer Pnly finlidung what 'qr. Bord had been do. among seneible people is now how any sate man oould ever have advocated it excepts, as a stepping stone to annexation, The more the facts are known, the more dangerous this buoiness of bringing over to Canada the sweepings of the shores of Britain is made to appear. By all means give poor boys and girls a chance but the way in which incorrigibles froin the juvenile reformatoriea of England, are thipped off to Canada is oimply out of the question. Can- ada has already only too naany incorrigibles of native growth, and to add to their num- ber in the way too many are doing, is neith- er good policy nor good religion. It is not wise surely to scatter the vices of physical and spiritual pollution throughout the coun- try, Hanlan's day is evidently over unless he is still "playing possum" and is hoping to gather in the dollars by a great soup after he has been fairly discredited. This is not likely. Honest boat raves are not quite so rare an honest horse ones. Bat they are rare enough in all conscience. It has now passed into an axiom that such a thing as an honest horse race is not known and not known because it does not exist. The day is not far distent when the same thing may be said of boat races, Indeed the thing is so bad already that no honourable men would touch them with a ten foot pole. It is a thousand pities that the spirit of gamb- ling and imposition seems to take possession of all the admirers of these athletic games and degrtdes them into the very mire of im- petition and fraud. The descriptions given in English papers of the departure of batches of "self-help" emigrants are of a much more roseate color than what is said about them when they arrive in Canada. It vrtay be all very well to say that work is waiting for every man who pleases to come to Canada, but after all the facts are somewhat different, and the bright hopes of many on starting, it is babe feared, are in danger of being somewhatoverolouded. Canada can take a geed many farmers, and servant girls of the right kind are at a pre- mium. But to say that there is a great dernandfor either skilled or unskilled labor in for many years. So long ago as 1864 the system of profit-sharing was introduced in Mr. Bord's fectory. The plan included all the employes, and the distribution was an- nual. Ten per cent. was first set apart to cover the rides of business and plo- vide interest on the employer's capital. This was reckoned as the wages of oapital. The remainder of the profits was then divided in the ratio of the wages received, the wages of capital being reckon- tehdieinesecieotohdat dMivri.eiB000r,cloorecrivveerdy aporhopareerlyof. The dividend is said to have amounted on several occasioes to from 20 to 24 per cent: on the wages, though clueing the last few years the pressure eef foreign competition had rather reduced it. The 'elan wrouglt smoothly and all were satisfied. There were no strikes, no grumbling, no envyir g. All felt that they were dealt with fairly and honourably. Of course the very best work. men could always be had, No room for drunkards or dawdlers there. If suoh plan were more common, labour troubles would be fewer and would be more easily settled, There are certain stook subjects for dimes - pion in juvenile debating dubs which if kept there do no harm, but which when brought into serious debate by any persons or organs of any standing or consideration are either disastrous or simply absurd. One of these is now and then getting a turn over at pre- sent. Canada is gravely galled upon to con- sider whether the United States could or could not conquer her and whether in the event of war between Great Britain eial the States, Canada could still be part of the British Bemire, owning the sovereignty of Queen Victoria, and at the same time be perfectly neutral in the conflict. Of mum all such discussion is intended to show that the present connection between Great Britain and her greatest colony is a weakness and a menaceno both and that the sooner that connection is severed the better for all concerned: Now of course any party or paper has a right to debate whatever question it deems proper but in the present state of feeling through- out Canada any party that would go to the country onthe nuestionofs9aration from Brie at this time in the Canadian market is' tain whether in order to join the Staten or :et sienply untrue, and those who say there jel 1 up- as an independent nationality, would be areBy alit buried fifty fathoms deep ---so deep that ft meas esr ue e bet those t heyare un who trhi riktthr itietyh !nol. oimprove Iwould not carry a single constituency, and their circumstances try Canada, but don'e let such discussion help to make those who seem them dream of finding money on the streets ' to favor such an issue, likely to experience and work at every corner.I such a snowing up when the time °canes. It It has now come about that in settlements is all very well to discuss every question at of German and French, where the language ! the proper time media the proper place ; and of the school must necessarily be that which to initiate a propaganda for an important the pupils understand, the English language: though unpopular course is alto quite open must be taught in every such school, sothat to those who think it is. There are forlorn now it can, for the first time, be said then' hopes which have to be led, but one more there is not a French or German separateforlorn than the one referred to could not school in the province in vehich English is well be imagined. It is even worse than di - not taught, and so taught that pupils can pass satisfactory examinations on that as on all other subjects. Taking it all in all, the educational wok of the province is, to all appearance, carried on with very great 'zeal and efficiency in all its departments. At the same time it is to be noted that the irre- rect taxation and no custom houses. Bi-Oarbonate of Soda. The value of soda to housekeepers, and some of the uses to which it may be put, is gular attendance of some causes a great deal thus set forth by a writer in Good Hauge- of outlay without anything like an adequate keeping: retern, Not one-half of the scholars are .A. slight dash of soda renders all green getting anything that can be properly called vegetables more nutritious, tender, and easy education and yet as much is paid as there of digestionparticularly cabbage, spinach, would be if all attended regularey during the whole of the school year. In Chicago as wen as in Quebec the Sal- vation Army has been declared a public nuisance chiefly because, according to the leaving only an appetizing suggestion of Chicago authorities, they "cause teams to acid. In preparing ;stook for soups or break loose on the streets and endanger the gravies, one-helf teaspoonful ; soda to every lives of the citizens." All this has something quart of.yeater will extractLit the substance reasonable in it. But surelyif the principle from remnants of meat, bbnes, eto., is sound it ought to be carried further. A like magic. A little bit makes coffee very drum or a tambourine makes as much Janke rich; and, if the water be bard, will soften in the hand of a volunteer as in that of a it sufficiently to render the coffee the vele. Selvationist, and surely then all church and table "cup that cheers." other parades of therm embryo soldiers Everything—the good temper and general should be stopped as well. Drums on the well being of the family—depends upon the 12th of July on the hands of orangemen cleanliness of the coffee pot, which in all or - frighten horses quite as much as when they derby households is thoroughly washed and call men and women to prayer. Surely aired after using. It should be kept sweet what is sauce for the goose is sauce for the by frequent " boilings out" with a generous gander. There bin doubt the Salvationists pinch of soda in the water. Death lurks in do frighten horses, and disturb the sick by tannin, and tannin abides in the coffee pot their untimely shouting and drumming. of a slatternly housekeeper. But th,ey are not the only sinnete in Clio Dyspeptics find that this same ti bi-carb " respect and ought not to be the only ones °ernes "healing in its wings" if regularly "put down." used.. It creates appetite; tones up the The position of women in Christiat lands stomach, and sweetene the system. Nausea is certainly still in many cases anything but and sick headache may be relieved by tak. what it ought to be. What is eves in old ing it internally, while its efficacy in nem Roman days Is diseuseed in the current tralizing the 'Poison of bites or stings of timber onthe Contemporary. The writer, De. James Donaldson, reminds us of the helplessness of Women in the eerier centuries of the Republin, when Sulp.icius Gallus divorced his wife for appgaring in the streets without a veil, Sem/wonting Sophus inflicted the same penalty because his wife event to the public games without his knowledge, while Egnatitis, having surprised hie spouse in the aot of drinking wine, beat her to death and was commended for the act In later time the Roman matron was to far emend. pated as to be practically on an equality with her husband, except as regards 'mini. cal tights. But tbe band of wedlock Was still very far from inelibSoluble. Marriage, in fact, only lasted ao long an the puttee were fully agreed, and the only cheek on its dietolution was the necessity of setting about It in a strictly legal manner and the duty of consulting neer relatives. and beans. A pinoh of soda to dried beans, split peas, etc., makes all the difference in the world, particularly in using them for soups. A very slight quantity -takes from tomatoes the unpleasantly sharp twang," One of the periodical totem hat come over laritain just now. It itt or is supposed to be found that in mete of all the enormous sums expended on the army and navy there it very little, to prevent any continental power With a tolerably fair allosvatce floe to throw a hundred thotteend men hitt Deglatel end repeat the somewhat unpleasant ciente, dots thee took place in 1066 when the bastard William inadc things somewhat lively. The fleet, it Wenn', is anything but what it °nett to be end ett for tho army it is little better than t farce, Whet May be the true inwatelaino of all thistv� do not pretend to Atty. Ohly in the Vern ous eentredietoty date/netts and coutra etateenente eemeiney mot be far, tar out of his reekenine, Tihet bat always boon a 15 8TANLEY 1.10$T? Anxietyias te tete rate or the Groat Explore/ - The public will now await information the &Inky expedition with anxioue inter- est, The eurprisieg Pews has come ine way of Viotorie Nyanzs, and Zauzibar that le'Miri Paella, had sot out partiers to get newe ef Stanley, but that up to Nov. '2 he had heard nothing of him. Before Stanley started on the unknown course of the Ara- wimi on the jouree,y of 500 miles to Wade - tan he wrote that he hoped to make about ten miles a day, and he thought he would certainly reach Wadelai late in August or during the first days of September. At last accounts, therefore, his large party was b.bout two months overdue. It may now' reasonably be assumed that he has met with unexpected obetaelee, At the date when Ernin Pasha wrote, four months and four days had elapsed, and Stanley hae not end- ed the journey which he hed hoped to make in two months or lees. This is VERY SLOW TRAVELLUM even for Afrisa, and when we remember that Stanley's chief purpose was to reach Ernin Pasha without a day's unnecessary delay, it is evident that he has encountered difficulties which, in spite of his energy and resources, have greatly retarded his march to the Nile: Stanley started from Yambuga Rapids ha the Aruwimi on June 28 with about 350 men, including four English assistants. He carri- ed a large supply of geode for Emin Pasha, of which ammunition wee the most impor- tant article, the next in rank being the cur- rency used by African travellers, such as beads and brans wire. He also had a small supply of European provisions, mostly can.ned, intended for Emin Pasha,. He had about Iwo hundred guns and a Maxim repeating gam carried a steel boat, and expected to sake a course nearly due ease o the south end of Albert Nyanza. He left Major Bart- telot in charge of a fortified camp at Yam - bugs, with a force of 246 men. One of Stan- ley's carriers, returning to Yambuga on 12, said that he had left Stanley eighteen days"- march east of Yambuga., at it river-. flowing north into the Aruwimi, and that all were well. This information, reporting his favorable progress up to Jelly 15, is the last news we have had of the expedition. Stanley's route for over two hundred miles through a wholly unknown land, and, in fact, on the journey of NEADLY 7017R HUNDRED MILES to Albert Nyanza he expected to traverse ° only one region, the Mabode country, where a white man had been before him. Dr. Junker visited Main de, and Schweinfurthe Junker, °Anti, and E min Paelm crossed and more or less thoroughly explored a- region, extending three hundred miles 'west of Al- bert Nyatzte from fifty to one hundred and fifty miles north of Stanley's route, From the descriptions and from nativeinformation, they gathered about countries to the south, some of the conditions under which Stanley made his =era may be accurately deecribed. He began the overland journey at a sea- son when the grass was very high, in many plains over the heads of bis men, and this, fact greatly increased the diffieultiee, of tnai ----- - march. 10 the early stages of his course the country is very rolling and not heavily timbered. In the middle a el eastern per - tion of the route it is the opinion of explore ers that he had before him a good deal of heavily timbered and elevated country, the mese of whose tribes are cattle herders. I1 is not probable that he encountered a single, very, powerful chief. The tribes, so far as they are known, are numerous, but rather small, and, according to Junker and Cased, they prefer peace to war. No expedition, ever entered inner Africa better prepared than Stanley's to repel any natives who were inclined to dispute the passage. Junker was very hospitably reoetved by the natiyes at the point where his wanderings led him to the very region Stanley expected to cross. Judging from our present information, it is not probable that the natives were able, even if desirous to bar his way. It seems much more likely that Stanley has been delayed by the difficulty of provisioning hie force as he went along. If for any reason he was unable to live on the resources of the country, he was &tubeless compelled either to make a long detetur north to the Welle- Ma,kua, where THE VOrIILATIOrT TS MORE DEIs'SE, and supplies, according to all past experi- ence are abundant ; or he foued itnecessary to return to Yambuga, where a great part of the country was in manioc fields, and where,. ecoording to Major learttelot, there was little danger of the failure of supplies. It is impossible on long foot kurneys in Africa to carry provisions for the march. A little European food is provided for the white men, but the porters must be supplied en route, and they carry goods to exchange for food. Under the circumstancea, it is unfortunate that we have been so long without news. from Yambuga. The Etnin Pasha Relief Committee made no provision for the de - snitch homeward of news frnin the expedi- tion, and for several reagents the Cone State has not found it convenient to send a steam- er to the upper river for months. When at last it got ready to despatch a steamer, the trip wits poseponed on account of the death of Capt. Van de Velde, commander of THE NATIVE SOLDIERS •. who were to go to Stanley Falls. The re- sult is that our latest advices front Yambuga are dated Aug. 18, only six days after the first report of Stanley's progress had been received en that point. Even if Stanley him - venomous intents is well known. It acts self has nob returned to Yambuga, thero is like a charm in the case of a snake bite. hardly a doubt that ample • reports of his For hive, apply externally, ad swallow a progress' and prospects have arrived small quantity dissolved in water; also take there and have been waiting for months a light le:cativo. Relief from the burning for a steamer to carry there 'down the river, The Congo route now appears to be elie only one by which we are reasonably certain to obtain news of the expedition, and it is to be hoped that vigorous efforts to communicate with the upper river will no. longer be delayed. Emit Pasha appeare to be prospering, even thougn his ammuni- tion has run very short, and the greet desire at present it to kern what haebeemne of the man who was oent to succour him. and irritation will quickly follow. If wet soda be immediately applied to burns or scalds, both heat and pain speedily subside. Other purposes are subeerveci, by this great produet, to all of which it would be impos- sible to specially refer ; but that it is a real benefaction, in judicious hands, is a fact be- yond cavil or question. Of course it may often, like the coolen brotli, bo overdone or undeedone, by indiscriminate usage ; but the worthy housewife kuowo just when or where to leave it off, and the wise home doctor knotvii just how long to leave be on; and, under ouch auspicieue eircumstancee, it is indeed a neoessary luxuty for which we should feel devoutly grateful to the zeicnce of theinistry. British POstotios Girls.' In otte reopen the oraployurient of fel-tittles in the Bettie& postoffice is acting in a way nob quite foreseen by the department— namely In the promotion Of marriages. Especially hen the sCentrel hall" eufferecl ie this reepeett four of ite most valued lady clerks having lately resigned in order to era ter tlie etate matettioniel. But if the gem- erninent is thereby intionveineneed all tlie department are pleased, for if they de not wih the prize of matrimony they profit" in the Way �f promotion by the rethienient of their fortunate Siebers.—{St Lottbs ,eubU' eau, Hats in Philadelphia. This is clearly going to be a "go -at -you 'Aimee" ention in worneit's hate and bonnets, The faehion papers are puzzling and give but little Satisfactioh as to what are to be the prevailing shapes. It is already (Pits trianifeet, however, that two foatuteo Will be nmoh in vogue—brims will be wider and crowns lower. But Oven this is not arbi- trary. It it generally opoken of as a big hat season, and eennt of the fashionable young ladies to whom big hats ere beenning heve teloptce them, but the one gtitat ques- tion in whioli so many young ladiers are ha toresten thirteens nueettled. That is --will sailor hats be worn t They will, though the brims ttf those teen are out off narrower and the hat is set back en the head—a fetiture, by the way, that sOons to prevail in all ti' season's head gear. -Several tailor WOro seen on the Park tithe yeatorday tutueual "ember of wide Loghoint, fghiladelphia Titnett