HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1888-10-4, Page 3OUGHING IT IN THE BUSH.'
With no diffieulty, and not without
cutting his fieger, John broke a piece off, and
stuffed it into the baby's mouth. The poor
oeild made a horrible face, and rejected it
as if it had been poieo,n. For my own part,
I never tasted anything more nauseoue. It
United like a coMpound of pork -grease and
tobacoo juice. Well, Monaghan, if thie be
maple sugar, I never wish to taste any
aoana."
"Oh, bad luck to it i" said the lad,
flinging it away, plate ,nd all. "It would
have been first-rate but for the dhirty pot,
and the fele( Isguare (enders, and its burning
to the bottom of the pot. That owld hag,
Mrs. R ----,bewitched it with her evil
eye.,
"She is not so clever as you think, John,"
said I, laughing. "You have forgotten how
to make,the eugar, since you left 1) ;
but let us forget the maple sugar, and think
of sonNething else. :Elad you not better get
old Mete R---- to mend that jacket for
you ; et is too ragged."
"Ay, by dad 1 an' its myseP is the illi -
gent tailor. \Won't I brought up to the
thrade in the Foundling Hospital ?"
"And why did you quit it ?"
" Because is a low mane thrade for a
jintlemen's son ?"
"But, John, who told you that you were
a gentleman's mon?"
Och but len shore o it, thin. Al
my propenaties are gintale. I love horses,
and dogs, and fine clothes, and money. Oce!
that I was but a jintlemen 1 l'd show them
what life is intirely, and I'd challenge Mate
ther William, and have nly revenge out of
hini for the blows he gave me."
"You had better mend your trousers,"
said I, giving him a tailor's needle, a pair of
scissors, and'some strong thread.
"Shure. an I'll do that same in a brain
of shakes," and sitting down upon a rickety
three-legged stool of his own manufacturing,
he commenced his tailoring, by tearing off
a piece of his trousers to peach the elbows
ot his jacket. And this trifling act, simple
as it may appear, was a perfect type of the
boy's general conduct, and marked his pro -
greets through life. The present tor him
was everything; he bad. no future. While
he Remedied stuff from the trousers te repair
the fraoturee in the jacket, he never reflect-
ed that; both would be required on the mor-
row. Poor John! in his brief and reckless
career, how often have I recalled that fool-
• ish act of bis. It now appears to me that
his whole life was spent in tearing his treus.
• ers tc repair his jacket.
In the evening John asked me for a piece
of soap.•
" What do you want with soap, John?"
"To weah my shirt, ma'am. Shure an'
• I'm a baste to be aeon, as black as the pots.
Sorra a shirt have I but one, an' it has etuak
on my back so long that F can thole it no
longer." •
Hooked at the wrists and collier of the
mendemned garment, which was all ef it that
jenue allowed to. be vieible. They were
%%eh he need of soap and water.
e" Well, John, I will leavo you the soap.;
but can you waeh?"
" Och, ehure, an' I can thry. If I soap
it enough, and rub long enougla, the dart
must come elane at last."
I thought the matter rather doubtful;
beet when I went to bed I left what he re-
quired, and soon saw through the chinks no
e the boards a roaring fire, and heard John
whistling over the tub. He whistled and
rubbed, and washed and scrubbed, but as
• there seemed no end to the job, and he was
as long washing this one garment as Bell
would have been performing the same oper-
ation on ffity, 1 laughed to myself, and
thought of my own abortive attempts in
• that way, and went fast asleep. In the
morning John canie to his breakfast, with
his jacket buttoned up to his throat.
"Could you not dry your shirt by the
'fire, John? Ylite will get cold wanting it."
" Aha, by dad! its dhry enough now.
The devil has made tinder of it long afore
this."
"Why,what has happened to it? I heard
you washing ail night."
"I will. Is there anything I can do for
you ?—anything I can make for you, that
you would like to take?" •
IShe shook her leead, "1 can't eat. But
I want to ask you one thing, Which I wish
very much te know." She gras cid my
liana+ tightly between her over. lier eyea
+hiked darker, and her feverish cheek paled.
" Wnat becomes of people when they die ?''
"My poor girl 1. I exclaimed involun-
tarily; "can you be ignorant of a future
state ? '
44 What is a future state ?"
1 endeavoured, as well as I was able, to
explain to her the nature of the soul, its
endlees duration, and responeibility to God
for the action done ha the fleeli ; its natural
depravity and need of a Seviour; urgiug
her, in the gentlest manner, to lose no time
in Ateinieg forgiveness of her sins, through
the atoning blood of Christ.
The poor girl looked at me with eurpriee
and hereon These things were all new to
hem She sat like one in a dream; yet the
truth seemed to flash upon her at once.
",How inn 1 pray to God, who never
knew Um? How can I ark Him to forgive
me 7 '
".You must pray to Him?"
"Pray I I don't hnow how to pray. I
never said a prayer in my life. Mother,
oan you teach me now to pray ? '
"Nonsense 1" said Mrs. J09, hurryiug
forward, "Why should you trouble your-
self about such things? Mrs. Moodie, I de-
sire you not to put such thoughts into my
daughter's head. We don't want to know
anything about Jealle Christ here."
"Ob, author, don't speak so ts the lady I
DoalVIrs. Moodie, tell me more about God
and my thul, I never knew until now thet
I had a soul." .
Deeply cornpaseioneaing the ignorance of
the poor girl, in spite of tee menaces of the
heathen mother—for ahe was no better, but
rather worse, Boeing that the heathen wor-
ahips in ignorance a false god, while this
woman lived without acknowledging..a God
at all, and therefore considered herself free
from all moral restraint -4 bid Phoebe good
bye, and promised to bring my bible, and
read to her the next day.
The gratituele manifested by this sick
girl was such:a centred to the rudenees and
brutality of the rest of the family, that I
soon felt &powerful interest in her fate.
The mother did not actuany forbid me
the house, because she saw that my visits
raised the drcoping spirits of her c hild,
whom she fiercely loved, and, to save her
life, would cheerfully have sacrificed her
own. But ehe never failed to make all the
noise she could to disturb my reading and
convemation with Phcebe. She oould not
be pereuaded that,her daughter was really
in any danger, until the doctor told her that
the cape was hopeless ; then the grit of
the mother burst forth, and he gems way
to the most.frantio and impious complain-
.
angs. ,
The rigour of the winter began to abate.
The beams of the sun during the day were
warm and penetrating, and a soft wind blew
from the south. I watched, from day to
day, the snow disappearing from the earth,
with indescribable pleasure,• and at length
it wholly vanished; not even a solitary
patch lingered under the shade of the foreet
tress ; but 'Uncle Joe gave no signm of re-
raold'og hie family. ,
"Does lee Mauna° atliee all- the suromer ?"
thought I. "Perhaps he never intends
going at all. I will ask him, the next time
he conies to borrow whiekey.e ,
In the afternoon he walked in to light his
pipe, and, with some a/satiety, I made the
inquiry.
" Well, I guess we can't be moving afore
the end of May. My minus expeets to be
confined the fore part of the month, and I
-shan't ineve till she be quite smart &gin."
"You are not using us well, in keeping
us out of the house to long."
".Oh, I don't mere a curse about . any ef
you. It is my house 'along as I chow to
remain in it, and you may put up with it
the best way you can ;" and, humming a
Yankee tune, he departed.
" Washirg 1 Faith, an' I did scrub it till
my hands were all ruined intirely, and thin
I took the brush to it; but sorra abit of
the dhirt could I get out of it. The more I
rubbed the blacker it got, until 1 hadased
up all the soap, and the perspiration was
pouring off me like rain. You dhirty owld
bit of a blackguard ef a rag,' says 1, in an
exthremity of rage, you're not fit for the
back of a decent la an a jincieman. The
divil may take ye to cover oue of his imps •'
anewid that I sthirred up the fire, and sent
• it plump into the middle of the blaze."
" And what will you do for a shirt?"
44 Faith, do as many a better man has
done afore me, go widout."
I looked up two old shirts ef my husband's
which John received with an etstacy of de-
light. He retired instantly to the stable,
but soon returned, with as much of Mhe
linen breast of the garmentdisplayed as his
waistcoat would allow. No peacock was
ever prouder of his tail than the wild Irish
• lad was of the old !shirt,.
John had been treated very qmuch +like a
spoiled child, and, like most spoiled child-
ren, he was rather fond of he.vinghis own
way. Moodie had set him to do something
which was rather contrary to his owniia-
mienations ; he did not object to the task
in words, for he was rarely ,sauoy to his em-
• ployers, but he left the following staveapon
the table, written in pencil upon a scrap of
paper torn from the back of an old dettee:—
em. man a1iv, an ox may dare
Unto a springpg well;
To make him drink, as he may think
No man can him oompel,fiN
..J9 MONAGObli."
CHAPTER IX
,
"Iwogld require a atrong etannaala ta
digest etpledwees, John; Inte never mind,
It can't 0 he/ped, and we may be very
italleath.eeful thee these people are gone at
John and Bell Serubbed at the house all
day, and in tha evening they carried over
the furniture, aid I went to inspect our new
dwelling.
It looked beautifully clean and not. Bell school onme a bright boy, and ten
had Whitewashed all the black, smoky welle pity he ehogie trifle ay hie time like
iOUN6 FOLKS,
BOYS 17V110 BECA14,4 FAMOUS-
PLAYINOnv TIM Fill•t:SX14.
" Why don't you eed that child to
and boarded ceilings, and eorubbed the dirty
window -frames, and polished the fly -spotted
panes of glass, until they actually admitted
that,"
So epoke a tall, well-dressed man who
was standing beside the eountee of a ship -
a glimpse of the clear air and the blue sky; chandler s shop in oue of the waterende
Snow-white fringed curtains, and a bed, with streets of the
ock. The door of elle inner roorn happeneol
old Scottish eeaport of Green,
to be open, and through it could be Ewe the
ehEtndlern younger son—a slender, large -
eyed, delicete looking little fellow of six
furniture to correspond, a carpeted floor, and
a large pot of green boughs on the hearth'.
stone, gave an air of comfort and cleanlined
to a room which, only a few hours before;
had been a loathsome den of filth and on* years oid--who kneehog upon the heerth-
purity. •
stone, eeemed to be drawing strange figures
all over it with a a piece of colored mule.
As the visitqr spoke a slight flush of dia.
pleasure passed over the father' rough face;
but in another moment it gave place to a
smile of quiet amusement.
" Weel, sk," said he, in his broad Scotch
accent, "will ye jun look what he's trifl-
ing away his time' wi', as ye ea' it ? '
The other stepped eoftly forward, and
looking over the shoulder of the uneonscieue
I have searched the house from the loft to child, saw to his amazement that tine six -
the cellar, but we canna feed eat the cause year-old boy was drawing a mathematical
of thae stink." diagrein, and marking each line in turn
"It must be in the room, Bell ; and it is with letters or figures, with which he seem-
ed to be working out aortae kind of calcula-
tion.
"Does he really understand all that ?"
asked the visitor in a whisper.
"Ask him yoursell," replied the chandler
see if I was right. The lad mounted upon quietly.
a chair, and pulled opened a small door, but The other did so, and the boy, not at all
almost fell to the ground with the dreadful dieturbed at finding himself few to face with
trten which seemed to rush from the °loot. a perfect stranger, answered so clearly and
• " What is it, John lee I cried front the readily that the questioner was astonished.
open door: • "He must take a good deal of time to
"A• skunk, ma'am, a skunk I Shure, I play too, though," looking around the
theuglat the divil had scorched hie tail, and room, "if he usee all these toys that you've
left the grizzled hair behind bim, What a bought for him."
strong perfume it has I" he continued, hold- "That I've bought for him I" echoed the
ing up the beautiful but odious little crea- father, with a broad laugh. "Man, he's
ture by the tail. • made every one o' them hirnsel'."
" By dad I know all about it now. I "Made every one of those toys hinaaelf
saw Ned Layton, only two days ago, cross- cried the visitor, ataring.
ing the field with Uncle Joe, with his gun "Ay, just as you see. I bought hint a
on his shoulder, and this wee bit baste in bex o tools a wee while since, ,and this is
his hand. They were both leughing like what he's done wi' them."
eixly. Well, if this does not Eitink the " Well, upon my word, you may well be
Seco chman out of the house,' said Joe, proud of him. He's certainly a most un -
be centint to be tarred and feathered f and common child, and I beg your pardon sin -
tele. they both laughed mail they atopped cerely for speaking so foolishly about him AB
to draw breath." I did just now."
I could ha+ elly help laugeing myself; but II.
I begged Monaghan to convey the horrid
"Wet 1, neighbor, has he been a owed lad -
creature a.way, and putting some salt and deer —
sulphur into a tin plate, and setting fire to The "laddie" in question, was the ship -
it, 1 placed it on the fluor in the middle of
the room, and is+ d all the doors for an chandler's clever son (now a mart though
hour, vehieh greatly assisted in purifying leather delicate boy of fourteen), who had
the house from the alluvial:Wien. Bele been on a vied to an English friend in Glaze
ow, and the speaker was his mother, who
then washed out tne closet with strong lye,
d owe t) fetch him home again
and in ellen time no vestige remained of ao Zened echoed the h t " He'
the malicious triok that IJecle Joe had play- "Good 1" " esile .8
made us all jump out of manakins, that s
The change would have been very grati-
fying, had not a strong disagreeable odour
almost deprived me of my breath ea' entered
the room. It was unlike anything had
ever smelt before, and turned me so sick and
faint that I had to cling to the door -post for
support.
" Where does this dreadful smell come
from ?" - • .
" The guidness knows, memo; John and
PiicEBE R--- AND Obit SECOND lieVIRIG.
She died in early w,ornanhood,
SPrtrel EeiOn et a btera se rude ,
A child of Nature, free from art,
With candid brow and open heart;
„The flowers she loved now gently wino
Above hoe low and, nameiess envie:
It was during the month of March thal
+Uncle Joo's eidoet danghter, Pheebe vein/
handsome girl, and the beat of the family,
•*11 sick. 1 went over to see her. The poor,
,girl was very depressed, and stood but .ta,t
slight chance for her life, being under the
medical treatment of three or fnur old wo-
men, who all recommended different tteat.1
anent and administered diffetent nostrums.,
Seeiog that the poor girl was dangerously.
I took her mother aside, and bagged her,
loss no time xn procuring proper medical
advice. Mrs. Joe listened to me very sul-
lenly, and eaicl there was no danger ; that
Phmbe bed caught cold by • going hot from
the wash -tab to fetch a pail ot water from
the spring; that the neighbors knew the
mature of her ,,00mplaint, and wottld Soon
cure her.
The invalid turned upen me her fine dark
eyes, in which the light of fever painfully
burned, and motioned me to come near her.
I had borne pritiently the odious, cribbed -
up place during the winter, but now the hot
weather was coming it seemed almost in-
supportable, as we were obliged to have a
fire in the close room, in order to cook our
provialous. I consoled Myself as well as I
could by roaming about the fields and woods,
lend making acquaintance with every wild
flower as it 'blossomed, ancl in writing long
letters to home friends, in which I abused
one of the finest countries of the world as
the worst that God ever called out of chaos.
I can recall to memory, at thie moment, the
few lines of p, poem which commenced in
this strain; nor am I sorry that the red has
passed into oblivion
01h ! land of waters, how my spirit tires'—'I
In the dark prison of thy boundless woods;
No rural charm poetie thought inspires, ~
No music murmurs thy mighty goods;
Though vast the features that compose thy
• frame, e
Turn where we will the landeoape's still the
impossible to remain here, or live in this
house until it is removed." '
• Glancing my eyes all round the gime, I
spied what seemed tomo a, little cupboard,
over the mantle -0130f, and I told John to
The swampy waren of thy inland seas,
The eternalforest girdling .either shore,
Its belt of dark pines sighing in the breeze,
And rugged fields, with rude 'hate dotted
o'er, .
Show cultivation unimproved by art,
That sheds a barren chilleees on the heart.
How many homemick emigrants+, during
their first winter in Canada, will respond to
the gloomy picture I Let them wait a few
years ; the sun of hope will arise and -beauti-
fy the landscape and they will proclaim
the country one of lhe fined in the world.
The middle of May at length arrived, and,
by the number of long, lean women, -with
handkerchiefs of all colourestied over their
heads, who passed my door, and swarmed
into Alm Joe's house, I rightly coneduded
that another young one had been added to
the tribe ; end, shortly after, Miele .eTbe
himself announoed the rroportant "f4t; by
meettlig redlace.in tho eldor, and
• telling me, that /aim mieses had gee;s: chop-
ping,boy ; and he was right' glad of, it, for
he was tired .of so many gals and that he
•should move in a tortnight, Lillie woman did
kindly."
I had been to often disappointed that I
paid very little lateed to him, but this time
ise kerit hie word.
The last day of May, they went, bag and
baggage, the poor sick Phmbe, who stil
lingered on, and the now -born infant; and
right joyfully r eent a Scotch girl (another
Bell, whom 1 had hired. in lien of her I had
lost), and Monaghan, to clean out the
Augeau stable. In a few minutes John re-
turned, panting with indignation.
"The house," ho said, " wee more filthy
than a pig -sty." But that was not the
word of it; TJnele Joe, before he went, had
undermined the brick chimney, and let all
the water into the house. Oh, bet if he
cornea here Agin,'" he continued, grinding
his teeth and douleling his fiet, " thrash
him for it. And thin, ma'am, he has girdled
ed (if upon us. •
The next day, we took possession of our what he's done."
1 he mother looked puzzled, as well she
new mansion, and no one was better pleased na i e
with 11.m. change than little Kittle. She was " It's not that he's been. behaving badly,"
gia to prattle, but she dared not venture continued her friend. •" He's as • good, much more effective work withont mak of
now fifteen mottles old, and could just be-
te step alone, although she would stand by as gold, bless him I But as sure as we oantuse than mea on foot. Irt these men-
& chair all day, and even climb upon. it. get settled round the fire atnight, he begins 03UNVIS although tho retreating force num-
Itilling all sorts of stories out a his ' own berecl bub threeofficers and twelve men, they
adzniring everything, and talking to it in • e
head, some so ead that they set us all cry- I succeeded in delaying the pursuers
Iike babies and some so terrible that we so that it took them three hours
She crept from room. to room, feeling and ,
her baby language., So fond was the deer T' t for Prof Heiden s
child of flair/ere, that lier-fatlatiiiised to hpia daren't look behind us ; and •that eway he I to cover a dissance mei y msde in jells of the uthver" ,..)1•1 •
are assurance to the cent] ary we might, in fact,
keeps us up every night till pretty near less then two when no obstacleu
her up to the apple -trees, then rich in there eseeteganeolooke-form when once he's begun a interposed. Three et the retreating force be led to think that the mighty lens on
blossoms. She would pat them with her story you can't budge tIllieeittezetimard how dallied too long at a bridge, and were ridden
it ended. I don't blame him eeisnnel ene down ancl captured by a detachment of the Mount Hamilton, like Lerel _ leosse's huge
mirror ati.. Parsonstown, ,nul-et prove lees
.
full springlseauty, that She might kiss the
soft, white hands, murmuring like a bee in (0.8 his brother john* say-) he can't 'sleep' 1:6.1-6110'.'ssrYs----
There were Ito other losses, The i esefulin emsetvations regehang acoure oc, efit
the branches. To keep her quiet whilst -4 the I nition that in Awe lumen demand. ens,
was lusy, 1 had only to give her a bunch of night, poor lad 1 mad so of come he don't oVet difficuanseced was due to
Wild flowers. She would. sit as still as re to go to bed. ' But if he was to stay
la,mb, looking &et at one and then at 8 another week he'd drive me 'clean crazy, as
other, pressing them to her little breast in
au' sure as I stand here." ' +
With this good character our ,l.ero went
AeVer forgotten the last words of that rang 'OTATIAT,T.004
then 80 xiddy awl so young, but I have
When the tempter bee offered me he
6varkiiug cenine, tee „verde of that yeeegg I The receipte ni the 26 Parisi thee/bees beet
year was about $3,500,000, which was
Men have seemed to soiled in ney oars again.
A iiirci Without a isToot. . , crease of 05%000 over the previous year,
Out of' 10,40.0 preeeriptions taken at rau.
A. froln therteefeur Bozton cirog 8t.oros,
man, And I have never violated the P eler Cilioago hae 10,000 More men than Woinem
The term night hawk is commonly applied 1,481, or 14e per cent. of them, contained
to several opeciee, all of which have certain opium in aortic) form or other.
Fourteen years no the firet.crearnery was
started in Iowa. Now the etate has got 495
creameries, 56 cheese factories and 1,000,000
cows, and makes fersexport 85,00,000 pounds
of butter annually.
The criminal record of Cubs. continees
unapproachable. During the month of July
there were 416 persons weunded while Walk.
ing the streets of Havana, and the ase} -
ants escaped in 85 per cf nt. of the cases.
London is cornpIainieg of an increase in.
the death a•ate from 15 to 18 in the
1,000 inhabitants, New York manages to
get along without any great amount of
grumbling on a death rate of 24 or 25 per
1,000.
•Toe richest mine in Australia, if not in
the world, is the Mount Morgan of Queens-
land. One of the Rothsohilds once offered
3.9,0e0,000 for it, and the offer was refused.
Its value it variously estimated at from
$6),000,000 to e500,000,000.
The French natiozial debt is atated to be
the largest in the world-- Oan,C00,000
annual int rest, 5201,000,600 Cho per ,
capita tax et the 1.Prench people lb 515, per-
haps the largest of any people. The Presi-
dent ree ives a salary of 5153,000.
might suppose them to be two old brown The present orange crop in Florida is
leaves er a bunch of brown mese so deceit-- the largest within the history of the . State.
ing is their mimicry. —[St. Nicholas. The golden fruinhangs there on the trees in
peculiarities. $rorn its ourious ory one is
called chuek-wers-widevr, thia call being
utteted loudly by the bird that it has
been heard for nearly a mile. About the
middle ef March they come back from their
winter pilgrimage ; and, uulike most of the
birds, they have no housekeeping to keep
them busy, as they build no nests. While
the robins, hummieg birds, thrushes and
others, are busily scouring the countly for
material with which to build their nurseries,
the chnole-will'awidow is fast asleeptn some
out-of-the-way comer, only corning. out in
the afternoon and evening to gather its sup-
ply of food.
When the tirne comee for laying, our
seemingly lszy bird selects imam secluded
spot, and deposits her eggs anywhere on the
ground; and the very first glimpse, if we
are fortunate in finding them at all, explains
why she builds no nest. The eggs are almost
the exact color of the surrounding+, and so
mottled and tinted that only by the mereet
accident are they discovered ; and when the
two little chuck- wilenvvidows finally come
out they are even more difficult to find them
the eggs. Being very sleepy little fellows
they rarely move, and, though standing
within a few inches of them, the observer
Bicyclee for Soldiers.
The bicycle for ce that has been organized
in connection with the English volunteers
recently had its second field manoeuvres,
the ficst having been held at Baster. Rainy
and disagreeable weather embarrassed the
troops on each of these dates, but the result
of the turn -out has been very satisfactory:
On the recent trials the men apvered about
100 miles in forty-eight hours, fighting,
scouting and camping by the way. There
were seventeen offi,ears and seventymeven
men out, mede up of representatives of a
number of the leading volunteer regiments.
The farce was divided into two bodies, one
retreating and the other following it, At
frequent intervals the retreating force made
stands aa bridges and other eligible points
of defence, and the pursuers were compelled
to halt, dismount, send out a skirmish line,
and perform all the other preliminaries of
Bather:, as though at active war. It was
found that two 'or three men Wu behind by
She retreating body could make a show of
'force at a bridge that would greatly delay
the advance of a pursuing force, and then
could mount and }swiftly side away under
cover of a hedge and escape to the main
body. This ability to fight and run away
witla greater facility than the -ordinary in-
fantryman is one of the ohief points urged
by the hicyolers in favor of the new " arm. "
It is] said that scouting end reeosnoltering
parties mounted upon bicycles could do
rich ebendance. The estimate la that the
yield wet be fully 4,000,000 boxes. Yet the
price oi oranges does not decline.
The population of the ten largest cniee
of the worlais as foiloo s :Innolon,4 149, 533;
Paris, 2,344,550; Nese York, 1,32 a066 ;
Berlin 1,206,57; Vienna, 1,103 857 ;
Pnilaol'elphia, 1,043,689 ; St. Petersburg,
020100; Tokio, 902 827 ; Constantinople,
873 565 ; Calcutta, 871,504.
Frocn the returnereceived by the Fisheriee
Departtnent it appears that the total amount
of salmon fry distributed from the dgerer.t
hatcheries of Canada last spring teas ea1y
14,000,010. The Fraser river, n a , heteh-
ery distributed • 5,807,000 ova. Tadonsac,
Que., hatchery, 850,000; Gaspe, soosieo ;
Restigouche, 1,777,000; Bedford, N. Se, -
1,400,000, ; Sydney, 1509,000; Miramichi,
N. B., 1,290,000;Sb. John river, 537,000.
The importance of Oramhee nrying in-
terests was well brought out in . course of
a debate in the Ontario Legisletu In 1887
there were in Ontario 800 ebeeseeeactories,
with 43,000 patrons and 270,003 cows, yield-
ing 650,000,000 pours& of milk, which was
made into 66,500,000 lbs. of cheese, bringing
in the market 57,000,000. Canada supplied
Grerst Britsin with 66 000,000 lbe of cheese,
as against 143,000,000 lbs. of cheese sent
from all other countries.
Further an.d More Wonderful Discoveries
with the Lick Teescope.
While tile Lick telcsoops has failed so far
to solve the engima of the em ea:len canals
012 Mare, or to oast any inapottant light
epon those phenomena beyond confirming
the font of their existence it hae made eOlrie
astonishing discoveries in the nebular rag -
a sort of eesta.cy, as if she comprehended
the worth of this moat beautiful of God's
gifts to man.
She was a sweet, lovely flower herself,
and. her charming infant graces reconciled
me, more than aught else, to a weary lot.
Was she not purely British? Did not
soft blue eyes and sunny curls, and rosy ed+
her Can ye ndtak' a book, man, and emp'oy yer-
cheeks forever remind me of her usefully ? A' this while yo ve done
gin, and bring before nee dear farms, and
Saxon ori. 'Beathing but tak' aff yon kettle lid and put
faces I could never hope to,behold again? it on again, e.nd hand [hold] a cup or is spoon
The first night Wis slept in the new house, i' the steam to watch the water di -seen -do it.
a demon of unrest had taken possessors of Are ye no ashamed. to waste your time in
it, in *bo shape. of a countless swarm of
mice. They scampered over our pillows,
andjumped upon our faces, Eggeaking and
+cutting a thousand capers over the floor.
I never could realize the true value of Whib.
tington'e invaluable cat until that night.
At'first we laughed until our sides ached,
tut in reality it was no laughing matter.
Moodie remembered that we had left a
mouse -trap in the old house; he went ancl
brought it over, baited it, and set it on the
table near the bed. During the night no
bank to Greenottk ; hub it seemed to be ' out
of the frying -pan into the fire" with Mom half -finished creation, where it would seem,
for the very neatb evening hie mother, coming , on some of thew roads ante cut of entire y at
honed to tea, found hirn getting a terrible a converging point. In a country with one I the great ettusmith is etill le'aglog the °roe
scolding from the shrillmoice of hie old aunt: good main road and but few side roacle the i of light. • Since then Prof- Holden has
"1 ne'er saw sic en idle in a' my days. success of a bicycle corps hi obstructing the fkindlY sent us Photogaphs shensing the
. .
number ef parallel roanannentettnelly con-
verging that ran through the coatisrie -v-
ersed. The retreaning party had to keep
scoots constantly ahead picking up the lay
of the land, and bringing in reports to protect
themselves. frorn the danger ot being flanked
•
light -gathering capacity. We recently cre-
scribed Prof. Holden's diecoveriee in themea- te
celebrated Ring Nebula lie the constellina4a,
Ifileiheoen,creeemraentric hatre found a marvelouistrueaure
, mo. . e
eregmhoompond.
of stare and nelyulouraggialli;ort, a
niteana,tely
sic a claftnike way?
But the old lady lived long enough to be
very sorry for these hasty words ot hers,
when she found out that what she .had mis-
taken for the idle caprice of a careless boy
was really the first idea of the steam engine
shaping itself in the imnd of Jeanes'Went.
',He also made small electric machine when quite
—
"Only rive Minutes to Live."
The following touching narratives., eays
Um than fourteen of the provoking vermin the " JuVenile Templar," should bepondered
were captured; and for several succeeding by every young person. It speaks trumpet -
nights the trap did equal execution. how tongued of the evil effects of intoxication,
(Uncle Joe's family could have allowed. such and points with a finger offire teethe awful
a nuisance to exist astonished me ; to sleep, mottent when "five minutes" will usher us
with those creatures oontinually running into the presence of God.
over us was impoesible ; and theee were not The Solemn hour will come to every one
the only evils he the shape of vermin we had of us, when we shall have only five minutes
to contend with. The old logs which nom- to live. We may not know when that dread
posed the wells of the. house were full of .mement will arrive +but it will come to each
bugs, and large black ants • and the place, •one. And then, .at the end of five minutes,
owing to the numlaer of 'dogs that alwaye +we shall pass that +mysterious boundary into
had slept under the bed's with the children the solemn world of spirits 1 ' How little
was infested with fleas, le required the think the multitude of that last five minutes 1
utmost care to rid the place ef these noisome How urgently deers it warn each one to pre -
and disgusting tenants. • . pare for ib, whether it may come sooner or
Arriving in themeuritry in the auturmanwe dater. '
thati never experienced any inconvenience " You have only 'five minutes to live,"
-from the moequitoee, but after the, firet ,said the sheriff to a young man condemned
moist, warm spring days i particularlee after, to die. The Sheriff took out his watch and
the showere, these tormenting insects au- 'Said, 44 If you have anything to say speak
noyed us greatly. The farm lenag ha the ,now, for you have obly.five minutes to live."
valley cut up wibh little streams in every The young man burst into tears, and
direction made us more, liable to their in- aaid. • .
+flictione. The hands, arms and face of the "I have to die. I had one little brother;
.
poor babe were covered every morning with. hehad beautiful olue ayes and flaxen hair,
red inflamed bumps, which often threw out aud I loved him; but one day I got drunk,
blisters.' " . ' ,• for the fleet time • in erly life end coming
i
'The bemles of the little etrearns abounded home, I foutid my 'little brother gathering
•with wiled strawberries, which,. although berries in the garden, and I beerune angry
small, Were of a delicious fiavome ' Thither without a moult, and kirea him with one
Bell and I, and the baby e daily tepaired to tilovv with a rake. 1 (lid not know anythir,,,,
gather the bright red berrice of Nature's oberit it until the next morning, when '.E
own providing. Katie, young ae she Was,, awoke from sleep and found mythlf tied and.
was very expert at helping herself, and we guarded, and was told that when my little
oseslet,o mut het be tlie middle of a fine bed, bother was found his hair wee clotted with
whilst we gathered farther on. I:fearing Mead and brains, and he was dead. Whis-
her tralkieg very lovingly tb something in key has done it. It has ruined me. I never
the grase, Whieh she tried to clutch between woe (bunk but ono. I have only one word.
her white hands, calling it " Pitty, pitty ;" more to say, au g ±0 my
[man to the spot, and found that it was a final judge. I say it to yonng people—never 1
large gartermnake that the was so affection. MVO" i .NEvEll I touch anything that can
atoly courting to her embrace. Not then intoatieate le' At he pronounced these worth,
aware that this forinidabtedeolting reptile he epeang from the box, end was launched
waS perfeetly harmlees, I snatched the child into an endless eternity.
up in my arms, and tan with her home ; I was metteci to tom s at the recital aucl
never chopping until I.gaitied the house, end the awful spectacle. My little heart seemed
saw her safely seated in her otadle. as if it would burst, and break away from
thy aching bosom 00 intolerable were my
feelings of grid. ' And there in that carn-
age, while on that cuehioned seat, looking
with etreaming eyes on the body of that
nnfortunate young man / took the pledge
h th el oison 1
(TO )31t CONTINUEIL)
I sat deism by her, and took her burning HO who believes is strong. He Who
hand is mine. doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede
"1 ain dying, Mrs. Moodie, . but they round all ,the best .graft apple -trees, ,the great actions. The man athoegly possessed never
to won't believe mc, I wish' you would talc murtherire owhtvillain, as if it 'oenld 'spite Of an idea is the inastOr Of all who are,:un, Long years have passed away. Vi'hite prepaied he haVebioyeles kept at the etation growth and destiny et its coutlem tkna .
to rother to send for the dootok." hie digestion our aging them.° . certain and Wavering. ' , hairs liave thickened around these temples . hOUiell to ad in the 'capture of criminals, , marvellously varied creations,
,
VaSeage of an enemy would be much greater.
Bicycles have not yet been introducedin the
British regular army, but if their succope
aanofig the volunteers continues, in is cx.
piloted that a similar corpe will be organized
in each regular regiment.
• Roneh on the Dudes.
On Monday at midniget, says the New
York Star, •three dudes, dressed in the
height of fashion, who were returning to
their homes in Brooklyn, amused themselves
by overturning ash barrels. Theft actions
were watched by an ofinaer standing in the
shade of a near -by tree. As they passed
under the spreading branches of the tree the
policeman came from his ambush, • and,
stopping the trio said "This is nice
gentlemanly °ended.. No doubt to you it's
rare fun. Noy, if you want to avoid dis-
gtoradcoe.,,and tele loss of 810 each :To mu.st
come beck with nie and I'll show you what
"Oh, only a little joke, old man, explam-
ed oue of the dudes. '
But the effieer was obdurate and made
the fellows march back to overturned
barrel No. 1.
"Now," said the policeman "place the
barrel in its proper position, gather the
ashes and. rubbish and efface them in the
barrel."
"But surely you don't mean that," ex-
claimed one oi the missing links in horror.
•"'Do what I say, or PH arrest you
replied tho officer.
• With great reluctance tho three - took
their first lesson in garbage gathering, and.
the same operation had, to be performed
until the lour barrels which they had upset
had been refilled. VVhett this had been
finished the officer allowed them to go home.
appearance of two other nolonce as viewe
with the giant teleacope. Ooe of these, he
thinks, inlint be regarded as the firet repres-
entative of a nese char ot nelau'as, in which
the nebulous stuff is ..arranged 4, m the form
of a helix or acrew, just ars. if the nobala had
been fotmed by one brilliant particle revolv-
ing around. the central star and leaving a
brilliant train, while the central star itself
was rapidly moving through space."
Not eiDee William Herschel eurprlsed the
world with Inc accounts of the wonders re-
vealed for.the fitst time to human eyes by
his telescopes, has any news beeu reeseived
from the oelestial spaces of such absorbing
interest as these etnouneetaents from the
director of the leek observatory. The he-
bule, in question is one at those contained
in Ilerscael's catalogues, arta is situated in
the constellation of Dream in the north polar
quarter of the heavens. The photograph
shows a central point, or star, surrounded
by two.euperposed neituloue spines, the ap-
pearance of which' certainly 3ustifes Prof.
Holden's suegestion that they may be the
train of luminous matter left by a brilliant
orb in its spire,' path around a inswing cen-
tre. The reader can obtain a clear conception.
oi this by ooneideriug the case of the earth
and the min. The earth makes a complete
journey around the sum once a year. Bat
t he sun meaaavehile,ie not standing still, but
is moving forward on on apparently straight
couree towards the constellation Hercules
at a rate which, thortgla undetermined, 'is
certainly not less, than two or thtee hundred
million miles in a year. .11 the earth in its
jemmying left a luminous wake in spee,
ite path would appear in the form of a yeast
apiral, resembling that actually seen in the
nebula in Draco. So far frora this being a
utique object, Prof. Holden says that several
other rusbulm examined show evidences of a
similar form, and he expe,cts to discover
further examples, perhare still more petfect,
• of the satne claws of phenomena.
The Crimes of Napoleon. It is aiffieuit to suggest, a eatidaetory ex.
• When ono reflects what the frivolity and ?nemeses of utch straaure ise a nobule.
sins of comnaiesion und omission of the Bour" hmazdeoltionpgohiafittexceoaneopelieleteoifc ovielibgusloours oval,forrn-
boas had been Once the advent of Louie
and wheie one thinks of the victorice bus non° seemed eastentef to auswee sa
the spoils he had brought home to them,
awithndi gwnhoircahn tlera ppoeloepo people
haasdtheghipttreedneeho, vaanidn Issitoiale aegrne es ossyosfttoei tmthe
wf ohrimaginedemilati,tonw faert3oonnidini taitoheen eote)fattri oloititelpr8
one oan hardly meaeure, at firSt the evil of 111948 that had been shaped by rotation and
those deede of hie which reconciled such le condensation into central aggregation aim
-
community to such succesuors. But N)alpuotnleaonn eneesbntilelaeain opyraecioegiaaaonlotehienegovehrevlidtiffeheretpneta,
had lost the sense of what is due to
ity, and humanity had to be avenged The There, if the oebulous spirals teally imitate
man who quietly eaid to M. de Narbonne, the form of the thread of a screw, the mat-
whan referring to the unpoptlarity of the ter of which tiny are composed must have
Reuel= campaign : "Why, after all, what been. left behind the moving. borly from
did it tolit me ? Not more than three hute I teeineleciettia.±needeseoxeascetieyff,heouveli eletaet-tifficoeteiiidey hisavtoe
maraendYthev°euri:Gt71171:eale'd atin:lie°71etell°:eedat7h"le oeortrred melees some mediate is auppoeed to
set' aside by human lane anal as was quick' I exist in the kra.ee through which the system
ly shown, he was set aside too leniently. is Inoilysffievgicient that flue disoavories will
The USO of bicycles has been suggested for pretty cettainly lean-to new and imporiant
tee of the distriet police in Washington, by views hOt only of the contents of epee), but
Major Moore, and he recomMencla that the of the laws that prevail throughout ite
cotrirnieSieniers urge their adoption, It is ` boundededomairm, aud govern the birth and
selfishness,' the betrayal o: public trust, the n .the nesientona It nebu!re ,1 we