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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1888-10-17, Page 3, Ap " ROUGHING WeeseggewategasetillaIRRIP eifeetsatteeteetenteliaemitianialetteeeefineSilolalelletif , • Moodie shook hands with the eld hue and assured Wee thet We abould alwawt glad to see him. After this invitation, fle beam= a frequent guest. He wcrold mit listen with delight to Moodie while he earthed to him elephant-huntiog at Cape ; grasping his rifle in e detenni , . manner, and w netting an encouraging to his dogs. I a ked him one evening w made him so fon4 of hunting. "'Tis the excitement," he eala; drowns thought, end I love to bo alone. am sorry for the creature; too, for they free and happy; yet I am led by an mad I cannot restrain to kill them. Someti thewidight of their dying agonies recalls pa fal feelings; and then I ley aside the g ander° not beet for days. But 'tis fine be alone with God in the reat woods— watch the sunbeams stealing threugh thick branches, the blue oky breaking upon you in paean, and to know that is bright and shiny above, you, in vita the gloom thet surrounds you." Atter a long pause, he continued, with much solemn feeling in his look and tone, "I lived a life of folly for years, Mr I was respectably born Betel educated, and had se something of the world, perhaps more th was good, before I left home for the wood and from the teaching I had received fr kind relatives and parents I should ha known how to have conducted myeelf bett Bat, madam, if we associate long with t depraved and ignorant, we learn to both even worse than they. I felt deeply i degradation—felt that I had become t slave to low vice ; and in orclor to eman pate myeeli from the hateful tyranny of o passions, I did a very rash and foolith thin I need not mention the manner in which trensgressed God's holy laws; all the neig bours know it, and mutt have told you lo ago. I could have borne reproof, bat th turned my sorrow into indecent jets, ets an unable to bear their coarse ridicule, Ima companions of my dogs hnd gun, and we m forth into the wilderness. Hunting beca a habit. I could no longer live without i and it aupplits the stimulant which I lo when I renounced the ourscd whisky bo Me. " I remember the first hunting cured° I took alone in the tercet. Ho w sad an gloomy I felt 1 I thought that there was n creature in the world so miserable as mysel I was tired and hungry, and 1 sat dow upon a fallen tree to rest. All was still death around me, and I we's fast sinking sleep, when my attention was aroused by long, wild cry. My dog, for I had n Chance thole, and he's no hunter, pricke up his ears. but instead. of anewering with bark of defiance, he creuebed down, trem ling, at my feet. "What does this mean ? I °tied, and I cocked my rifle and Trim upon. the log. The sound came nearer upo the wind. it was like the deep baying of pack of hounds in full cry. Presently noble deer rushed past me, and fast upo his trail -1 see them now, like so man black devils—ewtpt by a pack of ten o fifteen large, fierce wolves, with fiery eye i and briatling hair, and paws that theme fardly to touch the ground in their eage aste. I thought not of danger, for, wit heir pep in view, I was safe ; but I fel every nerve within me tremble for the fat of the poor deer. The wolves gained upo him at every bound. A close thicket inter cepted his path, and. rendered desperate, h iL turned at bay. Rim eostrils were dilated i and his eyes seemed to send forth Ion streams of light. It was wonderful t witneee the courage of the beast. How bravely he repelled the ettaeks of his deadly enemies Mwgallantly he tossed them to the right and id% and epurnecl them trom beneath his hoofs; yet all his struggles were useless, and he WI18 .quickly overcome and torn to pieces by his ravenous foes. At that moment he Beemed more unfortunate even than myself, for I could not see in what manner he had deserved his fate. All this speed and energy, his courage and fortitude, had been exerte.d in vain. I had tried. to destroy ree self ; but he, with every effort vigorously made for self-preservation was doomed to meet the fete he dreaded lie God just to his creature?" With this sentence on his lips, he started abruptly from hie seat and left the house. One day he found me painting some wild flewers, and was greatly interested in watch. ing the progress I made in the group. Late in the afternoon of the following day he brought me a large hunch of splendid spring flovoera. "Draw these," eaid he ; "I have been all the way to the lake plains to fled them for von." Little Katie grasping them one by one, with infantile joy, kiased every blossom. " .Chese are God's pictures,' said the Min- ter, "and the child, who is all nature, un- derstands them in a minute. Is it not strange that these beautiful things are hid away in the wilderness, where no eyes bet the birds of the air, end the wild beasts of the wood, and the insects that live upon them, over see them? Does God provide for the pleasure of euch creatures, these flowers? Is His benevolence satisfied by the admiration of animals whom we have been taught to consider as having neither thought nor reflection ? When I am alone in The forest. these thoughts puzzle me." Knowing that to argue with Brian was only to call into action the slumbering fires of his f et al malady,. I turned the conver- sation by aeking him why he called his fay- orite dog Chance? "1 found him," he said, "forty miles beck in the bush. He was &mere skeleton. At first I took him for a wolf, but the shape of his head undeceived me. I opened my wallet, and called him to me. He melee slowly, stopping and wagging his tail at every step, and looking me wistfully in the face. I offered him a bit of dried venison, and he soon became friendly, and followec me home, and has never left me since. I cm ed him Chance." ias, for poor Chrome 1 he had, unkuown to is Master', contracted a privets liking for fresh nautton, and one night he killed no less than eight sheep that belortged to Mr. D— on the front road ; the culprit, who hadbeen. long suspected, was caught hit the very set, and this mischance cost nim his life. Brian was sad and gloomy for teeny weeke after hia favorite's death, "I would have restored the sheep four. fold," he said, "if he would but have spared the life of my dog." Aly recollections of Brian seem more par- tichIarly to concentrate in the adventures of one night, When I happened to be left alone, for the first time since my arrival in Canada. / cannot tow imagine how 1 eould have been seek a fool ise to give way for fouf and.twenty hours to such childish feers ; but so it was, and X mill not avulse my weakness front tny indulgent teaclet. Motodie hed bought a Very thee cow et a bleck mem nettled Mollineux, for which he, Wow to give twentyoseven (loitered TIM Man e / lived tviielve mileet back In the woods r-isi one frosty *ring day—(don't Fertile at the term frostyi thee °coincided with the genial ter, be ian and-. de the toed air hat "it are f I I rge fox dang1hg acroaahis should° an the (legs followieg at hie heels t "Why 1 Mrs, Moodie, what is the matter? You are eerly ebroad this Morning, and correct when applied to the Caemeian opring, which, until the !middle of May, is the moat dismal einem in the year)—he and John Monaghan took a rope, and the dog, end sallied forth to fetch the cow home. Moodie said that they oilfield be beck by six o'clock in the evening, and charged me to have something *molted for aupper when they :returned, as he doubted not their long walk in the there air would give thorn a good appetite. Thie was dering the time that was without a servant, and living in Mrs. —'s Quimby. loo¼ dreadful W. arlYthi" wr° tg home? Te the beby or your hus end sick ?" "Oh I" cried, buratiog into teareo " fear he is killed by the wolves." The man stared at mo, as if he doubted the evidence of his oenses, and well he might; but this one ideri had Waken such etrong posses:doe of n y mind that I could admit no other. I then told him, ao well as I could find words, the °these of my alarm, to which he lieteued very quietly and g pa lent y. d "Set your heart at rest; your husband is side. It is a lag journey on foot to Mollineux, to one unacquitinted with a blazed path in a busk reed. They have staid all night at the black rnagie etienty, and you will see them back at noon." I shook my heed, and contained to weep. " Well, now, ia order re satitey you, I will Beadle my mare, wed ride over to the niggge's, and being you word as fast as I not The day was me bright and clear, and mea Katie was so full of frolic and play, rolling in- open the floor, or toddling from chair to an, chair, that the day passed on without my to feeling remarkably lonely. At length the to evening drew nigh, and 1 began to expect the ; my huoband's return, and to think of the in sepper that I was to prepare for his recep- all • twin. The red heifer that we had bought oi of Layton carne lowing to the door to be milk- ed ; but I did not know how to milk in thos day; and, beeidee this, I was terribly afraid of cattle. Yet, as I knew that milk would be required for the tea, I ran across the en meadow to Mrs. Joe, and begged that one an of her girls would be so kind as to milk for s; fn. me. My request was greeted with ai one rude burst of laughter from the whole set. ve " If you oan't milk," said Mrs. Joe, "its es, high time you should learn. My girls are he above being helps." inc "1 would not ask you but as a g eat ny favour; I am afraid of °owe." he "Afraid of cows I Lord blees the woman! el- A farmer's wife and afraid of cows 1" vil Here followed another laugh at my (m- g, peen ; and, indignant at the refusal of my drat and leset request, when they had all h. borrowed so much ' from mi, I hut the in - ng hospitable door, and returnedhome. ey After many ineffectual attempts, I sue- d, ceeded at ln eaand bore my half -pail of de milk in triumph to the house. Yes 1 I felt nt prouder of that milk than many an author e of the beat thing he ever wrote, whether in t, verse or prose; and it was doubly sweet at t. when I considered that I had procured it without beiog under any obligation to my Ill-natured neighbours. I had learned a useful lesson of independence, to which in d after-vears I had ofien agnin to refer. I fed little:Katie and put her to bed, made the f. hot cakes for tea, boiled the potatoes, and n laid the ham, out in nice slices, in the pan, as ready to cook the moment I saw the men to enter the meadow, and arranged th 1' 1 a room with scrupulous eare and neatness. o A glorious fire was blhzing on the hearth, d and everything was ready for their supper; a aud I began to look out anxiously for their be arrive!. The night had cloeed in cold and foggy, g and I could no longer distinguith any object n at more than a few yards from the door. � Bringing in De much wood as I thought a would Int Inc for several hours, 1 closed n the door; and for the first tine in my life Y 1 found myself et night in a house entirely alone. Then I began to ask myself a the:t- ee sand torturing questions as to the reaton of " their unusual aosenee. Had they lost their er way in the weeds? Could they have fallen tei in with wolws (one of my early bugbeara) ? Could any fatal accident Iteve befallen e teem? 1 etarted up, opened the door, held n my breath, and listened. The little brook • lifted up it S voice in loud, hoarse wailing, e or mocked, in its babblingd to the one; the sound of hutnan voices. As it became g later, my fears Mereased in proportion. I grew too superstitious and nervus to keep I thanked Mhn. sincerely fox' his ktudnees, and returned, in somewhat better spirits, to i tie very fino. I have ocen that, often before ; the house. Atition o'clock my good methen• ! but these lichens are enlendide ger returned with the gled tidings newt ail was well. The day before, when half the journey had been accemplithed, John Monaghen let go Off We Nett f4124 loon' oihni?ed the eteep The Gilbert lends. floWere, end the little Men grew ieto much a lee plains, no wood o were flesh with A ogoiniou'rldlotiji:°811:01:01: keg mity meAeTtaune ePgreglEteiltleirg saele7t%ilalady:hotlalitibte3144 at the back of miter farm and get upon an ecstasy, that at every fresh specimen he wara aaakulg 'rch4arY eigaen a 8tates uttered a Kell et joYn met oaper te the air, man' aed flung intuit dorm upon them as if he 11 were the fa51119n for men to wear twrgagstott4ai kwitgwtithttegilegaltribe go' °cid. whial dboillwrItnie.3 AthneoYthwer°u0Vitteeekno7wohte712;t:flu'lllt- shall make my fortune 1' '17' "Is is seMom I laugh," quoth Brian, ItidtWeant Parent--" Remember Wile Yoe "but could not help laughing et tine odd are talking to, sir! I'm your father?" Young little man; for it 'was not the beautiful gDaniatigintic7378,Otabeintedierafaernati 1I„ hope you ain't blossoms, :such as you deliglat to pent, that drew forth those exclamations, but the queer NVe asked a toper tiother day, Ilttle plante which he had rummaged for at And aaked it without guile, the roots of old trees, amone the moos end "If aaked te drink what would you rimy ?" long grass. He sat uport a decayed trunk, Ile answered: I should smile." which ley in our path, I do believe for a. A pbyeticese has discovered filet the icing hem*, making an etati°4 °Ye'. eeme older a man grows the smaller his brein igipreoyoisikt,twkignigdge'lotlaoketotdedigo4t'iothligreedtd, otkgaigt gtgr% becomes. This explains why the yogiag re , inc Ottrolines proper, extueted south plants, declaring hinitelf repaid for all the 4,k; 111011 BOW everything and the old mon know of the Led:macs, were aetigaed to Speen, tremble and expense he lied been at, if it nothing. •' like the, Pelewn to the ',vest of them. The wore only to obtain a sight of them. I) A Abetindmo:dyirliaoyaraoubandekeelliedfaeyg,ge, eeeti and domed°, itegmd that point was eatitere limit of the Carolims was. put at migavtli:rneadppheirrn; bautbehasurtinfathiebdloistsobinackowf htehne Bat the oda,t idv It °expel; to save izer mo, conceded to G,m1„,ny, lieweguy took I presented it to him saline ' Yes yes TInh•criziz,erhieiyeiritu'Itebsibtilotoith:tYantd% in door, cul'oo°rn'itaiiinega:rigaoinito; ofogoliittapitaXeniytriltaci'll,omi°h1.:i,iredEdel With with men as well w ith fools : took °beige the tridie till'e"grooup,aiarnk- irel a w And the fellow tiliois bleat with a mother- posing poi t met. It Is said teat they alio put a smell ter on the netives, who were 'Well knows the ma-jaweity rules. accordingly by no malts favorably impressed archipelago to their oeher posesessions in the Pacific. This grunt) fermis A portion a chain of smell islands strati:hie/4 Isetween the Philippines end the leper, isroareot the fore tiler lie the Pelewe, then (mine the Carelines; east and north of the latter are the Mar- shall Islands, subdivided into the Bedeck and Baliuk ; touthease of then) are found the Gilbert ; finally, south of the Gilbert is the Edith group, which brings the line Wit ward the Pei is and Sernoh. This chine omit ors a dittance of more than 3,00 tellies, The dispute between Gernmuy ataI Speia ththe years ago as to the oweenship ef the Germ, lines caused a more careful di Arlieg of the groups. Under the decteion of Pepe Leo, to whene As arbiter the controversy was refer- , The man had fie little tate that I thought him a, fool, and eo I left him to task to his dear Vents, while I shot partridiseo for our vete e spent six daye in the woodo, the rope by which he led the oow, and she ited the le tile men filled hie tie caws with all had broken away through the woods, end I sorts of rubbiett, as if he wilfully shut his returned to hor old master; and wben hey . eyee to the beautiful Levers and eh again reached his place, night had wet ice and they were obliged to wait until the re turn of day. Moodie laughed heartily et ell my fears; but indeed I found them 314 jeke. Brian's eldest son, a lad of fourteen, war, not exactly an idiot, eut what, in ihd old country, its very expressively termed by the poor people a Muttural. ' He could and assitt himself, had been taught perfeetly to read end write, and could g and from the town on errands, and car message from one farm house to another; but he was a etrange, wayward cecature, and evidenitly inherited, in no small degree, his father' malady. During the summer months he lived en- tirely in the woods, neer his father's dwell. ing, only returning to obtain food, whieh was generally left for him in an outhouse. In ths winter, driven home by the severity of the weather, he wozlel sit for days to - only to admire ugly, ineignifiemat plants that tveryiatly <aloe plow§ by without writing, and which, often, as I had been in the, woods, I never had ebserve 1 before. I never persescl a deer with sueh terr.estness as he coutimuml huiat for what he celled especimente feed " When we came to the C Creek, fre- which in pretty deep in place% he waa in o to such a hurry to get at some plants that grew ryaunder the water, that in reaching after gother moping in the chimney -corner, w out taking the Matt notice of what was p ing around Min. Brian never mentio this boy—who had a strong, motive fig a handsome, but very he xpressive fac without a deep sigh; and I feel certain t alf his own dejecnon was occasioned by the mental aberration of his child. Oze day he sent the Ind with a note to our house to know if Moodie meld pur- chase the 'half of an ox that he WKS) going to kill. There happened to stand in the cor- ner of the room an open wood box, into which several bathe's of fine apples had been tiarown ; and, while Moodie was writ- ing an answer to the note the eyes of the idiot were fas4ened, as if fiti scme magnetic Mecum, upon the apples. Knowing that Brian 14 a very fine orchard, 1 did not offer Vag boy any of the fruit. When the tote was finished, I handed it to him. The lad graiptd it mechanically, without remov- ing his heed gaze from the apples. "Give that to your father, Tom." The boy answered not—his ears, his eyes, his whole soul. were concentrated in the apples. Ten miautee elapsed, but he steed motieniess, liko a pointer at a dead set. "My good bey, you can go." He did not atir. "Is there anything you want ?" "1 wailt," seed the lad, without moving is eyes from the objects of his intense de - ire, and speaking in a slow, pointed man- ner, which ought to have been heard to be fully appreciated, "I want apples!" "Oh, if that's all, take all you like." The permission once obtained, the boy flung himself upon the box with the rapt°. ity of a hawk upon its prey, after being long poised in the a,ir in fix irs certain aim; hretting his halide to the right and left, owlet to secure the finest specimens of the coveted fruit, ecercely alloveing himself time to breathe until he had filled his old straw hat and all his pockets with apples. To help laughin was impossible; while is new 1 om o' edlam darted from the ouse, and scampered across the field for dear hie, as if afraid that we should pursue him to rob him of his prize. It was during this winter that our friend Brian was left a fortune of three hundred pounds per annum ; but it was necessary for him to return to his native country, in order to take possession of the property. This he positiwely refused to do; and when we re- onstrated with him on the apparent im- Minty of this resolution, he declared that would not dolt hie life, in croseing the At- ntic twice, for twenty times that sum. hat atrange inconsistency was this, in a ing who had three times attempted to Ice away that which he dreaded so much lose accidentally 1 I was much unmeed with an account ich he gave me, in his quaint way, of an cursion he Trent upon with a botanist, to loot specimens of the plitete and flowers Upper Canada. "It was a fine spring day, some ten years o, and I was yoking my oxen to dreg in me oats hed just sown, when a little, , punchy man, with a broad, red, good. tureol face and carrying a small black thern waliet across his shoulder, called nee over the fence, and asked me if my ne was Brian 13-- ? I said ' Yes ; at of that ?"' ' Oaly you are the man I want to see. ey tell me hat you are better acquainted h the woods than any person in these ; and I will pay you anything in son if you will be my guide for a few teem he lost his balanoe. and fell head over heels into the stream. He ere; a thorough ducking, tied was ie a terrible fright; but he htli on to the flowers, which had caused the trouble, and. thanked his Mars that he had sieved them, as wt11 as his life. Well, he was an innocent man," continued Brian; "a very little made him happy, and at night he would sing and amuse himself like O child. Be aye me ten dollars far my ith. trouble, and never saw him again ; but ats- eften think of him, whoa hunting in the ned woods that we wandered through together, ure, and I pluck the wee plants them he. need to e— admire, and wonder why he preferred them hat to the fine flowers." the door open. I not only closed it, bun e dragged a heavy box in front, for bolt there was none. Several ill -looking men had, 8 during the day, &liked their vvay to Toronto. I felt alarmed lest such rude wayfarers Omuta come to -night CLE1C1 demand a lodging, and find me alone and unprotected. Once I thought of running across to Airs. Joe, and askieg her to let one of the girls stay with me until Moodie returned ; but the way in which I bad been repuleed in -the eveni prevented me from making a second appe to their charity. Hour atter hour wore away, and the go ing of the cocks proclaimed midnight, a yet they carne now I had burnt out all m th wood, and I dared not open the door to e fetch in more. The candle was expiring in " the socket, and I had not courage to go up into the loft and procure another before it went finally out. Cold, heart -weary, and faint, I sat and cried. Every now and then the furious barking of the dogs at the neigh- bouring femme, and the loud cackling of the geese upon our own, made me hope that they were corning; and then I listened till the beating of my own heart excluded all to other sounds. Oh, that unwearied brook I be how it sobbg,d and moaned like a iretial he child ;—what unreal terrors and fanciful la illusions my too s.caive mind conjured up, W whilst listening to its mysterious tones be Juut as the moon rose, the howling of a tit pack of wolves, from the great swamp in to wur rear, filled the whole air. Their yells were answered by the barking of all the veh dogs In the vicinity, and the geese, nnwill. ex ing to be behind -hand in the general con. col fusion, f et up the most di:mordant screams I had often heard, and even been amused during the winter, particularly on thaw nights, vsith heating the hovels of these for- midable wild beasts, but I had never befor of ag so fat heard them itbone, and when one dear to me nn was abroad amid their haunts. They were lea directly in the track that Moodie and Mon- to leghan must have token; and I now made nar no doubt that they had been attacked and wh killed on their return, through ths woods ' with the cow, and I wept and sobbed until Th the old grey dawn peered in upon me wit through the small dim window. I have par paned many a long cheerleos night, when rea rny dear husband was away from me during day the rebellion, and I was lett in my forest home with five little thildren, and only an old Irish woman to draw and cut wood for my fire, and attend to the wants of tho family, but thet was the saddest and long- est night I ever remember. Just at the day broke my friends the oat wolves set up a parting benediction, so loud, oft and wild, and near to the house, that I Wet afraid lest they ehould break through the be a frail window, or come down the low, wide " chittiney, and rob me of nay child. But upo their detestable howls died away in the mor distance, and the bright ann roue un and " dispersed the wild horrors of the night, and w ha I looked once mere timidly around me. 'rea The sight of the table tweed, and the min " eaten supper renewed my gtief, for I could " not divert mytelf of the idea that Moodie Mor Wag dead. I opened the demr, and stepped a e fourth into the pure eir sof the early day. goin A solenrin and beautiful repose still hung 'Ho like a veil mint the face of Nature. The and waists of night still rested upon the Make*, him Woods, and not S. Mind but the flowing of " the waters Went up in the vast Stillness. he The earth had not yet raised her math). ab; hymn to tbe throne tif the Oreettot. Sad at! " heart, and weary and wont in spitit, 1 Weet boas down to the epring and washed my face and bleat esid and drank a cleeP dratt lit of its iv bac Where do you want to go?' said L 'Nowhere particular,' says he, want to go here and there, in all directions, to collect plants and flowera.' "That is stfinhenting with a vengeance," thought L To.day I must drag in my s. If tomorrow will suit, we will be And your charge ?' said he. I like to ertitin of that.' 'A dollar a day. My time and labour n my farm, at this busy season, is worth e then that." True,' said he, "Well, I'll geve yon t you ask. At what time vvili you be dy to etert ?' 'fly daybreak, if you wish it,' Away he went; and hy daylight next ning he was at my doort_mtlunted upon tout French pony. What are you g to do with that beastie geld I. rli0E1 are of net use on the read that you X are to travel. You had b•Itter leave In my steble.' 'I want him to oarrn tey trapte' said it may be some days that we Rhall be I aesered him that he moat be his own t of berthen, and carry his axe, and ket, and wallet of food upon his Own k, Tilt little body dia not much relish arrangement; but as there Was rib heli it, he vas good4mtimedly compile . ve et , Venire ng to. the Ouse, Imes , this '..ear the cleer, old tirlAit thil Minter. With a fete eetilioix of the year ; tile teriti it per eddy 13 When our resolution was formed to sell our farm, and take up our grant of land in the backwoods, no one was SO earnest in trying to persuade us to give up this ruineus scheme as our friend Bria:a B-----, who became quite elequent in his description of the trials and sorrows that awaited us. Daring the last week of our stay in the township of H—, he visited us every evening, and never bade us good -night with- out a tear moistening his cheek. We pert - ed with the hunter as with an old friend; and we never met again. His fate was a sad one. After we left that part of the countess, he. fell into a moping melancholy, which ended in selfelestruction. But a kinder or warmewheaited man, while he enjoyed the light of reason, has seldom crossed our path. (TO inc CONTISTMD.) Sensible Education. The time has fortunately arrived when children are not merely crammed with book lore, but are provided with ocempetions for trainine the hand and eye. While we are switching the amome of our uwn kinder- garten methods, it becomes interesting to glance back over something more than a century, at the training accorded a Freneh family of royal blood. The Duo and Duthesee de Chartres ap- pointed Madame de Geniis governess of their four children, the eldest of whom wee Lena; Philippe, afterwards, King of the Frenoh. These children wore not only taught the regulation branches of education, but were given practical instruction in man- ual labor. linclame de Geniis writes : "I had a trurnine =chine put into my ante -chamber, and in recreation hours all the children, as well as myself, learned to turn. I thus acquired with them all the trades in which strength is not required, making, for inatence, pocket -books and morowoo porttolios." They made baakets, tapes, ribbons, gauze, pastelooard, ex.:Oficial fiewers, marbled paper, gilt frames, and all sena of work in hair. The boys learned ca,binet.making. Their governees Bays: "Beside their paila.oe of the five orders of architecture, which they could build and ttke down at pleasure, I made them various toots and utensils, the interior of a laboratory, with retorts and crucibles, and the interior of a cabinet ef natural hietwy." Stec months were passed at the seaside, sending fish and sea pleats, and learning facts in regard to shipe; and during one winter the children were taken to a hospital to dress the wieuuda of the poor. Thus was this famous woman as mach in advance of her age in educational theories ite in book lore. n Digging Potatoes as The Raced, An interesting race was witnessed at South Auburn, N.Y., the other day. The race was between two men to see who could dig a row each of potatoes the quicicest. There was money up on the result of the race. The contestants were em Mayor Haskell of Auburn and J. D. Johnson of Portland. Neither of the mon had any knowledge of the art. Each was equipped with a common hoe. Both men went in to win, and is is maid that the potittoth and dirt flew eurpris. ingly. It reminded a, man standing near of a dog digging for a veoodchuok. At the close tae ex Mayor came out twee- ty-sevet hills ahead of his competitor. It was no fault of his, though, but due to luck. Directly in the path of his row about midway of the stint was a monster stump. Here he went ahead the length of twenty potato hint. A bit further on he Carne to a place where seven hill a had been removed, and the ex - Mayor went to the front and held it to the finith. It wan an exciting race, In Great Luck.. Jack—Gus, lend me a dollar? Gus fdabicusly)—Well, Tem only got a couple of dollars to my nano, Jack.—You're lucky. I did think of striking you for two. A Difference of Opinion. trown—I saw toutnley this Morning and didn't think he wets looking very well. Robinson (grimly)—I saw him, too, and I thought he was looking extremely well. Ile owes me $5 and he taw me three blooks eft The Sea. The Ward °Ube SWeiltest songs, and sit boogie That ettoitg Bea deeeletit word Willa, Creep! 0 fee% The Set whlenited Me prisoner) Judge ( Your wife seys you with her cut of bed by the hair." Prison - to lith alepeoirnepeswd:elrieuguxfaxlcaea at ieuab carefully or—"I didn't touch her heir, your Honor. acparaten Spenith fromgdi:1119.1.1 jtnisdic- whore she put it the eight before. " ULM It was heinging on the back of a ehrer jut broken area, includlog the Philipphaeo, Fe - *ion, so that the former extends ovee an 1.111. dismissed. lewe, Ladrozet, and Cero/ ales ; but else extent of German eevereignty did noo so diettectly appear. Sincs then, however, Greet Britain and Germany are Wei to have drawn a line, mutually theitfactory, in this regioe, so that piestunably the fennel acceptation of the Gilbert Islands etwordel yid b. their am ranatment. Althongh the little trading as yet doneen that region him f ellen mere into the hands of Germans than into those of Amencens, yez the American Board of Foreign Miesions has had its stations estab- tithed there for more than thirry years. It is stated that o1. late the religious work in the Wlarehall and Gilbert groupa has been largely or NI holly under the charge of the Sandwich Wenders, who can better endure the climate than Americans; but there is a training school for the two groups on the island of Kasaie, in the Eastern Carelines. The Gilbert and the Marshall greem were, earn the German annexation ad the latter, independent, being governed by their own chiets. Teese isemos are of the usual low caret formition, having few produets of im- portance for export exeept dried cocoanut, but this attracted Gerinein tradere to the !al Warm Weather m Allaraiia. ands of Jelnit and Sikieb, and the forme - can now boast of a German Consular ! The most remarkable feeture of the Alas- 1 The Gilbert Jelin -Ms lie directly on the tralian climate is the hot wind. The feet sandy interior of the continentreserribles the &mem of North Africa and Arabia, and the winds, therefore, are very Monier. Immense quentities of sand are drifted about by the wind and carried beyond the cotet a condo'. en b'e distance out to sea. On Jan. 21, 1845, Capt. Sturt's thermometer rose to in the shade; the mean ternperature for December was 101 0, for January 104 0 , and for February 101 0, So perched was the ground that there were great cracks: in it from 8 to 10 feet deep. At Cooper's Creek on Nev. 11, 1845, he experienced one of these hot-air curreuts, and thus el ethribes ; "The wind, which had been Mowing all morning from not th-east, increased to a gale, and I ;Melt never forget its withering delete, I sought shelter behind a large gum tree, but the blasts of heat were so terrific that 1 wondered the very grate did not take fire; everything, both animate and inanimate, gave way before it ; the horses :Wood with their backs to tee wind and their noses to the ground, the birde were mute, and the leaves of the trees fell like a shower round us. At none I took out my thermometer, graduated to 127 0 , and put it in the fork of a tree, and an hour afterwards, when 1 went to examine it, the tube was full of mer- cury aind the bulb had but -at; about sunset the wind shifted to west, and a thundercloud passed over tis, but only a few :trope of rain A stranger with is zad, tired look and a fell." The bursting of the instrument shows manner indicating that he wished to etcape that the temperature was much higher than general observation, came wearily iuto a 127 °, the glees being unable to assist the little Western town the other day. He expansion of the mercury. Vegetetion sue stopped, at the town well to slake his thirst for greatly from the parching character of and bathe hie fiushedfece and. brow, and while this wind. Plants droop, leaves shrivel as he drank a deuizea of the town drew near to if fleet bitten, and wheet crops have been quaff of the cooling water. He, too, had a destroyed. Its intense timeless is shown by careworn face and an air of general dis the relative humidity falling to zero, and couraseement. evaporation amounting to an inch of water a ",Stranger here, ain't you ?" he asked of day. High up in the mountains to the east the wayfarer. and south -est, in the midat of a frosty "Yep—stranger now, but I used to live morning, occasional hot blasts are felt from 'round here." the interior, and they caul% a peculiar irri- " No --did you? Lately ?" toition of the nostrils and throat. Although "No; ite nigh on to ten year slime X disagreeable as heated air and fatal to acme left." tetion'this dry wind, like that of India, is "And you ain't been beck duce ?" healthen Teo dry climete is preobically "No. Thertie been a good many changes, free from miasmatic d iseases. I zee, since then, and I don't reeken there's many left I useter know." " Mebbe nob; who'd you know ?" "Well, iemme gee—there was a woman named NVatts I useter know—Selly Watts." "Did you know Sally Watts ?" Raked the denizen of the town. "Knew heir well. I—I—did you ever hear of Sally ?" Yes, 1—" "Do you know &illy Watts 2" " The wayfarer looked carefully around lowered his voice and paid ceutiously : "See here, miter, I've a favor to ask. It ain't much. Would you mind not men- tioning to Sally Wattthat a *Wronger was 'around aatin' fer her. She'd know it was Inc; an' rd ruther have a hyener on my trail than Sally Watte. She's an ides I'm dea,d, an' I want her te cling to that ideo. If you know Sally eVatte, mister, mebbe you know ' hove nigh she mimes to beat' kin to the dov- e. If she ain't a Zentippy, I never see ono. Looltee here, stranger, you've got a sympathetic kind of a hoe Boll' teliove you know know to feel for a /eller that's vverit through what I've went' through with, an' feel as if I'dlike to confide in yen. Strangier, uster be married to SallylVette 1" Tee recipient of tido confidence gave a little grasp and wrung the hand of the poor wayfarer, saying with deep fervor: no'vvi P1,1,ty me, man. ; rot married to her Young d'ife—" Yea, father alwaysi gives away expensive things when he rnaltes pros. ents. " Husband—" .e'a I discovered when be gave you away ?" And then he went to the library to draw a check for the monthly mil/ leery bill. A Chicago divine was remonstrating with art unorditined preacher for taking upou him- self the pi ieet's effiee, when the irregular one rejoined : "Doesn't the Bible tell um to go and preach the gospel to every critteri" "leery true, "paid his helluess, "but it doesn't say that every critter is to go and preach the goapel !' A opinster trien cleaned on Mrs. Clutter. buck iu the afternoon, and over a gent cup of tea they eejoyed a most lateresting eon - on the merits and demerits of a neighbor residing over the way. "How on carte tbat poor man pets up with it I don't; knew," observed Mrs. Cluttethuck, "fur if you'll believe me, she's out forty times a day, and she's never out less than an hour eits a Wine." ecmatar, stretching through severei hundred of north and seuth letited.m They include Fectres of email Wands, senong the most importaat being Meltire Marina, Nan- onti, Apamama,, Onetoa, and Anne. On recent Gerznan maps the indication of German sovereiguty ha a been distinctly confined to the Marshall group, leaving the Gilbert group unolitimed. Bat the confer- ence held a year or two ago on the subjeet of the boundaries in this pert of the Pacific between England and Germany has presum- ably governed the recent action of the Ger- mane, who are said to have established them - elves on one island of the Gilbert group, and. to have vitited others as if with intent to occupy them. The Marshall and Gilbert Islands may properly enough be under the same rule. When the Madrid pe,pers 'announced the decision of the Pope in the Carolines dispute they conceded that both the Marshall and Gilbert groups were to go to Germany. The process of snapping up groups and single islands in the Pacific has been greatly stimulated by the prospective epaning of the isthmus route, in which case even possessions which now seem of little value env possible be turned to some account. A Sad, Sad Tale. Economy in Dress. Dressmaker—There doesn't seem to be stuff enough here to make a frau three yards long. Society Belie—Dear me 1 how meth more is needed? "About half a peel." " Well, take it off the neck." There are twenty-hve miles of shelves in the Bcitith Museum reading room. , Ile Liked to be Acoure.te. The farmer's wife ran out to the road and looked up and down. A tramp was &milling along when she hailed him. "I say, did you see any dews in the core in that corner lot?" No, ma'am," he replied as he lifted hie hat, "Ididn't see any cows in the corn, but I did nee some of the corn going into the °owe But she was off. Colonel Markham'an Enelish hunter, has a good record in thetiger line. He bits kiln ed Seventy.ttvo. Two young Germane in Berlin fought a duel with tricycles. fittrting at 300 yards apart, they charged full tilt against; eaeh other, with slight iejnry to thenwelven end serious htirts ho their tnaChines. Their honor Was satisfied. Ode of the queerest haulof the current orook season was trtacle by a Cincithati thief atid oomprised a canal boat with its con- tents, mules, hareessi towilines, etc. Find- ing the ownership of hie property slightly troulalthomei however, the Must sold the boat for $05, traded the mules for it horse and $0 "boot." and then eltipped out'. TheReason Why. F itat,yeeti cal A spirant (t0 second ditto) So you say you've bent cff more than a hundred poems and never had Gee return- edloord P Thitt'a what I !said. First P, A. : It's a phenomenal succesa 1 I wish 1 knew the secret, Secteed I), A. Well, I've sometitnes We:eight it woe homage / never enelosed any Husband—(on his way to ohureh)--I'l P juat ship On ahead, tyly dear, and got some change. I've halting lest; than ote dollar, and thtteel too MU& to give. Wife (oil kb overtaking het—Did yen get the bill °hang, lid liesbancl—Yee, 'Wilo—You will eon. tribute hall a dollar, aohn Itusband-4 °isn't Very Well now. 1 happerted to Meet three or fo* friends, and IhreeenlY got a quartet lob. Ofi4 Say net this struggle naught avalleth, the labor and the wound's ass) vain, the enemy taInteth hot rick talletly Arid as thingts hays boor: ttew reinaht, 11 beipOS Were duped, folittf'inay he flare( It maybe, In yen Smoke doneettlett, Veer etentados Won tuYie the filerea An& but io lite Wee:tate the fields er!.'