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"ROUGHING IT IN THE BUSH."
• CHAPTER XL --(Connie onn.
eat at this critical moment, when we
'were both self-corivicted of an erraut oow-
'ethic(''which would have shamed a Canadian
gid ofsix yea m old, Mtn. 0-- tapped
,at the door, aud although generally a most
,unwelcome visitor,. from her goseiping, mis-
ithievotte propensietes, I gladly let her in.
i` Do tell me," 1 erted, "the mogning of
tills etrenge uproar ?"
"Oh, 's nothing," she replied, laughing,
41 You end Mary look as white as a sheet ;
but you need not be alarmed. A set of wild
fellovvs have met to charivari Old Satan,
who has marded eis fourth we to -night, a
young girl of sixteen. I should not wonder
if some mischief happens among them, for
they are a qtleset, made up of all the idle
• M
loafers abouniort H— and C—."
' " What is a charivari ?" said I, "Do,
pray, enlighten me."
1' Ilave you been nine months in Caned&
• and ask thee queetion ? Why, I thought you
• knew everything I Well, Iwill tell you what
it is. The charivari is a custom that the
Canadians got from the French, in the Low.
er Province, and a queer custom it is. When
an old man enemies a young wife, or tin old
woman a young husband, or two old people,
who ought to be thinking of their graves,
enter for the second or third time into the
holy estate of wedlock, as the priest calls it,
all the Idle young fellows in the neighbor.
hood meet together to charivari them. For
this purpose they disguise themselves, blaok-
ening their faces, putting their clothes on
hind part before, and wearing horrible
masks, with grotesque caps on their heads,
adorned with cooks' feathers and bells.
They then form in a regular body, and pro-
ceed to tho bridegroom's housei to the sound
of -tin kettles, horns, and drum, cracked
tfiddles, and all the discordant instruments
-they cen collect together. Thus equipped,
they surround the house where the wedding
is held, just at the hour when the happy
•aouple are supposed to be about to retire to
seat—beating upon the door with clubs and
strives, and demanding of the bridegroom
admittanoe to drink the bride's health, or in
...lieu thereof to receive a certain sum of money
to treat the band at the netereet tavern.
If the bridegroom refuries to appear and
grant their rc quest, they commence the hor-
rible din yeti heard, firing guns charged
with peas againet the doors and windows,
rattling old pots and kettles, and abusing
him for his atinginces in no measured terms.
Sometimes they break open the doors, and
mize upon the bridegroom; and he may e8.
teem himself a very fortunate man, under
much circumstances, if he eseepes being rid-
den upon a rail, tarred and feathered,
and otherwise maltreeted. I have known
many fatal accidents arise cut of an impruch
en t refusal to satiety the demands of the
assailants. People have even led their
Ifves in thw fres' ; and I think the Govern-
ment should interfere, and put down, theee
riotous meetings. Surely it is very hard
• that an old man cannot marry a young gal,
if she is willing, to take Linn without asking
leave of such a rubble as that. Whet right
have they to interfere with his private af-
fairs 1'
"What, indeed ?" miti I, feeling s truly
British finclignation at such a lawlees in-
fringement upon the natural rights of man.
reinember," continued Mrs. 0------,
who had got fairly started upon a favorite
subject, "a scene cf this kind, that was
acted two years ago, at , when old
Mr. P--- took his third wife. He was
rievany rich storekeeper, and had made dur-
ing the war a great deal of money. He felt
louely in his old age, and married a young,
handsome widow, to enliven his house. The
lads in the village were determined to make
him pay for his frolic. This got wind, and
Mr. P--- was advised to spend the
honeymoon in Toronto ; but he only laughed
• and said that the was not going to be fright-
ened from his comfortable home by a few
wild boys.' In the morning he was married
at the °hereto and spent the day at home,
where he entertained a laege party of his
•own and the bride's friends. During the
• evening all the idle chaps in the town collect-
ed round the house, headed by a mad young
bookseller, who had offered himself for their
captain, and in the usual forms, demanded a
sight of the bride, and liquor to drink her
health. They were very good•naturedly
received by Mr. P-------, who sent a friend
down to them to hid them welcome' and to
• enquire on what terms they wouldconsent
to let him oft, and disperse.
"The captain ot the band demanded sixty
dollars, as he, Mr, P--, could well afford
to pay it.
' That's too mama, my fine fellows ?'
cried Mr. P— from the open window.
Say twenty-five, and I will send you down
a cheque upon the bank of Montreal for the
money.'
'"Thirty I thirty 1 thirty I ell boy 1"'
roared a hundred voices. Your wife's
Werth that. Dawn with the cash, and we'll
give you three cheers and three times three
for the bride, and leave you to sleep in
peace. If you hang back, we will raise
such a ettrum about your ears tint you
sboanbnt't.k'nowithat your wife's your own for a
m
" r11 give you twenty•fivee remonstrated
the bridegroom, not in the leaat alarmed at
their threats, and laughing all the time in
• his sleeve.
" ' Thirty ; not one copper less 1' Here
they gave him ouch a salute of diabolical
. sounds that he ran from the window with
hie hands to his ears, and his friend came
down to the verandah, end gave them the
gum they required. They did not expece
that the old man would have been so liberal,
• and they gave him the Rip, hip, hip, hur-
rah r in fine style, and marched off to finish
the night and spend the money at the tam
.ern."
"And do people allow themselves to be
bullied out of their property by such
:ruffians ?"
"Ahi my dear 1 'tis the custom of the
oountryeand is not so easy to put it down.
But I can ell you a charivari is not always
a joke.
There was another affeir that happened
just before you came to the place, that oc-
casioned no email talk hi the neighbeurhood;
and well it might, for it was a most dire
,graceful piece of business, and attendee with
very mimeo coneequences. Some of the
nharivaei party had to fly, or they might
have ended their days in the penitentiary.
"There was a ruhaway nigger from the
•.Statee tame to the village, and stet tip a
• barber's poll, and cabled among us. I am
• no friend to the blacks ; but really Tom
ankh evesatioh a quiet, good.natured fellow,
and so civil and obliging, that he soon got a
.good hearten, He was clever, too, and
•°leaned old clothe,s until they looked Minot
ab good as nem Well, after a tithe he
persuaded a white girl to marry him. She
even not a bad -looking tiehwornah, mid I
,can't thitik what bewitthed the oreature to
take Mtn.
• V Her Merriage With the Wok than created
great neneation in • the town, .All the
yonag folloWe weed indignant at hid protein -1p.
• theh and her folly, end they determined to
give them the charivari in fine style, and
punish them both for the insult they had put
upon the place.
Some of the young gentlemen in the
town joined he the frolic. They wenb so far
as to enter the how, drag the poor nigger
from his bed, and in spite a his shrieks for
mercy, they hurried him out into the cold
air—for it was whiter—and almost naked as
he was, rode him upon a rail, and so ill-
treated him that he died under their hands.
"They left tbe body, when they found
what had happened, and fled, The ring-
leaders escaped across the lake to the other
side; and those who remained could not be
sufficiently identified to bring thein to trial.
The affair was hushed up ; but it gave greet
uneasiness to several respectable families
whose sons were in the scrape."
'But scenes line these must be of rare
ocourrenoe ?"
"They are more common than you im-
agine. A man was killed up at W
the other day, and two others dangerously
wounded at a oharivari. The bridegroom
was a man in middle life, a desperately reso-
lute and passionate man, and he more that
if such riff-raff dared to interfere with him,
be would shoot at them with as little oonw
punction as he would at so many crows.
His threats only increased the mischievous
and when he refused to admit their deputa-
tion, or eveu to give them a portion of the
wedding oheer, they determined to frigbnin
him into compliance by firing several guns,
loaded with peas, at his door. Their salute
was returned, from the chamber window, by CHAPTER Xtf. —A JOIIMeicY To Tint
the discharge of a double barrelled gun, WoonS.
loaded with buckshot. The crowd gave 'Tis well for us poor denizens of earth
back with a tremendous eell. Their leader That God conceals the future from our gaze ;
Or Hope, the blessed watcher on Life's
tower,
Would fold her wings, and on the dreary
the ohildren of the devil God never con-
descended to make a nigger,"
" &nth an idea is an impeachment of the
power and Majesty.,sof the Almighty:. IleW
can you believe in such an ignorant fable
Well, then," said my monitrees, in high
dudgeon, "f the devil did not make them,
they are deseendeci from Cain."
"But all Cain's posterity derished in the
flood."
My visitor was puzzled,
"The Africen race, it is generally believed,
are the descendentof Ham, and to many of
their tribes the curse pronounced against
Ham seems to cling. To be the servant of
servants is bad enough, without our makiug
their condition worse by our cruel persecu.
tions. Quiet came to eeek and to eave that
which was lost;. and in proof of this ines.
timeble promise, he did nob rejeob the
Ethiopian eunuch who was baptized by
Philip, and who was, doubtless, as black as
the met of hie people. Did you not admit
Mollineux to your table with your other
helps?"
"Mercy sake ! do you think I would sit
down at the same table with a nigger? My
helps would leave the house if I dared to
put small an affront upon them. Sit clown
with a dirty black, indeed ?"
"Do you think, Mrs. D—, that there
will be any negross in heaven ?''
"Certainly not, or 1, for one, would never
wish to go thereand out of the house she
sallied in high disdain.
Our departure for the woode beaten° now
a frequent thorns of converaation. My hus-
band of the mob to terment him ;
baud had just returned from au exploring
expedition to the back woods, and was de.
lighted with the preepect of removing thi-
ther.
was shot throughthe heart, and two of the
foremost in the scuffle dangerously wounded.
They vowed they would set fire to the house,
but the bridegroom boldly stepped to the waste
window, and told them to try it, and before Close the bright eye that through the murky
they could light a torch he would fire among clouds
them again, as his gun was reloaded, and he Of blank Destair still sees the glorious tun.
would discharge it at them as long as one of It was a bright frosty mornuart when 1
them dared to remain on his premises, bade adieu to the farm, tee birthplace of
"They cleared off ; • but though Mr. my little Agnes, who, nestled beneath my
before him, while the
A— was not punished for the accident, cloak, was sweetly sleeping on my knee, un- grateful mothers trudg-
es it was called, he became a marked man, conscious of the long journey before us into cd alongside reassuring their trembling in -
and lately left the colony to settle ia the the wilderness. The sun has not yet risen. fants, who were inclined to distruat their
United States. Anxious he get to oer piaci° if dostinetion new protectors, It is safe to say that by
"Why, Mrs. Moodie, you look quite seri- before dark, we started as earlyas we could. 1 this kindly act the English soldier stood re-
ties. I can, however, tell yen a lees eliinnal Our fine team had been sold the d yeado. cli to these hebtlei shuffewhre Jura feoerwege,
tale. A charivari woule odd= be attended for forty pounds ; and one of our na ybeighebfoorrse, d",rdwieiOttsr3 hi , •ems old and was valued at
t ice
,,,AA old Scotch emigrant, who had toe
meted, hireeelf on this side of it, so often lost
his beasts that he determined during the
Bummer season to try and exetore the Rime,
and lose if there were any end to it. bo he
takean axe on his shoulder, and a bag of
provisions for a week, not forgeetiog a flask
ot whiskey, and off he starts all alone, and
tells his wife that if he never returned, she
and little jock not.* try and wry on the
farm without him e but he was determined
to me the end ef the manly, even if it led to
the other world. He fellupona freth cattle
track whicb he followed all that day ; and to-
wards night he found himself in the heart of
a tangled wildernese of bushes, and himself
half eaten up with mosquitoes and bleak -
flies. He was more than tempted to give in,
and return home by the first glimpse of
light.
The Sootoh are a tough people they
are not easily daunted—a few difficulties
only seem to make them more eager to geb
on ; and he felt ashamed the next moment,
as he told me, of giving up. So he finds out
a large thiok oodarstree for his bed, climbs
up, and coilleg himself among the branches
like a bear, he was soon fast asleep.
(no BO 001iTI11ED).
One Touch of Nature.
Two or three months ago several thousand
Zulus rebelled against their Britieh conquer-
ors and swept across a part of Ile country,
lityiug waste the homes of all who would not
ricSDERIAJ4 THB IsTOBLB.
ieeteleenele's Store or the Kaiser's Mt
"mak how plaln a it:413am'st011 put you down'
Lonhow, Oct 14.— Add() hem ite intense
histotio and medical • ineereet Sir Moron
Meeker:steel work entitled, " The Fetal
Einem of Frederick the Nettie," while one
of the most important polemicel treatises of
the century, is delightfully readable. In
his explanatory chapter the author gays he
is forced to the mean he has taken by ac-
ousetions that are tantamouet to charges
of malpractice, Among the things that oon.
eel° him, he says, aee his consciousness that
he did his duty, and the iitbsoluts trust
reposed in him by "my noble -hearted pa-
tient." He eomplains that the Prussian Gam
ernment forbid him access to the State arelm
lees, without which he could not allude
to several points, notably the protocols
drawn up in November, 1887, which would
how the vievve Professors Gerhardt and
Von Bergmann had of the case before he
was summoned to Berlin.
This brings us to the opening ef the
treatise, of which the following are extracti
I confess that I felt some surprise that
among those with whom I was invited to
take counsel in a case of such importance
there was uot se least one of the leading
German specialists in throat diseases.
All three were unanimous in thinking
that a cutting operation from the outside
w
join them. A large number of loyal Zulus would be necessary for the removal of the
growth.
wok refuge in a police fort at Nwande, to
While freely admitting that the operation
which the in3urgente at once laid siege, and W
Gen. Smyth sent a flying column composed
in tide oaee presented exceptional difficult -
of the EnniekilleDragoons and the thir. ies, 1 said tha.b .1 thought is could be done,
n
and then at tem rate it should be attempted.
teenth hussars to relieve the beleagured. pew.
pie. The cavalry soon ditparaed the rebels, I then turned to Professor Gerhardt and
and as they had orders to abandon said to him:
y
the station, they escorted the poor fugitives Will ou try?
:
to a plaoe of safety. He replied
It was painful work toiling over the parcel. I cannot operate with the forceps.
ed prairies in the blezeng tun, and many a I next baked Professor Tobold if he wculd
mother with a bribe in her arms suffered se- make the attempt, but he al3o declined, say-
verely as she struggled along trying to keep him I no longer operate.
up with the column. But BOOn the Ennis Those replies increased the surprise which
killene and the rfussers came to the rescue, 1 already felt at a ease of such a nature
Then the spectacle was presented of breezed having been intrusted to she hands of these
and hardy regulars, each with a brown baby gentlemen. For a throat epecialist who
in his arms or belinced on his horse's neck cannot um the stethoscope is like a carpen-
ter who cannot handle a saw.
Now, Profeseor Gerhardt himeelf tells us
that at a very early period of his connection
with bad consequenoes if people would take
it en a joke and. jein in the spree."
"A very dignified pesition for the bride
and bridegroom to make themselves the
laughing stock of such people I"
" Oh, but custom reconciles us to every-
thing ; and 'tis better to give up a little of
our pride than endanger the lives of our
fellow•creaturee. I have been told a story
of a lady in the Lower Province, who took
for her second husband a youvg fellow, who,
as far as his age wee concerned, might hare
been her HOD. The mob surrounded her
hoose at night, carrying her effigy in an open
coffin, supported by six young lads, with
white favours in their hats ; and they buried , dislike to removing, e hich involves e ucces-
the poor bride, amid shouts of laughter, and :eery loss, and is apt to give to the emigrant
the timed eacomps.niments, just oppoeite her ; roving and unsettled habits. But all regrets
drawing -room windows. The widow was ' were now treeless; and harpily unconscious
highly amused by the whole of their pro- of the life of toil and anxiety that awaited
ceedings, but she wisely let them have their us in those dreadful woods, I tried my best
own way. She lived in a strong stone house, I to be cheerful, and to regard the future with
and she barred the doors, and closed the
iron shutters, and set them at defiance.
" long ar she enjeyed her health,' she
said, they were welcome to bury her in
cffigy as often as they pleased; she was
really glad to be able to affore amusement
to so many people.'
" Nigbt eller night, during the whole of
that winter, the same party beset her house
with their disbelieve music; but she only
laughed at them.
"The leader of the mob was a young law -
loud that It afforded great amusement to the
ver from these parte, a sad mischievous fel-
whole party, and doubtless was very edify -
law; the widow became aware of this, and leg to the poor hens, who ley huddled to -
she invited him one evening to take tea gether as mute as mice.
with a small party at her house. He accept- "That 'ere rooster thinks he's on the top
ed the invitation, and was charmed with her of the heap," said our driver, laughiug. "
hearty and hospitable welcome, and soon guess he's not used to travelline in a close
found himself quite at home ; but only think conveyance. Listen! How all the crowers
how ashamed he must have felt, when the in the neighbourhood give him back a note
a Mr. D----, was to convey us and our
household goods to Demo for tee sum of
twenty dollars. Daring the week he had
made several j nuneys, with furniture and
Mores; and ail that now remained was to be
conveyed to the woods in two large lumber
sleighs, one driven by himself, the othcr by
a younger brother.
It was not without regret that I left Mel -
setter, for so my husband had called the
place, after his father's estate in Orkney. Is
was a beautiful, piceuresque spot; and, hi
spite of the evil neighbourhood, I had teary.-
ed to love it; indeed, it was much against
my -WW1 that it was Fold. I had a great
a hopeful eye.
Our driver was a shrewd, clever man for
his opportunities. He took charge of the
living cargo, which coutisted of my husband,
our maid -servant, the two little children,
and myself—besides a large hamper, full of
poultry, a dog and a cat. The lordly sultan
of the imprhoned seraglio thought fit to
conduct himself in a very eccentric manner,
for at every barn yard we happened to pass,
he clapped his wings, and crowed so long and
earum corm:dewed, at the usnel hoar, in
front of the lady's house I
"'Oh,' said Mrs. R—, smiling to her
husband, here come our friends. _Really,
of defiance I But he knows that he's safe
enough at the bottom of the basket."
The day woe so bright for the time of
year (the first week in February), that we
Mr. K --,they amuse us so of an even- euffered no inconvenience from the cold.
ing that I should feel quite dull without Little Katie was enchented with the jing-
them.' ling of the sleigh -belle, and, nestled among
" From that heur the oheriorei ceased, the packages'kipt singing or talking to the
andithe old lady was left to enjoy the socie- horses in her baby lingo. Trifling as these
ty of her young husband in quiet. little incidents were, before we had proceed.
"1 Demure you, eera. M—, that the ed ten miles on our journey, they revived
°bathed often deters old people from reek- my drooping spirits, and I began to feel a
Log diegraoeful marriages, so that it is not lively interest in the scenes through which
wholly without its use." we were passing.
A few days after the charivari affair, Mrs. The first twenty miles of the way was
D— stepped in to see me. She was
over a hilly, well -cleared country ; and as in
American; a very respectable old lady, who ad
whiter the deep snow fills up the lingual -
resided in a handsome frame -house an the ities, and makes all roads alike, we glided as
swiftly and steadily along as if they had
been the hest highways in the world. Anon,
the clearings began to diminish, and tall
woods arose on either side of the path;
their solemn aspect and the deep eilence
that brooded over their vast solitudes, in.
spiring the mind with a strange awe, Not
a breath of Wind stirred the leafless branch-
es, whose huge shadows—reflected upon the
dazzling white covering of snow—lay so per -
featly Mill that it seemed as if Nature had
euspended her operations, that life and
motion had ceased, and that she was sleep
ing in her winding.theet, upon the bier of
death.
"1 guess you will find the woode pretty
lonesome," said our driver, whose thoughts
had been evidently employed on the same
subject as our own. " We were once in the
woods, but emigration has stopped a -head of
us, and made our'n a cleared part of the
country. When I was a boy, all this country,
for thirty miles on every side of us, was
bush land. As to Peterborough, the place
main road. I was at dinner, the vervant.
girl, in the meanwhile, nureing my child at
a distances: Mrs. 0— sat looking at me
very eeriously until I concluded my meal,
her dinner having been taken several hours
before. When I had finished, the girl gave
me the child, and then removed the dinner -
service into an outer room.
"You don't eat with your helps,' said my
visitor. Is not that eomething likpride?'
"It ie custom' " said I; ' we were not
used to do NO athome, and I think that
keeping a separate table is more comfortable
for both parties."
"Aro you not both of the same flesh and
blood.? The doh and the poor meet togeth-
er, and the Lord is the maker of them all."
"True. Your quotation is just, and I as-
sent to it with all my heart. There is no
difference in the flaah and blood; but edu-
cation makes a difference in the mind and
manners, and till these clan assimilate, it is
better to keep apart."
"Ah you are not a good Christian, Mrs, was unknown ; not a settler had ever palmed
Moodie. The Lord thought more of the through tho great invamp, and some of them
believed thatit was the end of the world."
" What swamp is thee ?" asked
'Oh, the great Cavan ewamp. We are
test two miles from It; and I tell you thet
the horses will need a good rest, and our -
Pelves a good dilutor, by the time we are
through it. Ah 1 Mrs. Moodie, if ever you
travel that way in summer, you will know
tomething about corduroy roadie I was
'most jolted to death last fall ; I thought it
would have been. no bad notion to have in-
sured my teeth before I left C—. I
really expected that they woold have beeo
shook out of my head before we had done
manoeuvring over the big logs.
"Hon' will my °rookery stand it in the
ueirb sleigh?" citioth L "It the road is such
at you deeoribei I am afraid that 1 shall not
in
brg a whole plate to Douro." •
"Ok! the anoW is a greet leveller—it
makes all rough places emooth. tub With
regatd to this swamp I have something to
tell yeti, Aletint ten yeare ago, ne one had
ever seen the other aide of it; and if pige or
cattle strayed Way into it, they fell a prey
to the *oleos MA bears, and were seldom
reeevereei.
poor than Ile did of the rich, and He ob-
taxied more followers from among them,
Now, tee always takes out meals with our
people."
Peesently after, while talking over the
affairs of our households, I happened to say
that the eow We had bought of Mollineux
had turned ont extremely Well, and gave a
great deal of milk.
" That man lived with. us several years,"
she said; "ho Was an excellent eervant, and
D paid him his wags* in lend. The
term thet he now °couple* forms a part of
our E. grant. Bute for all hie good con-
duct, I ne• ver (meld abide him for being a
black."
"Indeed 1 It he not the scene flesh and
twi
blood as the t t" The detour rose hito Mre.
O —'s sidle* fade, and she ansWered with
much warmth,
"Wit 1 do you mean to compare Md,
Wibh a taiga& 4"
"Nei exactly, But, after all, the celor
tereitett the only difference between him and
uneducated men of the mime °lase," ,
11 Ural Moodie 1" ehe exclaimed, helditig
up heafl4 fl limui better ; "They are
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eiCARLING,
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intietineeenteeeMeeememen
the Emperor sent for me end naked, "Why
did von Bergnmen put his finger /rite my
throat ?''
His Majetty then wont on to say, "I
hope you will not allow Professor von Berg-
mann to do any further operatic= on me,"
I answered, 'After what I have men tos
day, air, I be moet reepectfully t eity that
I can no longer have the tumour of ematinu.
ing in atteuclance on Your Imperial IvIejeety
if Professor von Bergmann is to be peemit-
ted to tooth your throat again." • '
Von 33ergmenn's roughness was teve' for-
gotten by the Emperor, although the no-
bility of his nature prevented him from
showing any resentment, and even from bear-
ing that awkward. °proem any ill will.
" You Stay."
"1 rememter, " said an old clergyman
"a careless word apoken to mein my boy-
hood which has influenced my &erre:item
through life. Like most elokly, sensitive
children, I was ready to give up hope before
every trouble. An attack of illnese, a long
storm, a disagreeable visitor or servant in the
family plunged me into despair.
" Fred, ' said my uncle to rne one day,
the tbothache, or the wet weather, or the
boys who tease you are had things enough,
but remember they go, and you stay.'
"It was like anew gospel to me. These
great evils would pass by, and little hisigni-
&ant me—I stayed/
"It was a wholesome idea to put into a
boy's mind. The feeling of preeminence is
rare with children. They are to their own
feeling like endodm erm boat on the sea,
driven here and there. Out of this tumor.
;minty come most of their vague mieeries.
It is good for them to feel that, no metter
how poor, or dull, or obscure they are, in
comparison with others, each of them has a
life of hie own, abiding and euro, which is
of importance in God's eyes. Meny morbid,
self -distrusting boys and gide need just the
poise and confidence which that knowledge
would give 10 them.
"As I grew older, the chance words took
a wider meaning to Inc. The temptation,
however fierce, would pees, I stood. firm ;
the grief, no matter how deep, would light -
ea; the agony of aelf-sacrifice would begone
sgme day, and I would remain to fiteish my
work, and answer my smcount.
"Life itself wou1 t hest vanish, as when
the heaven e ala earth dieappear, and yet
was malignant. This mekes the ineweee le
y seta thtie illqrlifiQPV w041d stay,
with the case lie euepected that the affection
moo to ace with uoa.
which he nroceecled to deed wicji It simply in. What a
re them things time we think and
. —.
telly of all day long ? Our neighbor's gown,
compethensible, emsept on the supp°I. osition etette,
or bank acootuat, or our own
t
that hle very anxiety wade him recklCOheri, tie eckY epeenletion 7ess. It 119"sei
Babbert. is certain that if the growth was malignant
•
,m the first, Gerhardt, by bis unmerciful
Menem° andillibbert societies held my to work to make it so. I do not ray
--
Premiere efeecm—For several yeareof the galvanomautery, went the surest
Match but at the close of the matetat he sotually caused the mincer. No one
year the union was dissolved an as the eight to dogmatize in medicine, which
emaciation is running a match of h still au inexact science, in which nearly
this year. The match under the wary fact is open to more than one interpre•
et the Hibbert association took ?Mien. I do not hesitate, however, to say
the farm of Mr. John Drake, near iat the treatment adopted by Professor
on Wednesday last. The weatherhardt was at once unscientific and injude
delightful and farmers took advatorts.
the favorable opportunity for gaDr. Revell once obacrved to the Crown
their root crops, consequently thmince :
hag match was not as well attendee" I cense that Dr. Bramann le not mama
might have been. The lield seleotmedto the u„sseatah_ne liairiymnpgos.reicdoipEdi;mess, "you
somewhat against the
level but e SOLI Pats brittle thus Og I I I es,
Ploedneitin see it andiI can feel M."
o
of Nevembm 6 I ex -
men
in tee elaeot tilt mirytae
-rnee tne rown Prnee's threat * * *
oompetition,
men was very light, there being oe •ai . u — .
tnout rising frezny chair I informed
plowinan in eaeh class, while thet i m
no entries in one of the boy's clad y i omiwee
s mperie enees shat a very unfaver-
thongh there were four in the othee
l
lattdr class, therefore, ereated the Pe change had taken place in his thiost.
• R
Meat for the spectators ot whom th e said:
e fair crowd present. The prizic!ii it cancer ?.•
ieen
'I am sorry to my, sir, that it looks very
'.1: which I replied:
aweaded as follows: extra clam, t,
Leh like it ; but it is imptssible to be cer.
all comers, James Hogarth, Munn
d the commune
first class, for men who never 00i
ch
Grown Ptill00 receive
James Connolly, Munroe elowie."
2nd,wit:ion with perfect calmness. After a mo -
under, 18 years with iron plows,
i
Harbourn, Munroe plow ;
with that Emile of peculiar sweetnees
ar, Munroe plow ; 3rd, George nt of ailence he grasped my hand and
1
ich so well expreseed the mingled gentle -
Munroe plow ; 4th, J ames 00.
s a-nd strength of his character.
Yeandell plow. Meows. Robert I
' I have lately been fearing mmething cf
tceviaship. acted as judges.
Seafortb, and 3. L. Ouurtiee, G
__ _ s sort. I thank you, Sir Morell, for
___
s each—Lon.
Rear.
CLIOT,
, &c.,Exeter.
0
Cr'
orm the pub-
ys,ell
's 05 feet for
00 ditional ten
hi,P. O.
Claude bove. • ng so frauk with me."
:n all my long expel 'teem) I have never
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-
n a man bear himself under similar cir-
A COMPLICATED RKE
ACTnstances vvith such unaffected heroism.
week Eli Bice of this neighboth . —00e '
poen 90 a tit showed not the least sign of depression,
arrested by London n
b spent the day in his ordinary °coups,-
stealing two chestof tea from th ns and at dinner time that evening he
s
is
Trunk Oompauy's warehousecheerful without &pp -trent effort end at te i
A search me in etil uted, and heseatted freely in his usual manner.
e
ing a lot of buggy covers andApril
necessary with my
own hands there
April 12.—As I intended to do whatever
nishings, mid to be the prepow;
.,,. Bile,tow-headed
was really no need for the asentatme of a
WEY He Knew Iris : Wife Was Not There. surgeon, but it is an elementary rule of
"Freddy, sa d he siren to civilized medical practice that all those
the companion sitting beside her at the races, associated together in the management of a
"I fancy I saw your wife pass just now case should be made aequaioted with the
among the crowd." detailof the treatment thee is carried out.
"Not likely," replied the male failure; "1 As soon as the new tube was ready, there -
popped or best bonnet in my gripseck just fore, I deapatched a messenger to Professor
before I Game out, and I'm pretty certein she von•Bergmeem to request him to come to me
would not venture here without her favorite as soon as possible—meaning, of course,
headgear." that I was anxious to proceed to chsnge
the tube without delay, In sending off tne
meseage little did I think that it would
A Difficult Commission. have such fatal consequence: It is no ex.
Lady: You know, sir, I wish my portrait a.ggeration to say that these hastily ecribbl-
to be a total surprise for my husband. ed lines proved to be the death warrant of
Artist: Yes, madame, I understand. the Emperor.
Lady: And you will try not to have too We found the Emperor engaged in writ -
strong a likeness' as I would not wish. him ing: The inspiration was distinctly audible
to recognize it atthe first glance. but beyond this there \TPA not the elightest
_ indication of any cliffieulty in breethintg
Professor von Bergmann placed a chair op.
Wanted Protection. pesite the window and asked the Emperor to
"What part of your trip did you like sit down upon it, and thereupon, without
beet, Miss Ararninta ?" making any remark, he quickly undid the
"Why coming up the channel as we type whith kept the minute, in position,
neared home." pulled the latter out and, with conaiderable
"Why PO "
force, endeavored to insert one which he had
?
"Ob, because I like to be where the most in hie hand, and which was not provided
buoys are, one feels safer, you know."
w
ith
eaipnititorTment was forced into the neck
A Fatal Objection. but no eir came through IL The Emperor'e
breathing thereupon became very muoh em -
Young Mr. Johnsing (in swell Chestnut berra-ssed and the Professor withdrew the
street boarding house)—Am yo' de lady of tube. This was followed by a violent fit of
dis yere ho'din' house? coughing, and there was considerable hem -
Miss Purplebloom (genteelly) — rile de orrhage- Professor von Bargmann next
daughter of de mistreat of diet 'stablishmant, a imel a tam on remota covered with ii onge
Those are the things that go.
The kindliness in our heats, the loving
word we speak, the little gaep of prayer ia
our soul, where only God sees—these are
the things that stay, e.nd enter immortal re
reoirds.
Which weigh the heavier with us ?
The Convalescent.
Under the above title Chutes Lambe
writes one of his best essays. He imparts
to his picture of the sick•room every ehade
of coloring needful to sot it out in all its
striking reality. The beilliant quaelties of
this renowned essayist have their amplest
play. Evidently Lamb 'La not drawhig en
his itongination. Ile calla it " a magnifi-
cent dream for a man to lie lobed and draw
daylight curtains about hire." "To become
insensible to all the epees Mons of life, en.
o-3pt the beatings et ens feeble pulse."
Deaceibing the tumbling end tomieg end
shifting or the patient, he says "Ild
changes sides oftener then e petit -edam"
" He compassionatee himself all over, he
pities his 1•eng, clammy, attenuated lingerie"
Convalescence bide adieu to all the reonerch-
ical prerogatives of the sick bed, and a man
rapidly shrivels into the lean and meagre
figure of his insigniffeaut self.
A Turtle's Nest.
Hunting for turtles' eggs on the islande of
the coast is a summer pastime of the Georg-
ians. It is said that one of the curiosities of a
turtle's nest is that no one, having token the
eggs from it, can get them all back again.
Several have tried the experiment, to find ib
O blank failure. After filling the cavity in
the sand, there are always enough eggs left
to fill a couple more nests just as large, Old
Mrs. Tentle, when she deposits an egg,
paddles 15 10 tight with her feet, egg by
egg, the elasticity of the egg shell permit-
ting le; but man cannot compress the egg
as does the turtle.
Mormon polygamy has received a vital
blew in the final judgment and decree of the
Supreme Court of Utah confiscating the
Yformon Church propetty to the Govern-
ment of the United States. An appeal is to
be made to the Supreme Court of the United
States, but it is improbable that the detti-
aion Nei I be reversed. The decree state,s
that "the present Churel still upholds,
teaches, and mantras polygamy, and that
any dedieatien of property to it would be
for the purpose of upholding polygerny and
would be unlawful." One effect of the find-
ing of the court will be, it is thought, to put
an end, for the present, to the agitation for
the grentiug of State rights to Utah.
A monument has reeently been unveiled
at Corbett, France, to the memory of the
Galignani brothers, founders of the Paris
newspaper known by their name The
brothers, Anthony and William, were born
in London, sons of an Italian teacher of
lerguages and an English woman. They
bought a summer residence ab Corbeil in
1827, and William was Mayor of the piece
for thirty-four years. They gave away
5,000,000 francs, of which Corbett got umout
one-third for schools, an orphanage, and a
hospital. They also left money for a retreat
for authors and printer% at Neuilly, just
o Aside Pori 3) which is nearly completed.
The Yellow River has once again em-
phasized the right it has in its terrible
monopoly of benne called "The Sorrow of
Chine." It will be easily remembered how,
very recently, it svvept over its brinks, and
turned large parts of the Province of Ronan
sah. out the aponge quicely off, and tried to push into a vast lake, submerging whole chew,
"Young Mr. Johnsing (crossing one knee the tube into the witopipe. Again no air and °taming an ohnoat countless amount of
stylishly)—Well, Pee lookin' foer beg° came through the canula, and it Was clear deetruotion of life and property. And now
airysome room wif alcove an' Demo -elm that insteed of entering the air paseage et again comes the neWit that them has been a re-
eurtailies filet elm° flxiiie with "tither° had been forced downevere in front of the petition of the serne awful eportfulness on the
exposure en' gentility. Vac vvillin' to pay trachea, pi iughing the soft themes iu that part of this fatal stream. It seems to laugh
as meth as two dolla's a week. eonneetion and meltitigenhat is techinecaely at all efforts of puny man to say to it, "thus
known as a false passage, far and we farther," and with mocking crib.
Again the Profemor had to pull out the him leaps once more over the barriers that
tube end again its withdrawal was followed lie has raised NOMA it, and pours resistless.
by violent coughing and dreams of blood. ly over the plains. The new enthenirment
To irry consternation Profeasor von Berg- at Chang -Chow which was begun lad fell
mann then puelied his 6nger deeply into the has been swept away, so recent, deepatchea
Wound, and on withdrawing it tried te Say, end large 'Orbiting of the inifortunate
intert another tube. Ile %gale failed, how- diratriet of Holten are again tattler Witter,
ever, mod Agein tho attempt was followed, Gonen, by the way, is the Provirice in which
as bo'fotei by most dietreeeleg cotighing and Vie Preebyteriau Church of We tountey has
copious bleeding. Professor von Bergmaten recently established a mieetorti Mr, and Mrs,
then asked that his amtisteeit, wile was Iloforth rem aleeady there, and Ur, Mao
Waiting in his carriage outeide, might he Gillivrayi wheee ordinatien took piece a few
sent foie It Seerned as fl he contemplated nighte ago la St. Jewess' 8gUarts Prealyter*
doing some further operation, perhaps en,. Ian Clitirele, is to edit for the tame region
lergiug the wound, but the Enver& waS ahnoet immediately. Mr. Goforth Was sent
weed tany farthee terturti by the arrival ef
Mies Purplebloom ( with a slight sniff)—
Am de room fo' yonelf ?
Young Me. Johnsing—R(t am,
Miss Purplebloom—Well, Ise berry sorry
indeed, sate but we neber bake Zulus,
The ratal Number.
" Anomintha, in Accepting me, you have
made me immeasurably happy."
"I am glad to know it, Artenne Yeti
Me) not in the toilet auperatitioun are you it
"No, darling, Why do you ask V'
" leteautes you are the tleirteenth Men to
propese to me thi$ surname
Fires Ott the stock ranges in Northweeterh
Montana and /dello hand done an immense
amount ot damage.
out by the Ittox College Missitumy Sooloty,
Bretoann on the seeleM Half and MacqilliVray goeh tinder the Atolpietel
and hour after the Protessor'e departure te Junto,' &inure Church.