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The Exeter Times, 1888-12-20, Page 3"ROUGaG IT IN THEaLriliSH:" CHAPTER XV,- Cononinms. "1 saw the skeleton forms of halfeadozen more of theta slinking :moue the bushea that skirted a low bland; and tired and cold, I gave myself and the oxen up for lost, when I felt the ice tremble on when' I stood, and heard men running , at a little dietance. 'Fire your guns ?' I cried out, ae loud as I could. lay order was obeyed, and such a yelling and bowlivg immediately filled the whole foreat as wquid have chilled your very heart, The thievish varmints Instantly fied away into the bush. "1 never felt the least fear of wolves nail that night; but when they meet in large Wade, like cowardly dogs, they trust to their numbers and grow fierce. If you meet with one wolf, you may be oertain that the whole pack is at no great distance." We were fast appnoaohing bandy Point, a long white ridge of sand, running heti morons the lake and though only covered with scattered groups of scrubby trees and, brush, it effeetizally parcelled Stony Lake from our view. There were so many beautiful floviera peeping:through the dwarf, green bushes, that, wishing to inspect them nearer, Mat kindly rim the oanoe ashore, and told me that he would show me a pretty spot, where an Indian, who had been drowned during a storm ofithat point, was buried. I immed- iately recalled the story of Susan Moore's father, bub Mat thought that he was interred upon one of the island!! farther up. ' "18 is strange," he said, " that they are snail bed 'swimmers. The Indian, though unrivalled by us whites in the use of the paddle, is an animal that does not take readily to thenvater, and those among them who inn swim selnom um it as a recreation." Pushing our way through the bushes, we oame to a small opening in the .underwootl, so thickly grown over with wild Canadian roses, in full blossom, thief' the air was im- pregnated with a 'delightful odour. In the centre of this bed of sweets rose the humble nionnd that protected the bones of the red man from the ravenous jaws of the wolf and the wild cat. It: was completely covered with atones, and from among the crevices had sprung a tuft of blue harebells, waving as wild and free as if they grew among the bonny heather on the glorious hills of the North or ohm* their tiny bells to the breeze on the broom encircled commons of Eng- land. The harebells had always from a child been with me a favorite flower; and the first sight of it in Canada, growing npon that lonely grave, so floOdel my. soul with remembrances of the past that in spite of myself the team poured freely from niy eyes. There are momenta when it is lin- poesible to repress those outgushings of the heart - "Those flood -gates of thereon' that !sever, In passion's tide to part for ever." If Mat and his sister wondered at my tears; they must have suspected the cause, for they walked to a little distance, and left me to the indulgence cf my feelings. I gathered.those flowers and placed them in my bosom, and kept them for many a day; they had become holy, when (leafletted with • saored home recollections, and the never - dying affection of the heart whioh the sight of theni recalled. A shout hem our companions in the other canoe made un retrace our steps to the shore. They had already rounded the point, and were wondering at our absence. Oh, what a magnificent scene of wild and lo sly grandeur buret upon us as we swept nen d the little peninsula, and the whole inajesty of Stony Lake broke upon us at once, another Lake of the Thousand Isles in miniatnre, and in the heart of the wilderness' Imagine a large sheet of water, some fifteen miles in breadth and twenty-five in length, taken up by islands of every BiZO and shape, from the lofty naked rook of red granite to the rounded hill,. covered with oak -trees to its aummit ; while others were level with the waters, and of a rich emerald green, only fringed with a growth of aquatic shrubs and flowers. Never did my eyes rest on a more lovely or beautiful scene. Not a vestige of man, or of his works was there. The setting tun, that oast such a gorgeous flood of- light upon this c xquisite panorama, bringing out some of theae lofty islands in strong relief, and casting others into intense shade, shed no cheery beam upon church spire or cottage pane. We beheld the landscape, savage and grand in its primeval beauty. As we floated among the channels be- tween these rocky picturesque isles, I asked Mat how many ot them there were. "1 never could succeed," he said, "in counting them all. One Sunday, Pat and I spent a whole day in going from one to the other, to try and me.ka out how Many there were, but we could only count up, to one hundred and forty before we gave up the task in despair. There are a great many of them; more than any. one would think - and, what is very singular, the channel between them is very deep, sometimes above forty feet, which accounts for the few rapids to be found in this lake. It is V glorious place for hunting ; and the waters, undisturbed by steamboate, abound in all sorts of fish. , " Most of these islands are covered with huckleberries; while grapes, high and low, bushed cranberries, blackberries, wild cher- ries, gooseberries, and several other sorts of wild 'currants grow here in profusion. There is one island among these groups (but I never could light upon the ' identical one) where the Indians yearly gather their wampum -grass. They come hem to collect the beat birch -nark for their canoes and to gather wild onions. In short, from d the game, fish and fruit which they collect among the islands of this lake, they. chiefly depend for . their salosisterice. They are very jealous of the white :settlers in, the country coming to hunt and fish here, and tell many stories of vsild beasts and' rattle- seenes that abound along its shores; but I; o have frequented the lake for years, wn, 'es- g disturbed by anything, beyond 1 this dv pture with the wolf, which I have alreadytad eott; The banks of this lake are al steep and reeky, and the land along the shore is barren, and totally unfit for onitivetion. "Had we time to run up a few miles fur- ther, I Maid have tabooed you some places well worth a journey to look at but the sun is already down, and it will be dark before we get back to the mill," The other canoe now floated alongside, and Pat agreed with his brother that it was high thee to 'return. With reluctance I turned front this strangely fasoinating scene. As we passed under one field, rooky Island, Mat, said, laughingly, "That is Mount Ras- cal." • "How did it obtain that neme ?" ee "Oh, we were out here berrying, with our good priest, Mr. B----,--. This island promised so fair, that WO tended upon it, arid, aftev settolung for an hour, we returned to the boat without a ,eingle berry, upon a which Mr. B--namea. it ‘ Mount Rae n cal." , The bleed WAS so beautiful, it did, not , , • de:large the name, and I obrietened it "Oak fromthe abundance of oak -trees whioh clothed its steep sides. The wood of this oak is so heavy and hard that it will eot goat in the water, and it 0 id great request for the ruunets of lernber aleighs, which have to•pase over very bad roads. " The /stem, which nad rendered our sail up the lakes so expeditions and :refrealibens had stiffened into a pretty hivh wind, which wee dead against us all the way down. Betty now knelt iit the bow and assisted her brother, equaw fashion in paddling the canoe ; but in spite of all, their united exer- laying light pieces of round timber eoroes the trunks of ehe tree; and setting fire to them at the point of contact, by whloh means the trees are slowly burned through. It was while busily engaged in this inter- esting operation that I first became acquaint- ed with the subject of this aketeh. Some twenty or thirty little firth were burning briskly in different parts of the Macho/led field, and the old fellow wee watohieg the slow progrese of his talents " niggers,' and replacingthem from time to time as they eniouldered away. After threading my way amen the uncouth logs, blazing sea smoking in all directions, I en- countered the old man, attired in an old bon- net, or hood, of his wife Judy, with his etched canvas trousers rolled up to his done, it was past ten o'clock before we nem ; tem foot bare, and the other fur. reached the mill. The good Norah was wetting tea far aS. She had given the child- ren their supper four houres ago, and the little creatures, tired with using their feet whet; with an old boot, whioh from its ap- pearance had once belonged to some more aristocratic foot. His person was long, straight and sinewy, and there was a light all day, were sound asleep upon her bed. springiness and elasticity in his step which After supper, several Irish songs were would have suited ta younger man, as he sung, while Pat played aeon the fiddle; a,nd skipped along with a long. handspike over Betty. and Mat enlivened the oomnany with his shoulder. He was singing a etave mom an Leah jig. the " Enniakilleu Dragoon" when I came up It was midnight when the children were with him. plated on my cloak at the bottom of the With his silver pistols, and his long carbine, canoe, and we bade adieu twthis hospitable family. The wind being dead against us, We Long life to the brave Inniekillen dem bright as day, and the oar warm and balmy ; lugubrious imagtnable, with his long, goon." were obliged to dispense with the sail, and take to map:eddies. The moonlight was as His face would have been one of the most and the aromatic, resinous smell exudeVetti Mingled hair hanging confueedly over it, in the heat from the belmeesn giliead and nhe a manner whioh has been happay compared pine -trees of the foredo elded greatly to to a " bewitched haystack," had it not been our sense of, enjoyment So WO floated past for a certain humorous twitch or convulsive Menem so wild and lonely -isles that assumed movement, which affected one aide of his a mystenions look and character in that witohing hour. In moments like these I mimed to regret my separation from my native land; and, filled with the love of Nature, my heaat forgot for the time the lov'e of home.' The very spirit of peace seemed tobrobd over the waters, winch were broken into a thousand ripples of light by every breeze that stirred the rice blossoms, or whispered throngh the ehiver. ing aspen -trees. The far-off roar of the rapids, softened brdistance, and the long, monreful ory of die night -owl alone broke the silence of the night. Amid these lonely wilds the soul draws nearer to God, and is filled to overflowing by the overwhemling sense of His presence. Item two otalook in the morning when we fastened the mime to the landing, and Moodie carried up the children to the house. I found the girl still up with my boy, who had been very restless during our absence. My heart reproached me as I caught him to my breast, for leaving him so long; in a few minutes he was consoled for past eor- rows, and sweetly sleeping in my arms. OAITADIAN SONO. Come, launch the light canoe; The breeze is fresh and strong : The summer skies are blue, And 'tie joy to float along; Away o'er the waters, The bright -glancing waters, The many -voiced waters, As thee dance in light and song. When the great Creator spoke, On the long unmeasured night, "shanty," with hollowed basswood logs, The living day•spring broke, fitting into eaoh other somewhat in the man - And the waters own'd His might; ner of tiles for a roof, instead of shingles. No iron WaS to be seen' in the absence of which there were plentyof leathern hinges, wooden latches for locks and bark -strings instead of nails. There was a largefire-place at one end of the shanty, with a chimney, constructed of splib laths, plastered with a mixture of clay and cowdung. As for win- dows these were luxuries that could well be dills:meted witheetlea semen -floor webs .an excellent substitute for them in the daytime, and at night none were required. When I ventured to object to this airangement, that he would have to keep the door shut in the winter time the old man replied, in the style SO oharIcteristic of his country, "Shure it will be time enough th think of that when MISCELLANEOlre. So. called "revoiutions" in industry, oon- eequent upon discovery and invention, follow etre another so quicitly in these days that we hate well nigh lost the feeulty of wonder, as "revolution" we:reeds "revolution' with hewildering rapidity. One of the latest ie Baia to be an approaching "evolution" in telegraphy owing to the alleged discovery by a Spanish sevant of a method of sending despatches without the use of batteries. Pre- liminery teats in the presence of expert wit - misses are said to have proved thoroughly successful. ' We congratulate Mr. Q.Conno); verY heartily on Ina victory over Teenier. It is something for Torontonians to be proud about, thetrn this young IriehUanadian they have a champion who memo so likely to prove himselt et worthy saccessor of Han- lon, who may now be set down as out of the rete. His day is done, and he must be con- tent to pieta the pas to younger men. He need not be *sloes, however, as he has a brilliant record of victory on which to look back and content hinieelf in the hour of his decrease. We trust that O'Conner will always show himself worthy of the respect as well as the admiration of the people of Toronto. The recently formed plan of putting down the East African Slave Trade promises to be successful, It is to take the form of a strict bloCkede of the coast by the Eoglish and German fleets assisted so far by the Frenoh. By this arrangement it is expected that the imports neceasary for carrying on the slave trade will be stepped and Mr the same time that there will be no outlet, and conseimently no countenance, whenever any droll idea PaBsed will for the slaves brought down to the through his mind. It was with a twitch of eeen. By this plan, combined with the en this kind, and a Certain indescribable otowt;rgement of legitimate trade, it is very twinkle of his somewhat melancholy eye, as naturally expected that, as in the case of he seemed intuitively to form a hasty mu" the Wein Airman slave trade, this accursed °option of the oddity of his appearance to a iness along the Eastern shores of the oon stranger unused to the bush, that he wen an will within a comparatively ithorb corned me to his clearing. He instantly "titn"Tio altogether destroyed. • threw down his handspike, and leaving his For years Rad the world has been watch- " niggera " to finish their work at their ing with anxiety and protesting against the leisure, insisted on our going to hie house to growth of European armaments, and the get something to drink. On the way; I explained to him the object increase of the burden of taxation necessary for the maintenance thereof ; yet the pro- of my visit. which was to mark ont, or pro - " blaze", dee side -lines of a lot of land I had oess still goes on. To -day Russia is seeking borrow $100,000,000 for the purpose of received as part of a military grant, imme- keeping up her display of strength; Ger- diately asked him to accompany me, as he was well the sZialve ant, thse$r6fit,00t00; ,0a d Englandinorrto s isneorri se ausas acquainted with the different lots. ly thinking of expending $50,000,000 in the "Ooh!by all manner ot manes, and wel- same manner. What is all this to end in ? come; the dhevil a foot of the way but I If not war at an early period, with its fright - know as well as my own clearing; but come , ful cost and its attendant horrors, is there into the house and get a dhrink of milk, an not a danger that•the over -burdened people a bite of bread an' butther, for sorrow a may be driven to revoltn,gahist the tyranny dhrop of the whiskey has crossed my teeth and oppression of the system of militarism for the last month; an' it's but poor inter - which is slowly grinding them into the dust? tainment for man or baste I can offer you, As everybody who knew anything about but shure you're heartily welcome." the matter fully expected, the researches of The precincts of the homestead were di- d a the Mining Commission which the Ontario vided into an infinity of enclosures, Government appointed, are confirming the shapes and sizes. The outer enclosure was opinion, that as yet the majority of Cana.. a bush fence, formed of trees felled on eaoh diens have very faint conceptions of the other in a row, and the gaps filled up with brtishwood. There was a large got„,,,nieg minetal wealth of their country. There is iron ore in abundance, perhaps in inexhanst- with wooden hinges, and a wooden latch to ible abundance. There is silver. There is fasten it; the smaller enclosures were made copper. There is marble, too, and much with round poles, tied together with bark. other buried wealth which will make coming' The house was of the rudest deseription of generations rieh and powerful, meanwhile the present generations seems to stand and gaze like Joshua's moon at Askelon, not knowing what to do about it. Ca,piteliste are timid and will not risk loss in setting up blast furnaces, and giving •ue oscular demonstration, of what experts a - fact, that we can manufacture as as any on the continent. The voice of many waters, Of glad, rejoicing waters, Of living, leaping waters, First hailed the dawn of light. • Where foaming billows glide . To earth's remotest bound; The rushing imean tide Rolls on annemlemn sound; - Goa'svoice is in the waters; The deep, mysterious waters, , The sleepless, • dashing waters, Stall breathe its tones around. CHAPTER XVI. -THE "Otrea Dwitatioorr." the °oak" weather sets in," Everything It is delightful to observe a feeling of about the home wore a Robinson Crnsoe as - contentment under adverse circumstances. Peon and though there Was not any appear - 'We may mile at the rude and clumsy at. mice of original plan or foresight, there was tempts of the remote and isolated back- no lack of ingenious contrivance to meet woodsman to attain something like comfort, but happy he who, with the bouyant, spirits of the light-hearted Irishman, dontrives to make himself happy even while all others would be miserable. A certain degree of dissatiafaction with our present circumstances is necessary to stimulate us, to exertion, and thus enable us to &Imre future comfort; but where the delusive prospect of future happiness is too remote for any reasonable hope of ultimate attainment, then surely it is true wisdom to make the most of the present and to 'culti- vate the spirit of happy contentment with the lot assigned to ns by Providence. " Ould Simpson,' or the " Ould Dhrea goon," as be was generally called, was a good sample of this happy charaoter ; and I shall prooeed to give the reader a sketoh of his history, and a description of his Wenn lishment. He was one of that unfortureite Mass of discharged soldiers who are tempted to sell their pensions often far below their true value, for the sake of getting a lot of land in some remote dettlemena where it is only rendered valuable by the labour of the settler, and where they will have the un- enviable privilege of expending the last re- main8 of their strength in clearing a patch of land for the benefit of some grasping store- keeper who has given them credit while en- gaged in the work. The old dragoon had fixed his abode on the verge of an extensive beaver meadow, which was considered a sort of natural curi- osity in the neighborhood; and where he managed by cutting the rank grass in the summer time, to support several cows, which afforded the chief subsistetion of his family. He had also Managed, with the assistance of his devoted partner, Judy, to clear a few acres of poor rooky land on the sloping mar- gin of the level meadow, which he planted year after year with potatoes. Scattered over this small clearing, here and there, might be seen the but•ena of some half -burnt hemlock tree, which had escaped the general combustion of the log heaps, and now form- ed a striking contrast to the white limestone rock e whioh showed their rounded surfaces above the meagre soil. The " ould dhragoon" seemed, moreover, to have some taste for the picturesque, and by the way of ornament, had left standing sundry tall pines and hemlocks neatly girdled to destroy their foliage, the shade of which would have been detrimental to the "blessed pratiee" which he deignee to grow in his clearing, but Which, in the meantime, like martyre at the stake, stretched their naked nranches imploringly towarde the heavena. As he was a kind of hermit, from choice, and far removed from other settlers, whose assistance is so necessary in new,set- dements, old Simpeon weal:compelled to re• sort 'be the most extraordinary contrivances while clearing hie land. Thee, after felling the trees, inetead of cheeping them into' lengths,' for the perporse of facilitating Ono operation of piling them preparatory to' burning, which Would have oost hira toe much labor, he resorted to the practice of "niggering," as ib ie called ; Which re simply every want as it arose. Judy dropped us a low curtseyas we en- tered, which was followed by a similar com- pliment from a stout girl of twelve, and two or three more of the children, who all seemed to share the pleasure of their parents in re- ceiving strangers in their unpretending tene- ment. Many were the apologies that poor Judy offered for the homely cheer she fur- nished us, and great was her delight at the notice we took of the " ohildher." She set little Biddy, who was the pride of her heart • to reading the Bible; and she took down ie curious machine from a shelf, which she had " oonthrived out of her own head," as she said, for teaching the children to read. This was a fiat box, or frame, filled with sand, which saved paper, pens, and ink. Poor Judy had evidently seen better days, but, with a humble and contented spirit, she blessed God tor the food and scanty raiment their labor afforded them. Her cal," sorrow was the want of " idication" for the Ihildren. ihe would have told tis a long story about ti trials and sufferings, before they had attained their present comparative comfort and independence, but, as we had a tedious scramble before us, through cedar -swamps, beaver -meadows, and the piny ridges, the " ould dragoon" out her short, an we straightway started on our toilsome journey. Sibmson, in spite of a certain dash of melancholy in his composition, was one of those happy fellows of the "light heart and thin pair of breeches" school who, when they meet with difficulty or misfortune, never stop to measure its dimensions, but hold in their breath and run lightly over, as in crossing a bog, where to stand still is to sink. wet (To BE OONTmutn.) rearfully'and WenderfallY Made. Avoid quotations, unless you are well !studied in their import and feel their per- tinence. A nian the other day, while look- ing at the skeleton of an ate which had been dug out of a sandpit, and admiring and won- dering at the structure of that despised ani- malmade a very mab.adroit use of one "Ah 1" said he, with the deepest humanity, and a simplicity worthy of Le Fontaine, " are fearfully and wonderfully made 1" The turkeys and chickens are '„beginaing to roost high and far off. The Prince of 'Wales was so delighted with the Hungarian national danee (the " Cseadae ") that he has made arrangements to introdace le to English society. It will be a feature at the fashionable London balls thee season. Several glass faetomes now cut the large cylinders of window glans by encircling the oylinder With a fino Wire) which is thee heated to eedness by an electric current, inid a drop of water being allowed to fall Upon the hot glees, a perfectly clean out is obtaitted. The old method was to draw out a fibre of white-hot settilanotten glass from the fetnace by means of Mega and to wrap It rotted this cyltraler, T e likelihoods seem to predi the nesent winter three of the tiet tstraterniefainfilinnn nj or tither perhaps it would be more strictly eat to thy of the pissing generation -will co have passed away. one ol these is a famous poet, another is an equally famous Eccles- iastic, known perhaps as widely by his world renowned hymn, "Lead, KindlyLight," as by his theological services or opinions, and the third is a not leas famous Statesman. One is a large Episcopalian, one an ardent Catholic, and one a conscientious Quaker, All three names, it is safe to any, are carved high on the list of the Immortal. All of them are worthy. of memorials in the shrine which England has dedicated M the worship of her God, and the memory of her best and greaten!. It is hardly necessary to say, that we refer to Lord Tennyson, Cardinal New- man, and Mr, John Bright. They have a Board of Railroad and Ware- house Commissioners in tlae State of Minne- sota, which, acting under 'instructions from the State Leglelature, has been probing the question of the best method of heating rail- road caratand has reached conclusions which are likely to be embodied in useful legisla- tion during the winter. They unhesitating- ly condemn the oar stove, an antiquated abomination around whioh there !Mould by this time have gathered associations of hor- ror enough to banish it henceforth, for all time. It is not by any meane a question of having the oars heated by stoves, or not heated at all, fbr the perfect feasibility of adapting steam heat has already been tried by the Rook Island road, as mentioned last week, among others. May the day soon come when our Canadian roads also will of theta own accord free their patrons in this way from fears of roasting. If they do nob, some means will have to be found of forcing their hend, with more or fess decisiveness. Amid all the pessimi die outcry about the foriner timer having been better than these, it is pleasant to notice from the regular official returns that theprisonpopulation of Britain is always becoming smaller while the general in- crease of inhabitants proceeds as usual. In the course of ten years the numberof prisoners in England and *Wales sank from 20,833 to 14,- 536, a diminution of 30 per cenefrom 1877, to 1887. Another very gratifying fact is that the reduction in the number of female prisoners has been greater than among the melee, for while the fallingoff in the num- ber of men has been only 25.3 per cent. the felling off of the female prisoners has been 41,2 per cent. If a still wider range of view is taken the conclusions to be drawn are still more gratifying. Daring the last quarter of re century the lowest number of prisonere Saint Nicholas, Saint Nioholes was the !nest netsuke of the mint! in the Ddiddle Ages. No other wtohboysemnoarmee piseopinlet,heoreabirtharostr4aoPPwleierde more unlike character and oircumetamthe. He was made the patron of the common people, of laborers, of prisoners, of eleves, of travellers, sailors!, butchers, robbers, clerks, scholars, and in a very special manner of good gide and of boys. He has been made the retain seine of Russia much in the Bente way diet St, George is the patron of flOg114tialede.life of this saint nothing ts known with certainty. The most trustworthy ac- 00Uat Says that he was a native of Patare in Lycia. As to the time of his birth it is less confident. The supposed dote is in the third century of our era, and his life possibly extended into the fourth cen- tury. He is mentioned most frequently as hawing lived. under the reign of Constantine the Great. Nicholas was Bishop of Myra in Lyoia. About six hundred years after his death his body was removed from that place to Bari, on the Southeaatern comt of Italy. He had already become famous at the time of this removal, and his reputation for performing miracles continued to grow rapAsidaly, specimen of what was reported to his credit, Sir Richard Torkingtom, who made a pilgrimage to the Holy Land in 1517; tells the following: "We passed the Isle of Seynt Nicholas, where be tooles made of Iron that never lose their edgge by my- irsaaolsetso.%Seynt Nicholas; as they say -I saw The day which, in the calendar, 'de- dicated to Saint Nicholas Is the 6111 of December. It is surprising to find the ob- servance of that day postponed to the Christ- mas holidays. When the °flange took place, and how it was brought about, worild not be easy to discover at this day. That this observance and our present usage of making presents at Christmas are one and the same practioe will be seen from the following account of the custom given by an early English writer: "From a very early day it has been oustomary, on the eve of St Nicholas's Day, for children to pub their stockings, shoes, or slipper!! hi the bedrooms of those from whom they expect or desire favors, when, sure enough, next mornina their little feet -pieces are replete with sweetmeats, toys or coins." The manner of observing Sb.'Nioholas's Eve described byes poet of two or three hundred years ago at considerable length. ilniaososm: can be found here for only a few "Children on the eve do cause to fast;, And when they every one at night in !sense- less sleep are case Both apples, nuts and pears they bring, and other things beside, As caps, and shoes and petticoats, whioh secretly thent'hide, And in the morning found, they say, that this St. Nicholas brought." Th0 shows that at that; time in England presents were made onethe eve of the 6th of Deoemberinstead of at Christmas, as now. In the Greek Church and in the north of Europe, however, sohoolboys still invoke the liberality of St. Nicholas or Santa Claus, as he isnow commonly called, on that night. How St. Nicholas could become patron to charaoters so unlike as robbers and good boys is a matter now_,d_inon41nttheisunIsdaesrrestalinagds. - As to this samrs peenamee , only know that itachwas therelation. High waymen were called St. Nicholas's clerks Rowley says, "1 think yonder come pranc ing down the hills, from Kingston a couple' of Si. Nicholas's clerks's." Christ's Sympathy for Toilers. ;When a man's heart' is crushed within hurt by the galling eyranny of sense ; when, from the dawning of the day till the setting of the sun, and for hours beyond it, he re compelled to gather straw for Egypt's bricks, and to bake them in the world'a scorching kiln, till the spring of life is dried up within, and he is ready to say, let me but eat and drink and sleep, for there ie nothing real but this endless teak - work; then, how sweet to say to one's sell: "And a oloud received him out of their sight." Yes, just out of sight, but as certainly as if the eye could pierce it, there is a heaven all bright, all pure, all real; there is One there who has my very nature, in it toiled as ceaselessly as the most care -worn and world-lader of us all, hav- ing no Manse, and no leisure so much as to eat. He 0 there -His warfare accomplished, His life's labour fulfilled : He is there, at rest, yet still working, working for me, bearing me upon his heart, feeling .for and feeling with me, in each trial and in each tempta- tion ; an not feeling only, but praying too, with that intercession which is not only near but inside God ; and not interceding only, but also ministering grace hour by hour, com- ing into me with the very thought and recol- lection of good, that exact purpose, and re- • solution and aspiration, which is needed to keep me bravo aud to keep me pure. -Mr. • C. 17. Vaughan.) Tassel With a Big Catamount. While George Hardy and his son, a lad of thirteen, were hunting opossums in the wooded country adjoining Bennett's Mills, Ohio, ther dogs treed what was supposed to be one of the animals they were hunting. Hardy lib • a torch and stationed the boy some distance off, and approaohed the tree to get a shot at the beast, when he yeas horrified to see the animal springing through the air directly toward his son. It struck the little fellow and bore hint to the ground, its claws, clutching in the clothing on hie shoulder, tearing away a large chunk of flesh. Mr, Hardy rained heavy. blows on was rn 18o2.3, when there was a prison its back and head with a club. The oats - illation 16,70Ce out of a . total population pop. mount left the boy and sprang at the man, of 18,400,000. This shwa that :last year, overcoat, which was battened closely about its teeth fastening in the heavy lapel of his with ten million more people, there were the neck. /6 would. have seized his throat 2000 fewer prieon ere than there were thirty-six yearn ego. It woold he well if the sarne thing mufti be mad of all the countries the world over, and so far this can be said. At a general rule the criminal population is not increasing so rapidly as it lewd to dm Hesults of Mouth Breathing% Many diteese germs enter through an open mouth. The mouth was not made for breathing, but for letting and speaking. The nose was made for breathing, and the air, palming through the loom moist meal Menages, is purified, and leaves behind duet, dithase garner and. valets hnptirities, while the air le wanted and tempered for the lunge. Bat when the trieuth xs left open, dust, dirt and disease rush down into the. lungs and, hastening there, develop and &Stray the Whole system.-tBoeten Budget, but for the heevy goods warding off the attack. eBy this time the dogs • had !seized the beast aed dragged it to the ground, where after a hard battle in which the doge, Hatay and the boy all joined, it wee dis- patched. The boy was terribly !matched about the shoulder and left skio of blie face. The nether edoaped With the lots of his over- coat and 4 few deep cute on his chin and jaw. The catamount mestueea nearly five feet, and is one of the heaviest mein:We of its kind ever seen in this !section. Hit Sore Note. g�11, Mr. Do Groom, am t your nose aw. fol tore ?" Mr. Ds Groom*" Why, no, Ebba ; what nude you think so ?" Etta-"Oli, mamma said you had your nese down to the grindstone ever abide you were marriegf, ate I thotight it must be strful tore by this se the New yut# Custom House, Among There are twenty-three women inspectors NOtee for Women. then; is a sister of Rance Conkling. Whey receive $21 per week. And yet another Anim ican girl is to Marry a foreigner and a title. The engagement is announced of Baron Von Schroeder. of the Pruseien Imperial Gueueln, to Mies Peach- ard, of Boston. It is said that the aneth o‘ Bonanza, Banker Fled will give his daughter, Mise Jennie, $50,000,030 and make her the richest youug woman in the world. She is fairly well to do now. It is related that one day as she was sitting in her sewing chair, her father dropped $2,500,000 of 4 per cent, U. S.bondean her hip. Some distructive c ality has always been assodated in the patio mind with the lady of the White House. With Mrs. Grant it was interest in national affairs; with MM. Hayes, Temperance; with Mrs. Cleveland, beauty, and with Mrs. Harrison it promises to be domesticity. Nearly all the inems about her tell of her doing her oWn marketing and praise her skill as a house- keeper. A letter from Alabama tells of a girl "who can drive like Jehu, ride and shoot like a cowboy, run like a professional and swim like a duck. ' She will go rowing with no oompany but her dog and gun, and she can drop her oars, !spring to her feet with her gun and shoot a marsh 'hen or a gros- beak without rocking the boat or misplacing the oars. She sleeps on pillows of down from birds and duoke killed by her own hand, and expects by nextr spring to have enough feathers of the same kind M make a feather bed." Mrs. Harrison is an enthusiastic china painter ancl showed a correspondent the other day with pride a set of salad and fruit plates carefully painted under the instenc- tion of a skilful Dresden artist now' in Indianapolis. Each plate was decorated with the separate ingredients of a salad. One bore a delicate spray of celery, another bore a sliced lemon ora bit of lettuce, an- other a red tomato cut in half, and so on through the order of pickles, carrots calms, cucumbers and purple beets. The frnit plates were finely designed with different fruit -currents, gooseberries, plums and grapes. Among other gems were a water- color of pansies and a large square bile with chrysanthemums. Twenty-five years ago the now Princes of Walea and tnture Queen of England wale living on the third floor of a cornet' house in Copenhagen, and her father, who no one ever dreamed then of being a King, was poorer than m eny a burgher in the same street. She and her two sisters, now the ermine of Russia and the Daohess of Cum- berland, occupied the same room, scantily furnished, and instead of a wardrobe a oar- tain drawn across the wall hid the pegs on which their few dresses hung. They had never worn at silk dress in them livers. Now Alexandra doubtless has all the dresses sin wants, but it is more than likely that the looks back with pleasure upon those years 12 the happiest of her life. Almost any morning about 3 otcldok in Charleston, S.C.., a lady who has nerne, not nerves, may be seen going home &cm her work. She is proofreader for The Charles- ton World. She comes from it family which is known both for brains and pluck. Her duties take her to the office of the news- paper about 8 o'clock every night andde- tain her .nest he outntilr el v3 upon nmexbere melragi out ane what "her hands find to do" she does is with all her might." Tongue Testers. The popularity of Peter Piper's celebrate ed peck of pickled peppers will probably iever wane as a snare to catch the tongue that would fain be agile; but thee test hae formidable rivals. The following short sentences, as their authors maintain, do i wonders n baffling the ordinary power of speech :- Gaze on the gay gray brigade. The sea ceaseth, and it suffieeth ns. Say, should such a shapely men *lobby stitches show? Strange strategic statistie.s. • Give Grimes %TIM'S gilt gig -whip. Sarah in a shawl shovelled soft snow seftly. She sells Bea shells. A cam of coffee in a copper coffee-pot. Smith's spirit flask eplit Philip's sixth aim ter's fifth squirrel's skull. A Story of Lord Westbury. The London "Athenteum" preserves "this story of the late Lord Chancellor Westbury --" In his later life, whenhe was sitting regularly on the Judical Committee of the Privy Council, he met ex-Chiefjustice Erle, and asked him why he (Minot attend. "For three very gond and suffioient reasons," said Sir William Ede : "because I ant old, be- cause I am deaf, and became I am stnrad.' "Those are not impediments," said Lord Westbury; " is very old, --- is very deaf, and— is very stupid, and yet we four make an excellent court." Blighted Ambition. Billy -Hello, Jimmy 1 'Why don't yon oome out an' play wid the fellers? Jimmy -I dassen't Billy -What for! Jimmy -You know that book we was retain' out in de barn? Well, X ran away and was goin' to be de Scourge o' de Plains," but before I got to the Souls' Side, pop ketched me. Billy -Ave, come on ont. Jimmy -I nassen't. Pep took my panto and hid 'em. A Redeeming Featuret Dismal dude-" Life has no Aar= for me, I sometimes fhink I with I were dead." Miss Blunt-" Well, there is one comfort about suicide. It usually strikes the right pereon," Indoor Games for Winter. As cold weather and our deadly northern winter comet again to shut us up, some in. doors and. some in the grave, there are games With balls to help drive the destroyer away. All these are good. They bring every hua. de into play and especially Mean the aye air it followe the flying sphere to and fro. to awrift atoommodation of vision. /3attledoro and shattlecook, played ina omel hall At large room, is next best to tonnim and it is aston- lolling how much sport may be gained there. Trinuting fut i selaote treed abonb the' bottom of fur or cloth coat!, but silk era brocade pennies are !metal:nth bound ail, around with fur. ' vetr.14.44441.,11444.41.•,.