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The Exeter Times, 1889-1-17, Page 7"ROUGHING T IN IHE CHAPTEle XVIIL—(Qoneurmsop), "'TM feet," aaid ne, nodding Ms head ; and I hoped that he eveull not go mad, like his bother, raud kill me." 44 Come, Men you all about it ; I knoW the world would latish et me for calling suck an aot murder ; Lima yet 1 have leen each a miserable man ever since that I feel it was." " Vieth Wee a ,noted 'odor among the rebel Bueners-Ayreans, whom the govern- ment 'wanted much to get hold of. He was a fine, dashing, handsome feltow ; I had often seen him, but weemver came to cline quar- ters, One night, I was lying wrenmer.1 up in my punoho at the bottom ot my/ neat, which wars reeking in the Burt, waiting for two entity men, who were gone on shore. There °amino the shore, this man and one of his People, and they stood so near the boat, which 1 suppose they thought empty, that I could distinctly hear their conver- sation, I suppose it was the devil that terapten me to put a bullet through that man's heart. He was an enemy to tne flag l' under which I fought, but be was no enemy to me -1 had no right to become his execu- tioner 1 but Mill the desire to kill him, for the mere devilry of the thing, came ito strongly upon me that 1 no longer tried to resist it. 1. rose slowly upon my knee ss ; the moon was shining very bright at the time, both he and his comparnon were too earnestly engaged to see me, and r deliberately shot him through the body. He fell with a heavy -- groan back into the water; but I caught the last look he threw up to the moonlight ekies before his eyes glazed in death. Oh, that • look .-.-so full of deepair and unutterable anguish; it haunts me yet—it will haunt me for ever. I would not have oared if I had killed him in strife—but hl cold blood, and he so unsuspicious of his doom I Yesit was murder; I know by this constant tugging at tny heart tntet tt was murder. What doe you seir to it r, ' 1 'timid think as you do, Mr. Malcolm. - It is a terrible thing to take away the life of a fellow-oreatute without the least provoca- tion. "Ali I I knew you would, blame me; but he was an enemy after all ;.I had a right to kill him; I wee hired by the government under whom' served to kill him: and who • shall o =dentin rae ?" . "No one more than your own heart." "It is not the heart, but the brain, that must decide in questions of right andevrong," said he "1 acted from impulse, and shot that man.; had 3. reasoned upon it for five minutes, the man would be living now. But • what's done cannot be undone. Did I ever show you the work' I wrote upon South America ?" ' t. "Are you an author," said I incredulous- tly. • "To ne•sure I am. Murray offered me £100 feeemy manuecript, but I would not • take it. Shall 1 read to you some passages from ie ?" .1 am sorry to say that his behaviour in the morning was uppermost in my thoughts, and I had no repugnance in refusing. "No, don't trouble yourself. I have the dinoer to cook, and the children to attend to, ve ich will cause a constant interruption; you kt ' d better defer it to some other time." "I an't reek you to listen to the again," said he, with a leek of offended vanity; but • he went to his trunk, and brought out a 'large MS., written on foolscap, which he corameucti reading to himself with an air of great self importance, glancing from time to time at me' and smiling disdainfully. Oh, hoar 'lad 1was when .the door opened, and thereto= of Moodie broke up this painfu tete-a-gete. . From the sublime to the ridiculous is but a step. The very next day, Mr. Malcolm made his appearance before me, -wrapped in re great -coat belonging to my husband, which literally came down to his heels. At this strange apparition I fell a-laugbing. "For Godes sake, Mrs. Moodie lend me a peer of inexpressibletee I have met with an accident in crossing the fence, and mine are torn to shreds—gone teethe devil entirely." " Well, don't swear. I'll Bee what can be done for you." I brought him a new pair of fire drab, coloured kerseymere trousers that hail never been worn. Although he was eloquent in his thanks, I had no ides. that he meant to • keep them for his sole individual use from that day henceforth. But afterall, what was the man to do? He hatnno trousers, and no • money, and he could noetake to the wooes. Certainly his loes was not our gain. It Was the old proverb reversed. • • . • The season for putting in the potatoes had • now arrived. -Malcolm volunteered to out the seta. which was easy work that could be done in the house, and over which he could lounge and smoke ; but Moodie told him that he must take his share in •the field, that I' ' had already sets enough saved to plantlialf. an -acre, and would have more prepared by the tinie they were required. • With many growls and snrugs, he felt obliged to com- ply vend he performed his Part pretty well, the execrations bestowed upon the moequi. toes and black • filet forming a sorb of safety. valve to let off the concentrated venom of his temper., When he came into dinner he held out his hands to me, • "Look at these heads." "They are blistered with the hoe." "Look at my face." • You are terribly disfigured by the black- flies. But Moodie suffers just as much, and says nothing." • • "Bab !—The only consolation one feels for such annoyances 1,8 to complain. Oh, the woods I—the oureed woods I—how I with le were out Of "'them." The day Was Very warm, but iti the afternoon I was surprised by a aisle from= old maiden lady,, *friend of mine froth Co--, She had walked up with a M. Crowe, from Peterborough, a young, briek-looleing farmer, in theecthes and top boobs, just out from the old country, who, naturally enough, thought he would like to reset among tne woods. Iletwes a little, lively, goodnuttured mann t with a real Anglo-Saxon then-- rosy,. nth cheekenboned, with full lips, and a terned,up nose ; and, like meet little men, was a great talker, and very full of himself. He had belonged to the seoenclary class of farmers, and was veey vulgar, both in per. eon and lemurs. I had Just prepared tea for my visitors, when Malcolm and Moodie returned from the field. There was no affeotation about the former. Be wati manly in his person, andblunt even to rudeness, and I mw by tire quizZioal look which he cast upon the sprewe little' Crowe that he was emietly quitzsng him froni head to heel. A neighbor had osent me a present of Inteple molasses, and Mr. Crowe was so fearful of spilling, Immo of the rich syrup upon his drab shorts that lie spread a large pocket - handkerchief over his knees, and tucked an- other under his thin, I felt very ranch in. clineel to 1°310, but restrained the inclination as Well ese 1 could—and if the little °retain.° world have sa;€ still; I eould have quelled tr ly rebelliotts propernity altogether ; but up he would jump et every word I said to him, and make nur a low, jerking bow'often with his mouth quite full, and the treacherous Molaersers running ovee his chile. Maloolmeat directly opposite to me aesi my volatile etextectoor neighbour, He eaw tb intone cliffioultn I had to keep my grevety, and was determined th make me laugn oue. So, coining slyly behind my chair, he whis- pered in my ear, with the gravity of a eudge, "Mrs. Moodie, that must have been the very ohap who first jumped Jim Crowe." This appeal obliged me to run from the the table. Moodie was astonished at my rucleneis ; and enalooka, as he resumed his seat, made the rnetter worse by peeing, "3. wonder whae is the matter weth Mrs. Mood. ie; the is certainly very hysterical this afternoon." • •' The potatoes were planted, and the sea - eon of strawberries, greenpeas, and youeg potatoes had come, but still Malcolm ie- mained our coaatant guest. He had grown so indolent, and gave himself so many airs; that Moodie was heartily sick of his com- pany, and gave him many gentle hintto change his quarters; but our gueat was de. termined to take no hints• For some reason best known to himself, peihapa out of sheer contradlotion. whirl famed one geeat ele- ment in his oheracter, he mined obstinately bent upon remaining where he was. Moodie wasleuey andenbruphing for a fall fallow. Malcolm spent muck of his time in the garden or lounging about the house. I had baked att eel.pe for dinner, which if well prepated is by no means an unsavory dish. Malcohn had cleaned some green -peas and washed the fug young pete.toes we had drawn that season, with his own hands, and he wars reckoning upon the fend he should have on the potatoes with childish glee, The eibener at leogth was put upon the table. • The 'vegetables were remarkably fine, and the pie looked very nice. Moodie helped Malcolm, as he always did, very largely, and the other covered his plate with a pertiOn. of peen and potateee, when, lo and behold 1 M'y gentleman bOgari making a very wry face at the pie. "What an infernal dish I" he cried, push- ing away his plate with an air of great dis- gust. "Them eels taste as if they had. been stewed in oil. Moodie, you should teach your wife to be a better *Wok." - The hot blood burnt upon Moodie's cheek. I saw indignation blazing in his eye. , "13. you don't like what is prepared. for you, sir, you may leave the table, and my • house, if you please. I till put up with your ungentlemanly and ungrateful conduct to Mrs. Moodie no longer." • Out atalked the offending party. And I thought, to be sure, we had got rid of him; and though he deserved what was said to him, I was sorry for him. Moodie took his dinner, quietly remarking, "I wonder he could And it in his heart to leane them fine peas and potatoes. He went back to his work in the bush, while I cleared away the dishes, and churned, for I wanted butter for tea. About four o'clock Mr. nthloohn entered the room. "Mrs. Moodie," said he. in a more cheerful voice than usual, "where's the boas ‘l'i" nthe wood, under•brushing." I:. felt dreadfully afraid that there would be blows between them. • "I hope Mr. Malcolm, that you. are not going to htin with any entention of a fresh quarrel." "Dont you think I have been punished. enough by losing my dinner ?" said he, with 3 grin. "I don't think we shall murder one another." He shouldered his axe and went whistling away. After striving for a long time to stifle my foolish fears, 1 took the baby in my arms and little Dunbar by the hand, and. ran up to the bush were Moodie was at work. At first I only saw my husband, but the strokes of an sem at a little distance soon guided my eyes to the spot where Malcolm was owerking away, as if for dear life. Moodie smiled, and looked at him signifi- cantly, • "Row could the fellow stomach what I said to him? Either great necessity or great meanness must be the cause of his knocking under. . I don't know whether most to pity 'or despise him." "Put up with it, dearest, for this once. He is not tangy, and Meat be greatly din tressed." . Malcolinkept aloof, ever and anon casting a furtive glance towards us.; at last little Dunbar ran to him, and held up his arms to be kiseed. The strange man snatched hint to his bosom and covered him with caressese It might be hive to the child that heenquelled his sullen spirit, or he might really 'have cherished an, affection for no deeper than hie ugly temper would allow him to show. At all events, he joined 118 Lit tea as if nothing! had happened, and we might truly my that he nad obtained a. new lease of hie loog visit. , But what could not be effected by words or hints of ours was brought aboutafew days latter by the silly observation of a child. ele asked Katie t� give him a kiss, and he would give her mime raspberries he had gathered in the bush. , "3. don't Want them. Go away.; I don't like You, you little nappy man 1" His rage knew no bounds. He pushed the child from him, and vowed that he would leave the house that moment—that she could not have thought of such an expressiOn her- self , she must have been teught it by us. This was an entire misconception on his part; but he would not be convinced that he was Wrong. Off he went, and Moodie called after him, "Malcolm, as I am send. ing to Peterborough to -morrow, the man shall take in your trunk." Ile was too angry even to turn and bid us good-bye; but we had not seen the last of him yet. Two • months after, we were taking tea with a neighbour, who lived a mile below us on the email fake. Who should walk in but Mr. Malcolm? He greeted us with great warmth for him, and, when we rose to take leave, he rose and walked home by our side. "Surely the little stumpy man Is noe returning to his old quarters ?" I am still a babe in tae affair of nen.' Fitunan nature has more strange varieties than any one menagerie can oOntain, and Malcolm was one or the oddest of her oda species,' That night he slept in his old hed below the parlor window, and for three menthe afterwards he stuck to us like a beaver. He seemed to have grown more kindly, or we had got more imed to his eocentrieities and let him have hie own way; certainly 11:1 behaved himself much better.. ,He neither molded the ctildren nor in- terfered with the maid, nor quarrelled with ma He hint greatly diemotairmed his bad habit Of BM/axing,and he talked of iiiineelf and'his future prospects with more hOpe and self-respect. Hie father had promised to send Min a..freah eupply of money, and he prepbeed to buy of Moodie the clergy reserve, and•thet they sleould farm the two pitecers on sheets, This offer was reedited With great •joy, as riciiiirlookertfor dream Of paying Out ciebta, and extricating ourselves frond ph*, ent arid overwhelming difieultiee, arid We looked upon the little (stumpy 111041 la the, light of a benefactor•, " So inattera Continued until Christmaneven when our visitor proposal walking into •Peterborough, in order to give the children a tthat of rejoins to make e Christmae pud- ding. " We shall be'quite merry to.morrow," he said. "I hope we shall eat many Christ - men dinners together, and continent good frienda." Re started after breakfast, with the prom. '80 of coming baok at night; but night came, the Christmas paned away, months ani yeara tied away, but we never saw the little stumpy man again I He went away that ,day with a stranger in it waggon from Peterborough, and never afterwares was seen in tbat part of Canada. We afterwards learned that he wept to Tex- as, and it is thought that he was killed at St, Antonio; but thie is a mere conjecture. Whether dead or living, 1 feel convinced that " We ne'er shall kelt upon his like again." • CHAPTER XIX.--Tna nun. Now, yleeoarrteu,ne, ,do thy, worst!' For mann • Thou, with relentless and unapering hand, Haat sternly pour'd on our devotee heads The poisoned phials of thy neroest wrath. The early part of the winter of 1837, a year never to be forgotten in the annads of Canadian history, wan very severe. During the month of, Febtuary, the thermometer often ranged front eighteen to tweuteaseven degrees below zero, Speaking of the cold- ness of one particular day, a genuine brother Jonathan remarked, with charming simpli- city, that it was thirty degrees below zero that morning, and it weuld have been much colder if ehe thermometer had' been longer. The morning ot the seventh was so inten- sely cold that everything liquid froze in the house. The wood that had been drawn for the fire was green, and it ignited too slowly to satisfy the shivering impatience of women and children; I vented mine in audibly grumbling over the wretohed fire, at which 3. in Vein endeetvoured to thaw frozen bread, ' and to dress drying children It so happened that an old friend, the maiden lady before alluded to, had been staying with US for a few days. • She hau left us for a visit to my sister, and as mine relatives of her were aboub to rattan to Britain, by the way of New York, and had offered to convey letters to friends at home, I had been busy all the day before preparing a picket for England. It was my intention to walk to mysi ster's with this packet, directly the important affair of breakfast had been discussed; but the extreme cold of the morning had occas- ioned such delay, that et was late before the breakfast -things were cleared away. After dressing, I found the air ao keen that 1 could not venture out without some risk to my nose, and my husband kindly volunteered to go in my stead. I had hired a young Irish gerl the day before. Her friends were only Just located in our vicinity, and she had never seen a stove until she came to our house After Moodie left, I suffered the fire to die away in the Franklin stove in the parlour, and went into the kitchen to prepare bread for the oven. The girl, who was a good-natured oreature, had heard me complain bitterly of the cold, and the impossibility of getting the green wood to burn, and she thought that she Would See if she could not make a good fire ior me end the children, against my work was done. Without saying one word about her intention, she slipped out through a door that opened from the parlor into the garden, ran round to the wood yard, filled her lap with ohips, and not knowing the nature of the stove, filled it entirely with the light wood." Before I had the least idea of mydrenger, Iwas aroused from the completion of my task by the crackling and roaring of a large fire, and a suffocating men of burning soot. Decoked, up at the kitchen cooking -stove. All was right there. I knew I had left no fire in the parlor stove; but not being able to account for the smoke and smell of burn- ing, I opened the door, and, to my Osman, found the stove red-hot, from the front plate to the topmost pipe that let out bhe smoke through the roof: ' My first impulse was to plunge a blanket, snatched frora the zervattt's bed, which stood in the kithhen, into cold water. This I thrusts into the stove, and upon it I threw water, until all was cool below. I then ran up to the loft, and, by exhausting all the water in the house even to that contained in the boilerrs upon the fire, contrived to cool down the pipes which esassed through the lofb. I then sene the girl out of doors to loon at the roof, which, as a very deep fall of snow had taken place the day before, I hoped would be completely covered, and ode from all danger of fire. She quickly returned, 'stamping, and tear- ing her hair, and making a variety of un- couth outcries, from which, I gathered that the roof was in flames. This was terrible news, with my husband absent, no man in the house, and a mile and a quarter from any other habitation. I ran cue to ascertain the extent of the misfor. tune, and found a large fire burning in the roof between the ewe stove pipes. The heat of the fires had melted off all the mow, and a spark from the burning pipe had. alres.dy ignited the shingles. A. ladder which, for several months had stood against the home,. had been moved two days before to the batn, Which WAS St the top, of the hill, near the road; there was no reaching the fire through that aource X got out the dining -table, and tried to throw water upon the roof, by etanding on a chair placed upon it, but 1 eider expended the little, water that remain- ed in the boiler, without reachieg the fire. The girl still continued.weephig and lament- ,. (To as corvrtsush.) Good Advice. Sam johnsing "1 wants ter ask yer ad- vice abeout • eumfine" Parma Baxter: "'Whitton ger got on yer mind now ?'' Sam: "I has bin keepin' compeely yid Alatildy Snowball for -mall den six monde, and I wants ter know if yer advieee tne ter Marry her." Parson : " Suit yerself about dat. No matter what yer does, yer will be sure ter hab rereorses afterward a dat yer didn't do different." ilia Moderate Language. In it case of assault and hatter, in the police court the plaintiff wait asked* "How came the defendento to atriee you?" "Why he just Mopped as we were passing and hit nie." "There was no prevention ?" the slightest." "You hadint mid anything ?" 'Why, yes."' "Oh, you had t What had ybu Said?" "1 told him that 1 Could Mop the earth with him, but Was careful not to me provoking language," • The latest fad &thong actresses is said to be the hand and arm photogreph. Ahnoeb Menne they hold something in the hand that h to be piettireclaa wine gime, diamencl eing, it oinking card or it. silver coin. These • Who are proud of their arms have them pho- tographed, often the full bare arm and shotildert or juin the Med of a eiliOrt lace Shreve with a buxom arm issuing from FAS$ING tiOTES, A generous supply of good pure water 1 in absolute nemasity in profitable dairying. Better to have eurplue of hay than no enough. Yon menet foretell hew severe the winter may be. a 1. When the horse shies at some object, or Mumbler, do not wbip him. Help nine to etand, end thaw him the folly of lue fear, In the recent necic eut, four miles below Maberley, seventeen Canadian F'actific freight care were wrecken, causing it loss of about $50,0e0. While drilling on a ferm a thort distance west of St. Catharines on Monday night a pocket of natural gas was stuck at it depth of 312 feet. The linen& obemiet who discovered ole- omargarine leas now invented a process for treeting steel by which steel bronze and bell metal cart be made at fabulously low prices. • Extreme dubiety continues to shroud the movements of Stanley and Emin Bey. The pretty confident news of one day 18 as con. fidently contradicted the next. Mere is no lack' of coejecture, but as far as knowledge goes the wisest course is for us to acknow- ledge ourselvee agnostics on the subject and oahnly await events. Mr, C. T, Studd who made himeelf an enviable reputation as an athlete and added to Ins fame by becoming a mistrionary in the interior of China, bite allied hinnelf with the Salvation Aare?, it is said, and is now a valued coadjutor of General Booth's in en - tieing the Celestiele into the ranks of th army of the Lord Joule Christ. To what base uses hadeecl may we come, A Hindoo god bas been subjected to the humiliation of being ezed for sale in a London auction room. It used to have its throne in Delhi and te the shrine there female pilgrims had flocked in myriads during a thouaand years. It mewed to be an abject of religious worship, hewever, as long ago as 1195. It is now the object of aesthetic worship, 80 to speak, for it is made of gold, is encrusted with precious atones, cadet among which are "the nine Charms." A second hand book store in Montreal gave Professor Murray, of McGill College, the chance to introduce to modern book readers, the odd Jewish heretic of last cen- tury who rejoiced in the name of Rabbi Sol- omon Mathieu, and left liehind him a very interesting autobiography, which Mr. Mur. ray has translated. Maimon was born in Lithuania in 1754, lived a wandering comae tric life and died of lung disease in 1800 - Though a lifelong doubter, his last record- ' ed worde were Ick bin ruhig,—I am at peace. The famous Eiffel Tower in Paris oontiu- ues to toil its way laboriously upward. The la best phase in the matter. however, is a strike ameng the workmen, owing, so Eiffel himself says. to political influences. Whether the Eiffel Tower is meant as a modern rival to the Babel of wondrous memory we do not know, but the height • already reached by it is somethingprodigioua and its projector means to push it higher yet. The fear and batred with which French Republicans regard Boulanger found a re- markable expression in it resent oration in the Senate chamber by Mr. Challemet Lacour. This gentleman it is said broke the silence of several years to deliver a speech which has added considerably to his fame. Though he did not mention Boulanger by name everybody knew who it was ha meant by appealing to all loyal Frenchmen to save France from falling at the feet of the "last adventurer." There was a tremendeus Beene in the Senate chamber after be had finished. M. Naquenwas the only Senator who ventured • to defend. Boulanger againet Challemet Lecour's scarcely veiled .attaok, but be was fanny overwhelmed under the storm which howled and shrieked and hissed through the dignified chamber as ofteo as he opened his mouth. Challemet Lacourn eloquence had prevailed too mightily, and it was a "very cold day" for Boulangism and Monsieur Naquen • ' What a queer thing fashion is, to be nue ' It apppears that even in such things ars dolls, fashion changes almost froin year to year, and that styles "come in" or" go out' with as much regularity as bonnets do. New York toy dealers say that whereas last year every well educated ohild would, have nothing but an elaborately robed French doll, it Julia, or Marie, or Marguerite, who could say. " papa " and " mamma " and wore purple and fine linen every day, this year baby dolls and only such are really chic. eFrench dolls are no longer the thing, but inmost be dainty, wee collies now or notheng at all. • In England they have made up their minds that the year 1888, as regards weather, is it 'puzzler. The early months were abnormal, tne summer terrified the oldest inhabitant ,out of its stoical composure, and the autumn and early winter aie proving equally armada factory. The first three Week's of Ootober were so cold that froat Was registered every night. at Greenwich, an unparalleled expern ence at that observatory. Then the propheta opened out with predictione of a severe win- ter, when lo i November set in and stayed so mild that a thermometer placed four teet above ground did not once fall below the freezing pobet. And the heart of the prophet is sad within him. • The foliewing incident occurred at the bat- tle of BullIenn. • In the heat of the action an officer, who has since become prominent and well known throughout the country, was then in command of A brigade on the right of the line. While rining over the field he discovered a soldier concealed in a hole in the ground, which was' of just Ouffiderst dimen- sions to afford hint shelter. , The general rode up to him, inquired as to hie regiment, .and &dared him to join it at once. The marl looked him full in the face, pieced a thumb upon his nose, and replied :—" On, noyou don't, old fellow I You want this hole genie aelf." Thine people wheee feelings ot refinement and propriety do not keep them from turn- ing the leaves of a book with tbeir wetted Anger will perhaps be frightened offfrom the displeasing habit • by har Of diseme ride, robes, Scientific men In Germany have been investigating the question whether circa - tiding librariee are a medium for the spread of infectious cilsemea. They rubbed the dirtiest leaves ef the nooka, first with it dry finger, then with a weto ' one, and with the microscope made seaeching examinations in each cape. In the first case hardly any microbes were found t but hi the aedioirl case there were plenty of them. Those 'all ap- peared to be of an noryinfections charriater, but the practice of turning over Woks With it wet finger is n dirty one anyway, and intaay be attended with detoger, so that by.far the beat advice to give' to anyone who /me ten- deneies that way is--Dolfb. At what age' does it wenian boon% an old maid ? ofthose porplexieg questions Which ever sail alleitbob up and ask for set- tlement Not In nineteen or twenty, now • at any rote nor for many years later. The World ilea grown wiser, and believe the wo- aejla maleefs LoftnrieyWwilil pv tmraetteterreeerher if obleintt h , cultivated her mind and kept her heart with all diligence, is worthy of it very much bet- ter fate than to be thrown into the ohocle by young balf nedged mimes from the Reboot - sr ho oa rme. fT ha te t t"nbtiuodns," swoidlloalkwitatyeanee,njpouyptphierreir, lambs, and other young and pretty thinge. But the day of their monopoly has peened, and the opinion prevails that they ought to be made to wait a while before tuning on themselves the responsibilities of married Io these days of big engineering enter- prises it is nowise eurprising to hear that telaegow thinks* of running a tunnel under her nerbone, at Finnieaton, half way between the bridge mid Govan. The tunnel will be a threefold etructure, two parts being devot- ed to traffic, and the third to passengers. They will be 300 yards long, and the top of them will be forty feet below low water level, The rename will be submitted to Parliament next season. Italy's attempts at upholding European civilization on tbe Red Sea have not been very euccessful. She has had two or three lawful experiences at letlamowah ; and the proposed advance to the northward in Ab- yeeinia, of which there were intimations se few months ago, appears to have been A- andoneci. But in apite of all tier reversee, she is still determined on securing a lodge- ment, and has presented to Khog Menelek, of Shea, one of King John's dissaffected chiefs, 2,000 camelnostcls of emcee, of which ammunition and rifles form the prinepal part. Thefriendship of this chief may thus be mound ; but if he be an intelligent sav- age he 'will probably remember the old pro- verb cor mining Greeke bearing gine. A good deal of excitement has lately been caused in Galt about thine diepute in Knox church over the matter of personal and per fed holiness. It seems that some of the MOM - ben hold and teach that they can live without sin, and that as it matter of fain, they fre- quently do 80 for days together. If this is is fact it is surely a matter rather to be rejoiced in. The difficulty 18 that in general, those who think so higbly of their own holiness are just the very persons in refer- ence to whom their. neighbors and friends are ready to come to an exactly opposite conclusion. It all depends upon the stand- ard adopted. A very ignorant clown some times thinks himself a very intelligent and learned individual. 'Newton at his death, after all his study and all his achievements, mould only say that ne seemed to himself to be like a little boy walking upon the sea shore now picking up it shell or a somewhat unusual pebble, while the great ocean of truth lay before him unexplored. Yes! rauch depends upon the standard. departure to , have it gravelyargued that consumption of alcohol is the smallest. M. onme more general in countries where the It is somewhat startling and quite a new de nano a French writer, has, however, advanced this theory, and endeavoms to prove it with the following statement :— France consumes leas alcohol than the United Kinedera ; its birth-rate is less, and its morality, criminality, and suicide rates are greater. Italy consumes very little al. cohol; its criminality is appalling. Spam consumes three timesiess alcohol than Italy; its criminality is double. Sweden,. Den- mark, and Norway, with it population of about one-third, consumes four times the quantity of alcohol consumed in Italy, and yet the criminality of the former is -very sins% vrbile that of the latter is appalling." The writer's deduction from these alleged faots is, of course, in direct contradiction to the ground taken by prohibitionists, who have always insisted that crime will increase in proportion to the amount of alcohol eon - slimed in any community. -The long-expeoted collapse of M. de Lesseps' Panama Canal scheme has taken place all hope of the present company being enabled to complete the undertakirg having been destroyed by the eirents of last week. The kat attempted loan was a complete failure. M. de Lesseps asked for about $75,000,000, and announced at the sametime that if the people would take 400,000 bonds at 865 each—amonnting to 826 000,000—he would go on with the work. Strange to say there wae at first a rush of small investore, but the demand soon fell off, and, not enough money being forthcoming to reach the pre- scribed limit, the loan was abandoned and the bankruptcy of the company au., itted on Friday. This appears to be the ed, so far as M. de Lesseps and the present con pany are concerned, but) what of the dock - holders, who number hundreds of thousands, and whose investment in the undertaking amour ts to about 410,000,00D?$Every cent of this huge sum has been sunk in the big ditch," which will be utterly useless unless completed at almost as great additional cost. Horrible accounts oome from New York as to the kind of poultry sold by unscrupul- ous dealers to people who are too stingy to distinguish diseased birds from healthy °nen and whose only anxiety is to get them cheap, Large quantities of the pc ultry whkh comers to the New York mar ket at this season h a s either beep unfit from the start, or has been injur- ed on the way with the result that by the time it has reached Re destination or sheeny afterwards, it is diseased enough to have turned green, and is quite unfit therefore for human food. The °consignees, however, won't lose money if they can help it, and send notice'to the" shaistex is " melte a business of buying this sort of stuff. Them gentry. soak it in ice water for twenty-four hours' wash it with vinegar, mak it again, dry itthoroughly, then bang it up he their stalls, and sell it als fresb meat at the low rate of eight cents a pound. The health authorities of New Vork, though fully alive to the gravity of the ocnasion are well nigh powerless, as the district to be covered it so great and the receipts of poultry so enormous, that they have not inspectors enough to' go round. Jules Simon has recently predicted the triumph of General ;Boulanger, and with his experience in French politics his judgment is entitled to respect. He Maumee that history ie boutid to repeat itself under ana- logotis °conditions, and as he cinema a etriking correspondence between the state of affairs in 1751 and the preseht origin he is forced to believe that ell the dieaffected °lasso will rally about Boulanger as they did about Louis Napoleon There is certain- ly greet form in his eemark that Botalangern political tailurea in the Assembly have not been mere marked than Louis Napoleon's own defeats in the same field before the great usurpation, and that his reputation as antoIdier ought to be more useful to him than tbe princely title of his prototype. Still, tlis France is preeminently the country where the uhexpeoted happens, it may be More teasoztablo on the whole to conclude that Boulanger le aet &Mined to head any revolutionary movement. • A COltp d' dot is what the country18 noW eXpeeting. The ttnexpeoted is not it toiiitary dietatot- ship nor a change oi government, but the continuance of the present sysam,— tit Tribune. I er The Texan Tarantula. "In the 00e too fertile parts of the regim from Tome to California lives a large $plde and ntoatul'rh:lieii litblbItMaPytgaaeleTel s theenttiri.l 4r4utt nclto body is two inchee or more in length, Walls& with rusty brown hair, , the legs /emu, anffi when extended covering an oval of four by fate inches. As may be imagined, the my- ) gale is not a handsome insect, ard while it its ilsooakceadd.upon with terror by most pedP123,,, i no one cares to handle it unless quire certaint 1 *In piston of the web which usually fortnV the house of spiders, the roygale excavates * burrow in the loose soil, from which it wan- ders in search of de prey, mudding prina- poralelyieoafdeme.ernTehres tafsvathaereglraalhe°Palinedr plaomWeilT,Y fun• armed witb long, about fangs, wit* which they can pierce and kill their prey. One full meal will at times supdly their needs for several weeks. In fact, duns the moulting perwd they remain torpid ur I take no food.. 1 "During its growth the mygale makes an unknown number of moults, that ie, it sheds Its outer coat when that has becorae uneencr. irritably close fitting, in the same roadner an the common crab of our coast. At these times members lost from the body by amide ente are partially replacee; if a leg is loafs the first moult produces it perfect'y formedi but short leg, subsequent moults inereasing the size of the leg. "While the tnygale is a dread to ressfa forms of inseob life, there is one in which it in turn stands in mortal terror. Abundenn in the same region is a large wasp, wine bluish -green body and golden -red wiegen The body is about two inciees long, tine spread of wings nearly an inch greaten. These wasps (Pepia forma) fiy uneasily about in search of food for themselves um= they discover a 'tarantula,' when a more - definite mune of action is assumed. Thse flight of the wasp is now in circles around its prey, gradually approaching it, the ray - gale meanwhile, in terror, showing Bette.. standing semi-erect on the two hinder pair of legs. A favorable opportunity presenting the wasp stings the spider and. renews the circle flight, repeating the ating untill the spider becomes completely paralyzed. When the wasp is assured of the helpless - nese of the spider it seizes him and drage bine to a previously prepared nest. Thee eggs of the wasp are then depoaited and the spider covered up. The eggs 80011 hatch, the spider is gradually eaten, and it new wasp appears to repeat the action of its parent. "By the sting of the weep the spiderie not killed, simply paralyzed, 40 that during tbe time it is being fed upon it remain* vitality, furnishing living food to the MeV yt hatched larvae, which, by a curious instistrp feed lirst on those peens of the spide r not mental to the maintatning of the little na- tality remaining. "Oar 00M111011 mud -weep, Chalybienre, has sheenier habits. Its nesta, made of elastis. mud, are familiar co most people as they are round abundantly in sheltered places about barna and. other out houses. These, when opened, will be found filled with spiders in the helpless condition already mentionedn among them a larva and partly eaten spiders." Return to English Artillerymen of a Shot rind During the Revolution., The "Army and Navy Regiater " says w. —June 17, 1775, a British mahonwar in the Myatie river threw it canon ball at: the little American army intrenched minuet- ker hill. The ship threw more than one ball, but this particular one was picked rap atter the fight and saved. The other cheen, at the 250ch anniversary of the BostonAne- ciente and Honourable Artillery Company - this veritable ball was returned to. itpater" of Britith artillerymen who had come oven - bo help celebrate the occasion. The presenta- tion was made at the dinner by Colonel' Walker, I hold in my hand," said Colonel Walker, "it cannon ball thrown by a Brit- • ish ahip of war e.t tbe patriot army, on Boo- ker hill, June 17, 1775. Through the kind- • ness of Mr. Hossein, who gives it to thin coospany to present to you, I give it to yore to carry- home as a memento" (handing the. 'ball to .Major Durrant amid hearty cheater and applause). "Et was thrown at us in v ar. We give it to you in peace as a token of the amity which lives to -day between our great nations, and whioh we all pray may live forever." "There is tinae for wonderful °batmen. In a hundred years," eays the New Haven "Palladium ' in commenting on the above, "It would liave given the grizzled old fight- ers of the British war -ship a queer feeling if they could have known, when they 'touched her off' and sent the ball screeching at the Yankee breastworks on that June day, 1775s, that a hutdred years later the ball would be handed back over a friendly dinner table as a token of amity and concord between the two greatest and most enlightened powers of the earth." Her Keen Distinction. Cardinal Manning told the late Lord Westbury that, when he was rector of Law- ington, he went to visit a poot old parishion- er, a widow who bad bad nine or ten chil- dren, of wbcm all hut one daughter haa gone out into the world. At lastthis daugh- ter married, and the mother was left altar% The rector said to her, Dame, you =est feel it lonely now, after having had sa large a fazney 2" " Yes, sir," else said, "1 do feel it lonesome. I have brought up s large family, and new here I waiving alone. And I mieses 'em and I wants ; tut It misses. 'cm more tban I watts 'em." What She Wanted, The New Governess (thraugh her pretty' nose) : Waal—I come right slick away from len'Yerk City, an' I ain't had mu& time for Moll& around in .Europe—yon bet! So can't fix up your gals in the European lan- guages, nohow 1 talgravian Mamma (who knows there's ter Duke or two still left in the matrimonial market): Oh, that's of no consequenee. 1 Want my daoghters to acquire the American accent in all its purity—and the idiome, an. . all that. Now I'm sure you will do aduti'fa, ably I—Puna. The 13.etort Cent -tem. "Alt the presents you have ever given Me, Mr, Sampson, said the hattyhty girl, will leo returned to me to -morrow; have of bourses the eartunels and ice cream, Would tbat could return them too I" "You reel tots worry about the caramels and cream, Mese Smith," he retutned with equal noettetant "iny there of the reeponaibility fer the broken armetheir will babas the coat of them." Mr. John Waneatakee, ehe Ibtiedelphla Christian philanthropist* has pulo. lisheci a. letter deuying that he tticr gaVe or Collected money to orrupt votee in the rodent elections, Mr. lAtena maker's charac- ter as it Chtletien gehtlenuni is seificienely well estab1isht4 to make his denial of tlLto atedunation amply satiefaetorea.