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The Exeter Times, 1889-1-31, Page 6"ROUGHING IT IN THE BUSH." "Cops here Sustesura, mud tell me w he This we iminethieg gained, aud off we hot been buried here. le loolee like the tai eo t. • 0. n was so dark be the bueh, that our dim She might "have added, "Qf my dog." Murders to eeeme, will out. By someatrange hence, the greve that oevered the =real • mains of Chowder had been disturbed, u4 the black tail ef the dog was eticking • "Wt oan it he 2" said 1, with an aer of (east innocence. Shell 1 call Jenny, and ig it up ?" " Oh, no, my dear ; has a shocking smell, bur, it does look very mull like Chowder's " Impossible ! How could it Q0Ine ameng my peas ?" " True. Besides, I saw Chowder, with en your pace, and oross • the tree before it my own eyes, yesterday, following a team I goes out, you will, perhaps, get your feet wet by falling into the creek. "Good ffeavens 1 I iraw them again • and do just look at the dog." Hector stopped suddenly, and, Stretching himself along the ground, his nose resting between his forepaeve, began to whine and tremble. Presently he ran baok to we and crept under our feet. Just at that critical moment the wick of the candle ffiokered a moment in the socket, and expired. We were left, in pertect the eight acres svhich the former had cleared darkness, alone with the bear—for swill we the previous winter ; besidesii pattng n a supposed t he animal to be. candle looked lilee a solitary red sperk in theintenee surrounding darknese, and scarce- ly aerved to eitew us the path. We went chatting along, talking over the news of time evening, Hector running on be- fore us, weieu I saw a pair of eyes glare upon us from the edge of the swamp, with the green, bright light emitted by the eyes of a cat. ' "Did you see those terrible °yea, Moodie?" and I clung, trembline, to his arm. " What eyes ?" said lee, feigning ignor- ance, "It's too dark to see anything. Tli,e light is nearly gone, and, if you don't quick - and George C--- hopes to recover him for me." " Indeed 1 I am glad to hear it. How these mosquitoes sting. Shall we go baele to the house 1' s While we returned to the house, John, who had overheard the whole conversation, hastily disinterred the body of Chowder, and pisseed hirn in the same myeterious grave with Toni and the pig. Moodie and his friend finished loggingu crop or peas end potatoes, and an acre of Indian corn, reserving the fallow for fall wheat, while we had the promise of a splen- did crop of hay off the sixteen aores that had. been cleared. in 1834 We were all in high spirits, and everything promised fair, until a very triffing eircumstance again m- • ails/oiled us muck anxiety and trouble, and wan the cause of our losing most of our crop, • Moodie was asked to attend it bee, which was &lied th construct a corduroy -bridge over a very bad piece of road. He and J. E— were obliged to go that morning • with wheat to the mill, but Moodie lent his yoke of oxen for the work. The driver selected for them at the bee was the brutal M—y, a man noted for his illetreatnient of cattle, especially if the an, mala did not belong to him. He gave one of the oxen such a severe blow over the loins with a handspike that the creature came home perfectly disabled, just as we wanted his services in the hay field and harvest. Moodie had no money to purchase, or even to hire, a, mate for the other or; but he and John hoped that by oereful attendance upon the injared animal he might be restored to health in a few days. They conveyed him ton deserted clearing, a short distance from the farm, where he would be safe from in- jury from the rest of the cattle; and early every morning we went in the canoe to carry poor Duke a warm mask, and to watch the progress of his recovery. At! ye who revel in this world's wealth, how little oan you realize the importance which we, in our poverty, attached to the life of this valuable animal 1 Yes, it even became the subject of prayer, for the bread for eurselves and our little ones depended greatly upon his recovery.—We were doom- ed to disappointment. A:ter nursing him with the grea.tese attention and care for some weeks, the animal grew daily worse, and suffered such intense agony, as he lay groaning upon the ground, unable to rise, that John shot him to put him out of pain. dere, then, were we left withont exen to • draw in our hay, or secure our other craps. A neighbour, who had an odd ox, kinaly lent us the use of him, when he was not em- ployed on his own farm; and John and Moodie gave their own work for the occa- • sional loan of a yoke of oxen for a day. lint with all these drawbacks, and in epite of the assistance of old Jenny and myeelf in the field, a great deal of the produce was dam- aged betore it cold be secured. The whole summer we had to labour under this disad- vantage. Our neighbors were all to busy too give us any help, and their own teams were employed. he saving their crops. Fortunately, the few acres of wheat we had to rep were close to the barn, and we oarried the sheaves thither by hand ; old Jenny proving an in- valuable help, both in the harvest and hay- field My heart beat audibly; a cold perspira- tion was streaming down my face, but I neither shrieked or attempted to run. I don't know how Moodie got me over the creek. One of my feet slipped into the water, but expecting, as I did every moment, to be devoured by master Bruin, that was a tbing of no consequence. My husband was lauglaing at my fears, and every now and then he turned towards our companion., who continued following ue at no great distance, and gave him an encouraging shout. Glad enough was I when I saw the gleam of the light from our little cabin window shine out among the trees; and, the moment I got within the clearing I ran, without atopping until I was safely withm the house. John was sitting up for us, nursing Donald. He 'listened with great interest to our adventure with the bear, and thought that Bruin was very good to let us eserspe without one affec- tionate hug. "Perhaps it would have been otherwise had he known, Moodie, that you had not only killed his good lady, bnt were dining sumptuously off her carcass every day." The be,ar was determined to have some- thing in return for the loss of his wife. Several nights after this, our slumbers wete disturbed, about midnight, by an awful yell, and old Jenny shook violently at our chamber door. " Masther, masther, dear 1—Get up wid you this moment, or . the bear will desthroy the cattle intirely." Half asleep, Moodie sprang from his bed, seized his gun, and ran Out. I threw my large cloak round me, struck a light, and followed him to the door, The moment the latter was unclosed, arnne calves that we were rearing rashed into the kitohen, closely followed by the larger beasts, who came bel- lowing headlong cloven the hill pursued by the bear. It was a laughable scene, as shown by that paltry tallow, o India. Moodie, in his night-shirt, taking aim at something in the darkness, surrounded by the terrified ani- mals ; old Jenny, with a large knife in her hand, holding on to the white skirts of her master's garment, making outcry loud enough to frighten away all the veild beasts in the bush—herself almost in a state of nudity. "Ooh, masther, dear 1 don't timpt the ill -conditioned crathur wid charging too near; think of the wife and the childher. Let me come at the rampaging baste, an' rn stick the knife into the heart of him." Moodie fired. The beer retreated up the clearing, with a low growl. -Moodie and Jenny pursued him some way, but it was too dark to discern any object at a distance. I, for my part, stood at the open door, laughing until the tears late down my cheeks, at the glaring eyes of the oxen, their ears erect, and their tails carried gracefully on a level with their backs, as they stared at me and the light, in blank astonishment. The His wretehed followers with the hope of • gain, e Feel in his bosora the immortal fire That bound a Wallace to his country's mum, And bade the Thracian shepherd cast away Eorne's gelling yoke ; white the amtonished world— Rapt into admiration at the deed-- Baused; ere she cruelecl, with overwhelming force, The men who knight to win a glorious grave? The long -protracted harvest was at length brought to a close. Moodie had procured another ox from Drummer, by giving a note at six months date for the payment; and he and John E-- were in the middle of sow- ing thair fall crop of Wheat. when the le.tter reeeivdd a letter from the old country, which conveyed to him intelligence of the death of his mother, and of a legacy of two hundred pounds. ,It was necessary for him to return to elaim the property, and though we felt his loss saVerely, we could not, without great selfishness, urge him to stay. John had formed an attachment to a young lady in the country, who, like himself, possessed no property. Their engagement, which had existed several years, had been dropped, from its utter hopelessness, lser mutual con- sent. Still the young people continued to love each other, and to leek forward to bet- ter days, when their prospects might un- proveso Mt that E— would be able to purchase a hue/a-hum, and raise a house, however lowly, to shelter hia Mary. He, like our friend Malcolm, had. taken a fancy to buy a part of our block of land, which he could cultivate in partnership with lefoothe without being obliged to hire, when the same learn, cattle, and implements would serve for both. • Anxious to free himself frona the thraldom of debts which pressed him sore, Moodie offered to part with two hundred acres at less than they cost us, and the bargain was to he considered as oonclud- ed as soon as the money was forthcoming. It was a sorrowful day when our young friend left us ; he had been a constant in- mate in the house for nine months, and not one 'unpleasant word had ever passed be- tween us. Be had rendered our sojourn in the weeds more tolerable by his society, and sweetened our bitter lot by his friendship and syirapathy. We both regarded him as a brother, and parted with him with sincere regret. As to old Jenny, she lifted up her voice and wept, consigning him to the care and protection of all the saints in the Irish W- ender. For several days after John left us, a deep gloom pervaded the house. Our daily toil was performed Frith less cheerfulness and alacrity; we Missed him at the evening board, and at the evening fire ; and the chil- dren asked each day, with increasing earn- estnes, when dear E would return. Moodie continued sowing his fall wheat. The task was nearly completed, and the chill October day e were feet: verging upon winter, when towards the evening ote'one of them he contrived—I know not how—to crawl down from the field at the head of the hill, faint and pale, and in great pain. He had broken the small bone of his leg. In dragging, among the stumps, the heavy machine (which is made in the form of the letter V, and. is supplied with large iron teeth) had hitched upon a stump, and being swung off again by the motion of the oxen, hed come with great force against his leg. At first he was struck down, and for some time was unable to rise; but at length he contrived to unyoke the team, and crawled partly on his hands and knees down the clearing. • What a sad, melancholy evening that was 1 Fortune seemed never tired of playing us some ugly trick. The hope which had so long sustained me seemed about to desert me altogether; when I saw him on whom we ,all depended for subsistence, and whose kindly voice ever cheered us under the • pressure of calamity, smitten down helpless, all my courage and faith in the goodness of the Divine Father seemed to forsake me, and I wept long and bitterly. The next morning I went in search of a messenger, to send to Peterborough for the doctor; but though I found and sent the messenger, the doctor never came. Perhaps he did not like to incur the expense of a fatiguing journey, with small Ethane° of ob- taining a sufficient remuneration Our dear sufferer contrived with assistance, to bandage his leg; and after the first week of rest had expired, he amused himself with making a pair of crutches, and in manu- facturing Indian paddles for the canoe, axe - handles, and yokee for the oxen. It was wonderful with what serenity he bore this unexpected affliction - Buried in the obscurity of the woods, we knew nothing, heard nothing of the political state of the country, and were little aware of the revolution which was about to work a great change for us and for Canada. The weather continued remarkably mild. The firet great snow, which for years has ordinarily fallen between the 10th and 15th of November, still kept off. November passed on; and as all our firewood had to be chopped by old Jenny during the lameness of my husband, I was truly grateful, to God for the continued mildness of the weather. On the 4th of December—that great day of the outbreak ---Moodie was determined to take advantage of the open state of the lake to carry a large grist up to Y--'8 mill. I urged upon him the danger of a man at - Still, with all these misfortunes, Previ" s noise of the gun had jusb roused John E clence watched over us in a signal manner. from his slumbers. He was no less amused We were never left entirely without food. than myself, until he saw that a fine year - Like the widow's cruise of oil, our means, ling heifer was bleeding, and found, upon though small, were never suffered to cease examination, that the poor animal, having entirely. We had been for some days with- been in the claws of the bear, was danger - out meat, when Moodie canie running in °may, if not mortally hurt. for his gun. A great she -bear was in the "i hope," he cried, "that the brute has wheat field at the edge of the wocd, very not touched ray 'foal 1" I pointed to the busily employed in helping to harvest the black face of the filly peeping over the back crop. There was but one bullet, and a of an elderly cow. ...harp or two of buckshot, in the house; "You see, John, that Brain preferred but Moodie started to the wood with the veal; there's your 'horsey,' as Dunbar calls single bullet in hie gun, followed by a little her, safe, and laughing at you." tarsier dog that belonged te John E Moodie and Jenny now returned from Oiti Jenny was busy au the wash -tub, but the pursuit of the bear, E ----afastened all the moment she saw her master running up the cattle into the back yard, close to the the clearing and knew the causeeshe left her house. By daylight he and Moodie started work, and snatching up the carving•lenife, in chase of Bruin, whom they tracked by ran after him, that, in case the bear should his blood some way into the busk; but here have the best of the light, she would be there he entirely eseaped their search. to help "the mother." Finding her shoes aecommode her, she flung them off, in order to run faster. A few minutes after came TUE BEARS OF UANADa. the report of the gun, and I heard Moodie Oh ! BEAR me from this savage land of halloo to E--- who was oubting stakes E---, for a fence in the woou. I hardly thought For 'tis in bear, but I ran to the door to listen. The deed UNBEARABLE to me ; tempting to manage a canoe in rapid water,' it possible that he could havee killed the I'd rather cope with vilest worldly cares, who was unable to atand without crutches ; children were excitement, which the Or writh with cruel sickness of the sea. but Moodie saw that the children would BEARS • • sight of the black molester, borne down the clearing upon two poles,increased to the wildest demoristrations of joy. Moodie and John were carrying the prize, and old Jenny, • brandishing her carving -knife, followed in the rear, The rest of the evening wee spent in skin- ning, and cutting up, and salting the ugly creature, whose flesh filled a barrel with ex- cellent meat, in flavor resembling beef, while the ehorb gram and juicy !ware of the flesh gave to it the tenderness of mutton. This was quite a Godsend, and lasted us until we were able to kill two large fat hogs, in the fall, A few nights after, Moodie and I encoun, texed the mate of Mre. Bruin'while return- ing from a visit to Emilia, in the very depth of the wood. We had been invited to meet our friend's father and mother, vvho had come up on a short visit to the 'oode; and the evening • patted away BO pleasantly that it was near Midnight hereto the little party of friends separated. The moon etre.9 dOW11. The weed, through which we had to rehire, vvas very dark, the ground being low and ileVantpy, and the trees thick and tall. There was in partiotelar, One very ugly spot, whet° a email (meek creased the road. Thia creek dould only be passed by foOtcpatteengets setemblitig over a fallen tree, Which in a dark nieht, wale not very (may to lid. 1 begged a toreh �f Mr, --; but no • torah nada be found, Emilia Iangliecl at my fears etill, knoWieg what a coward I wee in the bueh of a night, the found about an inch of candle, whieh Was all that tetnaintd from the evening's entertainment, This she PIO Ittlth ail Old latathorin "It will not last yen leeg ; but it Will Crarry yoti over tho ceeek." Oh! BEAR me to my own Beim land of hills,* Where I'd be sure brave naueelegg'd lads to see— Breen cakes, BARE rocksnand whiskey stills, And zsenn-legg'd nymphs to smile once more on me. I'd BEAR the heat, I'd BEAR the freezing air Of equatorial realm or Arctic Sen, I'd sit all Bane: at night, and watich the Northern BEAR, And bless my soul that he was far from I'd BEAR the poor -rates, tithes, and all the ills John Bull Mint BEAR, (who takes them all, poor sinner 1 As patients do whon forced to gulp clown pine, And water -gruel drink in liett of dinner). ntan the BARENESS of all barren len& Before l'd BEAR the maiteereet2ss of this; BARE head, mane fee; BARE legs, BARE hands, Beale everything, but want of social bliss. But Should I die in this drear land of Means, Oh 1 ship me off, my frionao, discharge the sable ,wearers, For if you don't, in spite of priests and prayers, he pgAus will come, and eat up corpse and Benne:me. * The Orkney Were. W.. D. M.. CHAPTER XX,—Tire OUTBREAIL Can a eorrupted dream pour thrOugh the hula Watets 1 Can the sieve, Who intee need bread, and he was anxious to make the experiment. Finding that I could not induce him to gine up the journey, I determined to go with him. ,Old Wittals, who happened to come down that morning, agsisted in placing* the bags of wheat in the little veesel, and helped to place Moodie at the stern. With a ead, forboding spirit, I aesisted to push off from the shore. (TO BE OONTINITED.) • Currency in Venezuela. In Venezuela all manner of makeshifts have been resorted to for supplying a " air culating medium," In Guanta, for eecample, the peaple have absolutely no money, and when they WW1 to purchase a few necessaries they steal cementite by "the deek of the moon," and hand them over to the treater in exchange for the supplies they require. Thie free-ancheaey custom became so universal and alarming that, in order to protect the few who raise the fruit, the Alcaldi ot the District of Gameta was obliged to issue a decree which probably hem not a parallel in financial cireles. He has lately prohibited the use of cocoanute aorrioney, and threaten- ed With condign/ punishneent all traders who may receive them as such, Y010 -NG FOLKS. THE Cii/LD.EN RULE - By JOHN MUIR, TORONTO. Speak a kind word when you can— Kind words cost but little, This is far the better plan— Human hearts are brittle ; Life is all too short for strife— Peace and love are golden, For they serve to lengthen life— So say sages olden 1 Let us lend a helping hand To a weary brother, Are we not a pilgrim -band Bound to one another? Our reward shall greater be When we get to heaven, If to duty faithfully . We have daily striven Life to us is like a school Wherelour good behavior Should be as the golden rule Taught us by our Saviour :— " Do to others as you would That they should do to•you;" Then shall you be truly good, And life's regrets be few 1 • THE HOUSE THAT HILDA BUILT It was one summer nay, and the sun was just going down. "tilde. Benson—she was twelve years old—believes shewill always remember it, because all the werld around her was verybeautiful the few moments she stood looking at the wide sea and the twine - son -tinted clouds. Sky Island, on a head- land of which she stood, seemed to have drifted away off on the bosona of the ocean to a place where there was never any noise except the lapping of the sea on the rocks, an' the flapping of the fishermen's sails, "0 Toni she said to,her brother, clasp- ing her hands impulsively, "0 Tom ! I think it is splended, and I am just as happy as I can be. I wish I could do some- thing god." Tom was stretched out on the grass read- ing a sea tale. He looked up at her wonder- ingly. "Be a good little girl then, and go get me an apple, he suggested. He always called her a little girl because he was foefteen years old. "1 wish I could do something good," she coutmued, "something I mind think about the last thing before I go to sleep, when I wake iti the night, and when I get up in the morning." When Hilda recallsthat beautiful after- noon three years ago she remembers very well how it made her feel, and wbat she said. And eho can tell an interesting stery about what happened afterwards, and what she eally did do. She and, her brother had come to sky Island with their Aunt Margaret to pass the summer. But she had no idea tint visiting that out of -the -way place would' ever make any difference in the lives of three small bop among the fishermen. She was a generous little girl with the money her father and Aunt Margaret often gave her; she would have given those boys a share of that money to help .them buy better clothes, for they looked very poor compared with the boys she was was used to, and she would have helped them in any way she could. But she would have been very touch sae prised if any one had told her how much she had to give that was not money. It came about in this way. Seth Cropper had been expecting a, letter every day since Toth and Hilda had been rowed over to the Island by him. He had told them all about it, and talked about it and talked of it every time they went to the post -office on the mainland in his boat. That afternoon after LEH& had watched the sun go down, Seth came up.from the wharf with the letter in his hand. " It's come," he said. "Here it is, eure's I'm born." "Oh ! Prn ever so glad," Hilda answer- ed "What does he say ?" asked Tom closing his book. • ' The letter Was from a gentleman who had recently been visiting the Island in a yacht, and it contained a crisp five -dollar bill. Seth unfolded the letter, and showed them the money; but he grew very red and con- fused when Tom asked again what the gentleman had.written. "You read it aloud, Mitre Hilda," he requested. "1 guess you can read it bet- teren 1 can," Hilda read it. The gentleman said he sent the money to help Seth get a new boat. He advised him to be a better boy than he had been, to stop swearing, and to try very hard to learn to read ani write. " Why, I'll teach you to read, if you want mc to 1" said Hilda, the moment she had finished reading. So uneatesfactory is the cable communica- tion with Atratralia that the English papers Announce the, laying of a new line over part of the dietence as the service is constantly interrupted by volcanic ereptions and other causes. The bele line will be ever a thong - end miles hi length. The repeated' troubles over theee old routes all tell in filyttr of the Pacific project, in which Caned& is inters eater], and I will get oftr Aunt Margaret to buy some book e eor yon to study." Seth and Andy and Piper went to work with a will to fix the old boat-houee so it might be a place good enough, for Hilda to enter. They swept and scrubbed la clean. Then they built at op° end a aeat with a eanopy of hemlock boughs for her to sit on. TWQ or three of the fishermen lent them lanterns to hang up on the rafters to light the plaoe. About dark, an o14 fisherman named Todgers, with a wooden leg, leoked in to see what the boys were doing. "Seem to me you lads have teckled a new reolconine and are on a new tack, heyi" he oaid, rubbing his stubby chin. "Well, I guess so, uncle," Seth answered. "We're pointing for something better'n school of fish just now." "Yote take my advice, and don'ts reef any sail whilst there's a fair wind," Uncle Tod - era went on. "Just keep yourself beaoed right up for every whiff you can get." Tom. and Hilda were on hand by the time they were expected. They brought reading - books and epelling- books with them Lend be- gan as though they had kept richoolall their lives, But they had never attempted to teach before, and Tom soon discovered that it took a ereat deal of patience. Seth and .Piper and Andy tugged at the ohort sent- ences in the readers for two hours harder than they had ever worked at anything. "If we can only succeed in making them read the way we oan read, Tom, I shall be ever so happy," said Hilda, when they had finished the evening, and were going across the Island in the moonlight. "We'll try," Tom answered. "And I think they ought not to forget you in a hurry, if we do. I shouldn't have thought of teach- ing them, Hilda, if it had not been for you' "You are good to help me, Toni," Hilda repl!ed, "and I shall not forget you all my bus. • Seth and Andy and Piper stood still and silent, watching them until they had dis- appeared in the shadow of thick trees that ecreened the moonlight " Look here, fellows," said Seth, soberly; "1 move that we make a compact right on this spot this moment to get these books so as we can read them straight from cover to cover before that little girl and her brother leave the Island." " So be it," said Piper solemnly. l'm agreed." "Will you? Do you really mean it fez solemn earnest ?" Seth asked, pleased and redder than over, "I'll do anything to learn, if you will, and Ill row you over to the village for nothing whenever you say so.' Hilda said of course she meant what she said, and sho would agree to teach him every day. Seth had never felt so ashamed of his ignorance as he did now. That night he found a couple of his cronies, Piper Smith and Audi Tarbox, down on the wharf fish- ing by the light of a brush fire. He confich ed to them that the little city girl wao going to teach him reading and writing, and he meant to turn over a new leaf in the future. "Look here, Andy ; perhaps she'll teach you and Piper, if you ask her," Seth Said in a burst of enthusiemtn. " I wouldn't dare to ask her," said Andy. "Nor" 1, put in per. Pi "Theyain't like us, that little city girt and her brother. Ile's awful big feeling, that fellow." " Yen just, wait, then," Staid Seth, "and I'll atilt her myself." " We might take the old boat -house up here, pub in some benches, a regular school -house of it, hey?" euggested Andy. • " That's what I'll tell her," Seth declared, " IViebbe she knewe we never have any ilohool on the Island, summer or winter, and have to go over to the mainland for every- thing we learn." "We'd know how to read and Write like other folks, of course, if etween't for that," said Piper; "if we didn't have to go to the mainland and get thrashed by those Village fellows." "Well, I'll ask her, anyhow," Seth de- olared again. And he aia leek her the first chance he got the wed day. Ile explained that Ardy and Piper did not know even ati ninch ao he Minion*and that they Were very antiods to share his advantages. To hie Ourprite, nob only 13.1k4e stoned, glad to help him and the other beys, but Toni, who was father "tuck up " said he would help alto. "We'll teach the three of you down in the boat -house every evening after you get through your work;" said Tete/ "Hilda "So say we all of us," assertedAndy. And they struck hands. • It was the middle of June when the school was begun, and it was the last of September when Aunt Margaret signified to Tom and Hilda that itwas time to go back to their city home. They had teught tho three boys more than three months and they could all read. Seth could even write a little, and he promised ,to write a letter to Hilda every week to let her know how they :progressed. Hilda looked for the letters with eagerness; • and three or four times she got a long letter which Seth and Piper and Andy had written together, telling all the news at the Island. Once they wrote that a great snow -storm had buried the Island in snow, Another time they told about an illustrated book which Seth hacl received from a gentleman who sent him tbe five -dollar bill, and *hat fun they had had reading it together during the winter evenings. In the pring theee came a letter thee had important new s. Sky Islend was going to have a regular school -house built, like the one at the vill- age on the mainland. Seth and Piper and Andy, with Uncle Todger's help, had brought the thing to pass. "That is a surprise I" said Aunt Mar- garet "I would not have believed they could do ib," Tom added. "Oh, I am so glad 1" said Hilda. When Uncle Todgers found out from Seth that the little city girl and her brother were °timing to the Island to pars another summer, he declared that the new school- house skould be dedicated the day they ar- rived All the fishermen on the island agreed with him, and the carpenters and painters made haste to get the littlwbuilding completed. • One bright June morning Tom and Hilda stood on the hore of the mainland rather bewildered. There was a large fishing - smack, gayly decorated with fiags, waiting to take them and their aunt over to the island. Seth, Piper, and Andy were on board, and so was 'Uncle Todgers. Every- body was delighted to see them, and the boys were dressed specially for 'the comae den. "There's going to be a big time this after- noon," Seth whispered to Tom. • "Going to have a festival," whispered Piper, slyly. "Everybody's folks has got something ready,—cake, mince -pies, ice- cream, everything." / By three o'clock the brand-new little school -house was crowded. It looked as though every soul on the Island was on hand. Uncle Todgers sat on the platform with Toni and Hilda on his right and left. As soon as in could be made quiet, he stood up on his wooden leg, and made a speech, telling everybody how much they owed to Tom and his little sister. " Mebbe the little girl didn't know how much she wag doing when she did what she could to help these boys," he seed "and mebbe the girls' and boys here don't know what good they can do hereafter by using what they learn for the good of others; but I want everybody to take notice from the ex- ample that's now before theme' Tom and Hilda hardly knew what to say. Before they went to bed that night they stole out, went to the cliff, and took another look athe schohool-use to make sure it was a a fact. Resolves for the New Year. Of come eve all want to make a certain resolution on New Year's day, even if we breale them before the week is out, as moot of us do; but if we look into the matter closely, we will find that we do not make them in the right spirit when they are so easily broken. In the first place, we must study ourselves, our faults and iimitations, and then thelce slush resolutions as we see will be most helpful to us to correct these, looking to One who alone is able to help us keep them. As I am writing to women, I propose to tell them of a code made by a friend of mine, n January, 1887. See is a farmer's wife, with several children, and was a very Meetha among warren, "careful and troubled etout many things." I will quote from her leteer, which may help some of you: "I was fest working myself into that narrow bed which must form our last rest. It was one eternal round of washing, iron. in, cleaning, sewing, sweeping and baking. One day when I was fluting the ruffles of my little girls' aprons, I happened to re- flect npon the probable future of my little ones if I should be taken • sick or die. Probably I was then overtired, for one or other of these cataetrophes seemed to be at thet mement imminent, That night after I went to bed I framed in my mind a set of resolutions which I afterward wrote out They were, that I would lie down daily, if only for fifteen minutes. That one after- noon in the week, in winter at least, I would devote to the exchange of ideas with the, outer world—I would see some friend, either in her home or mine. That three evenings in the week, in winter at least, I would read aloud, with, or without, • the ,nhildren—that is, sometimes for their benefit, and sometimes for my own. • "Now, in order to do tide. the work must be lessened sotnewhete. First, I left off every ruffle and tuck from garments, little and big. • This saved both sewing and frett- ing. Flannels, plain underclothing (and we soon had no other) were brought from the line on wash day, as son as dry, folded neat- ly and hung on the horse to air without tak- ing an iron to them at all. 1 have since learned that it is considered better not to iron sheets, as it takes off the sweet smell of newly washed Hien. If such things are hung up straight, and then not jammed in a wad in a basket to lie over night peeparatory to 'sprinkling,' there are few wrinkles that , cannot be rubbed out with your two hands. Wash day remained a necessary evil, but I saved washing in every way possible. Lit- tile squares of white oilcloth were laid ander the children's plates, and in summer when the men were afield, and olaf,ing was neces- sarily more soiled, a ong strip of thie mater- ial Wee laid upon either side of the table., Pies, which had been on our table daily, bee came a rarity; cake, still more rare. • Thiele -- of the saving of labor that tide sacrifice meant, and my husband says it has been no sacrifice, but that on the contrary he thinks doing without thele dainties has given hien a new lease of life. Bakingday, which once with its doughnuts and pies had been my y busiest day, now became my day of leisure —comparative leisure, tor I still do not lux- , uriate in idleness. The children are merrier k and happier, because I can give them more time. My husband is mare pleased, because he says I do not now look overworked, and, altogether, we are satisfied with my resolu- done. ' My friend could not easily have kepi these resolutions without the co-operation of her husband, and, in the name of overburdened womanhood, I ask the husbands 'dello read the "Americaai Agriculmalise" to be isa this matter a helpmeets to their wives.[Alice Chittenden. SMALLPDX SCARE. • Talking Dolls. • And now Mr. Edison has inventhd a germ- ine talking doll, He calla it a Dollphone. He puts a little phonograpa with a clock- work accompaniment, in the doll's back, and by pressing a spring the doll will say: "1 love you, mamma; I love you dearly, MOM= ; but I am tired and dleepy now. Please put Inc in my little bed," or some- thing else equally astomehing. The reporter of the Chicago " Tribune " visited M. Edison and sew thetui wonderfed dolls. He y .` Mr. Edison wound up a brunette doll, with jet black curls and sparkling brown eyes. The doll started off at a brisk rate with the following: Twinkle, twinkle, little star, How I wonder what you are, Up above the world so high, Like a dianiond in the sky. Another doll -baby Bang in a sweet, child- ish treble " Rook -a by Baby on the Tree Top" all the way through with good expres- sion and without a false note. Sito sang it quite loudly, too, oo that any otte could have heard her acrose a moderate-sized room, Still another sang a pretty German song, It le so conetraoted that phonograph eylin, dere are interchanged, and new sets of ten- tencee may frequently be introduced into the toy's talking machine, tamme. kl for There is a ood fie Tuscutribia, lVfiller county, Miseouri, *here se oftener es at Cases all Round Detroit—A Student at Ann Axbor Down. • DETROIT, Jan. 26.—Health Officer Duffield says there is smallpox all round Detroit, and the infection could easily be carried in paper money. • He asked for authority to request the banks to have their tellers vaccinated. Comptroller Moran knew of a case of infec- tion from paper money. The health officer was given power to notify the banks of the danger. • ANN ARBOR, Jan. 26,—A student in the School of Pharmacy in the universitynamedm Daily had a light attack of sellpox and hes been removed to the pest home. He was vaecinated in New York the same day he was exposed, so his attack will not be Serious. Tho case is rneking quite a scare, however, and everybody is getting vaccinat- ed. LANSING, Jan. 26.—Dr. Baker says that the State Board of Hea/th has information of outbreake of smallpox at seven different places in the State—Allis township, Presque Isle county, one ease; Deerfield township, Lenawee county, five cusses; Dundee, one tease ; Azelia, Monroe county, fourteen cases; Lensing, two oases; Detroit, two oases; Cheboygan, three cases. • is Stanley Alive ? • Henry M. Stanley, accompanied by nine, hundred men, started from Yambuza, on - the Congo, on the 23d of June, 1887, for the relief of Emin Bey. His objective point was Wadelai. The distance an a straight line is about 660 miles, but the region being unknown and the impediments fre- quent the eourney probably aggregated 750 miles. Stanley expected to „Inake twelve miles a day, and join Eniin in ,August, and be back in November. This was rather too sanguine, however, for the average rate of Stanley's march in 1876, from Zanzibar to Victoria Nyanza, was only six miles it day. But, even with the full allovvance for inter- ruption, a long time has claimed. One year and six months have gone and his fate is un- known. . Is Stanley dead? The question is the A subject of a valuable symposium in the ) December number of the "North American Review." The writers are Lord Wolseley, President Daly, of the Atuerioan Geographi- cal Society, and Jaime M. Hubbard end vr. Franz Boaz, two authorities on African ex- ploration, General Wolseley sayo, "1 feel convinced that he has reached Enun Paella." He further declaree that the ciecumetanceit ethengthen the assumption that Stanley th and the White Pasha aone and the same person." He continues : " Attie& as one can gather from all we have learned from Zanzi- bar, the country between it and Einin Pasha' e headquarters, has been so dieturbed by this war that no news or messengers have been allowed to papa through the line of contendirig tribes. It is not only that We have no news of Stenley since last November, but neither have we had any from Etnin. TO me it is quite evident that we shall bear of both at the seme time end believe it Will be to the effect that Stanley reached groin about the erre of lase year. Upon reaching Wadelai it is certain that Stanley would give his men a rest. The four ot, perts all believe that Stanley is alive. Let us hope, that the coneltieron borreete—e [Baltimore American., / 4 " este • there haa not been a church building of any Fur enters largely into the itYlieh_coatit kind 1n40 years, made by ladies' tailors.