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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1889-3-7, Page 2easee THE 'EXETER nmEs'. Ie minima& every Theeeday morn ng, at TIMES STEAM PRINTING HOLISE ' Maitostreetamarly opposite Eaton's eeweiery More, Exeter, eon, by Jelin Wine° ei Sous,Pro- urietors. nenne or ADVBIV.SCSINa Wirst insertion, Per line .10 omits. ga obsubeegueatieeertion er liee.ene °en" TO inS1.1):0 insertion, advertisements should be sent in no dater than ensdneseny morning imbecile PheNmeNn naneRTMIltee is one 2 the lorgeet axle best e euippetein. the 0 ouney 2 Huron, Ali wok entrusted to us will roomy ur prompt atteuvion: 13 °Clete/XIS egar din re es N ews papers. Any person whotakes paperregularlyfroni he poet -omen whether directed in eis name or another's, or whether he has subscribed or not is responsible for payment. 2 If a pereon orders his paper ilithoutinuea he must p Ese all a irears or the put:atelier may liontinue to Benda until the Payment is made, and then comet the whole Amount, whether she Paper is taken from the office or not. 9 In suite for subseriptions, tee suit may be nstitutedin the place where the piiper is pub• ished, although the subscriber may reside hundreds of miles away. 4 The coorta have decided that refusing to bake newspapers or preinaithes erom the post. office, or removing mod maven them uncalled or is prima facie evidenee of intentional trawl Exeter Butcher Shop, R. DAVIS, Butcher 01, General Dealer 6.141.4 KINDS Or— N/lEAT Customers supplied TUESDAYS, THURS- DAYS AND SATUBDAYS at their sesidence ORDERS LEFT AT THE SHOP WILL RE OEIVE PROMPT ATTENTION. A WOMAN TOMAHAWKED. Sail Affair in a Nsvhiskey Dive at Ottavva. An Ottawa despatch says :—Between the hours of ten and eleven o'clock on Saturday forenoon Dr. Kennedy was summoned to 268 Clarence street, in Lower Town, the resi- dence of a Mrs. Cooper, whose husband is now serving a six months' term in the Cen- tral Prison, liorento, for stealiog coal. On his arrival there he found the body of a , woman named Catherine Kelly, about • sixty-two years of age, lying on a bundle of clothes, with a ghastly wound on the skull, from which blood was then ooz- ing. The wound, which was font inches long, had evidently been made with a dull instrument. Blood stains surrounded the lifeless form on the floor. She had beenedead for two or three hours. A deteotive, who arrived Shortly after the physician, made an examination of the house and found in the kitchen a tomahawk, which, although evidently partly washed, still had on it the marks of blood. On the staitway were also found blood stains, 'which bore marks of an attempt to oub them away with a knife or hatchet. Enough was discovered to cause the arrest of the inmates. They were Mrs. Cooper, the keeper of the house and a man named Henricks and his wife, who lived across the street• but had spent all night there, as they frequently did. Later on Sam Bothwell, an employee of the Agricultural Department, was arrested, it having been discovered that he also stayed there that night. The house bore no good name, it being put down as a whisky dive by the police, and no more noise was heard by the residents in the vicin- ity that evening than' Wal habitual. Mrs. Kelly was addicted todrink. She had some relations at Buokingnam. The statements made by tne priboners are all oontradiobory. Bothwell, who is an old roan and has a fam- ily, says he left the house at o'clock in the morntieg, and that Mrs. Kelly was there and alive. Whilst the parties arrested ;tate that the woman fell down stairs and was killed, the supposition is that she died from a blow received an a drunken row. Driven Mad bY OrcieltY. The Russian schooner "Johannes" had hardly left Riga late in November, 1887, when Jan Umb denied an accusation of hav- ing etolen clothing. Induced alternately by floggings and Captain Harboe's promises, a confusion was extorted, which was followed by further whipping and confinement in a dark cell for several days without food or water. When released he was abused by the crew, and, to put an end to his misery, eumped overboard. The captain promised better treatment if he Would allow himself to be rescued, End, a boat being lowered, he was brought back. While champ ing his wet clothes, he received a al:nettle kicking about the head and naked body, and was again put below. Next night, December 7, 1887, he was ordered to take the wheel, and. unable through weakness to perform that duty, the captain struck him in the face and ordered him to follow, seem- ingly for further punishment. As the cap- tain was picking up a piece of rope, Umb, now a perfect maniac, seized a handspike, and struck and killed the captain. He then killed, in a like manner, the two sailors on deck. Procuring a eheath-knife, he stabbed the mate, and proceeding forward, killed two more sailors in their sleep. The cabin boy was killed next. A Danish steamer sighted the schooner, which it towed to Co- penhagen, where San Urab was delivered to the RUM= authorities. The Dear Departed. An old couple, she a widow woman and he a widow man, interried after a brief courtship, and he sold hie house and moved over to here.- The firet article of furniture that he added to her collection was an old sunbonhet, which he hung in the entryway; eayina, "1 couldn't be conteuted no way, Sallie, if I didn't see Betsy Aimes bunnit hangin' up there." "Well,"said she, "1 ellen go straight up garret for Josiahn old hat, which I was deeent enough to pub away when I knew you •were 00Ming here." And so she did, and Josidne old hat, and Betsy Alin% bunnit hang side by, side at the pre - mat dela—Peden Itaneoript. A New Bedford man had his nose broken betasuse he gala he hacl eeen a whale ninety feet long. The than who broke it for him had never- even been to }seta but he had his idea of how long a Whale ought to be. Wife (Whe wo.uted a teller made suit, but bas only. hinted itt to—,,bia you notice Mrs, De Pinkee egure ?" Vuebend melte a rate -4i Yee, poor woman ; lio halt ire figure at all, and, like ethet weiniul Of that nett, hat to depoutoii tellor-rnacle tuite. Now pee, my love, are a •Rohe iti any. thing.° YOUNG FOLES.4 EMENDS. BY IffAUD Benzenes:me& Harold hed been lying for many minutes an the old lounge in the library, with his face to the wall. The little sisters stepped softly by him, though they knew he did not sleep. Presently Mother Daley looked, in from the hail, and the girls noticed how un- usually bright h•nr cheeks and eyes were under her demure brown bonnet. "Harold, rin ready," she mid in her cheerieet tone, and Hareld, dashing his hand across his hot head, jumped to his feet mttd hurried to her. It was tbe week before Christmae, and prayer -meeting night. All the way over to the old diode Mother Daley chatted. like a bird of bright omen, but Harold, though he touched her glove with his own in a sort of mute "Thank you," lost none of the gloom that shadowed his handsome face. "It's no uth, mother 1I oan't get over it," he said. "I've lost confidence in tho whole world 1" "Why, Harold 1" reproachfully. "Oh, not in you, dear, nor the girls, but —you know, you know 1 I loved him, mother, as dearly as 1 could have loved a brother. I was so sure of him, so sure that we should be 'friends always 1" ' And then they had reached, the church, , and Harald, sittingerect beside the eympa-, thetic mother, tried hard to keep his thought upon the earnest address of Dr. Jewett. In vain all =oh attempts, for over and over again through his hot head were ringing the words, ',False to himself 1 False, to m ' e 1 Oh, Lyell Lyell 1 How can I ever trust anyone again?" How proud he had been when the boys at echool called them Damon and Pythias and how sure he had felt that all through their hies they would be loyal, helpful friends, Lyell and he, while now—" False, false, false 2'—the words kept ringing until sud- denly Dr. Jewett seemed to have caught them too. "False,' Harold heard him say, and found himself listening for the red. "11 Christ, God's gift to man, be false, ib matters little what else be true; if true, lit- tle matter what else be base." "11 Christ be true," Harold echoed the thought, "it matters little what else be false." If Chrisb be true 1 A slow color dyed hie cheek. "1, I a Christian , " he was saying deep in his heart, "not tehave re- membered in all my trouble the truest Friend of all. He, the .Elder Brother'tried and faithful and never -failing. It 181 who have been unloyal, here." Mother Daley felt the change in Harold before they left the lighted vestibule. Hie depression seemed to have vanished, his step was quick and his face alight. "It's all right. Mother," he said, brightly. " 'There is a Friend you know. • I had forgotten." And Mother Daley wondered just how this new "remembering" would affect her big boy. Harold himself hardly knew. He was only sure of one thing, that the natural way for him to prove his loyalty to a friend was to love and honor that friend, to defend his name if need be, and to work for him with migiet and main. Work I Ah, yes 1 And, in working for the true he would forget the untrue. Forget Lyell? What a sharp little pain struck his heart at the thought, and yet it could only be harrier to remem- ber. As to the work, there was plenty of than when once he had opened his eyes to it. There was stupid Sam Todd, to help withhis lesson; therewas the honest thought; to be spoken at the ."Endeavore meetings, which might, perhaps, help the other boys tospnek as they felther hisFriend and theirs; and on Saturday nighe there was a funny little martyrdom, in the way of taking Meta Grimm to the candv-pulling—Meta Grimm, who was ugly and "dowdy," whom the girls ridiouled and the boys snubbed, and who, under his kindly care, had the happiest time of her short life and grew almost pretty in her delight at being, for once, "in the good times like other folks.". The day before Christmas, Harold opened his eyes upon a world of snow and wondered that he could feel so full of energy and life. He cou/d not have thought; it possible a week before, knowing that Lyell---" " Hawold I Hawold 1" " Yee, Kittle. Is it breakfast?" " 'Most. I smell it 1 But I meant ole Stokes.. 'E's kown beggin' again." "The fraud 1" exclaimed Harold, as he began his hasty dressing. "111 be down in a minute, Katie," and he heard henvanish- Ing footsteps on the stair. "Old Stokes, the fraud," was shivering at the back stoop. The good people of Chapin had long ago lost all confidence in him, the laziesb good -for -naught in the town. Harold had given him old clothes a time or two, for Stokes found it easier to work upon the sympathies of the school -boys than their wiser parents. Harold, knowing that the old idler could get work if he wanted it, felt little patience with him now. "Stokes,' he said, "you've no business begging any longer. A great, strong fellow like you ought to be able—" "Linen 'ere, Mr. Harold. I's nob beg - gin' for myself this day. I got work, an' it don't take much to feed an old. bocly like me, but there's some folks out there on Wight Common as needs everything. You never saw anything like how much they haven't get I No duds, no grub, nor a spark o' fire in the bowie 1" "Who are they 7" " Law 1 I don't know their names— Brown, I believe. Weider an' five kids 1 Big'un thought he'd git work here, but he's down with chills aziefever. Mis'reeile crowd, sartin 1" "And you want me to give you money or clothes for thew people, and you'll use ib yourself 1 rm sorry I can't believe you Stokes. Id have to see that house on Wight Cernmon first" Harold was almost laughing to think how dearly he had seen through the old fellow's scheme, and was rather astonished when Stokes said, in desperate eareesb "Indeed it's true, and if ve'll gee the bonen that's all I want fer puttin' them folke imolover, though it's a rare time &the year feat clover, to be sure," with a laugh at hie own humor. Stokes, I almoet believe you I" "Will ye go out to the Commcn, then 7" "Well, I will that I I was going across to the woods for mistletoe, any way, and I pass right by there." "Pass near encugh to look in, then ; thatie all I say," and vagabond Stokes eharribled off aortas the yard, and down the street. "I do belieVe he has ti heart after all, un- der his rage," mused Harold, as he turned to go M. An hour later he was asking blithely, "Who goee with nie for the mistlethe ?" "We are not inueh good for that," Ella geld,langhing. "Wo meet climb treea." "I inean to do the oilooting myeelfi" Hari old astedwered, "But I must finish this octal for mamma ,0:id soli% hast enact& to de." "Take me,Hawold," baby Kitbie pleaded, "1 nen evatrwy heaps 1" "01 coura • yeti can," Harold assented gaily. " Got into yourhood and mittens While / go fee) he tiled.° In another mement he was flying ;Oro* /MBE AND %SERE. the neow.flelcie veldt Kittle weil-bundledi 1 roinecheeked, holding on do the eled.rail „le turas ogathat the ditch which the and houting encouregement atter •L bhp, Qaioago 'Teeple propose to make in order to Wight Cowmen, idle looked toe miesieeipp• will emat $20,000,000. When, on their return trip, flog ,ekopped cOereheir newege frozn Line Miohiganato the house on like Kane piek and wlaite 'Clidatinee fairy, Better send fer De Lessees at tie .'oe el her f"e aglow, her ehubieY arTt•fuU of the abandon the #ithy 'reseti-ce of c'elne411ale this: green boughs, end ena* denem8 from her vveter eaaalY and Pat ilia sewage ee laad• furry cloak with every step of her nimbk feet. Her blue eyes opened wide with wou. Mrs. Rachel Willie, who longed for fame ae , , t der, at the sight in the unpainted cabin, a writersbet makilled herself at St. Louis on Tienday. • Mes.Willis left a letter, Bens aeon( Lied wallet shivering ehildren, stating that her early eclat:x*4,3n had been pale, thin woman vainly trying to keep out the wind with strips of old papers, and oa neglected and that bile bad worked for years to overcome her defects and failed. the bed, under scant covering, a boy, whotae She had written beielly-spelled poeme and great eyes looked out pitifully from his wan eege. , stories, and cavvaye met with disappeints "My 1" thefur-robed baby said gaspingly. in°1113. Bhe had never seen anything so dreadful in A new remedy for Ain diseases, says Tee all her little life. , "Ansi I bad thought Stokes making it up," Harold 'laid mechanically. He could hardly wait to get home, that he might tell of the pitiful plight of these un- fortunatee whose destitution, whose tidiness despite their rags, and whose sufferinghad touolied him to thee heart. Before !aeon he had returned to the' common with bright- eyed Mother Daley and her friend, Miss, 'Dicke, and 'this time Kittie's place on the sled was filled with bundler( and baskets piled high. " Madam," the thin widow said, hex voioe trembling, "1 had thought starvation at our veil door. I had begun' to think that God was deat to his creatures" prayers. But now—how can. I thank you both, and this kind, good boy I What 'mothers ,you must have in Chapin to have such SODS 1 He is not the only one." She stopped an instant and her three guests looked puzzled. "He came first," the widow resumed, but after he left, there came another, with a heart so like, that they might have been brothers. This other bad black eyes, and he said he had lived here but a short time. He nailed strips down the door there where the crack was so wide, and fastened a stout equare across the broken pane. He fairly oried when he SSW Jim there, and said he'd brine a blanket from his own bed, and—and some chill medicine." The widow was half laughing, half crying as she spoke. "He hasn't much himself, poor fellow, I guess. His clothes were patched and his overcoat thin, but he had a heart warm enough to change the very air in the room !" "We'll change it in earnest 1" Harold eaid, breaking Borne kindling with his strong young arra and beginning to stir the ashes in the small cook -stove. How quickly the gray room grew bright under the touch of their busy fingers! How the fire crackled and the kettle sang, and how appetizing the food smelled. The sick boy felt new courage in his heart, and the little children clapped their hands over the warm dresses which Kittle and Julia had Outgrown. " I'll be well in a week 1 Jim said, with eager gratitude. "1 feel warm, as I haven't for days, and the other one said he'd bring the chill medicine this afternoon." "1 wonder if our visit can have done them as mach good as it has done us," Mies Dicks said meditatively, coining away. "One thing I do want, mother," Harold burst forth suddenly, "and that is to give them a real Christmas -eve of it to -night. Those poor little young ones will be sure to hang uphheir titookinsa, if they have any, and I'd just :Ake to give them all a jolly sur - prize 1" Mother Daley smiled approvingly. " rna with you 1" she said gaily. "That is, in spirit! I shall have to be at church with the children, but I'll help you get ready, and so will the girls." It was a dark night, in spite of the snow and the stars, and Harold, creeping noise- lessly around the house on the common, dragging his sled behind him, bumped into another somebody laden with bundles. "Hullo 1" he mid under his breath. "Hullo I" came the response, and the lowspoken word, in the familiar voice, caused Harold to start e,nd drop one knobby package in the snow "Are you the other one ?' he said in- credulonilhe "Are you the knight of the ?" • " Well, I don't know. I carried chill - medicine this afternoon," the other one re- plied. " Thab boy, warm of heart, kind and gen- erous, cannot be the boy who—oh, Lyell, Lyell I ' '1 coulci have explained it so long ago, Harold, if I'd only known 'the wherefore of it," Lyell said elowly. "Was it--" "It was Harry Allen who told me. You can't call Rory untruthful ?" "No, not untruthful, but oh I so very much mietaken. May I not tell you the whole story, here, now, Harold ?" It was not so long a story, nor ao connect- edly told, but it left two big, glad-heartee boys fairly hugging each other, bundles and all, out in the snow and the darkness. "You never saw such hilarious Santa Clauses I" Harold mild afterveard, in a burst of confi- dence, to Mother Daley. "The °bird - ren found dollies and candies and hoods; but we—we found each other and Damon and Pythias it still shall be though my new Friend ehall be Deeneh's be, too, and now we can work together 1" Paralysed by Chewing Stun. The most remarkable OSSO that has come under the observation of the medical frater- nity in the city. of Harrisburg, Pa., for 6 long time is that of Mary Yountz, aged twelve years, who is suffering from facial paralysis. This affliction is due to chewing gum, she having employed the use of her jaws so constantly during the laid three months that the murides of her face are powerlees and her nerves are in a clilepidatecl condition. When she laughs her face pre - Nuts an amusing eight and yet there 10 much sympathy telt for the little girl, as her condition is regarded as a serious one by the physicians who have been called upon to treat her. In whatever position she is able to twist her mouth the muscles remain, o,nd the face le thus in a contorted shape until one of the members of her family assists her with their hands to place it in proper condi- tion. Her chin drop?, and it frequently becomesnecessary to de a bandage over her head to keep the lower jaw in the proper place. Many is now under the care of Dr. Hitere who is applying plasters to her face, and under this treatment she theme to be , improving, though very slowly. • Saved from Freezing to Death- TEOIMISESi Ont., Feb. 28—William Nov in, living one mile and a halt west of Tecum- seh, Was returning home from Windsor on Saturday night the worth of liquor. He WaS o ertakenb sonie party or parties unknoWn to him and beaten in a Most fearful manner, receiving eeveral than) evounee whiele may prove fatal. Nevin wee found lying on the track of the G. T, R, on Sunday morning and was picked tip byConductor George Stnica, of a freigbt train bound, west, wbo kindly took him to his home, thus saving him froti freeaing to death. Lord teaconefield's hat WAS 61, Lord quiet and cool and ordered the, marolenast , and elle 011 used like ler& The potato hat Salisbury'lo 8. to continue, . is the Sort a experience ' absorbed the rank Bayer. s trrLi Hospital, is a continual bath, the patient eating, drinking and 'sleeping there until cured. One petieno has been kept in suck a bath for 385 dare He is tied up alwaye at night to prevent hinnfrom Blipping. eo as to be drowned. The palms and eoles become much shrivelled, bub the rest of the skin is unchanged. The water is kept at 98 degrees. A Windsor, lady appears to have outwitt- ed the Customs officials. Coming across from Dana with her eareiage, she brought with her a parcel of dutiable goods. The Customs offithr, instead of charging the duty upon the , goods, eared the carriage and hones, but subsequently released them on the receipt oft, cheque for $100. Atter giv. Ing theeheque the lady etopped payment at the bank,andnow the t female are unable collect it. The Paris Expenition is likely to have an important hearing upon the peace of Europe. The London Times thinks :that the eleva- tion of Boulanger will be in the long run, a disturbing element in Europe; but it says that the view generally taken in European capitals is that if he came into power after a dissolution he would not, for many months at all events, be a menace to the peace of the Continent, because he would not venture to imperil the sudoess of the Exhibition. Although the New York, Brooklyn, Min- neapolis, and other, strikes have brought the eubject into prominence of late, the fame is that, as compared with last year, 1889 is fortunate in its 'comparative freedom from strikes. The January of 1888 saw more than forty thousand men on strike. In the first month of 1887 there were nearly seventy-seven. thousand (strikers, whereas daring the past:month the number does not reach nineteen thousand, and seven thou- sand of these belonged to the, short-lived New York oar affair. A curious phase of the color question has appeared ha one of the schools of New York State. A laborer and his wife both claim- ing to be white, hadlour boys wife, the school. Two of the boys were light in color andiwere not interfered with. Tbe other two were dark and were expelled on the ground that they were Negroes. In appears that the immediate cause of the dismissal was that some of the children were in the habit kissing the teacher before going home. and she did not want to receive this mark of af- fection from the two dark-skiqued boys. The seizure of a New England whaling. vessel off the Azores by the Portuguese be- cause it had been guilty of smuggling and fraud seems to be regarded as an outrage in the United States. That the seizure was made, according to the story of the delinqu- ents, eleven or twelve miles out . at sea appears to render it in the eyes of our neigh- bors an unheard of atrocity. When they seize Canadian sealing veseels one hundred miles from shore, and not having even been within United States jurisdiction, they ap- eear to think it all right,' but anythiug like tutning the table; upon them is apparently beyond their Understanding. There has been reoently imported into E ngland butter !rem New Zealand. Ib is not only the fact' that it is possibie to send the ertiele so far, and that ea pricee as low aa house -made, but there lithe further fact that the season at tha Antipodes is the re- veree of Great Britain's;, and thus the pro- duction will be largeet there When 11 10 least in the mother country. There is one other fact 'which shows the mu einem of the New Zealand shippers: their packages were not of the ordinary Arkin ehape—they were squared off, to allovv of a better use of the oubio space in ships. The German Emperor is still crowding a good deal -of enjoyment into his period of mourning. Lad week he gave an audience to the envoy fram the Sultan of Morocco, who brought a miscellaneous assortment of presents wadding of Arab horses, gold and velvet cloths, rich carpets and rifles. The Empress received silk dresses, silk girdles and embroidered shoes, and the little Crown Prince was need° proud and happy wide a couple of ponies . a sabre inlaid with gold, much taller than his tiny self, and a gorgeous belt, The young Kaiser received the envoy seated on a throne and wearing all his imperial finery. Pretty speeches were ex - °hanged and the envoy went away hapyy and decorated. , Alaska in the year 1867 was parohased from Russia by the United States Govern- ment for» the sum of 87,200e000. Three years later the Alarlita Commercial Company was formed for the purpose ef embarking m the sealskin Lead°. It was obliged by law to limit the numbenof seals it desttoyed yearly, and to pay a tax on every hide. A report of a committee of Congress calculates that in the twenty years that have since elapsed stem exceeding $8,000,000 has been paid into the treasury by the company. This means that though a single company, and by means of a single trade, in the space of two decaden Alaska has repaid the whole of the capital*. hivested in her punitive, together with interest at the rate of about 11 per 081111. The Public schoolIn New York are suf- fering, very much as we are in many parts of Canada, from want of accommodation for pupils'especially in thejuniee forms. There are inthe city of New York about 1e0,000 pupils and two-thirds of these are primary seholare. For this large number of children theti• are so few teachers that the average neither of pupils in a class in the lowest wide is 86. It is Sbsurcl," says the New York "Times," "to suppose that any teach- er, however gifted and skilled,. can deal fair- ly with mat neither's. et is simply im- possible. And, moreover, these teacher, aro not the best, but with the herded) work to do, under the most difficult condithees, they are the youngest, leest experienced, least trained, and poorest paid of all." To speak of the fierce light that beats upon a thrt•ne is after a mere euphemism to one wand( it good price for consenting to undergo. It is also an entirely pow featiffe In it military march -past. No fewer than 40 Icelanders were married In, Wirsnipeg last heareor 13 per oent. of the 'total aernlatir of perpone Who meowed the yoke metrimonial. The 'clergyman who per- formed the greatest number of marriages, Rev. Mr. Bjarson, is an Icelander. The foot show either that the Icelanders are it nuttier, pus populezion in and around the oapital of Manitoba', or are exceptionally enterprieing in inearimonial adventures. Many of the marriagee are between loelendere and Eng- lish people, and the readiness with which midi unions tells place suggests that these etercly Norse eettlees, despite bhe strong dee tional omits their interesting history and surroundings have induced amongst them, are likely to be speedily acteimilated by the Canadians.. The weite nian will tell yeu that it ie dif- genii; to distinguish different members of She same colored race, the similarity of color having the effect of rendering lees apparent the, dissimilar feetitires, Now, the colored people find the same diffieuley with the "white trash." A catrioue instance of this has occurred in India. Some members of the Lancathire regiment stationed at Ben - area broke into it nadve ehop and plundered it for the liquor it contained. Some of the offenders were oaught, but others escaped. In order to capture the remainder the regi- ment was paraded that the ownere of the robbed shop might select the rest of the men from the ranks. They oould not, however, piok out a single man, and a native paper thus explains the difficulty ; "One of the most difficult feats under the sun is to iden- tify Europeans—they are so much &like, with their loud, glering white oolor. We wonder whether their friends and relations are at a loss as to when; who." The attention of the American areas is con- stantly occupied with the ever-present and ever growIng,problem of the conflict of races in the South. It is as preesing a question, and threatens to be as difficult a one, as that of the relations between Ireland and Great Britain. The latest phase the difficulty has adorned is that the negroes are not only in mimbers, but also in intellienoe and in figanoial end influence, rapidly bas coming superior to the whites. The Rev. J. G. A. Clarke, of Georgia, a presiding 'elder of the Methodist Churoh, has itherted isa public addresses that bis own observations, reinforced by reports from other. ministers, convince him that a census of the children born since the war in SOESCI sections of Geor- gia would show a greater amount of Miter**, among white than among black children. These are curious, not to say significant, facts if facts they are; and from the serious con- sideration they receive at the hands of the press of the North one is warranted isk con- cluding that the North doea believed them bo be facts: If the negro ehould continim to progress at this rate the reins of Fended power might ere long change hands in the South., The Kourbash• The old saying, "11 18 hard to teach an old dog new tricks," is verified by she diffioulty the English have fowl& in abolishing the kourbash in Egypt. It is a time-honored Egyptian institution, forethe whip and the stick appear in the peintings in the oldest Egyptian tombs, The :English, very proper- ly. thought it- brutal and degrading to use a etick for extracting taxes from unwilling tax- payers, or true testimony from relutica,nt witnesses. They, therefore, ordered the toted and immediate abolition of the kourbash throughout Egypt. Thedeoree has made the use,of the dick 'illegal, bub the Egyptian peasants, regard its abolition as a doubtful blessing. Canon Taylor gives, in his "Egyptian Note -book," an amusing illustration of the peasants' opinion of the reform. - Hie :donkeysboy, a well-to-do mauled man of forty, said to him one evening: "Mae ter, you want me to morrow? My brother Hassan, all same we, go along you.' "Well, Mehemet," replied the Canon, "I don't mind taking Hassan to -morrow; but why °web you go yourself, as miler' "Me got plenty of businees to-morrow,— very 'tickler business. Me not go to -morrow, if my master not mind." "Wall, what sort of business is it that Is so particular ? , "Me want to go to prison." Ifalioinet had been fined sixty piastres (three dollars), with the alternative of two days' imprisonment, for allowing his donkeys to stand rot some forbidden spot in Cairo. If the Canon would consent to take his bro- ther Hassan, he Mehemet,' would go to pri- son and save the piastres; but rather than let the job go out of the family he would pay the money. Mr. Taylor agreed to take Hassan, and' Mehemet went to prison. When he came out, Canon Taylor asked him about the old times, when the etiok was need. He would tb.en, he said, have hada dozen strokes of the kourbaeh, and the whole business would have been over in ten minutes. He prefer- red the kourbash to either the fine or the prison. Moreover, hie wife had instated on the piastres' being saved, and she had reward- ed her geed man's compliance oy taking to him in prison the beet dinner he had eaten for many weeks. ' An Egyptian peasant does not like the ap- plioation of the etick to the soles of his naked feet, but he likes even less to parfines or taxes. In the old daya a fellah with plenty of money thought himself 13ound to take,a certain number of strokes benne pay- ing his taxes. He also knew that if he paid them forthwith, hie wife would be likely to administer the stick herself to express her contempt for her husband's want of frugality and courage. What to EU With. Lard, if used for frying, should be tried out at home, but beet fat ha cheaper, and if nicely prepared no one can object to the taste. Cut the fresh suet in pieces and cover with cold water ; let it stand a day. chang- ing the water once in the time. Thie take out the peculiar tallowy taste. Now put 11 in an iron kebtle with a half teacup of milk to each pound oistiet, and let it cook very slowly till the fat is clear and light brown in color, o,nd the sound of the cooking has ceased, The pieces may be loosened from the bottom with a spoon, but it ia nob to be stirred. If ie burns the taste is ruin- ed. No* let it stand and partly coal, then pour off into cups to became cold. It smells as svveet ail butter, and Ottll in many oo.ses be used instead of it. The fat left still in the pieces may be reseed out for lent para.- oular lam. Any o ear fat, even mutton, has express a dangerous state of affairs for a its uses in cookery, and should be tried out, 1 inner. Take the recent ethane from aseaseina- ahd kept nicely. Ition of the Amara of Afghanistan. Ho was There are oils now field which hut for intipeoting a military 'Armin and was seated prejudice we would always use. Pure cob. ea a platform with the Britieh eneoy beside tonthed oil ie a Ane oil, with a delicate him. As a regiment peened by, 0. sepoy in flavour; rapeseed oil, which is toed extort - the fourth taint' euddenly faced about, de. , !Rivaly tibroad for this purpose, IS also a pure liberately took aim and fired at the Amor, I vegeto.bleaofl, but eomewhat rank in flavor. It The bullet etrient his chair, and he only ern lie treated.thus t-4 taw potato ID cut up and reified from having leaned forward to (Teak I put into the kettle, heetingswith the 011 and o ohe Of his officare, The Atneer remeined I booking till it is brown ; it irt thee taken out I A CilrieW Couitonn—rweive roor Whenen KOSTRiA.'S EMPEROR WilSIENO FEEL. mud, men to nave Their Feet 'Washed by the Emperor or avisteta• Vnizinia, Feb 28111.—The twelve old men and twelve old women, who will have their feet watihed by the Empresa and Emperor 01 Austria on Meundy-Teurriclay (Maroh,18) have been eeleotecl from the ranks of the Vienne. poor. On the particular morning they will amemble et the palace gates and be escorted by a chamberlain to the hall of Thrones, , Certain clothes will have been sent to their place of abode, rio the mon Will be Wearing black tunies with broad white mollars, knickerbockers, and Shoes; and the women, black dresses, with oloserfitting atarheseheepoor people Tpeople take their seats at long tables set on opposite sides of room, and punctually en bathe &ripener , rEinprese arrived, attended by the erohduka and archcluohessee, a throng of court officials and the clergy of the metropolitan 'chapter, headed by the Archbishop of Vienna. A. priest amends to a leoternand intones a prayer, after which the serving of,a sumptu- ous meal to the ahriefolk Wet once proceeded with. ' Pour -and -twenty stalwarth life guards men, in gold -laced ricarlet coats and plumed helmets, march, in, carrying tra,ysion which stands a tureen of soup and two plentiful dishes of fish, • The trays are cleared at the men's table by the Emperor and eleven archdukes, and at the woMen's table by the Empress and as many archduchesses. This eeremopy is re- peated three times more, for a tray with three entrees follows the final ; then comes a tray with three sorts of inmate .and vege- tables and, lastly, a tray with sweets and fruit. The almsfolk, however, do not touch these dainties. The Emproree and Empress ask them if they desire eat and on a negative sign being made the tables are cleared in the same eider as the serving, that is, the life -guardsmen wine in and go out four times with their trays. After this they enter once more to remove the jug of wine, silver goblet, plate, knife, fork, spoon and napkin from each "cover." All these articles along with the dishes of food, are carried to an ante -room and there packed in large white boxes emblazon. od with the imperial arms and an hour later these boxes are delivered at the houses of the different almsmen and almsevemen, and become their property. The wine jugs are of a peculiar pattern, colored green with the imperial escutcheon highly gilt and the date of the year on a white scroll. They are much prized by collectors as only only be b twenty-four pu -four are made yearly and these can rohased from the actual recipi- Once the meat has been carried out, the tables are' removed, and the foot-waAing begins. A number of pages kneel ailli,take off each almsman's right leg stocking and shoe. The same office is performed for the women by the maids of honor. Another prayer is intoned, ansi the,Emperoz and Ern - preset drawing off their `gloves, i.kneel And prooeed respectively to pour over the foot of eaoh man and woman a little water out of a golden ewer. This ewer, is handed by et chamberlain, another chamberlain hoid4 a golden basin, and a third a lawn towel... towel serves for the drying of the feet, th also being doneby the Emperor and Empress. When the function is over, pages `and maids of honor advanoe again to replace the ahem' and stockings'and the last ace of the 'cere- mony consistsin the bestowal of twenty-four purees, containing each fifty florins in goldki oolne, fresh minted. These purses are hung - round the necks of the recipients. The whole servioe lases about half an hour and is conducted with the mostimpeessive order and gravity: enerniesm—nese--- Capt. Lngard's Pleasnte Trip. It Is fourteen months since the Arab slav- ers in Central Africa attacked the mission station at Karonga, on the north-west; shoe of Lake Nyaesa; and announced their pur- pose so drive all.the whites out -of Nyasa,- . land. The cable tells us that the white men and their native allies, commanded by Capt. Lugard, still hold Karonga against the enemy; who are in possession of a !arse ter- ritory; north of Nyman ' Oembelaigard must thoroughly believe in the saying, "It is the unexpected which always happensin Africa." He is a British army officer who went to Africa on a leave of absence to wander for his own pleasure among the highlande rich in game, at the 'south end of Nyeasa. *hen the news was brought down the lake that the Arabs hid attacked the white station at its. 'north and, he *as asked to take command of the relief expedition. Convinced that fight- . ing was necessary he consented to do so, and there he has been confronting the Arabs overtime, a wholly unlooked-for outcome: of his pleasure trip. It is a midi:ere fact that while this mere visitor to Africa is stile able to. direct all the movements of the de- fence, all but six of the white Man who ao- compa,nied him, have been compelled by the • unhealthful inmate to return to the Shire, highlands. --[N. Y. Sun. Superstitions and Figures. Virgil tell us that the gods esteemed odd numbers. ' There were eleven wise men in antiquity and seven wonders of the world. Mirteoulone powers areisupposed to be pos. sewed by the seventh daughter. Nine graine of wheat laid on a four-leaved clover enables one to see the fairies'. It is an ancient belief that a change in the body of a MOM occurs every seventh year. Falstaff eeys: "They thy there 10 divinity in odd numbers, either by nativity, chance or death." The number three WWI the pried; number of Pythagoreans, Who said it repro, sented the beginning, middle and the end. Among the Chinese heaven is odd, earth la even, and the aumbers 547,eand 9, loelogs to heaven while the °thee digits are of the earth earthy. The Siamese have a regard for odd numbers, and insist on having an odd nuelber of deem windows and mins in , their bowies, and that all staircases must ') have an odd number of deo. A Train Out in Two. BEAffrecen Mattel 4,—The other night at nine o'clock ad a Grand Trunk freight train was creating the C. P. R. track it freight train of the lattet roasi orashecl into it, cutting its Wan through, never etopping, and not a wheel of the C. P. R. train leave Ing the. track. The engineer and firemen jumped and saved their lives. A brakesnian rah forward, slotting. the Waken, and reach- ing the engine brought the tram to a stand after running two and a half mike pace the scene of the accident, No , one was hurt, but a great deal Of damage to property of `Own% T. lei evas done. A car of doffing and ono of sugar Were literally emdshed matohwood.