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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1889-3-21, Page 2YOUNG FOLKS. The Gingerbreita Tree, 43h, do you know, end do you know, The tree where risen douglauuts grew. AO in a shower come tumbling down, engary and crisp and brown? And did you ever chance to etse The plum cakes on tble oharmtner tree? And remelting o'er the fence perhaps A stern just strung whh gingerenaps ? The home Stands glue 'made the street ; -Around its roof the brandies meet. If you'leok up, above your head Tall down greet sq,uares of gingerbread. rince when I went inside the door, 'Through the wide window to the floor A bough came bending all apart, And tossed me in a jelly tar; 'Whoever lives there, I must eay, Though he is lame and old and gray, 'What a rare gardener he must be, And, oh, how happy with that tree My mother Rapt that very few Ciegerbread trees she ever knew, And none shook down, it bums to her, Mike this, an apple turnover. Some days it drops upon the ground, Soft, sof; a frosted heart, and round,. And gemetimes, when the branches eta, Such cookies ram as never were. And you can guess,. oh, you can guess, That if 'tis too far at ranee, Yet all the children, as a rule, ireo alow there coming home from school. Harriet Prescott Spofford. THE SITH. BY THE REV. EDSON A. LOWE. "Let s go out ad see the sun 1' That's what I said to a lot of boys and girls the other day. I had a telescope, and whisn I showed it—all polished brass—to the juveniles, you should have seen the way they forgot that Ralph was " old man" in sone game, and Busy was " it " in another; and we all walked ant to see the sun. You may be sure that my eye was resting upon 3I137 own sweet friend, Elizabeth, who is so iiinid. She walked alone out in the field, gathered odd little flowers, and was always looking in a " Len-something-that-you- don'tesee " kind of a way. • "Well, boys, you know God says I am a sun,: and I wish to -day we might find out what it meanie Let's stop and think, and see what we know about the sun. All of you try and tell me something about the sun while we are walking over to that cool, thady hill." " The sun gives light," said Tom. *" What else given light ?" I asked. "The moon 1" cried Alice. "Oh, but that's the sun's light 1" cried 'Tom: "The moon's only a looking -glass reflecting the sunlight,—the way I did in -wheel the other day." " Yes ; but what else gives light 2" " Gae and lamps I" said Tom. " But gas is made from coal," I said; "and coal was once wood that grew by the light of the sun; and so gas -light is sun- light of bygone years preserved in the earth. But deed the sun do anything beside give light?": "Heat I" cried several. "Well, I thouli say, so 1" said Bees. "Why did I bring this sack!" "I'll carry it, Bees," maid John. John cornea from P13fladelphia. He's wialtmg here; and the boys didn't know what to think of this politeness. But we all liked him. Bela so manly. "Yes," I said,"the. sun gives us heat. Wow, boys and girls, I want you to think. top laughing and talking and fooling, and think. If you can't think for a few mirutes, 1 don't want you to go along. We're a thinkingliociety to -day. Tell me what the aim does, ' • "The sun makes the flowers grow," said Bess timidly. "Den de sun made dis daisy," said dar- ling Elizabeth. "The sun makes the clouds rise out of the Ocean distill south, and sends them to 'give WS water," said Nell. "The sun makes the snow by holding lack hie heat," eaid Ralph. "1 wish it would snow," said innocent •3I1izabeth. "Why," cried Alice, " if the SIM does all 'this, he does almost everything Think of • the light, and how much we need it to see, and of the heat, that makes the flowers and plants and trees blossom, and of the water ' and the beautiful clouds, the brooks and waterfalls and springs an everything V' "Yes," I said ; "we must take every- thing and put it at the feet of the um. It 13e1ongs to him." •"De sun has no feet," said Elizabeth. And we all laughed. But then I heard John say: "When eve stop and think, the Bun does ahnost everything; doesn't he 1' " That's juet it," I said. "When we stop and think.' But we never do. And do you know that's just the way with God? •When we stop and think, we are surprised that we can forget him who made us and the emu and the world. Now, let us remember that God wants us all to stop and think.' We know a great deal about him, and we mutt not treat him the way we do the enn, —forget all that he is doing," • Here we reached the hill, and I began to 'adjust the telescope. Tom tried to find the • nest of a robin that flew from a maple tree. Ralph had gotten Into mud, and was clean- ing his shoe; Elizabeth was singing: al God make my life a littie light, Within the world to glow," and gathering a bunch of dandelions and daisies. John was holding Beggers; sack, and, with others, was wattling me intently. Birdsand flowers made the air fragrant and melodious, and it was a Isrighb and happy day. Bow, our great Netvfoundlaisd dog, was following Elizabeth,—he was her trained nurse,—but now he sprawled on the grafts, and rolled and, growled. He was as lapin,' as the rest. 'Now, what are We going to study 2" I asked. And all answered: "The sun 1" "Not exactly," I said. After a few Minutes, while I was adjust- ing the telescope, Tom said, as if he were half ashamed: solo. 11 " "That's it 1" I said. "God," "Which would you rather know,—God or the sun ? 1 tithed. No ere answered ;and I went on : "Now, I want you all to turn your eyee right at the sum and tell me how it looks." -None of them could do it. "It 'earth I" they °tied. "My eyee are too weak. Bow can We see the Attu ?" I asked. "Through the telescope V' "Can you see God' I asked. siege. 1, "Who is the telegoope that show° tie our Father in heaVen ?" BALM Bads °Joano." "Ab, pa,. We cannot see God; but am has revealed him to us, hls great love for ns, and his will that we ehould be saved. And jeaus is mote attractive and more ueeful and neReasarn that this teleecope." And I went; ea finite; tne eye.pleoe, '41,004 out, sweetheart 1" I said to Elia bath, Don't let the light ehining through the telescope strike you. It will burn you., Elizabeth opened her great brown epee and steed back in the grass; and Nell asked: "How can we look through the telescope, then!" "We cannot," I answered. "The light is too strong. We look in the side of the telescope, and see the light fall upon a little glass ripening slanting aoross the telescope." Tom said, "I'll look through the end 1" And he blustered lap to the instrument. "Ib will put ono your eye I" I said. "And that's the way we see God. No man can see God and live, Yon notioe, a whole flood of light goes through the telescope; and we oan only look at a faint little reflec- tion of the San off here on the aide. And so Jesus could have told us greeit truths about God that we were not able to bear; but he only told us one eimple and sweet gospel,— about the love of God for us and his own loving death for as. Come here, Eliza- beth I', • And I picked up the curly darling, and let her look at the etin first. We all stood still, and, after a few minutes she asked: "Is that God ?" " No, sweetheart. • Thab'a the • San; but God is as bright and lovely and good." • "Now, Tom odd, as I fixed the teles- cope. Tom looked. 'The telescope is moving ?" said Tom. Oh, no I" I said. "You are mistaken. " Tom looked again. "Indeed, sir, the telescope is moving 1" And.[ told them that the whole earth is moving, and we cannot see it until we look at the sun, and then we see how rapidly we move. And it is just the same when we look at God in Jesus Christ. We see that we are moving on into eternity. We forget it, and do not know how valuable timi e s until we look right at,God ; and then we see we have no moment to lose in God's service. And if the children knew God, they ehould serve him at once. The boys and girls all looked at the sun, and I had them watch it closely. They saw the black spots upon its surface. They saw in theee spots a black apace in the middle, called the umbra, and a lighter edge around It, called the penumbra; and they. enjoyed watching the flakes of flame, the funges and sprays, playing about the edge of the spot. • They saw the surface of the sun looked as if Ib were moving,—little tiny spots of rice, rising and falling, coming and going. The edge of the sun had a flame bordering it. "Ib is edged like the lace on Bessy's col- lar,—isn't it ?" said Alice. ".What a pretty little thing it is 1" said "1 see cute little banners and streams, puffs and sprays and arms," said Aline. "See any bands ?" asked Elizabeth. "Now, boys and girls, can you see Anille?" I asked. "It is five miles away." "I think I can," said Ralph. "Do you see the blue mountains over there ? ' "Where ?" several asked. " Over there 1 They are thirty miles away." At last some of us thought we could see the mountains. "Now, do you think you can gee the sun, which is ninety-one million miles away 2" They all looked thoughtful. "Well, I think we can," said Tom. "But you cannot," I said. Then they all rolled over in the grass and laughed. Excuse me, sir," said John very,polite- ly ; "but I think I can see the KM. "Oh 1 well," I said, of COMBO, you see what you call the sun; but bhat is not much like the real sun." "Why not?" asked Nell. "Well, you remember those spots? How large do you suppose they are 2" "As big as you are," said Bess. • "See there 1" I said ; "how little we know about the sun by simply looking at it. That spot is a hole in the outer surface of the sun, and is easily large enough to' let our earth pass into it without' touching the sides. Profesaor Young, of Princeton Col- lege,tells of one that was large enough t� let eighteen earths like mire enter it side by side. You know the noon is s, long diatance from the earth (two hundred aad, forty thousand miles). But you can imagine how large the aun is when I tell you that, if the earth were at the centre of the Dun, and the moon revolving around it, it would only be a little over halfway between the earth and the outside surface of the sun. You know the Himalayas are the highest mountains in the earth, Now, try and think of forty. five Ilimalayaspiled upon one anothez, ris• Ing and falling through thousands of miles. That is the kind of a surfue the Bun has.' "We do not see all that.—do we 2" asked Nell. "No 1" they all answered. "So we cannot see the sun, even with a telescope," I said. '4 We cansee a little picture f ib; but the real, great, powerful sun we cannot see. And that's the way it is with God. Oh, how great he is 1 How glorious 1 We should always speak of him very reverently, for he is so mighty, so infinitely exalted I He made the sun and the heavens full of SUDS. And oh I my boys and girls, we should fear and love our great, great God. • Now, tell me, is the sun all glory ?" I asked. "It has spots on it," said Tom. "Yes, Tom; so it ha; And you will find that there are bletnishes that seem to mar our God. Bub thou spots on the sun are not black. They look so; but, if I had the inetrumente, 1 could show you that they are a deep cherry -red, the richest color in , the sun; and they are not blemishes, all , though they look as if they Were. And , that's the way it it; with God. People think ; there are blemishes on his character; they a y that sickness and death and 81/1 and misters, show that God is not good. • Bat Some time we will rose theme things as they really are. If we knew how to see them, I am attre we would find in them perhaps the greatest glory of God." We then started home. Besse asked a number of questions. She did not know the SIM really' is so large. I found they nearly all enjoyed studying about theaun, but their interest in God wee harder to arouse. John was the only °ae who etheonunght God 4odweas more s than honest questions about the God of heaven and earSh, and be said God had never before go entirely filled his eoul with fear and adoration. WARNER ON CANADA tracts irrom Mr. 'Warner's I,etter • per's, Pane colniANs ohAnAaroitiennT-A. DISTINCT wyrs--ZrEITILEIV ENGLISH TIOn , AMERICAN. I have been told that the Canadian's second -band Englishmen. NO 'eetline could convey a more erroneous in:Treed° A portion ,of the people have strong Englis ,teaditioes and loyaltasa to institution; MI in Meaner and in expectations the Catania are scarcely more English than the peop of the United States; they hove their ow colonial develinament, and one can mar already with tolerable distinctness a Cana- dian type them is neither English nor .Ameri- Oall. This 18 noticeable, especially in the women. The Canadian girl resembles the American in escape from a Purely conven- tional restraint and in self-reliance, and she has, like the English, a wellanoduleted voioe and distinct articulation. In thb chime also, she has taste in dress and a certain fstyle which we think belongs to the New World. In features and aetion a certain modification has gone on, due partly to CliMate and pertly to greater sooial inde- • pendence. It 18 unnecessary to make com- parisons, and I only note that there is a Canadian type of woman. But there esi great variety in Canada, and in feet a. remarkable raoial diversity. The man of Nova Sootials ncit at all the man of British Columbia:0r Manitoba. The Smith in old Canada have made A Diemiror IMPRESSION N, FEATURES AND • SPIGICH And it may be said generally id Eastern Canada that the Scotch element is a leading and conspicuous one in the vigor and pash of enterprise and the aemunialation of for- tune. The Comedian men, as one sees them in official life, at the clubs, in bueinees, are markedly a vigorous, stalwart raoe, well, made of good stature, and not seldom hand - Rome. This physical prosperity needs to be remembered when WO consider the rigorous climate and the long winters; these seem th have at least one advantage—that of breed- ing vivile men. The Canadians generally are fond of out -door sports and athletic games, of fishing and hunting, and they give more time to such recreationrs than we do. They are a little less driven bythe business goad. Abundant animal spirits tend to • make men good-natured and, little quarrel- some. The Canadians would make good soldiers. • There was a time when the drink- ing habit prevailed very much in Canada, and there are still places where they do ziot put water enough in their grog, but Temper - &US reform has taken as strong a hold there as it has in the United States. THE FEELING ABOUT THE ENGLISH is illustrated by the statment that there is not more aping of English Ways in Montreal and Toronto clubs and social life than in New York, and that the English superciliousness, or condescension as to colonists, the. ultra - English manner, is ridiculed in Canada, and resented with even more warmth than in this United States. The amusing stories of English presumption upon hospitality are current in Canada as well as on this side. All this is not inconsistent with pride in the empire, loyalty to its traditions and institu- tions, and even a conaiderable willingneas (for human nature is prety much alike every- where) to accept decorative titles. But the underlying fact itsthat theim re in a distinct feeling of nationality and it s oreasing. WRENCH CANADIANS—THE "SOLID FACTOR IN POLITIC'S OVER THE BORDER • Perhaps nothing will surprise the visitor more than the persistence of the Frani% type ID Canada, and naturally its aggressiveness. Guaranteed their religion, laws and language, the French have not only failed to assimilate, but have had hopes—maybe still have—of making Canada French. The French "nation- al "party means simply a French consolida- tion, and has no relation to the "nationalism" of Sir John Macdonald. So far as the Church and the French politicians are concerned, the effort is to keep the French solid as a political force, aad whether the French are Liberal or Conservative, thin is the under- lying thought. The Province of Quebeo is Liberal, but the Liberalism is of a different hue from that of Ontario. • The French reco- gnise the truth that • LANGUAGE IS SO INTEGRAL A P.ART re ID XIS le woRTI A " NATIONAL" UNION affiliates with one on the other side the name is changed to "International." This union and interohange drawls the laborers of both natlons closer together. From my, beat in- formation, and notwithstanding the denial of 80M8 `pOlitida110; t110 0411401M 111401111 have Imie andanmpathy for and with Amer. ice. And this feeling must, be reckoned with in epeaking of the tendency to Annex- ation. The peewit much -respected Mayor of Toronto is a trade unionist and has a seat in the Local Parliament as a Conservative; he was onoe arrested for picketing for some such trade union performance. I should not say that the ttaders unicine are in flavor of Annexation, but they are not afraid tc; dis- cuss it. There is in Toronto a society of a hundred young men, the greater part of whom are of the artisan class, who meet to dieouas questions; of economy and politics. One of their subjeote was Canadian Indepen- dence. I am told that there is aroong young men a oonaidekable desire fer Intleaendenee a000mpanied with a determination to be on the best terms with the United Staten, and that a between a connection with Great' Britain and the United Statentbey wituld prefer the letter. In my own obeervatiob. She determination to be on good ternis With the United States is general in Canada; the desire for Independence is note armee onteetues ON "RBTALIATION"—THE REAL FEELING ON THE &Tamar -nr oeivAnA. I happened to be in Canada during the fishery and "Retaliation" talk. There was • no belief that the "Retaliation" threatened was anything more than a campaign meas. are ; it may have chilled the rapport for the moment, but there was literally no ex. citement over it, and the opinion was gen- eral that Retaliation as to transportation would benefit the Canadian railways. The effect of the moment was that importers made large foreign orders for goods to be sent by Halifax that weuld otherwise have gone to United States ports. •The fishery Question is not one that can be treated in it She space at our command, Naturally Can- ada sees from its point view. To a eon- aiderable portion of the Maritime Provinces; fishing means livelihood, and the view is that If the United States shares in it we ought to open our markets to the Canadian fishermen. home, Maud, and those are generally advoutee of freer trade, think that our fishermen ought to have the right of entering the Canadian harbors for bait and shipment of their catch and think also that Canada would derive an equal benefit from this; but probably the general feeling is that these privileges should be of a people's growth that the individuality of a people depends upon maintaining it. The French have escaped absorption in Can- ada mainly by loyaity to their native tongue, aided by the 00800881011 to them of their civil laws and their religious privileges. The French have always been loyal to the English connection under all temptations, for these guarantees have been continued, which oould scarcely be expected from any other power, and certainly not in a • legis- lative union of the Canadian Provinces. In literature and sentiment the connection is with France; in religion, with Rome; in politics England has bean the guarantee of both. There will be no -prevailing senti- ment in favor of annexation to the United Stetes so long as the Church retains its authority, nor would it be favored by the accomplished politioiens so long as they can use the solid French Mafia as politioal force THE 'VIRTUAL swells. OF CANADA—MR. wan. xrat's IMPRESSIOIsS OF SIR JOHN MAO - For many years Sir John Macdonald has been virtually the ruler of Canada. He has had the ability and stein to keep his party ID power, iv bile all the Provinces have re- mained or become Liberal. I believe his continuance is due to his devotion to the national idea, to the development of the country, to bold measures—like the urgency of the Canadian Pacific railway conetrue- tion—for binding the provinces together and promoting commeroial activity. Canada Is proud of thus, even w hi e it counts ha debt. Sir John Is worshipped by his party, especially by the younger men, to who he urn1 conceptions and oourage. He is disliked as ishers an ideal, as a stateeman of bold a politician as cordially by the Opposition, who attribute to him the Sa/118 prelicy of adventure that was attributed th l3eassone. field. • Personally he rumbles that re. markable man. Undoubtedly Sir John adde prudence to his knowledge of men and hie habit of never crossing a stream till he gets to it has gained him the sobriquet of Tontorrow. He is a man of the world as well as a man of affair; with a wide and iberal literary taste. Paternal Seeptioism, Skegge has asked the privilege of payhig hi a addreeses to Me." The Old Ilan—"I dentit believe he'll do it. He has been proMteing to pay our firm for hie last alit of elotheil or over a year, arid hotet done it yet,'' t A FORCE THAT MARES FOR ANNEXATION— LABOR ORGANIZATIONS IN WIIE DOMINMN. These are in LIM Ration with those in the United States, and most of them are ititer national, The plumbers, the bricklayers, and stonethatonO t graphical Union, ;lee EnrceilbjgetehOOci eof-C7Daro: planters atel Joiner; the evecal-earvere, the Knights of Labor, are affiliated ; there is a branch of the .Beotherhood of Locomotive Engineers in Canada, the railway condoo. tors, with delegates; from all our Settee, held their conference to Toronto last SUM - mer. The Amalgamated Society Of Carnets - ors Atka Joiners hi a British eistooletion, With headquarters in Mani:Muter, but it has an Kxecutiye Committee in New York, with which ell the Canadian and American soci- eties communicate, and it eashaine a periodi- cal lea NewYork. The Society of Amalgamat- ed Engine Bullion has its office in London, bat there -Man Antetioan branch, thwhlh all,the.VanadiOn' societies work in harmony, The Cigarnalieire' Union Is An:melon, lint a ethike pf 'eigarinalters in Toronto wad imp. parted by the Amettean ; so with the plumb. era. •It may be said generally that the soci- eties "each side the lite .will sustain each other. The trade organizations are also taken tile by WeMen, and therm all affiliate with the United States. COMPENSATED BY A. UNITED STATES MARKET. The defence of the treaty in the United States Senate debate was no the defence of the Canadian Government in many particulars. For instance, it was said that the "outrages" had been disowned as the acts of irrespons- ible men. The Canadian defence was that the "outrages"— that is, the most bonspicu- one of them which appeared in the debate— bad been disproved in the investigation. Several of them, whichexcited indignation in the United States, were deslared by a Cabinet Minister to have no foundation in fact, and after proof of the falsity of tbe al- legations, the complainants were not again heard of. Of course it hi known that ao ar- rangement made by England can :hold that ie not niaterially beneficial to Canada and She United States ; and I believe I state thd best judgment of both sides that the whole fishery question, in the hands of sensible re- presentatives of both countrieseupon ascer- tained facts, could be settled between Canada add the United States. • It is not natural that, with E- gland conducting the negotia- tions, Canada should appear as a somewhat irresponsible litigating party bent on secur- ing all that she oan get? But whatever the legal rights are, under treaties or the law of nations, lam ;etre that the absurdity of mak- ing a oaths belli of them is as much felt in Canada as in the United States. And I be- lieve the Canadian's understand that this attitude is oonsiatent with a firm mainten- ance of treaty or other rigbts by the United St 'tea 85 15 is by Canada. THE FUTURE OE CANADA—DEVELOPMENT ON THE LINE OF BRITISH CONNECTION. If one would forecest the future of Can. ada, he needs to take a wider view than personal preferences or the agitations of local parties. The railway development, the Canadian Pacific alone, has changed within five years the prospects of the politi- cal situation. It has brought together the widely -separated Provinces, and has given a new impulse to the sentiment of nation- ality. It has produced a sort of unity which no Act of Parliament could ever create. But it has done More than this; it has changed the relation of England to Canada. The Dominion is felt to be a much more im- portant part of the British Empire than it was ten years ago, and in England within less than ten years there has been & revolu- tion in colonial policy. With a line of fast steamers from the British Islands to Hali- fax, with lines of fast steamers from Van- couver to Yokohama, Hong Kong and Aus- tralia, with an all -rail transit, within Ttrit- ish limits, through an empire of magnifioent capacities, offering home for any possible British overflow, will England regard Can, ada as a weakness? 15 18 true that on this Continent the day of dynasties is over, and • Shat the' people will determine their own place. Bub thein are great commercial forces at work that cannot be ignored, which seem strong enough to keep Canada for a long time On her present line of development IC British connection.—Charless Dudley War- ner, in Harper Magazine for March. from house doors, was severe oertainly, but perhaps nob too severe. Pilfering of that kind needs to be pub down with A high heed both bedaubs) it is an iejury to those who pay for the pe,peth, and not infrequently look, to undeserved disgrace for the route boys, who are an honeet, hard.working and illappreolated race of laborer; 15 18 a pity, however, that the young thief could not have been eent to some other plates than the common jail where he will be kept idle and forced into oloise companionship with older and more hardened erinainale ad that the chattoeS are all in favour of his wining out Colonel Denison's course in sending a boy to jail for ten days for stealing newspapers of jail e Much Omit° boy than when he en- tered it. Of &Anse the Magistrate had no- where Olae ID gelid him, but the fact empha- Sizesthe 000es818y for ottr philantletopio ditizato raid law inaltere to both* thenolelve0 and cotteider What cam be aerie to Meet Muth 090094 1 Sikkim and Stalin, Sikkim and Suakin both threaten ter give the British forcers and their altiee M0113 Ma. bits in the immediate fattire: The Mahdi is about M egad reinfernementa to Wean Dignti her Le nOwaittatk On the English lines, While the refetal of :the Thibetnais to Make any 'imam:Aka* b0le Indian Governinent seenei to reader another eampeign among the Himalayas neoweary for the coming 80a8011. Again, the dangerous impetuosity of the Amcor of Afghanistan needs, to he restreined. Flushed with nisi defeat of Ishak Khan, he proposes, it ie ;di, to take steps against Russia as the eueneoted instigator of bleak. This imprudence England would have to restrain, since, however well pleased with the Ameer's fidelity to her, the could not permit hine 50 gri beyond, hen fioatier and thereby give Russia an exouse for chin- ing him bath and creasing he her turn: ; Al- together, if the bursting of that '1,U:winder oloud',' whit% the British, Seoretary of War sees gathering 'over ..Buroyeihoiili -net Unto to pass during the preeent yeati there will yet be Some play of distant heat lightning for the British Wier Office to watch.--ilkLY Times. The Glory of War De• parting. • ThePhiladelphia" Press" eaye :—Themety Englith drill boek just adopted for the, ise of the arditteixts the space given to company drill to one-half he old tspacie and expands the pages devoted to teethes to thrice the old number. The mechanical wheeling of com- panies on whose perfection ou,r militia coin yanies ride themselves le lenient altogether. 86 are the Movements for counter -marching. The drill is greatly simplified. The figures and moveinients which. make so Ann a elaive on the parade ;ground and ate' so useless in battle are omitted. For the long, straight wheel, the rigid line, volley -firing, counter- marching, and all the intricate drill to which so much time is given by our national guara; there is substituted a loose order in which the fire is maintained by the independent action. of, a cloud of skirmishers, and • the company offieers are occupied in feeding this skinisieh line from the rear and keeping the company in hand over a wide 'area,' not by command, but'by the intelligent coopera- tion of the men. Mr. Vanderbilt Got In, A good story is told about one of the Maine Central engineers, says the Bangor " Commercial." Lest stammer when the Vanderbilt oar was at Bar Harbour the manager of the Maine Central sent an engine down there to take the oar to Portland. The ran was made in very quick time, and at Brunswick the train stopped to take on water. While. there Mr. Vanderbilt got, oat and said to the engineer that he didn't want him to drive FID fast. The engineer, the veteran Simpson, looked at hiin a. quar- ter of a minute, and then said "1 am run- ning this train under orders from Payson Tucker to be in Portland at 1.C7. If you want to stop here all right. If you want ID go to Portland get in." He gob in. • The British Navy. Touching the two main questions of the insufficiency of Great Britain's present MONIS of defence to insure the national safety in cage of war with a combination of marl time powers, and the direction which the increased expenditure must take in order to afford a satisfactory assurance of such safety, Share ,seems to be little difference of opinihn. "There is," says the London "Times," "practically no escape front the conclusion that our navy ie not at present strong enough for the adequate defence of the Empire and its commerce, and that it ought to be made strong enough with as little delay as pos- sible. The Ciey of London hits now deliber- ately adopted this conclusion, and the °Gan- try at large is of the same mind." This is not a mere newspaper opinion, but is based upon the careful statements of such authori- tiea as leord Charles Baresford,Lotd Brassey, Sir Andrew Clark, and others of the most corapetents naval authoritiee in the realm. With 'regard to the other belief implied in this, viz.., that the only adequate defence possible is the navy, there is almost equal unanimity, What Had Happened. Anxious Mother --"Why, my dear, in tears 1 What has happened 2" • Married Daughter—"I—I got angry at Arthur this morning and said a lot of—of mean thiogs and then he said a lot of meaner ones and —and I couldn't think of anything mean enough to say back, I couldn't. She was all Right. Mrs. Ghastor-0, Mrs. Thoughtly, I wu surprised to hear that your eldest daughter is engaged to an Irish tradesman. Mrs. Thoughtly—Perfectly tiue. • He's a plumber and owns six large shop; He takes us all to Europe after the wedding. You have my sincerest congratulations! Sending a Shook. Among certain Eastern nations the Eng- lishman is supposied, from the moms with which he uses certain simple remedies, to be endowed with magic powers, as a "med- icine man." Its is not only the people du; ed as uncivilized, however who regard medioine as a blaok art, which oan do any- thing. • A woman recently visited the office of a Phyeiolan Who has become celebrated her his giumessful use Of electricity in various di:leases, and inquired: "If anybody had headaches in the baok of their nook, and was so nervous they could fiy, do you think your batteries would help' mat" • "I might recommend electricity," said the doOtor; "but I mush know more about your Symptoms." "Bless you, they aren't my aymptomel" "Then ciente another day with the pa- tient," "13tit I can't; bring her." "Why not?" "Beeatsse 110 lives out West. I. know you can telegraph that far, and I thought maybe yeti could set your batteries to wor k on her." A Hostile Country. "San Francisco Call:" Publio gentiment in the United Stetee has been it a certain sense hostile to England for the last qUarter of a century for the pert the took in the civil war of 1861 66. While there is a good deal of peraonal good feeling between, the people of , the tens countriess, tilde is, la re national ! sone; an undercurrent of antagenisin. Should England become involved in a war with France or with Russia, American one. pithy would be against her, It might be diOUI5ID glael ni reason why it should be, but there le 'hardly a doubt but that a -vast majority of Anterioatt0 Would like to see England humiliated. A MATHEMATICAL 'WONDER, , lationant Old Tom' Onbliage tend Ms Aston-. , ishing Feats 'with noires, There died at Woodville, 'ire., some time ago one of the moth remarkable. elieraotere , the Blue Ridge country of Virginia ever pro- duced. Old Tem Cabbage, as he was known, was the matheriatieet Wonder and the pride of the Bliin gidge,people. His feats at fig - urea and his calculations were indeed won- derful, aai,11ko Wind, Tom, the mueical prodigy, his powers; were intuitive and in- ' nate. • Old Tom did not lino* a figure or a letter aud never went, toss:heel for on hour In his life. He was a rough, ignorant and Untutored. native of the ' hint and yet he .13ould,solve, almost in a moment, any problem read to him from the text books oriirosn the papers and give the correob ansteer. Ho would add a column of figures of any pothi- ble length, silk:tub, multiply or divide, and do ib so quickly as to surprose , the scholar who tested hie reinarkable powers. His ,answer sometitnes will itiolude dozen or mere figures, and knowiagebnolute. ly nothigg about the numerating of ',them he would give the figures beginning.- at the. right, and if a mistake had, been inade or a wrong figure purposely introduped :hy the person taking down his answer, old Tone 'would dietcover it at once 'and. give the cor- rect one, He kaew nothing of the notabkot ef numbers, and Isis, whole) knowledge was limited to the giving 4:hie answers, figure by figure, ag fast as they maid be written) from the right tolhe left; • Poisons' of fair. education, who tested old Tom, lar they obuld never sttitnp him, ,thbhgla tbey, hunted for the most diih.oidt'probleine In:the books, and believe he could give the correbtrannwer M any poesible sum. Problems,hirbiving square and cube roots, comPletingthereduare of equations were as readily tsolved by hire as simple addition, and*yet �rOiearon to ask him what cube root meant he would tell yon he .didn't know. No one knew the- wey old Tom did these things, indeed he. coOldln o 8 toll you Winne% 'HO' Was simply sui peusris and the only one, of his kind :ever known to the people of the Blue Ridge. Old Tom went to the .University of Vir- ginia upon the isOlioitetion of Beene of hie, admirers, with a view' to ' hie education, there in his particular line, but after aston- ishing the professors by his great gifts and having done all the sums given him by the students, he deoliaed all proffers made him. and returned to hie Milk 'the Old Reg and to the compeny of hie dogs and his riffe. The greenlet 'Work' of this strangely gift- ed Mall -was- the calthlations and thraput- atione for a hundred -year almanac, made. entirely by himself and reduced to writing by one of his neighbors. This work was. done by him mentally, arid included' all the eclipses as well as.changee of the mooneend was calculated menially for the part of the, State in which- he lived. It wag Omar pttblitshed owingto the' otitbreak of the weir at the timeest its cominetionebut those who have compared the manuscript with other published almanacs Bay it is a perfectly correct one. . • How this unlettered man could understands the movements of the earth and the heaven- ly bodies is the strangest of his surpriping, achievements, and mnat remain one of tke, mysteries known only to Him Who sweated' man fearfully and wonderfully, and breathed into him tele.spirit of life.- On onehociasion -wasmiked 11 he -Could tea the 'contents of -a pile of brush by -someinsigoneiehe *thought to -tit him, and hie retily.predeti Old Tom to be pt home where 'figiteensteire ocnicierned. ii yes," said 'he, "put lb in water and theatihre the water it diet:Aleut and you will havo•the eolice contents." , • , 'His measere'ment of land by aimply'walk- ing around it, no matter what its shapee and making his own calculations, have been pro- ved to.be comet, and there are those who would take a survey made • by Old' Tom in preference to One made by. compass ' and se ropier ,eurveyora Outincle of his peculiar gift, Old Tom Cabbage was a sad, haw; and he died ' as he had lived—ad 'poor and shiftless as.his nionntain- neighbors. "He did not -even own the email niece of land upon, whiele his hut Was built, save by the righta of a squatter, and work to him was an un- known and an unsolved quantity. Yet he was a quiet,aaid a contented Man, and was never better satisfied then when copiously supplied with applejack or mountain dew. He would do the Bum given him leyway of pay for the liquor. Not Obedinoe but Soap. Toe scholars in a girls' primary depart- ment of a certain publics school were in the habit of bringing small bottles of soap ,sudes to school to use in cleaning their elates. The thing soon became a nuisance. The children neglected their lessons and spent their time in shaking bottles of suds. The teacher forbade thein bringing any more. A few days afterward the teacher ought one of the little girls with a bottle which she • was ebaking. "Didn't I tell you not to bring that here again?" she demanded. " Yesam," was the answer. " Well, is that obedience ?" inquired the teacher. "NO, ma'am." "Then, what is it ?" "Soap." The teacher bit her lip to keep from laughing, while the other scholars joined in a general titter. Motherly Solioitude What a fine little fellow l" raid the patronizing old gentleman • who had ' been elected Repregentatiee for fear anacieseive times -from his Congressional district. • /Es remark was addrested 'to a kind -faced -lady who held In her TOMS' a little' ' felloW who blinked gravely at all thet vies goiag on. " Yes," replied the ledge " His father and I set a great deed of 'store by him." "Well, he'd a brightelooking' little fellow. Maybe he'll be a Congressman some day." 7 "Maybe he will;" said the mother. "But," she added, earnestly, "I'm going to do my best to raise him right."—(Mer- chant Traveler. • Truth in Time of Danger. They,Were seated very clue to the water side, and he was gently toying with her hair and speaking in that low tone Which only comes; after nightfall, atid before bed- time. „ "My dear," he whispered, "is this all your own bair ?" Shyly she returned : "?'es, George, of course." Just then a splath was heard, and the fell into the water, "Look Out, Geotge," she eoreamed in frobzied tones, as he eased her desperately by the hair, "look out for my hair; mac& of it 18 coming loose." The lath Dr. Die Lewis said: The trnini is, the medical profession stands dated and helpleas in the presence of more than ono kidney malady." Re alSo said: "If I found myself the victim of a serious kidney trouble, would tee Warisere Safe Cure."