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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1889-3-21, Page 7i TIEE risERTER " Dora, aou lead bettet take your aleter • to he rem and make her lie downi° the judge eawl, gently. «Adela1 my deer, you • must try to control voureelfa Remember NOMIN4,06 then) your teen will not hying your husband Yeer full of anxietea Moment. end privation op, your eug or Theo% 0,, 0 y 0 U. Cif every leihd. DoWn here in Lopielana we mum, take our, of that.), Were beginning to realize that our cause was After they we the room, the Judas ang hi:Pekes) and that the GorifederaeY sit" near I eat talent until the lamps were lighted. its end. I ouppose it was that knowledge sugouly he aprutio to he too, or we beurg whioh made Pulite et' "nide"' 1Vien /344 the blinded eteps of a man on the long reilt. loot all sense of responeibtity in the whirl 'aude front er the home. Of events and acts were constantly commit- Then the door we violently thrown open ted, whale, in the light of a calmer day, and Theo stood before us, Theo Pale, wild. mem the note of madmen- eyed, and covered vidth dust. He looked in New, Orleans, he, potsession of the Federate, der &etre strangely, ihaulringlta and tittereti hod quieted down to a aertaia exteat, but a deep groan. Hie perched lips strove to the °perfidy pariehes were in a ferment, 00- epeek but the worde died in a gasp. cupied alattrey were in Ore by Coirfederate and Northern troops, The ravages of irres- ponsible, plundering bande had become SO terrible in sore of the Western pariehes that, at the urgent iovitetion of Judge Max- . well, who was a distant relative of mine, I took refuge with him at /3thoabel, a planta. tion in the Red 'laver Country. This distriot, it is true, wan ecieupied by Federal troop, but they ,were well diem -Win- ed, and committed na otedages. Aftet the terrors and uncertainties of the " debatable . ground," there was a comfortable feeling of ma as d m an attack et ague, aeounty in finding oursetvee within the lines • a In. a moment he controlled hitter& and tried to sFeak calm - It was the lath year of the Civil War—a baok one clay, aooner. You are °eel injur. " My eon! what la the matter ?" cried the tudge, taking his head. "Adele, my darling 1 Is she dead 1" the son managed to artioulate. "Am I too late 1" 'a • "Adele I Why, she Is in perfeet health —never has been ill. She was in this rode five mbinths ego," The judge stopped suddenly, terrified by his son's look. He had grown ghastly pale, and tan/nine° a chair. He covered his face with his bande, shale - and not in danger of capture. Several ladies, friends of judge Maxwell, had collect- ed at Boscabel, so our sooled life was far from dull. Beautiful Adele Maxwell was our 'meet young daughter. in -hew. She had only been Interned a week whoa tier Isusbend, whinhati enlisted in. General Taylor's army, was nom - polled to leave her. She was a lovely, irresponsible child—a spoiled one, too. At eixteen years of age, she had married Theo Maxwell, who was nob then twenty. It Wei die to the reoka loaners so mention tit thee period tliat the marriage of the y rung pate was sanctioned by the twe Theo was 'rave and thoughtful, beyond his years; brave, as were all the Maxwells, almost stern in hie ideas of duty, andonly weak where hia beautiful little bride was concerned, Most Southern women were brave and higlespirited, ready to make any eaorifice for a comae they considered sacred, bub Adela had not a grain of patriotiern in her soul. She did not oare a straw which came conquered, eci that the war might end and :Vino return /some. Her standibe grievance was that he had joined the array as a private, instead otenarching forth in all the glory of a general's paraphernalia. At times she would give way to a perfect passion of grief, and eat nothing for days, When the mood would change, and she would be in the wildest spirits, laughing, shafting, dancing. I She reminded me of a butterfly I on cesawnighting on the rim of a cannon the moment before it was discharged. One morning she buret in upon us in the breakfastroom in an irritable and impatient mood. "I , can't stand this I" she oried. "I never closed my eyes all night thinking of Theo. I cant eat, I can't sleep, end I shall die if Theo doesn't come hams! I retest see with my own eyes that he is alive and „ " But how can you expect him to come ?" cried Dora Maxwell, the judge's daughter, a sensible, spirited girl, who hadnot too much patience with her aistarmin-law's childish ways. "Be is a soldier, a private, too, and they are not allowed a furlough every time their wives happen to ory for them. With all this skirmishing going on around us, you arrely don't think there's any chance of his getting off? I do widb, Adele, -you would try to b- reaeonable—for Theo's sake, infor no other reareen." "Look at Mrs. Rogers," she continued. "Her husbirad ie in constant peril, and see how brave and cheerful she is 1 She says that is the only way in which she can imit- ate bile." , "Don't talk to me of Mrs. Rogers 1" Adela looked like a smell fury. "Do you pretend to compare my love for Theo with leers for her husband ? ' Easy aweigh to be quiet when she doesn't care a picayune for him! Didn't she actually hurry him off last week, when be hadn't been with her for more than an hour? Dont compare em- end mit that cold.hearted thing up as my model 1" ` "1 don't compere you," Dora said, dryly, "Mrs. Rogers is utterly unselfish, a noble woman, to whom the honor of her husband is as dear as his life. She hurried him off, because she knew if be waiteduntil day- light his risk of being made a prisoner would be great. Besides, he had promised his captain to be back that night, and he was in honor bound to keep his word," ly, "Read that," he said, drawing a letter from hia ptioket, and handing it to his father, "and tell me if I could have obeyed away?' Menthe afterweade I read the letter. in ib Adele told her lumbered ahentrair dying and he must come to her immediately if he would see her alive, but, Ill as she was, no one should write him but herself. If be loved her, come 1The letter was written in faint, tremulous &armee* as if the hand was too weak to hold xthe pen and her eyes too dine tereee the' lines. . iTuditti Maxwell's face was stern when he laid down the letter. ' "4 It was an unjustifiable deceit," he said. "but you meet try to forgive her. Yon must not let it embitter your visit." "Father, do you eta) understand ?" cried the young soldier. "1 asked for permits- sion to visit a dying wife, but the general positively refused. They eepeot a battle at Pleaaanv Pill, and not a man was allow- ed to leave. I mane without permission," "A deserter 1 you, Theo Maxwell 1" orzed the fudge, looking stunned. a deeerter on the eve of battle," Theo cried, with a bitter laugh. "I've done for myself now, father." ' There was a hurried step in the corridor, and in a moment Adele, was in her husband's arms, crying and laughing hysterically. "1 heard your voice, darling," she cried "Why hadn't I been called? Didn't I tell you all he should come back to nae? And now l've got him 1 I've got .him I've got him I" her voice rising shrill and strained with excitement. "But what is the matter, Theo? Why, do you look at me like that 1 What is the matter with you all?" "The matter, madam," cried Judge Max. well, sternly, "le dieRraCO to my son and your husband. 13y your falsehoods you brought him from hia post --made him a deserter. Do you'know what that means. A diegricefiel death ! Yes, that is what you have brought upon the man you pro. •feased to love." He pot no further, for Adela's head. fell back on her husband's shoulder in merciful unconsciousness. He strained her to his bosom arid premed Le kiss upon her white lips. "Dora, take her to her room," he said, "Be gentle with her for my sake, sister. i She s only a child and did nob know what she was doing. I mnet get away from here before she revives," Pie tight- ened his belt and pulled his oep over his eyes. The old judge laid a trembling hand on his sont arm.. "Theo, my son," he said, tremulously, "don't go back 1 There is a squedron of Northern soldiers camped just back here in Miller's field. You can be taken prisoner by them you know, and you'll be safe from, from—" He stammered and choked. "1 underatand yon, father," Theo said, quietly. "You mean if I am taken prisoner I will escape a deaertere fate. It would add cowardice to desertion. No, sir, 1 will get back the soonest Ican, and bear me fate as your son should. I had to ran a cordon of Federal troops coming here, and I fear it will be hard work getting back through She lines." * "But General Taylor is my friend." The old man's speech was growing inarticulate. "1 will write to him, I will go to hem. He Adria burst into a flo'od of angry tears. must listen to me. No court-martial could ly:" Honor I honor I" she repeated, petulant- condenne you under such circumstances." " I just hate the word I Honor made Theo join the army, and leave me here to be wretched 1 Honor keeps him away! Some day honor is going to Maier him on the bat- tlefield, with e, bullet in his heart. What will it do for me, if I lose him, I'd like to know? Nobodt here feels for me. Nobody loves Theo as I do 1" She hurried from the room, hut stopped on the threshold and turned her pretty, tear stained face to us. "Theo shell come back to me, in spite of you all 1" she cried, Dora sighed deeply as the door closed be- hind Adele,. "Poor Theo 1" she said, eoftly. "Be always seemed to feel such a contempt for silly women 1 Yet that girl can make him do anything 1" . "She ie such a ohild1" I interpothcl. "Yes, and that makes her so unfit to be a wife. We are going to have an opportuni- ty of sending letters through the lines -an day, and 'heaven only knows what Adela will write to her husband 1 Enough to make hien wretched, I dare say, for she won't s.pare him a tear of hers. He'll fancy her plump to death, and before night, I dare arty, be laughing and singing." Butyfor onoe Dore was mistaken. Adele, . complained of a violent headache, and after writing her letter went to bed, and did not make her appeerance until late the next) day. Then the wore a shrieked, nether frightened look, not natural to het She appeared like a namohievotis child Who had done some- thing naughty, and waft afraid of being found out For the next two following cleys she was in a gate of perpetual excitement almost hysterical. She would rush from door to window, or to any plane whioh commanded a view of the long front avenue, At any Theo sinned sadly. "1 hope for little leniency. I left on the eve of a battle, you must remember. Fare- well, father I Be kind to my poor little 'wife. Dora, don't unman me." She was clinging to him and sobbing convulsively. "If you love me you will go back to Adela. Do not tell her what may happen to me. I leave her to yon all as a sacred charge," he added, solemnly, and before any one an- ewered had gone. "1 will go myself," stammered the judge, trying to rise from hie seat. will explain to General Taylor. My boy shall not be sacrificed." A convulsion passed over hie face, his feet refused to support him and he sank back in the their. • We knew well whet was the matter. A year before he had an attack of paralyeie, a alight oh' e and his old enemy had him once mere in' its relentless grip. For three days and nights we watched beeide inns 'until the end ammo. A week afterward Our cruel euepense as to Theo's fate was over. In trying to pass the Federal pickets he bed been shot. " Think God I" sobbed Dora, he was spend the ignominious fate of a deserter. I think he Wanted to be killed." Adele's grief at first was violent, She then returned to ber fathert houee. In a fews menthe I iraw ber there as lovely, as irresponsible and as gay air if the had nob caused the disgrace and death of the man wire had loved her nim.e than his ditty. soARIE B. WILLIAMS, Drew Rill Gun. Tonomro, Meath 18 ---Deteetwe Black Unexpected sound the would eprineg up, and aneeted Leywood Roman, a colored man listen breatbleesly, and then sink back in lilting at 164 Centre tithed, and a porter at her seat with a eigta the Queen's hotel, charged with having shot "1 am afraid our little girl is getting at Henry Kerrie, anothet eolored man on nerenue," sail Judge Maxwell on the Mae Centre atreen early the other morning while and evening, putting' hit arm affs,otionately returning from a dance, It IS Stated that around her, "Como, it won't de when a ,maih and his titter were walking together Theo retntne, for him to find a wife with, on their way hoine when Rallis attempted her nerves 'unstrung. The women of our to take the girl away frail him. Some hot family were as brave as the men, and / Words en rend and Remain dime a revolver and can't have a lefaxwell a coeVerd." , fired, The bullet fortunately flew wide of " But Ian not an out and out %Weill," the Inuit and Remain lied vaithoitt waiting she answered with an hysterical laugh; to try a ElOOOlia thole When taken to pollee "raid I'm an awful 000verd. Oh, why den't headquarters he denied hating fired at h 1 'Ibis wat f 11 by a /Innis hut elle ea that hie life was threat. violent burst of teats, and she Wrting her ened if he would net allow his sister to gti • tiCEUSNIWLD) — , Ignorant Wives, It is an old theme, but one that cannot be too often discoursed upon, the theme thee the daughters of today are not given the eduostion they abould have in the praotioal duties of life, the duties that oome to moat of them es mistreaties of homes, as wives and mothers. We hear often enough of the ne- ceesity of training schools for servants, but leas is raid about the necessity of a training school for mistresses and one is needed as much as the other, for there Is no doubt of the fact that the great and ever increasing hue and pry heard. about the incompetency of thevants arises from the sob that tramway mistressela are as ipnorant of the duties of kitchen and the home in general, as are the seryezets whom they are expected to direct. In Many peso it is an attempt of the bliaal to leitd the blind. To be Sure one hears now of sewing schools and cooking schools, the utility of width one doee not question, but the practical, every- day duties of life oan be learned only in the home, and they consist in eomething naere than a knowledge of how to make angel cake and oyster pattiee. I once heard a young woman of almost twenty-five, who was en- gaged to be married, say with a girlish gig- gle, that she never made a loaf of bread or swept a room In all her life. My sympathy went out to the man she was to marry. I heard anothergirl say, "Oh, it's easy to keep house nowadays when one can buy everything already cooked. Why they even bring bele- ed beans and hot brown bread right to the door, and one can buy all sorts of canned things and get up a, lovely meal at a mce ment's notice." I don't know if she exected to be married soon, but I trust not I have eaten some of theta meals furnished at a "moment's not- iced' by the baker and the grocer, and I feel Bony for the innocent victim of a woman who expects to feed her husband regularly on that kind of fare. "Society makes so many demands on one's time now, that women are compelled to give thee attention to theirthomes than they once gave to them," I heard a woman aay once in feeble excuse for the condition of, things in her own badly ordered and half -kept home in which there was always a spirit of unrest and unhappiness. Is not the welfare, moral and physical, and the happiness of a wife's husband and children of immeasurably greater conse- quence than all the "society ". on earth? And when it comae to a knowledge of the melanin and mewed duties of maternity it is almost appalling to know how utterly igno- rant many young mothers are. The story would be almose laughable if it were not so pitiful of the young mother who seemed to know simply nothing at all &bent the care of her babersand when waked if her mother had rever talked to her about the) laws and duties of maternity, she said simply—"Oh, no; mamma thought it wasn't nice to talk about such things.' Perhaps it is because I have no daughters of my own, all of my own dueks being drakes, a fact I greatly regret), that I think I know j'ase how a daughter should be ttaire ed I know that I would think it a sin to send a daughter of mine to a home of her awn as ignorant of its duties and of duty to herself and her husband as are so many wives of to-day.—(Good Housekeeping. When to Use the ringers in Eating. It is said that Cardinal Richelieu detected an adventurer who was paseing himself off as a nobleman, by his helping himself to olives withri fork, because it was the nue- tom then, as it is now to help one's self from the dish with the fingers, if an olive fork is not provided, rather than to nee one of a different pattern. Forks for the dish alone are now manufactured and are very generally used, bele after the olive' hap reached the Plate it is alviays carried to the mouth by the finger% Of course we are not referring to the stuffed olives which are bottled in tit. , These Who are very particular hold the large end of a spear of asparagus with a fork while with the tip end, per:014th they daint- ily separate the tender :01mi-tops from the white end, whioh is theinputeasidt. Others take the white end between the fingers and carry it to the ehouth. Both are correct, but the former is muoh more dainty and easily done. 'Celery is alwayetaken from the dish and carried to tbe mouth by the fiagern If in- dividual salts are 'not provided, it is eti- quette to use one half. of the traitor, plan? for salt. If sele shakere are used, .litld the celery in the left' hand just over the rim of your plate audgently eprinkle it With salt. and the old cuatotn of . puttime apoonfal of salt on the cloth in practice, When corn is served, on the oob it meat be taken in the 'Selene only managed very 'daintily. We'have seen pretty little doy- lies for the warpase of holding it, but it is a question if that Li not terreing„table en too far. Many housekeepers, and eve - daily in the South, serve corn as temperate course when finger bowls are placed by each plate and removed with the course. Lettuce when served without dressing is always pulled to pieties with the fingers. Thane neually the lady 's dutyand there is no prettier platen) than that of a young lady preparing a piste of young lettuce leaves in this way, for the tender green shows off to prethotion her dainty white hands and she may be be as exquisitely neat about it as she likes, and it it one of the moot fascinat- ing and becoming of table duties theta host- ess mutt possible provide for her lady gueeta, to assist in helping the gentlemen to a so - dal or informal meal. Water cress is also taken in the fingers and the prettiest way of serving it is to obtain a long lowsided basket or dish, in the bottom of which lay a folded napkin, then heap the cress so as to fill the basket and you have not Only an enjoyable, but a very ornamental dieh tor the breakfast treble. When a Edith of lemon is served with fiah ot Meat it be mtch mere correct to take the slice in the fingers, double the ends together and gently squeeze the juice over the (innate than to use a knife, for that purpose, as is sometimes dote. It hi al waya proper to help one% self to bread, them, and lump sugar, if tongs are not provided, With the fingers. Never use your own knife. fork or epoon to take from the dieh. It be also correct if a piste of hot, unbroken biecnits is permed, to not only break off for yourself With your fingers, but or your neighbor alto, Chace Receipts, Anion]) Icinc.-131auch fifteen ounce, of Jordon almonds and one ounce of bitter almonds; pound to it SO10003 fine paste with Iwo tableepoonfule of ormegreflowet water; then add one Rua quarter potted of con- fectianer's sugar, and four whites of Mega. Mix and pound well for eight or tee min- utee, and ice the bake. Pub into eanety sloW" oven where it eheield remain fot 35 Mirentes Withotit acquiring any thlonlir riow ready in he covered retell peeler icing. Italles--Pleoe Otte pound of confeetionert °ream tartar, end the whitee of three egg()); beat with a wooden spoon 20 militates, When it should be very white and light,and on letting W run from the Opoen, preserve its threacaliite appearance 3 or 4 minutes. Toe the cake, and when dry it may be orna- mented. One can purehase funnels for the prime of decorating iced cakes, With differ" erib allayed ends. Au place pf no better funnel, melte a cornucopia of OW writing, paper ; MI it with 109, and press it out at. the small end, forming different Ohapes according to tote, over the cake. Little centre pithee or leaves can always be pure chased at the confectionere to aid in the decoration. Weeinno Ceatz,—Three pounds each of flour, butter and sugar, six pounds of raisins, six pounds of currante, one once each of nutmeg and cinnamon, ball an •ounce of cloven a pound of citron, the grated peel and hien. of two lemons, and thirty egga. Stir the butter and sugar to a cream, beat the yolks and whites of the eggs separately, and add them to the butter and sugar, then by degrees put in two-thirde of the flour, then the epee and lemon -juice, and last the fruit, mixed with the remaining third of the flour. Ifave the citron ready one up, and when you have put a little of the cake' into the pan, put in a layer of citron, then more cake, and again citron and cake alternately, This quantity will bake in one cake in five hours, in two oakee, three hours. The Haida Indians. Note little of Interest andromance attaches itself to the Heide Indians of Queen Chan lotto Islands, from a tradition whioh exiat ,s that their ancestors came, originally; in canoes from a country far to the southwand. It is said that they were many moons on the voyage, that they landed at many points on thetvey — like 2Eneas and xis Troj MU ofclass- to story—and that they were 'repelled by storage natives, or ill omens, till, finally, they reached tbese outlying islands where they established themeelves, built villages and fashioned new canoes from the huge yel- low cedar -trees whioh here reaoh their great- est size. It is supposed by some travellers that these exiles, seeking a home and a country, were a remnant of the mighty Aztec people of Mexico, compered by Cortez and his Span- ish °Levellers, and that after the tragic; fall of Tenochtitlan, the Aztec capital of Mexico, e band of fugitives made its way down to the west coast and came northward. Certein it is that the Midas much excel the other Indian tribes of the north west coast, in warlike sprain physique and ingenuity. Whey are now often MD at Sitka, 'Victoria and Paget) Sound porta, hut still claim the Queen Charlotte Islands as their home, Wnat gives the legend of their origin. some degree of. probability is the ad they pothers in carving and engraving in stone, wood, bone, silver, copper and gold. As nearly as can be ascertained, the practicie of carving the huge totem pods whioh form eo odd and striking a feature of the Indian villages along this coast originated with the Heiden There is something in the grotesque sculp- ture and imagery on these totems suggestive of Aztec art, as seen in the museum at city of Mexico. Not even civilized art ;exceed° the skill displayed by the Rendes in carving plates, platters, tureens, miniature totems and animal groups of statuary from solid, fine-grained black slate; for it is done with each skill, finish, and good taste in deeign that a single platter or group often com- mands forty or fifty dollara. More remarkable yet is the skill exhibit- ed by these people in the modelling and construction of large canoes from the trunks of the gigantio yellow cedars, which, on the Queen Charlotte !elands, attain a diameter of seven and even ten or twelve feet—for Queen Charlotte's is the Lebanon of the northwest coast. . From a single cedar log the Heiden fashion a canoe sometimes seventyfive feet long, with a 'breadth of seven or eight feet, a craft capable of carrying fifty persons, a good sailor, seaworthy and safe for a voy- age of hundreds of miles on the open sea. The prows of these hgue canoes are often curved upward in e, fornsida,ble war beak, and decorated like the galleys of anemic times. It will, indeed, be an interesting diecov- ery in ethnology if the arta of these west coast Haidas can be traced to their source in that peouliar Aztec civilizetion of early Mexico, which Cortez and the conguismdm e crushed so ruthlessly three hundred and seventy years ago. One Million Dolls. A few weeks ago we spoke of the phono graph dolls which Mr. Edison is now invent- ing, and the Boston Journal has the tollow- in g additional facts about their manufacture and salei : Imagine for One moment one million dello I Plated side by side theywould almost extend around Boston Common. And yet this num- ber, it is add, has been ordered, and what ts still more alarming, these charming litble tots are all to be fitted internally with pho- nographs invented by Edison. Touch a spring and they begin, some to sing, some to p:ay and some to soold, They can be made to talk it any langnage, and sing secular mush) or anthem. It is true they will keep onsinging the tune and repeatingthe tames°. Motley, which may become tedions in time. To obviate this there can be an interchange of della. The pet which sings "Home Sweet Home," o n Commonwealth Aisne°, can be sent on a viait to Between Street), and the doll exchanged •will How doth the little busy bee." It Is aaid that one million of theee clone are to be manufactured by a company 'which has a retook valuation of two millions of dollars. (inc million of dolla atiMeaca will be $5,000, 000, and this is the number that the -market of the Northern States will absorb. The amount to be derived from the rest of the world tan be imagined. The Phonographic Doll Company will he listed in Boston and New York, end dailyquotations of the stock will be given. Tee possibilities of tide dom. teeny are beyond Cabernet and Reek, Tama, rack, Pullman Palace Oar Company, or even the Chemical Bank of New 'York . At least monthly dividends will hedeolared, and the doll mania will never die out; hematite if you tire of hearing, "The boy stood on the burning deck," you can exchange it at the headquarters of thecompany, paying a Alight compensation, for ono winch ivilt ask you, "Why should the spirit of morbid prOucl?'' Ohlialeta °melee men have a family of these della, a )a, even old bachelors may be able tO realisa with Tupperthet "a babe the latus IS a of pleasure." Not for Sport. Critheet (te clerk) —"What aro you doing there, Henry Honry—“1 ani pleating the dead flies oat of these dried therrentsa Grober—" You tust lot 'ern alone. Do you suppose that I am running this breed - nett for fun 2 Do you think that / oOlo down here early in the morning and toil all day jut for the spirit of the thirig "? You hatde at if in despair. with Ilarris. sugar in bowl With a level teaspoonful OP let tiherte Alt% alone.' Antrum Facts nbout thenfoudertiet Island Continent. Auethelie contains an area of antra 3,000,- 000 Negro miles, Or nearly that of the United'States exclueive of Alaska.. Owing to its position at the eratipodea of the olvilim ed world, this contheent wee longer unknown tban any other eetuntry of similar extent. It) was Bret visited during the,aeventeenth century, and in the latter half of the eight. teenth century was explored along the coast, While in 1788 oolenization began by the transportation of a shipload of criminals to Port) Jaeltson. The interior of the itounix9 Is a plateau seudded with groups of aniall mountains, and there are higher ranges wield to the east and west emit. There are IMMO excellent and large harbors in var- ious parts of the coast, but the greater part eouth, is low and sandy. Nearly all around of the there on the north, the west, and the reesv.rtuyeso,ra-,enwe htriouhstatets4;twttle optiljrgrairengine have tthen in order to get some light) on the sebjeote will have good reaulte. By ell means let us have these wires underground, If the thing be at all possible, It is emir °warranties as that at 81. George, which Amite the conventional veneer from the outside of character and reveal more human nature la ten minutes than would heve come to the surface in at many yams under ordinary oiroumitances, There are few natures who can stem& th teat so well, and come out of the furnace more glorioualy than was the oase with Mist fresh are more like marshes than lakes, be. Aggie Nacholson, of Hamilton, who proved mg dependent) for thew supplies of water on the rivers and floods in the rainy season. The entire central part of the continent is a plain, so destitute of water courses as to be almost a desert, The continent) of Aus- tralia, extending over twenty-eigbe degrees of latitude, has, of course, considerable die- ereitiee of climate, but far less then those of any other great country- In the southeast- ern part the rainfall is pretty good, and the heat of the summer season is tempered by the sea breezea. The mean annual temper - stare is 644 deg. Fahr. The province of Victoria has a similar mild character much like Sonthern Europe. The mean temper- ature through the year at Melbourne is 58.8 deg Fahr. The central and western parts of the continent, however, are very dry and Intensely hot in the atimener months. The continent of Australia is divided into trve colonies —New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia, and Western Australia. In the mountains minerals abound, consprising gold, copper, iron, and coal in large quantities, silver, mercury, tin, zinc, and others in leaser amount. All the settled portions of tbe country are intersect- ed by railways, extending to mealy 6000 miles, and with about 59,956 miles ot tele- graphic wire, connecting all the prinolpal towns. The productions of the different colonies include wheat and all other graina, with all the vegetrables and fruits of temper- ate climes. The total population of Aus- tralia was estimated in December, 1888, 2,800,886. IHTHRHSTING ITM The road of Marriage is sometnnea de- . e pitted as o very rough oxie be trowel, bat the newly wedded Emperor of China, in bound to be well shod for all eventuantlea, N� fewer than two hundred and sixty pears of boots having been made for that young bridearoom. Five and twetty skylarks, breve t fn these skier from Eeglancl, are to a . •s loose) at TAB Angeles, Oal. Oooe a like ex- periment) was tried hi WOW Jethey, hat the oats ate them, or lightning Maack theme - there's no telling yvhiob. In the dryer, mildel Cali/mem air the larks may thrive and nest and breed; end it isi to be hoped they will. The expanse of telegraph wires on some of the streets of this city is becoming more and more ominously imp.oeing, and whet is to be done about it, is a very Herions the coast and the east part of the continent is a rich grazing country, well adapted to the rearing of sheep, of which there were 64,500,000 in 1887 Sheep farming is the most important branch of incluatry in the country. Speaking generally, one of the most notable characteristics of the continent Is its somoity of rivere and fresh water lakes, There are few riven of any considerable size along the whole coast line of 8000 miles, and in OM strip of nearly 1500 miles on the routhociast there is not a single water course. Tixere are many small lakeer, but numbers of them are salt, and those bleat are Photographin a Snow -storm. 4 certain artist in a New England town bad a laughable and yet a somewheb VOX. ations experience last winter while attempt- ing toiphotograph a snow -storm. One after- noon n midwmter he was gratified by just such a snowfall as he had deemed; the large, white flakes, heavy with moisture, drifted slowly, lazily down to earth. Mr. Tracy, the photographer, made rapid preparations for his picture, for these "robin snows," as they are too dig, termed, are of brief duration. To add vividness and the life -touch to the scene, he summoned a half. • herself a real heroine on that awful night. The rumour goes that Profemor Watson of Queen's College, Kingston, has a good ohanoe of being called to soothed Peofessor Young in the metaphysical chair in 'Univer- sity College. As good a choice p. oh ,bly as could be made. Mr. Watson already has a high reputation in educational circles in this country, and hie knowledge of the subject is excellent. Queen's no doubt would be loth to lose him, and strong efforts would be made to keep him where he is. The pros and cons of the underground system of laying electric) wires in eines were warmly discussed thin week at the meeting of the National Electrical Assoodation. There was anything but unanimity of opin- ion on the part of the .txperts. The com- mittee appointed at the last meeting to exa endue the under.ground system reported that they cemmumeated with all the electnio light companies in the United States and found that in all or nearly all instances de- fectiveainsulation and defective mechanical constrhotion had interfered much with the electric era -rents. On the other hand, Prof. Barrett, city electrician of Chicago, pro. maned the underground system in hie eine, where it has been in operation for five or a x years in the case of electric light wires and thirteen yearsin the case of telegraph win s a "big success." Mr. Waters has again failed to carry hie measure for the enfranchisement of womm, but he is not discoura.ged and he need nos be. Of course, there is still a good deal or email wit indulged in by those who think that the only thing women are good for is to " suckle slaves and chronicle small been'''. That is an experience Caron ill which every' great change and improvemeat has to pm. Bat the change comes all the se.me, and the dreadful prophecies are not fulfilled. If the gresxt majority of women don't want the franehise and would not use it let them take their own mind on it. But that is no meson why justice should not be done or why women should not get • fair play. We Mrs no fear about the disastrous results likely to flow from the dreaded innovation. Any thing worse than the way in which elections have been conducted by men could not be well imagined, and the heavens will dozen village boys to simulate a game of not fall though women should have a say in snow bailing. He arranged the lads in the election of those who are to make laws proper position, snowballs in hand, a few forthheerme. Iare of course many who hold that man ire essentially a fighting animal and that he will continue to be this to the end of the chapter. We, however, rather believe that what is spoken in the 13ible about the reign of truth and peace and righteousnesa yards from the camera, and then explauted to them that when he gave the signal, "One, two, threesfire!" they muse all, at the seine tim' e throw their snowballs. ' "Throw hari, as if you meant to hit some- thing." he added. Mr. Tracy either failed to make his mean- is not destined to turn out a falsity and am in' plain or theerognish boys purposely illusion. The quantity of foolish and tin- misnndert:tood. founded platitudes which have been uttered about the enoblin • Ili e f g u u nee of ewar o When everything was in readiness, the photographer retired to his camera, arrang- course immense. But after, all what is warbut a repeal of the Ten Commandments? The business of the soldier may be a necessary one but it is very damnable all the same. In short, to hear a great many professed christians talking, one would conclude that Jesus Christ had never lived. had never The boys did fire Every one of them spoken and had never died. Their whole threw his snowball at the camera ! They code of monde and of polity are so' mien - had aimed well. The apparatus tumbled tially heathenish, that one is almost tempted over into the snow, and the artist, dodging to avoid the missiles, slipped and went to think that thine are not far out of the way who tell US that Roman Paganism has down with it, and there for a. half minute he again come back and is re -enthroned, floundered in the snowy depths, straggling to regain hie feet. while the Sermon on the Mount is The boys looked on in dismay, feeling an to all intents and purposes repealed. irreeithible desire to laugh; and then, fearing " Love your enemies I Do good to them that hate you, and pray for them that the consequences oath° act for themselves, despitefully use you and persecute you!" they took to their heels. ' 7 Has any Bu who believes that one met The photographer finally extricated him- Bwith any body who arms ? It is all very self. He was very angry at first, and had well in oburch, and for an hour or two on the boys been there, it is quite possible Sundays ; but in the market place, and some of them migbb have felt his indignation; for all the rest of the week—hent—" en. but they had tor the time esteemed, so he emies " and " haters " had better look out. picked up his camera, and fortunately brand If they get a blessing we would like to n photography, too, had triumphed; the nothing broken or injured. Intanteamous ,n . to it wording, and look for a moment sitive plate had the image of the snowsatorm at"tehe heart which utters the benediction. een- the boys with their half eager, half-rougieh In these days the "Peace and good will" of 9:triremes chimes sounds strangely tor en expressions: and the snow -balls just leaving their hands. planed, and illustrated by Anti -Poverty Mr. Traoy'a anger. gredually cooled, as he tirades and blood -thirsty threateninge. viewed the perfect picture and then the Complaints have been made and with ludicrousness of the peens dawned upon some reason, about the Central Prison him. method which compete the prisoners for "The only revenge I ever took on therm want of more useful work, to wheel sand boys," he asid to the vniter, as he finished from one part of thee yard to another. It is the dory, "wae to make each of them buy imperative of °myth that the men should one of those photographs atfifty ciente he kepb busy, but a much better plan it seems to us then such obj9etleas, brute -like work at treadmill sand -wheeling would be to put them through a atern " (mune of sprouts" ill the shape of infamy drill. Why not batten a weight upon their shouldare, which would be an equivalent to the heavy marching order of soldiers, and set them te "Well, you see, Judge, it was des way. / learn the marital enrolee, to hold their heads Went to church, and ae pater, he preached a up, to keep tbeir baths straight, their toes ed his sensitive plate, gave a final look at the boys, and then, as he put his hard on the top -hatter, he called out: "14w look at me 1 One, two, three, fire I" The Leaven Worked. "George Washington Johnson, stand up." "Yes, sah, judge—yes, yer honah." "Did you steel the thickens ?'' sermon on— What has that got to do with stealing ohiokens ?" "1 was gvvirie to tell ye mah. Ye see, the meson pr.:washed powerfril Benison en steal. ing, end kited c.' we,ked me rip to my sins, sah, turned out tend that owe right, to March back and forward, back end forward, sinw step, quick step, double quick, to wheel, form torus, mark time, and mach else of the, same sort, all of *Mole hag not only the virtue of giving needful phyteical A little leaven, seta He told all about in eXerewier but hare mental Lend moral benefi- He said that the leaven would work and make saints of all who heard de breesed mtheedtiahlooariwtait apsunplosnhzlentioohugmhborteo nibiegehete Word, and—" be bald for etch treatment as this gm for " Rut did you steal the chiokees ?" the purely methatileal and gin horse, eoullent, "1 vein° tc. tell yer, Judge, as feat as I coit, Dar ova, begun to work ; hut it wag debating monotonyo purposeless steed toting like Aunt Dinah s yeast, mighty slow Loa' Atot-Itdb: grrit81:40autastetteoujio,diEbewhadov:ettiadfieethueti bey, and lore it gob its work in I done Duk Moat of their time in etiolate tdIoneeri width DdootaitInkor ettn Beetis1 natbwbeernedeoeo°06eTtelre''t la hurtful both to body and mud, if they mo. ohjekeug, voti hear „tot judge v, were put through five or sit limits, drill eVerY iquou you think the imam, wm wait, ma day they labuld be all the better for it it would give theno tottiething to do, and SOroci Joh,nitrootti"ab.0 of the j eil eildiale are not so vety busy hie «o Ido /. 'Leven days. Call the n kt , shat a trt of .4)eir Ono could be 000UPied ease," -..tan Franciacro Call, 1', anal! 4 way to good advantage. °Jai tenciericitie which criminate need. Oa