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BOOKER NGS AND SPEARS,.
Some ,Mistaken Iinitxessiens norreeted—
liow the hietives nee Their Weapons,
Moro hasbeen written, and less is under
stood, of the boomerang then of almost any
other weapon. It is generally known to btu
a flat stick of weed bent into a ebape whiob
suggests a combination of "V" and "U,"
altholigl with theexireniitics spread apart
until they are ar right angles with tact
other. In point of fent, boomerangs are ot
almost every shape front aenuotroular tr
nearly straight, and seem to depend for
their cfli nenoy not so much upon the evident
form as upon their ft„t sides. If one makes
a boomerang and 'cotes along its sharp outer
edge, it seen that this edge presents a wavy
appearance—a delioately ac j gated animate
like the line of a long terew. This curve if
not elaborately fasbioned or smoothed into
evenness; the hard wood of which the boom
erang is usually made, being picked out
with abort blows from a sharpened flint
held in the hand almost always shows, in-
deed, infinite irregularities,
What rule of construction the savage
artificer follows even he himself would pro-
bably be unable to say. Yet he has some
definiteno doubt for while
1
he chips
in aod pecks mind,way at the wood he
TARES FREQUENT SQUINTS
along its edge to see how his curves are pro
greasing. I have never seen tw o boomerangs
that were just alike, but all are similar in
their relations of oucves ,along the flat side,
The boomerang maker knows instinctively
just where his boomerang will go when he
throws it, although he never seems to aim
any two in the same way.
More Iies have been told about the boom.
erang than oan be well enumerated, and
nearly every Australian traveller cornea
bank with a fresh assortment. One hears of
men who can to throw a boomerang that it
kills an enemy behind a tree and then Domes
cheerfully fluttering to its owner, who there-
upon hulls it on a fresh mission of carnage.
A flock of frightened cockatoos, speeding in
intricate gyrations through the air to escape
the attack of natives who' want a bird for
dinner, are puraued at every turn by these
erratic weapons, whiob strike them down
a dozen each, and so return to the hand that
oast them. Old wives' fables, these, at
which Australians laugh, knowing in the
nature of things their falsity. In the first
place the war boomerang is not made for
return, and is only slightly bent, so that it
may go hopping and bounding along the
earth like a hoop, and make capacious
holes in the
BODY OF THE ADVERSARY.
These are of hard, heavy wood, and ugly
things to be bit with withal ; but the return
boomerang is simply a plaything, or to be
used in Iight hunting, and although it might
give a man a painful rap, could not seriously
injure him. As for the cockatoo story, it
has this much of truth—that a native boom-
erang hurler, if he saw a flock flying by him
in a straight course, could so cast his weapon
as to come upon them unait ares at a given
point, and perhaps knock cne down ; but
his boomerang would drop, too, having no
power of flight after it has struck anything
The boomerang in sufficiently remarkable
without being regarded in the light of a long
bow, and drawn by every tourist in the colo
nies. It is held perpendicularly and taken
firmly in the hand by one of its extremitiee.
with the other pointed forward, and is hurl-
ed With a full arm and assisted by a run and
awing of the whole body. A slight'uurn of
the wrist at the moment of discharge causes
it to assume various erratic courses. Some-
times it will fly straight forward for 100 or
even 200 yards, then rise sharply to a great
height, lose its force, and flutter down to the
feet of the thrower. Again, it will rise in
the air, swoop down
WITH IMMENSE ,RAPIDITY,
and skim around in a great semicircle a few
inches from the ground, rise once more, and
return to the spot whence ib started. It will
also start off in a great swoop to the right,
reverse it and turn to the left, skim around
the thrower in a series of ever -narrowing
circles, and, finding their centre, fall into it
like an exhausted bird. There is something
uncanny about the thing ; its movements
are so unexpected and out of reason that it
seems to be alive, and to take a savage de
light in strange shoots and dashes, which
make the "new chum" (Australian cquiva
lent for "tenderfoot") dodge every time it
barns, lest it should knock him on the head.
The yarn about the Australian blanks all
ways throwing the boomerang with their
backs to the object they desire to hit is a
piece of the same "whole cloth" as the
cookatoo fable, and the lie about the missile
returning to its owner after killing the gen.
tlemen behind the tree. Ate expert thrower
can cause his boomerang to shoot behind him
after a short preliminary excursion in front,
and come very near agiven object, but if he
wants to hit anything, either in hunting or
war, he deesn't fool away his time with the
return boomerang, but throws the heavy,
nearly straight one, which goes direct to the
mark without any flourishes. Such is the
boomerang—a two -formed utensil, with one
ephape for business,, the other for sport.
Another ingenious contrivance used by
the natives is the handle and thong whiob
they use in
PROPELLING THEIR SPEARS
these tieing generally of tapering, sharp.
pointed atioks of hardwood, although some-
times tipped with feint or iron. To add to
the force of their discharge some sable philo-
sopher whose name is lost, took a bit of
thick stick about a foot long, fastened to one
end of it a strip of leather or cord terminat-
ing in a socket, wherein to set the butt of
his spear, and was ready for action. When
the cord or strip of leather was laid along
the spear the handle came in the cen-
tre, and was held on the ander side of the
weapon when it was oast. When the spear
left the hand, the handle and its appendage
of leather or curd remained, and by a dex-
erous movement on the part of the
thrower acted like a sling to accelerate the
flight of the shaft. By this device, the
spearman gained the name advantage that a
alinger enjoys over a person who hurls a
stone by his unaided arm—so that eases
are known where spears thus hurled have
flown 200 yards, and gone oompletely
through the body of the men who was un-
lucky enough to serve as a target.
A ferocious burglar and- tramp broke into
the house of Mrs, Greenwood, a New York
woman, and before proceeding to busfnees,
ate liberally of one of the lady's mince pies.
In the morning he was found seated in the
middle of the kitchen floor, hi a dazed and
helpless oondition, and he fell an easy prey
to the efioersi The mince pie didn't have
any brandy in in eivher,
A fund is being raised for the education
of the four children of the late Philip H.
Weloh, the humorist, none of whom is over
nine goitre old. Mr. Edward P. Clark of
the r'Evenin Post" is its treasurer, and the
"Century," " - "
editors of thed. y'o u
..an r m,
and the rk]1itistian `Union;" have consented
o audit hie aeeo unto. T'he oauire la.ee 'moat
toeerving one.
4 ,.
Cr AND WISDOM.
Teacher (to clase in geography) -If I
should dig a hole through the earth where
would I oome out? Small boy—Out of the
hole.
Stern parent (to a young applicant for hie
daughter'shand)—Young man, can you
support a family ? Young man (meekly)—
only wanted Sarah.
She (enthusiastioally)—Ah, how nice it
mush be to be famous 1 How I wish 1 had a
name. He (bashfully) — Aw—er — what
would you say to thine ?
The man who monopolizes two seats in a
railroad oar may be called a pig in glover,
and the pezz'.e is how to kick him out when
he is bigger than you are,
"I hear you have parted with your dog,
W ilkina, He was a nice little fellow. What
was the trouble ?" " Oh, not much ; he mis-
took my wife's sealskin aacque for a oat ;
that was all."
" Brethren and sisters," remarked a lain-
apoken pastor, " next Sunday we shall take
up our regular Heater collection. I trust
the brethren will give a000rding to their
means and the sisters according to their bon-
nets."
The profeesor—" You have the most
strongly developed hump of veneration I ever
saw," Clinchy—" Tek yule hand aff' r thotl
Th' ould woman aised me out o' bed this
mornin', an' I ahtruok me hid agin the
flare."
What le a dude, anyway ? He is the
graceless son of Egotism and Stupidity; his
sisters are Vanity and Heartlessness. There
is only one thing to praise about htm, and
that is he lives in harmony with the rest of
the family,
Mrs. Temperton—" Henry, father wrote
mo yesterday that he wants to get a type
writer. What is the best kind, do you
think ?" Temperton (immersed in stock
quotations)—" I like 'em about twenty-four,
with dark blue eyes."
Summer in the country.—" Where shall
we go for the summer, Henry? Have you
thought anything about it?"No, not
yet. How would you like to go into the
country, again?' " Well, perhaps that
would do." " I'll tell you what; let's stay
at home. Leave the screens out of the doors
and windows so as to have plenty of mos•
quittes, get a poor cook and an impertinent
waitress, make the beds up as hard as a
board, get a spavined old horse and a carry-
all with et if springs, and we can have all
the advantages of country life without being
out of town."
A Correct Diagnosis. — George—"Eh ?
You got engaged last night? Gus, my
old, my dear friend, tell mo how you did it."
Gas — "Really, I hardly know myself.
Couldn't help it. Just like falling down
stairs. I was on the edge of a proposal,
she gave me a push, and there I was en-
gaged." " Welt, I haven't had any such
experience. Every time I try to start, my
knees knock together, and my teeth chatter,
and my tongue cleaves to the roof of my
mouth. I've tried a dczen times to pop the
question to Miss De Pink, and slumped
every time." " And did shelet you alnmp?"
" Yea," " You are courting the wrong girl."
Saving Horses at A Fire.
A cool head is worth thousands of dollars
in an emergency. This remark is to be
taken in its literal meaning.
The Buffalo Express says : In proof of
this fact, the following instance of the
great fire is related : The American Express
Company's barna on Exchange street, run-
ning through to Carroll, were early threaten-
ed, and it became evident that property
within them must be removed. Said Mr.
Bell, who was in charge: "Men, we must
move. Don't do one thing to excite a
horse. Lead them to a watering trough in
regular order, throw on the harness and
hitch on two wagons or sleighs instead of
one. The horses will all think they are
going to work, and we will clean this store.
house out." Mr. Bell's directions were
carried out, the horses and wagons and
sleighs were speedily removed, there was no
confusion, and the result is that thousands
of dollars were saved to the American Ex-
press Company. Anyone knowing how
frantic horses become when threatened by
fire will appreciate the coolness of Mr.
Ball
And to illustrate how quickly horses be-
come frightened when tied in a stall under
such circumstances this instance is related :
A man living some half dozen or more
blocks from the fire, in a section where the
cinders and smoke wete directly blown,
went one to feed his horse shortly after day-
light. He opened a large door, gave the
horse his measure of oats and passed up in-
to the loft to throw down hay. When be
came down, the horse, a well bred bub -gentle
animal, a as swinging his head (hie mouth
was full of gate), snorting and pawing—evi-
dently in great excitement. The barn had
filled with the heavy smell of smoke from
the fire, and this ib was that so frightened
the horse. It was two hours before the ani•
mai quieted down and went on with his
breakfast ; and he is a horse with an ap-
petite that lasts twenty-four hours each day.
FOR WOMAN MUST WORK,
The Heroism or a LireLedby finny Daunt-
less WOUICII.
The bravest person I know is a woman.
Her husband is a drunkard and she is the
mother of five helpless children. She not
only supports herself by her daily labor but
is also the bread -winner for her dependent
offspring. Early and late, without a mur-
mur, she bends over the wash -tub -where she
fights poverty in a hand to, hand encounter..
Man, under such adverse ciroumsvances,
and with this formidable obstacle, would be
eager to "shudia off this mortal coil," or rid
himself of the burden in some other coward-
ly way, but this woman, the fair representa-
tive of a large class in every country,
with a woman's tenacity will not give up
this heroic struggle until life itself shall
aerate.
Poets have sung of heroes and immortal,
ized them for one daring aot alone, which
bas been the result of a moment's impulse,
but this woman, surrounded with her mani-
fold moo, in poverby, enveloped by the die.
honorwhich crowns him whose name she
bears, deserted by her natural protector, un-
aided, and with the applause•of none, faces
calmly and oouragoously all the stern reali-
ties ofolife, nob with one bold stroke, but
unceasingly and unflinchingly, day after day,
with a heroism worthy of the name.
At the beginning of his present illness
the king of the Netherlands wanted his wife
with him all the time. His madness hag now
assumed another phase, and he manifests a
violent antipathy towards her.
A Milwaukee genius has established a
eohoolfor the braining of professional beg -
kin. He furnishes disguises, rulcs for beg,.
ging and a regular route for eaah of his
ii ils tellin b em the tories to use
,h a and
pupils, � . - 8`.
the peouiierltiee df these they are likely to
meat. in 'eicbhange he demands .half the.
profit,
A Word to Parente,
Do speak kindly to your little ones!
Their hearts are brimful of love for you,
Pub yourself on an equality with theca; join
in their little riposte and pettiness. Po you
feel, that you compromise your dignity by
such acts, It will cause them to open their
Muerte to you, and you will, unoonsolously,
gain their love and ootfilenoe, by which,
with proper training, you may save them a
world of trials, and perhaps from a career
of crime. To my mind there can be no more
heart sickening eight than to nee a child,
large or small, shun the presence of its
parents,
Lead and direct—lo not drive. Say what
you have to say gently and kindly, not with
anger on your brow, and in tones that would
lead one to suppose they were culprits,
and you a stern judge, instead of a loving,
tender parent, as you should be. Anger le
a blight. Heaven only knows how much
has withered under its influence. It has
broken boucle cf friendehip, and severed
family ties.
Do you try to make home attractive? If
not, you commit a great error. Let it be to
your children, the "cleareet spot on earth ;
the great world will beckon them away
from the nest me
o so on enough • care and
pain will write their hearts' sorrows on
their faces, line their foreheads, dim their
eyes, and blot out their dimples. Let us,
therefore, do all we can to make their child-
hood and youth happy and joyous ; and when
they go out from it, to mingle with the cold;
unfeeling world, it will be to them a green
spot even in memory, to which their minds
oan revel t with pleasure.
Let us say again, speak gently to your
children ; it will cost you nothing. but will
make their little hearts glad. Encourage
them to bring their associates home with
them; you can then see if they are proper
ones, and point out traits to be shunned
or imitated. Cultivate a kindly disposition to
all, especially to little children.
Farmers and Combines.
Farmers are, naturally enough, the most
uncompromising enemies cf trusts and com-
ninations. No doubt they are sometimes
disposed to regret their own inability to
fight fire with fire, by forming oombinations
and trusts amohgab themselves. Occasional
attempts have been made to do something
of that kind, but with very indifferent suc-
cess The great number and comp tredve
isolation of the tillers of the soil must al-
ways render concerted action on a large
scale, difficult, if not impossible. But a
paragraph that has lately appeared in some
of the papere suggests the possibility of a
certain b ind of farmers' combination that
seems feasible enough, and might prove
very greatly to their advantage. It is said
to have been demonstrated that in the moat
fertile plains of California, by the judicious
employment of machinery on a grand scale,
wheat can be raised, threshed, and stored
ready for shipment at a total cost of eight
cents per bushel. It has for som
time past been evident that the grow-
ing competition of wheat cultivated by the
cheap labour of India and other eastern
counties is likely at no distant day to bring
down the price to a figure which will reduce
the American and Canadian farmer to des-
pair. The thought suggested is this : See-
ing that in our own North-West we have all
the natural conditions in soil, climate, and
immeasurable stretches of level prairie, tor
carrying on operations on the largest scale,
why should not a number of neighbouring
farmers combine lands, capital, and labour
to the utmost limit of reduction of cost in
wheat raising, and thus command the mar-
kets of the world ? This would be precisely
analogous to what has been accomplished in
various manufacturing industries, with all
the objectionable features of the combine
omitted. Such combinations would be pre•
ferable for many obvious reasons to the
accumulation of vast quantities of land in
the hands of individuals or companies, with
their possibilities of mischievous monopoly
in the future.
Jesns is Calling.
" And Jesus stood still and said, Call ye hlm.'
Mark 10. 40, (revision).
Jesus, the Master, is calling to- day
Tenderly calling to all, by the way,
Who—waitng to hear Him—
So long to come near Him,
They pause for His coming,
And chafe at delay.
CHURus— He is calling!
Oh l hear Him 1
He loves you ;
He is Jesus, your King.
Jesus is calling, and sinners may cry
To Him for mercy as He paaseth by ;
His love is revealing 1
Such help and such healing!
His call still is :—" Turn ye,
For why will ye die?"
Jesus is calling I The weary may come,
Footeore, afar from His favor, who roam
Where sin doth distress them,—
He
hem;He waiteth eo bless them
With ring, robe, and crowning,
And beautiful home.
Jesus is calling, and time speeds away ;
Nothing is safe for my soul but to -day.
I surely must heed Him ;
My eoul does so need Him.
Come Master, and pardon
And save me, I pray.
L. A. MORRISON,
A Snoring Wife.
A correspondent of the " Lanceb" makes a
humiliating appeal to the medical profession
to tell him what he is to do with a lady pa-
tient on whom he has been bestowing fruit-
less care and attention for the last twenty
years. This lady is an inveterate and incor•
rigible snorer. Fier husband has confided
to the medical man that the snoring is
"much worse lately," and that, whereas, his
helpmeet Was wont to let him off with only
three orfour hours of torture,she now
"snores all night, and can be heard all over
the home." Moreover, she frequently wakes
herself with the noise five or nix times in
one night, .and it is rare that her husband
can get to sleep till 3 or 4 o'clock. Whether
she lies high or low makes no difference—she
can sleep and snore at any time in a few
minutes, and to aggravate the ease she has
lately taken to yawning a great deal,
Thy Smile is the Golden Sunlight,
Thy smile is the golden sunlight;
My love is a boundless sea;
0 scatter thy blissful brightness
Aorosa its Immensity.
The wildest billows that fret it
Will gently sink and subside;
If the faintest ray of thy sunlight,
But fall on its trembl'ing tide.
0 shed thy smile that its beauty
May burnish the deep blue sea ;
Till its ,happy ripping waters,,.
pis6 _ r
Murmur forever er ab thee l
+foxier Er Latah,
FOREIGN NQTFS,
What is called 4'the very giddiest lamp"
is reported to have been observed in the
boudoir of a young woman of unquestionalhlel
station. The supporte are the "groteequely
elongated'legs of .,a pink-stookinged ballet]
girl," the outspreading skirts forming the.
shade.
An Italian engineer has experimented
with sugar as a means of preventing the in-
crustation of boilers, with satisfaotory re -
mite. A boiler which used to be inoruated
in six weeks had two kilogrammes of sugar
introduced every week for hour months, and
then a fi'm of incrustation was found which
could be easily washed off.
A English court has been called upon to
decide how long an impulse can last. A
wollknowu bay was charged with shooting
game without a license. She pleaded on
defence that she &cited under impulse, hav-
ing been asked to take a gun by one of the
gent]cmen at a shooting party ; but her im•
pulse continued for two nouns. So she was
fined £2,
In 1585 Mr. Hertz put his name down as
a subscriber for an Etching of Munkacsay's
" Christ on Canary." It nob read
hr dl r was
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until 1888, and he refused payment on the
ground that it had taken too lung, and was
sued, The experts called in the case testi-
fied that, considering the size and delicacy
of the work, three ye we was not an exoers-
ive time for its production. Mr. Hertz had
to pay.
Oae of the numb noted of the art societies
of London is the Society of Lady Artists.
Tile members of this institution give ane x-
hibition every year, to which are invited the
best critics from all over the world. The
pictures exhibited are for the most part land-
soapes, flowers, nortrait studies, and domes
do genre scenes. The ladies seem to have
more sucoeas with water oolora and pastels
than with oils.
Young women of London who have artis-
tic tastes are organ zing "sketching clubs."
They hire a man for a teacher ani meat at
the homes of the members. Subjects are
given out, and at the end of s certain time
the work is sent to the professor, who notes
his criticism on the back of each sketch
and then sends the whole lot to ono of the
club, who adds her criticiam. In this was
the sketches are passed about to each
sketcher.
Sara Bernhardt's long tour is approaching
ite termination. She recently arrived at
Trieste trout Turin, where she did extreme
ly well, as in most of the towns in the
north of Italy, although her experience in
the south were not so satisfactory. The ex.
penees of the troupe are very heavy, av erag-
ing more than $1500 a day. The manage-
ment is said to have realized a clear profit of
$10,000 by five representations which seh
gave in Turin alone.
A very prominent figure in Sb. Petersburg
society is Count Sheremetieff, who belongs to
one of the best Russian families and is at the
same time one of the richest members of the
Russian aristocracy. He is still a young
man, and married to a laugher of Count
Heyden, Gavernor-General of Finland. He
is a great lover ot music and drama. He
has for several years had a large orchestra al-
ways at his disposal, and be is himself a com-
poser of some talent.
The Chinese never kiss, bub a Chinese
mandarin who has travelled in western na-
tions has attempted to instruct the benighted
Celestials. He says : ' Kissing is a form of
courtesy which consists in presenting the
lips to the lower part of the chin and making
a sound." Again : "Children, when visit-
ing their seniors, apply their mouth to the
left or right lips of the elder wine a ameek-
ing noise." Ib is to be feared that this man
ter -of -fact description of the process is hardly
likely to lead to its naturalization in the
Middle Kingdom,
There is to be a great gathering of the
Orleans family at Sheen House on May 30,
when the Comte -and Comtesse de Paris veil]
celebrate their silver wedding. A reconcili-
ation has taken place through the mediation
of the Dao and Duohesso de Chartres, be-
tween the Comte and Comtesse de Paris and
the Due d'Aumeee, the Duo de Nemours and
the Prince andPrinoess de Joinville. The
relations bad been very strained for several
months in ooneequence of the curious manner
in which the Comte de Paris had oonducted
hinisalf in respect of General Boulanger.
The Due d Orleans, the eldest son of the
C mpte de Paris, is now on his way home
from India, and there is a strong desire in
Orleaniat circles that he should marry the
Princess Clementine, youngest daughter of
the Ring of the Belgians.
The latest criticism upon " Hamlet" pro;
miring the interest of novelty is that of the
Rev. Dr. Taape, rentor of St. John's Epis-
copal Church in Edinburgh, who then enter
ed a theatre for the first time. "AU was
well arranged," said 1)r. Teape, "and every
thing thab could be done to insure a good
preformanoe was done. Yet what was ex-
hibited 1 'Hamlet' was acted 1 Vice of a
revolting character, a son driven almost in-
sane, a usurper, three peep to poisoned, and
the dead lying about as one left the scene.
It was horrible, Such a mode of iaflaeno.
ing the public mind was thoroughly odious.
Crime and vine were not made odious, on
the oontrary, they were surrounded by a
halo of enchantment." Dr. Teape concluded
that the Church must abjure and abhor the
theatre.
Anew and curious sect has recently grown
up in Africa, the Bena-Riamba, or "Sons
of Hemp," a society of hemp smokers, wh o,
palling themselves " friende," are bound to
gather by ties of mutual hospitality. It
has had some new light thrown upon it in
the account of a journey up the Kasai by
Charles Somerville Bateman : " its beide,
tory rites are a profound and unfathomable
mystery, and whether to describe it as a
secret brotherhood, a religion, or a society
for the propagation of licentiousness, I am
uncertain. So far as the Weeking of lhiamba,
[hump] itself is oanoerned, there can be no
reasonable doubt but that the Matchioko
introduced ib primarily for purpose of fraud,
since persons under the influence of that
poisonous narcotic' are temporarily insane,
and therefore at the mercy of the first cruel
and crafty trader that came aoroes them."
Another authority, however, thinks that ' he
eacieby grew out of a political revolubion
among the Bashilenge people in 1870, when
the Progroeeiet party broke down old Done-
mortis] barriers, and the custom of bhang
of hemp smoking was introduced from
Zanzibar to become one of the most pain-
ful inaticutione in Central Africa."
The moat remarkable kiss upon record is
that which was given by Queen Margaret to
Alain Chartier more than 400 years ago.
He was a poet, but the ugliest man in
France. During his lifetime he o'!'
en'Jed a
wonderfulreputation, but after his death he
was forgotten. He is. now ohiefly temente-
bored on account of the kiss which the queen
pressed upon his rdreamin tips;one da as
she foundhimle
gy .
e eping,,saging„i,gher,maid
as she did ad :, t1.1 kiss nob t e,man r;1 kiss
the soul ,th4, eings,?1 , t r, ,.
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Good Temper.
There's nob a cheaper Chiagon earth,
Nor yet one half so dear ;
'Tie worth more than distinguished birth,
Or thousands pained .a year.,
It lends the day a new delight{
'Tis Virtue's firmest shield ;
And adds more beauty to the night
Than all the stars can yield.
I6 inairetle Poverty content,
To Sorrow whispers peaoe ;
It is a gift from Heaven sent,
For mortals to increase.
It meets you with a smile ab morn.
Ib lulls you to repose :
A flower for peer and peasant born,
An everlasting rose.
A charm to banish grief away,
To snatch the brow from care :
Turn tears to smiles, make dulness gay,
Spread gladness everywhere.
.And yet 'tie sweet as summer dew
That genie the lily's breast ;
A talisman for love as true
As ever man possessed.
What may this wondrous spirit be,
With power unheard before—
This charm t bright s amenity
Good Temper—nothing more 1
Good Temper—'tis the ohoioeet gift
That woman homeward brings,
And can the poorest peasant lift
To blies unknown to kings.
Burdens.
We all must bear them. Vain regret,
Love's ]oogiug for some dear lost face
Which even eleep cannot forget,
For yet the coming years replace ;
The disappointment all must know,
When -hope's mirage proves but a dream,
The finding Marsh's wavers flow
R here teuipbing wayside fountains gleam.
We all must bear them. Some may smile,
And hide their burden in a song :
And others may be silent, while
They learn to suffer and grow strong.
We find no balm in Gilead's vale,
No ream -Tome for pain and loss,
And oft our weary efforts fail
To lift the pressure of the cross.
We all must bear them. Why despair?
The wine -press is nob trod alone.
The promise is, that He will care,
As doth a father for his own.
Our burdens may become our wings,
For underneath, His arms will be ;
And through our sighing sweetly rings,
"Sufficient is my grace for thee."
The Woman Keeps the Child's Promise,
Within the past few days a working man
named Thomas Kelk, residing ab Worksop,
has been rewarded in a singular manner for
a service rendered by him to a young lady
some fifteen years ago. Kelk was tormerly a
soldier, and in the autumn of 1874 he went
to Stockton-on-Tees in his regimentals to
have his photograph taken. While there he
noticed a carriage stop in one of the principal
thoroughfaree. The coachman gots, down
from the box, but had scarcely reached the
ground when the horse dashed off at a terrific
pane, dragging the carriage behind it. in
which was seated a girl 6 years of age. Kelk
walked into the middle of the road, waited
till the advancing horse reached him, and
then sprang at its head. He was carried
about 100 yards hanging on the horse's head,
bat sucooeded eventually in stopping in
The child, who was very much frightened,
thanked the man again and againand told
him that she could nob reward bis bravery
then, bat would do so when she became of
age. True to her promise, on attaining the
age of 21 a few weeks ago, she made enquir-
les as to the whreabouts of Kelk, but her
efforts for a time were unavailing, until a
commercial traveler happened to know the
man, and Kelk received a letter asking him
to go to a station near Manchester. He did
so, and was met by a carriage and pair, and
taken to the home of the child—now a
woman—whose life he had saved. Arriv-
ed there he was hospitably entertained, and
before leaving was presented with a hand.
some gold watch, a gold chain and seal, and
£80 ($400), likewise in gold.
Christianity in Japan.
It seems somewhat strange that the work
of spreading Christianity in Japan has been
left by the Churches and missionary socie-
ties of Earope almost entirely to those of
this continent, While the former are work-
ing energetically in China and India they
have less than 60 missionaries in Japan,
whereas the United States and Canada have
386 there. The Scotch Presbyterians, the
Eoglish Baptiste, three Church of England
societies and a German Swiss society are the
only European organizations having labour.
era in this field, while twenty American
aooieties are represented in it. It may be
that this is due to the fact that America
was the first to take advantage of the open-
ing of the Mikado's empire to Western Com-
merce and civilization. It is just thirty
years since the Presbyterian, Datch Reform-
ed, and Protestant Episcopal Churches of
the United States instituted the first mis.
dons to Japan. In the following year
the Baptist Union also entered the field,
which was exclusively occupied by these
four organizations until 1869, when
the "emerioan Board (Congregational) and
the e English Church Missionary Society
joined .them. Since then other or-
ganizations have sent representatives, but,
art we have said, of tho twenty-six Protest-
ant missions now in the field, twenty are
American, including two Canadian. Among
the latest arrivals from the United States
are the missionaries of the Society of Friends,
who were sent out in 1885, and one sent by
the Unitarians in 1887. Of late the work
appears to have been progressing most sat-
isfactorily. A report for the year 1888, pre
pared by the agent of the. American Bible
Society in Japan, shows that there were at
the end of that year 249 organized ohurohes
in the country, 25,514 memberee 9,698
scholars in the day and boarding schools,
287 theological students,' and 142 native
ministers. Nearly 7,000 converts were bap-
tized during the year, and the increase of
membership over that of the previous year
wag about thirty per cent., while the con-
tributions of native Christians increased
more than fifty per cent. The number of
patients in the hospitals also rose from 3,,,.
334 in 1887 to 17,279 last year. The Rom-
an Catholic and Greek Churches are like•
wise well established in Japan, and the to-
tal number of Christian churches in the
country' is 601, having 150,000 communi-
cants,
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Undoubtedly.
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hands to her ears to hold een ze beautiful
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A FATR,SDOW.
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Makinga leo • is y, and 6 1 ppY,. u d flow it ltoaultel.
We were sitting in front of Taylor's grocer
on a summer day, when a blg black hog came'
nosing along the gutter and started a new
train of thought, In the crowd of loungers
was a man from Sb. Louis, and, after watch,
ing the porker for a while, he remarked:
"Wonder if that hog ever had a real good
time in his life 1"
"Hogs allus have good times, 1 geese," re-
marked the village cooper, wbo had knocked
off work and conte over to hear some polit-
ica.
"I doubt it," said the other. "He must
feel his degraded position in life, and se he
cannot be happy. I wish I could do some-
thing to make him feel that life is worth the
living."
"Fust man I ever saw who pitied a hogs"
grunted the blacksmith, who ought to have
been tacking a ehoe on a waiting mule. '
"Yes, I pity him. I've been down my-
self and know how it is. Taylor, have you
got any cherry whiskey?"'
i"Mighty little, if any. More oherries
than whiskey, I guess."
" If you've get two quarts of cherries
which have been in Ifquor, bring 'em out,
and I'll
twoyou half doh
ar. ar. Lm cin
g going
I,
to make hog happy for two hours.
1 The grocer got the cherries, which had
been lying in liquor nor a ionple of years,
and the St. Louis man poured them out into
the gutter for the hog. They were devour-
ed with astonishing avidity, and the porker
stood and looked at us and hungered for
more, It was doubted by some if the liquor
would affect him, but after a few minutes
he began to frisk and play, and was evident-
ly under the influence.
'• That does ire good," said the donor of
the cherries. "He is becoming light
hearted, and life will now take on new
charms to him. Hang a man who wont
give a hog a show 1"
Just then the animal uttered a hoarse
"woof 1" and charged for tube crowd. We
soabtered and he entered the grocery, took
two or three turns, and shot out and down
the street, Esquire Smith was Doming up,
and the hog charged and upset him. He
then headed for a horse and buggy in front
of Snyder's, crashed against the horse's hind
leg, and in another moment there was
runaway. The widow Watkins was sailin
along with a can of kerosene in her hand
and the hog rolled' her off the walk as if sh
had been structs by a locomotive. He then
charged a double team and started them off,
dove into Gaylord's dry goods store and out,
andold man Sabin turned in from Elm
street just in time to be lifted three feet
high and rolled into a puddle.
Fifty men were out and after the porker
by this time, but he started another rune
way, upset a baby carriage, and knocked th
Registrar of Deeds off his pinsjbefore we cor
nered him and got a rope around a. hind
leg. Then everybody was mad and"' want.
ed vengeance, but when they came to look
for the St. Louis man he had skipped. He,
however, left a message for the public, say-
ing to a boy, whohad shinned up an awn-
ing post to be out of danger:
" My eon, if you haven't adopted a motto
vet, let me throw out one for your digestion. e
It is : ' .Give everything a fair show. "',
Integrity.
" Why is it that it is the good men who go
wrong?" asks an exchange. This question tit,,,,
-f much of the same stamp as one that was
formerly current : " Why is it that minis- '
tern' sons are so often scapegraces?" The
latter has been shown to bo grossly unfair in
its implication that ministere' sons are, as a
whole, unworthy of their fathers and of their
training. The reverse is the case. There
are exceptions, but these are rare in compari-
son with the number of sons of ministers who
are useful and honored citizens, many of
them pursuing the noble catling of their
fathers.
So when we are asked: "Why is it that it
is the good men who go wrong ?' theanswer
is that the inquiry is misleading. Men who
ear reputed to be good do go wrong in many
eases, but these are few in comparison to the
number of reputed good men who do not go
wrong. It is no surprise when it islearned
that a man who does not bear a good name
has done something dishonest or unworthy,
because in this case the expected happens,
and there is not a "going wrong," but a
further pursuit of ib. The good man by ='
repute—and the better he is reputed to be to
the more surprise and shock if he does not
bear out his reputation—is the one who is
trusted, and when we hear of one who has
proved faithless, it Stowe that his reputa-
tion was not deserved, or that his moral
fiber had not been tested. The man who is
upright and honest—honest with himself as
well as toward others—does nob go far
wrong inlets dealinge.
A reputation for integrity is one which z;o
man can afford to be without. Bab the repu-
tation is not the main thing. This is to de-
serve it. Ib is won by right doing, and is
kept in the same way. Once established it
is the best letter of credit a young man can
have. Without it he can not hope to enc.
oeed. In most cases men of strict integrity
have had it impressed upon them in their
youth that honesty cannot be dispensed with.
Too great stress cannot be laid upon this
truth by all who have dealings with the
young. Temptations to be dishonest should
be as far as possible removed from the path
of those whose characters are not f ally form-
ed, and those who are°older and wiser should
by friendly counsel aid in firmly fixing right
ideas in the youthful minds.
Parental laxity is to blame if a young
man or young woman begins work with
only vague notions of what honesty
means. Too many parents sadly ne-
glect their duties in this particular. They
do not oversee their children as they should
or hold them to a strict accountability, but
faults are glossed over or are not seen.
Parents should not be harsh and exacting,
but they should train up children the very.
way they should go. The nest boy is
father to the honest man.
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Victorians Worked Up.
OTTAWA, May6.—Private intellience'.
from Victoria f o g
s the that the oibi•'
gena of the thriving capital of British Colum
bia are greatly worked up at not aocuring
the &emelt of Parliament to the imposition
in the contract for the propoeed new Japan
ass and Australian services of a condition
that all steamers engaged in theme services
shall call at Victoria to land and receive
mails and passengers. Col. Prior, Mr. Mara
and Mr. Barnard - have worked hard
to secure this guarantee, but it appears
that the arrangements for the services rest,
entirely with the Imperial authorities. :Cal.
Prior saw the Premier' about the Matter and
urged the vital importance to Victoria of ei
obtainingthe concession, and Sir John said;
that, as Sir Merles b C arl a Ta er • would be
, ._•, pp -_. re"gid;
turning to England ina few days, he wouldt
request hien to see both the Oolonial Scoretit
berg and the Imperial L'osttiiaeter. �ener r
to ur o upon them the m o -ta G '_ a1,"
g i p r noo,of, &coed .
ing tb Victoria's wishes,