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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1889-5-23, Page 3RECENT APRIGAN DISOOVEBY. etaniey's Coutribeetionia to the deogrophY or the lurk Continent. Me xeceet journeys between the Congo Rad the Nile have partly ailed with geographical eleteile one of the largeet of the white epagee tail' remaining on the mapa of Alnico. Seemly any jouroey of the three tenth hee been more proliac of to- tereeting facte, Again we aro impreseed With the magnifithat distarees in the Dark Coutirtent. nienley travelled on or alon a second-olass tributary of the Congo inmost the exact distance between Wiedsor and Montreal. He found this Aruwimi River, rising within sight el the Nile waters, to be as long aet the Rhiee. Our senall eeele maps give only nauge motions of the great water- ways that are merely Congo intents. and perhaps teeny pinions who have often ex emitted the mepa do not realize at first that the Mobengt, the karst effluent of the Congo, is fiveadeths as long aa the Denube, the thoond greatest rivet m Europe, and that other Congo trihutaties are as long oe longer than the Rhine. Mt Stanley's report to the Royal Goograph kat Society thablea us to trace the enure eouree of the Aruwina from its eourcee to ite mouth, shown at teast four tributaries of eon- eicierable iinporteneet and throws much light upon the ethnology of thin large BEGtOli Bement TEE COEGO and the Nile. He ha a shown that the Nepoko River, indeed of being the upper course of the Aruteltni, as :Tanker, who discovered it, eupposed is only a tributary. Unfortunately the Arnwimi, wide and deep as it le for hun- dreds of mile ,a can never be useful for steam navigation, though Stanley in his steel boat, twenty-eight feet long, followed its tortuous ()purse for a great dalliance. From the elopes where it rums to tee mouth the river fells about 3.600 feet, and particularly in its upper course it is inapeded by many rapids and cab - erects. It is evident now that Stanley those the most ditfieult route he could possibly have taken to reach the Nile; and yet he has said nothing of the inmost impenetrable forest with its deals° math of twisted and matted undergrowth which leads us to suppose that this northeastern election of the great Afri- can woods presents greater diffitulties than he.ve been found in other parts of it. In this same forest 300 miles south, Stanley travel. led for ten days during his tourney down the Congo. "Above our heeds,' he wrote, "wee an everlasting roof of foliage." Through the tangle of vendure "every man had to sprawl, crawl, and scramble at he best could." For ten days the men endured it, and then de- clared they could go on no further, and Stanley struck for the river. This forest orosserthe Congo at its great northern bend, and its southern boundary, which is formed by the Sankuru Rivet, is BB distinctly defin- ed ws the eastern edge, which Stanley des ribs as being abruptly SUCCEEDED BY LEVEL PRAIRIES. It was into this southern edge of the forest, 450 miles southwest of the place where Stan ley last entered it, that Wit:smarm plunged with a caravan of 1,000 men in 3.886. Be had hoped to pule through this mighty virgin forest to the Cougo, but tlie scarcity of food and the almost impenetrable charms - Ikea of the region compelled hire to give up is plan of exploring new oountry. In twelve days he was south again on the road he had travelled over the savannas some years before. Just as the region that defeated Wise - mann has been penetrated hundrada of miles by little Congo ateamers, so the Aruwimi helped Stanley to get through the northern forest. In the 460 miles he travelled to reach the Arab ttettletnent of Kilonga-Longa 'alrinai fifty miles was made ou the river or along its banks. Without his steel boat and darn: of canoes, it is not likely he would have reached the Nile at all. He clung to the water as the only means of progress, and his heart sank within him as he found the river taking him far north of his pro- posed course. tie determined not to cross the line of 2* north latitude, and was happy indeed when the river turned again toward the southeast, and he did not leave Ib until the cataracts became so numerous and the current so rapid that the stream was no longer available. The people be eneb were found to belong to the great family of Bantu tribe& who, WWII TDB DWARFS that are scattered among them in several large districts, inhabit the whole of Centred Africa south of the Wells Inekum Though great dialeetio differences are found, they all have much in common intheir speeeb, and Stanley's parby were able imperfectly to understand the wild and hostile natives they met. Many pees of the river were thickly populated, clusters of villages lining the river banks for reties, and the prevailing style of hitt was found to be the candle -ex. tinguisher type, which is far more common among negro tribes further north than among the 13antua of the Congo basin. On the upper Attiwirni the explorer saw hubs un- like any heretofore described in Africa, though theybeer some resemblance to the tenibes in tagoga and the dwellings of the Masai, The huts are connected one with another, so that a village is like a long. low hue sometimes even 400 yards long. These huts border both sides a the atreeb, when) -aeries from twenty to sixty feet in width. Stanley confirms Era% Pasha's statement thee Albert Inyanze has been rapidly rued. ing of late years, and. he attributes it to the wearing away of the reefs in the Nile, which impede navigation for many miles below the lake: In much the same way THE ILEMARICABLE FALL. in the waters of Lake Tanganyika has been attributed to the lereakin away of the com- pact t egetation ku the Lukuga River, which is supposed to have long impeded the outflow Three things to admire. -Intellect, dig. from the lake. Stanton discovery that the laity, and gracefulness. Art -avian rises within a few mike of Albert Nyanza is interesting. We now know that from the Wells Mettea hundreds of miles south to Taitaannika the fountains of the Nile and Congo waters spring from the eon almost within sight of oho another'and then, for Three thing's to wish for. -Health, friends, many hundreds of miles south and weetathe and a contented spirit. head opting's of the Congo and Zenthesi aye- Thine things to like. --Cordiality, good - tenni are brought into similar juxtaposition. humour, and cheerfultteth. The explorer may be expected to bring home with him the solution ot two very in- teresting questions, One 1- whether he has really discovered A new snow mountain eolith of Albert Nyatz t, or whether the towering eurnenit he saw is ideetiestl with Mount Gordon Bennett, whioh he discovered yearn ago. He thinks he has found e. new mountain that may rivet Mama Nam:, the summit that towere nearly 19,000 feet in Eaat Attlee, The ether queation le whether Mutat Nzige belongs to the Nile or the tteego eyeteine. It is his opinion that tine large and elniost unkuown lake empties Into the Congo. 11 80, it must evidently have its out- let through an Aruwirrn tributary, perhaps the Lthele River, ot it reaches the conge through one of the little known riven' south of Stanley Falls. We have as yob bad only a bare outlthe Of s9.id ett the United Meath what has beon ra' d 1 the important additions Stattiey hoe ;last of larigland-dhet the sun never runs on her mede to geographieal bleu -ledge. The de domitients, At sunset bi Aleelka the next taila will deubtlese make is long and Sitter- inorning'n nut in an heur high id Maine.-- taining riarrative, and the fad that he has, tliestOri Journal. to hia party trained thientiao oltservera will give auditional value to We worn. WEST COAST OF AFRICA. Serious Dispute itetweet the Roulet:eon anti nambes. Some excitement has been caused at Old Calabar by the arrest of King Eye by the ooptain of a German MAW of -war. it is stated thet during some trivlat dispute be- tween two men belonging to the Barabolto and Rumby tribe& a gun acoklentally went oft aut a women belonging to the former tribe was killed. The Boroboaos then made e descent on the town of the Itumbys, and pillaged it, the inhabitantfleeing to New Warneso. The Bembolto people then at. tacked New Warnaeo, the inbeititants of which fled to the huah. Both the Hamby and Bornholm people are under Gorman proteotion. There were two old Calabar native traders et New Warnath at the time, and theme the Bombokos forced to pay redemption money, at the same time carrying off six of their ser- vant& For this the Old Oehibar Oath era !Armed the New Wamaso people, and coneequently took leaven of their people to iltonetotown, on the Old (Weber Beier, in- tending to keep them until their people were returned to them. Thie was the air- cumatanee which led to the visit of the Ger- man war vessel to Old Calabar. A force was leaded and a messenger sent to Ring Eyo telling him that he was wanted by some white men. The King, who was quite unaware, except from hear say, of the seven Heathy people being at liconeto, came down from Creektown to oonfer with the white people. T1:6 German tfficter then told the King his errand, and said he must get the Hamby men at once, or he would be detained prisoner until they were released. The Sing WAB unable on the instant to comply with the request, and was therefore taken rrisener on board the gunboat. He was kept all night under arrest and re - Waged next ramming when the Rumby men were restored. The two Calabar traders were elm arrested and put on bead, the war vessel, the Germans requiring a fine at two bullocks and three goat to be paid for their release. The King objected to this, but nevertheless sent the animals to Duke - town next day, when, however, the gun- boat had left the river with the traders on beard. The British Consul was absent at the time of the occurrence. Used to This There were a deem or more flyeatreen doors outside the store marked," Only $1 30 eaob," andwhen the farmer and his wife drove up their attention was at once attract- ed. " Thath exactly what I was going to ask for." she said, as she climbed down over the wheel to the platforra "You was, eh?like to know what we want of a screen door? he growled. "What does other folks want of 'em ? ' "Sore anzff. If folks want to buy every &wrack that comes out let 'MB do it, but we hain't got no alone:tato throw away." "Moses, we've got to have a screen door," she observed as she went closer. "We are the only folks on the hull Centre Line road witbout one." "Has it hurt us any 2" "Yea, it leas. There wasn'b a tin peddler, lightning rod man, piano agent, or chicken buyer who celled iaab summer but what throwed out shalt to ue." " And if they'd throwed out a hint that we orter have a door bell you'd take on till you got one, I s'pote." "1 dont say nothin"bout door bells, cautue folks can knock when they come; but we do need a screen door." " hat fur ? ' "¶Ihey look rich from the road, and they keep flies and bugs out," "We have kept house thirty.eight years now and we orter be used to meets. Bugs and flies don'ts bother us none, and they are healthy, anyhow." " See how cheap they are, Motes," she continued in pleading tones. "Ya -as, but you kin buy the netting fur five cents ayard-white and green and yeller and all kinds, 1 tell ye, Martha, we can' afford ie" Sae sighed, and was turning away when the hardware man came otet and briskly saki: "Alt, how are you, folks? Molting at those screen doors, eh? Powerfuladne things to keep the flies out." " YLVES, I &pose so," replied the fernier, "bub we don't want any. I rather like to have flies around." "Well, I couldn't let you have one of that lot, anyhow. Dick Jones t: keg the whole five." " What 1 our Dick ?" " Yes, over on the corners." "And he's all mortgaged up and can't buy a WO, plough 1" "There, Moses -what do you think 1" ex- claimed the erne. "And Dick Joao has bought them doors?" he asked of tb.e inerehent. "Yes, he'll take' em." "No, he won't ! just load three of 'ern into my wagon 1 1 don'b go much on gimcracks, and I know we don't need 'em. but X ttain't going to leb no turnip top like Dick Jones go swelling around over me -not this year 1 Come along, old woman, and pick ye out a pair of forty cent stookinge-yes, you may go as high as Math 1 I'll be mashed if any family named Jona ean alb on our wet talk 1"-{N. 5E, Sun. TRIPLET MAXIMS. MAXIMS. Three things to love-Coura;e:' neas and affection. Three things to hate. --Cruelty, errogance, mid ingratitude. , Three thins to delight: ine-alithuty, frankness, and freedom. 'nhree thieve to evoitta-Idleneze, toqueoity, and flippant jostiog. Three things to oultivate.-Good books* good friende, and good humour. Three things to °enigma for. -Honour, , country, mad friends Three thingto teaoh.-Truth, iteduetry, wed contentment. Three things te govern.--Ternper, tongue, Three thinga to oherisht-lairtue, good neseeand wisdom. Three things to dee-Think, live, Bete , Uncle Oath Demeon. Shoo the Tato:sham: of Alaska it oan A Lunday Tderdidg Service. (Retanitfally dedicated to the lirunewith Street Methoeliet Church, Halifax, N. S On a guppy Sunday morning, in a City by thei Sera Ail the perfumed breezes laden with the whieperinga of Spring, And the mortal -like mute nature -waiting, lenging to be free And to breaehe the beam and teething which the freighted sunbeams bring, - 1 was found with those who gathered, as the people of the Lord, la a church, 'with saintly record, and with bright historic fame ; There to j iin in praise and worship, and to listen to the Word, And with those who love my Master, ren- der glory to His name. In the stately pillared otapel-doulttful where to hear the beat - I requested, sitting forward: courteouely- what could I more But the tether, earelese rudely -never heed- ing my requeetel Pat me in behind a pillar, on a bank seat, by the door; And I couldn't see the preacher -I could hear him, now atd then - So I Bat there, dull and lonely, where the lights and shadow part, And in bitterness 1 soribbled, for the benefit of men, All the °audio inapirations that were burn. ing in my heart. Forward -empty pews were plenty -few were there the space to fill; And within the vacant epaces I in fancy seemed to see k Heade. itt Connell. One--presiding-said: "He nicely did my will; "just keep on and teach these Christians - (with their practice I agree-)" " littild your churches full of columns, it will make them look so quaint; Fret and flute them; put figaries over every arch and nave ; Tell the coat of fanoy frames, when you cenotaph a Saint, With your teed glass window getting, make them sombre as the grave ;" When a stranger comes to see you, or a sinner cells to hear, Put him in behind a pillar, or away book by the door, In BOMB aeab without: a cushion or a book or any cheer, It will serve to keep him humble, and he'll bother you no more ;1 Build your pulpits high and stately; put your organ out of inglat ; Keep the "cloth' above the people, never fetter for their 'leek - "And the ober& will soon drift outward and become my vested right" As 1 measured up the practice. (HOW it gauges Hunan oreede 1) SAW I then this Land repeating all the follies of the Old :- Building stately, costly :lurches ; where the rich may worship God, Or display their fashions follies, and the pres tlge of their gold, . Never thinking of the Strangers or the poor that are abroad, And the children -like the fathers, -grow. ing up, will soon forget That the Lerd himself will measure up this manatee as a He will say -their record reading -when the judgment throne is set, "I was there with you --a Stranger -and ye never took me in." Oh, ye Christians.: note the facea of the ones that come and go 1 Greet them kindly 1 Bid them welcome - in your churches -when they call; For the Stranger -hearts are lonely and the sinners wateh to kaow If ye raanifest the tender love of Him, who died for all. You with happy homes and loved ones, and your nicely cushioned paw, You, who live in ease and comfort, and scarce ever go abroad, May consider you're "The chosen" and the clueroli was made for you, - Bat the &veneer and the Sinner are as near the Heart of God, "throve Rums." A High Time with Tigers. Mr. Gabbett, district engineer at Able Road, had a remarkable adventure with tigers lately. Mr, Gabbett was traveling by trolly between Abu Road and Rola when one of the gate keeptra gave him khrthar of a family of tigers in an *joining jangle, and Gabbett, accompanied by his trolly men and the old gate -keeper started ab onoe for the scene of operations. He had not long to wait before three fine tigers broke cover, and he dropped the foremost dead with a well directed shot. He then fired at the 'next one, but, though the brute was hard hit, he managed to make off toward a river bed in the vicinity. Mr. Gabbetts then had a shot at the third and succeeded in wound- ing him belly, but the animal beat a retreat into a cave hard by. In the meantime the tiger tallith had gone toward the river bed fell in with a thepherd, velum he maul- ed rather badly, Mr. Gabbett opened fire on stripes, wbo was hit and rolled over, but charge t and WAS hit twice again. Mr. Gab- bett was earning another shot when hie foot slipped and he fell, and 'the infuriated beast dealt him , a blow on the head -which ren- dered him insensible. The old gatekeeper pluckily attacked the tiger with his sword, but only diverted the fury of the animal to himself: The brute felled him to the ground with a stroke of hie pew, and then reurned to Mr. Gabbett. This diversion saved that gentleman's life, for the tiger onlyeacceeded in clawing him slightly and them fell dead. A fourth tiger also appeared on the scene, but aid not molest enyote. Mr. Gabbett WAB brought into Abu Road. He is progree sing, and purposes going horne shortly. The shepherd is also in a fair weer to recovery, hilt the poor old gatekeeper has auccumbed, --Walcott& lieglialneara Wit is brushwood; judginetit is thribert The fired makes the brigheat flims, but the other gives the most lasting hertt. At hie reeidonce on Margaret street, Cavenaith Square, London, a musician was engaged it writing a cantata. To him (Arne another mueician, Carlo °mini, with 6 piano- ergaa of great power and velocity. In vein aid Odoardo struggle with the notes of the :imitate ; they 'insisted on forming themselves itto the horrible jingle of the pirate organ, Having torn out several ha:allele of hie hair, the composer went to a Magiatrate aitd craved the law, the earetequeuee being that the street: musician Was fined, Villether this result is to be rejoiced at or not depends upon the quality of the Dentate. ib ittay be that many a bored audience will Wish, be- tween yawns, that the piano -organ had nip. pea the otattatle iti the bud. ILDCAT AND PARTRIDGE. Fisherman nails One Hunting iheDiber Carries Oft Rinaldo Potter, a Lehigh tOWDShip c1)0.0 turner:nen, had an unothernot experience while trout fishing recently. The stream is pretty narrow at the spot where Pother struck in, and for a mile or so the beaks are wood- ed, and many branthes hang over the oreen. A high wind wart blowing from the south- east, and all the sounds that Potter heard AS he waded and anglen down the stream were naade by tte swaying litabsoverheed and tae mermurieg brook. Potter sitie thin] he had not been fishing for more than fifteen minutes when he ther a reedden movement in the bushels on his left that startled him a little, so that he reeled ia his line and stepped toward thetbank of the creek to see what had made the bushes move: Not ten feat away e wikkat was crouching on the ground, with his tail toward the solitary fisherman, and it was apparently getting ready to peewee upon something which Pot- ter could not the. As the fierce -looking auimal's smelters were not ikiuted in his direction, Potter pulled otit his revolver and oonoluded to watch the vialdeat until ib had pouneed upon its area. He didn't have to wait a minute, he said, before the quivering beest crouched lower then before, sprang ten or twelve feet aWaY from the bank :of the brook, and want out of eight bathe bushes. Then Potter drepp ed his rod and 'stepped on dry land, with, his revolver at full cock. He heard a alight flattering in the bushee, and in an istant the wildeat bounded oat with a partridge in its mouth, and started to run away. Potter fired, and saw a tuft of hair fly from the wildcat, but it didn't stop the beast, and be blazed away again, Then the wildcat dropp- ed the partridge and began to :try and whirl around in a oink, and Potter ran toward it and was plug to give it a shot that would kill it, when it stretched ono and lay still, and Potter put the revolver in his pocket and picked up the dead partridge. He saw that it was a female bird, and so he went bank to look as the spot where the wildcat had caught her. Pettier fund that the par- tridge had been sitting on her neat. The meat was in a secluded spot, about a rod from the edge of the creek, and there were nine eggs in it. Potter pu tthe eggs into his trout baeket, out off the dead partridge's wings and stuff ed than into his pocket, and grabbed the wildcat by the forelegs and slung it over his left shoulder. Then he started for the creek to get his taoklo, having made up his mind not to fish any more, but he hadn't gone half a &est paths before he thought he felt the a:insoles of the wildcat's paws contra:et in his hand, and he squeezed them all the tighter and walked on. Jaen as he etooped over to pick -aro his rod and reel he felt the paws move again, and as he rote up the wildcat's hind legs worked to- ward hiashoulder with a quick jerk, the shoal) hind claws settled into the beck of his neck as he clung to the fore ones' and, before he had a chance to realize thatthere was still a good deal of live muscular energy in the savage anima, the wildose gave a kick and slit Potter's neck till the blood flew. Potter threw the wildcat to the ground and stamp- ed all the life out of it. One of hit bullets had shot a piece of its bail off, and the other had hit it on the top of its bath bone and made it whirl around. He had about three miles to go to get home, and his neck bled profusely until he reached an open field a mile or so from the c:eek, where he had the good luck to fine some putt balls. These he bound over the wr endgame atopped the flew of blood, and on Tuesday of this week he came over to Srratona and told the writer about hinstrenge ad vulture. A Donut Diagnosis. George; "Ea -you got engaged tart night ? Gus, my old, my dear friend, tel me how you did it 1" Gas: "Really 1 hardly know myself. Couldn't:help it ; jest like falling down -stairs. I was on the edge of a proposal, she gave me a path and there I was -engaged 1" George: "Well, 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 month, I've tried 0. tit z ni times to pop the question to Miss de Ptak, and got stuck every time." Gas: "And did the let you stick ?" George: "Yes.' Gus: "You are courting the wrong girl 1" Discrepancy in Aces. "isn't Mrs. Jodkins older than her hus- band 7' quoth Peaking to Snodkins. "Oh, yes," laconically anaweredSuodkins to Podkins. "How moll n' asked Podkins. "1 theanot tell," was the reply. "I hap- pen to know that sometbne ago Mrs. Jod- kina was exactly twice as old as her hus- band." "You -don'ts say I" exclaimed Bodkins. a What an awful disorepency in ages 2" Snodkins prldes himself on always keep ing within the exact truth, and yet the unfortunate Mrs. Jodkins is only one year older than her better hall; for when he was one year of age she WAB jUBt tWi00 AS old. He Had a Long Head, "Ab, how irgyour wife ?" '‘No better.' "Too bad. What does the doctor say?" 'Thatshe ought to take violent exercise." "And you can't get her to do it ?" "I have not been able to do so as yet; but I think I hew: struck a scheme that will do "What is that?" "I have killed the oat," "Killed the ern! How will that reeks her take violent exercise?" "Well, the mice will come around, and she will see one occasionally." ''G tad acheme. Lentake something. ' The Chicago School, "What is the matter, Nelty 2" "Nothing, MA; capt---" "Except what, Nelly "Except that we've got a new teacher and alien uppish and intuiting," "Who is she ?" "Priecille Rhine, from Boston." Whet did the do 2" "Oh, she took ete out of out 413 G's, and teem:: some funny bushiese right off, such AB "How many feet: make 11 yard? Three. And the made us say it, too. I !mew it was a slur about Chicago feet The idea of our yard tang only big enottgit to hold three foot 1" Why Eihe Was Offended. Miss Trip : Well, SAMBI,10, how is ma :o -day? I hope she la better than when I law her late Why, ethee are you, booking tt / Are you admiring my nice spring bon. tot? How do you like the cleat little bird ft the side ?"-Sarturne Bird, is it Why, tna saki you had a bee ID your bonnet, / thought it did not Took like one its too big, But MO Trip had trippod away highly offended. BASHFUL viomKEE8. Behted my father's house were woods -to my childish nomination a boonalese wilder - nese. Little by little I ventured into them. Ainortg my earlieet recollections of their shady and lonesiosne depths was a long, thuoderotte, fere:melt drumming noise, be ginning elovvly end thereasiug itt ;Teed till the blows became altnorit oontinuous. This, somebody told me, was the drum- ming of the ptrteidge. New and, then, in open epaces uz the path, I found shallow circular depreesktes where the bird had been dusting, an operation in wheel I had frequently then our barn -yard fowls ooze- plat:only enga ed At other times I was startled by the sudden whir of the bird's wings, as he sprang up at my feet and went darshiog away through the underbrusb. I heard with open-mouthed wouder of men who had been knowo to shoot 0. bird thus flying ! All la all, the partridge made a. great impression upon my boyish Mind. meBiny teoudtb be ymsou yslt eer yoldoefreeototmingpenainonarigtiautted My attempts were primitive enough, no doubt, but they answered their parpeae, taking me into the woods morning and niget, in all kinds of weather, and affording me no end of pleasure,* excitement. Once in a great while the noose would be displaned,-the klip-nooth," we called it, with unsuspected plemnam,-and the barberriea gone. At last I actually found a, bird In the =ate. The poor captive was dill alive, and, as I came up, was making frantic efforts to &maps; but I managed to secure him, in spite of ray trembling fingers and then, though the deed looked horribly like murder, I killed him,-- Iwound rather not mention how, -and oar. ried. him home be tritunph. Years passed, and I became in my OW/1 way an ornithologist. One by one I soraped acquaintance with all the common birds of our fields and wooda but the drumming of the partridge -or of ruffled grouse, as I now learned to call him -remained a my. stery. I read Emerson's desoription of the "forest seer," - "He saw the partridge dram in the woods; fle heard the wood000k's evening hymn; He found the tawny thrushes' broode ; And the shy hawk did wait for him e' and I thought, "Well, now, I have seen and heard the woodooth at his vespers; I have found the nest of the tawny thrush; the shy hawk has satstill on the branch, just over my head, bat I have not seen the partridge drutn in the woods. Why shouldn't I do that also?" I made many attempts. A bird often drummed in a small wood where I was in the habit at rambling before breakfast. The sound came always from one quarter, and probably from a ceitan stone wall. I reconnoitred the position carefully, and finally settled upon the most feasible point of approach. A. rather large boulder favor- ed me,and, after several failures, I one day spied the bird on the wall. He had drummed only a few minutes before ; but his lookout was probably sharper than mine. At all events, he dropped off the wall on the further side, and for that time I saw nothing more of him. Nor was I more anocessful the next time, nor the next. Be as noiseless at:Tomlin the wary creature inevitably took the alarra. To make matters worse, remains were short and birds numerous. One day there were visiting, warblers to be looked after ; another day the gray-oheeked thrushes had dropped in upon US, and, if possible, I muat hear them stn. Then the tlue golden winged warbler was building her nest, and by some means or other I must find it. Tema season after season went by. Then, in another place, I accidentally pessed quite round a drummer. I heted him on thee right, and after travelling only a few rods 1 beard him on the left. He meet be very near me, and not far from the crest of a low hill, over which, as its the former ease, a atone wall ran. fife drummed at long intervals, arnd mean- time I was straining my eyes and advaneing at a snail's pace up the slope. Happily, the ground was carpeted with fine needlee'and comparatively free from brush and dead twigs. 4 section of the wall came into sight, but I got no glimpse of the bird, Soon I went down upon all fours; then lower yet, crawling instead of oreepiag, till 1 could look over the brow of the hill. Here I waited, and had begun to think I was once more to have my labor for my pain& when all at onoe 1 saw the green atep from one stone to another. "Now for it 1" I said to myeelf. Bub the drumming did not follow, and anon I lost sight of the drummer. Again I waited, and finally the fellow jumped suddenly upon a top atone, lilted his wings, and began the familiar roll -call. I cou Id the his wingsbeating againat his sides wide quicker and quickerstrokes ; but an un- lucky bush was between us, and to avoid it I moved a little to one aide, Upon this the bird became aware of my pretence. At least, I saw him staring straight at me, and almost immediately he dropperl behind the wail; though I remained motionless till a cramp nook me, I heard nothing more. "11 it had not been for that miserable bush 1" I thought. Bab 3. need nob have blamed the bush for growing where it/ was platted. A wiser man wouoi have remota• belroatth, old BAW, and tnade bhe moat of "In aa a Another year parked, and :another spring came round. Then, on the same hillside, a bird, perhaps the same individual, was drum- ming one A.pril morning, and as my note- book has it, I "oame within one "of taking him in the mot. I adathaculated hie position, however, which this tiorie was not upon the wall but on a boulder surrournied by a few small pine -trees. The rook proved to be re- gular llirtateeob r:d,, and clearly was the birdie: "Very good," geld 1, "1 will :Atoll you yet." Five days later I returned to the charge, and Was rewarded by seeing the fellow drum once; but, as before, intervening brush obseured my elation. I inapt forward, inch by inch, till the top of the rook came into view. and waited and waited and waited. At lest I pushed on, and lo, the plaos was deserted. There is a Scripture teet that might have been written on pur- pose for ornithologists, "Let patience have her perfect work.' This was .April 141h. On the 19th I made the experiment spin. The 6thininer was ell it as 1 drew near, and fortune favored me at least I with:awed the performanee three times over. Evert now, to be entre the pro. specio was not thtirely clear, ha it BIB better than ever before, and by this time I haa learned to be thankful for small made% 487. es grouse kept hie flatle between the . ado, moving bis head h atm one way and another, but apparently doing nothing Of course I had in mind the disputed question as to hoW the dranunine nolite it prodnee& it had thorned to the then 'who- ever toottld Settle this point mutt attithel carefully to the grab slow beat, This I now attempted, and after ,pno tria, WAS ready, gte offer 11- eb4eaiyot etir bjsa4:0,:12:411; 2171: 0,1 I pi (thee r gd) makee the soued by kitrikb3g bin wings to- twij trbrilogehOtitaxitra, wet% eavtiengieffro,r cotnhevulte: (nevem:tea and 1 (soul(' alinoot nave made oatt14eItrrd1betf r:t hli1V38 felli34ifSanaV8;'ilfr1I3ti7'1 wte2tlhed:1%1TlaaaB7; 'v4i;Yuoreaueo PmibvehiLY:1(tfQu 1f:oobsever: estbeen1rt1;sure. of A thing, let him look at it once, and forever aft-er shut hie eye& On the whole, 1 return to my previous einnion, thee the sound la made by the down.- ,v4rd strokes, thoagh whether against the to atw odyor against the air, I will oot preenme' 1 A man who is a far batter ornithologieb than I, and who has witneesed this perform - :ince under altogether more fevoreble eandi- times than I was ever afforded, immures me that his performer sat c4own/ My bird took sat o st:ilrladictlatu: 00FitiOD. 01 BO mach, tiei4t, Im When lie had dreamed three times, my partridge quitted hie boulder, -I WAS' clese enough to hear him strike the dry leaves, -and after a little walked sud- denly into plain sight. We saw sac& other at the flame inetant, kept motion. lees, my field -glass np. Be made sandry nervous movemet t I, especially of hie ruff, au& then silently stalked away. I could uot blame him for his diffidence. It I had been ahot at and hunted mite dogs as many times as he probably had been, I, tool might have become a little shy of strang- ers. To my thinking, indeed, the gronae is one of our most eatimeble citizeus. A liking for the buds of fruit -trees is his onlyfeult,— not many of we leave a smeller numberva-and, that is one easily pardoned, especially by it - man who owns no orchard. Every .sportsman tries to shoot him, sus& every muter doss its worst to freeze him, bat he continua th aourish. Others may migrate to sunnier climes, or eeek safety 'itt. the backwoods ; but the partridge was bone here, and here he me me to stay. What elae could be expeoted of a bird whose notion of itlover's sseTreourraedy.e18 the beating of a dram! -[id Absent-Minded. "13urdette aeys that our funniest experi- ences are almost always connected- with 'a great big heartache,' and I know its true.° aaid lively Mrs. Peters. "I have laughed. twenty Want during the lest fwenty years over something that happened the day after I was married. Bat I assure you I didn't laugh when it hi:evened. Iwas married on the third day of July, and my husband was to deliver an address in tb,e town hall on the Fourth. "Ke was principal of the school, and the people wouldn't let him go away even for our wedding -trip till after the celebration. So we went to the village hotel, and there- on the evening of my marriage I had to lis- ten to ray hue:bend practising that speech. "He went te the hall soot letter breakfast to try his voice, saying he would come back for me about half an hour before the oxer - cities began. "'And didn't he come?' cried sever:it of Mrs. Peters's listeners. "Not he. Think of it 1 I 'was Stressed up . in my pretty new things, and lots of the girls in the village would be there to see me. come in with my husbatd. I wouldn't stay athome, and oh, ib was dreadfat to go- alortel "To add to my trouble I met one of my husband's moat intimate friends before I had gone twenty steps. He knew Mr. Peterear peculiarity. and I suspected that he guested, how I had been mane it victim of it, but he ws,s kind and talked of other subject& " It was a relief, after all, to have his company. The girls would thiek my hue - ban i had been obliged to go early and had left his friend to theort tae. "We were late, and when we entered the crowded hell, the mayor was making a few preliminary remarks, Mr. Peters eiteing be- hind. him. "The moment he oatryht sight of me, he did the most absurd thing possible -the one thing neceasary to complete my misery. "First slapping his knee with it geature of tremendous surprise and self-reproach, a geeture that would ahem everybody just what had happened, he rose and came down through theaudiente etraielat bo me, I Ciat hear him now. " ' My dearest girl,' send he, leaning oyer me, forgot all about you "'You'd better go back to the platform; said I, as coolly as possible. Don'b be provoked, Mattis,' he begged, gapping the climax; I honeably did forget all about you, or I would have: come back to the hotel. It did seem to me, too, as though I'd left something.' "Go baok to the platform and never speak to me again,' said I. It was too moh for me to bear, to know that his friend WAB laughing at his ridiculous apology. "01 course we made it up, and I've for- given him for forty acts of absent-minded- ness since; but to this:day he doesn't tlike to be asked if he ' thought he had left some. thing." Labor's Assistants. The housekeeper well knows thab if she would be free from the moth that doth des- troy, Imre the flies that tantalize, from the bugs that disgust, she must use the ounce of prevention liberally, and that at no time is the ounce of prevention so sure to make the pomade:4 oure untioessary as the Bet100r1. Many remedies are vouched for as the mod efficat- °thus to ride the house of nests. For roatheet bedbug& in faot all vernem that delight in creaks and crevites, benzine is an *moth pertain destroyer Put pare benzine in it me- chit:moil can, and equat into the places where) these terrors of the housekeeper hide, Amtnonia is also it remedy nob dangeroue bet moat effective. Ammonia thould not b; used on paint: and varnioh; ft diet:010th the paint and turtle varnish white. Borax, pow. derednit an effective exterminator of roaches; sprinkle freely aroundahe *kink arid pipes, the floor and the base -board, not once or twice, but every night for e week, and the resulb will justify the trouble. Moths are destroyed and their eggs will never hatch where any pungent' odor tamable. Camphor le very effectual, but mutt be as - ed libetally. Not heft it little will mower, but it deluge to the pest world, and thiestaut vigilance k the price to be paid for freedomn from house pests. A Railway for Palestine. If the Tutitiali Government consente it is probable that Paleatitie Will be invaded by l000motives, and that before long the con. duotor will have an ,opportutilty of oalliqg out "Galilee;all out for awlitt good TdrkishDemeecas pethennets plebes retain their seats till the ttit101 optima to it hill Stdp," Application 'has been made L byjtesetth Elias, formerly Geyer:Iambi:engin. eer of Lebanon,. for a commission for rein way from Ueda, bel the Mediterranean, abOut midway between Tyte and Cltesarea, I by way of take Galilee over the Ritter Jet« denim D4t04140116. ki a 'S ti