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The Exeter Times, 1889-6-20, Page 2AFTER THE ARAB SLAVERS I Wati ordered to boerd the reamer and Mee posseeeion, We pulled Beraight for her, but bolero we got aloegaide penderrionium broke loose. The fellow wile lingered Ai EnnOUnter on the at Coast Of the behead h„,a kno„a the tine:mew eie the Dark (iontietent. auk; tley there its an occasional °sage of blacks q eietly pieked up oe tho African (meet and run, up the Red Sea, w/eile it is no secret that imadreds ot !slaves are talent:bed accosts the Saud en country and openly sold on the north °mew. When every other nationality hal been forced q itt the nefailous treffes in hum flesh, the A aW took hold, and for ten yea/a:hey defied the power, of the alli awe- , When I Was D.:ED tont rut to the wiee coa,bt at3 mitiehipman on 11, S Rover, every Chr istien eation was aseistieg to prevent the tr. ffi ., bat ie goes without dispute that Rwgdand as the °ply 'union enterieg heart- ily tnto the worle. See has done more on sea and teed to break up ownerelip in huznan 11 .811 than ell the rest of the world combined. In ouly oee or two instances on our station did the R ver receive anything like heat ty support from the vessels of other nations, ant. ip hill a score of oases the crews of merchant versels gave us informaticn oan culatee to aasist our enemiee. The Anab twee n were not alwitys command- ed by Arebe, Renegarie Americans, French- men, Spaniards, e.nd men of other nationali- ties were intereeted, and it was these men who geee ua .he most trouble. They were old hate's in the business, up to all the tricks end dodges, and they gave us many a umlaut °hese awl played ue many a sharp game. The favorite Owe craft was the dhow, of light draught, great spread of cenvas, easily raenaged, and a fast sailer in any sort of a bre r z. but variona syndicates had purchased brigs ,ceooners and small ships, and they were 'teeing all sorts of colons and professing eJL sorts of occupations. They oanee.down the east nest from Juba to Sofa,dietance of a thousand miles measuredby the trend of the coast. For two nears Rigland had only two 'nave catch- ers on this long line, and it did not require much sharpness to geb out a contraband cargo. glaThe mouth of every river on that coast has from two to five outlets, and many of them spray out into lor.g inlets and false channels, traversing miles of swamp or low land, and twenty cruisers mild not have kept the coast under strict guard. The Rever was a fast -sailing brig, but she sbould have been a steamer to carry out the promarnme Iaid down for her. One day just as we vgere ready to sail from' lirlaeimba, after making some needed repaire, an Am Wawa Merehantme n came in with thine blacke aboard. Tiaeyhad been picked up off a raft at aea a hundred miles down the wag. The Yankee Captain brought them aboard and turned them over with the observation: a standing neutral on this blackbird question, Captain. It eecrna wrong to drag these niggers off and melee slaves of 'cm but our C *restitution permits slavexy. I never owcen one and never shall, but we've got to have eaves or we can't have, cotton ano , about, came up in the wind eget% and. sugar. Them poor devils have to doubt: goe efter haeging for a moment paid off anti a story to tell. Maybe it will furnish a pointer for you and maybe it won't, rill a- standine neutral, as I said before. If you can get anything out of them go 'divide WOMEN AB BON WORSHIEEERS. I hope none of my. readers will imagine that I have made a mietake in the yelling Of fir4tdage whiuh e9vered be two hat°11°84? as writing of Women as worshippere of the her decks, and the blacks ewarmed up and orb of day. ray heading—that 1 yrieh to be understood I am writing of those women over the brig like so many horneta. whit have been weak enoegh to spoil their Those dusky fellows were eubunissive boys by foolieh training, and unwise enough enough when, everawed, but as they.came on to adore the reel" of their foollehueee, deck to find therneelves in noesessem they My attentioa wee first most forcibly called get rid cif their light chains, and. menaced us to a case in point, some years ago, ancinitnie front every foot of the rail, They could not then 1 have frequently observed a repetItion understand what 1 ai ocourred, and all ships of it. At the ttaae referred to I was board- ancl all crews were alike to them. They ing for the summer at a ferrnhouse in the seized whatever wealions they cellid got CAShill, HOUntaille, with a familY oottektine hold oe, put' then:mi.'?" andel' a aaaPla a of a farmer, hie wife, two children -we son leaders, who had probably been chiefs, and daughter, both grown—and the hired and dared US to board' 1 Palled /)ack to our man. There was no woman [servant, the craft for instructione, and was ordered to entire housework being chine by the Wife and take one of the iuterpreters back with me daughterwa bright, intelligent girl, who and let him explain the sitgation, had so interested a family boarding there It WW1 lallp099ihae for hIM to do so owing to the yella and shoute whioh greeted us. years previous to my se j eurn that they had persuaded a e parents to send her to school They could. see him, and could see that he in New York. -So earnestly did she study, wan not one of 113, but when he ;stood up that at the end of two yeare she competed and made signs the confusion was increased. for and wou a potation as teacher in one of The other beet now returned item her vain the ward schoole of the city. ohaee, but we had as vet formed no plea) Ae soon au school closed emit .year, she when the land bretzs epriteg up and the went horae, worn and tired, bet Instead of blacks began to make eall me the brig. lolling around, she deemed suitable garments, These must have been two or three among and not merely assisted, but did the greatest them who had been aboard of a sailing craft, part of the housework. Perhaps the Outage or they were sharp enoue,h to study out the of work was good for her ; her mother rig and dieoover whioh relies to haul on. thought Be, and I will not venture to suggest None of them slued ge aloft, but they let that a little more rest would have been beim- fall or hoisted away until the bre"' gob a ficial. The young lady always seemed to purchate o a the bunts and festoons, and i lien work cheerfully, and the mother as cheer - the jibs were run up and trimmed down iully encouraged her to do it ; indeed, it almost as well as sailors could,have done it. seemed to be taken as a matter of course We sought to board her while so many of that Mary should bear the heavy end of the the blanks were busy, but there were enough left. on guard to thwart our efforts. road; That weak, foolish mother never tired of It W9 could have used our pistols and cut. telling me of her son—her "beautiful boy," lasses we could have been on her deities in as she oalled him, who was " in business" tw i minutes, but our orders were not to in in New -York, and would soon come home. j are a man of the rn, our Ceptaln hoping The "dear boy" meat have suffered so in that after their first) spurt wits over the the city; she was glad that he was so soon interpreters mighb find opportunity to ex to have a reale If the boarders project any plate. little exeursione, she would suggest postpon- Whoa followed the coming of the breeze mg them until John should COME; he would has never been detailed except in cffioial enjoy them so ranch, and he needed tho reporte. The wind came up strong and change. She said nothing atout a change gusty, showing an atmospherie disturbance for Mary; fier services were too valuabte, inland, and the management of a vessel was and besides she was not [supposed to need something that no one aboard understood. any change, except from sohool teaching to She had got her nose pointed up the housework, andthe reverse. bight by the time the breeze took her, and August came, toed with it came John—a . . away she moved as fast as we could pull our beautiful boY in eeice and form, but as great boat behind her, yawing to starboard or a tyrant as ever swayed a sceptre. During port in suoh a way that her wake was like a the two weeks of nis vacation, his mother rail fence. The blacks evidently wanted to thought of no one else andtalked of nothing return to land, and as she moved that way den Not once was 72.'s known to think of their yelling was tremendous. 'After a little any one exceph hiniself. Mary's labors wee practice at the wheel the helmsman kg:it a greatly increased; indeed, the whole sestein better course, but the bre et gusted uP of the household Was overturned. He rose strong every few minutes, and during these at any time, and the °hole ist morsels were gusts he lost his nerve and everything was cooked for his breakfast. (Mary rose at five in confusion. However, the brig kepteadi o'elook, and did an _immense amount of work matting up the bight all the time, andmur before preparing breakfast for the family.) two boats followed behind.- t Instead of. putting on his farming clothes She was holding tolerably fair for the and going into the field to help his father, mouth of the rivet, and we had made aP John arrayed himself in his finest suit and our minds that the wOuld certainly be lounged in the hal:meek, while Mary swelt- beached when the suddenly fell cif, vrabbled ered in the kitchen wewhing or ironing his o011aia and cafe. His whole conduct rtflaot- ed the weakness of hirs mother. Daring the two weeks of his atay my blood was boiling with indignation, and I have never had the courage to go there eiece, Wet 1 ahoulel fail to exptess the haelination to free nay mind on the eabject of women who worship their sons to the great detriment of the boys and with iejustice toward the ?eh's. This happened at a farmhouse ; eince then I have witnessed injustice of the same char- aoterin an exaggerated form in a cottage by the sea. In company' with friends I spent a pleasant summer at the cottage in a little 'seaport village. A. widow with hertwo daughters occupied the hoose and Wined out theiteoanty means )y takingsummer board err. They were pleonant people, and were eci exceedingly kind to me during a few days ilium which overtook me there, that 1 felt a desire to go back to them for a month der. ing the winter. I had some work to do which necessitated a quiet place, and Mrs. Stone's secluded house suggested itself to my mind. Having made the necessary arrange- ments, I received a cordial welcome from the mother and daughter when I alighted at their cottage at the close of a cold winter day. I was unprepared to meet three stal- wart men whom Mrs. Stone introduced as her sons. I had heard their mother speak of her sons as fishermen, but the face of their being at home during the winter had not oo- curred to m3. I learned in a few hours that Jennie had secured the winter school in the district, and that Env, was busily employed at dress- making—going out by the day. "And the boys," said I, "what do they do in the winter ?" "Why, nothing," said the mother, look - Wig at me in surprise. "The dear boys work hard all summer and they must have some recreation." "Dl the girls work all the year round and the boys only half the time, Mrs. Stone ?" I could not refrain from asking. ' " Yes ; but the work is very different; life on the water is full of hardships, and the business cannot be followed in winter." We had two or three interpreters abroad, and it wasn't long before we learned that a brig called. the Lion had put in at the mouth of the Zinge, seventy miles down the cotst, and was loading a cargo. Tee three menhad eecaped front a bar. racoon three miles from the coast, reacend • the waster, and built a raft, and, althougb realizing that there was not one thence in a - hundred for:their liven a they floated out to ton they took it, and had been afloat two days and two nights when ug. Tb IlTigiatul not itegunto ;toad cargo whet they :escaped. t Indeed, the barracoon held only about eighty captives, while she wanted two hun- dred or over, and it would be four or five days before her complement was ready. The brig referred to professed to be a merehantmen. We had overhauled and boarded her twice without find lee anything suspicious, but yet we had been told several.times that ehe was one ol the luckiest crate in the slave trade. Hare was a golden opportunity, and the ,story of the blacks was hardly completed be- -fore the Raver had made esal. We were in luck in carrying a fine breeze with us for fifty mike down the coast, thentwe got cat's paws and calms, a :quail or two, and it was evening of the second day before we rounded the point and looked into the bight, at the west tide of which was the mouth of the Viewer, frale bight was seven et eight miles long by a varyirg width, being shaped like a pear with the large end towards the sea. We still had a light breeze to work under and a boat was sent ahead to take soundings, and we moved up the bight aboub two miles Then we anchored to wait for another day. About 11 o'clock at night the tide began to run out, and with it came a land breeze, but the latter blew itself out in half an hour and just rat two boats had been ordered down to take their stations where they could intercept and board the slaver if she Should come out. She might have coteplet- ed her cargo and might not, but having run in under our very nose, as it seine, her crew would be anxious to get the blacks aboard and be off at the earliest moment, As the wind died away the boats were recalled, and half an hour later a light fog set tied down on tha water and circumscrib- ed our vision to a distance of fifty feet. Orders were given for strict silence aboard, and during the rest of the night a small boat might have pulled all around us and heard nothing to indicate our pre t. When morning came the men were turned tip and with the loath possible none, and We waited for the sun to disperse the fog before piping to breakfast. In that) fog we were a ghostly ship, and a ghostly crew, but after half an hour's waiting the fog began to break up into queensbaped tongues and rifts and chef z away, and all of a sudden' it van. iehed and left us a clear vision. A wild cry broke 1 rota every enlisted man aboard, for there, hardly musket -shot away, almaat stationary on the dead tide, was the Lion'the tnig we were in march of. She had left her Moorings with the wind and tide, but the nervier had failed her, and the fog coming on had obliged her to anchor for the night. She had been within a mile and a half cf us all night, and had lifted her anchor in the early morning to drift down With the last of the tide and be ready to make her cffiag with the first of the land hrseie, s The yell of surprise and satisfootion from our decks was echoed by one ofastonishmen awl hate from the slower. Orders were giten to drop Our boats and hoard her, but at the SAMS moment her yawl dropped into the water, and Captain and crew tumbled into it to escape ma. There was a little delay in getting away, one of her Men stopping be- hind for a 1710111011N but when the yawl headed up tho bight, it was. at such a paoe ee to discourage tie We had two borate down, bid it was the nther one which pursued the yawl, vvhile turned almoat on her heel and headed for tho,ocean. Things must have been at sixes and sevens aboard for the whole crowd yelled in terror. We did n'ot know until later on what had caused this erratic movement. The crew of the slaver, after pursuit had been given over, rested on their oars to see the affeir out. When the brig headed up the bight they cut across her bows to recapture her, not seeing us in her wake. They probably ettempted to hook on to her fore -chains, bub in any event they got in her course and ,were run down and Bent) to the bottom as if the blacks haat planned at. Not a man escaped, When the brig headed for the sea the breeze helped her along faster, and the helms man got back his nerve and managed to hold her pretty even. Our own oraft slippeenher anchor and made sail as a matter of precaution, but the Lion parsed 'nor by a (pewter of a mile and held itraight out. We had now to penile the foolish crowd, which we did as soon as our boats could be recalled. We hoped that the eeas now zetting up would. disable the blacks bub few, if any, of them seemed to mind it. We could sail five feet to her one, and we ran as close as was prudent and made every effort to make them understand that we were friends. They answered us with threat and menace. When we fired a gun, hoping to frighten tbern into submission, it seemed to have just the opposite effect. She was a good ten miles out when we got the word to reef and olew for an approach- ing equall, and we were hardly ready for it when it ceane booming down and shut out sight of everything for ten minutes. When it had passed the brig was bottom up a mile away. She had turned turtle, and not a soul aboard of her escaped. " The Little Goat." "Here's the little coat—but oh 1 Where is he we've cenaured so ; Don't you hear us calling, dear, Back—come back and never fear; Yon may wander where you will, Over orchard, field or hill, You may kill the birds, or do Anything that pleases you 1 Ah 1 this empty coat of his, Every tatter worth a kiss; Every stain as pure instead As the white stars over head," "And the pockets—homes were they O gl-e little hands that play N ,ve no more—but absent, thus Beckon us." It did nob require more than two or three days of observation to reveal the workings oi the home. The two girls rose early, made the fires, cooked the breakfast, then made their street toilets and hurried to their respective tasks, which began ab 8 and 9 a. m. Mrs. Stone rose in time for breakfast, then did the work left undone by the girls. At ten, or half past, or elgsveu, the boys appeared, dragging themselves along, almost too lezy to eat the food their mother had carefully prepared for them. She stood; over them, anticipating their every want—almost putting, the fool lete their rnoutha, seeming perfectly happy with the privilege of looking at them. After —[ Tames Whitcomb Riley. breekiaet they lighted their pipes, and seat ing themselves around the stove in the eaeiest chairs that the cottage afforded, Hats with low crowns and broad brims, smoked and looked wise. In the entire like s000ps,are fashional le. month spent there 1 did not see one of them A writer in the " Contemporry Review" in the act of reading. They pondered-- statea that when Mr. Bright had to make"a upon what, I have many timea wondered. greitespeech" he brooded over it day after Mre. Stone canon in and looked at them 00 - day. But he did not care to do all his pre- casiona.11y to;see that they wereperfectly corn- paration at his desk or in solitude. As fortable. If by mistake one of them had argument's and illustrations occurred to him taken an ordinary chair, he drew up an eaey he lilted to try their effect by talking them one and insisted upon his being made comfort - over with his friends ; and when he was at abbe; having satisfied herself on that point home, if nobody else was within reach, he she retired to the kitchen in a state of talked them over with his gardener, The eestacy. After a while they moved around speech tock shape in converaation. Then in their Plow, I had almost said "lazy," he made the "notes" whioh he intended to fashion etre seamen alweem slow in their use when the epeech was delivered. It was movements ?) and went leieurely down to hie habit, when he spoke on the platform, the village attire, whore they spent the to place his notes on the brim of his hat, greater part of the day [Tinning yarns (as which stood on the table, before him ; they was afterwards informed). were written on half sheets of note paper. As the girls did not return until night, Extracts of more than three Or four lines in Mrs. Stone brought to myeroorn a lunch, and length which he intondedto quote in eupport we dined at ave. The boys returned at that of his staterneats were usually written on hour and seated themselvese as guests at the similar half•sheets, separately numbere table, leaving their mother to oarve while and were carefully placed on the table by Jennie served everything. After dinner the the silo of his hat. His annual speeches to boys leisurely lighted their pipes and mean his constituent e rarely extended over leas tated amill 01.011d0 of woke, vvhile Jennie than an hour; andrthey as rarely exceeded an did the work, then beouvht out her Latin hoer arid five minittea. Bub the eheets of beetle atia Mated hetself for an hour of study. notes varied greatly in "mother ; nornetimee Eliza, who returned later, took her sewing he had only four or five ; sometimes he had —a &ems for heraolf, her ingather or her eight or nine, and 1 think that" oceadonally sister, In the course of the Mienitig the fire ho had still More, needed replenishing, the mother or the els, tors brought the coel. I have seen tlaose thee able-bodied, empty-headed, men geze with the utmost oomplaoency at one of those three woinen as She litted a heavy hod of coal. One morning I went down as usual to breakfast. Jennie informed nte that her mother had been siok all nighb, and she (Jennie) had been broken of rest in eating for her. Jeunie had nob only assisted Eliza to get breakfast, but, tag there had been heavy fall of snow during the night, had shoveled the move from the front otoop and a path to the '.tette. "Why didyou not call the boys 1 aeked. "Mother made me promise not to call them," said Jennie. "She is worrying now about their breakfast, and nialles me to stay from school to oare for them." " Dann stay from scihool," eaid I. "1 shall be only too glad to repay your mother's kind ness to me by oaring for her, As for the boys, they will be taken care of," I ment- ally resolved that they should be taught to take care of themselves. Jennie and Eliza went to their respective teaks, and I went) into the sick room. The patient was in a state of mind regarding the dear boys. I assured her that they %you'd he taken care of,.and gradually aoothed her to sleep. When the ficst boy appeared, he found the table just as we had left) it. I informed him of the state of affair, and also told him that I would take care of the mother if he and his brothers would manage the housekeeping, He a eemed willing to do what he could, and to my aetonishment cooked as good a breakfast as any one could wish. (I afterwards learned that he had served in the oapaoity of cook on a vessel.) He informed the others of the situation, and they, seeming to understand that I would do none of the housework, washed the dishes, replenished fires, filled lamps, cooked dinner, and did everything that was necessary to be done. I soon discovered that the boys were nob at fault; that the whole oeneure meet mat upon their weak, eentimental mother, whom I kept in her room for three or four days, until she had had a good resit and her sons had been pretty well trained. I prais- ed the efforts of the boys, and impressed upon them the factthat their mother was far from strong, and that her health, perhaps her life depended on freedom from work, and they expressed their willingness to go on with the work as they had begun. But with the first days of recovered etrength, that foolish mother insisted upon putting. her dear boys back into their rock- ing -chews, pipes in hand, and took up her onerous duties with that happy amile upon her face whioh their presence alvvays in- duced. I afterwaree learnee that the girls' wages, together with the mbrieyereweived from boarders, was the enly source of income for the family. The mo.her would not take one cent from those hard -worked (1) boys. Mothers, do not be afraid of overworking your sons. If hard work and deprivations will develop character and refinementin girls, why should they not have the seine effect on boys? I hope to live long enough to see mat- ters of this kind TO /re equitably adjusted. LeratInet MANI; riwanwq- BI'1ENGT11 TAB 'TT. B. Tim woakutss or the American Army Shown by the "St. James Gatzette." , You have recently drawn meoh atteetion to tbe attemnte Which the Amerioans are making to develop a povverful navy, and you have hinted that in is few years 94 addition may. be made to the great potential fighting States of the world. 1 hove pressed a good 'nicety Weere in Anterior), end from whet have seen them 1 have come to the conelu- Mon that you, in oompany with most ' Ehg- lighmen, entertain meth too high an opinion of the poesible offeneive power of the United Staten • A Lesson, "Ways are not soaroe nor chances few For those Who long God's work to do." Said one unto himself: 1 would That I might wield some p'egwer for good ; That I some wondrous', tongue could learn To speak the thoughts and words that burn; That I could marvellous colors mix, . Wherewith on mond walla to fix The glimpee of heaven, tbe holy dream, ;elute should finite ern men's thoughte redeem : azia o that some rare gem were mine Whereon to carve the face divine. Another took took the self same words We uee each day, The words wherewith we chicle or blas, We curse or pray, And with them sang a song, that through The wide world rings, And slumbering souls that hear it wake To nobler things. Another, with no pigments rare, With naught but wood charred in the flame, Drew scenes that softly call M prayer And mutely glorify God's name. Within a vast cathedral, stands An knew() carved by loving hands, AO image of The Crucified. Rich treasures decked the holy pile, But they who tread its ithadowy aisle, From all teem splendors turn aside, And time and time again retrace Their steps, to gaze upon the face. Which from the marble cross looks down. And yet this stone that melts to tears The eye that looks on it, for years Ley Death the feet of all the town. "For those who long God's work to do, Ways are not scarce nor chancels few." Under the Violets. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, Her hands are cold, her face is white; No more her pulses come and go; Her eyes are shut to life and light; Fold the light vesture, snow on snow. And lay her where the violets blow. But not beneath a graven stone, To plead for tears with alien eyes : A slender cross of wood alone Shall say that hear a maiden lies In peace beneath the peaceful skies. And gray old trees of hugest limb Shall wheel their oiroling shadows round, To make the scorching sunlight diin That drinks the greenness from the ground, And drop their dead 'elves on the mound. For ber the morning choir will sing Its matins from the branches high, And every minetrel voice of spring That thril's beneath the April sky, Shidl greeb her with its earliest'Cry. At last the rootlets of the trees • Shall fled the prison where she lie, And bear the buried dust they seize In loaves and blooms to the skies: So may the soul that warms it rise. If any, born of kindlier blood, Should ask; "What maiden lies below ?" Sty only this: "A tender bud That tried to blossom in the snow Dies withered where the violets blow." Oa a Now York railroad printed blanks are furnished conductors for use iu report. ing aticidente. It is relatei that a recent return mimed a great laugh in the Superin. tohdentea office. Opposite the side head "dispositiot" the conductor wrote that the iujitted passenger Was sober and incluatrious, inetead of stating where he was mute The diepoeitien of the carcase ot a cow killed by hi train bothered an other concluder, for he declared that the disposition of ahe:ani. mal was kind and gentle, Now for one improvised cruiser that toe Americans could put on the ocean or the lakes, it is certain that we oould put at least twenty and better ones at that. Their " cruisers ° would be simply cargo steamer's armed and manned anyhow, Jost as they were during [Moir civil war. The army of 300,000 to 500,000 would be compoged of our old friends the "new men with muskets," totally " unamenable to disoipline," to whom plenty of good excuses for mutiny wculd be supplied by the army contractors. The overgrown republic is alwaya from differing and jawing interests, naturally disposed to split into halvea and quarters, and the "shaking up" which a foreign war would give its rather crazy institutions would be an excellent opportunity for malcontent States to "gab loose " from one another. The vast Southern and 'Western ci devant seceding States have net fergotten what followed the war, or the fact that they have been bled ever einoe for the benefit of the Northern capitalists and manufacturers who corquered, plundered, and trod them down. Then there is the large and increas ing negro population, who feel that the end is not yet, and live in alarm and uncertainty, dreading the final issue, perhaps re-enelave- ment, perhaps tnasemore and deportation; anything in such a country and such condi- tions being on the cards. Again, the agricultural population, two-thirds at least of whom are foreigners from every nation in Europe—Germans preponderating—would not admire being conscripted to fight the English in order to pleaee the politicians and oblige their Mesh patrons. Then the Indiana (reinforced by ooneidera- ble numbers half breeds and "Indian white men" who have married equaws and become affiliated with the tribes or adopted into them) would be very likely—they are all well armed with repeating weapons—to take to the war path, having been merciless- ly swindled for the past thirty years or so, in violation of!the most solemintreaties. Some people maintain that the oowboys—who, as Gan. Sheridan remarked : "Fighb pretty well when they are drunk," and are regular nomads"air aTerne to discipline se a Kurd or Bedouin -would hind Vie -Indians in cheek : but this is doubtful. The inteeta both of cowboys and Indians are identi- cal, as are their pursuits. Both hate the 'Grangers," or agricultural equatteres, who continually pour in from the Eastern States, encroach upon and break up cattle rune and reservations, and are a growing dedeetin anti reellaCe botb to red Men and °Attie °miners. A big,foreign Wat Would leave the latter a free hand, and the Gran- gers might possibly—as they say in Tem —"hear -something drop." FOREIGN BW2. The large -calibred quick -firing guns are so setisfactory that the 4, 7 inoh guns of that clan are rapidly supereeding the 6 inoh rifles in tbe Blitish navy. Mary Anderson is reported by the Man - chatty Examiner as about to take her place society, though she is not expected to re - tura to the stage for nuany months. 0hOi013 ReOipeS. CREAM CAKE.-.-StiT into two cups of flout two teaspoonfuls of baking powder ; rub two tablespoonfuls of butter into a heaping cup of white sugar, add one egg, one cup of eweet milk and a pilule of salt. A filling for the cake ie made from one pint of milk, one egg, two tablespoonfuls of corn starch • Bever and sweeten to taste. OLD FASHIONED WALNI7T TAFFY.---Tahe one quart of black molassee, put on to boil, when hot drop in a lump oebutter, ( teaspoon- fuln try constantly if done, in cold water. When nearly done have one-half pint of wal- nut kernels stirred in and pour out on it large well buttered dish. When nearly firm take a knife and divided off in two-inch squares, and set in a celd place. INDIAN GRIDDLE CAKES.—Ooe cupful of Indian meal, one of fl sun three ot boiling milk, two eggs, one teaspoonful of sait, one of cream of tartar, half a teaspoonful of soda, two tablespoonfuls of sugar. Have the milk boiling, and gradually pour it on the meal. Put the other dry ingredients with the flew, and rub through a sieve. When the scalded meal is zool, add to it the flour and the eggs, well beaten. VIRGINIA BEATEN Mecum—One ancl a half pounds ot flour, one-fourth of a pound of lar, a pinch of salt. Mix enough milk and water M make a stiff dough. Beat the dougb with an axe for half an hour, until it breaks when palled. -Work out into small biscuit prick several times with a fork 'and bake quickly. Take small pieces ef the same dough, roll by hand the size of a marble and roll out fiat wibh the rolling pin for wafers, or thin bisoulb. BREAKFAST BOLLS.—Mix one-half table. apoon of sifted white sugar in two querns of flour, add two tablespoonfuls of yeasb and mix with a little water ; let it stand all night. In the morning add the yolks of two eggs, a piece of butter the 8103 of a walnut and suffioient warm water to knead. Divide ba- te twelve or fourteen retie and bake half an hour in a hot oven. Do not add enough water the nighb before to make like bread, but only a few spoonfuls to about half mix the flour. TEA BISCUIT. —Ono even quart of flour measured' after sifting, one teaspoonful of salt, two heaping teaspoonfuls of baking powder, lard or butter the size of an egg, milk to make a soft dough ( about a pint). Sift the dry ingredients together three times ; rub in the shortening lightly with the tips of the fingers stir in the milk, using a broad -bladed knife ; handle as little as possible, turn oub on a well -floured board, roll it out lightly, cut it into rounds and bake in it hot oven fifteen or twenty minutes. POACHED EGGS WITH SPINACH,—Having washed, boiled, and strained some spinach, pan it through a ooarse wire sieve ; then put it into a stew -pan, and atir it on the fire a few minutes with a lump of butter, pepper, salt, it pinch of sugar, and a little grated nutmeg. When the spinach is quite hot, add about four ounces of butter. Work the whole together with a wooden epoon until well mixed. When ready to serve pile up the spinach in the centre of the diel, poach a half a drzen fresh eggs, trim them, and dint them lightly on the epinece, and place' between eaoh egg a "crouton" of fried bread cut in men:lent; thy°. The little prayer beginning "Now 1 lay me dewn to sleep" was Written by John Rogers, the mertyr. During his sojourn at the czar's winter palace the shah of Persia occupied rooms maguificently furniehed. Deceratione of recl talk, enormous varies of inalechite, mid doors made of tortoise shell pleaaed his ori- ental taste. Fifteen carriages and forty home Were placed at hia disposed. He ieg t3raasellirg with a retinue of fifty -live per. Oen& Prescott, in Lancashire, is town long feast - °us for ita watches and watoh tools has been losing its trade of late, and when it wee °leer that something would have to be done, there was a meeting in the Town Hall, at which it woes resolved to etart watoh fon. tortes on the American plan, with improved machinery and proceesea. A companyAwis formed with £100.000 capital. What moat took the Shalen eye ou tho on. °mien of his vent to the Czer was the superb uniform of the 400 Imperial Horse Guards who surrounded the Rustsian ruler virlien he receiven his vistor in person at the railway station. The uniform coneiste of a spotless white coat, top boots reaching above the knees. and it helmet of what looks like pure gold, eurtneunted by an enormone eagle of silver. The 'Churchman," speaking of the death of Damien. the leper pried), says that outeide of the wells of Jerusalem is a lepers' hospital tended only by deaoonesses from the German religious houses. " Year after year thee° heroicwomen, withoutpretentiousnese, whir- - out any trumpeting of their work, earnest unknown to the world, have waited upon lepers, while themselves literally dying by inches. Their courage has only come to light by the chance notioe of travellers." The seoond annual diming competition of the Lendon Girls' Club Union took place on May 23. Nine clubs belonging to various branches took part. There WAS a single judge, Prof. Thoma, The programme was for each club to sing "We'll go a Maying " without accompaniment, and then a song of their own choosing, with or without scum. paniment. The singing, as a rule, was ad. mirable, though most of the girls before they hareemo members of their clubs could have had little or no praotke or instruction of any kind. During the debate on the French budget M. Rouvier' the Minister of Finance, adduc- ed facts toshow that Franco was by no means on the verge pf rain. Public et ealth and prosperlty, he said, ,had grown as well as the budget. Dept:nits at the banks amounted to 910,000,000 francs, and the capital embarked in shares and other French industrial undertakings showed eines 1876 an increase of 7,000,000,000. The deposits in the savings banks amounted to 2,228,000,- 000, belonging to 6,492,000 depositors. That was sufficient answer to the gletomy picture that had been drawn of the siinato tion. we:Weedy out of a large number of cases of dietreseeto-weletweinimmittee of the Clergy Corporation have recently' grtengsistanoe are thus described A 'curate withnetlekt. children under 8 years of age, and a stipend of£126126 it year; a vicar with five young childrenand all annual income of 100 ; 1 vica with fix 4E40 nut* " i•oWo d '-- itia age, an an arinua moottie o 4 andXa house; a vicar with eight children uader 18 years of age, and £117 annual Income; a curate with six young children, and a a Cpend of £120; a vicar with ekven children under 15 years of age, and en annual income of £189 The Paris Exposition has brought sad- ness to a large part of Paris. The shop- kepers and the restaurant keepers and theatrical managers find that the show drains ' the boulevards, ad that their business is reduced in a manner unknown since the siege. Even in such great res. taurante as the Cede Anglais or Vosin's they find that their patrons dine at the Exposition. Sarah Bernhardt doean't draw. Coquelin gave his farewell representation au the French Theatre to it house far lees in value than that which came to bid farewell to Dalaunay. So a committee of all these interests lately waited upon the Ministry in order to get the Exposition closed at night but they were repulsed with a refusal. Among the many dongresses to be held during the Paris Exposition there will be one on athletic education, and its promoters have addressed a circular to the heads of English schools and seminaries. M. Jules Simon and those who signed with him, recognizing the defi Loney of athletic exercise among the French youth, askel the English school keepers to attend the congress or to answer certain questions. For example, the head master is asked to enumerate the games played at his echoed and give the chief rules. How many hours do the boys play a day, or a week? What percentage/attend gymnastics, fencing, military drill, rowing, bicycling? Are the boys allowed to form sporting as- sociations? The French nation seems to be in earnest about making its young men go to the cricket grounds for their exercise instead of to the boulevards FA lanai' Teaching, Our Animal Friends: Long years before th eAmerioan Rearey?s name was heard as it "horse tamer," a snores existed; as a family heirloom, among' a branch of the 0 Salli- vans in the south of Ireland. This family was known as "The Whisperers," a.nd they possessed the power of rendering as quiet as a lamb the most stubborn and unmanage- able horse. Whether they did anything more to it horse than breathe into his nostrils we know not, but by doing this, and by kind, soothing words, and other ways known to themselves, they effected their purpose anl retained their fame. But coming to the point of pure and unadulterated domestica- tion and teaching, perhaps there was no por- son in modern time who achieved so much success in animal teaching an S. BIssetb. Thin man was an humble shoemaker. He was born in Scotland, 1721, bub he afterwards removed to London, where he married a woman who brought' :him some property,. Teen, turning to a broker, he accumulated money until the year 1759, when his attentiona was turned to the training of animals, birds and Sallee. He was led into this new study on reading an account of a remarkable horse shown at a fair at St. Germaine. Bissett bought a hones and a dog and succeeded be. gond his expectations in teaching thetn to perform various feats. He next purchased two monkeys, which he taught to danee and tumble on a roe, and one would hold a can- dle in one paw and turn the barrel organ with the other, while his companion danced. He next taught three oats to do a great many wonderful things, to sib before mink books and to equall notes pidtehed to differ. ant kepi. He (advertised a cats' opera " in the Haymarket, and suocessfully carried out his programme, the oats accurately fu'lltting all their parts. lie next taught it leveret and several species of birde to spell the name of any person in the company, and to dis. tiameish the hour of the day or night: Five turkeys were next) rendered amenable to a ()matte, dance, and aftet aix months' teach- ing he trainei is turtle to fetoh and carry like is dog, and having chalked the floor and blackened its clam, he taughb ib to trace the name of any given person in the men. pang.