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WOBTIT knowing ie that blood dia.
eaSeSyrilieli all other remedies fail
to cure, yield to Ayer's Sarsaparilla.
Fr osh punting),
tion of this state..
ment comes tc*
Land. daily. Even
such deep-seated
and stubbern COM'
plaints as Rheo.
umtism, Ithe,ca,
tie Gout, awl tile
ike, are tough-
ly eradigted by
„le
the ne. ` this won..
der& alterative.
m/S. R. Irving
pktige, 110 West
4'4'01 with street, New
%.ork, oertifies :—
" About two. yeFog ago, after suffering
for nearly two ars from rheumatics
gout, being a,bi• o walk only with great
ciisconifort, a having tried various
hiding mineral waters,
remedies,
without Te' of, I sa \V by an advertise-
ment in hicago paper that a man had
been. re' eyed of this distressing corn -
plena* after long suffering, by taking
Aye Sarsaparilla. I then decided to
mer e a trial of this •111%110111e, and tool
I.. regularly for eight months. I an
leased to say that it effeoted a com-
plete cure, and that I have since had no
return of the disease."
Mrs. L. A. Stark, Nashua, N. K.,
writes: "One year ago I was taken ill
with rheumatism, being confined to ray
house six mouths. .1 ea1110 Ont of the
sickness very much debilitated, with no
appetite, and my system disordered in
every way. I commenced to use .Ayer's
Sarsaparilla and began to improve at
once, in
gaing in strength and soon re-
covering my usual health. I cannot say
too much in praise of this well-known
medicine.
"I have taken a great deal of medi-
cine, but nothing has done me so
much good as Ayer's Sarsaparilla. I
felt its beneficial effects before I had,
quite finished one bottle, and I can
freely testify that it is the best blood-
niedicure I know of." —L. W. Ward, Sr.,
Woodland, Texas,
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NEVER FORGET.
What the enemy of man is man.
That the fairest flowers fade the soon-
est.
What knowledge leavee no room for
chances.
That pride is never so offensive as when
in chains.
That a sealskin sacque does not always
keep the heart warm.
That when men are lonely they stoop to
any companionship.
The darkest cloud often contains the
most fruitful showers.
That an open enemy is to be respezted, a
secret one to be suspected.
Thee: the pure worship of a pure heart
Is an inspiration and a song.
That there may be loyalty without love,
but never love without loyalty.
That a golden key will often find the way
• to unlock many a secret drawer.
That death is a sleepless messenget and
life a wakeful handmaid of creation.
That "doing as well as you know how"
• Is all right if you always know how to do
well,
That the finest -feeling velvety paws of
the kitten often cover the sharpest claws.
It That it is often more difficult to obliter-
ate trazes of spilled ink than drops of spilled
blood.
Tha t thee° who are honest and earnest
in their honesty have no need to proclaim
the fad.
That it may be well to test the condition
of a oath; claws before stroking ibs far the
wrong way.
Kisein the Bab.
The parent who always expects the baby
to be kistiecl and the person who feels bound
to hise every baby that comets within reaoh
are eqtallY foolish end obnoxious charactere,
Children have a right to their kisses act well
as other folios. They should nob be made
the prey of every offieionely atnie.ble pereon
in their oink. In short, the practice of
kissing childrezi at sight is a nuisance, and
ought to be abated,— IN. Y. Tribune.
with other food. Open it, gaze on it, bury
your face in its sweetneree and let your ap.
preciation zun riot.—[taltimore American.
Editla---" NO, Rerhert, I can never' lie
your wife, but I will be—" Herbort--" Don's
say a deter to Me, So inatly glide have
freed that," Editha-" I wateet going to say
that. t was goIng to say that I ehall be
OAPT1J1BD BY .00M AliVIE
Ittty Iacono.
I lead been Beoutleg from Feet ,VaBOocar zs
the Oimpidian River, and o =yin despot:At-
op between the ;mint end Iamb Stanton, oa
the Vie Pecos, tor six wattle, before the
Comanehes called the turn on me. It is
efereed that an Apache is a devil incarnate,
but in the old day e there wesn't muclachoiee
between the tailed,All were bloodthirsty
and relentlese, and it mattered little into
whose hands a prisoner rnighb fell. Every
torture which Ingenuity could suggest was
certain to be applied, and no ransom, how.
ever great, could effect the release of a pd.
Boner. It was while engaged hi such an ef•
fort that my first eapture came about.
A party of citizens from Sante. Fe had
come out to Fort Bascom for A hunt along
the Canadian River to the east. 'Toey were
all well-knowu men, and were outfibted in
theafinest style, havieg the best of firearms,
and being acoompeatied by four hunters arid
guides of long experience, The Indiana
were bitterly hostile at thie 'tittle, and a1.
though seldom seen near the fort, they were
ever on the watch for any one leaviog its
shelter. This party numbered twenty, all
told, and woe strong enough to go anywhere
providing it was well handfed. Is left the
post one Sunday morning and was gone
three weeks, and up to two days before
reeehing the post, all went well. • Then a
Dr. Albertson of Albaquerque berried be.
hind one morniog as the parby broke earim,
and three Comanches dashed in on their
ponies and cut him off. They mounted him
on his own horse and had
A START OF HAW A Hum
before the mishap was dieoovered, and, al-
though pursuit was made, it was useless.
Tee Doctor was a man of prominence, hold-
ing some poeition under the Government:,
and ha.ving many friends, and the party no
sooner reanhed the post than it was deter-
mined to make every effort to seoure his re-
lease. It was idle to think of sending out an
armed faros, and it WU fieally decided that
I should go out as an emissary to treat for
his ransom. It was agreed that I could
promise the Indians as high as $10,000 in
oash for his release, and all were hopeful
that this large sum would induce the red-
skins to give him up. I had been told time
and again that the Comanches had never
been known to give up a primmer, and I was
therefore in a state of doubt as I rode away
on my errand. I had gob to put myself in
their hands in order to negotiate, and if
they refused to give up the Doctor it was
probable that they would hang on to me.
I rode away to the east, knowing that the
prisoner had been conveyed to some camp
in the Wichita range. I left the post in the
morning and rode hard all day without
sighting an Indian. At dark I went into
camp and had no alarm duriog the night,
and at sunrise was again holding for the
mountains. At about 11 o'clock, while
riding over broken ground, I oaught sight
of an Indian taking cover, and halting my
horse I made -the peace algae with ray
blanket. Ten minutes htter I was surround-
ed by a deem warriors, who were evidently
astonished at my foolhardiness. I could
speak their lingo f airly well, and I told them
what I had oome for, and asked to be taken
to the nearest village. This request was sulk.
ily complied with, and at the end of two hours
'found myself in the village of Redeloon Chief
of all the Comanches. The village was scat-
tered along the river for a mile or more, and
numbered at least a thousand souls. My
advent was hailed with whoops and yells
and other tokens of satisfaction, and even
when it was known that I had voluntarily
come into camp on an errand of mercy it was
hard to restrain some of the young bucks
from doing me injury. I was taken directly
to Red Moon's tent, and my reception there
was anything but cordial. He was anything
but noble in speech and look. Eh was dirty,
unkempt, and out of sorts and I had no
sooner set eyes on him thanI knew my mis-
sion would be a failure.
"Why does the dog of a white man come
to my camp?" teas his salutation.
"Four days ago some of your warriors
captured a white hunter a sun's journey to
the west," Ireplied,
"They did, and to -morrow he shall die I"
"1 have come from his friends to buy his
liberty. They will give Red Moon more
sliver than he ever had before."
"I spit upon the white man's money 1" he
retorted. "The white man his killed nay
young men, built his forts on my land, and
would drive us away if he ware strong
enough. I would not take food from his
hand if I was starving 1"
I named the price which we would pay
for the doctor, and tried to make him under-
stand how many gime and blankets and
other things the amount would purchase,
but he grew more and more excited, and
fluidly shouted:
"Does the white manregard the Comanches
as equaws that their heads can be turned by
soft talk? Only the Dog -Indian :begs for
mercy from a foe or takes presents from an
enemy. Were you to offer all you had I
would not give him up. He shall die. I
have said it 1"
Finding him obstinate and determined, I
mentioned the.b I had. come alone and placed
myself in his power, trusting to his honor to
be permitted to return in safety.
"Did I ask you to come ?"he thundered.
"Are you not here to insult me 29 -You shall
see the other pritoner die, and then you
shall suffer the same fate 1"
I began to protest, but was hurried away
to lodge, disarmed, searched, and very
roughly used. Before bsing left alone nay
hands and feet were tied, and the buck who
did this gave me a good -day in the tshape of
a !slap in the face which
MAD n atv TEETH RATTLE.
I wars left alone until just at dark, when a
boy brought me a gourd of water, and held
it to my Ups vrhile I drank. I thanked him,
and inquired where the Doctor was. He
replied that he was confined in a lodge about
two hundred feet away, and that he would
15'e put to the torture next day. All the
tribe within oall had been notified to be
present. I asked him about my own fate,
and he eaid it was understood that I Was to
die the day after. If there was any doubt
about this it was soon dispelled. The boy
had scarcely disappeared when old Red
Moon appeared. He was now fully dreesed
as a chief, and had on all his dignity. I waft
lying on my back, and he stood over me for
asmoMent, glowering down Upon me with
savage expteesion befoze he Field
"Does the white matt think the Comanche
a dog that he can come into his village and
fasten him V'
"On the contrary, the white man knows
the Comanches( to be brave," I replied,
"and no chief is greater or braver than Red
Moon,"
"That you mane to buy us off."
"The white man captured by your brave
warriors is neither a soldier, hunter, not
scout. He itt a man of peace, living.far
away, He has never harmed you. He e
great medicine roan renong his people. For
those teasone his Mends hoped the great
°Mei would Spare his life. We withed to
maks ytmx a present."
" White dog., you lie 11' shouted the ehief,
"You waela to get as Oa a trap 1
I argued ancl protested, and again oppeal-
ed to his heeler In TRY own oaee. He beard
no through, and Nem gave nte eeveral
hearty Woks in the side, awl exoleimed
"You shall die 1 You were a feel Lel
cowl' fe'rw'
The kicks made axe mad, and feelinglanet
I had no hope of release I opened on eReelo
Moon in the choieest 'Billingsgate oeethee
West. X celled him a coward, paltro
Equaw, buzzard, and everything dee mean
I could think of. I offered to fight hitn in
any way ha wantecl, and boosted that I had
on one cooasion charged eve of his braved
warriors and killed two and run the othere
into the woods. I gave ib to him straight
from the shoulder for ten minutes without
break, and he did not interrupt nee by word
or gesture. Where I fieelly paused for mad
of breath he said;
"The white scout is not a dog as I
thought for. He is a brave man. ALe will
not ory and beg for his life when the fire is
lighted at hie foot. My young men elude let
it be known ea the fort that he died without
being a woman,'
"And that's more then yea owe say for
any of your warrior's V' I flung beak at him,
"The Comas:toile whines like a dog when he
is hurt. Ile cannot stand fire, When his
feet: get a little warm he becennee a caild."
He pulled his knife from his belt, think -
lug to end roy life then and there, but on
second thought he replaced it and walked
oub. Directly he had gone two "warriors
came in with a liberal supply la food, and
my arms were untied and I was given a
chum to eat, They appeared good-natured
and as the thongs were being replataed one
of them said:
"The white matt is very brave, He will
hold out a long time."
At lemst two guards were placed outside
my tent, and knowing that I had no show
for escape, X made myself as comfortable as
possible and soon fell asleep. It may be
thought curious that a person could sleep
soundly under such oirourasuances, but as a
metter of fact I did not open my eyes until
long after daylight. There woe a consider-
able bustle in the camp, and in a few min-
utes my breakfaab was brought in. Arms
and legs were now untied, and one of the
three bucks who oame into the tent informed
me that preparations were being made
TO TORTURE THE DOOTOR.
It was an hour later before I was sent for.
Then my arms were left free and my legs
were hobbed just below the knees. While
I could walk it was only with short ateps,
and ,rhe idea of my trying to escape from
such a crowd waehoo,absurd to be entertained.
I found the inhabitants of the village drawn
up in two long lines extending out on the
plains. Even ohildren five or six years old
were in line, each one armed with stick or
switch. I was led to the head of the line
between two warriors, and in our or five
mientes the Dodor was brought out. Red
Moon had arranged this as a mental torture
to both of us. He signified to us that we
might speak and 1 at owe informed the
Doctor of ray errand and its failure. Re
expreesed his pleasure that his friends
thought so well of him, and his sorrow, that:
I had brought misfortune: upon myself, and
he seemed to have made up his mind to die
like e. man. I knew the 'Indies:us thoroughly
and I told him what the programme would
be. After running the gauntlet, he would
be tied to a poen and mibmitted to the
powder torture, which couplets in shooting
charges of powder into the flesh, with
the muzzle of the gun only a foot or
two away. After that would oorne cutting
and multilating, and he would not be tied to
the fire staeo until pretty thoroughly ex-
hausted. I advised him to do as I intended
to do—leap upon some warrior as he ran
down the lines, grab his knife or tomahawk,
if poesible, and then fight until they would
have to kill him then and there. He calmly
replied that he should adopt the plan, shook
me by the band, and then all was ready.
As we talked I had been getting Me lay
of the vintage. It was only a quarter of a
mile book to the broken ground, and nob
over a half mile to the foothills. I had
made up my mind to make a break for
liberty, and I had my plans all laid before
the Doctor started. Red Moon commanded
me to ten him that he was to run straight
down the lane and back, and that if he made
a good run he would not be much hurt. I
gave him the information, and advised him
to Mike hie break about two.thirds of the
way down, as he came to the last of the
warriors. When I stepped back my elbows
touched a guard on either side and I saw
that they were deeply interested in the
scene before them. When I dropped ray
left hand down it was
CLOSE TO THE HILT
of the warrior's knife, and then I was as
ready as I could be.' The Doctor was a
powerful big fellow and was entirely naked.
He was to start at the report of a rifle fired
In the air, and when the signal mane he
bounded away like a deer. The lines closed
up and every one tried to strike at him, but
the climax octane when he made his bolt.
With a leap to one side he seized a tomahawk,
and at thab moment I got hold of the knife
without being detected. A great ory arose
and one of my guards started forward. I
bent down and out my throngs as a single
sweep, and then, by a back hand blow, drove
the knife so far into the body of the other
guard, who had given me no attention, that
ib was wrenched from nay grasp as he fell.
Then I bounded away down the river, and I
believe I had a start of twenty rods before
pursuit began. .
It isnot bragadocio to assert that in those
days I had the speed and bottom of a thor-
oughbred. I hadn't the least fear of being
overtaken after I got that ;start by any one on
foot, and as I at onoe made tor the broken
ground their ponies had no:advantage, I
looked back only once, and that was as I got
clear of the village. At least fifty Indian
were pursuing me on foot, and a few
minutes tater a score of others had mount-
ed. The pursuers were so strung out
that no one dared shoot, and when I got
settled down to the pace I ran for my lifts.
In five or six minutes I was in the foot,
hills, and in tan I had gained the shelter
of the scrub pine. At that moment twenty
rifles turned loose on me, but none of the
bullets came near enough to make me dodge,
and I contrived to put in my best Nokia
They followed me for about fourmiles, los-
ing ground all the time, and then drew off
to return to the Doctor. Di was five days
before I got back to the fort, my clothes' in
tatters, and my etrength almost gone, and ill
was two years; before I learted he particu-
lars: of the doctor's fete. Ile made a gallant
fight when he got posseSsion of the tomes
hawk, killing a warrior and a boy and
woUnding another warrior and an old man,
but he WAS ovetpowerecl and disarmed, and
then the dorlIo glutted their vengeance.
Some idea of his Guff:wings can be imagined
from the faot that he was under some flare
of torture for three days and tights, and
there was life still leis in hhn when he was
given up to the image of the village doge.
The Comanche who gave me the particulars
wee then "a Ward of the Government,"
drawing his rations, ammunition, and Man•
Iota front the vary 0100 whose scalps he had
hungered or, au d he couid not be punished.
lie identified himself 08 the warrioe who
was guerdieg me on the right when 1 mode
zp hroah, and for his oareleeenees on thot
comeelon the chief stripped him, of all his
werldbr Pesseselons end gave the geode to
the widow of the worrier I lead ratan.
MISORGLANEOUEI,
isn'b it rather paredoxima for a man to be
wrapped in Faience for sound reasons?
Seam men try adeertieing tur the Indian
tried eethers. He took one feather, it laid
on the board, and elept on it all night. In
the =ming be remarked : " White man
say feathers heap soft ; white man—fool"
A bachelor who lives' in Newark, N. J.,
and who bas always had a fear that his
libtie wife might rule him, says now that a
new idea has struck him. Ile is going to
marry a type -writer girl, because he can
dictate to her.
Lie one. Time 11 a, m,—Mother—Now
mind, Johnnie, thereh a ghost in that dark
duet guarding the j AM Johnnie trembler:
violently, and ooramences to water at the
mouth. Lie 2, Time 2 p. rci. Johnnie—
Oh, mamma I The ghost has eaten half the
3am.
Chautvaigua's prosperity, it is ;mid, is
measured. daily by the amount of eggs eaten
within its limits. When 1,600 dozen eggs
O week are eaten, for instance, 13 10 estimat-
ed that 6,000 pardons hove been living on
the grounds and that there have been 19,000
transient tourists a day for that week.
"Yes, ma'am," said he butcher, "there's
as nice and tender a roast of lamb as you'll
Lind in the market. I wouldn't sell it to
anybody but an old customer like you. It
was my eldest daughter's little pet lamb, It
broke her heart to let it go. You see she
hod played with it ever slime She was :little
girl. I—I— omen to say—Oh, you prefer
some veal ottblets. Shall I send 'em up,
ma'am ?"
Boys Will be Bova—County Magistrate
(genially to complainant) -0h, boys will be
boys I wouldn't prosecute 'em if I was you.
That out over y'r eye will seen heal, and ye
know they wouldn't a' stoned ye if ye hadn't
got mad when they gassed ye. Just rem-
ember ye was a boy once edraelf, and --
Magistrate's wife (rushing in)—Silael Silas
Them boys is in our orchard ag'In 1 Magis-
trate (darting up)--Consarn 'em 1 Where's
my shotgun?
There is a complaint in England that
subscriptions flow in very slowly toward a
Bright memorial. The Lionservatives, the
Liberal Unionists, the Gladstottians and the
Parrtellites have all pledged themselves to
the mown of the present, so that all parties
will be responsible for any failure that may
ensue, There was a kind of competition be-
bween the various party leaders as to who
would say the kindest things of Mr. Bright
at the time of his death. It will look bad
if all this talk produoes nothing in pounds,
shillings and pence.
The divorce courts of the United States
are distinguishing themselves juet at present.
The Flack me in New York is as disgrace-
ful as any could possibly be, but it is nob
much worae than one which has come to light
in Washington. A wife began divorce pro-
ceedings against her husband, but upoo ob
taining from him a deed of his entire fortune
agreed to withdraw them. She carried the
suit on secretly, however, and finally obtain-
ed a decree notwithstanding that she had
continued 11 live with her husband while
the ease was in court. She seems to have
had a "pull!' on the court, as it is express-
ed in New York. The diseovery of a few
more oases zilch as this ought to bring about
O reform of the divorce system of the United
States.
At first races between ocean steamships
were deprecated as dangerous, and the com-
panies emphatically denied the newspaper
reports of such and suoh a steamer raping
with another. Now that the public mind is
femiliarized with the idea, and no injury
eeems to have been done to transatlantic
travel, the raoing is done quite openly.
Steamers belonging to seeeral of the lines
running into New York are now urged to
full speed in order to make a record, nob for
:safety, but for fast travelling. An accident
will happen during one of these conteste, and
then we shall have steamship owners clamor-
ing denials that racing had anything to do
with it. The price petit will perhaps be
costly in life and money, but then the most
valuable experience always conies high.
There is somethittg peculiarly revolting in
the crime of poisoning, evidencing as it does
a deliberate vindictiveness and planned
cruelty whioh deprive the guilty of all sym-
pathy. The crime in India, according to
the report of Dr. Lyon, the analyst to the
Government of Bombay, is rapidly increasing,
as 360 oases of it oame under his notioe last
yea, and only 282 the year before. The
use of vegetable poisons, which can be got
from village porcerere, indicating the source
of muoh of this villainy. It is oommors to
place poison in the rice eaten, and in most
of the instances the murderer is never die-
ooveted. Restrictions upon the sale of poi-
son are found a very efficecious mode of pre-
venting the unlawful use of it, and the law
in Bombay in this respect badly needs
amendment.
• sass
Three Cenadiatts occupy petitions of im-
portance in the Johns Hopkins University,
&lain:tore. One, William Oeler, M. D. ,of
Montreal, fa professor of median°. Saying
farewell to the University of Pennsylvania
Dr. Oaler gave his graduating okras two re-
oipes for success in businese. First the phy.
skean must ponds imperturbability. Under
circumstances of the gravest peril he must
never show, either by his face or manner,
the slightest fear or even anxiety. Second,
the physician must cultivate equanimity, and
as a first step to this must kern not to ex-
pect too much of the people among whom he
dwells. Many people think the doctor care
less of their fate, seeing that he does nob ex
prose anxiety toilet:deg their condition and
fear lead they may not recover. Bub it ie
not the doctor's place to alarm his patients
to death.
An interesting comparison is made by the
London "Time" between the equipment of
the fleet which toseembled at Spithead the
other day and that of the shims with which
Nelson won his victories. The Spithead
fleet had 558 guns in all, not inoluding the
nnurnerable Emo guns, quick -firing, and
machine guns. In Nelson time and for
many yearn after each matwof-war carried
whole biers of gums, the Duke of Wellington,
for instance, having no lead than 131 on het
three decks. But the latter were mere toys
compered with the giant breech -loaders of
to -day, The heaviebb tihob used on the Vic,
tory was only surty.eight pounds; the Vic-
toria fires an eighteen hundred pound projec-
tile, The Change in the manning of fleets is
ne less marked. The 8pithead Rest had an
aggregate of 21,000 men, oorreeponding, we
are told, to an aggregate of 80,000 in Xelsorish
day. The whole soletme of naval warfare, in
fact, lute undergone a wonderful change, and
even now it appeare to hese) reached only an
experhnentai stage.
LATE CABLE NEWS,
A gStrike Threatening in London—
Mrs, liavbrIols'e $eutepos--Another
tory of the Shalu
Loudon is threatened with the greatest
strike of the preeent generation. It began
with the doeir laborers, 2,001) of whom turn •
ed out in a week, thousands a dray have
joined them, tudil now there are at leatt
40,000 mee na strike. It has nob eteleP°14
however, with dock 'Laborers ; ib has spread
to many other branches where untkilled la-
hor is employed, Cermen delivering goods
for the railways, drivers of goods waggons
generally, and mem in the riverside factor-
ies have all turned out to join the dock la-
borers, and many other branchee of trade
are threatened with a stoppage, owing to
the men's aotion.
Tales of Nasir-ed-Din continue to add to
the total of human gayety, &Monet the
King of Kings Is now well on his way back
to Panda. The latest comes from the Cava
of Neptune at Helibroon. Observing a hose
pipe connected with a fountain, -the Shah
gleefully played it upon the girl in bey'e
elothee, who is -his ineeperable companion
whereupcn the favorite, not daring to reta-
liate upon the sacred peraon of her sover-
eign, took it out by drenching the whole of
the imperial tune to the great delight of the
merry monaroh, who baughed until he eves
toned to bit down and rent,
The commutation of Mra.:Maybrlok's sen-
tence wits only brought about after a severe
atruggle, and a row in the British Cabinet.,
The Lord Chancellor, who had been called
in to give Mr. Matthews the benefit: of his
advice, strongly urged that the woman
should be hanged. Mr. 1VIabbhews reeeaterl
some of the Chancellorts ounclusione, a heat.
ed argument followed, then a decided 000l -
nese, and now they don't speak. A Cabinet
council was called before the commutation
was deolded upon, and here Matthews gave
the grounds which he intended putting forth
for not oarrying out the fall penalty of the
law. Though these reasons have nob met
with general approval, there is still a noisy
minority, who assert that if the evidence is
not suffiaient to hang her she ought to be
acquitted, so tiled the agibetion cannot be
staid to have entirely ettlesided. The woman
herself is in a fairly dazed condition, and a
short spell of penal servitude wilt probably
be sufficient to end her career on earth.
Brierly, the partner of her criminal love,
has arrived in Boston and will no
doubt: tell the public his own story. He
seems terribly distressed at the horrors
which have resulted from his indulgence,
and tbe news of a reprieve, which he receiv-
ed at Queenstown, was after all but a alight
relief to him. Brierly's business in Liver-
pool was praotioally ruined.
Across the Ocean.
Ocean racing is tho natural outcome of the
rivalry between the different steamship lines
to secure the reputation of poi:sensing the ship
that has made the fastest trip on record
aaross the Atlantic. Bab while it: is the
natural outcome, it is also a most undesirable
feature of modern travel. Last, week two
new boats, one the City of hTew York owned
by the Inman Co., and the other the Teutonic
of the White Star line, raped from port to
port and got into New York within an hour
of each other after orowding on steam to such
an extent that on one vessel at: lease a species
of panic prevailed among the paesengers all
the way aoross ; and not without cause, for
steampipes burst and the =millinery
becoming overheated had constantly to
have water played on it. One of these
days somethingmore serious than a pipe
will give way and nine hundred or a thous-
and lives will be saorifioed in mid -ocean,
with no possibility of the example being
emulated of our old friend Jim Blues° and
"Holding her nozzle to the bank
Till the ast galoot'hore."
For there will be no friendly bank handy
just at that moment. Expedition is certain-
ly worth striving after, but there is such a
thing as paying too dearly for it, and it has
now become a question whether this ocean
racing shall not be legally suppressed and a
limit to her speed be placed on each boat.
.1-.0141111110.-i
Sweet Old Maids -
In truth there is nothingthe matter with
i
old maids, says ea writer n the Loulevine
"Courier Journal." There are ocpasione
when their sweet restfulness and unencum-
bered sympathy ;mein like Flits from heaven.
I journeyed in the same car with one only
the other day. It was hot and dusty, and
there wore unexplained delays that made
every one feel out of sorts. Phe sleeping
coach was crowded with ladies and children.
The children made incessant demands for
drinks of water, and the *mothers looked
worried and worn out before half the jour-
ney was dont It was a day of diseomfort
and turmoil, and a night of horror, when
the mothers and children and nurses began
to stow themselves away for sleep. Through
it all a sweet maiden lady eat serene and
calm. She gently fanned herself with an
air of contentment and peacefully read her
book; and now and then, earveyed the pros-
pect without and within. Occasionally she
did some kind little thing te a passing child
or gave a crushed -out looking mother a
sympathetic and encouraging smile.
Nothing in life for an old. maid 1 Why
bless my soul, even the San that day
looked upon this calmly. cool maiden lady,
and wished in their hearts that they wete
old maids. For my part, I have never been
to a ball or a dinner, or on Rea or land, or on
mountain top or beaoh, without finding
sornewhere a lovely, charming, intelligent
old maid who was a dblighb to every one
about her.
Our Neighbour.
Men see one phase of a Renton perhaps
strongly exhibited, and straightway judge
him by that, ,They call hitn pelfieh or cruel,
or passionate or revengeful,or unjust: or bigot-
ed, as he then appears, and suppoae they
have defined his character When they
have seen but one phase of it. Perhaps, if
they would wait and watch, they would see
him hating therm very Wilts; in himself and
weeping bitter tears: over them. Certeinly
they would see other and redeemable qual-
itiet Or they hear him uttering a sttong
opinion upon some proposed measure, some
problem of the day, on mune abstract idea,
awl at once °lawny him wording io their
limited notions, often most unjustly. Ante
ther day he mignb, with eglal siecerity, :thew
ue another phase of his Mind widoh would
tuna all preconceived notione of him upside
down. As we can never fathom our teighe
boar, let us not try to j edge him On Miele
defeat ve knovelcidgm Better dill, let no
net judge hitt at eat, but welcinne from him
the sincere eepresslon 01 whatever Comma nds
our respect or wins our sympathy, in the lull
faith that everything true and good moat at
lag 'come Into harmony,
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