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The Exeter Times, 1890-4-17, Page 3THE SAVAGES OF FORMOSA. 1 I'EAELS OP TRUTH. INTERESTING DESORIPTION BY A EUROPEAN. 'They Don't Appreciate Art—Pull er Sneer. stitions—e. Muscat/se and ➢murderous. Looking Set—Their Amusements. Edmund H. Grimani, who resided for several months on the island of Formosa, which Ikea. the coast of China, and who made several excursions into the unexplored districts, writes as follows concerning the aboriginal Gavages who inhabit the iute.rior of the island : "Iwanted to make a few sketches of the savages and as I was dress- The world will tolerate many vices, but ing one morning a servant came to inform not their diminutives. -[Arthur Helps, me that a party of them had just come down from the mountains, I seized my sketch• book and found the chief and several rela- tives --men, women and children—seated in a row on a rude bench in an outhouse. The Inaba, who were all armed with long kniv sere skull -caps of raw hide, long hair very short kilt() ; the chief being Poverty is the only burden that is not eliati guishe by the superiority o£ his orna- lightened by being sharedby others.--[Rich- ments, a star of boars' tusks on his forehead ter. and a scanty piece of cloth thrown over his The same wind that carries one vessel in- ehoulders for a cloak. Their complexions to port may blow another off shore.— were very dark, and their skins rough from [Boyce, exposure. Several were bleeding abort the Sim licity is that grace which freta the legs, feet and hands from thorn pricks and soul Rico all unneemsary reileotiona on it - abrasions, wounds incidental to the hard self Fenlon. laves they lead, I opened my sketch book "" { and began with the chief, who seemed , Trust not a woman when alio weeps, for rather uneasy under the ordeal and looked It is her nature to weep when she waste her .aa if he had au appointment to meet a nun wili.—(Socrates, somewhere and .A woman sot on anything will walk right 1vOl L0 LIKE To GET AWAY. in the literal crockery without wine- ing.---[C, D. Warner Despair swallows up cowardice.--[Razlitt, He is well paid that is well satisfied,— [Shakespere. Heaven made virtue ; man the appear- ance. --.-[Voltaire. When all shoot at one mark, the gods join in the combat,—[Emerson. In art every success is a stencil plate for imitators,-- aSchopenhauer, The hope of immortality makes heroes of cowards. -[Thomas Guthrie. The foolish and the dead .elene never change their opinion.—[Lowell, Most things which are done for the beat are seldom pleasant. --[Eleanor Putnam, • You Can prove nothing to women; they believe only In the heart.—(Alphonse Karr. The firmest purpose of a. woman's heart to well tutted artful flattery may yiold.-r[1iilo. He would have looked at his watch if he Time with all his celerity movea slowly on bad had one, for his hands groped around to him whose whole employment le to watch where his watch pocket ought to have been its dight. ---{13r, tTehnsan, When I attired him in the face his eyes wan. What distresses me is to neo that human Bored around the roam and his fingers new genius has limitations, and human tupidity ously twitched at hie bare knees, He evident• has none. --[A. Dumas, file. a ly thought I was a sorcerer. As I sketched his cap the Feathers began to waggle, he was It is as common for men to change their in such a state of tremor. When I began to taste as it itt uncommon for them to change sharpen my pencil he thought the critical their inolination.-CRoebefoucauld, moment had come and I was about to exe- When a man is tempted to do a tempting eute my fell purpose, for with a loud war• thing, he can find a hundred ingenious roe - whoop he jumped into the air and scooted sons for gratifying his liking, .-(Thaokeray. through a dear an his left, #ollawedby his Women employ more thought, memory, relative,. and application to become fools than would How lie could run 1 Though a Man of over FF QO he ran up the mountains away in advance serve to make themwfse anduaaful. —[Swift. of the rest of the tribe. once he stopped to Nothing Irritates a married man so much Iook behind, but only for an instant. for nee- as to find his wife between him and hia de. ing•me waving my eketeh book to lure bim.sire, no matter how ephemeral it may be. back, he misunderstood the motion and Palma. quickly darted out of sight, It struck me If thou approachost women with tender• as being very comical, bat my amusement near, thou winnest them with a word ; but wee aeon turned to alarm. The old fellow he who is bold and saucy comes off still bet. preaently returned, well armed and rein- ter.—{Goethe. forced by his whole tribe, who advanced by Ood made the rose out of what was left leaps and bounds down the precipitous mourn of woman at the creation. The great dif- tain side, flouriabing their spears in a very ference is, we feel the rose's thorns when threatening manner, we gather it; and the other's, when we have had it some time.--{Landor. ZVIDENTL' THIRSTING TOR VENGEANCE. What Was I to do ? We had revolvers and Tho life of a woman Is along dissimulation. gime, but what could we do against so Candor, beauty, freshness, virginity, mod. many ? Fortunately the reproduction. of esty.- -tt woman has each of these but ante. my aketcll•book and pencil had the effect When lost she must simulate them the rest mo, of bar lila. of stopping their advance and allowing --[Motif do la llretonue. time to semi out an interpreter to explain' Among the "rights" an individual may matters, The mission was successful, but claim of society, room for the development the old chief was still suspicious of me. I' et the individuality stands foremost, The beg ed him to look at his portrait, but he'worst worst slavery is that with which convontion- tur 1 away with horror and would on no iality shackles the soul, stifling its voices, tie it look at it. They grew more fami- liar d each day brought more of them Villains are usually the worst casuists, down from the mountains until they be- and rush into greater crime to avoid less. came a nuisance. They boldly walked into Henry VIII. committed murder to avoid the our bedrooms before we were dressed, ex- imputation of adultery; and in our time those ()mining everything in the rooms and try- who commit the latter crimeattempt to. wash ing on our clothes, usually the wrong way, off the stain of seducing the wife by signify - and feeling us all over to see what our ing their readiness to shoot the husband.— muscles were like, It was annoying, but (Colton, any• ijudicious act might have made troubla. The savages were a rough, mur- Save Faith In Men. derous-looking lot, extremely muscular and If you want to help a man, have faith in always armed, sometimes with spears, or I him and make Mulled that faith. More men bows and arrows, or even muskets, but a1- and women are shipwrecked in this world ways with the short sword girded to thein for lank o2 faith than for any other reason. loins.Oe afternoon I witnessed a curious per-I'1sphere is a black hour in the life of many a formance in our court yard. Two Chinese an or woman which is often turned into an were dressed up to represent a dragon ; the I hour of disaster because no faith comes from head being managed by a man and the agile . .faith inanynan s e'so elf intwhichtao f has gone. the lacethat tail by a youth, while a long strip of cotton! men and women are intrenched in evil ways, cloth joining them made a respectable and their consciences are dulled and unre- thaugh rather limp sort of a body. The: s onaive, unsparing denunciation is some - head snapped its great jaws at the tail, the • tunes the best method of opening their eyes; latter dodging about to avoid being bitten l but to those who understand where they are, by the head. Their contortions produced a condemnation is generally the word which ludicrous effect. All the time, a body of drives them to final ruin. There is nothing Pepuhuans kept up an accompaniment on; in this world so divine as faith, nothing cymbals. The audience consisted of savages, i which in the hour of despair brings back the some of whom appreciated the performance' ebbing tide of strength and makes a new intensely, while one old chief was unable to i restrain his feelings and danced with the endeavor possible. No man who feels the wildest kind f joy, strong faith can be quite without faith in himself. There is an inspiration in itwhich throttling its life.—[R. Heber laowton. THE TORNADOES. An Attempt to Ezplaln the Recent Meteoro- logical Disturbances, The tornadoes that wrought such fearful destruotion in Kentucky and some of the ad- joining States recently are likely to be famous in meteorological annals. They calve suddenly, unannounced, and with re- doubled fury after a period of comparative exemption from violent storms of this nature. Six or seven years ago destructive tornadoes were of common occurrence in and near the Mississippi valley and south of the Tennessee Mountains, but for a few years past there has been a marked diminution in the num- bee um-ber and violence of the whirlwinds, The interesting fact that at the same time the solar disturbances, of which sunspots arethe visible manifestation, have been few and far between is regarded by some persons as in- dieatil;g a good deal more than a mere co. incidence. Still the most competent investi- gators of such phenomeua have been unable to discover any conclusive evidence of a con- nection between SaixaroT3, atm TRRRnSTRIAL STORMS, The experience of the past decade, combined with that of ten years to come, is likely to throw much light upon this vexed question,. It would be a baster judgment to conclude that the present outbreak of tornadoes is a neoeasary sequel to the extraordinary win- ter just past, and yet there is no doubt that the atmospheric conditions which gave rise to the latest wbirlwiude were accentuated by the peceliar character of the season, In the eastern and southern parts of the United States they had a winter of extraordinary warmth, while in the remote north-west, on the other hand, the winter WAS uncommonly severe. With the oponing of spring there has been a tendency to reestablish en uili- brium, and chilly northwesterly winds have come Into conflict with the warmer sirs that the unusual conditions of pressure have caus- ed to prevail aver the eaatorn half of the country. This confiat of temperatures is just the thing needed for the development of terns. does. A glanco :et the map of the storm's preigresa would ahow that the whirlwinds which devaatatated Louisville and other towns were formed along the southeastern edge of the great cyclonic depression in the atmosphere, which like a vast eddy, was slowly whirling ita way acroas the country, and they were formed there. because that is the place, where, a000rding to the law of CT+ -i 0YWc otaeat ATIoN, cold northwesterly winds come in aarataot with warm air from the south, Whenever the conditions are sack that cold air in a considerable quantityis driven over wain. or air tornadoes aro sure',to break out through the effort of the imprisoned air to escape, as oil escapes from underneath water. A mental picture of the condition of things in Kentucky on that terribly night may he formed by likening the passing cyclone to a huge ship along whose side a string of eddies and whirlpools is °mated as it rushes along. One of the moat interestitlg questions about tornadoes is whether they are increas- ing in frequency and violence. That their destructiveness must increase is evident from the consideration that the density of the population in the territory where they occur is growing greater every year, and with it the value of property which lies at their mercy. Within a few years past it has become common in some parts of the \Vest to provide underground places of refuge to which families may fly for safety upon the approach of ono of THE lE AERIAL MONSTERS. But when ono thinks of time prodigious and terifying power which the tornado display- ed in Louisville, tearing strong buildings to pieces as if they lead been cared houses, and cutting a awath straight through a wealthy, city, it becomes evident that while dug -outs and out -door collars may answer the pur- pose of saving life in cases whore sufficient warning can bo obtained, yet something else is needed to make a district in which tornadoes are likly to occur, safe for human habitation. As to an increase in the frequency of tornadoes, it is difficult to determine whether the appearance of such is due to ' the progressive settlement of the country • and the rapid growth of the means of com- munication, or to =actual increase in thepre- valence of these storms. Ontheonehand, the unquestionable fact that the number of tornadoes reported has vastly increased of late years may be appealed to as evidence that they aro really more numerous than they were in past times. But in reply to this it may be pointed out that wherever old forests abound, unmistakable traces of the passage of TREMENDOUS WHIRLWINDS The Sabbath Chime, Peace, troubled soul, whose plaintive moan each scene the notes of woe ' Hath taught , Cease thy complaint, suppress thy groan, And let thy tears forget to flow. Behold, the precious balm is found. To loll thy pain, to heal thy wound. Come, freely come, by sin opprers'd ; On Jesus cast thy weighty load : In Him thy refuge find, thy rest, Safe in the mercy of thy God ; Thy God's thy Saviour—glorious word ! Forever love and praise the Lord. As spring the winter—day the night. So peace thy gloom shall chase away. And smiling joy, a seraph bright. Shall tend thy steps and near thee stay : While glory weaves the immortal crown. And waits to claim thee for her own. J..Tarmers in Middlesex County re;3ort fall wheat in a bad condition, and newly -seeded clover heaved. Sheriff Chauveau is very low at Quebec, and his recovery is considered doubtful. A conscienceless tenant and a tramp with a ragged coat are very much alike—they are each oblivious of the back rent. The bustle is a thing of the past," says a fashion exchange. It always was a little be. bind. Typhoid fever infects the atmosphere, it never rises de novo. The causes of the dis- ease, in order of their frequency, are as fol- lows : First, infected water; second, infect- ed milk; third, infected ice; fourth, digital infection; fifth, infected meat. Dr. Edson states that'wup;,the observations of the ordi- nary obvious precautions suggested by these conclusions, the disease should not exist. Mr Gladstone was recently asked by the Secretary of the Loyeestoft Women's Radical Association for a log of wood wherewith to make articles for a forthcoming bazar in aid of the building fund of the Lowestoft Radi- cal Club. Mr Gladstone consented, and eventually a log arrived, was duly exhibited admired and worshipped. Later, the actual gift of Mr. Gladstone was delivered by the Y, railway company, and the ladies discovered p that the first log they had done homage to hadbeen sent to them by a local wag. is contagious, and which as the power of lifting us when we have fallen the lowest. Lack of faith in men means either a limited experience or an inharmonious nature ; a manho sees things largely, and sees them wg Y, as a whole, can never fail to take ac- count not only of the vast possibilities of nobleness among his fellows, but its splendid actualities as well. We can do no greater service to those with whom we are thrown than to show continually our faith, not only in what they are, but in what they may be- come. The man who has this faith, and manifests it, reinforces every other man for the doing of the best work which is in him, and so serves both man and God. WAR ON ARAB SLAVES, The Belgium Autl.Slavery Society Pro. poses to Enter the Field. The Belgium Anti -Slavery Society has decided to send expeditions to Africa for the purpose ofprotecting the natives in certain districts against Arab slave raids. In this enterprise it will have the co-oper- ation and approval of the Congo States. The first of its expeditions will leave Ant- werp in October next. It will send two steamers to the Upper Congo, one of them will ply upon the Lomami River, through the district that has recently been partly depopulated by Arab slavers. The other will be carried overland from the Lomami to Lake Tanganyika. A station will be built on the Lomami, about three days' march from Nyangwe, the great centre of Arab influence on the upper Congo. Other stations will be reared at intervals from the Congo to Tanganyika The two long lines on which the society proposes to act accordingly form a right angle, and penetrate north and south and east and west through the heart of that part of the Congo country which is chiefly scourged by slave raids. The society pro- poses to form refuges for hunted natives, and to repress raids by any means in its power. Madame Furtado-Heine, who, is as kind as she is rich, has 'the most ,distinguished Tsraelitish salon in Paris, atter those of the Rothschild family. She is one of the two or three women who have ever been privileged to wear the . cross of the Legion of Honor,' which was bestowed on her in acknowledg- ment of the many charitable institutions which she has founded and endowed. in times anterior to the settlement of the land may be found in the "windfalls" that are familiar to woodsmen. If, however, there has been a change in the character of the weather in this country owogto the e effects of forest destruction, or irrigation in the West, as some think, then no doubt such change might be instrumental in pro- ducing au increase in the frequency of tor- nadoes. But while this continues to be a mooted question, there is no doubt of the fact that the inhabitants of many parts of the central valley regions of the States are exposed to a peculiar and terrible danger from the storm forces of the atmosphere, and the growth of rich and flourishing cities in those regions only strengthens the need of protection. The inhabitants of countries in which earth- quakes are of frequent occurrence have succeeded in devising means of safety, and we do not doubt that in time some way will be found to avoid such fearful experiences as the ruinous work of those Kentucky tornadoes. va A Long Winter Jonrney, JOHN LABATT'S Indian Pale Ale and XXX Brown Stout Highest awards ears Medals for Purity and Excel lento 4 Centennial 1~xhibition, Pbil adelpbia, 1876; Canada, 1876; Auetralla,1877; and Paris, France, 1876 TEETIMONIASS SEI, CTED Prot, a H Croft, Public Analyst, Toronto, says:m-"t and it to be perfectly sound containing no impurities or a�uIter- *tions, and can strongly recommend it as perfectly puts and a very superior malt liquor," John B Ydwaras, Professor of Cheanistrg, aoutteal, heist andthem to be remarkably sound ales, brewed hone puremalt and hops. Rev. P: J. Ed. Vage,Professor of Chemistry Laval. 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