The Exeter Times, 1891-4-23, Page 3THUOMBAY AtUTINT.
On a fine November morning in the year
1842, the ship Bombay, fifty-three days out
from New Yorks sighted the Sugar Loaf,
and running in past the forts that guard the
entrance, anchored in the lovely bay of
Rio de Janeiro.
Negroes and natives in curious boats and
cauoes surrounded the ship, offering for sale
a bewilderieg veriete of tropical fruits, The
Brazilian Porteapteen, in gorgeous nuiform
of green and yellow, came off to the ship in
a barge with wooden awning, flying an enors
moue Brazilian /lag, and palled by twelve
coal-bla.ek Congo eegroes, naked to the
waist.
The latemaaa, John: Gay, master of six
hundred tons register, was considered a
vessel of good size in those days. She car.
ried a crew of twelve men, with the Captain,
two mates carpenter, etesverd, cook and two
boys.
I was in the mate's or port watch. Jim,
the other boy, who was about my own age,
was in the starboard watch. We boys mes-
sed in the steerage with the cupenter,
sour -tempered Dane.
On the first Sunday after our arrival, the
,aport watch was given a day's liberty, and I
went on shore with the rest. ,Passmg
through a great fleet a vessels of all nations
at aechor, gaily dressed in flags, we landed,
and were soon on the plaza,
I soon separated from the sailors,. who
sought the drinkingshops. Wandering
about, I saw many curious things. Ina gay
carriage, with six horses, outriders in rich
livery, and a brilliant cavalry escort I saw
the yonthful Emperor, Dom Pedro IL, then
evercely seventeen years old,
I spent so melt time in siglitsseeing that
when toward evening, I returned to the
place where I bad left the Bombay's boat I
found that it had gone co nearly au hour
before ; but for a small fee two black men
pulled use off to the ship in a boat of their
own.
As wenearea the Bombay,1 saw evidences
of unusual commotion on beer& ad a eiguel
o dietress hoisted- ia the mizzen rigging.
Arriviug on board, I bend wbet was the
eattee of the trouble,
Among the naval stares which composed
our cargo were eix hundred barrels of
whiskey. In those days this liquor was
served. out as a daily ration in the 'United
States Nexy ; but the practme qa not pre -"That is good advice," replied our Cap -
grasped the pistol by the barrel,
strivine to get possession of it.
The carpenter leaned over and struck the
sailer a heavy blow with a pair of iron hone
cuffs, upon which the fellowlet go his grape
rtnd fell heavily down th e ladder. Tile Captain
then came up, bleeding from a blow on the
side of his face, and with his clothing torn
to shreds. Mrs Bowker quickly followed in
an even worse condition, and without his
pistol. which. he had lost in the affray.
Mr. Daniels pulled over the wattle and
slipped in the bar. Feeling that the wild
beasts wen at least caged, our side called a
parley.
"1 hit one of the scoundrels in the arcs,"
said the Captain. " Did your shot take efs
feet, Mr. Bowker l"
"I think so, sir."
I happened Just then to glance through A
port, and saw a boat coming alongside,
Here's a boat, sir, with some officers,"
I ref eeted.
The Captain went to the gangway, and
received le Brazilian officer who came on
board.
The Captain explained, and the Lieuten-
ant went forward to investigate, Mr. 33owk-
er opened the hatchway, and the Lieutenant
called down in bis formal English, "Marin-
ers, I command that yeti, cotne on decle at
once l"
"Who are you, monkey -face?" came a
vome front below, "Get out of this, or we'll
serve you worse than we did old, Bowker
A pistol -shot whistled ominously past the
young officer, while a chortle of yells and
cat -calls sainted him as he drew back.
" But, Captain," said the officer, "this is
a mutiny I must report to me commanding
officer and obtein furtber assistance," He
hurried to his beet and loft the ship.
By this time it was growing dark, and
Wane were in a bed state for the night The
two CapM
ins consulted together as to the
best course to pursue. As discipline had
'
become almost A demi letter, we all gathered
aft, having firet eeeured theforward batch -
way, and several prpoeitious were diseussed
by the officers.
"Captein Gay," said Captain Edson, "d
you take my advme you tvill not allow the
authorities to melale in this meter, at this
stage of the mutiny at least. If you do allow
them to iuterfere they will put you to both
trouble and expense, end possibly delay your.
voyage I would at least eximust your own
resources first,"
veil in the merchant :service, liquor being. tear. " BUtf What shall I do with those wit)
men down there ?"
"Come below and we will talk over a plan
by ourselves," said Captain Edson, as he
glanced at my oompauton Jim, who, with
mouth and ears both wide open, was pushing
forward to catch every word. They went
below, and Mr. Bowker, now that the excite.
ment was over for the moment, fouud time
to give us his attention. We were soon set
at work clearing up the decks, securing the
beets and malting all snug for the night.
In a short time the stowara brought up an
order to the mate to take the Angter's boat
and to go on board the Brazilian man.of-war
Inclependenzice, wait Captain Gay's compla
meta.% and say that WO should not require
any assistance that night, but ehouldbe glad
to have the police text sent in the morning
to take thoprisoners on shore.
Before going, the mate was directed to see
that tlie forward hatch was lashed down and
a kedge anchor put upon it
As the "prisoners" were as yet a long way
from beng secured, we were all very much
mystified by this message, and the mate re-
marked to Mr, Daniels,. in my hearing, that
he thought "the Captain had better cats&
his chickens before he counted therm"
-
But he obeyed the order, uevertheless,
and we west down into the nteerage to sup-
per, there s discuss the mutiny in all its
aspects. When the Angier's boat returned,
Captain Edsonvent back to his own ship.
That nigh, tho mates and. the carpenter
kopt the anehor wa.ethes between them, and
the crew, long before midnight saccumbed
to thea effects of the liquor, and were all
quiet in theforecastle.
The next morning we were aroused bright
and cerly, and for once found the Captaln on
deck as early as any one. Jiin and I were
sent off in the dinghy to bring Captain Ed-
son on board, who came, bringing with him
a package of something that smelled very
much like matches.
Captein Gay received him at the gangway,
and they both went forward with the mates
and the carpenter, who to his and our sur-
prise, was ordered to bring his broadaxe
with him.
The Captain looked about carefully, and at
last ordered the carpenter to cut a hole
through the deck planks, about a foot square.
The carpenter gazed in astonishment. but
obeyed orders, and the chips began to fly.
The Captain then went to the galley and
returned with an iron pot, to which he at-
tached a line; and Captain Edson poured the
contents of his package into the kettle.
By tlas time the hole was cut through the
deck.
"
Stand by to open the scuttle, Mr. Bow-
ker," said the captain. " Now, men," he
called down, as the hatch was opened care-
fully, "are you ready to come up like men,
or shalla make you come up like sheep ?"
The men greeted this with more shouts of
aeration. Many of them had waked, and
were, again drinking the liquor.
TI1t.Captain closed the hatch, and called
out,^' Cook,bring a shovelful of coals here!"
The 'cook came with the live coals, which
he put, as directed, into the pot.
As the dense white smoke of the burning
brimstone in the vessel curled up, the Cap-
tain lowered the pot through the hole, keep-
ing it just below the deck and out of .reach
of the men, and placed two wet swabs over
the orifice, so that none of the fumes might
escape.
Flesh and blood could not have endured
the suffocated vapors that presently filled
the forecastle. In less than ten minute s
there was a terrific rush up the ladder, and
Ei violent effort was inade' to raise the hatch,
which was prevented by the lashings and
the kedge anchor.
"Stand by, now, all of you," said the
Captain, " and, clap the handcuffs on them
as.I let them through."
He opened one door, through which the
first man precipitated. 'himself. He was se-
cured, and the door quickly closed.
They were let caw, one by one, until the
whole twelve lay handcuffed on the deck in
a row. The last ones were scarcely able to
crawl up, so suffocating were the noxious
fumes to which.they had been exposed in
the forecastle. •
Captain Gay walked up and down the
deck in glee at the complete Success ofe his
experiment, and addressed the captives ashe
passed. •
"Oh, you are a prechnis lot of scoundrels,
aren't you ? You thought you had the
weather -gage of me, did you? I think you
will sing a different tune when you find
yourselves in the calaboose 1 Mr. Bowker,
signal for the police boat, and send these
fellows offers quickly as possible, and let us
be rid of tactn."-. •
Returned aft, and went down to breakfast
with Ceptain Edson. . - •
. When the pollee bot came, which was in
a short time, the officer was greatly surprised
to find so largeIt number of subjects await -
allowed on board hut few elope, and =vest
as a ration in none.
Sailors were in those days noted for their
ingenuity in stealing liquor, and to keep
this out of his mente reach our Captain had
etorea the barrels in the fore and after runs
or lowest parts of the lower hold. The
sailors were aware of this, and on this day
had found thew °hence to get at IL
Mr. Banters the chief mate, and the -port
watch were on shore, and Cepteein Gay
gene on board another ship, the Angier,
to pass the day and dine with her command.
er. This left Mr. Daniels, the second mate,
in ;charge, He was a rather easy-going
young man, and soon retired to his state-
room to enjoy the day in reading an interest-
ing_novel.
Chips, the carpenter, after smoking a pipe,
went to sleep In hisbunk, and the sailors
found little difficulty in taking frotn his chest
such tools as they wished. With these the
starboard watch proceeded to cut a hole
through the .forecastle deck, and succeeded
so well that isy dinner -time they had broken
out the upper tiers of stores, and exposed
the barrels.
The cargo thus removed they piled up
carefully intim quarters of the absent port
nettele filling thew aide of the forecastle up
to the =lines.
Nob satisfied with broaching one barrel,
they rigged a whip and hoisted three barrels
of whiskey up into the forecastle, and con-
cealed them underneath their berths.
They then returned the rest of the cargo
to its place and refitted the deck planks so
direfully Vial scarcely a trace was left of
their work.
After dinner the watch sottlea dowe to
the business of drinking and carousing.
"When, at five o'clock in the afternoon, Mr.
Daniels, having fissished his novel, came for-
tverd to call else y the boat to bring the
liberty men onboard, he was startledto find
tbe entire watch drank, and inclined to be
quarrelsome.
The second mate at once sent the carpenter
d the boy Jirn in the dinghy on board. the
vgier for Captain Gale The Captain,
learning the state of affairs, accepted his
friend Captain Edson's offer to send the
Angier's boat for our liberty men. The two
Captains came at once on board am: ship in
the dinghy. The arrival of the libertymen,
%sato were also drunk, made matters worse
. stead of better, for the two watches fell to
fighting in the forecastle.
This was the disturbance which was, tak-
ing place wben, amidst the cries and shouts
of the rioters, I arrived on board. Captain
Gay, who was one of the old-time sea -cap-
tains, and "a very taut hand" with his
crews, ordered the second mate to go down
into the forecastle, and bring up any rum he
might find there. He supposed that the
liquor the men had been drinking was snug-
gled on board from the bumboat.
Mr. Daniels went down with a very ill
grace, I thought. The forecastle was Just
then a very lion's den. He didnot stay
long, as you may suppose, but came up with
a rush through the hatchway, with a bleed-
ing nose and puffed, eye. •
'When he could get his breath, he exclaim-
ed, "They've got a barrel of whiskey there
on tap, sir, and they are fighting ever it like
a lot of wild Indians! It was all. I could do
to get out of it alive"•
This was nothing less than mutiny, and
Captain Gay felt that his action must be
summary. Going to the cabin, he retureed
with four revolvers, and pee one each to the
officers and. carpenter. •
Then, looking down the hatch, he shout.
ed, "Men, come up on deck, every one of
you !"
' "I will give you five minutes to get up
A bowl of derision was thenney reply.
. here, or 1'11 come down. there and find out
the reason why I" he cried.
They simply yelled defiantly in drunken
chortle.
"Come along, Mr. Bowker," said the Cap-
tain. "You and I will start these fellows
up. Mr. Daniels, 'you and the carpenter put
the kens on them as they come up the hatch-
way 1"
The Captain and mate bravely started
clown the ladder, tevolvers in hand.
They were taking desperate chances: It
is no small thing for two men, even with
arms in their hands, to face a dozen madden.
ed. sailors; at close quarters, in a hand-to-
hand encounter such as this must be.
Jim and 1 had gone forward to see the
outcome of the affair. We were; of course,
in a high state of excitement:as the Captain
and mate disappettred.below.
For several minutes there was a terrible
confusion of voices andtthen a sound of
blows, followed by the sharp creels of a pis-
tol. Then a pause, followed by a renewal of
the Uproar: Another shot was fired, and al-
most immediately the Captain appeared,
struggling with a stalwart fellow who had
ing hare They were taken on shore, and
after remaining in the city prison until we
had sailed, they were finally allowed to ship
ea a whaler that came in short of hands,
rather than be sent home for trial.
Our Captain picked up another crew with-
out difficulty, and went on unlaAiug. We
then took on board a cargo of coilee, and
carried it to New Orleans.
The new crew remained, with the Bombay
whileshe loaded, with oetton for Liverpool,
and thence home to Boston, where all hands
were paid off, and the ship discharged,
14', S1%101'01'11 11u.L.,
Habits of the Flu -Bearing Seal.
Most of the seals are killed on the Priby.
leaf islands, Let they winter further south
and spend much of the year going and corn-
ing on the great inMrvening ocean. So it is
easy for poaching vessels to intercept them
and slay them by wholesale, and if all who
with are permitted to club the silky mein -
mal while swimming in the Behring sea to
aud from their northern breeclin place the
race will soon be ex &
terminate
Half of the sealskin eacques in the world
come front these Pribyloff islands lying in
iteluing sea, 200 miles from the meal land.
The two principel ones are mere islets—St.
Paul and St. George—each ten or twelve
miles long and half as broad. For tWO
M00,tha in the sununer o: eaelt year the
Aleuts or natives kill settle and skin them' -
the other ten they lie around in the twilight,
never going to bed or taking off their clothes
night or day, gossiping, eating and getting
drunk on guess. „ahoy eat raveriously,
averaging two pounds of seal meat A day
for every man, worn= and Oil& in ad-
dition to vast geentities of other foud.
Lap to last year they took about 100,000
skies a year, and the United States treasury
received $3 for emit skin. The net resale
is that the government has received. from
the commereel company during the laet
twenty years nearly as mucli as was paid to
laussie for the whole of Alnska 1808, So
Seward's purchase is vindicated. It was
unquestionably a good bargain to pay 87,-
200,000 for this vast peninsula. whose
sources of wealth are not even guessed at,
=witless developed.
In the beneficent or melevolent econom y
of nature and commerce there are twice as
rua,nyfemalesas males in the seal community,
ea polygamy. flourishes.
In the springthe adultseals come swim-
ming back from their mysterious tropical
vitae, accompaaied by million of the
young .pups of the previous summer, and
the Pribyloff islands are very lively once
more—lively and reverberant svith roars of
anger and of friendly greeting.
Mostly roars of anger, for every male seal
is the foreordained enemy of all other male
seals, eud must defend. with his streugth
and, often with his life the position helms
assumed on the rooks as his particular
seraglio. Here he gathers his liarem, one
by one, and Imre, in few weeks, the youuse
are bore. Some of these hullo exhibit the
same desperate courage and insensibility to
pain as is shown by the Indian brave who is
hamstrung and hauled up to a tree top by
the quivering sinews. One was pointed out
to the government agent who had survived
forty or fifty pitched battles with as many
antegonists and still held his place, covered
with. scars and frightfully gashed, raw,
festering and bloody, one eye gouged out
and a fore flapper torn to ribbons, but yet
lordingitstubbornly over his harem of fifteen
ortwentyfemales,huddledadmiringlyaround
him. The fighting is done mostly with the
mouth, They seize each other with thole
canine teeth, always leaving ugly, and some-
times fatal wounds.
The male seals arrive from the south
first, and are followed by the pretty little
females sonie weeks thereafter.
There are two or three classes of male
seals which are deprived of the delights
and refining influences of female society.
There are young bachelors who have
never yet had the courage to go in and
fight for a claim, being apparently com-
pelled to remain at a respectful and sate
distance from the potent brown and
tawny seniors. These young fellows
haul out in crowds of thousands close to the
water a short distance from the seraglios.
They are from 1 to 4 or 5 years old, and
they alternate their pastimes between lying
on their beaks among the rocks, where they
fan their heatedawehes with a hind flipper
if it is a warm day, and getting down into
the water in front of old Turk's summer
residences and endeavoring with varying
success to draw the females into sly
flirtations. Notwithstanding the fierce
jealousy with which these wives are watched
and guarded, and contrary to what woula
be expected from their meek and sanctified
appearance, there are breeehes of decorum
occasionally which no conscientious person
would attempt to defend.
In case of elopement the gay Lothario is
generally handled generously according to
the custom of the world in such cases, and
his guilty partner treated with great sever-
ity, Her lord and master will gallop
through the family, knocking his other wives
right and left and running over the babies in
his anger, and over -taking the fugitive fe-
male, thrashing her so soundly with his
flippers that she puts up her little nose to
his and kisses him in token of submission
and reformation and creeps back apparently
subdued and penitent.
SICILIAN SECRECY.
—7
Trans Observed Amens the rennie In Their
Netts% /tend
The last British Consular report front
Sicily remarks that taere are dark shades in
the Sicilian character which contrast with
the simplicity by which one might imagine
the people to be wholly possessed. They
van be deceitful, reticent, malicious end
vindictive ; petty thefts and robberies are
not =common ; it is said, also, that in
gratitnde thee are tremetimes wholly de.
iielent. It is tagnificant that to be "se,altre"
(cunningly clever), is with them a meritori-
ous quality, and that advantageous lying is
regarded with favor, even in children.
Owiz g to thespirit of "inafia"and "omerta '
which pervaeles all Sicily, they combine 4
hide eaeh other% misdeeas, and in the ea,s
me
of robbery, and even assassattou, it is gen-
erelly impossible to get evidence againstthe
wrong -doers, even from the victirns them-
selves. There is a secret understanding
among ell that no one shall assist the legal
authorities in their efforts to bring criminals
to justice, and the Sicilian as a rule, relies
on himself and on his friends for obtaining
retribution for private wrongs, and every
one who transgresses this unwritten law
has to fear the vendetta of his neighbers.
One of the most disagreeable traits in their
charamter is excessive cruelty to animals of
which travelere in Sicily frequently have
seen revolting insMnees. When remonstrat-
ed with on account of tide they simply shrug
their shoulders and say " What matters ?
They are not baptized." They cannot cone
prebend tlsat any creature bas any claim_ to
consideration outside pale of the Chetah.
Frightful rams in horses and donkeys go un-
noticed, and are fed on by flies.; deep holes
areplugged with tow, and lame animals are
made to work with !waxy lomat ae though
nothing Was the matter watt them
As for relieving a horse or donkey of a
heavy burden ring up hill, snob a thine.
never enters their heed% To see country
cart crarnmea with people behind a hoese
which can scarcely stagger under heavy
load, and to observe that no one ever en -
(leavers to relvieve the poor animal in the
meet difficult paeseges, is a common occur-
rence. Live poultry is carried to the mar -
1 a:slung from peek saddles, or by pelestrian
front the hand, by the legs. birds keep their
heads up as long as strength endures, till at
last they can (lo ea no longer, and die aapairi-
ful death by a, melt of blood to the head.
Children are, it is said, taught cruelty to
euimale from infancy, for one of the corn.
monest sights town and country is to see
children playing with newly caught robin
redbreasts, goklauches, which they hold
tied by the leg with a string, and pull back
when the poor bird attempts to lly.
Auother defect in tbe character and hal).
its of the Sicilian peaeaut leek of eleanli-
nese But in spite of all these the general
demeanor and habits of the- Sicilian are so
pleasing that one feels inclined to regard his
deflciencies with much lenieucy.
The Discoveries at Thebes.
The attention of archreologists and the
learned generally is still largely occupied
with the discovery made at Thebes. A
letter alike interesting and instructive has
jtist been received in Paris by Prof. 0. Mass
pero from M. Grebant, director-general of
the excavations now in progress at Thebes.
Prof. Maspero formerly held in Egypt the
position now held by 'M. Grebant. 10
appears from this letter that the rock -out
chamber was found at a depth of fifteen
meters, consisting of two floors on galleries.
In the lower floor were found 180 mummy.
cases, piled one on top of the other, together
with a large number of funeral objects, in-
cluding some fifty Osirian stethettes. Ten
of the statuettes wore opened at once and in
each was fount a roll of papyrus. The
period to which the mummies and statuettes
belonged was thot of the twenty-first
dynasty. No such find has been made since
1881. The soil had, to all appearance, re-
mained untouched for a period of 3,000
years.
Little Soap Used in India,
It is stated that soap in India is regarded
almost in the light of a natural curiosity,
for it is rarely if ever to be obtained of a
shopkeeper there. Of ceurse, it is sold in
the larger towns ; but the amount used by
the natives must be very small, seeing that
tae total consumption of soap in India last
year Was only 5,000 tons. This means that
the amount used by each person for the year
was aonsiderably less than one ounce.
A man who sits all day with one 'side of
his face turned to a windovr; claims that
thesunlight ' makes ' one eicle of his Mou-
stache eerow twice as fast tte the side turned
from the window.
TELEGRAPHICli.l'41„EPS
Capt. trIcKenzie, the famous chess player,
is dead.
The Nova. Scotia budget shows a deficit
of $45,559.,
Stanley is reported to have been appoint.
ed Governor of the Congo State.
Three acres of cattle sbeds and 137 cattle
were burned at Pittsburg the other morn-
ing.
Germany is thought to be forming a cus-
toms coalmen against Frauee by means of
commercial treaties.
Hiram W. Ittanclaard, who was one of the
leaders in the anti -slavery cause, died at
Neponset, Mass, Monday.
Fourteen persona were poisoned at Chat-
oga, Tenn, alay by eating cream
puffs which contained arsenie,
Robert J. Gowdy, a clerk in the Kings:
ton Postoffice, was arrested yesterday an
the charge of tampering with the mails.
Thirty two deaths from grippe occurred in
New York dering the 24 hours ending at
noon yesterday.
Exports froni Northern Germany te the
United States show a beavy decrease for the
past quarter.
A bill has been introolueed la the Massa
chusetts Legislature proltibitiee the use of
arsenic in the manufaeture oewall paper,
abtics, ete.
It is reported that the Sault Canal CCM -
tractors are to have their estimates passed
by the tlepertnseut at Ottawa, instead of by
the resident engineer, with whom they are
at variance,
mr.
WAnderira &MS,
10 is remarkable that Enda Pasha should
be. a Jew by birth, atul une of hie rescuers—
Vaa Haesen—a Jew ,eeprofeseinie But the
presence of these Jews 411 equatorial Atriee
does Aot nand alone. Froin the time of
Abraham downward the migratory instinct
has been darninaut in the race Mesopos
tainiat Canaan, Egypt, Carman once more,
ssyritt, liabylorna, Persia, Canaan a third
time, mai then the world at largo ---such are
the suecessive stages of Israel's national mi-
grations, The Jews indeed have ever been
t he "tribe of the wanzlering foot." In au age
when movement from one cluntry toanother
was A rare and hazardous proceeding --
in the twelfth ceutury to wit—Denjamin of
Tudela and Petaohia of Ratishon travelled
through a great part. of Europe, Asia and
INTERESTING ITE14IS.
Mr. Gladstone has remarked that "the
orator motives front his tuidience in vapour
wbat he pours back upon them in a flood. '
The underground system of telegraphs of
the German Empire, it is reported, has a
total length of 3,600 miles.
When the carpet has been soilea by ink,
instantly apply blotting -paper, them milk,
then blotting -paper, and so on until the
spot is out, as It will be. Don't rub.
Railway carriages were in the first in-
stance intended for well -to do people ; they
were even designed .ana painted outwardly
in imitation of the rival coach.
The German navy. will ho,ve37 more veesels
in active service this year than. last year.
The totaltennber to be assigned to duties
lasting from three to ten months is 00.
When the London, Chatham and Dover
Coemany got into deop water nbout a quar-
ter of a century ago Parliament gave full
powers to Lord Salisbury and the late Lord
Cairns to deal iree-handed with all the
interests involved.
The -first idea, of the railway men was to
put coaches on iron rails and thus supersede
" The Tally -oh," "Tho Wonder," =dealer
gay vehicles which behind four horses tm-
versed England at the then wonderful rate
of ten Miles an hour.
The Japanese census shows that the pop-
ulation a year ago was 40,072,020—^20,245-
336 males and 19,825,084 females, 7,840,872
inhabited houses, 3,825 nobles 1,993,637
shieuare or members ef the old nobles,
class
38,074,558 " common people," awl7,445,110
married couples.
TaB VICTIMS OF GINGER.
startling t tortes or the tIces
The publication fn the Philadelphia Timed
14 the wholesale and rapidly growing ginger
drinking, habit formed an important topic of
discussion in :pharmaceutical elegies 0.9 welt
as in the venous reformatory !Restitutions -
lad hospitals. The alarming na,ture of the.
evil and the startling rapidity of fts de-
velopments 1m.y° been far from exa-ggerated
if the general conditiorm of affairs cornea
aceerately unier the observation of them
particular elasses. It is aeterted by those
AU. the best possible position to be known
that there is UOti small date store in the
city that does not containAhe bistory of
some wretched victim of the fiery alcoholic
mixture, Wennen and even children are
eaid candid, druggeste to be the greatest
sufferers from the habit. Among the work-
ing clea.O0 many women, young and
have been accustomed to taking a glass of
beer, or gin and water, or tvlaskey and
water, or whisky and water as a stimulant.
after their day's weak ie done, and with the
sealing of the majority of the liquor saloons.
to then them they have found. an inviting
and aprerently.innacent substitute in the
draggisM' Jamaica, gingers and ginger tinc-
tures.
That is the opinion of the matter given
by a. frankly.spoken druggist,
Women come in here, and children, Woe
by the dozen," he said, " and buy smalt
4e -entities. of cringer tincture or the essence
or peppermiut. which is almoet pure alcohol
also. I bave out of a good many of thews
but they go enntewItere eke. The little
grocery stores sell a goad deal of it in bets
ties firm various maaufacture. The behie
eeeme to be worse thee, the liquor beide,
noticed it after the saloons that the poorer
people patronizeri were knocked. out.
Women coming home from work tirel and
without any quantity. of very nourishing
fa:A.114mo than, as 111 the OAiati of the
clersper boardiug and lodging houses, used
to run out with a pitcher or a ilesk to the
nearest saloon AU4 brece rip on beer or
whithey. Now many of them go to the
artig store or the groettry store and get the
aose of ginger or eteppmmint that warma
them up. They. melt better take the pure
alcohol, for it se len irritating, and It is
bound to ruin their health if they follow up
the habit."
Mr. Gibbons, ot the Franklin 'Reforma-
tory, apoke very earueetly on the euhject.
Africa, end were thereby able to make eon. Ile salt' "A tlaaaa umnY Pe41}le "1141 ba
sidera.ble additions to theworld'sknowledge, surprised if they knew that in a majority of
The second Benjamin and Hatevy„ who k,x. our cases here recently the ferriales.pplicapts
plored the Felashas, may also be mentIoned.
The exiatence of Jewant outetatheavey ger.
nevi of the globe the Felathas and -Rent-
Israel and the Citeltin Jews, has only been
made possible by the -migratory tendency of
the race. The four young men who kept
last Yom Kippur in so queer yet so touching
a, fashion kith° wilds of South Africa are
among the latest illustrations of the tend-
ency. No doubt the wandering iustinet has
been strengthened ay pereecutions but now
thrit peace and qmetuess are his in greater
measure the Jew still retains his Fedi:lees
tion for travel.
A Perilous Balloon Adventure.
The balloon found at 'Wootton has been
claimed by alessrs. Williaese and Smith,
aeronauts, of liettersea. The balloon was
a new one, aria on Monday last, it was in-
flated at the Battersea Gasworks with 30,-
00)ft, of gas. The owitera embarked ou
their trial trip, When at an altitude of
5000ft. the billion suddenly descended over
Chelsea, and C., was only by throwing over
three bags of sand that the bouses were
cleared. It than ascended three miles,
When over .Neasden it again rapidly began
,to deacena, and struck the ground before
sand could be thrown out. Williams was
precipiteted into a ditch, and, the grapnel
breaking at the same time, Smith was taken
up to an altitude ofthree and oalialf miles,
where the gas so expanded as to force its
way out of the mouth of the balloon. Smith
now opened the valve, and descended the
tit ee-ana-a-balf miles in two minutes, cnly
saving his life by jmnping out just before the
ear struck the ground at Harrow. The
balloon being lightened, immediately re -
ascended into the clouds and disappeared.
The aeronauts were none the worse for their
adventure. '
Near Tanga, in German East Africa, an
important series of stalactite caverns has
been lately discovered. They are in a sys-
tem of Jurassic limestone, and, it is said,
the caverns surpass any similar ones in
Europe, both in extent and size. Millions
of bats seems to be the only present onus
pants of the interior. Africa already pos-
sesses one of the cavernous wonders of the
world—the stalactite caves of Wanderfon-
tein, in the Transvaal.
About the year 1726 the "Potsdam Life
Guard "had attained its maximum of num-
bers and inches. The shortest private was
little less tban seven feet high, and a few of
its grenadiers approaehea the extraordinary
stature of nine feet. The tallest of these
was Fugleman or "File -leader" Hohmann—
most appropriately named of giants—the
crown of whose herta Augustus the Strong of
Saxony, himself a Colossus''could not touch
with his hand, standing on tip -toe.
It is stated thee while foreigners in
France number threeper 'cent. of the pope-
lation they are eleven per cent. of the
convict class. an 1887, 1,247, and in 1888,
1,279 foreigners were convicted, the number
of English being fifty-one ancl fifty-three
respectively. Italians head the list in 1888
with 'four hundred and eighty-five,- then
come two-bundred and forty-eight Belgians,
one hundred and ninety-two Germans,
eighty -sae Sparaards, eighty-six Swiss, and
after the fifty-one Englieh come forty-tbree
Austrians.
have admitted thet they began Isy talcum
ginger for cramps. Two or three women,
apply evry day. We can't admit them, but
we questioa them antigive ti.eui good advice.
The advice is toshun the ginger just a.atnuelt
as the runt ;unl beer. Fully 90 per cent of
them are ginger victims. In the wisest of the
men it is a poll deal the mum Moat of tbe
failures of our dischergett inmates to. keels- -
their pledges is the result ot taking some
ginger 'preparations for cold or cramps or as
what they =eider it harntlesa stimulant.
"01 our more than five thousana patients
we have lost. only 12 in all the yeara of our
existence, and they came to us in a dying
condition. We will not take a matt su ermg
from delirium tremens or very far gone. His
place is a hospital. Still we would rather
deal with a man pretty far gene from liquor
than ono used up by the ginger tincture.
Different drug stores have their own way of
preparing their ginger tinctures. You will
find, if you take most of theme that the
".ginger tincture is mostly whisky with
ginger in it, It's about the same with pep-
permint,
"Once a, man 1ms drunk to excess the
slightest iunouut of alcohol taken into the
system drives lum on o more. Ask ana
man who drinks if his capacity hasn't in-
creased steadily and if lie doesn't crave big-
ger doses. These peppery. solutions, which
are alcoholic properations =their mostirri-
tating forms, aisguisea, drive a man on and
into the verge of the mania-a-potu. There
certainly should he, and I trust there will
be, it law regulating the sale of liquors. It.
shouldn't stop there, either. Cough mix-
tures ere sold everywhere that 'contain big
doses of morplaa, and people begin to find it,
opleatant and convenient thing to have a
cough or cold.
'People fool themselves when they take
ginger for a remedy."
At the office *f the Pennsylvania hospi-
tal it was said that there was a ginger patient
then in the wards and thit ees-eral of them
had been treated recently. Tee lastpatient
had been taking drugs, and when asked to
name las drugs he said. " Ginger."
Dr. Gummy, the resident physician, said:
"It's iznpossible to tell the difference be-
tween alcoholism or gingerism, or mtherthey
are the same thing—alcoholism. The ginger
tincture is worse,- I suppcse, on account of
the irritant ginger, but its the alcohol that
does the harm the same as in other intoxi-
cating drinks taken in excess."
In one of the most frequented of the
Chestnut street hotels a bartender said:
"The hard drinkers that come in here
generally want a dash of ginger in their
whiskey, especially if theeeve linen pretty
hard hit the night before and want a
strong bracer. lou can taste a drop of
ginger in a gill of whiskey, and a dash \ of
the ginger we have here will discolour ase
half pint. Some folks seem to get a, liking
for it, though, and they'll galp down with
their whisky enough to burn out an ordinary
man's throat. It makes 'ern a cheap drunk.'
Cardinal Gibbons writes in Tie North
American Review et -Those familiar with the
daily lives and sentiments of the laboring
classes kno w whet a stumbling -block to
their faith is pious penuriousness, the char-
ity that begins and ends at home. They
cannot reconcile godliness and greed. For
most other forms of human weakness there
is tolerance, even 'at times compassion; but
for the man who acknowledges our common
fatherhood and brotherhood, with his hands
tightly closed upon his purse-string, there is
a tierce contempt, "curses not loud, but
deep." It may safely be affirmed that one
sanctimonious miserly Milliopithe in a com-
munity works more deadly harm to Christ-
ianity than a dozen isolated cases of burglary
,or drunkenness. In Europe, we are told by
competent authorities, the desperation of
the poor is fast driving men into atheism.
My diatinguished townsmen, Prof, Ely, in a
most suggestive lecture, inquires into the
alienation.of wage-winkers'from Christian -
Ley, proving that in most denominations
such alienatien undoubtedly exists. •
Canitdlan Chesse.
Orreeve, April, 22.—A circultr issued by
the London Home and. Foreign Produce Ex-
change is addressed specially to Canatlian
cheese -maker. It states that the Chem
Committee of the Exchange have had meter
consideration the betterment of trade with
Canada, and in their report say that, while
able to congratulate the Canadian factory
men on the advancement made during the
past fifteen years, they " cannot fail to re.
cognize the fact that they have arrived at it
stationary period, if not actually having en-
tered up= a . retrogatle movement." The
eommistee eomplain that last seasons make
of cheese has as a rule shown a tight, unkind
curd, and. a dryness which in some cases
created a suspicion of skimming ; that some
factories have marketed their output, unripe,
apraetice which tends to excite pre-
judice against Canadian cheese; that the
colouring has been most erratic, that the
boxing is growing worse, boxes being some-
times Made of unseasoned wood, and there
have been some discrepancies in the matter
of weights.
--seasseeesemeastee----
The Salvation Army halls in Buenos Ayre
have been closed by the authorities on the
claim that the army is not recognized by the
church. The Salvationists lave appealed to
the president.
Lord Lansdowne, Viceroy of India, has
telegraphed the Imperial Government that
the Indian forces are abundantly able to deal
with the rebellion at Manipur without a d-
ditional troops. The Viceroy entertains eo
fear that the natives will become inflam ed
over the revolt of the Assam tribesmen.
The London correspondent of the Irish
Times says :—The activity lately developed
amongst Irish secret societies in consequence
of the split iu. the Nationelist ranks is, be
has reason to know, seriously engaging the
attention of the Government. It is known
that American agents from the Clan-na-Gael
and from a more extensive body of the
American Fenians are at present in London,
and a close watch is kept at all Irish ports
for these eentlemen, and it is mate possible
that in the near future we may hear of some
sensetional plots akin to those of the dynae
mite period.
Over 2,000 dissenting ministers have
signed the protest against Sir Charles Dillee's
return to pablic life. Sir Charles persist§
that he will stand as a eandidate for Parlia-
ment until he receives the official veto of
the Liberal ohiefs. He has invited the
opinion of Mr. Morley and Sir •William
Harcourt on his candidature, without a
response. Mr. Schnadhorst, the Liberal
caucus chief, disapproves the, candidature,
on the ground, that if the Forest of Dean
electors return. Sir ' Charles Nike many
thousands of dissenters will withold their
votes from Liberals at•the coming elections.
Tin From Silk.
An ingenious Frenchman has discovered
a process of recovering the tin containea
in the wash waters of silk which have been
weighted, old has accordingly received from.
the French Society for the Encouragement
of National Industry the prize allotted for
the utilisation of residua,' substances, As it
is estimated that Lyons alone will effect an
annual economy of a12,000 by this means,
the gentleman deserves his reward. But
the history of the reclamation of waste pro-
ducts, although it has been full of surprises,
and may be considered an amazing testimony
to the genius and patience of man contains
gran says) nothing more rem -la -kale than.
this profit derived from the refuse of this
excessive adulterant. The question has been
more than once asked why silk ram had no
valne, but they may yet be sought' after by
dust contractors and marine -store dealers,
not for the sake of silk but of tin ; and if we
bad an industrial mint we might contem-
plate the contingency of an old silk gown,
eplit and torn, because it was as muck
metal ae textile, being converted into a.
dripping -pan or some other kitchen utensil.
It was a French General who first found
out that tobacco might prove ematently
serviceable in warfare, Inasmuch as it int -
mediately allays the pangs of hunger.
To ue singular, merely for singularity's
sake, is not the part of a Christian. In
things that are absolutely indifferent, that
are 'of no consequence at all, humility and.
courtesy require you to coaform to the
customs of your country..