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no Brothers of the Trinity writer that pomace from the Ball Narrows, llmtelt
11000 tue00uneuted with 111011' oet•vic'ashall be taut, add umbel, seine(' 1 tako itis the
fouurl in or an ane of their Lights during the safest, they camp amt they (Mamie, unit they
hones of (adenose. Their employees can be bank; the tidos fust on one ahem and then
led to think otherwise. If you are fah'- on ;mother, till your ship's tote in teo.
spoken and bake an intermit to their duties, Ito tome through the halt Narrows, stern
they will permit you tosit with them through lust, 10 the heart o' the ilouthetett monsoon,
tho long night and help to scare the ships with it sou' -sou' -west wind blowing atop of
into mid•ollannuh the northerly flood, awl our skipper said he
Of all the English south coast Lights, that wouldn't do it again, not for all Jtunrach'a.
of St. Cecilia-undor•tho-01i[Hs the most pow, You've hoard o' Ji utrauh'a, sur?"
maul, for it guards a vory foggy coast. When " Yes ; and woo Dowse stationed in the
the sett mat voila all, St Geailia turns tt Bal' Narrows?" I enfd.
hooded head to the 000 and slugs a song of "No, he was not at Bali, but much more
two words once every minute. From the east 0' thong passages, and that'; Floroa
land that eon , resembles the bellowing of a Strait, and the oast end o' Flores, It's all on
brazen bull ; but at sea theyunderatend, end the way eolith to Australia when you're
the strainers grunt gratefully in answer. running through that eastern Archipolagus.
Fanwiok, who was on duty one night, Sometimes you go through Bali Narrows if
lent mo a pair of black glass spe0taoles,you're full.powered, and sorathnos through
without which no marl eau look at the Flores Strait, so as to stand south at once,
.Light unblinded, and busied himself with and fetch round Timor, Iceeping well ohm
last touches to the lenses before twilight o' the Sahel Lank, Elsovays, of you aren't
fell. Tho width of the English Channel be- full -powered, why it otando to reason you
swath us lay as smooth and as many -colored go round by the Ombay Passage, keeping
ant the inside of an oyster shell. A litre careful to the north side. You understand
Stmde'land cargo boat had made her signal that, sir ?"
to Lloyd's Agency, half a mile up the coast, I was not full•powered, and judged it
and wan lumbering down to the 0un0et, her safer to keep to the north side—of St.
wake lying white behind her. Ono star knee,
earns out over the aline, the teeters turn. "And on Flores Strait, in the fairway
ed to lead uolor, and 81. (Je011ia'a between Adonare Island and the mainland,
Light shot across the sea in eight long they put Dowse in charge of a sorow•pile
pencils that wheeled slowly from right Light called the Wurloo Light. It's less
to left melted into one beam of solid than a mile across rho head of Flores Strait
light laid down directly in front of the Then it opens out to ten or twelve utile for
tower, dissolved again into eight, and passed Solor Strait, and then it narrows again to a
away. The light -frame of the thousand threo•tnile gut, with a topplin' fiamin' vol-
lenses circled on its rollers, and the com• cane by it. That's old Loby Toby by Loby
pressed -air engine that drove it hummed Toby Strait, and if yon keep his Light and
like a bluebottle murder a glass. The !nand the Wurlee Light in a line you wont take
of the indicator on the wall pulsed from nntoh lumen, en, not on the darkest night. That's
mar), to mark. Eight pulse -bents timed ow what Dowse 10111 me, and I can well believe
half•revolution of the Light ; neither mere him, knowing these seas myself; but you
nor less. must ever be mindful of the currents. And
Fenwick checked rho first few peva• there they put Dowse, since he was the only
laden(' enrefully; he opened the engine's man that that l)atoll government which owns
feed pipe a trifle, looked at the racing Flores could find that would go to 1Vurleo
governor, and again at the indicator, and and tend a fixed Light. Mostly they uses
said : "She'll do for the next few hours. Dmt011 and Italians, Englishmen being said
We've just sent our regular engine to Lon. to drink when alone. 1 never could rightly
don, and this spare ones not by any manner find out what made Dowse accept of that
so accurate." position, but accept he did, and used to sit
" And what should happen if the com- watching the tigers Dome out of the forests
pressed air gave out?" 1 asked, out of to hunt for crabs and suet like round about
cnhoosity, rho lighthoneo at low tido. Tho water was
" We'd have to turn the flash by hand, always warm in those parts, as I know well,
keeping in eye on the indicator. There's a and encommon sticky, and it rad with the
regular -crank for that. But it hasn't imp. tidos as thick and smooth (Le hogwash in a
paned yet. We'll need all our compressed trough. There was another man along
air to -night." with Dowse in the Light, but he wasn't
" tVhy?" said I. 1 had been watching rightly (then. Ho was a Kling. No, nor
hint fur not more than a minute, yet a Kling he wasn't, but his skin w'a8 in
"Look," he answered, and I saw that the little flakes and cracks all over, from living
doad•miat had risen out of the lifeless sea so much in the salt water as wes his usual
and wrapped ns while my batik had been custom. His hands was all webby -foot, too.
turned. The pencils of the Light marched He was called, 1 remember Dowse saying
staggeringly across tilted floors of white now, an Orauge•Lord, nn account of his
cloud. broil the balcony round the light habits. You've heard of an Orange -Lord,
room the white walls of the lighthouse ran sir?"
clown into swirling, smoking specs. The "Orange -Laub?" I suggested.
noise of the tide Doting in very lazily over " That's the name," said Fenwick, snack -
the rocks was choked down to a thick ing his knee. "An Orange -Lauf, of course,
drawl, unci his 1101110 was Chalking ; what thoy call
" That's the way our sea -fogs come," said a sea -gypsy. Dowse told me that that man,
Fenwick, with an air of proprietorship. long hair and all, would go swimming up
"Hark, now, to 0111 little fool calling out and down the straits just for something to
'fore he's hurt." do; running (101011 on one tide and back
Something in the mist was bleating like again with the other, swimming side -stroke
an indignant calf ; it might have Leen Italia and the tidos going tremenjas strong. Else.
mile or half a hundred miles away. ways he'd be skipping abont the beach along
"Does he suppose we've gone to bed?" with the tigers at low tide, for he 10001110;1
'Continued Fenwtek. "You'll hoar ns talk part a boaet ; or he'd cit in a little boat pray.
to him ii1 n minute. Ile knows pufiickly mg to old Loby Toby. of an evening
where 00 is, and he's carrying on to bo told when the volcano was spitting red
litre if he was insured." at the south end of the strait. Dowse told
"Who is' ho'?" me that ho wasn't a contpenionable mat,
" That, Saulerland boat, o' coarse. Alt 1" like you and m0 might havo been to Dowse.
I could hear a steam-engine hiss clown " Now I can never rightly come at what it
below in the mist where the dynolnos that tvastltabbegall to ail Dowse after he hal been
fed the Light wore clacking together. 'Ghon there a year or something less. Ho was say-
there
aythere 004110 a roar that split the fog and ing ends pay and tending his Light, and
shook the lighthouse. now and again he'd have a fight with Chal•
"Gil -fool !" blared the foghorn of St long and lip Binh off the Light into the sea.
Cecilia. The bloating ooaaod, Then, ho told me, his head begun to foil
" Little fool 1" Fenwick repeated. Then, streaky from looking at the tides 80 long.
listening : " Meet if that aren't another of He said there was long streaks of white run -
them 1 Well, well, they always say that a ming inside it ; like wall paper that hadn't
fog do draw the ships of the sea together. been properly pasted up, he said. The
They'll bo calling at night, and sell tho streaks, they would run with the tides, north
siren. We're expecting sono tea -ships up- and south, twice a day, aocordin' to them
Channel. currents, and he'd lie clown ou the planking
. If you put my coat on that chair, — it was a screw -pilo Light—with his eye to
you'll feel more so lash. air." a crack and watch the water etreeking
It is no pleasant thine to thrust your through the piles just so quiet as hogwash.
company upon a man for the night. Ilook• He said the only comfort he got was et slack
ed ut Fenwfek, and Fotwiok looked at me; water. Then )1,cstroaksinhisheadweutround
each gauging the others capacities for bar- and round like a sampan in a tido-rip; but
ing and being bored. Fenwick was an old, that was heaven, he said, to the other kind
oleen-ahaven, grayhaired,tnan who had fol. of streaks,—the straight ones that looked
lowed the sea for thirty years, and knew like arrows 011 a wind chart, but much more
nothing of the land except the lighthouse in regular, and that was the trouble of it. No
which lie served. He fenced cautiously to more he couldn't aver keep his eyes off the
find out the little that I knew, end talked tidos that ran up and down so strong, but
clown to my level till it came out that I had as soon as ever he looked at the high hills
mat a captain in the merchant service Standing all along Flores Strait for rest and
who had once commanded a ship in comfort his eyes would be polled down like
which Fenwiek'a son had served ; and to the nasty streaky water ; and when they
further, that I had seen some places that once got there he couldn't pull thein away
Fonwiok had touched at. He began with a again till the tide changed. He bold me all
dissertation on pilotage in the Flugli. I had this himself, speaking )est as though he 1008
been privileged to know a Hugh pilot inti• talking of somebody else."..
mately. Fenwick had only soon the imps• " Where did you meet him?" I asked,
ing and masterfal breed from a ship's attains "In Portsmouth harbor, a -cleaning the
and his intercourse had been minuted to brasses of a Ryde boat, but I'd known him
" (quarter less five," and remelts of aatriob• off and on through following the sea for
ly business -like nature. Hereupon ho ceased uutnyyeara. Yee, hoepokcabout himself very
to talk down to me, and became so amezing• orients, and all as if be was in the next
ly technical that I was forced to bog him to room laying there deal. Those streaks, they
explain every other sentence, This set him preyed upon his intolleoks, he said ; and he
fully at lila ease ; and then we spoke 08 111011 made up his mind, every thane that the
together, each too interested to think of Dutch gunboat that attends to the Lights
anything except the subject in hand. And le those parts cone along, that he'd ask to
that subject was 0001108, and voyages, and be took off. But as soon as she did come
old time trading, and ships cast away in something wont click in his throat, and he
desolate saws, steamer8 we both had known, was so took up with w'atphing ler meets,
their merits, and their demerits, lading, because they rail longways, in the contrary
Lloyd's, and, above all, Lights, The taut diteobion to his streaks, that he could never
always came bank to Lights : Lights of the say a word until she was gone away and her
Channel ; Lights on forgotten islands, and masts was under sea again. Thee, he said,
men forgotten on them ; Light-ships—two he'd cry by the hour; end Challong SWUM
months' duty and one month's l0000—tossing round and round the Light, laughin' al him
on limned cables in ever -troubled tideway$; and splacbin' water with his webby -foot
(tncd Lights that men had seen where nev01' hands. At last he tool, it into his ports stoic
lighthouse was marked on the charts. head that elle ohipg, andpa'Uhcularly the
Omitting all those stories and omit- steamers that mote by,—there wasn't many
ting also the wonderful ways by Wlhioh he of them, —made the streaks, instead
arrived at them, I tell here, from F enwlek's of the tides as was uabnral. He
meuth, one that was not the least amazing. used to sit, 110 told me cursing
Ib was delivered in places between the roller ovary boat boat mime along,— some.
skate tattle of therovolving leese0, the boll- times a junk, anemetilmee a .Dutch
owing of the fng.110rn below, the answering brig, and now and againrt steamer rotind ng
calls front the sea, and the sharp tap of Flores Hoad and poking about in the mouth
reckless nightbirds that Haug temselvesat of the strait. Or there'd 001110 a bomb from
thelasses, It 00neerned a marl called Australia runitingnortlspaubolrl.LobyToby
Dowse,0nca 50 fnttmate friend of l+enwick, hunting for fair 0urronb, but never 111ow-
now a wit Lotman at Port8motlth, believing Ing out tiny papers that0hellolgg might ;holt
that the guilt of blood is on his head, and up for Dowse to rend, Generally spooking,
findin no rest either et Portsmouth, or Gee- the steamers Kept more westerly, but now
port hard,
and again they owe looking for Timor 1111(1
.And anybody was to come to the wee, coast of Australia. Dowse need
o, aid say, " f know the Java currents," to 0hout to thein to go ret u(1 by the Ombay
lon'tou listen to him ; for those aliments t'nssago, and not to 001110 streakingpast
pa
y known to mortal man. Some -
Ho
malting tie water all streaky, but it
is neve yet waetn'b ltltel rho 'd neat. IIo sa s to him -
times they're here, and sometime they're Y Y Y
there, bet they mover runs leas that live
801£ after e month,, 111 glue thorn 000 more
knots en hour throw- h and among 111000 atlantic, ho sayer If the next boot don't
iu g �, easel to nt llatrm losontatians,'—hoSa s
0000)0 sfrhol;astm't1eralhtlfof a, l.heeos e1 P' Y
reve'soaurreita to the Ga1lt' 0 Bnni--and he remembers 118015 those very words to
th'a1'0 np berth in Celebes—that no man lChalog,— 9tiop pc fairway.
ho next boawas a lvo•slcoar oango
can explain ; end through all those Saliva
beat very 001(1008 10 nonan, hal• northing.
She waddled through tinder old Loby
J'oby at t11e, 8(11111 enol of tho strait, mid
she pas -ed withdn a quarter of a mile
of the 1V uric. Light at the north std,
in 01)))))')(1 110/101/1 0' wa100, the title
against her, Dowse took the trouble to
omen out with Chalking 10 a little prow that
they had, ---all bamboos and leakage,---entl
ho lay in tan fairway waving a, palm- branch,
and SO he told me, wondering why and what
fur be was leaking this fool of hhnaelf. Up
come the '1'wn•streal( boat,aed Doweaabonfa;
" Don't you come this way nein, making
my bored all streaky I Go round by Ombay,
and leave Ino alone," Some ono looks over
the port bulwarks and allies a banana at
Dowse, and that's ell, Dowse sits down in
tlto bottom of 1 he boat and ernes fit to break
his heart. Thin he Hays, " Challong, what
am I a-orying for?" 011,1 they fetch up by
the Wurlee Light en the half flood.
(To ex cormmNrlen)
Odds and Ends.
There is a women's brass band in Olen.
viile, Ohio.
One sere of land will comfortably 'rapport
four persons on a vegetable dint,
Ton days per annum is the average
amount of sickness in human life.
Edward Payson Weston, the ono; famous
pedestrian,now does all his walking in New
York oily, where he is a general solicitor
and oolleoto'.
A Vienna doctor has declared that
cancer can be arrested by an injection of
one of the coal tar derivatives, methyl vie.
let.
The story comes from Maine that a man
leased a farm, agreeing to give the owner
half the proceeds. At the end of the year
the plan's wife came to the owner, bringing
with her two cats as his share of the pro-
ducts.
The finger nails grow between one and a -
half and two Inchon in length yearly.
Twenty million cores of the hand of the
United States are hold by Englishmen.
The 13nffalo Saws tells of a woman who
has put up enough fruit to last for five
years. And now ahs has grown melancholy
for fear she will die and her husband marry
again before the fruit is all eaten up.
"E"is the most frequently used letter
in the alphabet ; then comes " T, "
The necktie on the statue of La illtam Pone
that 1s t0 081'1110nnt the 1?11ila(delphia City
Hall will weigh 500 pounds.
The peaolh was originally a poisonous fruit;
but by cultivation• the poison has disap-
pearer.
It is reported that Baron Alphonse de
Rothschild has purchased from Prince Borg -
hem Rephaol's famous picture of "Ciusar
Borgia" for the stun of 000,000 francs.
It is estimated that at least 550,000,000
of the U. S. Govermnont's paper money sup.
posed to be in circulation has been lost or
destroyed.
A Tonnessee paper publishes a descrip•
tion of a single grapevine on the McCoy
fiats, near Big Brasly mountain, that ex-
tends over five acres of ground. It boars
only on alternate years.
The taste for horseflesh is evidently
spreading in Berlin, and in response to the
public demand a special horsernoat rest-
aurant has been opened there and the num-
ber of customers is very large.
The farmers in tho Palouse country, Wash-
ington, have straw roads, which are pro-
nounced excellent. They take the straw
after it in threshed and scatter it over the
roads, and, after a while, when it is settled
down, it makes a road like papier nacho,
smooth and dustless.
Women Should Honor Women.
When we think how cruel one woman
can be to another—this is when it is hard
for in to remain calm. One instance of
this kind 1 will toll you. At it school,
among children of presumably good families
was one child of whorl it was whispered
that her father was not engaged in a eeeog.
nixed bo ovablo calling. The children
shunned her. She was taken away from
school and sett 110.000 the ocean. Her moth.
or could not Lear 1,11e separation ; so the girl
was brought hack to the school, anti in
time became tt general favourite—in school,
during the holidays, the other girls passed
her without seeing leer—the ellopwindows
were very ettraottve when she was near.
When she finished her school education,
she began to learn the praotioea of the
world. She was "cut" by all her former as-
sociates. What could you expect? Desert-
ed by them, she seeks others, to show she
can do without them, Then her mother
died, poor 0hil(1 : sic began to find that,
although she could do -without these former
companions, they aro not content to let her
alone: they are first to whisper:
"Giddy," " They do say," etc.
Girls why will you do it? I know Out,
being a woman, tho world forbids you to
bold out your hand to the erring. But, do
you think that the world also preaches the
cruel doctrine of holding her back?
If you can sew nothing good of a woman
(there are few but something hind can be
said of then) then, for your own salve, keep
silent. No one thinks the better of you for
pulling holes in another woman's reputation.
No truo-hearted, honest -minded person can
believe in you and trust you after hearing
you talk against another woman.
But do not let your silence be of hire Kind
which commences—" (1 yes, she is nice"—
then with uplifted eyebrows and shrugging
shoulder—' but—" then your 0005c1011ee
awakens, In that case yen hev0 said too
little or too much, and the doubt you arise
does more harm then even an outspoken
criticism. One might forgive a woman for
this, ender provocation—but I have 110
words mean enough to describe the contempt
in which 1 hold a man wlto would be guilt y
of (mch notion.
So suppose you tnako it a rule this winter
to speak no evil of any woman ; 8110 may be
good and you wrong her; and if she bo not
80, why then you do not want to talk about
hoe.
The Massacre of a French Expedition,
The Aft'iean Steamship Lomppituy'estoam-
er Ambriz has arrived in the Mersey from
the South•Woet Coast of Melee, and tho
Canary Wanda with passengers and mails,
The Ambri-o loft Loando on the .17th August
at which time there was considerable stir
al the place in oonsegnonoo of news having
been t'000ivod of the disaster to the French
expedition, ander the direction of M,
Crampel. Information of the massaore has
boon received by cable,. but this is supple.
mooted by the news that the Ambriz has
brought. 'Cho report at Loved() was that
the expedition werenha0sacr0l whilst asleep
by a party of Arils, This 00ourroc1 at
throe o'clock in the morning, and it was
estimated that the inva(1015 of the camp
numbered between 3000 and 4000, The
camp of the Frenchmen wa0 surrounded and
the rarest out off, 0114 it was surpriaieg
that any escaped to bring down the nose,
The expedition WAS stated to consist of 150
black soldiers amu( five white men, and out
of those only one white man and ten/1110105
escaped, The survivors acid they dal not
1011010 low they 01001(0(1, so mmmot01t0 were
the Arttbs who-atteekod the camp,
WORLD'S FAIR ROUX. A HUNDRED MILES AA HOUR,
Florida, 0 renew, World's Fair eon•
yen Lion, decided to rais0 $111,1(00 for 118
refresen taboo at Lhicago i11 1"03.
The A:eoended Preen has applied to the
Grounds and Building COM u111Li00 of the
Exposition for imitable space, either in the
peens quarters on the greeds mr In a 00pltr•
ate building, whore lie reports one be pre-
pared and dispebched during the Fait. It
to certain that the Exposition authorities
will provide extensive pram and telegraph
facilities, but the detsil8 are not yet 'loter-
minod.
Between 840 and :bio mon are employed
in perfecting the landscape features of the
Exposition Lute, Itis the intention to make
the grouncle exceedingly beautiful by walk'',
drives, lawns, terraces, fountains, shrubbery
and flowere. Several hundred thousand
dollars are to be expended for this purpose,
The Palace of Music at tho Il'xpoeibion, it
ie now expected, will stand on the greet
island formed by the legooua, and will be
surrounded by a magndicent garden of
flowers, ten (toren or more in extent. This
location is desired by Theodore Thome,
!11101001 Director of the Exposition, balms
not yet been finally passed upon by the
Board of Directors, The structure will
1110001108 150 by 250 feet, and cost approxi-
mately 5)011,000.
The magnitude of the building operations
now going on at Jackson Park own be sum.
miae(1 from the Saab that an average of from
thirty-five to forty car loads of construction
material arrives daily, Tlio Exposition
buildings are rising with wonderful rapid-
ity.
The women of Illinois, who have the
spending of 580,000 of the 5500,000 which
the State appropriated for inn representation
at the Exposition, 11005 been granted, for
their exclusive use, one.tenth of the space
in the Illinois Building, which, altogether,
is eomothiug more than an acro and a
hoxalf.hihit. The women will make a separate
Director George Schneider has received
advices from Berlin to the effect that the
associated chemical works of the German
Empire has agreed to make a full an(1 com.
preheteive exhibit at the llxposi tion in 1893.
As is well known, the German Empire leads
all the world in the matter of the chemical
manufactures, and the exiibtt thus deter-
mined upon cannot fail to be one of the
most attractive and instructive at the Ex.
position.
A New 1701:1 company that manufactures
self-winding clocks hos offered to furnish
free of cont all the time pieces that will be
needed in the buildings during the Fair.
A mammoth labor emigrate( is to be held
In Chicago in 1803, under the auspices of
the World's Congress Auxiliary of the
World's Columbian Exposition. John Burns
and Tom Mann, who lad the great London
dock strike to a successful issue in 1889, have
promised to be present, as have many other
prominent labor leaders Wm. E. Gladstone
and Cardinal Manning have accepted honor-
ary membership, and will aubmit their views
in writing T. V, Powdcrly, Carroll D.
Wright, and numerous others deeply inter-
ested in labor questions, ere earnestly sup-
porting the movement.
Ivan lfelakolf, a St. Petersburg capita-
list, wants to reproduce at the Exposition a
street scene from Nijni Novgorod, the cele•
brated plane where expositions have been
held for $00 years. He agrees to spend
5250,000 upon tine reproduction.
A oo1pany has applied for space to ereot
a building in the forst of an iceberg in which
to make a polar exhibit. A group of Esqui•
nmux, with reindeer, furs and all the para-
phernalia of inhabitants of the polar regions,
will be installed in the building if the con-
cession is granted,
It is stated that the ingenious electrical
devico, some time ago brnnght to public] at-
tention, foe giving un alarm when a ship
deviates from lime course, is 11010 being ,ad-
opted on a considerable number of vessels.
The 001119x80 even, in this arrangement, car-
ries a light wire electrically connected with
0 metallic cup at the centre, containing a
few drops of mercury ; tri, who is bent over
the edge of the 0enpass, anti, as long as the
ship maintains its course, the wimp remains
out of contactwith either of the two metallic
stops wihioh are placed at a certain distance
on either side of the bent end of the wire.
If, however, the vessel departs from its
course, the wire fixed to tho cord is brought
into contact with one or other of the stops,
closing the circuit, and ringing a hell in the
Captain's cabin or the navigator's room.
0. W. Wynkoophas been Bent out by a
Loudon syndicate to find the gold mines in
the biblical lands of Ophir, where King
Solomon and the Queen of Sheba got their
riches. He will report to Chief Skiff the
result of hia investigations, and promises
to farnieh mine interesting matter for the
mines and mining department.
British Columbia has decided to build a
struoture, which will be a novelty in archi-
tecture'
compose( of every variety of wood
known to the Britieit Colombia forests. The
building will be built first in sections of con-
trasting woods neatly mortised together.
'l.'he roof will he of native slate and a variety
of cedar shingles, making in all a pleasing
effect. Itis intended Go ship the building in
emotions, ready to be emoted on its arrival.
The display will be unique in every way,
the government and cities of the province
subscribing to the fend.
Ready 'Wit,
The Gorman I(nlperee has it ready wit, a8
the following anecdote will show. Tho other
day, ab HottleId, during luncheon, Madame
Waddington's ueeklet became onfoetenod,
and Simmer do Sot oral, the Portugueese
Minister, who was sitting next to her,
hastened to assist the An hassarlre0a in
refixing the clasp. Observing this, the
Kaiser, exolatmod jocularly, " I I ore's Porto.
gal trying to siren la France I" and, when
Lite 1'i ince of Wales came to the 1e8aue,
" Worse and worse," wont on his Majesty,
"there's Great Britain helping her to
do it 1"—a remark which caused 1101011
merriment among the Emperor's imme'
(late neighbours, one of whom wits 19.
Waddington, who laughed heartily at this
good-humored sally, which was ohiofiy ad-
dresser( to him,
11011ways in the Holy Laud,
The Turkish government, loving douidod
on rho oohsGrncbimh of a railway proceeding
from Ismiclb or Samsun to Bagdad, heat in.
vend the administration of the Atlatolien
Railway ant Baron Maeda, who received the
001100451011 for the Samsun.Sivas lino, to ta.
conference in order to o,nsidee the bosh
means of attaining its object. The Minister
of Public Works has IL number of appli00'
tions fon' eoneessiels on hand at presort.
Among them is 0110 from hlolmnod Maim
Effendi, for the building of a tramway lino
from Janina t0 tdanopaulo. This tramway
would be worked partly by 0,01011 tl'action
and partly by steam, Another -project 18
that of lbrilrrburzado 1)jrmil Boy for the eon.
51rtmtion of a tramway rat Beaune,
VA Iron 1:11s 111 .111»d 1l iyrty to De Thal
Stade.
Articles 01 iueoeporation were filed in
Sawa) )n S..1„ 1+1.8t weep for a company that
preemies to first put into practical 080 one
of 1'ldlaou's latest electrical devices. The
company in question to the Edison IIlmninat•
mg and Power Company. Its capitaliza-
tion at the start is $100,000, but it ie under•
stood the capital will be inceetwed to $1,000, •
00U at at early date,
he (stensible object of the new corpora.
tion is the introduction of an eloctrio light
system in the city of Newark,
eo etieeirsen1i TUE T11.el.1..F.y.
It is believer(, however, that as a matter
of fact the company is formed to eventuelly
put on the market a system of else trio motion
for street and other railroad cars without
any territory, invented by Thomas A. Edison
Wlhen 11r. Edison first began his expert -
meats in this rdhre0tion et his laboratory in
Orange be had three rails, but he has now
progressed sofar that he can move with two
rale and only twenty volts pressure. Ho
Maims that shortly he will be able to perfect
the eystein for general use, and that it will
he cheaper than the present methods, 1n
taut, every object into which he invosti•
gates must have two recominendetion0,
First, there must be a very big demand for
it ; cud, secondly, it must be cheaper and a
groat improvement on anything existing.
At another part of the grounds around
the laboratory is a railroad embankment
raised with a regular steam railroad treat{
and a centre rail raiser(. It is supported by
poles at various points, and stands perhaps
a foot out of the ground.
ONE !HUNDRED 0,1(1,(05 AV 11011 R.
This is the spot where the great inventor
is working upon an eleetrio road, on which
the rata of travel is to be 100 minae an hour
and he says ho can do it now in safety.
It will be used during the World's fair ex.
position.
Both these inventions are supposed to be
included in the scope of the corporation
just formed.
Rules In Writing.
A crucial test of early advantages—it had
almost been written " the" crucial test—es-
pecially in the case of a woman, is note
writing, In no one way does the veneer
show through ,noreplainly than when madam
spats herself at her writing desk. There is
an indescribable somethingabont the elegant
note or " little letter," as the french call it,
which, it would almost seem, one has to be
born to. It cannot be easily acquired, as
one learns a new step in dancing orga fresh
trick in managing one's train. let the
faultless note is worth striving for ; it con-
veys to the cultured reader a subtle and sure
intelligence.
The actual handwriting is immaterial so
far as it conforms or not to the temporary
dictum of fashion. It should not, however,
bucrude or unformed, which at once betrays
the writer's want of practice in the art.
Plain, good, nnruledstationery, in white or
delioste cream or other pale tint, is always
safe. It is equally wise to confine one's self
to the use of black ink. The closing of a
note is the rock upon which novices and un-
skillful writers oftonest split. " Yours re-
spectfully" ought never be used to 0,0 ac-
quaintance or rrtend. " Very truly yours,"
"Sincerely," and'' Cordially yours,' are ad-
018010le gradations of intimacy, while
either, prefaced by " With regards," or
"With warm regards," becomes more fa-
miliar. "Your attached friend." " faith
fully. "Devotedly yours," and " Affection-
ately" strike yet closer notes of friendship.
The best authorities absolutely veto tho
signature of a woman by her sacral title, ex-
cept on a hotel register or in the visiting
boob of 0 public place, whore it is practical-
ly leaving her card. If you are married,
sign yourself always Ellen M. Smith 00 E.
al. Smith, and if the person to whom you
are writing does not know your fmanal title,
put [firs. John Smith] bracketed at the left
end somewhat below the other signature.
If you area widow, the simple Mrs, before
the signature is sufficient. An unmarried
woman uses the prefix Magill the 13a1118 way
to convey similar mformation as to her sex
and condition. From this rule, like that of
returning your partner's trump lead at whist
nothing but death or inability to write e
oases one. The frequency, however, w
W111011 11 is violated is the excuse tor
reiteration.
The Clear and the Photographer.
A Berlin paper states that the Czar dons
does nob like having his photograph taken,
especially when he has to stand alone in
front of the camera, or is subjected to the
process unexpectedly or'suddenly. A Danish
photographer found this out two weeks ago.
He had taken up hie position on the road,
which leads from the castle to the station
near the trombone Hotel, in order when the
Czar took his usual morning walk to the
station to catch him, and to force him in a
sense to givehum a Bitting. Tho Ozer came,
as lode would have it, quite alone, when
suddenly to itis left he hoard the ominous
0110k -elicit of tlleinstrument. He immediate-
ly turned sharply round, as if the shadow
of a danger had crossed this path, and saw
10 paces off the black minora, which, being
dazzled by the sun, be evidently did not at
once recognise. The Czar's face was whiter
than an apron ; the wink which shortly bo.
fore he had boon carelessly waving in the
air fell from his grasp, and he trembled like
a fawn in face of a sudden fright. But then
.1s if by a sudden determination of will, he
collected himself, and as the photographer
came forth from behind' is box with& lnunblo
request, lie gave him alook which made the
young men tremble, and the words died 011
1118 tips. "Jamais," hissed the Czar be.
tweet) his teeth, and hurried back to the
castle, a group of children running to meet
hint. In their midst he most likely soon re-
gained hie composure. The photographer
returned by the next train to Copenhagen,
Ito woo near fainting, the poor fellow, and
fee half an hour nearly lost rho power of
spe0011, such an impression had the Czar's
enraged Looks and his imperious "Jamais"
made upon him,
Loud -talking Women,
Persons desirous to be thought ladies
sometimes converse screamingly in public
vehicles, apparently for the purpose of at-
traotiugtattontion. They succeed, but the
attention they elicit is not of a eonplimou•
Lary nature. Their gentler sisters aro sorry
1(11(9 asha015(1 for thong, a11(l melt are diagus•
ted at such conduct. There is a fliagn0tasnt
in melodious emulate which is 0hnost ieresfa-
tible, and when they issue from fair lips
they aro apt to take the sternest of ns pap.
Live. On the other hand, harsh, discordant
tones, though they should ca1110 free the
loveliest month in Christendom, play, the
mis0l,ief with 001,1imant and pub tenderness
to fliglht, 1..t would be an advantage to ovary
lady if she remembered this, and so 1110(10.
lated (hor 1tltat
" Iter0(108 voice was orae soft,
Gentle and low, a11 excellent thing fu
woman,"
HOW THE MONSOON PONES.
The Fare of No lire Vim egarl 11)' lite 71'h10elet
cnlilg Ad emcee or the Storm,
Let rue try to give a pen picture of the,
end of an Indict summer and the begilming
of the period when the monsoon rains des-
cend, Day after day. the eon pours down
withering (teat, the em is Hick with it, the
ground is hard as iron, and gapes in great
cracks, as though open mouthed, pleading
to the pitiless sky fora drop of water; the.
wide expanse of country that a low menthe
bpast was green and flower -besprinkled ie
brown, the grass crisped with a fierce boat
and falling to powder 1f rubbed ; the trees.
mostly evergreens, are parched and dusty ;
no breath of air rustlee bhrough, no leaf stirs,
They resemble great toy trete, with leaves
of painted wood. There is no sound of life
anywhere ; the noisy, green parrots are si-
lent, and hide from the sun in the heart of
the densest and leafiest top.
YOU may, perhaps, see a craw or mynah
sit solitarily on a bough, with drooping
wing and gaping beak, helpless in this great
purgatory of fire. "The monsoon, the mon-
soon—will it never come?" you ask as you
toss half naked on your bed, worried by
prickly heat and insects watch shall be.
nameless, net tine worst of which is the per-
sistant, bdood•suoking mosquito. Heat
apoplexy has, perhaps, prostrated one or
two of your friends, and a second in the
open air unhelmeted would be sudden death.
" Will the monsoon never come?"
Every evening the sun drops down in the
west like it great ball of fire, but leaves the
heat behind (nim. Ono evening you notice
with great joy two or three black clouds
climb up the east to take a peep at ads de-
scending majesty. They are the advance.
guard, you think, of the monsoon and it
will surely rain before morning. Morning
dawns, and the sun sets to (plowing his heat
furnace strong as ever ; the sky is once more
a greet dome of burnished brass. The
monsoon at last blows the warning trumpet
and the soughing of his wind to the far-
away horizon calls you Out from your bed to
the veranda. Nature holds her breath ; a
great calm, a strange hush --the hush of ex-
pootancy—fills earth and air,
Ha! here conies the mon30011. Away on
the western horizon a groat black cloud
wave surges up toward the zenith, blotting
out the burnished sky in its progress, just
as though you poured ink slowly into a
brass bowl. Behind this blank wave, and
moving with it, is a great dense ebon mess,
out every instant by forked lightning and
bellowing, deafening thunder. The quick
darting adder tongues of flame flash every-
where, search the bellowing heavens through-
out from top to bottom, throughout the-
'whole
hewhole cloud -packed dome.
Now for a second, only for a second, the
quick•flashing lightning ceases, and an inky
blackness, the blackness of Erebus, succeeds,
and the thunder bellows as an Englishman
in his sea-girt little isle never beard it
bellow. It is no distant rumble, gradually
rolling nearer and culminating in a resound-
ing crank overhead. Na; around, about
and just overhead the infernal din never
ceases.
The bellied clouds are pregnant with
thunder, and the flame forks flashing hither
and thither pierce their wombs and loose
the thunder from its prison. It reminds one
of Michael and his oelestial host warring
with Lucifer and his legions. It is terrible.
Inside your bungalow the first advancing
wed that heralded the monoon parried with
it clouds of blinding dust, which is now
piled up an inch high on table and chair and.
shelf. And still the war of the elemonta
goes on. You cannot hear your neighbor's
voice, though he shouts his utmost ; the
birds, affrighted, shrink in the thickets, and
the native servants huddle themselves to-
gether in dark corners for safety. The sky
opens its floodgates, and rain in torrents
pours down without intermission for eighty
or ninety hones on the parched earth.
Splash 1 splash 1 on the roof—not in shove -
ors, but in sheets. This is the monsoon,
And when it has passed what a transfor-
mation it has elected. The arid plain is one
great lake, through which rise innumerable
trees of glossy green, and: crowding their
leafy cathedrals Hooks of parrots and minaha
chatter their thanks to God for the welcome
rain. The great lake soon disappeer0,
absorbed by the thirsty earth, and reveals a.
far and fair expanse of verdure beautiful
beyond words in its 'dazzling greenery, and
sprinkled with flowers that bevel shot up to
e night, earth's embodied hymn of praise to
the Creator for the blessing of the monsoon.
—sem
Beauty.
Young man, don't marry a girl because
she is pretty. Will beauty satisfy you
through the life-long journey, to the exclu-
sion of those moral qualities, mind and
heart ? Will beauty alone nook your din-
ner, train your children and prove a true
solace in the hours of weary toil and trial—
the lob of everyman on earth ? The poet
has said
" Beauty is doubtful good, a glass, aflowor,
Lost, faded,brokon,(load within an hour.'
Wed not yourself to that which time will
surely snatch from you, leaving the faded
eye, withered oheek and vacant mind.
Study well the character and capabilities of
your choice. Soo to it that she poaseeses a
mind capable of grasping the ordinary
questions of the day : and that a portion of
her time is spent in reading something be-
sides fashion notes and novels. And, above
all, beassurod that she is well disciplined in
those virtues without which home is wretch-
ed, Sweetness of temper is not incompati-
ble with firmness or moral courage, and a
woman possessing these atteibubes will nob
belong to the vapid, " wishy-washy" sorb ;
but on the contrary, the class who develop
into noble wives and mothers, faithful in
friendship, and devout Christians, capable
of exerting both ae home and in society the
best of an influence for the right and for
virtue.
If to these high and independent qualities
is added beauty, then your ohoioo is indeed
blessed of God. Take such a one to your
heart, and while loving end cherishing fail
not teprove yourself worthy to be the pos-
sessor of such o priceless gem.
The Loreley.
(Front the Gorman of Heine,)
I know not what it moanoth
The;1 so sad should be.
That like as ono that dream WI,
Tide talo comae back to me,
Tho air is cooland darkling,
And silontmlows the Rhino
The mountain top is sparkling,
Whore °venture olloeloeshine,
There sits It midden, sooting
OP beauty wondrous fair,
With golden Towels 510an111g;
She combs horgoldonhair.
14oroomb ltlrotvlvo is golden;
A song meanwhile ethos she.-
atlrring song and olden,
Of touching melody,
lits bargee the skipper gelding,
le touched with wildest woe;
Hiegetvn on ltigln abiding
Bees not Om anfbelow,
Anil so the wavelets swallow
Both boat mildew) ere long;
How strange Eliot tale shotlhfolloW
.kbaante0tlamt' irlans00ng.
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