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THF; BRUSSELS POST.
THS DISTURBER OF TRAFFIC.
(Col neuan.)
"' Challong,' he says, ' there's too much
traffic hove, and that's why the water's so
streaky as it is. ft's the junks and the
brigs and the steamers that do it the
Saye ; and all the time he was speaking
he was thinking, • Lord, Lord, what
a crazy foul I eat 1' Challong said noth-
ing, because he abuldn't speak a word
of English except nay, ' dam,' and he said
L ' 'es,'
• h sl
that where you or would incI1 Y y
ofthe
flown the il•t 1 tin t
Douse lay t nn th thinking I 1,
Light with bin eye to thr creek, 010i i 110 sow
the muddy water ntreak ng helnw, told he
never said a word 'ill al telt water, bemuse
e
the streaks kelt hint tongue•tled at such
times, At slack water he says, 'Chant lug,
we must buoy this fairway for wreaks' and
holds up his hands several tines, showing
that dozens of wrecks had Dome about in
the fairway ; and Challong says, "Dam•'
" That very afternoon he and Challong
goes to Wurlee, the village in the woods
that the Light was named after, and buys
canes,—stacks and stacks of canes and coir
rope thick and find, all sorts,—and they
sets to work making square floats by
lashing of the canes together. Dowse
said he took longer over those fleets
than might have been needed, because he
rejoiced in the corners, the, being
square, and the streaks in his head
all running longways. Ile lashed the
canes together, Criss-cross anti thwartways,
—any way but longwas,—and they made up
twelve -foot -square fleets, like rafts. Then
he stepped a twelvefoot bamboo or a bundle
of canes in the centre, and to the head of
that be lashed it big six-foot \V letter, all
made of canes, and painted the float dark
green and the \V white, as a wreck -buoy
should be painted. Between thein two they
makes a round dozen of these new kind of
wreok•bouys, and it was a two months' job.
There was no big traffic, owing to it being
on the turn of the monsoon, but what there
was Dowse cursed at, and the streaks in his
head, they ran with the tides, as usual,
" Day after day, so soon as a buoy was
ready, Challong would take it out, with a
big rook that halt sank the prow and
a bamboo grapnel, and drop it dead in
the fairway. He did this clay or night,
end Dowse could see him of a clear night,
when the sea briefed, climbing, about the
buoys with the sea fire dripping off him.
They was all put into place, twelve of them,
inseventeeu•fatlhotn water; not in a straight
line, ouaccount of a well-known shoal there,
but slantways, and two, one behind the.
other, mostly in the centre of the fairway.
Fou must keep the centre of those ,Tnvv't
currents for cements et the side is different,
and in narrow water, before you can turn a
spoke, you get your ease took round and
rubbed upon the rocks and the woods,
Dowse knew that just as well as any skipper.
Likeways he knew that no skipper dare n't
run through unchartered wreeks in a six -
knot current. He told me be used to lie
outside the Light watching his buoys duck-
ing and dipping so friendly with the tide :
and the motion was comforting to him on 1a
being ae-
count of
'tdifferent from the run of
the streaks in his head.
"Three weeks after he'd done his bush
Hess up comes a steamer through Loby
Toby Straits, thinking she'd run into
Flores Sea before night, He saw her
slow down ; then she backed. Then one
man and another come up on the bridge,
and heeould see there was a regular powwow
and the flood was driving her right on to
Dowse's wreck•buoys. After that she spun
round and went back south, and Dowse
nearly killed himself with laughing. But a
few weeks after that a couple of junks came
shouldering through from the north, arm in
arm, like junks go. It takes a good deal to
make a Chinaman understand danger,
The junks set well in the current, and
were down the fairway, right among
the buoys, Len knots an hour, blowing
horns and banging tin pots all the time
That made Dowse very angry ; he hav-
ing
aying taken so Hutch trouble to; top the
fairway. No boats run Flores Straits
by night, but it seemed to Dowse that
if junks id do that in the day, the Lord
knew but what a steamer might trip over
his bouys at night ; and he sent Chal-
long to run a eon' rope between three of
the buoys in the middle of the fairway,
and he fixed naked lights of coir steeped in
oil to that rope. The tides was the only
things that moved in those seas, for the airs
was dead still till they began to blow, and
then they would blow your hair off. Chat•
long tended those lights every night after
the junks had been so impident,—four
lights in about a quarter of a mile, hung up
in iron skillets on the rope ; and when they
was alight,—and noir burns well, most like
a lamp wick,—the fairway seemed more
madder than anything else in the world.
Fust there was the Wurlee Light, then
these four queer lights, that could'nt be
riding•lights, almost ilial with the water,
and behind them twenty mile off, but the
biggest light of all, there was the red top
of old Loby Toby Volcano. Dowse told me
that he used to $o out into the prow and
look at his handiwork, and it made him
soared, being like no lights that ever was
fixed.
"By and by some more steamers came
along, snorting and sniffing at the buoys,
but never going through, and Dowse says to
himself ; ' Thank goodness, I've taught thein
not to Dome streaking through my water,
Ombay Passage is good enough for them and
the like of them.' But he didn't remember
how quick that sort of news spreads among
the shipping Every steamer that fetched
up by those buoys told another steamer and
all the port oilicers concerned in those seas
that there was something wrong with Flores
Straits that had n't been charted yet. It
was block -Moved for weeks in the fairway,
they said, and no sort of passage to nee.
Well, the Dumb, of course they didn't know
anything about it, They thought our Acl•
entreaty Survey had been there, and they
thought it very queer but neighborly. You
understand es lfnglisli are always looking
upmarks and lightening sea -ways all the
orld over, never asking with your leave
or by your leavo, seeing that the sea con-
cerns us more than any one else. So the
news went to and back from Flores to Bali,
end Bali to Probolingo, where the railway
ie that runs to Batavia. All through the
Javv a seas everybody got the word to keep
clear o' Flores Straits, and Dowse, ha was
left alone except for such steamers and
email draft ae didn't know, They'd cone
up and look at the straits like a hull over
a gate, but; those nodding, bre h d
soared them away. Y Y the A
miraily Survey ship—the Britonarte I
think she was—lay in Mannar Road off
Fort Rotterdam, alongside of the Amboina,
a dirty little Dutch gunboat that used to
glean there ; and the Dutch captain says to
our captain, • What's wrong with Flores
Straits?' he says.
Blowocl 111 knew,' says our captain,
who'd just cone up from the Angelica
Shoal.
Then why did yen go and buoy it ?'
says the Dutchman,
" 'Mowed if 1 have,' says our captain.
That's your lookout.'
" • Buoyed it is,' Bays the Dutch cnptatn,
according to what they tell colt ; and a
whole fleet of wrotk.buoys, too,'
"',Gummy ! Heys the captain, It's a
dorg's life at sea any way, 1 111051 have a
look at this. You Donne along alter me as
aeon as you oak;' and (101011 he skimmed
that very night., round the heel of Celebes,
three days' attain to Flores heed, and he
very h e •
real: liner, 0 'ail t IL li
Tura -art 1
met tit y,
g
ing mit of the bead of the strait ; and the
momenta captain gave our Survey ship
.1 methiug of his mind for leaving wrecks
uncharted in those uafraw waters and wast-
ing his eomptny's coal,
' 'It's no fault o' 0)1ne,' says our captain.
1 don't care whose fault it is,' Bays the
merchant captain, who had conte abroad to
speak to hint just at dusk. ' The fairway's
choked with wreck enough to knock a ,tole
through a ,look -gate. 1 saw their big ugly
masts eticking up just under ley forefoot.
Lord his mercy on us 1' he says, spinning
ro'and, ' The place is like Regent Street of
a hot summer night.'
" And so it was They two looked at
Flores Straits, and they saw lights one after
the other stringing across the fairway,
Dowse, he had seer the steamers hanging
there before dark, and he said to Challong
We'll give 'eat something to remember.
C,ot all the skillets and iron pots you can
and hang them up alongside 0' the regular
four lights. \\'e must teach 'sn to go
round by the Ombay Passage, or they'll be
streaking up our water again 1' Challong
took a header off the lighthouse, got aboard
the little leakingprow, with his coir soaked
in oil and all the skillete he could muster,
and he began to show his lights, four regula-
tion ones and half a dozen new lights hung
ou that rope which was a little above the
water. Then he went to all the spare buoys
with all his spare coir, and hung a skillet -
flare on every pole that he could get at, --
about seven poles. So you see, taking one
with another, there wee the Wurlee Light,
four lights on the rope between the three can•
fro fairway wreck -buoys that was hungnat as
a usual mistime six or eight extry ones that
Challong had hung up on the sane rope, and
seven dancing flares that belonged to seven
wreck -buoys, --eighteen or twenty lights in.
all crowded into a mile of seventeen -fathom
wets', where no tided ever let a wreak rest
for three weeks, let alone ten or twelve
wrecks, as the flares showed
The Admiralty captain he sew the
lights come out one after another, same its
the merchant skipper did who was standing'
at hie side, and he said :—
' There's been an international cate-
stroph't here or elseways," and then the
whistled. 'I'm going to stand on and off
all night till the Dutchman conies,' lie
says.
I'm off,' says the merchant skipper.
' My owners don't wish for me to watch
illuminations. That strait's choked with
wreck, and I should 1, 1 wonder if a
typhoon hadn't driven half the junks o
China there." With that lie went away ;
but the Survey ship, she stayed all night at
the bend o' Flores Streit, and the mon ad-
mit ed the lights till the lights was burning
out, and then they admired more than
ever.
, A little bit before morning the Dutch
gunboat come flustering up, and the two
ships stood together watching the lights
burn out end out, till therewas nothing left
'sept Flores Straits, all green and wet, and
a dozen wreck -buoys, and Wurlee Light.
"Dowse had slept very quiet that night,
and got rid of his streaks by means of think•
ing of the angry steaners outside, Challong
was busy, and didn't come back to his bunk
till late. In the very early morning Dowse
looked out to sea, being, as he seed, le tor-
ment, and say all the navies of the world
rifling outside Flores Straits fairway in a
half-moon seven miles from wing to wing,
most wonderful to behold. Those were the
words he used to me time and again in tell-
ing the tale.
" Then, he says, he heard a gun fired
with amost tretnenjtis explosion, and all
then great navies crumbled to little pieces
of clouds, and there woe only a man•o'-war's
boat rowing to the Li lit, with the oars go-
ing sideways instead o' longways as the
morning tides, ebb or flow, would continu.
ally run.
What the devil's wrong with this
strait?' says aman in the boat as soon as
they was in hsiling distance. • Has the
whole English Navy sunk here, or what?"
" "There's nothing wrong,' says Dowse,
sitting on the platform outside the Light,
and keeping one eye very watchful on the
streakiness of the tide, which he always
hated, 'specially in the morning. ' Yon
leave me alone and Pll leave you alone, Go
round by the Ombay Passage, and don't out
up my water. You're making it streaky.'
All the time he was saying that he kept on
thinking to himself, Now that's foolish-
ness,—now that's nothing but foolishnese ;'
and all the time he wee holding tight to the
edge of the platform in case the streakiness
of the tide should cary him away.
" Somebody answers from the boat, very
soft and quiet, ' \Ve're going round by 001 -
bay in a minute, if you'll just come and
speak to our captain and give him his bear.
Ings."
Dowse, he felt very highly flattered,
and he slipped Into the boat, not paying
any attention to Challong. But Challong
swum along to the ship after the boat,
When Dow80 was in the boat, lie found,
so he says, le couldn't speak to the sailors
'cept to call thein ' white mice with chains
about their neck,' and Lord knows he hand't
seen or thought o' white mice since howas a
little bit of a boy, So be kept himself quiet,
end so they come to the Survey ship ; and
the man in the boat hails the quarter.
deck with something that Dowse could
not rightly understand, but there was one
word ho spelt out again and again,—m-a• d,
mad,—and he )beard some behind saying it
backwards, So ho had two worth,—m•a•d,
mad, delem, dam ; and he put those two
words together as he cone on the quarter-
deck, and he says to the captain very slow-
ly, ' I be damned if I am tnad,' but alt the
time his eye was held like by the toils of
rope on the belaying pins, and he followed
those ropes up and ftp with his eye till ho
was quite lost and eomforte,bls among the
rigging, which ran cries -Dross, and elope•
ways, and up and town, and any way but
straight along under hie feet north and south
The deok-some, they rat that way, and,
Dowse (laren't look at them, They was
the same as the stroake of the water under
the planking of the lighthouse.
"Then he herd the eaptatn tallting to
shim very kindly, and for the life of him he
couldn't tall why ; and what he wanted to
toll the captain was that Flares Strait wee
too streaky, like bacon, ant( the steamers
only 'node it worse ; but all he oonlll do was
to keep hie eye very careful on the rigging
and sing : --
0 saw a ship assailing,
A.en ilins on 1.hosea
And oh, it was. )111 leclin
With pretty thinge for ince
Thee he remembered that was foalisluless,
and Ito emoted ofl'to say eonothing about the
OnhbayPasaage, but all he chid leas: The
explant was n duck, .meita1ng no offense to
yeti, the —but there was something on his
hack theft I've forgotten.
'y And when the ship began to move
a
The tamale says, ' Quaok.quack."'
" I•Io noticed the captain turn very red
and angry, and he Saye t.0 himself, ' i11y
foolish tongue's 1'uu away with me again.
i'llgo forward • and he went forward, and
calolted the reflection of himself in the
blonde brasses ; and he sale that he
wee standing theca and talking mother•
naked in front of all them Batters, and
Ire ran into the fo'c's'le howling mast
grievous, He meth ha' gong n•tked foe
weeks on the Light, and Challong o' course
never noticed it. Challong was swimntin'
round cud round the chip, sayin'' dam' for
to please the men and to be took aboard, ba-
c:mum he didn't know any better.
"Dowse didn't tell what happened after
this, but seemingly our Surrey ship lowered
two boats and went over to Dowse's buoys,
They took one sounding, and then finding it
WWI ,ill correct they out the buoys that
Dowse and Challong had made, and let the
tide carry'enh out through the Loby Toby
eel of the strait; and the Dutch gunboat,
she sent two men ashore to take care of the
Wurlee Light, and the Britomarte, she
went away with Dowse, leaving Chal-
long to try to follow Ghent, a•oslling ' dam
—deal' all among the wake of the screw,
and half heaving himself out of water and
ebb -foot hands to
joining his 1v ether. He y g
dropped astern in live minutes, and I sup-
pose he went back to the Wurlee Light.
You can't drown au Orange -Lord, not even
in Floes Strait on flood -tide.
" Dowse come across me when he carne
to England with the Survey ship, after being
more than six months in her, and cured of
his etreake by working hard and not looking
over the eide more then he could help. Iie
told me whet I've told you, sir, and he was
very much ashamed of himself ; but the
trouble on his mind was to know whether
lie hadn't Bent something or other to the
bottom with his buoyiuge and bee lightings
and such like. He put it to me many tunes,
and each time more and more sure he was
that something had happened in the straits
because of him. I think that distracted hien,
because I found him tip at Frattou one day,
In erect jersey,a-praying before the Salvation
Army, which had produced hint m theirpapers
as a Reformed Pirate. Tney know from
his mouth that ho head committed evil on
the deep waters, — that was what he told
them, — and pheacy, which no one does now
except Chinese,, was all they knew of. I
says to him : ' Dowse, don't ire afoot. Take
alt'that jersey and 0000 along tvitli me.'
He says : ' Fenwick, I'm a•saving of my soul;
for I do believe that I have killed more men
in Flores Strait than Trafalgar.' I says 1
'A nem that thought had seen all the
navies of the earth, standing round in Bring
to watch his foolish false wreck -buoys,
(those was•the very words I used) ' ain't fit
to have a soul, and if he did he couldn't kill
a flea with it. John Dowse, you was mad
then, but you are a donne sight madder now.
Take off that there jersey."
•' He took it off and come along with me,
but he never got rid o' that suspicion flet
he'd sunk some ships a•canee of his
foolish -
nether; es8ea at Flores Straits • and now he's a
wham m
an from Portsmouth to Gosport,
where the tides run crossways and you can't
row atraightfoe ten strokes toether. . .
So late as all this I Look !"
Fenwick left his chair. passed to the
Light, touched something drat clicked, and
the glare ceased with a suddenness that was
peen. Day had come, and the Channel Deed-
ed St. Cecilia no longer. The sea -fog rolled
bank from the cliffs in trailed wreaths and
dragged patches, as the sun rose and made
the dead sea alive and splendid. The still.
nese of the morning held us both silent as
we stepped ou the Weeny. A lark went up
from the cliffs behind St. Cecilia, and we
emelt n smell of 00108 111 the lighthouse
postures below.
So you see we were boon at liberty to
thank the Lord for another clay of demand
wholesome life.
RI'DVAnn Klemm!.
['0110 xsn,]
Tor the Gloly of God.
"One of the commonest mistake!) that
men make is to split up their lives into two
parts, secular and religious. Such things as
buying, selling and getting gain they in-
clude In the former ; and such as reading the
Bible, saying their players and going to
ohnroh in the latter. All this is essentially
unchristian. According to the unifortn
teaching of the New Testament, our whole
life, from beginning to end, belongs to God,
and not merely some broken and scattered
fragments of it. The duties of the home,
the field, the shop, the counting house are
just as imperative as those of the sanctuary,
and ought to be performed with aestrong a
sense of religions obligation. St. Paul
brines out this truth and sets it in the fore-
front by moans of two extreme and vivid
statements. The first of the statements is :
• And whatsoever ye do in word ar deed,
do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving
thanks to God and the Father through
Him.' The emend is still more specific
and concrete: ' Whether, therefore, ye eat,
or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to
the glory of God.' Now, Dating and
drinking are among the most common-
place ante of which wo are capable. They
belong almost exclusively to the lower and
sensual side of our nature. They have ref•
ereh0e, not to intellectual or spiritual waits,
but to bodily and fleshly appetites. If,
therefore, even these acts nay be redeemed
by religious considerations front the level
of cease end swinish delights, and lifted
up to the heights of religious service, is
there any part of our lives that may not be
subjected to a similar transformation ?
What about plowing, sowing, threshing,
trading, teaching, talking, reading and
writing ? Of muerte St. Patel does not mean
to insist that every thno wo eat a bite of
food we should stop and stay : ' I oat mils
to the glory of God.' The man who moves
on that line will become either an empty
formalist or else a canting hypocrite, What
the apostle does meat is that we should be
so supremely and unreaervodly committed
and consecrated to God by our own person-
al choice and eleeeiol that all our thoughts,
words and works—even the least aid most
insignificant of then—should naturally
and, as it were, unconsciously conduces to
,hie glory," -
The Season's Greeting.
She wneld not be my Christmas gift, nor
yet my Valentino ;
But, with it manner quite composed and
cool,
]remarked ; "Since to my service you per
elstenty incline,
Suppose you oomo and be ;my April
Fool.'
Iluainens is the rub of lel s, perverts our
aims, 00010 off the bin, and leaves us wide
and short of the intends mark,—(Con.
grene:" -
Ik remarkable salt lake las been discover.
"ed in the Ili waiian Islands,
Nov. 20, 1191,
SOME SH1i,EWD SUGGESTIONS.
A spoonful of pstedeved borax in the rho
sing water will whiten the clothes wonder.
folly,
1f you suspect load in the drinking water
drop a little tinetero of cochineal into some
of the water. If a blue color shows in the
water better drink sonothing else 1
Would you be handsome? Yes? then
keep alenn I Wash freely, All the akin
wanrie is freedom to act, Eat regularly and
sleep enough. Brush your teeth before re-
tiring. Sleep in a cool 1.00111 earl know that
the froth ea0 can get in 1 And pe'letps the
greatest is—have soe earliest inter-
esteat
in lits, By all means aultivatu a hobby
and ride it herd. Such exercise tends to
wake up your soul and ,had brings your
beauty into bloom.
Girls, make you own cologne 1 Put into
a bottle 1 Ono -half ounce of oil of lavender,
one drachm oil rosemary, two drachms es-
sence lemon, two drachms essence bergamot,
forty drops oil of oinhautol ; over Ole pour
three pints alcohol. Two "ullums" could
club together on this, and eat expenses, and
yet smell to heaven i11 their sweetness 1
1Sva•y housekeeper should take a Imp each
afternoon. It will tend to delay the advent
of a second wife in the house 1
Use a utopia washing your dishes, Don't
be ashamed to take care of your hands. It
hurts my feelings to see nine shapely hands
all red and swollen by hot and soupy dish.
water. Wear gloves when you sweep and
dust, the wall as when yun work in the
garden. If God blessed you with nem hands
then for God's sake take car of them 1 Rub
them often in Dorn meal rind vinegar.
Don't cook tomatoes in m1 iron vessel,
nor stir with 011 11'011 spoon, To nook
tomatoes for a delicious stew: put your
allowance of butter into the cooking dish
first, when it is hissing hot pour 10 your
tomatoes and then season, You will be
amazed, perhaps, to find the difference in
flavor that depends upon whether you put
the butter into the tomatoes, or the tomatoes
into the better!
Beware " Ki-broth-Ha-taa-vahl" What's
that ? Hebrew for " gams of the greedy.,,
Gluttony is a vice, and by the ancient Jews
classed with drunkenness. That was bluish,
gluttony, not drunkenness 1—they fell into
at the time of the miraculous fall of quail
about their camps, when it is said: "The
Lord smote the people with a great plague."
Where theyy were buried was called by this
singular Hebrew name, meaning, ' The
'graves of the greedy 1"
H'sh I keep mum, and here's a big
secret 1 Put one ounce of powdered gum
benzoin into one pint of whiskey.
When batting Mee and hands turn
enough of this "doctored drink " into the
water to turn it milky looking, and don't
use a towel, let this dry on. It's not flillb
cult to look handsome, if yon but know
how !
Don't feel so badly about that broken
China 1 Simply prepare a very thick solu-
tion of gum arable in water and air in
considerable plaster of Paris. Brash the
broken edges with this and prose then,
together. In three days you will forget it
ever grieved you.
Glaze the bottom pie crust with white of
egosoak.
and it will not
0
hl 1 meat slowly if you wish to make it w
tender.
Curry powder contains cinnamon, carda-
mon, coriander, and poppy -seed, rad and
black pepper, cloves, garlic, turmeric and
grated cocoanut ; did you know it?
To prevent milk scorching, rub the uten-
sil with batter before pouring in the milk.
Prosperity in British Oollunbia.
British Columbia is going ahead in a most
satisfactory manner. In an interview mooed.
ed in one of the London papers, Hon. John
Harbert Turner, the Provincial Minister of
Finance and Agriculture, gives a wonderful
account of this development. The building
of the Canadian Pacific ; the promotion of
steamship lines to the ens1 ; the increase of
trade; the growth of population and the
expansion of its 0ities are cited as proofs of
this progress. Mr. Tumor points out that:
In 1871 the assessed value of real
estate owned in tteprovinco, out-
side of cities, was
$001:82,12
,000.000 00
In 1801 1, is 09
In 1801 the assessed vaaiue of real
estate in the city of Victoria was
about 0,000,000 00
In 1801 it has risen to 17,7700,1100 00
The personal property in the pro-
vince, aesess,a1 in 1881 at..,3,880,000 00
has risen in 1801 to 18,000,000 00
The total debt of the province, es
shown by the Public Art, to June
30 lest is, per head of population12 50
The value of real and personal pro-
pertyowned by the people is as-
sessed, per (lead, at about ale 01
Tho revenue in 1381 was 97,030 00
'rho revenue in 1801 ,vas•, 00!),301 00
The expenditure in public works,
such as roads and bridges, and
surveys for the opening up and
development of the province, hits
in the last five 5, ears been 900,087 00
And in 1801 tho expenditure on
education in tho province, which
is entirely free and unsoctarlan,
wns
Meet 00
The exports of the province have increase
ed from $1,8118,000 in 1872 to $5,786,000
last year, and its imports from $1,700,000 to
$4,442,474. Trade las derreLsed with San
Francisco, which is 0011 a competing port,
not a market, while there is a large and
rapidly growing trade" with Eastern
Canada. Speaking of external relations the
Minister observed that:
" Years ago, before the bargain of Con-
federation was carried out, and the Canadian
Padific line was completed to the Pacific
coast, there was, undoubtedly, a feeling of
unrest, I won't say there was tent) of a
desire for annexation, for, with the ex0ep-
tion of the few who dray be found in any
community to favor a policy of that nature,
we wore aleerys attached to British institu-
tions, but whatever .that feeling one was
there is nothing of the kind now. The
railway has given us the outlet we need
anti our future is assured."
OONVIOT AND SOLDI$R.
A Tenderly of et beret,.
There cornea from Vladivostok a story re•
merkahlo for its pathos and tragedy even
151111111g the 'hark tales that make up the re•
cord of Siberian life, At that city, as has
already been mninunced, the ormstrncetion of
tlia traus-Siberian railroad was begun some
months ago. The work 11018 formally mita.
ed upon with imposing formalities at the
Lime of the visit of the (varowitele Foe Wile
purpose a number of convicts were taken
thither,• as laborers, elder a strong military
guard, Among twee convicts urns 0110
white•hairod old man, 0f patriarchal aspect,
He was n 110400
of ICaorok, and load akvlLya
boon a law-abiding subject. Brut on one
amnion the Government surveyors 10000
measuring off a slice of his ground, 10111411
they proposed to seize. Ho protested, and
in Ins oarllest00ea, chanced t0 stop Upon the
eneveyor's chain, me it lay on the ground,
before hint, Now, the surveyor was the re•
presentative of the Czar, and his chain for
the time being represented the Imperial
sooptro. The peasant's m18.010pp, therefore,
was an act not only of gross dieroapeot to
the Little Father, but high Cresson itself.
The culprit was instantly arrested, put in
irons and looked in a cell. On being brought
to trial, however, he succeeded in convinc-
ing his judges that his fault seas accidental
and not intentional, and ncuordingly the
utmost leniency of the tribunal was extend-
ed to him.
He was was not sentenced to death, but was
5011t to toil in a Siberian chain -gang for the
remainder of his life.
Working 011 the railroad at Vladivostok,
thio poor old man one day noticed the
soldier who, with loaded rifle, acted as
guard over him and his companions. T'11e
soldier looked wonderfully familiar to him
and the old man gazed at hint so steadily as
to neglect his workL
and to brio upon him-
self from the overeoee a reprinted and a
threat of the knout. After It time, the week
man edged his way so close to the guard
that he could speak to him, and he asked
11110 who he was and whence he came. The
eoldier, of course, oracle no reply, and dict
not even notice who was addressing him.
The military law absolutely forbids a soldier
10 speak to convict or to notice him in any
way, unless to shoot him if he try to escape.
lint those of hie comrades who stood neer
saw the soldier turn deatlily pale, and then
brace himself ftp with more than orclfnlu'y
rigid 11y. - -
liut the old man persevered. 1leedlesa of
the threats of the overseer, 100 threw down
his tools, lett his worlc, and staggered up to
the guard, who remained silent end nm1ien•
less. Their eyes 'let, the old man's'drean-
ing with tears, the soldier's dry and fixed
as those of the dead.
"Alexis, my son 1 Itis thou ? It is thou?"
oried the hoary -headed convict.
Still military discipline kelt the gnat el as
I silent and motionless as a statue. 1:[is face
t was a picture of mortal torment. 'Then,
despite his efforts to control himself, Ins lips
quivered, his knees trembled. lie swayed
to and fro. Ha grasped his rifl000nvulatvely
and drew hinted} up as if on dress parade,
The next moment his arms fell to his sides, !
his rifle dropped to the ground, and without
a word or even n
loan he fell at his fath-
er's
g
en's feet,apparently a Dor ae
P
The convict threw himself upon his son's 1
body, covering it with kisses and tette ing 1
wild
ones of endearment and of grief, The ;
overseer and the other guards, seeing what
had happened, but not nnderatanhtg it,
rushed to the spot. Theyeupposed that the
old convict had attacked the soldier, perhaps
(tilled hirn. It was their business to suppose
that, anyway. So they raised the butts of
their rifles and in a moment would have
I knocked out the old man's brides. But no
suggested that they should first drag the
convict from the soldier's body, lest some nl'
their blows should fall upon the latter. This
they struggled in vain to do. Though half
a dozen of 1hent tugged at then,, they could
not separate the two bodies, and the odd
111511 never noticed then, even, bat kept on
kissing his unconscious son end uttering his
wild, inarticulate cries.
A cart was then brought, and the two
bodies, inseparably clasped together, were
laid in it and token, under n strong guard,
to the hospital, where the surgeon would.
quickly out off the olcl man's arms end thus
part the two. But when the surgeon saw I
them, the truth dawned upon ]nim. He told
the soldiers, and they, who had been eager
to toss the old man on Cheer bayonets, menet-
ed off with tears flowing clown their cheeks.
Presently the doctors got the old man to
loosen his hold upon the soldier's body, and,
dreadful to relate, he was instantly taken
bank to the railroad and forced, under the
lash, to resume his work, Then they turned
their attention to the soldier. Under their
efforts be soon regained consciousness, but
not reason. He was incurably mad. They
took hint that night to an asylum, The next
morning the old man was marched out to
work again.
' But, my son 1" he cried. " How is my
eon thismorningl? Is he living or dead?"
Then one of the soldiers for the first time
broke military discipline and incurred the
risk of heavy punishment.
" Your son," he said, " lives ; but be is
hopelessly insane."
At the word the old mal stared, burst
into a peal of fearful laughter, and fell for-
ward in convulsions. They carried him
away to the hospita], and from there to the
asylum, whore they put him into the cell
next to kis son's. There were then two
hopeless maniacs in that madhouse.
Aphorisms,
Moral beauty comprehends two dietinot
elements equally beautiful, justice and
clarity.—[Schiller.
Children think not of what is past, nor
What 10 to coma, but enjoy thepresont time,
which few of us do.—[La BruYere.
Cirautnstances alts' cases, -[Thomas C.
Holiburton,
They aro never alone that are accompan.
ied with noble thoughts.—[Sir Philip Sid.
key.
There is a remedy for ever wrong, and a
satisfaction for every soul.—[Lmersou.
Nature melee ns vagabonds, the world
stakes us respectable,—[Alexander Smith,
Tho testimony of a good ooteolouae is the
glory of agood man.—[Thomas a'Kenpie.
Contentment, as 11 is a short load and
pleasant, has groat delight and little trouble,
—[l:pietotus.
He who fears to venture aster as his heart
urges and his reason permits, is a coward,
ho who ventures farther than he intended to
go, is a slave.—[1loine,
1 hold that gentleman to he the boot
dressed whose drew no one observes,—[Trol-
lope.
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sl a 1, F^
Intense Suffering 0t:i J'or 8 43pecer8—,Edo
stored to Perfect .thleath.
F050 11001110 ,.are suffered more severely
front dyspepsia titan \1r. 1.'. A. McMahon, a
well eitovn grocer at Staunton, Va. Iles:us:
1' Berne ,0701 01(0 f u excellent health, weigh-
ing over 200pounds, 111 that 301(0511011100111
developed into mete dyspepsia, end soon E
was reduced 10102 pounds, suffering burning
Bensalem in the stomach,
Palpitation of 1
the bent,
119110ra, and Indigestion.
I vend not sleep, lost all
heart in my work, Aad ills of melancholia, and
for days 111 a time I would have welcomed
death. 1 became morose, sullen and irritable,
sod for eight years life was a burden. 1 tried,
many physicians and many remedies. On oes-
a workman employed by m0 suggested that
I take n Hood's
SI 011115, as
it had Se item e o ctl 9 ured P. his
019
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9i
w o of Y P P
sta. I did so, and before taking the whole of
a mottle I began to fuel like anew mann. Tin
terrible pains to witch I had been subjected,
ceased, the palpitation of the heart subsided,
my atomoolt became easier, nausea disap-
peared, and my entire system began to
1111,051. With returning
sttenath eons nativity 1,0
Yarn
mind and body. Before
the fifth bottle was taken
Iliad regained my former weight and natural
condition. I am today well and I ascribe 1t
to taking Hood's Sarsaparilla."
1S. B. If you decide to take Hood's Sarso-
par1110 00 not be induced to buy any other.
intense
Hood's
S rs5 ariUUa
Sold by ail druggists. $1; nix for 95. Prepared oulr
by o. L 11001) S 00.,Apataocorles, Lurvell, 3nua.
100 Doses One Dollar
A 11'oceri. STATE. —One of Philadelphian
meet ireminert physir•fans, while in Virgin -
I,1 Watelered intro a village cone t•rron sellet•e
a Iriul
was in progress. As ho ^nte'ed, a
dispute which retie 'wingwerrird cm between
the prnapeu11m 11101 defence as to the advis-
ability of admitting a certain lel terns evi•
donee wax ended'y the judge',; desiring
that I he letter be given to him in artier that
Ile might desidc the !latter. \Ven the let•
tor writs h:unied to 1,1,0 he put en his spec-
tacles, turned it first inside out, then upside
douu.the e sidewnva, examining .1 carefully
1 all the Li '' OYhat's the matter with the
I jndvc'1'' asked 1)r. lllatik of a bystander.
- \\'h l doesn't he real the letter 1"
"Pehaw,"said the man, with n world of
°en tempt in his tune, " l,e can't real rread•
n'-readi!', let alone w1'•readi(1' !
•
Mrs, John MoLean writes, f,'rn Barrie
Island, Ont., March 4, 1889, 1Ls follows : " I
have been a great sufferer from neuralgia
for the last nine years, bet, being advised
to try St. Jacobs Oil, can now heartily en-
dorse it as being a most excellent remedy
for thie complaint, as I have been greatly
benefited by its use."
A donne provision for the poor is the true
test of civilization.—[Johnson.
He Waked the Dead.
Gibbon (as he noel ova). —Bah Jove, Ba-
ker, drat follow Chattorly is simply wonder.
£til. How clwamatio the way he tells his
funny stowios 1
Oarper.—Vey dramacio; but then, you
know, be gate them all from theatre pro.
grommet—Muck,
66
u fust
For two years I suffered terribly
with stomach trouble, and was for
all that time under treatment by a
physician. He finally, after trying
everything, said stomach was about
worn out, and that I would have to
cease eating solid food for a time at
least. I was so weak that I could
not work. Finally on the recom-
mendation of a friend who had used
A your preparations
A worn-out 'with beneficial re-
sults, I procured a
Stomach. bottle of August
Flower, and com-
menced using it. It seemed to do
me good at once. I gained in
strength and flesh rapidly; my ap-
petite became good, and I suffered
no bad effects from what I ate. I
feel now like a new man, and con-
sider that August Flower has en-
tirely cured me of Dyspepsia in its
worst form. JAM=S U. D=D$RICx,
Saugerties, New York.
W. B. Utsey, St. George's, S. C.,
writes: I have used your August
"lower for Dyspepsia and find it an
excellent remedy. •
Religious Training.
" More and more there is growing a dispo•
sition among parents to permit all matters
of religious ohservo,nce to be with their off-
spring mere 'netters of choice or preference.
; Your child mist learn French and German
' and drawing ; butt he shall learn his cate-
chism and ,hes Bible lesson and a reverent
observance of this holy clay if ho chooses,
and not otherwise. A more diomol and
irrational folly it is not easy to conceive of 1
I do not say that there may not have been
folly in another and opposite direction'. I
an not unmindful that religions teaching
has been sotnetimos made a dreary and
intolerable harden. But, surely, we can
correct one excess (not, I apprehend, very
1 frequent or very harnfnl) without straight-
way flying to an opposite and worse one.
And so 1 plead with you who are parents to
train your children to ways of reverent
familiarity with God's word, (nod's house
and Goth's day. Lot them underotancl that
something higher than your taste oe pre.
feronco airtime these things sacred and
biullieg, and constrains you to imbue them
i with your spirit. And that they may do
this the more effectually, give them, I en.
Croat you, that mightiest teaching, which
consists in year owe consistent and devout
example."—Bishop Potter,
s ; eteeSel at ';'drC111° ufrt`i',;
THIRTY YEARS. •
Johnston, N. 13., March rr, 1889.
"I was troubled for thirty years with
pains in my side, which increased and
became very bad. I used
ST. JACOB XL
and it completely cured. I give it all praise."
MRS. WM, RYDER.
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