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Home My WebLink AboutThe Brussels Post, 1892-1-29, Page 3tfAN 29, 1892, THE BRUSSELS POST. AN OCEAN MONSTER, Struggle r»r LI re with a DecieBea Lobster _- R(valdng tee Oelopes, Sea McIlste10 and their doings are nnca sionally Niven mention 10 newspaper itmet- graphs, and meat of such ac0ouute urs vo110h0(1 for by this or that Bolen Lille ratan, When Vieir Hugo wrote in The Toiled( of the Sea" about the frightful monger which °leaped lie clammy urine a101nb1 Lite diver ovary 0118 thought, that the thing wee u, more fabrication. But it was not, The monster described wee almost iden Geed with the octopus, or giant, squid, So, too, )nee relate how, living to the deep and silent eaves of the sea, is a huge loboto', resembling the smaller fish In SIL')10l8 re, but being very venturous. It fa start Gust be seldom cones near the shore, if over, but that 0nlortnouB lobster 018110 are sometimes thrown up on land after a violent storm, Northern fishermen have heard of aho nu>n- tter, and I have seen thorn 81)iv8(1 111 the middies of their fishing smacks as 801110 ono desoribed the size and appearance of rho fish. ITow far the general impresolot is 000(1001 1 do not know, says a writer but let me relate eatery told to no by a diver: " When the Auglo Saxon, a ship laden with wetly 111'lrellaldiee, eau into Chance Cove, 011 the Newfoundland coast, and sunk by striking a reef, the government at once took stops to have all that the unlucky ship contained removed. There were Over a hundred persons on board, but not so )ouch as one, it my memory selves rile, escaped. When the ship was lifted by a heavy swell upon the sharp lodge olio ' hung' there, a0 sailers say, but with the rise of the tido she was lifted o(1' the ledge and weut down, head first, into the deep water lying inside. There was a passage from outside leading to this deep water, so that limbos or 000 beards might go in or out in quest of prey, '21' 're Wa0 110 Dench Or strand, but Upright, 110' od cliffs in the form of n 0enli-cirele rose around to a height of about 11o1) fret. Ole- ir' back a little on the tett Wag ca light- house, ON Tuns no'rTuoI. " As soot as posoible divers were brought to the spot, but it wins dillicnit to find it smooth enough to (;o down. 'Plot fleet day we got below we could do little but ley out our phut of operations, The (hip Was o11 has side. Tho stumps of the merge turned toward land. .1 had Dover gone down before in wham? so far north, and Lhe plume was so wild that r, was 11111 1. Litres were at- tached to our bodies and the 011415 fastened to the drill above, 8o that if any diver pill- ed a line he was at 111(00 drawn to the sur- face. 1Ie walked about the bottom and under the 811(1) with our feet weighed to keep us from rising. " 1' water vide a pale green, and I could notice objects quite plainly for ninny yards distad. There was a huge break in the bottom of the ship, her stem was stove in, so leas her stern. Already the fishes had dIseovvored that there was feasting in. side, for as 1 was n bou t to enter by the hole in the bow a number of Spanish mackerel, cod, seulpins, and dogfish begun to flounder about inside, 1 moved back, for I did not know but these alight be a shark there. " There were, as you know, over a hun- dred bodies in the ship, so I was anxious that they should be saved from the dese- cration of these fishes. Worst of all to get among the bodies of the drowned are Span- ish mackerel and cod. I bed charge, so we all went to the top and made arraagemsnts for gutting the dead. I 811811 not give you the details, but after extremely hard work two days saw our ghastly task completed. 010)10(x0 THE am0s1at. " Then carte the raising of the costly merchandise. It was mostly eilke and cash - stere shawls. One afternoon while my two met remained above repairing their diving apparatus I went down alone, \Ve wore now removing the bales trent the after compartment of the slip, and had only one Way Granter or leave this compartment. 0(1010ly, by the the break in the stern. The method of raising the goods wee to lower down heavy hooks which could be fastener' into the bales after they wero pushed out- side. Some of the bales or cases would float and some would rest lightly on the bottom. I had selected a large ease which I was about to move, when, happening to turn my ey08, I saw outside a huge creature moving toward the vessel. I had never seen anything like it before. Its body iotas four to five feet high and about twice that length, and it had on mash side an enormous arm. There seemed to bo an unlimited number of legs attached to the hideous creature. Its color was a dun brown mote tled over with dark spots. Two round, blank shining oyes wero in fie forehead, and two supple horns each resembling an enor- mous whip likewise came out of its head. All this I noticed with one glance. A numb terror seized /no, and I moved for the out- let from the 8111p. " 13u) as if knowing what I intended, this brute, looking straight atine With 1tsfrig htful eyes, walked, or rather crawled, directly to- ward me. I hurried in the hope of being cable to seize the hanging hook, now my only means of 'signaling tlhe'skiff • but it hur- ried, too, and I had barely put my fent upon a gray rock outside 5711011 the two writhing horns of tie detestable creature wore twin- ing about ole and again untwining. Then he would touch. me with these and sweep then up and down, as if feeling what, des- cription of 1 rey 1 Was. The round, fright- 1oloyes seamed to burn through and through me. In my baud I hold the ct'owbar which I used to loosen the ()ergo ; in my belt 1car- ried a heavy sheath knife, Those were 111y only weapons. " His head was only about a foo distant from my body, and drawing hny knife agtin 1 plunged 11into the eye nearest me, turn- ing the blade round and round. 1 saw Shat I ihad destroyed the eye, for an inky fluid issued out of the sockoe, darkening the Wator eheut 1115 head. This merited the aggr)08ivenovennui tsof rho thing, bratdid not seen) ' 0 hurt it. 1 waited, waited for many seconds, T think, and then its head turned, Bo, .T. Supposed, that he :night b0 enabled to see his prey, This 8005 101)01 I wanted, and with a sire, swift, thrust I sent my knife in- to his other Dye, down to the heft, This time it most, have tnuche1the brain, kir tho beast rooted and the grip 08 my an11 slight- ly relaxed. dint though tntaily blind, my captor had Do idea of releasing me. l'lto agony of my arm soon grow unbear- able and the eaters around 111e scented to be filling with greenish smoke. A sterol° sword bagon to hu'n't, in my ears, and my paha seemed 1,0 disappear. 1 thought, too, that I sate other figures moving Motet tato ship, then the light went out of my eyes, and I remheeed nothing more, " When I recovered my senses I was in the skiff, and loathed how thediv1t•s, alarm- ed at my long silence below, had 001110 tlowtt They Saw cry plight, rani after a Limo sue (fowled in severingd, the arm 'from the body of the fish, which they bots cloolaro tl W0 the awful deep-sea lobster," • " Flow astonishing that your parent can een0lnher ' each lbtig words." " 1(10) at all. It as quite natural for a parrot to nose pollysyllables,r, Latest F° ram Europe- - England's Noble Dead—Prince 01(00;0 awl T1'1n0081 May—The Russia -1 Famine. Since the day, twenty year( ago, when the Prince of \Vales was believed to be dying no event has so completely monopolized publl0 attention as this tragic finch of the Duke of Obtrrneo's short carom:, Of 000080, the Feet of the young Prince's resent betrothal had invested 1)1.1 with new and rnman1io 11tereet all over the throe Itingdouls. P00!1 ))'Itllout tide, his WAS 000 of the throe visible lives set apart inside that inclosed: surrounding the English throne, in 10111011 are gathered all the nerve centres of the British monarchy. When bate lays a violent hand on this delicate mechan- ism every (rtery of the empire tingles, and Bombay, limmkong, Melbourne, Natal, and Toronto touch London with acute r0spul)- s1Ve1nees. A project of marrying Prince George to the bereaved young Princess May has al- ready been mooted in the press. He is two years her senior, and they have been play- metes laymetes and friends from childhood. Natur- ally however, no ono knows their views on this subject. That he should marry some- body without delay is everywhere recognized as State necessity of the first magnitude. The weekly papers all allude to it, giving more or loss explicit recegnicion to the fact that the accession of the Duke of f'ife's wife or 01111(1 would bo fatal to monarchy. Accounts from 11us0fa do not improve. Count Tolstoi has stirred up his English friends to do something. A fresh subscrip• then has boon started here, though under no very distinguished 0n0piees. The truth is that England sympathies with Russian suffering are chilled by the suffering which ]cassia suffering deliberately inflicts on one great body of her subjects. \Vhilo the pet- roe:Mien of the Jolvs lasts, itis thought that relief should go pr1ma'ily to tha;persecuted, not to the persecutors. FIGS AND THISTLES. God is not hard to please when We set about doing it in earnest, \Vo got negtainted with 000001000 by knowing other people. The moment Lho soul fully trusts God it stops looking at self. Love is always rich, because it can ahvays hope for something better. Tho arose is always a guidoboard that poets straight toward heaven, Refusing to confess and forsake known sins in as bad as recommitting them. Love always looks on the bright side, and always finds a bright side to loots on. Tho devil very often knocks a revival on the head with one of the Lord's hammers. The braver a soldier is the more import- ant at is that lie should learn to obey orders. The higher the standard of piety is raiser. the hotter will be the devil's fire against it. "Be of good courage, and He shell strengthen your, heart all yo that hope m the Lord." "Evil then understand not judgment; but they that seek the Lord understand alt Gringo." Only three rich men are referred to as such in the New Testament, and two of them were lost. The ,Jai who knows that ins 1100180 lo built on the sand always trembles when he hoar( it thunder, No man makes much headway in follow- ing Christ who knows nothing about Llim except by hearsay. Before we can know much of ourselves we have to become well aequtinted with Many other people. The right kind of religion is love with its coat oft, doing its best to help somebody, Have you got it? The devil puts in a good deal of his time trying to troop God's children from finding Out they aro rich.—#1ant's Horn. The Fre noh Detective. Every good detective has to some extent itis own way of workiug, which is varied, of course, according to the cireumstanees. We may say, however, that as a rule the Paris. ion agent has a freer hand, and works in a somewhat bolder, more self-reliant manner th0d his English colleague. This follows from his isolation; he is less helped by infor- mation received, and too badly paid to buy it; so he is forced to acquire it by his own exertions. 11 favorite methodis to assume the die• guise of a workingman or hawker. Aud hero It may be said tint the use of an elaberato (110ke.np exists now only in books. Every zealous baud has 1115 own little wardrobe, and the simpler the hotter; the most enc. teal dl0gtliees acro those which beet (080inlil• ate rho wearer to common life. Tho Pari- sian Las two in particular—the blouse and the workman's apron. "Shadowing" is always clone by two men, 0120 some little way behind the other, Bach carries a change of dress, to wit a blouse worn sash -wise round the waist and a easquet180 carried in- side the shirt, The moment tate fleet plan fancies himself porueivod, 110 gives place to the second, and, dropping behind, slips 18110 blouse over his jaokotand exchanges hie felt hat for the 00.8gmette,'Tlnls'metamorphosed he resumes his place. Arsenio in Applos. The use of 13010e1000 insootio1des by American frruib'-growors is sttuted to be on the inalea50, and the Horlicullural Tinges complains that ammo has boot discovered in 0pple0 from the other side of the Mew. tic. Our gardening contemporary, there- fore, thanks it right to " Wal'(1 1110 ptib)J0 against the use of Amoricat apples during the present festive Beason, and et the same time (nether to ettsto that they can oat the hinglish apple freely and without fear," The lastsontonco in this quotaton Booms to shoe that its writer has been animated more by a tender regard for the pocket of the home fruit growor than for the 8Lomct011 of tine .11)1(1 ) fruit -calor. But at tie same Gm 11 is quite right to protest against the use of (1180,tieated insecticides, the more 00 since at is by no means neocesary to employ t110 p010011 in gonstiolt for such a propose. '.There i0 not, howevert tie (momcause for complaint as regards the sulphate of copper area1.0108 , against width our contemporary has also a word to say, Must Watoil the 'Weather. In a New York restagrar18. Customer (to waiter)—Moro, this oheek's wrong. Waiter —What's the matter with it? " Why, I have had bacon and oggs and you ohargo mo sOveltyhvo cents, ivltotn tato hill of Faro says 1'wonty-fivo cents," "You are quite right, sir, but you had bwo glasses of .Water rat twenty-five omits .gaols. If you Want water at it lower roto cane around immediately after a rain- storm," OLD LIGHTNING J11xRY. "slay, 1(1)11 Llghtning.1crry; Put la typo• m,ua:hi'eal tourist mei 1 ,'not U, throw Ill a • "r 111,13 1)3 t row W.I. 1,s i u order to get isawlhos to oat. 7 im 0,.01, t (' editor 0.0)11• 1.1,,,1 010 (0(1/heed, "A 111Mltet 11111)1tde Wonted," in f1 profound anti de on "Phe 1'ru0perii y of )10(1 Towle," and looked up at to Indhl 110011 lvhn bud iuvaclod. his see otutn. The visitor, who very ln0011 resembled 1,110 venerable chap who pored for the pintnre on the St, Jacob '0 ollloholal condoned; "I (5111 not one of I he00nunnu prints' who wan- der tin and down the (0unt',y, but; have worked in every elate mid t0rri1ory in the Union riming my ferry years' experience and pilgrimage. lie also volunteered the information that he could bo "holding 80508" on one of the leading morning papers of 1 b0 country, wero It not that the electric light went intuit on his ryes;" and added that he "never drank anything." The editor seem. od to be a little skeptical on the latter point; at leant 11e 001,1: "Well, Lightning, We ere a lit tie rushed now (the country eelitor sI. Ways says "we"), and can vivo you a job for a month, -or until yet get drunk. (10 to the restaurant around the wrier and get it squmro ureal, and when you come back we will give you something to do." Thus was an engagement made that lasted nearly six weeps, Old Lightning Wee verily a jewel. He couldn't put up las much typo, porhaps,as he could have dole thirty ;oars ago, but ilesot )t 010011 proof end spaced enperbly. IIo would quarrel with the copy, of 001(000, and that frisky contrfbotcr, " Horny-II1lnded (i ranger," who advocated mange'.wnmet sas food for stock, was his )let aversion. " The idea, he sad, "of this old creek, who doesn't ltuow how to plant potatoes, except in the columns of a newspaper, wanting to make stools food of roots, just becaueo tliey have got e, name that is on hinges I \Iangol- wurzols, indeed ! They don't contain any ' oil and wino ' aid wonidn') put flesh on anything." Corn, wheat and other grain are the only proper food for animals, He was 11150 a little severe on norrespomleot' who underscored every third or fourth word put " howling points " at the end of every lino and made " Moak -lines " in the middle 01 seot'nces. " \Vhy is it," ho would petu- lantly inquire, "that folks who haven't settee enough to ride in a covered wagon imagine that they cam write something worth readine for a newspaper l" Ile had n. rich fued of reminiscence and spoke as tem i 1)11(1y of Horace Cl reelely, James tlordon Bonnett—"not the follow,' he al- ways explained, " who owns the yacht "— and other great newspopor men of the old school, as if they had been old chums of his. His admiration for "Ohl M:fatti° Van.Buren" was intense while he regarded John Van Buren as " m ' chip elf the old bleak,' al- though a little wild," liisstock of anecdotes in regard to country newspapers was large and varied and would hove made him wealthy, if it had only bean hay, whioh could be sold at three dollars per ton. He said : " The toughest lay -out I ever struck was down in Arkansas, in 137. Thodisplay type was kept in smoking tobacco sacks, which were hong on nails around the room." He pronounced the editor of that paper the " boat short -hand speller and long -handled writer" he ever mot—" except yon," ho added, to order to keep down any feel- ing of jealousy that might arise in the bosom of the editor addressed. Hoalsovisit- ed " the °Nice out West where they need a billy -goat for a press,"and explained elabor- ately holy an 1mare0sion was taken. The form was planed against the well, a sheet of paper was put: on it and by a certain Monkeying of fingers by the devil," the ggoat was induced to strike it with his 1100(1. This u,at rally set the " press" hook on his hannelles and gave the press -man a chance to remove the printed copy and put on an- other shoot. ' They used an old goat for the paper and sale bills and rt kid for visit- ing wards," he explained, " and they were the ohoapost presses I oversaw, too, and it didn't coat anything to keep them, for they kept fat on old exchanges and empty int. cans." Many tramp mentors claim to have seen this printing ont(it and, no doubt, it existed. The old man was a sincere devotee of the "art preservative," and always pieced the business at the head. He expressed groat contempt for "blacksmiths" who got out some of the exchanges, and spoke of the good old days, when the "cub put in two years in washing and oaring for rollers." A young man, who wee cashier of a bank, had a natural fondness for the printer's trade, and possessed very excellent taste. He used to 00111e into the offioe and set up jobs, merely for practice and amusement. Lightning at first resented this, bub when he saw the class of work ho could do, he formed quite a lilting for him. One day ho broke tho young man all up, by remarking, with groat earnestness: " Soo hero, young fellow; you aro silly for feeling away your time iu a bolt ; you would make a good printer." Brat the time finally caro when tho en- gagement mentioned in the beginning of this article, terminated. Lightning had often spoken of his stay in a printing office at Talequah, and intimated that ho had "learned to talk Indian equal to the great- est bunk in the nation," but he had always boon disoeure,ged when ho sought to give a samplo of tine ecgnirement, One morning Ile failed toshow tip at the office, but cemo in at eleven o'clook, and. to use his own expression, " intuited a yawl)" that world have den0 orerllt, to an tmtanled Comanche red -skin. He then commenced a haraugno in Choctaw, or solne other choice brand of too lndiau tongue, and at last said: " My time is Ont: let's setl.le,up, for I want to to go to 81, Joe and grow up with the ratan. try. When does the next train go South ?" 110 had boon talking of baying some winter cloti1111g with his ea1.1nings, as cold weather was al hand, and the editor suggested, as ha paid him, that he do this, He replied, ".('70 gobs now pair of socks, and here as a good overcoat,"' With this remark, he ant a shoot of hoovy paper, and said, as le placed such "overcoat 1101101 his vest: ' Thie will koop out the cold and prevent a fellow from 10ltin i1,lhanlnlatun of the stnmaoh or bowels.' Ho then took his money and went to aaskant whore he talked Indian and set up 1110 drinks until long after the teeth for St. Joo had passed, lie then went to the depot and asked which way the next train train would go. When told duet the next; train would ire the nnrul'•bonud 1(1051 t, he said: "All right, I'm a Northern man, and will go on it. have the caboose to draw up to the platform, and telegraph the porter to lnringgnrle it footstool," He left on th15 trent, and dnu'ing 1110 half -score of years that have passed since theta, nothing )ao been heard of his wanderings. Poor old Lightning Jerry I Ito possoase11 501011ti00 of.merd, WJnioly if rightly direct- ed, might have entranced a nation. During Isis life and. ,wandoriugs 110 had gathered pearls of thopght that would have deep: rated rho most beautiful 01011110008 of language,1811 yet were ruthlessly thrown in tho nitro, or used to 000nmp1is31 ignoble 00110.. IIo 1)0(1 a good ,education, and a na1ttr5l thirst for information, w111011 ho 0oaght to quench, in hie better mn'nents, I 00WI3OY JAOK'S ADVEN'T'URE. by drinking deeply from the teem ain5 illi _ history, literature, 001000.0 111111 art„ hilt hie durlt Ia„ Ie, tl anvba nailin • from lhary ambition seemed to era 1111 uo higher then i y Y 6 the (x10tenee whioh had been 4,1>!''te.l field COnnty, 1 08 ill the city recently and herein, ills familiarity Willi iulporlailtlht a e,n1)'„J'i,)inu 8111d : " WUB 1" rho 0700ts, 110(1(111 facto,, el u, shone brtlliently roend•up ev.•r in th" Whit" i'17(1' m'Int'y, when ho .1.0 to talk in extended strait, and while dawn In the southern purlf011, a' but was nehoften exemplified in reu5rlt0 00"r Lha lino j"iniug CJLuh, 1 learned &,1110' called out b eire.n'rtaures In the Int ter thin g+about the manner 111 which the lnrli111(8 Y 1 011180 mull] Ind daring his wondering%, was telt] that a band of bucks came into The world lucks, au 0n0h 00000 a0 hie, for that portion of the enmity with over 2U0 a life history—an onfor•Llulat" love affair In p08108, 01111 11,11,08 1hev loft they had 017ery y01.1 tit, 110 0 cherished mnbitfott, killed by animal packed with hides. At tide rete, it ame tllabllrly frosts of disappointment, 11 any in i16hu part c 1. a1 I1 1)) tnter111A wholel.Iilot of 01011 al0ud8 ever Mittal exam hie life her never mentioned the fact. He wan peel,- talk has eau made about W11180 then lulling ably only a member of the large army of doer for their hides, but they have been (tel at Ove'shnded an articular purpose t1'eredloin wer"lrep.an their reservations he might at one Lime have had. D'e deitht, we would not heal' Bo much about the need- less had a sernarn0, but he chose to 1>e less Slaughter of game by ' tide limners,' known 08 " 111,1 Li htnin'," or " Li ht• That pnrtioo of the State is still well stock- 1,35Jerry." Two og nets seemed 10 elthgiist ed with game, anal saw several largo bands his ,ltectlolato attohtien. Ono woe his of elir turd deer. Inn hetet], which had barn " 811017, E. \\ hile riding over the country, 1 lied a ing, for at least twentywnntere, and rho very strange experience, 111111 It might he other weed battered leter, which he oar- termed a tlutll1eg adventure." Party one rind in ion inner pocket, and 00.0011111 rat morning,I was riding up a email gulch, and frequent intervals. The letter, he 0)11(1, on nearing the head, noticed a buueh of elk. W,10 from a little niece, whom he spoils of While watching then, I noticed that they " going to see, when be got in hotter shape. Whether or not Ude time ever came, is not known. If he still lives, may the Winter of life, whioh i0 now far advaneod with him, feud him butter prepared for his last great journey than he was for the trip which he took on the " north -hound freight," o1 that Winter's clay years ego.—[C. N. Van Pelt, in Arkausaw Traveler. ease ho ahnoH1, i)100(1ably need 1130 00rn11' are tilling game. ,,)n' inst.tnee, lust fall I men who formed a disposition for rooming, I'htmom for 171(01 the India" have done. !f Re Wanted His Half of a Rooster. There were two "darkeys" on the train who furnished a great deal of amusement during the fortyn1110 ride. Ono woe attir- ed in a light derby, a pear of checked thous• ors—seven or eight squares to the trouser — a red neckerchief and about a thirty-two carat diamond ring. IIe also wore a light nveruout. His companion was a short, co- lored curiosity, with a bad eye and a game rooster concealed beneath the Prance Albert met which he wore and which had been de- throned some year's ago. A white bow -tie and a sills tile dragged from the moth-ealeh past helped him out in the way of dress, The pair had evidently thrown rap a•cent to see who would carry the rooster, and the man with the bad eye had won, Tho checked trousers hatched him, how - over, in a manner thltt indicated that he raid not place impliei t confidence in the wearer of the bed eye. There was a dark mystery somewhere, which the passengers die 110t nn,lorSt,tllrl. The darkey with the bad eye hugged the rooster close as of it were a bag of gold. The bird squawked and marten desperate effort to 0000. A0plook of angor and hatred overspread the countenance of the face resting on the red neckerchief. " See heah, Johnsing," he whispered, making the man four seats back start from a sound sleep. " Don' yo' been dat bund. You'n sgoeezhu' his brofl," " Jos' keep cool, Clardy. I yain't hn'tfn' 'int," replied the elan embellished with the bad eye, " Cloudy" didn't seem to be sure about it. " Gimme dot fowl," he commanded, " Johnsing" braced' his feet against the seat ahead, clasped his not -brown hands about the subject in discussion and whisper- ed : " Nevah ! Ho's my pleat ez much ez youan's." " Leoka heah, Johnsing, " 1 don't desiab to smite y0tu0t fedi all youah head, but 1 wants dal rooatath." " Johnsing" only brewed harder and pees - sod hie hands deeper into the foliage of the raveled fowl. "Kan't be did," said the bad c 1 i tent land kept y0, a e ha clinched his 11. Clandy op silence for few moments. He seethed, boil- orl and seethed again in spirit and tapped his thrly-nine and a half carat nervously. The game bird managed to gain enough breath to emit another decided squawk, " Johnsing ?" ''Iso heah" ''Delivah de fowl." "Guess no." "Yon'se 'sassinetin' dab poor roost0(1. I'll hey' yo' policed, Yo' fingehs am chokik' his throat. Johnsing. I demon' my half of dat budh," Cloudy, of yo' don' remain quiet and etr'ordinarykeerfulI'll hey' y'ou' rested fo followin' me eboand die ycr train and tryin to rob me of my rightful goods." Cloudy seemed stunned. "I'll cry out," added Jnhnsiug. " Lemma hold de laigs, don," says Cleanly, Bat the reque8ted limbs slid not seem to' be forthcoming. " (Simile my half." ' Which am yo' half?" " De half ob dal ruostah," "Go sway, coon," "Ill go When I get% my section," " Who yanked hint frons de crate?" ." Who 01001 de knee and watched?" " Who made iron's wird do dalvg?" "It duan make no ditlunso, Johnsing. I'm gain' to gov yer up, to de p'lioe at de nett'staehnn." Johnsing almost turned pale. " Do I gits my hell ?" tritunp[hantly quer- ied Claudy, seeing that he had made a tell- ing stroke. Yop,' replied ,Tohnsing, "yo' kin have do had, feet and de fodders," "Den 1 gives yo' up to de °Mehils," Olaudy waited with feverish anxiety until the nest elation was reached, ever and 00011 peering at Jnh110ltlg to see hire Weaken and orawl, but J°hoeing remained calm and con. - posed. The train stopped. Grandy bolted for the door and started to find the policeman. When ho rot Wood, Miler a short ail unsnceosstul search the seat 10)15 vacant. Johnsing and tho fowl had gone. A. Useful Accomplishment. Irathev—J"lunny, there's a button off your coat. Gm 1111sta11'0 told 500 It ell, Little Johnny (in surprise) --nether will sot( it 011, lsathor—I know she will, but I wart you to learn to saw on buttons yourself. Johnny (lamazod)—Why? Father (solonlnly) tions clay, Johnny, when, you glow up you won't have any mother—nothing but a wife. McBride—Yes, love." assistanoo Lm recovering some money which . Not Sure.that poor Woman, (Neater, ought to have " Why, papa casys he saw you with a mhbra11.011.e. teueer, thy deer men ; heavy load en, and yen never lot toe help' P°4111118,t)ic°'0.nothing to do with it, you with it."" Aro you ttomminted with the meal"ruliwYntL the races one day 'and 'gave a Wife (after honso.,clettning)—it takes ' Mr. MoveoftL-Well, my dear, how doyenblind manatanaing.at the geto a quarter for woman to bring order. out of eltaoa. Hug- find the neighbors hero—sociable? Mee,Omsk. Lost ovory cent I had, when lifted (miffing wildly around after his Moog. ,Moyeoft—Vory. Three or four of them have " You aay you think that the man who Cashly -.Theta DOW that Than why didn't you lot nue help you hilt] been stole, front him. I have IIBi,ALTI, Try oi'mlberries for malaria. 'l'ry n SDul,0.111 for Theron atiero, `J't•y ginger' ale ler st0m0)11 cramps. Try alum broth fora weak stomach. Try a wet towel to the back of the neck when aleei>lsso. Try swallowingsalivaw'hen troubled with sour l ala s.n 011. 'Pry buttermilk ler removal of frockles, tan and butted: ut stains. 7'ry to nultivete an equal temper, and don't borrow 1051(1,10 ahead, Try muffling powdered borax up the nos• trill for catarrhal rndd in the heed. Try a hot di'y flannel over the seat of neaurelgic pain, and renew it frequently. Try an extra pair of stockings outside of your shoos When traveling in told went - her, Try walking with your 1)011 is behind you if you kind yourself boo.nniug bent for- wa•rl. Try a cloth wrong Ont from cold water 0 pot about the uouk at night for the Dore threat. Try a silk handerohief over your face when obliged to go aga111Bt a cold, piercing wind, Pry planting sunflowers in yoUr garden acted )()(reel( • as if they epprohended Elan- if you are compelled to live in a malarial ger. 1 had 1 he wind in my favor, so 1 knew neighborhood. 1 was not dile cause of their uneasin5ss. Try a newspaper over the chest, beneath toter coat, as a chest protector in extremely coli weather. A French doctor claims to be able to cure obesity by the principal means of malting tate patient partake of only one dish at a meat q'he result is said to be astonishing, Sepposing a general feeling of lassitude prevails all over the body, 0. warm bath, to which has been added two or three table- spoonfuls of liquid 0mmnn10, will be found to have a perfectly wonderful elle: t cau0ing the skin to regain its tone, tool the air of weariness to completely (isappear. Hot milk is reconlmendod by a medical journal as an excellent substitute for beer, whisky or other alcoholic stimulants, in eases of groat fatigee and over-exertion of bodyor hind, its reviving influence when aken as hot 100 it c..)1 be sipped is remarkable. Its effect i0 promptly felt and lasting, and even those who have been accustomed to the use of alco- holic beverages will find this substitute remarkably satisfying. This is especially (0110 of Overworked women, for whom phy- sicians sometimes prescribe (Jeer and other. mind stimulants. The momentary exhilara- tion felt is only elle whip applied to an ex. hausted body while rho hot milk is digested and gives nourishment and real strength, 1'hey kept circling rood and round, and round, and every now and again u bull would give t118 note of alarm, Determine,' to fend out the moist:, I threw my lariat on Lho ground, dismounted and started, in a circuitous route, toward the elft. After walking for about a quarter of an hour, I suddenly came upon a large silver tip bear. It was only about fifty feet from me, and the first glimpse ho got of my nolle frame, he Mond upon his haunches and 50.70 vett 10 his feebngs by uttering a terrildo mar. This was the enemy that was searing the clic. It did not take long to scrutinize me, but after rho first roar it delibet•tttely made up its mind to make a square meal of mycm, 0108, and started directly for me. At the same time I started for hey pony. After the first 2.00 yards were covered, 1 learned, to my d15comfoet, that the race had turned out to he ono for life, as old Bruin 1000 gain- ing on m0. The thought flashed aeries my mind, if the pony sees the bear before 1 0001811 him, my chalices for escape aro slim. The race was down the side of a hill, core fallen timber anti, 011100511 I en) ht fair ren• nor, I was no match for the ugly brute that woo at my heels. At last I gut nut in the Glome, and twenty -live feet from me stood the pony, quietly gearing. I Marie a final spurt, and so did old silver tip. When five feet from the pony, who by this tine was becoming rostive,as he had spied the bear, 1 jumped for the suddle,aud setwettedingrasp• ing the horn. Ina second I wee in thseat picked the lariat up, and the bronco started on the dead ran. When I struck the sad- dle, the boar was only ten feet from ale. 1 never want to enter into such a race again." —(Great Divide. Mud. There is nothing to make one realize the importance of mud, indeed, like a journey up Nilo when the inrnduatiou as just over. Pon 1011111)8 on the deck of your dahabieh and drink in geography almost without knowing it. The voyage forms a porfeot introduction to tho.stndy of mudology, and suggests to the observant mind(me0ning you and me) the real nature of mud as nothing else on earth that I know of can suggest it. For in Egypt yon get your phenomenon isolated, as it were, from all disturbing elo- monts. You have no rainfall to bother you, nn local streams, no complex denudation ; the Nile does it all, and the Nile does every- thing. On either hand stretches away the bare desert, rising up in gray, rooky hills, Down tine midst runs the ono long lino of alluvial soil—in other words, Nilo nnul— whieh (dote allows 0011100181011 and life in that rainless distriott The country bases itself absolutely on mad, The crops are raised on it, the houses end villages are built of it, the land is manured with it, the very air is fell of it. The crude brick buildings that dissolve in dust are Nile mud solidified, the trod pottery of Assiont is Nile mud baked hard, the village mos - goes and minarets are Nile mud whitewash- ed. I have even seen a ship's bulwarks neatly repaired with mud, It pervades the whole land, when wet, as mud undisguised; When dry, as dust storm. Egypt, says laerodotus, is a gift of the Me. A truer or more pregnant word 1i•aa 2207er spoken. Of course, it 1s just equally true, in a way, that Bengal is it gift of the Gangesand. that Louisiana an Arltansee aro a gift of the Mississippi ; but with this ditfereime, that in the case of the Nile the dependence is far more obvious, for freer from disturbing or distraotiug details. For that reason, and also because the Ntle is so much more familiar to most English. speaking folk than the Amori tan rivers, I choose Egypt, first as my type of a regnler mu(1lantl. Bait in.order to understand it fully you mustn't stop all your time in Cairo and the 1.mita ; you mustn't view it only from the terrace of Shopheorrl's Hotel or the rocky platform of the Great Pyramid at Gizeh ; you must push up country early, under Mr Cook's care, to j uxor and the First Catar- act. It to Uri 00)11110y that • Egypt unrolls itself visibly before 7011r eyes In the, very process of malting ; it is there that the fail importance of good, rich, black mud first forces itself upon you of undeniable ovi- deuce, ' Not The Same Party, The Rev. Whangdoetllo Baxter las the Besides Beira a Good Place to Talk. most flourishing iin.,day-sohool in Austin. g 1[u )lsko,1011001 11181)111)1 Is: Belle—I notice that you always attend "\Vi,o is dat ar nlysterietl0 hdn' from the weekly meetings of the WonensLiterary whom 1111lhu' non hid, 10110 seas tool knows, Club ebet'y thug what happens? 1 axed yer dot 50081810 'oat Sunday, and I new wants de [meteor, I knows hit. My fodder tole aro do right analv01',"said one boy, \yell, don, who door yet. fodder Say am del mysterious heiu' who knows all things what 0app0na1 " "Do foe Mail ob de gran' jury." Destroying the Nerve in Decayed Teeth. After cleansing and drying the cavity with penes of cotton -wool wound round the end of a eroohet needle, or the eye end of a darning -needle or any thing which has some kind of a notch at the end to hold the cotton fast, then take another pellet of wool, about large enough to half fill the cavity, saturate it with carbolic acid, place 11 in the tooth, and cork it with a small piece of the white or pink gutta- percha, softened in warm water, which is sold by druggists for the purpose of plug- ging decayed teeth, Iu o foo 11000s all the nerve matter that the acid can get at will he destroyed. In some persona the gnawing pain caused by the process is very consider- blo, and it can be mitigated by applying a mixture of tincture of aconite and ohloro-. form, procurable from a chemist of the right strength and proportions, to the tootle and gums adjacent. This treatment will de- stroy the nerves, and in most oases quite painlessly. But it will uotarrest the caries, and in less than a week the heat and dis- tress in the tooth will compel removal of the stopping to relieve tenafon. The best way by far, as the brittle nature of the teeth in this case precludes ordinary stopping, is to ask a dentist to out away the carious dentine and insert a gutta-percha plug of the kind described, which, in favorable cavities will last for a year ; and,when the gutta-percha gets worn or dislodged by mastication, it is an easy =attar to have it renewed, or even renew it oneself, after the caries has been °neo removed by a dentist, and the piatient las had the experience of one professional stopping. Nose Bleeding. A mild attack of nose bleeding is bene- ficial; and clears the system as wduld an attaolt of illness. In the old or full blooded such an occurrence may stave off an attack of apoplexy. Is mno1) blood is lost, ao if the attacks are frequent, great prostratlou will follow, rand in some few eases even death has resulted. Slight attacks Boon. stop of themselves, the escaping blood form- ing a clot over rho bleeding part. It fs al- ways wi5o not to blow the nose or pick it for a clay or two after an ettaclz,'or another ono nay coma on. A person suffering from nose blending should rest and lean forward so that the blood lrhieh escapes may rung out of the nostril in front, tor if the blood 18 swallowed it may cause 00miting or sick- ness. Simple attacks are quickly aired by applying something cold to 1110 s ine, as a cold door key or cold stone, as boys stop it. Moro obstinate oases may have the whole of the spine sponged with cold water and oven the chest and neck as well, the revulsive action of the cold water often stopping it. To insert the fingers up the nostrils and press on the bleeding part as sometimes suuoessfml,.so also is snuffing up the nostrils ; while sono recommend rasing the hands above the head to stop 118. If 1'ety great loss occurs it will be wise to call in a doctor, who will plug up the nos- trils if he thinks it necessary. One Load He Carried Alone, Mrs. McBride—George, clear, when we were married, only (spew logo, you sail I should help you vastly bnrdons. Nell -013, yes ; it's such a lovely place to lied out; all about tho new ideas in fanoy; work, Not to he Considered, As George folded the fair young 000ature to his heart, a dull, oreck11ng sound smote his eau*, "Ah, it's good -by to those ported cigars in my vest pookot," he said grimly ; "• but darn the expellee at a mos tomblike this," — Complete Identification, A gentlemen frons New Jersoy recently applied ata Now York station 1009)80 for sin w.-._-. yesterday?" ower out I tried to borrow gnarter of Ings) 1't takes a woman to make,a elutes si rat in to ask if I wonldellov theirciti[dron the blind man, but ho couldn't 500 1t, that looks lilio order. Ito use our piano to p110eti0eou: