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THUNDERBOLTS MATE.
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CHAPTER V, " No, 'Braude ; really and trely, I slide% ho shertly efterwerds escaped, de:guise:I a
THE BRUSSELS POST,
one. Ho mid " One first work meth be
destseetion and annihilation of everything
cut it now exists, We must accustom on1.
soiree to destroy everything, the good with
the had ; 10 1 eveu an atom of the old
world remains the now will mister be ceets.
8, (1," lialcounth Amu I many followere
bub was soon 6011011 to Siberia, from whioh
It is difficult, at best, to make veva:table I bsi81`13 that. 1.
I it 81 ha tut I o re • a merehatia He sought an asidrun in Gee.
speed upon ututehosmiumo,sible, n hen the ,1'-' w ,8,`,"1" 111,n,, (8.,t. L ;', lu , ,"walleip„Bh', meny, where he remanent rind his death,
only leg that may 101,11 the gt„„,„1 eat 1 ed it t i els. cot i, temp ape. Teherniellevelsy, the last, of the famous mouth and placing, the end of a linger upon
the offender. Beginning at the centre of
boon out of tale for Weeks, and when the ! 1418111101.1 nem". .., .,
1 lun n Mlle : thrones tee., Mel It most remaellable fife. He was
the wild!, jaw, the mosalt which in fully
whole frame 18 weakened end reduced by Et I PCI) rail (sway. 01 '08181 „'.1. A, 0111,„ neared a cent ributoe to the Vosiemporary. Ile was
equipped eatetaine frier sete of eight teeth
I g sel teriod of ina aivity Brown ant; I 11 vaiPio tem1,1 ni TO it1"-,' • the philosopher and political economist, of meg ; 11114 ,,,,4 tims,,, 1,,,k 0,11,reupeed; one
proover the first mile at a good rete, anwhier. ! ii1" ‘;'111,11' 11,g . "
, rune i p,..1),,t, iligh., Shothu, est ilit 0 tire the party,
Ih 1 "ii he 8.4' '1)1'11" 01 (18 , Bide of either Jew linty bo taken es nu object.
ing everything 1 but lie 1saa for it beeea he 8. (8)1 ion with a teatime rev o 1 uti unary so- ordered pace of (01 (008 p,wor and dello..
wits half.wa.y through the second. Q,,it„ 1104111, :wit tout nee prelim eirtsviymemit. eiety. His trial was one of the met mem. leeson. Eaeli set emit:aim; two ineieors, otie
onspid, two bicuspids and three molare, in ar'81-0 '1"1:"1711181"1018. lo iio ma" is Ills
00(1(1081y, his brain reel, 1, ii,,, ,,,,„10,„ ' h' in ,4 beyeud the fence, lying 11(tne,ti ex- oralde ever hold in leuesie, mid &wine its world sio new, end the future so freM1, nt, to
slipped from under hi, arm.pits 11,, 81„18 1:0).- ; initinicit eud heggiugtew %Meer,: cif'. i 1 f
t' "r.(4 progvess the ecensod made such a 1 ,,„ the order it (moil teseinning at tem front.
weed upon his hands, Inatead of stunning she had told tt em all, the I fill s oppeitia and powerf el speech thet, many lia the collet
--)143"" The first Meteor be kilown as the central, tlie him %eh° has spent the early yeers 01 1(18
him, the slight shock galvanised his swini- ' and uttered a thrill seeettm : tho ight cid t lei mom shecl tears, while (Ahem turned wide u e ,
second as the littoral ; the cuspid if in the masli110,1 111 dtriving
deeper problenie of science and life, and
to understand the
min se„teu „a gketud. mu 1,,,,d„ , en h,, 1 hoop had revealed blood upou her.,,,handio with fear. The government officials, s a p 1 jaw, is familiarly k :town as on
William Lees said uothing, but set.. (I ""kne ''Poyedooth," In 1 he lower jaw,eteill- Who has nugle eome headway toward ctom.
was wise enough to slip right aown fur a 1 . its effect upon the people, beaten° furious, roliending them. To him the commoimat
, wet:re-bottle and r,ushed out. He was too aelptooth," The bieuspids ere !limply called P
minute's 0001, in which to grafter strength Men a sentence of fifteen years, with the things irre raro aud wondoeful, both in
tete Thunderbolt $ mate was dead. the limb and second ; while the melees aro
and review the situation. Ile hail uot 00211J ' . deprivation of all rights of citizenship, was known tes the " six.yeter," " twelve-year " themeolves and as peas of a beantiful and
passed upon Tchernashovsky, he eried ont 1 and " wisdom teeth '' respectively, Acid intelligent whole. Such a thing air staleness
' Alexander Nioolitievitch, you may kill in lifo and ite duties he eturnoti understand.
Gm desi nationp rielit or left, upper or
flesh and blood, but you cannot stop the gd ' 1.- i • i i " Knowledge 10 always opening oub belore
lower, an any toot I can se i 118 ant y anc him , .. . . , .
progrese of liberal ideas 1" „,, muistakably speotfled. A half-dozen other in where expanse:, and mote common(
I.
While TelierhislievekY "5 wnfin0d 38-" suemi•technical tonne in this conneetion may ing heights. The pleaaure of growleg know,
exile in Villuisk, Yakutsk Pro:01108,in Siber- be frequently limed useful. The labial env- ledge ancl increasing power makes overy
he, H. Muslikin, a justice of the peace and an year Of his life happier and 81000 hopeful
face of the teeth ie that tnward the lips ;
ardent, Nihilist, etterapted to secure his lib- than the last.
the buccal, that foxing the oheek ; the ling -
oration. Ile visited the pelson, disguised as luta that next the tongue 00 1810 lower jaw ;
a gendarme and, demanded that the philoe- the alcand, that facing the roof of the
HEALTH.
Tho Tooth.
The proper riantea or desienation of th
teeth may be leaned child In live min.
utes, yet tin111 Rude of geuerally intelligent
1)008188 8o through life with no better meth-
od of aesignatiug imy partiertlar member of
the 14,a6al tunny than iy openiug the
too. For a perfectly senitary diet, alkaline
water le needed for every person who eats
heavily of meat, and 881 13 means iteasly
everybody, excepting the vegetariane.
Li% After Porty,
The bent hall of life 80 188 front of 1110 man
of foety, if lie be anything of a mate 'rhe
WOrk he 18181 810 will be done with t he hand
of a muter, and uot, 01 (1 ,:ide apprentice.
Tito trebled 1118011001 doe. net men as
trete; evellciug," hut seen taut:teeing eleerly
and in just incessetee, The tieheol temper
(Mee not rush et, work like it blind bull 01 (8
haystack, hut advaneee with tho ealm and
more than a mile and a half, or a quartet. of
the way to the wool-shed—of thistle was
certain. A quarter of the way, and he had
already collapsea once ! The prospect of his
reaching the shed at all seemed by no means
certain. Even if he tlid succeed ha getting
there, could he be M thee to bo of any use ?
He would., indeed, be able to despatch
prompt assistance to the prisoners at the
noineetead—but only to Slid, no doubt, that
they were prisoners no longer, and that the
bushranger had got a long etare On the other
hand, there %very two possibilities 80eunsid•
or. There was the chance of the pi:100110es
being so seerwely bound that it might take
them hours to release themselves ; and the
thought of Mrs, Lees and little Pen—above
all, of little Peu—hoing lacerated for hours
by the binding ropes was intolerable to
• Brown, Then there NV08 the chance of
Thunderbolt's capture, if alum and cry were
started by the shearers, most of 10110111 had
The reader may like to know that rhun-
derbolt himself never left that district alive ;
Ilia police sergeant from the township near
Bilbil iihot him dead within forty.eight
hours from that midnight. But it hi need-
less bo add that there Ives neither comfort
nor oonsolation in this for tittle Penelope
Lees.
(ono Rath.)
TOM CYPHER'S ENGINE,
A Phantom Northern 1'801180 tocomotive
That Roes A.110ad of Trains
Locomotive engineers aro, as a elan, seed
to be superstitious, but Mr. J. Pinok.
ney, au engineer known to alMost every
brother -hood man, is an exception to the
rule. He Int, lieVer boon able to believe
the ilitreren ,.::ries told of epparitions sud-
denly appeai 80 e on the track, hut he lied
an experionee last Sunday night on the
horses in the shed ; and the thought of that Northern Pismire eaet.hound overland that
made Brown tremble with excitement.
Without knowing which incentive was the
stronger, he set his teeth, dragged himself
from the grotted, and onee more swung fur -
ward ou 11 is erutolies.
It was a terrible task het 1.0 had sot him
self—Mcleod, an impossible oue ; but Brown
had not time to fin :1 this out. Foe lie had not
prooeeded a hundred yards from the spot
where he had fallen, when a galloping horse-
man overtook him. A.t first he 81101%111 it
was Thunderbolt, crouched behind a big
blue -bush at one side 08 1118 track, set his
teeth clubbed a orutch, tuel thought bitten.
ly of his buried pistols, wed eaten the cascades, the scene 01 00 many(lleasters and
I•oise came up, there was just light enough the place which is seid to be the most den-
te see that it WOS 1. gray; 011 the 11,10011)8100 of road. The engin.
mount waS black as ink. 13esidee, tit., (Tr Was relating a; story, ancl vies just cont.
rider was sitting ell ot a heap, tend au un- "e., to the climax, when he =Wooly grasp.
steady hemp too, whieli put it heyont bottle; ea' the throttle end in a. moment hail
that, it was 1101 aye:. .11,11iideel'olt 011 " thrown her over ;" that is, reversed the
the station bursae so thee &ewe started engine. The air -brakes wore applied and
up as smertly a0 lie was Ode and, let out a the train brought to it standstill within a few
loud shoutrwherenpon the thler —I% heredess feet of the place where Engineer Cypher
shearer, ou his way home from a conviviel met his death two years ago. ley this time
evenieg in the tosvuship—nearly fell from the paseengers had become illunlS as to
his saddle., but reined Up aWkWardly, and wl,t wits tile matter, and all sorts of ones-
showod his presence of mind by an eloquent tions were aelral the trainmen. The 008)111'
'but indistin, 1, set of muses. eer nuttie net excuse (het some of the
"Don't stop, man !" eried Brown. i le
"Pc , ma.eldnery Wail loose, and in a sew elements
en to the weol-shed fee your life ! The the trete was speeding on to her destine -
homestead's stuck up, and iiVery soul's ill tion.
Thunderbolt's hande 1" " What made you stop hack there ?"
" Thunderbolt ?" asked Pinekeey. "I heard agar excuse, hub
"Thunderbolt!" I I have reit too long on the road not to know
In on instant the festive ehearer became alai your eNense is net the truth."
quite painfully sober. by oemParlooll• Hu }Ls questien Wa8 answered l‘y the 0118)80.
rode up close to Beowe, 8,Wity—greet pointing ahead and retying excitedly :
Sootb you're the cove with the broken legr' There Look there ! Don't you see
"Get on, inan; there's not a nunneut to it ?"
lose!" " Looking nut of the cab -window," said
',But how the minchief dicl you get here? ehe Pinekuey, " I saw about, three hum
Crutches and all, so help me!" dyed yards ahead of us the headlight of a,
"Oh, ride on, can't. you?" "180 Brow" locomotive."
angrily. "Thiuk of the women and the ssop the train, man," I cried, reaching
The sheerer 08.1 for some seconds lommr I " its nothing. It's what I BMW
for the lever.
lite a statue in the sahile; then, will*: a hare; nt the gorge. It's Tom Cypher's en.
forcible hilliest:Jadeite-hut, a, most oempli- elite, No. :13. There's 00 11(1)84011 of a col-
anentary one to "the cove with the lawaen lieion. The num whole muting Ora englue
log"—he deg epurs into the grey and them
.dered on. And Brown sank down again
behind. his blue -bush, and realleed, now that
it was elf hie shoulders, the complete MI-
possibilay oi the teak he heel set Miro
self—to hobble six miles on his crutches.
He 16,7 8.88)00 the ground, utterly feeble, and
feeling as though (88011008)) had balm al werk
drawing every nerve and SineW 0111 of lus
body. Consciousness almost forsook him ;
he fell into a state of partial stupor.
He was roused—it must have been an then for a moment we saw a figure on the
hour leter—by a stampede 01 110118110 sweep- pilot. Then the engine rounded P. curve
ulg clown the treck at a taller.. It ems tbe and. WO did not see it again. We ran by a
shearera, with William Lees at their head. little station, and at the next, when the
When they had passes', Brown strugaleduP operator warned Its to keep well beck from
and propped himself once more upon ins a wild engiue that was ahead, the engiueer
°stitches, and began retracing hi$ ;degas to said nothing. He Wail not afraid of a 001'
the homestead. But his pece was consider- lision. Just to eatiefy my own mind on the
ably slower than it had been before. He matter I sent a telegram to the engine
thought he was never going to reach the wiper 101 111)081118.0, Deicing hint if No. 33 was
home.paddock gate. At best he Icriew thet in. reoeived a reply Mating that No. 33
he was near it, by hearing the double getes hell just come in end thet her ocal NV1LS 00'
018.16811 back epee the posts and 0, hotse's
hoofs thunder throtivh.
What followect occupied a few moments
only. A. black horse WAS reigned up within
a yard of Brown ; 11011 1811011 Brown address-
ed the rider, taking him for ono of the pur-
suets, a low, estiel laugh NV118 the answer ;
and then—a flash, a report, a horse'e gallop
dying away in the distance ; and Thunder -
boleti mate lett lying hi his blood, shot by
Thunderbolt
On tragic nights, such as Lida one, people
are slow to go to bed, oven when the dam
ger is over. At midnight, William Lees,
his wife end child, and the trembling maid- A Pow Nihilists.
eervant, sae in silence in the sitting.room,
awaiting the retells of the hue and cry,
which seemed certain at last to capture the
notelet:me Thenclothelt, but which in point
01 11806 did no such thing, Lees at tho nue
ment was an embittered men ho, and lie
Mono, was out of the chests ; duty haul tied
him to the domestic apron strings and the
action of his yoeng 1800 —18110 had joined
the pursuers without 00 tench . asking
leave—had tiehtened the knots.
All at once, but so (silently that her par-
ent% hardly notieed it, little l'on stole out
into the ye:ramie, She fameiell She had
heard a: faint cry in the veranda, fancy he.
came certninty, for the cry was repeated ;
" Miss Pen I"
„ The voice was sadly feeble, but it was
Brown's] voice. Pen know it instantly, and
went swiftly but softly to tho end of the
veranda. The faint atinintine canto yet
again: "Mins l'on t"
The ohild rushed out, groped fee and
found the picket -f (Ince, followed it down to
the wicket, went tlwough, foul almost fell
over Et mitnei prostrate form.
Miss Pen I Is it really your
"Is that really ;you , Brown '1" It was
very, very clark, and fino rein WON falling,
"'Yes, miss, it's me—come bask," said
Brown, faintly. " I'm glad you heard me,
and oarne—ht time. Water My throat is
on fire,"
She thread like lighting, Ho called hot,
hook.
" Miss Pen I" His voice terrified hor ; it
was fainter than ever and ho was gasping.
Yon didn't believe—Mies Pe»—I was sulieg
with Trint--to-nig,ht--dia yen?"
made los hair stend on end. 137 the court•
09)' 11 the engines r, also a brotherhood man,
Mr. Pinckney was riding 0.. the engine,
They were recouriting experi. as, and the
&email, who 11.110 a green line 1 was getting
vets/nervous as lie hsteintee. d to the tales
of wreaks and (lir:meters, tile lungers of
W1)01111 were graphically docribed by the
veteran engineers.
The night was clear and the rays from
the headlight flashed along the track, naul,
although they were intereeted in spinning
yarns, 0 sharp lookout wan kept, for they
were repidly nearing Eagle Gorge, in the
aliead of us can run at teeter backward than
lean run this one forward. Have 1 seen it
before? Ves twenty times. Every engineer
on the road knows that engine, aud. he's al-
witys watohing for it when he gets to the
:gorge.'
"37813 engine ahead of us was running
silently, but smoke was puffing froiu tho
steoa, and the headlight threw out rays of
red, green and whitelight. It kept a short,
distance &heed of us for several miles and
howled and boxes burned out. I suppose
you'll be inclined to laugh at the story, but
met ask 0,07 p8110 boys, although mealy of
them won't tallt about it. I would not; my-
self if I were ruining 011 the road. It's un-
lucky to do so."
With this comment upon the tale Mr.
Pinokney boarded a passing mboose and
Was ROM 011 HS way to 1racoma. It is rump
mouly believed by Northere Pacific engin.
were thaL Thomas Cyphere's spirit still
hovers near Eagle Gorge,
opher be delivered to his keeping ; bet the
mout31. The 400:exit:ma sedans are those
A HOMESPUN TRAGEDY,
--
chief of police, suspecting that all WaS 1101facing neighboring. Meth ; of these the dia. And welt Spun, too, In 0 very Few Words,
right refused to deliver up his prisoner. tal being those fameg from the centre, the
" You seo that river ripplin.' along so
Tehernishevsky Wile aftersvards transferred mesial, those looking toward the centre of
8111118)3' and pleasant," said Uncle 111181
,1, Astrachan 31101'3I100, ‚108)8100 ho died two the jaw. "an' you. thitils a child needn't bo afraid ch
7011110 030, mourned by all Europe. - etip-
it, but put thirty feet of water on top o,
pincottea.
what's 18)010 1)08.8). and see how you'd like to
-
Hours of Sloop.
Mao, in common with most of the animal
dreation, has accepted the plain suggestion
of nature that the approach of night sheltie
A Diaboliral. Scheme, imply a cessation of effort. If he ignores
A. telegram from Warsew states that the this principle, his work is done against in -
brothers Koulikovsky, who were recently harked habit, and, so fate with additional
emceed near Bieloatoek, Rasta= frontier fatigue. It follows, too, that he meet use
town and charged with the murder of a artifioial light end sustain its omnbustion
facia it. Twice in my life have seen it as I
MORDER OP EMIGRANTS, pray the good Lord 1 may never 018 11
again, as no man need ever weld to see it,.
The first time, Legg ago it watt Ham WaS
twenty then em' he'd be 01(11111(110-183011 man
11018, 8808)111 1)10 them wttel't 110 coufidonee
to be put iu that stream and Pee never
trusted it seem
"Otte June day Sam an' me started out
to shoot 0(110000 fish. I had tho old ona
nutnber of Russian emigrants, appeas to at the oost of his own atmosp me. N0.tur.
have carried on for a considerable time past ally, therefore, when ho does rest, his relief 'mese I was a better shot n 11101, ant ho
a wholesale traills In robbery and assassins,- is not proportioned 8.0 his weariness. As in
tion. They lived 10 6, village named Menke mane:eases, however, sensation ianotherethe
the elder 01 1110 two tieing tho father ef le most relinble guide tojudicious practice. Es -
family, and the younger a time.expired tablished oustoinaffordsa far trnerindicatioe
soldier, Tho wife of the former, quite a of the method compatible with healthy
young 1802110.0, 11011 the mother of two ehil- existence. The arse of the overworked and
dren, is charged with aiding 0,11(1 abetting the invalid lends but a deceptive color to
the brothers in their diabolical plots. The the argumenb of the dItylight sleeper. In
story of their crimes is one of ookbblooded them excessive waste of time meet be
made good, and sleep, always too
scanty, is at any time armful for this
purpose. For the 11010118)7 10(110011)'. however:
the old custom of early reat end early wale.
somewhat extensive treelle in smuggling ing is certain to p11005 181 Metre:El—am returns
aeross the boundary intendang emigrants,
fugitives from justice, deserters from the
army, mud others nob furnished with the
requisite passports. During the prevailing
distress, however, the profits accruing from
this nefarious industry, at ito time particu-
larly certain, seriously declined, and the
premeditation and ruthless cruelty. lerving
near the feontier, and being intimate with
the moven-tents and regulations of the fron-
tier police, the Konlikovskys developed a
of longevity 18.0(1 common experience alike
show that it has prove11 in the past—most
0012(1110110 10 health and active life,
Physical Bins.
Perhaps nothing will so much hasten the
smugglers, emboldeued by success end tee thne when body and mind will both be
impunity -which attended theie operations, adequately eared for, as a diffusion of the
conceived the idea of killing the persons belief that the preservation of hoidth is a
who had reeourse to their services, in melee duty. Few seem, collector:is 181,111 there is
to possess themselves of their money and such 111111118) as physical merality. Alen's
other. belongings. They selected chiefly as habituel words ancl nets imply the idea
victims small farmers desiring to emigrate that they are at libeelly te treat their
to Brazil, these being inveritably provided bodies as they please. Disorders entailed
with their passage money and an outfit of by disohedieece to nuture's dietatee they
some kind, however slender. The system regard simply as grievances, 006 110 the of -
employed woe to welcome the travellers feats of a conduct move or lees iligqious.
withetrusive hospitality mid every easuranoe Thongh the evil consequences inflicted on
of a safe conduct across the frontier at a dick dependents, and 011 1)18000 genereeions,
point secure from observation On the are often as groat as those caused by crime,
part of the authorities. Under the pre. yet they 110 1(011 think themselves in any de.
text that Gila precaution was »cues- glee criminal, 11 is true Lisette the ease of
awe clinfinise the leek of capture, the drunkeaness, tho viciounnes% of 0, 13111181j,
emigrants were conducted towards the feces- transgression 18 -recognized ; but none ap-
to Infer that if this bodily triensgres-
tier one by one. '8110 peth lay through a Pear
dense forest. While ono brother acted 818 sioe 8)1010118, se, too, 10 08)0)')' bodily t005
3(11110, the other went, on in advance, and gression, The fedi% that all 1,0005110$ of tho
lay in wait hi a secluded spot of the wood, laws of health are physical sins, When this
When the appomma 8301 18810 reached the
two brothers,at a, prearranged signal, eimul-
taneously fell upen the unhappy treveller
who had entrusted himself to their guidance.
To knock him oa the head and strip him of
all be possessed. NOS then an easy matter.
Al first the 118311501118 made a point of bury-
ing the bodies of theie victims, but their
orimes remaining encleteoted, they become
more reckless, and e001001,8d themselves
with dragging the corpse aside into the
brushwood or leaving them lyipg in tho snow. cient Egypt is showu by the records of that
18. 11138 m
is atinee they are helteved to hcountr
ave unr...it Et Woe alSO f ood staple with
made away with some. thirty or forty per- country, 18.81(8
the Jews ana the Romans in the days of
sons. 7100 08.8)8(1 bodies have already beeu their strength. Its nutritive qtalities ere
found, and 16 13 expeotecl thet when the sneh that it was used by the ancient Creeks
snow melts, 18011 8<110 '1800118 0810 be thorough- 111 training their nehletee, (unlit hoe always
ly searched, many more ghastly ch%covertes I been motif, ompleyed in those oold onuntrles
will be merle. So far ae the palme have where beams end endrtrance ere tho factors
been able to ascertain, tho last vietpn wee of successful life. In the lowlandsefSeotland
111)010,11016 peasant who sought shelter in the tho "bannocks 0' barley ineal " still eon.
Houlikovsky him, In the middle of the stitute 61)0 810.11)' fond 08 81,0 peasantry, and
night when fast asleep, he was put to death
barley mime are target y inal in the northern
in the most horrible manner for tho sake of countries of continental Europa . Barley
a smell sum of money ho had upon floor 11000uot permit of breadentthing, pro.
hien. The elder brother took a 'ergo pot of crley speaking; but for broth, 00111)0 18111
11 generally Seen, then and perhaps pot till
then, ‚18(8 61)0 physcial training of the young
receive deaerved atteution.
Barley and Bexley Kea
Barley is claimed by Piiuy to luvro been
the oeigival coned food of mankiutl, and
certain it is that it has been In am from the
earliest times of whith wo have any authen-
tio tradition, That 11 18)1(0 oultiveted in am
boffing 18(180( 181111 ponred 18< over the sleep-
ing Man'S face, thus deprivieg him of 000'
0010090038. Konlikowsky then, assisted by
porridge, barley 10 18 most excellent mats:teal.
This geain grows well in most climates,
provided the sod elemente are right, and
his wife and brother, compressed the vie. oan probably be cultivated with profit more
tim's throat until life was extinct, and the extensively than almost, any other (*reel
body 181101813 1)00)1 stripped, WaS hidden away 8)110W11. W Idle it is ptincipally grown in the
among some straw in the stable, It was higher Ititibudes, Bendel. 01111)0.10 (1.1')) noL um
aceidently discovered there by a neighbour favorable to its 83001oI=0M, as is Shown 111
before the murderers had 101u111 0. convenient 0011 01811 country by the foot that of 1110 8101)'
0111)01611111610to early it, tido the forest. ocld million Mud -tele of the total orop, almost tt
ourth pubis grown in the single ge oat state
of California, with its extremely temperate
climate. In fact, the first growth of the
grain in this ommtry appears to have boon
In southern Virginie, where it is reoorded
as of onitivation la the year 1 61 1, by the
JameSLOWn oniony: In 1620 barley was
grown by 001081018 on Meesachtisatta Bay,
toted the net. How do yon shoot fish a ot
climb a tree 00 81 leg reek that's close to the
water, an' when you see a lleh you :want
you just; lablee 1818113', that's all ; but Yoli've
got to know how mighty welban' somebody's
got te be richilt an' 800085 '1111 Wit 11 a net be-
fore he sinks. Well, wn didn't seem te have
Ito kind of look, (red before we know it, Was
two 1111108 from home. At Met we ((truck a
place where there %coined to be mime fish,
an' I got Up into a big pine that stood elme
to the water. Jett as 1. heel found a onm-
fortable roost 1 heard a sound that I've
hoard many a time among these 18,80011110
--
0. ronain' meld& lease es if every 18(1,11 18)118
08)0( 1)108.' warl °twin' its way 8110011411 the
foreet. Sennetimes you can see, way off,
the trees bond hefore it, while everything
near yo11 is as puny 0.8 a belty's smile.
yoll Oan't the anything, only
hear the awful Lima that's mein' cdong
somewhere. • Father,' sitys Sam, ' you
hear that roarin'?" Yes,' says L Jest than
I sighted a big perelt jelibin' Weimar agin
rock nal' fired, I temobecl hire but didn't
1,111 him, an' be made towards deep water,
Sam efter him.
Among the most radical 01 8110 party was
Iskandor Hertzen. He 1888a brilliant
orator, possessing a most magnetic person,
allty which enable11 him to May 8110300310
at will. Not content with the privileges
that the Gear and his government had eon,
ceded to the people, he wished for many
more. Ho preached the (loathe) that to
eemtre perfect froodoin it woeld 110 neues,
eery to aenihilato the imperial family, the
nobility, and the entire priesthood. This
accomplished, the people wore to form a
representative government, making an equal
division of GM lend,
The brilliancy of this whelp fascinated
many prominent petsons, and us a result
numerous (secret 800101)08 sprang up ill all
parte of the emto pire. Hert0011, owing his
extremely radical wl vies, was at last com-
pelled to flee front Russia. Ito event first,
to Loudon, whore ho aborted 19 paper called
37'/lcthrou3h tho eoltunne of which 110
made terrible exposures coneerning the poi.
vete Woof the Czar and hie family, Ho
afterwards aought refuge in Switeerlancl,
where he died with tho sentence of death
300)181)00011by the }1110011121 go7s:m111(1114
still hangir.g over him. Holum was a
brilliant though tnotooria character, who for
a short time dazzled the world of Europe,
bub was soon forgotten,
Associated With the leader were Telma,
ishovsky and BakOnnin. The latter was
even more rebid than Ifortzen in his dentin
1181811011 of the 0011,11 and hill government
Bitkonnin declared. that hie 011001011 Wee to
announce a now goepol which meet pone.
tretti to the vory mule ef the eartlae-that
the old World must bo 1101(1110011 ly a now
The iiiquiey which Wini la)lnediately Inset tot-
ed led to tho disclosure of numerous other
crimes of the nature above cleearibed, and
these are still these:1,50a of police investiga-
tion.
ODDB AND ENDS
MAY 6, 1.802,
IT REALLY RAINED.
,1,11 114 lice In lite 7.1 4411riti ercefen
our l'On geol,
11 8.0110 in Cuba, and 11808 in a raiivecty
1)111 jolirneying from A1.181.111100,1 to Havana:,
trays ;Julian Be I ph la the April Sf. Nat/Wm%
it 18180 epriligthne and the beginnieg of the
wilily Hamm wits at hand, 'the people ware
Junking: forward to the first rain as—I Wati
going to Say as NVO 110 10 the 18t08 mum, but
that does net parallel their expectation, for
they know that when 11 healer( 10 rain there
11< 1111 reel to three 18b:1087,
'rho limit intimation that I had of the
fiteldimel that something wee 31(8118) 10 hap-
pen alum from my seeing a dense, jet-blaok
eloild over- agaittet the southern horizon.
All twound me lay a peaceful and prOliper-
Mili 000110. Beside ale track Were menne hide
like uegro cabins, with black Women Beated
in the doorways,and funny 11 Wu Insifmak ad
piceaninnie% playing in the dirt. 13tit the
black cloud grow bieger and bleeker, It
W03 advaneing towara us with very groat,
end evident speed ; end peetiontly I 00.80
18)111 11 was (111 12811,011 with bolts of light-
ning, toothed with white hula, Never be-
fore or. since did I see Hoch a dreadful die -
piny of the electrical feree. The bolts wove
so close together that it retuned net if they
meet destroy every living thing: in the pat11.
way of tho °loud. Whoa the black and
terrible mess in the shy came still nearer it
seemed no longer toothed or feinged, bub it
spat the lightning with vicious force straight
down upon the forest, beneath it,
Next: mune a slicking, roaring sound of
%villa, the sky geew black, and with the
last gliminer of deylight before it vanishecl
into eight I saw the giant palm trees throw
up then: huge fanlike arms like mortal 0r01-
111180 that were 111118 and paniastricken.
Then the storm laird over the train, and
through its dill 81,00,0(8 the crashing of the
falling pelm Immo-hes that fuel been snapp.
oi cse and thrown to tho eerth. In another
mines e the worst of the darkness was over,
mi in the half-light thet eon:mined I saw
such min as I never had (hemmed could feal
from the sky. 11 ,111 1106 11411)08.1' to fall in
drops, or in " ropes," as I once limed an
Engliehmen any of a severe downpoer of
rale, but it cleseeeded in vase thick 8110010,
layer upon layer. You 001.11d 880 011C thick.
Less tumbling after the other (80 .90 many
great plates of glass migh8 be that sell denim
11 4(1(018 lighter still, and I saw that the
heau Will paints were wrecked, and were
till writhing in their misery, tos:dng up
their broad hand, mill 1111011 erne,. many of
whielt 11) 10 liroken ;0111 11 jnin,ed, While
them had been Snapped on. Al the feet of
the ealme there seal no longer any geounit
The surfeee of the earth hut Leanne a lake.
'rho water stood high in the dooteways of
the negro whim. The later of pali0.
htitnelles abolit 011 the rain -pelted
water. I renUiiiiher Waiting to see tile train
hy the lightning, but it was not,
nor (meld I see that the tiery belts heel
harmal anything around 00. Another
minute preacel-aperlieps inora than five
minutes liad passel Awe the -.hewer began
Gle daylight came ism!: gratolly 1118.
closing rho great 11/01,1 evetywbere.
A Cuban flitting n the other mid° of the
ear from me medal me his cigarette -box,
and as lin did so hs 1111)1 11111 laimreil effort
I 1111 11,11111 in r1 foreign toligile : " 1 t'ink
it will rain, W 'at yeu 81,8) 1'
'Every minute 11 seemed as if Sant had
Witt not under hint, ho
amity, till they was eigh half way CNISS, the
water not beim' very deep there. All Gine'
time dm mitten' had heat goin' on, only -we
wes too busy te take much uotiee, but all
et once it got: bonder and seemed 111 come
front round the bend, which wit'n't more'n
11 liendrell yards (Peva ne. 1 beeted pp
stream and SW something made In.:
cold and sick all over. 8., 1111111e o'
seater, ten feet, high, reship' towards us,
befit& mall fonenint 1111811' the laths au'
bearing right ileum oil lily boy. 8010 aatii
it SA 00011 OA I did an' 111.1le for the shoio,
het just as he touched it the Witter caught
'lin an' whirled lin ftway as if he'd been a
bit o' bask.
"iTe seas a good swimmer, but tin men
could live in thee, flood. I sew him beat
the wet er with his strong arms, I saw him
stregglin' maltire motions I coillthi't
undeastand. 8 01.118 his white Mee for a
minute, an' that WO the last time 1 saw 111
boy alive. Three clays after they founa him
at Point Mariou ; bus boots wee off an' part
of his clothes. Than I knew what he had
tried to do. He knew ho enable% swim in
his clothes an' tried to gob theist off. City
chaps that don't know nothin' aboulat come
up here and laugh at us foe beim' efealet of
that river. We've got a good rightto be."
Editor—I think 7 write better Gum I 8)01 18 never 8(000180 0. favorite food produet
used to. Editor's wife—.You write less, here, and the extension of its cultivation
It's better, was slow up to the year 1 1.150,
During tho twenty-five yoars ending with
1306, 1,101 new 9808)000 18000 started in New
York, inchuling 410(111111013 and 8811 weekliere
Danger in M oat Diet.
The (wile of a inectit livlittera beg ainpro-
em:led byro many higi 'ers 111 eitiesP and
Of these papers 1,1 0,, died before the end of .
twenty-five years. t ,
hese abeing counterected partly by tho
A 'Moscow dentiet claims to be able to wcattlly in atbilug mere 8)0111011111vette.
grow tooth for 110, Al present, however, MN -tie to their tables during the whiter.
lie confines hie attention to growing 1'087 'rho cheapness of meat and a. poouliar eras,
tooth on the ruble of old ones, which aro said ing the system seems to have for
to grow na firmly into the gums me eatural 181181 agea gradually mado 11, 0011110011 foe
0008, eity people to live utmost 018111017 111' meat
Two grape sonde mused the donell of : in the winter months. Moat if( eaten throe
Otorge S. 'Bunnell, at Tome 111 "1' teentaly. times a, (1(17 8(1 quantities, and the mreeesive
They had lodged in the int:endues, mid 8. use ef such a diet is that elemnatio and
gristly 00001104 301118 over them and event, gout temperaments aro 11 (31181018 These
nally became 80 large as to cut eit all pa -ss ' temperaments are on the increase, and
ago. they aro largely due to the excessive uso of
The entire living population of the globe, meet.
1,400,000,000 people, divided into families Lime wider counterfeits the evile 01 8<8(18
of five possums each, could he heated in diet to a 'large exteut. Alkaline wature of
Manitoba each 8010113) 00 11 lin 18 01010 lot, and 1811 1(111)10 11181,0 a tendanCy to cot us (BM.
thoro would still remain 70,1100,000 vacant
family lots.
Irons like Boolusion. They do bettor
when contented. It, is beet to (lexicon tho
place selected for a 110111. 681v11 though se.
eluded a dark matt:Ives her Int t little charm
Mae, and hence ere beneficial to pereone
:who aro addicted to a heavy meat diet.
Lime water 1,110 31 tendency 10 01111(0 child re»
grow, arid he count:rice whore the chinking
rester is heavily impregnated 181(11 it mon
11,apt, w1,1,10.18. 111,89 1180,1
(1.•
to see about. lice, Itenue rho will remain teneively in the milk for children, but it
more quiet. A neat made of eoft out Inv or iihould not le metric:1ml to children, for in
chaff ie no good as any. tide meat-eitting emulation nem ueed it,
• ••••• • ••••••••••1,11111.-...1*,,,11.1-1.1.*
A Rat Railroad.
There woe reeently in Pelee a leuesien, by
name Dourof, who le 0upple0:1 to know
more ahem. the nntere 01 vIts than any
other man living. lie hee :mule h but:Mess
08 10<11111114 them to do (ineet t), 811411. and al,
tho hail carefully etudial their
habits tustl Ways.
A. reporter who vieiteil liiin and his two
Ina id rod aml th:rty free and eat inerily mu:ag-
ed rets found him in the met of 001111,11-
81(3 1118 " rot 10.118004." It coneieted of 0,
narrow treek laid in 0, circle, npun which
Were three paesengergews lerge enough to
hold fiveor 010 rete apiece, a 1 siggage.ear, and
a 111013y little locomotive.
1 !lose tO the trauk Was a small painted
wooden house, which served as a station.
There were switel es, and other railroad
paraphernalia.
Presently a Cage 18188 8)11003111 11), which
contained a mush:let:able number of rats.
Doeruf clapped his hands Mgether three
times, awl ell the 11810 00100 turnblieg out of
the 01140 and swerming into and about the
litHtlea ectiantplio3on,..1
his Minds again, and half -a.
aozen black mud Meek rats—very respect -
nide, corpulent follows—climhed lute the
lust car, which WaS 11 lirst-claes coach.
Once more Boned chipped, and half -a-
dmen Week and white rats, quite regularly
marked, got into the metand-class oar, :while
1111 indiecriminetely marked but realm, dis-
reputable looking company scrambled into
the last ear, which was third:class.
A black eat, who dui duty es the station-
master., promenaded up and down on the
platform of the little house, while LWO or
throe small white riga dragged seine little
trunks into the baggago-car. These were
the "baggagegenashers,"
A whistle WM heard ; tho engineer -rat
climbed upon the locomotive, aud Lhe switoh-
man rushed to the switch. Again the
whistle Botincled, and the train moved all
armrest tho brack.
The tminieg of tho rats to the perfor-
mance, of Obi feat Wae, M. Donrof deolarod
extremely easy except in the case of the
baggage -mon, whose education had cost
11810 a, greet dotd of trouble. Each party
of " paesengere " had been placed—ene
party at a 1.1n10e-0,8 their brealcfastieg hour
opposite the car to WhiCh they belonged, in
which some pieces of soaked broad lmd al.
ready been placed. At Illts signal they had
been liberated, Rod had quickly found the
broad.
Little by little they had been trained in
this way to enter the proper ear. The 10-
0011108870 18e8 Operated 1881,81 010018-100882,
and 8118 111163 had nothing to do with it.
THE VGL8HIJ8RE.
Aerial Eierirle 51,181 cnr.
It is claimed dint the Volucera will trans.
port ebout one 1)01)1) 111 patinas of mail be-
tween esvo cities a hitherto unattathed
velocity. It con.: a$ of a shell composed of
aluminium, the ie 108.801, except the chamber
for 18)0maimed ler the electric motor, being
tilled with compressed hy drogen gas to over-
come the weight. It has a booy den towards
tho,front, opeenehig on both sulea, and side
:wings and propellor 311 roar, Two large
trolley wires supported on arms attached to
posts and elevated to a imitable height two
placed from foul: to six foot epart, and be-
tween and below Glees the ear or shell is
situated, suspended on Llte wires by pulleys.
The eleotrteity from the wires oommuni-
otos through the motor inside of the oar,
and sets into rapid motion tho front fans,
the Wings on eithee siae and the turbine wind
fan in the roar. I'lle winge are shaped like
an umbrella divided in the oontro. These
close when propelled forward and automati-
cally open, messing forcibly against the Mr
in the backward etroko, and operated by a
crank end piston to which the whigs are
"t'ai0h0ft
filonit is surmounted by an 010061,8e
light, When earning into portithe maoltine
engages in a cermet, breaker, and salvo.,
90011110 draws up a suitable weight until ib
is brought to the 8(08111 108. unloading. 11 is
then reloaded, turned ou a temptable, the
reinnectione made and it kr sent on its 11110,
sion. 11 10117 haVo MatIV Statham, Dr, 11,
14, Osborn, of Auburn, N. Y., 1000 invon.
tor.
Why tot?
Miss Miggs—I hope, my clew, that you
don't, go to tho theatre alone,
eletelle—No, indeed I never think of go.
ing unlais I 0,111 ohaperoned.
Alise iggs—Unlees you aro what
Eutelle—chaperoned.
Miss ',Viggo —.That's 1)10 171131 with ma I
always liko 80 110.8)0 0. chap around.
Within the brat few years tho 11118)11311
eleventh:tont in Egypt ims remitted 018)00 1))
thc. lonnimt of 1<' 8)000,000 a wax end yet
laet par there Wee a Pill 1;1 1111 of 4,S,00,009.
The 00 11011)11, 1''1,109'1 1,0 11110W the
redaction of the taxe“ on poor lanfl. /1
wonld 15e great. evil 11 EnglAnd ellonla re-
tire feoin hig,ypt.
Obviously tho Remedy,
A woman complained to Sergeant Culver
yesterday that 1110111.111110 teller had ewinell.
od her out of a 01 gold ring.
"How did ib happen 1" asked the sea.
gent,
" I avoef, to oonsult the eleirvoyant about
a—well, about a little affair in winch 7 ton
interested --and she said I must/ have
some 08 701(11 gola before 7 one work the.
cliarmt Well, the only gold I had abotlii
me was that Ong, end of eourso I let her
have it. She agreed to return it egain after
a few days, as soon 00 sho heel worked out
what I wanted to knowbut 198180wont
there to -clay I foetid she' had moved, and
none 018i110 0ei3118)010 know where silo had
gone."
" Vi/oll, why don't you consult anothee
clairvoyant, 8118161 get Lenoir of hoe ?" askoci
the rergeent, sympathetiertlly,
" 'reat'e so I I never thought of that,"
said the women, brigliteming 'lip, and hid.
ding the oilier good day. N'ett police
ollieore beet 1881 8(111 thinking of things.
Indeed you ;ie."— (Free Press.