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HOUSEHOLD,
Slumber Hong,
Rush 1 ray darling, smile curd rest;
Day lee Holed from tem -west;
Slhaltared sato from cold and snow,
Close beside the ltear'thllres glow,
Little headon mother's bream,
Snug as summer bird in nest,
flush! Lie busy lues nr0 0110(1,
Wafts rho soft and oozy 1)0,1;
All the happy dream butt leans,
With its slowly swinging gat 04.
On their shunt hinges turning.
And the retry lanU(s aro burnlug.
Anil tho bagels of delight
Come to hiess the baby's sight,
When the snowy I ids Khan l muse
At the tenet of Hemet, repose,
And rho world be shut away
At the dying of I.nc ditto
Sleep7 nor hurt nor harm shall bo,
Mohler watahos ever thee,
AUnti.1A FC1enUit.
What Constitutes a Good Wife,
11x 1111(8, U. IWAI.L.
It's both natural and honorable that
young girls should look forward to mar-
riage as the "Ultima Thule" of 11fo, for a
woman's, crowning glory 111 118t always be
wifehood and motherhood; but butter than
a marriage without love, or love without
esteem, is the single girl forever.
Many girls 011 leaving school seem to
think their ed000tioe completed, and there
is nothing more to do than to dress and
amuse themselves, and try and eusnare some
one into marrying then, This may be fair-
ly natural, to look forward to having a
home of one's own, and yet how few seen'
to think it neoes0ary to qualify themselves
for so responsible a position as the head of
a household.
There is a most important interval in it
woman'slife, that between her school days
and her marriage. Then rho useful and
practical knowledge on household matters,
needle work, economy and various other
points which all tell upon 111e happiness of
a home, may be acquired.
If habits of industry, and economy of
time are not formed in early life, they never
will be. Every girl should help in the
household, having her rwn appointed tasks.
How 11111011 better, even if not obliged to do
it, than spending the time in dressing, and
promenading the streets, searching fur the
latest novelty i u dress, or, as a walking fash-
ion plate to be admired I
She should mance her mother's home her
own in interest. Begin with her own things
and her own living place, and when she has
made herself wholly ]mistress of that, so that
it is easier to do than to leave undone, she
has learned enough to keep a whole house
so far as its cleanly ordering is concerned.
Cherish instincts of taste and neatness,
girls, in every little thing you have about
you, and order will breathe out and grace
from even the commonest things. Some
people play 0011 you " fussy," but never
mind ; It is the not knowint chat makes you
that.
Don't put oven your pins into your ou01i-
ion in a tipsy sort of way. Lot it be a part
of your toilet to dross your room while you
dress yourself.
It is wonderful to see dhow much ingenu-
ity is shown by some women, who with
very little money, matte themselves and
their surroundings so attractive. Old
clothes fixed over to look as good as new
old carpets and curtains, fresh and bright.
Nothing helps a person like doing these
things, ((edit is a real fact that, if distaste-
ful at first, bonsowork and sewing will
come to be a woman's realm in which such
exact results will be reached, by careful
management, that it will seem like magic.
" One keep clean is worth a dozen mance
Means" is an old maxim and a true 0118.
Manage to cleat as you go, which will save
hosts of labor, and give abundant satiefac•
tion nu rosette. Putting to rights will not
bo n separate task then.
In a realm of home, woman should bo
queen. Home should taco its hue from her.
If she is in the best sense womanly, if she is
true, and tender, loving, and heroic, patient
and self -devoted, she unconsciously organ-
izes or puts in operation, a set of infiuonee0
that do more to mould the setting of the
nation than any man, uncI'otmod by power
or eloquence, oan possibly do.
To those, as we have said, who believe
that in ma'riage lies their only or ohiofest
sauce of happiness, let mosey that you will
not find all light and no darkness, all roses
one no thorns. A young girl in marrying,
sacrifices much. She gives up in a great
measure her independence, to a great ex-
tent her prefereuees. She consents to great
changes in her habits and often in her friend.
ships.
In fact, she loaves nearly all her past life
behind her, when she becomes a wife, and
very seldom does she appreciate the Ammo.
ter of the sacrifice she has mado, even be-
neath that 0(0000 of blossoms, Oh, what a
chasm often lies between wifehood and
maidenhood 1 How she misses the mother,
the sister, all the tender felicities of hone,
the old singleness of heart, the serenity of
mind, the blissful, girlish clays.
Ali, she must love long and deeply, and
worthily, or she will feel a blank in her
heart, a dull, dumb main, never wholly con-
quered, particularly if she light upon a man
not altogether meriting it, or felly otpable
of compensating her for the losses sho Inas
sustained.
Itis true enough that a happy marriage
is the best lot that eau befall a woman, but
surely, by a long way, an unhappy 0110 is
the worst, and how many suoh would bo
averted, if one looked early to the ways of
the household, and took a longer time in de-
te1'nhiniug the choice.--llionsekoepo,
Three Raised Cakes,
To those housewives who keep cakes con-
stantly on hand, who get tired of the moo
neon kinds, baked over and over again, and
who clo not care for or cann011 alford etah
cooking, raised (take may proem titgratifying molted tor, One OF the wnttshes which has
change. It keeps moat linger than the been found of board of her was stopped at
other kind (ox i more o more rich cantos, which „ 27 and eras 111 a fair state,
always keep well)ell),, f0 ore 0a0ily freshened,
and is quite its appetizing, besides being
mrioh more digestible by tete everag0
etonaoh. The following excellent and many
times tried rules deserve a trial,
Rion RAISim CAttr.---Chteo pend8 of
flour, ono midon0-halfpomdsof sugar, twelve
ounces of butter, seven 0810004 0f lord, ono
and ono -half pints of milk, oho ooilb,-au 1fu1
of yeast, two nutmegs, a tea0poonfuf of
Immo, throe eggs, ono pound of ra101110, roue
08(11ces of 01t1.'o1l treed a teaspoonful of 8011.
S0ald the milk, lard and a pint of ringer to•
galley. When cool stir io the flour and add
the yeast, Set in it warm place until light.
Tho( add the butter and segur, beaten to a
cream ; eggs, fruit and spin, Let 1t rise a
seooud thec. 'Then divide and put it into
pans, alai after salting it in a Warm. plana
for 11011 all hour, balte slowly for an hour.
This makes quite a quantity, and if desired
the recipe may bo halved, or thirdod, but
the canto will keep a long limo-hldood, f6
1011p1'oves by keeping, and Is most eon Veil ion t
for unexpected aollrany. It will be fonn(1
Inane more delicious if old-fashioned hop
yeast is used, although t11° proper proportion
of a yeast (alto may ho used as asubstitlte,
0:11:1, N1'111134 '.l wu, --•-Cne 0105101 of noised
dough, mut cu7f 111 of molasses, one eupinl of
sugatepee.halt cupful of butler, one 0ui3ful of
Sour (10(11 18 little grated nutmeg, a cupful
of 1'011100, a toasp000fel of seta, 1100 too-
spn1nfnls of cinnamon, 0110. (411 tetaep001110l
of moo, one teeejoanlful of elo'e, throe and
0110'httf cupfuls of 110101'. Bake slowly.
ATiffin) VAltlarv.—'Tea cupfuls of Tight
dough, two 01151010 of sugar, ono onpful of
butter, one cupful of 0r 0(11, two eggs, ono•
half tcuspamtfnl of soda, ono 01111111 Of
('andbl0, one cupful of etlrrant0, a teaspoon-
ful (moll of ground oinnanton and 100430, and
a geared nutmeg, Work well together, and
add snilleielt door tc mance it still. Shape
in lma'00, put, in pals, rate and ]lake slow-
ly.
Grandmother's Bseipes,
Oil door latches 011111 looks occasionally,
Nails dipped into soap will drive easily
into hard wood.
To keep MY flips, paint walls or rub pic-
ture frames with laurel oil.
41010000 leather play bo r00taeil with the
varnish of white of an egg,
A 00ment made of sand and White.le11(1
paint will stop leaks fn the roof,
Apply ammonia when acid has taken the
color from cloth, then chloroform.
You can sweep a rag carpet much easier
by aweephng across the breadths,
To remove paint from glass, just rub it
with u wet penny or e, large silver piece.
Sealing wax is made of two parts of boos -
wax and one of resit melted together.
The juice of e. lemon taken in the early
morning will often prevent a Milieus attack.
About a pound of wood soot to a gallon of
boiling water makes a very fine fertilizer of
plants.
To clean 0riniuo and all whito fur, rub
with corn veal, renewing the meal as it be-
comes soiled.
There would bo more vegetarians if there
were more cooks who knees how to prepare
vegetable tools.
Yellow spots 011 the linen or cotton pro-
duced by the 11011 may be removal by act -
ting tion in the broiling sun.
Po prevent 00101011 stookings from fading
put e, tablespoonful of black pepper into
rho water in which they are rinsed.
To give a good oar color to a pine floor
wash ina solution of one pounce of cop
pores dissolved in one gallon of strong lye
Headache, toothache, backache, or roost
any joint ache, will be relieved by heat.
ing the foot thoroughly with the shoes on.
Wormwood boiled in vinegar and ap-
plied 'lot, with onongh clothes wrapped
around to keep the flesh moist, is said to
he an invaluable remedy for a sprain or
braise,
Whou a chimney catches fire throw salt
upon the fire below, shut off all the
draughts possible (a piece of old wet car-
pet held befol'e the grate is an 0x00110011
thing to use in shutting off the drought),
and the fire will slowly go out of itself.
The need Surgeon
Of the Lebon Medical Company now 011
Toronto, Canada, and may be consulted
either in person or by loiter on all chronic
diseasesp00uliar to man. Jh 01, young, old,
or lniddle-aged, who find themselves a v.
pus, weak and exhausted, who are broken
down from excess or overwork, resulting in
many of the following symptoms : Mental
depression, preinauu•e old ago, loss of vital-
ity, loss of memory, bad dreams, dimness of
sight, pelpitotiou of the heart, emissions,
lack of energy, pain in the kindeys, head-
ache, pimples on the face or body, itching
or peculiar sensation about the scrotum,
wasting of the organs, dizziness., speck
before the oyes, twitching of the muscles,
eye lido and elsowhere,bashfulnesa, deposits
in the wino, loss of willpower, tenderness of
the scalp and spine,weak and flabby auricles,
desire to sleep, failure to he costed by sleep,
constipation, dullness of hearing, lost of
voice, desire for solitude, excitability of
temper,00nken 8yessurcottndedwithl.11Anxe
m.n0LE, oily looking skin, etc., aro all symp-
tons of nervousdebllityy that load to insanity
and death unless careen. The spring or vital
force having lost its tension every function
wane in consequou00. Those who through
abuse committed in ignorance may be per-
manently cured. Send your address for
book on all diseases peculiar to men. Books
sent free sealed. Heart disease, tine symptoms
of which aro faint spells, purple lips,
numbness, palpitation, skip beats, hot
flushes, rash of blood to the peace, dull and
ir'r'egular, the second heart boot faster than
first, pain about the breast bone, etc., can
positively bo cured. No cure no pay. Send
for book. Address, \l. V. LLJBON. 24
lelaodonoll Ave. Toronto, Ont.
Raising a Wreok after Fifty Years.
Intelligence has reached Queenstown of
the two -masted 0011001101' James A. 'fisher,
which was sunk off the coast, off Cope May
inlet, 40 years ago, and settled into the
quiolsand, rising 0Ctal11 to the surface of the
water. This is the resent of two fierce
storms which recently burst over the Jersey
coast. When the vessel sank she settled,
so that not oven the main deck was visible
above the sand. Tho high tido and heavy
surf ate away the sand, and where the hooch
was formerly covered only at the highest
tidos, the water is now about 14 fathoms
deep, This lcavos the vessel entirely clear
of the sand., and oho is now being lightened
of her margo, which consists of ecru. Whof
the vessel sank she carried with her Capt.
Andrews. She is in a remarkable state on
pr0serv0tian, not even a bnlwar1 being
crushed in. The watmhes land wearing ap-
parel of the crow aro still on board. The
corn, although burned black, preserved the
shape of tho kernel, but it is 11000 docom•
posing under the action of the water and
light. The remarkable state 0f pro00rv0-
tioo is accounted for by the foot that during
the entire .ell years not breath of air
The Moot Valuable Bart of London.
The part of London 111 Wi11010 land is Ole
most valuable is the City, the (round
around t 1Lomhard•street being won , it is
estimated, not less tenant ;12,000,000 ,011 a010,
One house in Lombard -street was felted at
1125 a year in 1005, now the building erect-
ed on the same site is rented for 0:4.000
year, melee lasso from 1577. Tho rateable
ann0a1 value of the City rose from about
:17(16 at neve in 1801 to 15,1300 an aro in
1881, Amongst the highest, prices that have
been paid foe land in tho City rosy be men -
tinned Cannon -street, 1880, a 12ft, by 5(1ft.
site brought 11,500, being 17 58, per 0(111)are
foot, or 1830,000 pa oaro..In the same year
a eito in (lraheoltolroh•atI'Oel boonght :1'15 So.
per square foot, or 18'20,000 per acre, and h1
1880 a Site in Old Board -street, 4211, by
wee sold for .0137,1100, being .128 8s,
per aquae foot, end ,01,211(1,000 per acre,
The City of tendon is the smallest of
cities, but the meet valuable, It has all
area of ono 0ilnar0 mile, 10111011 proclltocs a
rental of 1(11,400,0(10 per anihtnn.
TUE
BRUSSELS POST.
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TEE DEVIL -SNAKE,
Let 114 come away from (his end of the
garden," Miriam \Vttriliahe saki to her lover,
as they walked up and .'own. " You ean't
thunk what nu uuenoil,y 011111 comes over me
Whenuvee 1 }1la0s 1(1(8 100.3'. I feel as though
the proofs of sono oil 0riu10 ((lost lie buried
hero,"
' Nonsense, my darling,"answered Bogor
Garnett, trying to laugh away 1(01' fours
with asetun0,1 levity,
1Ie1' words ilad e eeted Mtn strangely, for
apprnauhing tine remote end of the gar -
he had experienced it chill, Moldy sem
n himself.
was an old house at dlighbay, the pro•
orty of Miriam's guardian—just the eat
of old house where an imaginative fancy 1.111
picture a hundred strange sights and
sounds, The present owner was well oil',
but 110 was a strange man and had lot it go
to reek and ruin. Weeds grow unchecked
in that garden. It was surrounded by high
walls, and the roar of buoy London was
wafter' with a n10filo4 sound to its green
seclusion.
' Mr. Westwood used to keep this part
fenced off, didn't Ile'!" Boger asked.
" Yes, until—until the other day, That
strange old vine is one that he brought over
from abroad—South America, I believe.
When I expressed an interest in it, ho had
the seat placed under it for me."
" That was very considerate of him, but
his kindness dons not extend to sanctioning
our marriage,"
" Oh, leo is good enough to m o. It 10 not
that but--"
"But what?" asked Garnett, glancing
quickly at her; was she trying to eonoeal
something from hint? 13nt no, that could
not bo, They were in the very heyday of
their love ; distrust must not enter their
Eden.
011, nothing," she replied, "only—only
I don't know why it is, but I have got to
dread that spot,'
So dirt Roger, and at that very moment
he wee racking his brains to think what
could be the cause. Bnt ho said nothing,
for he know that Miriam was nut very happy
there, and would not needlessly acid to her
cares,
By this time they had reeohed the house,
and Garnett soon took his departure; for he
was there to a certain extent on sufferance,
not being exactly approved of as a suitor to
the young lady's hand.
I1.
That evening Miriam Wardalo was (neo
more out wallc(115 in the garden; but this
time with a totally different companion;
her guardian, Robert Westwood.
"Mr. Garnett has been again to see you
te-day," he said, breaking a long silence
between them.
"Yes."
"I have already said, Miriam, that I
hardly approve of his attentions to you."
"And I have reminded you that the time
18 not far distant when I shall be my owe
mistress."
He bit This lip, and a malignant look shot
from his splendid black eyes; but it was
gone in an instant, and a farsofter light had
replaced it.
1 only speak for your good. I think ho
is wild, and that he only wants you for your
phoney."
"I (101'11 think so," she answered, very
gnietl , but firmly.
"Alt, if you had only consented to cast
your foto in with mine," he said in a deep,
passionate Lone, "many things might have
been different. I am not olcl, you know."
Nor indeed was he. He was barely forty,
and did not look so much as that. A hand-.
sumo man, too, with a black beard ; and al•
though now a peaceful citizen, he had just
that clash of the adventnrorabout him which
would hove oasts glamour over some women.
But not so with Miriam Wardalo. Her
heart was too definitely gone elsewhere out
of her own keeping.
"You are presuming on your position,
4'lr. Westwood, when you speak to 1118 like
this. You accuse others ; what proof havoi
of your own sincerity?"
There was something which Miriam load
concealed from her lover. It was this, for
the present was not the first painful steno
of the kind which had taken place between
her and her guardian. Silo had not spoken
of it to Garnett, because she thought to do
BO might only cause further mischief.
Westwood had by this time led her down
to the old vine, and almost mechanically
sho had seated herself upon the bench. Ho
stood a fogy feet away.
"Perhaps you may have cause to doubt
my sincerity now. For your sake I would
aebnally have settled down into everyday
respectability. Otherwise I shall once more
be an 10hn11101, wandering by myself 011 the
face of the oath, without a (rope in life.
I would have been so kind to you, Miriam.
You should not have lad a wish ungratified.
Brit you have changed 1110 by your coldness
—yon--"
There was a strange gleam in his eyes.
Site sprang to Ther feet in terror, but the
same 0(11(1y feeling tae before came over
her. Tho earth seemed to rise up and sw1101
around her, and she fell uuoonseious among
the branches of the vine,
\\ostwood had not stirred a step to assist
her. His face was livid ; his lips were set
and from between them there broke the
words :
What have I done ? What have I
doe ?"
Then he fled towards the house, as
though a thousand demons had been par.
suing him, and ordered the servants to
go to the assistance of their young mistress,
as oho had swooned in thogardon.
111,
Two days later Roger Garnett called to
800 Miriam, and found rho hot= in oolnmo•
tion, 111100 Wardalo was seriously ill in bod,
from which elle had mover risen since her
fainting fit.
Dr, (.amoral, the fainly physiolan, was
iu Ottolrhuheo, and the ,young 1111111 anxious-
ly asked him what was the clatter,
"Frankly, lir. Garnett," he answered,
"I tam puzzled myself. It seems a neevotu0
attack, complicated with wasting symptoms
that I lever dotoc1Od £111 her constieuti0n
before, Silo is is, little better to -clay, and
you may rest assured that slto is having
ovary care and attention.
Tho amount of 0001solat1011 0oltained in
those words was 11011 very great, and it was
with a sal heart that Roger rose to take
his dopnrtm'c,
Mielesn'e forebodings on his last visit
came back to him, and mentally his nape
Was dir00(011 against hoe guardian. Ho
event down into the garden, thinking to
leave quietly by the back got°, but there
leo came face to fnoo With a.ir. Westwood,
who was p0cing up and clown,
"Good 0velimg, Mer, (Mellott," the latter
said, stopping short. "I think I hevo be-
fore expressed (13' .,isapprovalofyour visits
to my ward, 1 should not liko to 000 any
ono merry her for ler money,
"Yon have 0(0 right to my that to mo
Mr," Bobart Garnett answered hotly. "Selo RUMORS or TapDUEL
will tenni be her own Mistress, and I shall
lin thankful to be silo to get llor away from As 001g111 0,e 03xperled, Ireland neeneonbenefnl influences of this place. Tull
me who. tris curse le winch blights every• :Bost )'runnier Welton.
0110 W110 001004 11111'0 r The anual8 of the Emerald Isle bristle
" R'tuu• (1,1 you 100011 3" cried \Vestwnnd, with incidents of duelling in whieloIrish 118.
white with rage ; "le(ave 1»y house?" And mol•,if not at all times Irish bravery, 10 OEM.
110 80 fax tolet biuwelt as to strnko the spicuous. On 0110 00008(01 tint' .1011011 Bar -
young elan a.erass the chest. ringtou height a d 11o1 W1111 a b,erremar named
Belli were p.osieilat( 10110rea—the ono TloNally. The latter 11,14 roto 1e' ahcrler
1'onerous the other malignant—awl choir than (110 other, and beeauee it Was his habit
)101 0004 t3', now, Cermet gev0 the ether when in a burry to take two thumping
10 blues Which mint, himatai,g(rnlg bookworm; mope with tho Meet leg to bring up the
unl0ng tb0 bushes of the old vino. A wild 0paeemade up by the long one he was mule•
cry look', fruw hint: named "Cne Pound'l'wo, 1LNally could
" Not her” --for (el'a sake! --no there 1" get no ono of his bar to tight hint and 80 he
Bet lto;0r did not hoed him, and strode challenged llua•inglann, who good-naturedly
angrily away, exchanged shpts in the Pleenix Bark. The
Meantime, Robert Westwood tried vain- baronet hit hie opponent in the braces, then
called the "gallows," and feared he had
killed him. When the result was made
known one of the seconds sheeted : "Mau,
you are the only rogue I ever knew who
was saved by the gallows." Sir Jonah Bar-
rington gives several blstanoee of duels iu
which the comic side of the Irish character
came out. One of these occurred in 1773,
when her. Frank Skelton, a boisterous, jok-
ing, fat young fellow, was prevailed on,
much against his grain, to challenge the ex-
ciseman of the town for running the butt
could not enter those doors again ; but he end of a horsewhip down his tllr0001 when
was in a fever of anxiety, and felt that ib he slept drunk with his mouth open. In
was at least some comfort to be uear rain did he remonstrate. The exciseman
could snore' a oandlo with a pistol ball, and
1,0 was as big as a hundred dozen Dandles.
He was forced to the combat. Hundreds of
people Dame to see the fight on the green of
Vary borough. The friends of each party
pitched 11. ragged tent on the green, w11000
whiskey and salt beef were consumed in
abundance. Skelton screwed up his cour-
age with two heavy drams and cell party
took pistols. "Blaze away, boys 1" bellow.
ed the seconds, and Skelton, minding his
instructions to lose no time, let Sy with ono
weapon. " Halloo," shouted the excisemen.
"Pm The devil's cure toyou,
said Skelton, finding his second pistol and
bringing the exciseman to his knees. Then,
however, judging that if he gave the oxciso-
man time to recover his legs be might have
to stand two shots, he bolted as fast as his
lege could carry him, followed by his second
who nursed hint for a coward. "Sure it's
better to he a coward than a corpse," How-
ever, he was dragged to the ground, mud,
luckily, the exciseman was too numb hurt
to shoot. On his recovering the latter in-
sisted on cho.11enging Skelton, who obese
fists 0.S the weapons and the affair dropped..
FIRED 111' TIIE 1111101::EY.
Cornelius O'Lowd,on one of his inimitable
essays, tells ns that once upon a time in
tho County of Clare aquarrel occurred in the
ly to disentangle himself from the bren0118s;
but they surrounded him like the arms of
wino terrible Monster, 110 seemed under
the billueuce of a weird spell. The fibres
ouch:Macl I1bn 81000(3', and soon he lay dere
calm (0(111 1110t4011 18118.
IV.
The following morning, at an early hour,
Roger Garnett was pacing up and down the
street, opposite Westwoods house. He
.\lirialn.
After he had been there some limo, Jen-
kins, the old servant, came up the area
steps and ran across the road to him, evi-
dently ritual agitated.
" Oh, Mr, Garnett I" he exclaimed ; do
Dome in, sir."
" Net now. How is Miss Wardale this
morning ? "
' Very much better thank goodness ; but
something has happened—something so
terrible 1 "
" To her?"
"No, no ; you must come in at once,
sir-"
"I toll you I cannot,"
" Yon must indeed, sir. Dr. Cameron is
there, and bode ale fetch you."
Something In the man's manner surprised
Garnett, and he accompanied him to the
house and up to the drawing -room. There
stood Dr. Cameron with his back to the
fireplace.
' Well, Mr. Garnett," Ile said, " I sup-
pose yon have heard the news ? "
"No; Jenkins tells me you wish to see
me, and--"
"Mr. Westwood is (load I"
"Dead he echoed. (lo could hardly be-
lieve he heard aright. "How did he die ?"
" That isa mystery, so far—as great a
mystery as Miss Wardale'c illness, for tete hunting field between two gentlemen whom
symptoms are the some. As for her, I tun we will 0011 Capt, Robins and W. Jones,
thankful to say she is out of danger now.
The servants declare they saw you in the
garden with 111r. Westwood—that high
words were pes0ing between you--"
"They may have seen 'him strike me. I
struck hint back."
"And he fell among tho branches of the
vine," ankles rejoined. "Thera I found
him late last night ; ho was unconscious ;
we carried hint in, and ho never breathed
or spoke again, He must have fallen when
yeti struck him. Did you not see him
frill ?"
"Ho certainly staggered," replied Roger,
"but 1 went away without looking back.
You surely do not mean to suggest that—
that lie died by my hand?"
"No, no, Mr. Garnett," said old Jenkins ;
"I ain't superstitious, but I believe this
hours 18 haunted, and there's a curse on the
spot where that tree grows."
"That's bosh, you know," said the doc-
tor ; "I thought, y010 110,4 more common
settee, Jenkins."
" Well, sir, 1 only know this, that when
poor master had it over front South Ameri-
esq. Very hot words passed between them.
"Lot us settle the business at once," cried
the captain • "I bac,' pistols in the house."" Nothing better," said the squire : "I'm
your man." It was at length decided that
they should fight in the stable yard at fif-
teen paces, each man to 'told a lantern as a
mark for his opponent. " Where aro you,
you scoundrel?" oried the captain, when
they came out into the yard. " I'm here,
you shoe•blaok," replied the squire. "Stand
out bold," said the captain. " It's what
I'm doing," said the other. "Give the
word and no more talking." " Get behind
the pump, Yee Honor, get behind the pump
before you fire," whispered the groom, pul-
ling the captain by the coat. He did so
and when they blazed it was the squire who
got it and it WES more than three months
before he could get out again. Apropos of
this duel in the dark there in a beautiful
but pathetic anecdote of two men, the one a
"kind man" and the other a "timid man,"
who, Ending themselves unhappily bound
to fight, chose the dark -room duel. The
" kind man" had to lire first and, not wish -
0a, the young man as planed it sickened in, to hurt his adversary, groped his Ivey
and died suddenly. Then Miss Miriam to the clnilrney-pie0e,and placing the muzzle
of his pistol straight up the chhnney pulled
the trigger, where, to 111s eonsternation,with
a frightful yell Clown came his adversary,
the " timid man," who had selected that
fatal hiding place.
How prevalent duelling was in Ireland
may be gathered from the fact that mien of
the highest dignity and most responsible
position were ready to eat fire and testa
steel. The Lord Chancellor, Lord Clare,
fought the Master of the Rolls, Curran. The
Chief Justice, Lord Clonmel, fought Lord
Tyrawley and two others. The Chancellor
of the Exchequer, Isaac Corey, fought
Henry Grattan. The provost of Trinity
College, her, Henry Hutchinson, fought the
Master in Ohaeery, Mr. Doyle, O'Connell
fought and killed her. d'Esterre, the cham-
pion of the Dublin corporation, and, as Bar-
rington,
ar-
he duel " (00 fatal to the
m ton says,
t ct 1
champion orotestant ascendancy. These
are not the only eminent Irishmen who
fought duels, for Sir Jonah Barrington
states that dnt'ing his "grand olinhaoterdo, "
227 memorable and official duels hal been
fought. He tells of olio plan who had fought
no less than sixteen duels, and Mr. S. 0.
Hall describes a field near 080(10bar where
it was stated that sixty fatal duels had
taken plane, the last being that of an uncle
who had shot his nephew of anephew who
had shot his uncle.
swooned at the sante place."
"From South America you say it came 9"
"Yes, sir."
" Well, anyway, let us go down and look
at this wonderful tree."
They all wont down accordingly into
the garden, Dr. Cameron a few paces
ahead of the other two. He stood for
some moments examining the fatal vine;
then suddenly started back again, and
rejoined then at a much quicker pace than
he had employed in goingdown.
"Keep back I" he cried, "keep back
both of you as you value your lfvee 1" The
usually calm physician was mooh excited.
"The thing must be buret by whoever has
courage enough to go near it. It's a Devil -
Snare 1"
"A Devil -Snare I" echoed Garnett, more
bewildered than ever.
" You have never heard of the Dovil-
Snare of Nioaragna?"
"No never."
"Neither should I have done, only
that I have studied the botany of
South Amerion. It is it, terrible
plant 0011ic11 deals death to every-
thing that comes near it. Its powers of
suction are contained in a number of infini-
tesimal months, which drain tine blood
from any living thing placed among is
ghost-like fibres.
1t was even so. Robert Westwood had
had the horrible true plead there with the
diabolical intention of destroying Miriann's
lover by a death whose (muse should re-
main enveloped in mystery, Then, when
she persistently refused his suit, he Indexed
the poor girl Herself to sib under the shade
of its treacherous boughs. nut the hand of
Why a Dog's Tail Wags,
Prof. Einer, in his work on organic) eve.
lution, is not able to explain why the dogs
of Constantinople erect their tail and carry
it upright, while the ancestral wolf and the
jackal carry it hanging down. Dr. Joseph
God hadfrustrroterl his evil intentions, and L' Hancock suggests, n the "Amerman a a-
110 had suconmbed to the sane fate Whish trraliat," that the 1'08000 may bo found in
ho would have aided 000b to others. the fact that as the dog become tlen100ticat•
Miriam, now without a guardian, soon ed, it is prone to use the tail as an organ for
found a protector in a loving husband. She expressing mental states—wagging it when
was mari•ed to Roger Garnett as soon as she ileased, dropping it between the legs when
had recoverecl from the shook consequent
upon these terrible events.
_ Tis 01dest British Vessel Afloat
Tho Victory, framed in English history as
Nelson's flag -ship in his Last battle at Ten,
falgar, and upon whose deck he ro00ivecl in
the course of such battle hie fatal wound in
1805, is tho oldest vessel afloat belonging to
the llribish navy. This Victory, the last of
six vessels of that nr11110 whlohh have eu0-
cessivoly figured in tee annals of British
naval history, now stationed at Pcrtsmonth,
was Munched at Chatham on the 7 th e1 May,
1705, or more than a entail? and a .(aerter
ago. She W118 the Ihlgship of Adnuo0l Kep•
101 in 1778 ; of Lord Howe in 178'2 ; and of
1Lord hood in 1708. The following vessels
rank next in order in point of age, the dates
after their 111am00 being those of their taunoh
or a(1,115on to the navy i^Foudroyant,
1708 ; Euglo, IIibarniit 1801 ; Implacable
(ox Dugttay14olin), 1805; Leonidas, 1807 ;
OoiIjlteatadOr, Excellent tote Quoou Char.
lotto), 1810 ; Porto (ox Pembroke), 1.812 ;
Cornwall (ox Wollosloy), 1813 ; Cornwallis,
Briton, 1511 ; St. Vincent, 1815 ; 'l'rin-
oon1a10(, 1Vlyrtic (ex Malabo'), 1810 ; l'itt
(ox Compordown), 1820 ; and (10nge , 1821.
The only wooden vessel now in t e nova)
°Mel 3'a list fs tllo Dart, a surveying vessel
of 470 tons.
BRITISH PLAN QF DEFENSE,
.Positions of Strength Sought Between
Egypt and India.
'Menem'', that a Prefer. era lu 14111 no E1; -
40000d 0000 the Sultan:ire to 1ei;;hpy
O'robttble.
There is nothing improbable in the rumor
tll.tt Great 1.11 item proposes to establish a
protectorate over 0011Lh010 and eastern
Arabia. From the British puha of view
such an extension of Milt:epee tholeregions
would be highly .5011010 and the ,11111cultles
to be over1onu 10 effecting it are slight.
Acoordiug to the statement of the Berlin
newspapers, which started the story, the
present sultan of Zanzibar is to bo deposed
in favor of a rival of his OW11 kindred.
British influence de strong enough in the
nfrioan sultanate to effect such a revolution
without trouble and the consideration stated
that Muscat was to accept of British pro-
tection, points to the likelihood of the lima
of Zanzibar and Muscat under a ruler
acceptable to Great Britniu. The same
family supplies rulers to both dominions.
and until a generation ago they were cont-
prisod within the same sultanate.
Zanzibar was founded by Omani Arab
merohants, chiefly from 2luecat, and there
is acaraely a notable family fn southeastern
Arabia which has not a. branch in the Afri-
can dominion. The political separation of
the two states was due to a wllitu of the
Sultan Saeed, who, greatly against the
wishes of his subjects, bequeathed Zanzibar
to a favorite son, another succeeding in the
regular course to Muscat. Tho present crisis
may result in the union of the sultanates
by the help which the British can give to a
pretender willing to place himself under
their protection.
The need of external protection for Mus-
cat is not obvious. The Wababee power
in central Arabia, whioll WAS for01001y a
serious menace to Omani independence, has
declined so much within the present gen-
eration that the people of the coasts have
ceased to regard it as dangerous. The
Turks have encroached o11 the Hasa region,
which occupies the Arabian shore of the
Persian gull, but Omani is too remote to
fear aggression from them. The advant-
age of the protectorate would therefore rest
with the ruler rather than the people, as in
the case of Afghanistan. The sultan would
acquire security of tenure, which would be
a pleasant tiling for himself, but the people
would have to forego the only constitution-
al right that oriental communities value,
that of deposing a ruler when they consid-
er they have had enough of him.
Great Britain will profit exceedingly by
any change which gives her a foothold in
Arabia. Muscat is capable of being strong-
ly fortified and would be a valuable naval
station whether directly under British rule
or not. Apart from the value of such a post
on the road to India, the commercial advan-
tage would be very great. The Omani Arabs
are the richest, the most intelligent, and
the most enterprising people of the country.
They are less warlike than other Arabs and
have the commercial instinct mo1'0 highly
developed. No better agent for the intro-
duction of British staples to interior Arabia
and to Africa 0010(11 be found. 'Both in dos-
ertoaravans and in journeys by sea they
they show themselves enduring mud resource-
ful. Not being true Mohammedans, they
are not fatalists, and consequently 011 criti-
cal occasions try every chance for life and
safety instead of resigning themselves to
destruction. Such people are eminently
fitted for British protection if they can be
induced to seeept it.
Little Things.
It isonrious to note that many things which.
have turned out most useful discoveries for
man, having a great infiuenoe upon the
lives and destinies of mankind, owe their
beginning to some alight accident.
It is said that the art of printing took its
origin from some rude impressions taken
(for the amusement of children) from letters
carved on the bark of a beech tree.
Gunpowder was discovered from the fall-
ing of a spark on some materials mixed in a
mortar.
The stupendous results of the steam-en-
gine may all be traded to the boy who sat
watching the steam which came from the
nose of the teakettle.
Electricity was discovered by a person
observating that a piece of rubbed glass at-
tracted small bits of paper.
Pendulum clocks were invented after
Galileo stood observing the lamp in a church
(swinging to and fro.
The telescope we owe to some children of
a spectacle -maker placing two or more pair
of spectacles before each other and looking
through them at the distant sky. Their
idea was followed up by older heads.
Sir Isaac Newton was sitting in his gar-
den one clay ellen he SW an apple fall
from the tree. This coil men occurrence set
him to thinking why thing)] should fall
down and not up, and this train of thought
led him to tho discovery of the law of grav-
itation.
Every ono can now appreciate the fnhpor-
tanee of the slight matters spoken of, be-
cause the wonderful results ale now before
the world, But the beginnings of those
things were treated with ridicule or con-
tempt, No matter 'low uuimportant a cies
oum8t0000 appears, it is quite passible that
great results may cone from it. In a small
building whioll was moo Peter the Great's
workshop in Holland is the inscription—
" Nothing is too little for the attention of a
great elan."
The Wonderful Modern Riede.
A German army officer struggling with it
prisoner catches 01p a military rifle and
shoots his opponent through the 'lead.
c isappoin Led or frightened. The ancestral After passing through two thicknesses of
wolf carries it hanging down because in that skull the ballet penetrates the partition of
position it is less conspicuous and bettor a railway carriage and imbeds itself in the
eludes demotion. A family of wolves play- flesh of a passenger. But this is nothing. A
ing together undisturbed occasionally carry
their tails curled Upward. By degrees the
tail acquires naturally the upright position
as a result of eoinoldlout °volution of the
mind of the wolf by domestication and of
bhr slow adaptation of the appendage 0.e an
organ of expression. Tho cessation of 010'
tura selection in the domestic dog would
giro the tail greater freedom of ((notion with-
out detriment to life, and artificial 01/081011 500101011ta with the Cadaver 0.S 0, target show,
modifies it into various shapes.—(l'hilarlei- 1 this conclusion sound. Now as the trajectory
pltia Lodger,•of those proje tile0 is a very low one, the
Schoolboy. spaoo within which neon 1vI11 be subjsoted
A Sharp Sohtlolbtly. to moll clangors in the field Inas been great-
ly extended. It is thought that Piro may be
A schoolmaster once said to itis boys that opened from a distance of 2,200ards. Te
he would give a 01'01811 t0 any 0110 of them is found on trial that good marksmen oan
who W001(1 propound a riddle loo oould not mance 150 p0r Dont of hits against targets of
antiwar, suitable dimensions at 1,8311 yards, \Vith
Ile wont around to all tee boys' in the smokeless powder, and the 00n)]051tmM
olass until the eamo to the het one. \\ ell, facility of liutnguishing clearly at long (Ha-
ssid tlo 'master to the boy, Can you give
lances, tete aim may become mere accent
100 0010?" than luta l,oret.efe'o been 'Moven. T1(000
"Yes, alt'," 0111110(1 11(0 bay " Wby ata I considered( 111 11000 led to a Call of an inter.
like the Prince of Wales?" national eooferaneo 011(11111111' 111eairi ! mon
Tho n0(0100 puzzled Ins brains for same witdt it 01000 10 100111 illg 1101,11.11 melee to
minutes for an 0110W00, but 0011111 11,1 8110100 the u0w "1"1"" of the tient.
t11e correct oho, At last 110 exclaimed ; 'I'nl
Sure 5 donut, lrnov. v,...
" \Vlhy, replied the boy, because I'm Satisfied '1011 ('1101 only bo found In sof'
waiting for the crown," fine
laborer near the Euglislh pram:lee camp of
Aldershot was recently struck ata distance
of 2,500 yards, or 0110 111011 one-half miles.
Tho bullet after passing completely through
the upper part of the thigh buried itself in
the ground. Theoretically it was evident
that the penetrative energy of those now
Millets ought to bo capable of passing
through several mon in 811000801011, Dud OX*