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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1892-7-15, Page 7JuLY 15, 1892 THE BRUSSELS POST. AUSTRALIAN EXI'LORATION. Suffetinge and Failure of the I:incise:7 Party, Tee Expedition 0M i0 Complete the Ex. adoration or ,e intern la, nut It Wits rectively Organized—The ese or Vain - els. Dismal failure lin been the lot of the large Tarty, led by David Lincleay, that was fitted out at groat oust over O year ago to complete the explar. talon of inner Auetralia, The terrible heat and the parelied desert area% where hardly a. drop of water could be found, are the primary causes of the disaster, The highen hopes had been aroused by the enter, prise. Tbe Bohemia of exploration had boon tormulatedby.tholloyalGeographiealSomeey of Australasta. The money requiree, amounting to thousands of dollen, had been provided by one man—Sir Thomas Elder—the wealthiest and most euthusitts• tie promoter in Australia of seience mud discovery. Everythinglooked bright for the expedition when in Apen last year David Lindsay, a tried arid suceeseful ex- plorer, started from Adelaide with twelve comrades, including a scientific ataff of nine men and forty-two camels to complete the map of Australia. The work of exploring inner Australia had, in the past, devolved chiefly upon nine men, of whom Litelsay was OPO, Our nap shows the most important routee of these travellers. undo tutztvr ent.t01d0 of which nothing was heater, were to be brought by the teuth expe'dition tv the knowledge of the world. All of them are west of the overland telegraph. The first unknown urea to be visited was that be- tween the southern teeth of Giles and that of J. Forrest, asel was about 1,300 miles long thom east to wese and 330 miles wide, After crossing this strip Lindsey was to turn north to the headwaters of the Murchi- son River, and then work his way back cast through the unknown region between the routes of Giles and Warburton, estimated to be 000 miles long and 200 miles wide. The third unexplored district, where Lind- say was to and hie labors, lies in what is known as the Northern Territory, mostly between the overland telegraph and the Victoria River, and is a region of some 400 by 300 miles. The routes actress the greet interior which the neap shows could never have been followed if it had not been for the inerodue• tion of the camel. Early explorers used horses as baggage animals, and their suc- cess was poor because water is a scarce oommodity in the gent wastea. No Artie euthusiast, no explorer of tropical Africa, has ever endured more terrible suffering then hart fallen to the lot of Australian travail:we. "Tho History of Australian Exploration," says Ritchie, gives the high• est idea ot the grandeur and fortitude of man." Steam brought in a new era 1 Arc- tic exploration. Camele introduced into Australia from Arabia, in 1846, made long and successful journeys in inner Australia The camels Lindsay took with him were in charge of their Arabian drivers. They harl been in the country three years, and, hav- ing become accustomed to the changed conditions of air and forage, could be de. pencled upon for goal service. After leaving the land of the overland telegraph, Liudsay's real work began at the Evened range of high hills. Ole soon dia. covered that his aration enterprise had fallen upon evil. times. In all that regiou NOT A artor 00 w.Vrzu had fallen in two years. Sources of water that had been discovered earlier wore wholly dried up. _4.t.the start, however, the party were able to fill their water bags, and they set out bravely for the unknown west. Over the parched plein they toiled, pan Blyth Range, and oti to Borrow Range. ele the Blyth hills they obtained a small supply of water, but by the Dime they reached Bor- row Range the situatiou had become very serious. They decided wisely that to push into the uuknown regioes beyond would probably cost the lives of all. It became now a hunt not for geographical discoveries, but for water. Over 400 miles southwest was a remark- able little mei% discovered by E. Giles in 1875. He reported that thousands of cattle and sheep could be raised in this verdant place. There was a•bundent animal life and a One growth of grass in the little area a few square miles in extent, and Giles call. ed the water he found there Queen Victoria Springs. The Lindsay party etruck out straight for these springs. What was their horror, when they arrived there with their camels in a. perishing condition, to find that the terrible heat and long droughe had turned the green oasis into a scorched and berren desert, Not a drop of water could be seen, and yet they must have water or <lie. 'With the frantic energy of despair they began to dig in one of the hollows, and at the depth of Weide: feet they reached water so impregnated with alkali as to be al. most undrinkable, but, bad as it was, neither mita nor beast refused it. The party filled their water bags and advanced 150 miles further south before they came to a fairly good water supply. It had been one of the most terrible marches in the history of explention. For thireeetive days the party had marched Intruntt Tux Mast= sox and had bound only a tow quarts ot water, For twenty.rour days elle camels Led not a drop to drink, and the thirteen men had an allowance of only three pints each a day, le is surprising that only three of the camels died, but when they reached the coast at Esperance Bay on Oot. 14 last they wore scarcely ohle to stand. Two weeks rest was neoesseay before the party could start north aging iu the hope of seeing their ex- pedition fren utter failure. He lammed thee he could not count nu a drop of water tothenoethof Hampton plains. Turning to the west and then to the northwest he streek out for the upper Muse 'chime river, his eeenele becoming rapidly weaker on aceount of their greet auffeeings from thirst. At last the long lateet diseensione in his party burst into Ilene. The entire scientific staffaocused Lindsay of unkind and 'arbitrary -conduct and of grave eliemenagernent. They resigned together, and, making their way to the west coast, left Lindsay to struggle ou with hie bream: and camel drivers, Though for tt short time his meat were to far gene with thirst that they could not eat, the plucky velem' mede faie progress until ho readied Ontikelimik's ranch, not far South of the Murchison, Lindsay now thought his trouble e wen nearly over, and he had high hopes of ace complithing something tater alt, IVlat wee his dismay, therefore, to fled ee a ranch a telegreen from the geogettpeical society Calling him back. The tows of the dean. den 01 1110 nit:Mille trowirades had entailed Adelaide, and the expedition which all Australia lied Watched with the deepest Interest had ben pronounced a feiture. Lindsey loft his needs and hemmed 10 00 - turn by easy sentea. He Modelled to Ade. laide and at once propneed to the geograple hal :moiety to explore at lent the central pare of West Austedie, lie wm era:di:lent that he would find running Witter there, Sir Thomas Elder, however, reline expressing great confidence In Lindsay, claelined to refit the txpedition for the previa. The whole enterprin ten therefure abieulr The expe.li don added nothing whatever to geographical Isnowledge except the die. cotery and namir g of four umuntains. Geographers aro agreed that its feilere was nce. due to inefficiency ou the part of its leader, He ie responsible, however, for mistakes in orgenieing the party. IL W54 0 bliaider to take thirteen nem am' forty-two camels for a journey of many hundreds of miles through regions where scarcity of water was to be expected. Large as his party was Lindsay says he would have pulled through had he obtained 2,000 gallons of Witter. In places where writer ordinarily was to bo expedite by digging three or lour feet he found at a depth of fifteen feet small quaneities that would have helped a small party, but wen havilly a thimbleful a piece for hie large force, th 1887.8, this experiene- ed explorer orosse 1 Australie from Port Darwin to Adelaide, accompanied only by a native boy and four•baggage aniinale. If he had started on his latest journey WITII FLYING COLUMN of four experieneed bushman and eight camels, the result might have been different. As it was his unwieldly party of nictitate expertd had no knowledge of bush or desert, navel, but their appetites Wore good and they needed plenty of water. le should noe be inferred that all these in. land regionare permanently unfit for lumen enterprises. Lindsey sew them last when they wen soffering from an unusually prolonged period of drought, but much ef this region needs only earn to vivify it. Natives inhabit certain distrfuts,T ant.eente Lind - 50)' saw them drawhig their watee supply front the roots of small trees called the mallee tree. He says they can tell by the Impearance of the trees 'which will yield a supply of pure water. Mr. Charles Cliewings and other authorities insert that immense expanses of inner Australia, once believed to be nothing but useless desert, contain large numben of natural artesian sprit lee and they believe that by artesian irrigation many hundreds of thousands of acres will yet be reclaisned for man, Australia and Africa hate this striking difference among others. Africa is like an inverted saucer, the interior being higher than the rim of the continent. Australia ts the saueeo in its usual position, the inner plateaus being lower than the more oe less mountainous outer portions. When the early travellers saw the country beyond the highlands of the southeast coast descending to lower levels they imagitied their must be some gnat Caspian sea within which received all i tinning waters. In place of this central, imaginary sea, nowever, there exist only compteratively small basins with. out exterior drainage; and it is the utter lack of rivers available as highways to the far interior that has made the exploration of inner Australia so difficult. The history of Australian discovery is more crowded, in proportion, with tragical incidents than thee of any other continent. Many explorers have succumbed, setne killed by the natives and others OVERCOME BY FATIGUE, thirst and hunger. Friends have separat- ed, appointing a rendezvous ae some lake or eminence that the treacherous mirage pictured in the distance, and have never met nein. Many a record of travel bus a story of intense suffering amitl tar spread sand dunes, of floundering through saline marshee or thorny spin ifed, the terror of all Antralian oxplorers, with beat intolerable by day and freezing temperature at night, The botanist Cunningham was inurdered by the natives of the Bogen Rivet) in 1835. The se.van tImichardtafter his first gentjourney, attempted 11118.17 to cross the con Linen t from east to west, and disappeared with his en- tire piety from human ken, leaving no trace that has ever been discovered. Burke and \Villis perished of their privations in 1800 not far from Lake Eyre, and the only survivor of their party was King, who was rescued by a relief expedition. These are only the most conspicuous of the tragedies of Antralian exploration. Geographers began to think it was impos- sible to non Australia through ite centre. Filially Smith Australia offered a reward of $50,000 to the first man wile should traverse the continent from south to north. Stuart made two attempts, and failed. He tried again hi 1862, and won the rich prize, fol- lowing the route that is now occupied by the overland telegraph ; and it has been said that he stood upon the verge of the Indian Ocean, "gazing npon it with as much delight as Balboa when he had cross- ed the Isthmus of Darien from the Atlantic to the Pacific.' Stations are now °stale lishod along the telegraph route, and in re- cent years they have been the base of opera, tions of all expeditions that have pioneered the Ivey into various parts of western Ails. tralia. In view of the disastrous collapse of the Lindsay expedition it may be scene time be- fore the land explorrnion of Australia is 'completed, but the present failure ts nob at all likely to be regarded as final. The Head Surgeon bf the Lubon Medical Company is now at Toronto, Canada, and may be consulted 'either in person or by letter on all chronic) diseases peculiar to Man. Ai( n, young, old, or middle-aged, who find themselves nerve oue, weals and exhausted, who are broken down from excess or overwork, remelting in many of the following symptoms: Mental depression, pretnature old age, loss of vital. ity, loss of tnernory, had dreams, dimness of eight, palpitation of die heart, emissione, leek of energy, pain in the kindeys, head. mho, pimples on the face or body, Rolling or peouliar sensation about the Scrotum, wasting of the organo, dizzin, • ess apeeke before the eyes, tw telling of the muscles, eye lids and elaewhere,bashfulness, deposits in tho urine, loss of Willpower, tenderness of the scalp and vine, weak and flabby muscles, desire to Sleep, failure to be rested by sleep, constipation, dullneseof hearing, loss of voice, desire for solitude, exeitability of temper) aunken eyes surrounded with LEADEN canoe% oily lookieg skin, doe are all Symptoms of nervous debility that lead to inanity and death unless cured. The spring or vital force having lost ite tension every function wanes in eonsequence. Those who through abuse neunitted 10 ignorencso nay be pee- manently tiered. Send you, address foe book on all dinases peculiar to mate Hooke seht free seeled. Heardisesee, the itympteme of Which aro famtspoile, purple nemleans, pelpitation, drip buts,' hot flushes, eush of blood to the head, dull pein in the heart with bean aerong, tepid MO irregular, the Beend heart beet' quielne thea the first, pain about the breasb bone, one can pooitdvety bemired. Isto dun, no pay. Send for boo Addl. escr , V. P,BON, 4 MacdonelfAem Tertelto, Oat , ANIIMM*1•1010.0* 3 A Mother's Garden, ee her In the dear, dead mire, I nest in her apt met Lunen way'; i cateli some sweet or humorous Denise; she fen sloe anti then all disappears iu 0 quiek Joist of horning tears. cebit te, end she conies ageln. Awl bolters ovl, 0. l,o loitered oft Upon the long lawns, e•oseand soft, Tending the blmomins that might mime WWI thirsting foe the Sommer rain, Like her own children, well she knoW The tell drrn of her gerdomr,goch, And nol iistered to all and each. From woodbine Art ring for the blue, 'fa homol • lavender and rue. She loved Otani:log on awl -tying stern, The yel ow Wiles' Mitt sweet blIeit Tim del rate MY cleMatk And e Star of Bethlehem ; She wet° tett and tended all or than A.nd many a fragrant flower that yet In fancy I can smell again Ab two, or inter Summer rain; The none, eweets when deovy•wet, 1-Vibli pansies, wall flow'rs, and mignonette And lavish roses;still I. see Iler 'mid them; hoar the names I know, "31,0 Moss nose," "General J auto collo:lot,' "SaIrronl," and the 11500 0111 tree " Temscorded." sweet as it could be, 13n1 'mill the many flowers that wore One might not thrive, and still itpart The child bit longing takes my heart, " Would Mat the Daphne had lived there, Since Ililo Wits so desired by her." Balkh I what matter now; the grace fa vanished of her gentle touch ; The boa ettlin t cartel for all so much. The noble moth, tho loving face, Have pas8ed unto a higher place. The walks, Lilo lawns, the rustling MIK The mimic wood formally a fern, Expect no more her slow return ; Now names, now oreiN.s catch the breeze, And all Is changed save memories But these aro ours mall We's/dope Inns down Into the darkened dale, AIM 'Os by thee') the mew even To :min los still, a,: still w 3 grope To wet d their high, accomplished 1o11 ber's Journal. KATs. (•,t [CHM, Delays not Denials. came um breath of the eoutio Like a Itiss from the mouth Of a mother. And the Joy spread apace, The (lowers in each place Told each other. On swIftgituleome wing Vitine 1 thr stio to slog, And the lark to bond over The young grass and clover, And the world seemed to ring With 0 welcome to Spring— Then the Winter laughed out, And canoe back with a shout Of cold winds, like a foe All unwilling to go. Tho birds and the flowers Passed some dark silent hours Unelated. But thougla Spring may delay, She 10 00 sure as the day, So they waited. And soon o'er the land Came the touch ot a hand ln gentle caressing, With the gift of a blessing: And a victory song That was sweet, loud, and long, Prom glad hearts was upraised, Until everything praised Tho victorious king. For the victor Was Spring 011 feint -hearted men, Learn the lesson again, Oft repeated. Nor elutrnshly say, Whr•n the blessingS delay, You are cheated, Learn patience, gain strength Every good comes at length ; And the song is tbc sweeter, The Joy iscompleter. ler love that is late. bravehearted and wait ; And be strong to endure, For God's blessings arc sure, His delay is your rust, Ancl his time is the best. —Marianne Farningliam. TB.E DEEP ESTHOLE IN THE EARTH. observations eY Tex—no7e-vaiture at Depths of' More Than a Mlle. Although mountains end cliffs have ireli- cated the formation of projections of the earth's cruse and mines have shown to some extent the formation under ground, the very deepen mines hrive not permitted the extem sive and 'minute researches den geologists and scientists have desired. Borings am limited, of course, by natural obstacles, like exceedingly hard formations, and by the expense, eaten the purpose be to ascertain the location of minerals worth mining, or get a supply of water, as in artesian wells, Holes for geological research need not be very large, but they must be very deep, and it is natural to suppose that interese has been excited by the reports of observations in the deepest hole in the world. The hole is at Sehladebach, near Ketschan Germany. It is 5,735 feet in depth, and is for geological rese0rell solely. 13oring was begun in 1880 under the direetion of the Royal Mines Commission of Prussia. The WOrk wee carried on under great dIftioulties, and the accideuts and delays would have discouraged the engineers if it had been a private enterprise, but it being a State work the obstacles were overcome, notwith- standing the expense, and the boring was continued for six years at a cost of more than $53,000. At the depth of 5,735 feet, however, the engineers had so many mishaps that it was evident that for a while and until the ingenuity of man could deviee bettor means operations would have to be discontinued, Progress was slow and the expeusea had inoreased beyond expeotarnon. The drills wore withdrawn and the thermo- metric measurements were continued down to the lowest depth. The hilted diameter of the hole is 11.2 inches. The first drilling epparatais was of Ole drop -tool form and a casing was net down as the drilling progressed. At a depth of 87 feet the casing of that Wee would hot go any further, and the drilling was centime - ed without it. Subsequently a casing 0.2 inches in diameter had to be used through a layer of loose material, Beyond a depth of 574 feet die boring was eotninued by means of a diamond drill 8.4 inches in diameter, that out a core 54 inchee in diameter. The size of the hole had 10 1)0 decreased gradual. ly as eho depth increased. At a depth of 3.- 510 feet the diameter was 1,62 inches, and at 5,655 feet and beyond it Wes 1.3210101108, Owing to two long interruptions and other del eye, the average daily rate of boring was about 4.50 feet. The thermometric ineastiroments were he - gun after a depth of 3,936 feet hied been marked, and were ropeeted at (ferny hun- dred feet. The tallest observations hen been noted with care end during oonsiderable periods of thne, The thermometers wore fixed ina water Amebae, that WitS enolosed in a. wrotigh tdron easing to prevent breakage of the inetruments ender the peossere at the great- depths, wittee being used to dear out the hole. Throe thermometers wore used for each reading, and the mean of their Indies,. tions was taken as the result of the measure. mat. I'or oath observation the thermome• ton were loft in the holeabout sixteen hours. The observatio»s ehowed dun the tempera. ture increased regularly cold oonstantly with the increase of depth. Anording to the Gamete method of reading, the lemperetnee at 5,628 feet wee 45.3 0 le• 1188,80 Feline, aed thee the increase Was 1* It for every 46.00 metres (ebottt 151 feet.) Thua is History Made. It was apori,e0 of great political exeite. inent. Constitetion— with a caPitai C. -- began to make frequent appear:items, as it hue a habit of demg at such times, in the publio prints ; the people room in num nostanees, Co the same typographleal dignity: reference% vague yet emphatic, ware made to the Charter ; and, while :tome astute politicietut 1,51111111 10 51 0000 of gold, others, eoganier,11), Astute, pointed to an epch oof do. m But this exeitement, intense though it wee—intensee though it promised to be— tel:A trivial compared to thins which reigned la the hoeschold of Eairholine, the ountry seat of 51r, Seradwick, M. P. for Sultan. The caret ully prepared speech of the honor. able member had vaniehed—gone as by magio—no one know how, and, after 4111' gout search, none wind fled whither, It had taken its Right, though without the conditions which weuld entitle it to the designation of "the flight oratorical." The manuscript which contained Ale. Stradwiek's golden thoughts had reeted serenely on his library table at 11 a. m,; at 12a. m. not the alightest trace ofit could be found. That was perplexing—nay, extremely annoying. The dissomivation ef a speeeh is a good thing in its way,. but its author is at least entitled to two things ; first, to know how it is dissenduated ; second, whore. Therm eesentials bed been treated, in this instance, as a matter of no aoneequence. But for one circumstances it is impossible to :my in what manner this search woeld have terminated. At 1,'.. In. the train start- ed which was to oonvey Mr. Stradwiek to his Parliamentary duties in London. He had risen to the Spartan necessity of malt• ing the journey without hie sprier:1e but be lied a little deughter, Miss Bessie Strad. wick, the sole representative of his house, name and torten() (for he was a widower), to whom it was incumbent upon him as a parent first of all to bid farewell. While be was waiting, Themes, the page boy, who had been dispatched with the message to Bessie's giWerneea, entered in a state of breethless excitement. Mr. Stradwiek was pacing up and down the library, The carriage was welting outside, veady to con. vey hum to the stollen. "Well, where is the child? " he inquired. The youth was breathless, and nuld only stammer out " If yon'—please—sir"-- Alt I Ise° what ibis; you mean to say my child is lost as well ?" Ye—ye—yes, sir "— "Yes 1' exelanned Mr. Stradwick, ring. ing the bell with great vigor. In answer to its imperative summons in ceme servants from all directions. "No, air : I didn't mean that," hastily replied the bewildered Buttons. " Yes, sir ; and no, sir ? What the deuce do you mean? Can any of yeti eet an in- telligent answer froni this— this youthful candidate for Hanwell ?" The footman, the butler, the houaemaid, the cook stared aghast at the boy who at length jerked out " I've found itt" ",Found what ?" came the general chorus. " Master's Iteration 1" "My speech—, ou've found it ?" eagerly queried Air. Stradwick. "1 beg to with- draw," unconsciously adopting the Portia- mentery formula; "you sha'n't bee, candi- date for Hanwell. But where is it ?" " Outside, sir." " Outside? Why, in the name of won- der, didn't you bring it in then ?" " If you please, sir, I couldn't." " Really 0 I didn't think its arguments made it so weighty as all that. When you have another lucid interval perhaps you'll explain," " It's ovum there," said the boy, with a jooro,krof his head in the direction of the d " Over where ?" Thomas's solo response was to march out of the libtary, followed by his master, the butler, the footman, the houseteuid, the 000k. Then he mounted the stein, folksy - ed by the same exalted contingent, and paused opposite a large open window that ovi:erlooked the grounds, that was mounting higher and higher int tio sTklyieit is sir I" Re pointed to a kite .re " Ily speech there?" " Yes, air." It was Mr. Stradwick's turn to look be. wildered. " How the deuce did it get there?" " On the tail," was the laconic response. Stradwick gazed in amazement. Lofty periods indeed 1 Shades of Demosthenes and Cicero 1 to what was his eloquence aspiring? To the conversion of the gods themselves ? To instruct and guide erring humanity was the aim of ordinary rhetoric; much more exalted fate, it seemed, had been reserved for his. "And who has dared" --Mr. Stradwick turned furiouslyupon Buttons, but pulled him self up with a jerk, An idea had struck him. Ah 1 I understand ; it's that mis. obievious little elf, Bessie, who has done this. Bring her to me—at once!" Mr. Stradwick had conjectured rightly. It win "that mischievous little elf, Bessie," who bad been chiefly responsible for sending her papa's oration on a mission to that Upper Rouse repeesented by Cloud land. A playmate of hers was a certain ingenious young genbleman known by the style and title of Master Stanley Hendee Somers. Early that morning he had apprised her ef the joyful fact that he had a new kite. Now, kites, as we all know, require tails, mid Master Somers, finding the material be possessed not quite adequate to the conStme. tion of that appendage, had tempted Bessie to an act of petty larceny. She had enter- ed the library, had caught sight of the manuseripe ttpun the table and had instant- ly reinject:wed that it was "just the thing," The reaeletion was no sooner put than oar. ried, 'melee contraclicente ; and thus it 'was thee Mr, Stradwiek's oration appeared in that crowning aohlevemont of a kite, if the phrase may be applied to a terminal— its tail: In a remnant or two illiss Bessie, a We- ll/tired, sweet -foxed girl of 7, apponred be. for her father, She held in one hand, ans. polder' by its leg, a doll (much battered and clistigered), whioli enjoyed the distinguish. od name of Lulu ; the other rested confid- ingly upon the broad beak of Sambo, the mastiff, who had followed his little miatrese into the hottee MI attendant bodyguard. Thlis the oulprit appeared hefore her judge. In his anger, Mr. Stradwiok seized the mute, inexpensive Lulu, and threw It in a corner of the library, Thou he sternly re- buked the child, ordering her to 1101. room, end mitasteict injunctions to the servants thee she was to be kept there a dose primer for the remainder of the day, Poor child 0 So nohow she had never been held in the higheet few))) by her father, Hoe Meddled caused her methotes Me only brel she boon the harbinger of fortune—that might hew been forgiven— but Mr, Stradtviok had wiehed for 0 00)—' forau heir to the name, fame and enetee of the house of Stredwielt. And hero you have e feethee erne 00 the indignation of the father as he dem to &hoe etatiot, minus his orelion ; to the teen of the ehild as she wept her little heart out in solitary con. tinernent, anconecioue of the enortnity of Ohs deed she had perpetrated upon the honored le member, boie conetituente, and the distinguished miserably ef which he wee a rep resell tad ve, * 0 0 A "fimelined whip" had been tient out lay the Covernment to their :supporters ;foe Ole vote upon the metteure before, the frouse waif one in whioli their political existence 9, as involved, Parties were so evenly bal. :wind 0111110 question under di:menial) that it was thought on all aidete be a " near thine The whips ha'l been enjoying a lively time of It. The fall areillery of the front benches, Ministerial end Opposition, had been brought into pley, anti had die - played their pewees of attack timid the ap- plause or groans, as the case might be, of their respenlve adherents. The ern:Remain of the Parliamentery battle was reflected oatside. Meetings had been held In all directions. The supporters of the Government heel passed resolutionof congratulation and encouragement ; their opponents had passed reeolutiens uf condem- nation and discouragement. Oa the one hand, the unbiased spectator would have imagined that the country and institutions were effete, going to destrunion at express aimed ;on the other, that it was marching aleng,under astute guidance, to the guerdon of a golden age. It was the °losing night of the debate and the division was expecte:I at an early hour in the morning. " In tend Speaking tomight, S tradwi ok ?" inquired 51r. Merton Hewitt of that gentle- man, as they sat discussing current events oeer a eigae in the awaking room of the House, jun as tbe debate had been reopen. ed, Pnblicly, then two politicians were opposed to mich other, PrIvately, they One ,ley inaMina threw some baked leans were the best ef friends. " Intend spanking me, the wa,t,r, and the fishes liked them eh to night, Stradwick ?" well me cake, " No. 1 had the best intentions that way wh„„ 101 cm= „aq male virgie imisted. aud heil prepared an oration that would on giving seine to her pets. She held a tea. have thrown dismay inio our ranks ; but spoonful under the water, and before it could Ole fates were against me." dissolve, the fishes ate at it as daintily as. " Yes, they usually spoil a good thing. though they had dined from silver all their But in what way have they etumbled lives. At this moment an intendant p1004a them a long and teerful farewell. But she against you this time?" .A.1 the end of the eummer Virgie bade letter in Mr. Stradwiek's hand. dried her tears when papa told her he had "11, 1" said 31r, Merton Hewitt, with a captured Papa and efamma Efornpout to laugh, "a corrective from one of your eon. carry home for his aquarium.--[EllaD.Gray, stituents— to be well shaken before taken. in Our Little Ones. 111 leave you to enjoy the nauseous dose in peen." THE Z.EBEA. And, so saying, the honorable gentleman WILD departed for the more heated atmosphere of the House.(an Re Change His Stripes When 7nrsnede Mr. Strelwick stared in astonishment as the letter brought to hint, Well he might ! This was the address: MR, STRADWIC101, S•KIRE, 51. P., for Sel ton, Hous of Commis, Lunden. Ile turned it over first this way, then that, members of our party commented on the and then, with grave deliberation, opened difficulty of armieg zebras oven at moderate the envelope. Autl this is What, he read: distances, although there was nothing to Darlin' Papa,—I'm very, very, sorey, hide them, the black and white stripes and guyneas has always said that wen blending ao completely that the animals a little girl% sorey she tint to say so ; sol ye I assume a dull brown appearance quite in got Stanley, who earl rite beter and seal !harmony with the general color of the beter than 1 can, to send this letter. He locality in which theyerefound, and in which, says that he% mem to, and will never mak for instance, Roof Rehook (Pelee capreoleas) any more kite tales. He will only spin tops and play sojers. He's gain to be a sojer , is also well proteend on anount of its himself wen he's a man, wich won% belo, peculiar brownish coat. ng A member of our party, who on another becos he's groin fast. We tried to put the but 1,,nede occasion gave proof that he is possessed of peases of the tale together agen, excellent eyesighe, and who has frequently our Inds ake. Stanley says your ritin% so . hunted in similar localities, saw a zebra bad. So, as we couldn't do that, we twit O long, long wile, and 'node a speech for you, I legs,wliioh was wounded in one of the front at a distance of about 400 yards, and whit] we hope will do instece—Your sorey little girl, 13ess. strange to say he took it for a big baboon. In a letter which I received from him a few Inclosed will) this, on c. large sheet of days ago, he said: "It galloped like a ba - foolscap, very much blotted was the follow. Dorm front 110, and I could only see that the ing : color was grayish-browit. At about 500 SI -TACIT 01' Mn. STRADWIMI, yards from me it ran on to a little kraut, Jentelmen (Stanley saYs &ll sPeaches . and monnting the highest rock, drew oto comens with jeutlemeu)-1'm the papa of &, body together just as a baboon does when little girl named Bess. She hasn't no br ' in four feet; are all together on the summit ers or sisters, end no mamma. But she hes of a little rock." Elia remark as to the gray - a kind, good papa, who only gets X wen she ish-brown color of the animal is the more tares his speeches. Peeps you have little i valuable, as I believe this gentleman, Mr. girls wbo tares your speeches. They can't Wrench, A. R. M., of Cradock, is quite un-" be more sorey then my little girl is for being prejudiced. In my own letters to him, 50 80, wicket. Kites aut to fly without tales, 'which drew forth these remarks. I had only Pren Preps yon camake em ? Anti jent,lemen, asked him for the distance at which he saw who can spelt such lots might do away with the zebra, and I did not ask him how it spollin, and -marlin and ride, wich is a grab ems he mistook 11 blackand-white zebra for noositilS to girls and boys. It dusees help „ eteme bebopn on a perfeutly clear South them to gt o a bit. Web's a coachman who African day, can't red or rite, and he's quite a tat num, lely own observations also confirm that Draevin, we don't mind, cos we can make the stripes of the zebra are of protective funey horses, and eoWS, and dogs. Plese do iVe SuQh nuteY f7titure'sehRraidsinwgiathloinnglawyslops,erIdasudabdoenvely saw away with dokters. They g. stuf. People who give nastey atuf allude% They were galloping down the hill, but ltv. And plese veld you make a lor that stopped when they caught sight of me. As nurses shed never 0t 110 to bed wen the soon as they stopped I saw their stripes sun% shinein. And that we should uever pretty distinotly. After I had fired and. wounded one of them, they started again, galloping down the hill around me iu a semicircle at a distance of about seventy yards. All this thne they presented a dull brown appearance, no stripes being visible, though I had my attention fixed on this point. They disappeared beyond a ridge, went down a little valley, and 1 heard after. word then they ascended the next slope, which was not inore than 1,500 yards away from where I stood with a native servant. Yet even this lynx•eyed native could tot see them going up this slope. They had vanished from us, Charlie's Dodge, Mrs. B. : "Von seem to be very fond of reading, Charlie, for every time I come here you have a book in your hand. What are you reading now?" Charlie: "Don't know, ma'am." Irs. B. "What, don't you know?" Charlie: "No, ma'am. I always have a book in my hands, beoattse then mother will say to father, 'Don't interrupt the lad in his studies. Hell be a greet profes- sor one of these days. Let him read in have," That was the senltence which, like tee,aud just you go and chop the fire, it fervent preyee, appeaed to heart and Pes oonscience, * * * * 0* Three hours later the divisioti bell sound - 011, and the vote was taken upon one of the most momentous questions Which load been before the House of Commons for many years. The result Was awaited eagerly within dun august assembly mud withoet, At the clubs, outside the offices of the deny journals end Padiameet itself, there were expootant and excited throngs, greedy for the vordiet. At length it cam, The Mittiney wore 111 a minority of one 1 A roar of voices hailed the hitelligetee with exultation, a11& like the rebounding surge of a stormy sea, mane the defiant cheers of the defeetod. " A minority of ono Who'd heve thoughe It ? Whet a eloae shave 1 How Was it r NO* frora the division—a vote which every cue will, of course, admit OW he deserved. Thos is Winery made ! Virgle% Ellt1117 Pinny Friend& viegte s parents wore spending the SM. mer with num friends in a camp ou tha shoves of it small Mho. There were no other children In the party, ao after a few ditys Vireo began to be loneeome. Such a clus- consolate face did oho weer that her mamma feared that die oucloor woo iloing her no good, Not even a dolly wae there to p.ay with, Inc in the hurry of departure pier Min Dollie was forgotten. "This is the lonesamest place over saw," cried Virgiet one day. She was sitting in tne leen fast to the shore, and as she wipedaway her dare her slice of cake dropped into the water. "0111 Ohl" elle oried, and stopped, for ee little black fish tvith queer little horns on his head swam up and nibbled at the cake. Then came another little fish, and another nail the slice wee entirely surrounded. "Look 1 look 1" cried Virgie in delight It "Sons, mamma, 0, quick! quiek ! What are they 1" "They are hornpouts, my dear," geld mamma ; " there is (mite a family of them, is there sot? That big one must be Pape. Hornpont," "Yeo, yea," replied Virgie ; "and there'll IvIamme Hornpout and Baby Hornpout. a, let's name them all, mamma 1" So, for an hour or more they sat, until mainnut declared she could think of no more names. After that Virgie was never lonesome. she would play with the fishes for hours al a time, They grows° tame that they would. take crumbs of cake from her hand. Almost every writer who treats of the colors of animals refers co Galton's observa- tions that in the bright starlight of an African night zebras are practically invisible even at a short distance ; Mit there eau be no doubt that their peculiar striped eppear- epee is also of great protective vatue 101 broad daylight, On a recent zebra hunt near Cradock, in which I took part several leve off nice games for nastey baths. And so that boys and girls allude% be too sailfish, plese pass anuther lor that rich childern, shed sometimes give up thee toys to paw children. Them that have cruel papas give nice kind like ours; and them that havn't any mammas don't—plese don't—be so engery &genet es them that have. Then followed, in 13essie's own hand : Dere Pa, do say wether this speech will do ; and do, 40 109 flat you are not angery, with your litel girl now. Staeley put X for angery, I put it for kisses X X X. Mo. Stradeviek, M. P., read and re -read this extraordinary "speech" Then he kiss- ed it tenderly, folded ie, and put it in his pocket. The oche of the voice of a great orator fell upon his ears; the sounds ofe "Oh, oh I" "Hear, hear 1" and the greens and cheers with which it was puncbututed. But no speech delivered within the walls of St. Stephen's that night made e, deeper imprece non then the unspoken, illiterate one thet lay folded within Mr. Seradwick's pocket Its accents wont Maintritta don't —pleS- don't—be so °emery &gent as them that wood insteed, sius. but in ening every time we fall.—[Confue Our greatest glory is not in never falling, --- The Australian colonies have expended about eight millions in promoting emigre,. tion. "Grass grows fest," nye an ex:halve. Certainly ; for who ever hotted of in grow - Mg loon. The London Graphic of me remit date' dwells 'upon the possibilitin of a trade in IlOrilea between Canada and England, and points out that While the eon of cocoa is somewhat greater to England than the United States, et the price realized ia ,,, , e ,ne selliciett to nue 5 it well worth Milne body, of ceurse, knew, they V- I--- 1100 Canadiaus to raise the style of horse de.) ' awnro that et that moment the "minority : sired, At a recent sale a number of Camas of oue" WAS inning over the riot in 1911101911101 IA, , Man horses old at from ,e65 npWards, end , his little girl was peacefully reposing, as high ai t16). They were in the teeth -despoil tightly to her breast. The lmed osf , hack and carriage horses, and fain bred. II the minority " was hewed 10W, and hi lips were moving iu silent prayer and bless- ' Came lelivabeth is thgent est cabbage tug, ger: en of tlie S 0 of Maine, Sinn No' . . , . vomiter 2e,000 tons of the vegetable have A few daya after Mr, Strad wick's oonsti. beee shipped filen the town, atd the 010000 Met in solemn werslave and passed a 'gPtioo reeeived by the farmers Was $0 et 0000 01 censure upon him for tale Remo i'llsoitAtirl there ere lote of eabbegee left,