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AN OLD —
1i h1, as he was mutt to .i.,111 her
—I in ( (cs NI hen he :11(1 dream, which wee
but seldom—ohatting genially away with TUE DEAOON'S tIR,C1RAS.0,
denim, before the cense iee ; so tthu dented
LATE FOREIGNNEWS
.nino foreign ruffian who he MO never he- tie 1 1,1NON,
fere heard of or known to exist. It was Gond obi Deacon 11,11.0H WaS 110t what
f
lieRilatil U.
indecoreue ; it nets velgar ; W1/B 4101001. people would call a worldly man, and ye• aId
— ing t and the kind of thing which ho (Dr solute; here lioneeth hie alien gray hair hie
MisRiurlds) was not going to put up with from head eon tainvil look-oluefor•imulloydine
Illattie WAS in a dilemma, A chill tutewered Peutleino, setiouely Elan- one lady however Mee she might, Ite under bump of no mean size,
gleam of April 8110811111e 0101 acroes the nine, the page• ordinary cirettinstances. to he pulled lila The Nem:lend " (I'M shalt thou
table and lit deneingly 011 Misa Alettie's Mies .).1011n, had not lost all sentiment. stubb; td and gl time 1 a the .t MIA! 1(1110r," etc., the 'detton ri.g.h:lly followed,
bee, MISS Mettle wets not 40008e 1311.1- the rontiled thet opieode of her V3niSh8a Mit% l'Irn(08ratl'IllatelY%1;i,he Doe0cle-, and on the seveuth he invariably filled his
ehine ordinarily, but this intrusive aed ire. sonth whim Rettheu Rountree bad List:hued phaeus 18, Winteybuttom 40.48 1104 0001'. 80111 at church, and (lid his ben while there
sponsible beam annoyed ber ; 1,eside:4, it thee he worshipped her. Reuben was only whebned, to keep [melte. He never 0/100 forgot the
a farmer s 8011—i4 struggling farmer—and TO 1110V1 NTtxuaa. text, lied always 1(4111011 enough of the
Mims Alattio's exalted position had been de, aermou to bo able to decide juin; what elites
1' 0 .A. OAR, 02 sinners might to benefit thereby. But
somehow, in spite of himeelf, raudem
The Horrible cruelly erem-we Miners thoughts of his crops, or the probability of
to Gilbert es meta rain, or some recent addition to his stock in
the shape of a 1010010 COW, 01. " beauty,"
A New York telegram says 1—(filbert G.
Rice, the man whose mittreteneR at the hands i0ufhairLfatioluthielorosxe10170'1111`1011 01‘,,u,11ese'illpoonns rho's
of .
mob of Ten uessee MillOVA-C11:1 00 much
in the recent stylise to turn sentiment ileat'l°"a•
(against the strikers, is able to tell his story. The deacon had a neighbor, Grant Davie,
Too reporter Mr. 'dice gave a deset•ipeien Wnhav
0 ‘ritf Bi:b0 O111,4i 8 0 Vw00110%,{iiiy4111311.1811Rleisn0 itohnes.a aril Lt.
of the thrilling experience he hada
. He was
c,,,ptni,„,i by n, ha,rid uf stilken %v.), „eu in tho matter of owning 0 pair ofiee(tle-
some, well...matched earriage-horses, behind
holding a secret tneetiug in the woods who
which he and his family rocle 01111014suspected him of being a 81))'. Ile was kept
everv Sunday, Grant, was ahead.
a prisoner several days in hopes that he
The deacon was not really an envious
would give sometletai Is of the (meek' t camp.
man, and yet, whonevoy his neighbor drove
He gee:a them false informalion end they
past with his well.kopt bays, he corda not
made n. charge on the camp mull were
defeated. They were very angry end de- WI' thinking diaParaginglY 0i 11 10 ."Vn
t0111 -1100d. 40 make an example of him. It sturdy team, which was obliged to do duty
both in the field and on the road, To own
was decided to tie him by the neck to a car
turn-oet 01001 01' superior to Grant's heel
and then Bet the 0101' running down the
steep ncline.
long been the cherished wish of his heart,
i
and yet he could not quite see his way
" rho noose was drawn amend. my neck
and the brakes loosened," lie said. 04414 clearly to purchase such a team as he
of the minors dropped the noose from my wanted.
neck to My t. 81441,10,1 But one day the deacon came home froin
Elkhart—the little village where he attend -
took a stop forward, then another until I
ed church, received his weelcly paper, and
found it difficult to keep up, The sities of
l
marketed hie hum produce --with a bean -i-
dle track ware linel with a jeering mob of ug conntonance.
miner% At a curve in the road f was lost
to their sight. There was a sudden turn as lis 1011 come 001009 a matt, he said, who
had offered hint n, grand bareaits
made the flame of the rue look sickly, and
, disturbed maiden meditations. 8118 put on
her spectacles, cerefully adjusted her cap,
and prepared foe tbe worst. Teen elle rang
the bell for Prudence, 11Sr handmaiden, who
appeared in Queker gyay and a sn0Wy
Little rebellious curls danced out from be-
neath the cap in a frivoloua fashion m Melt
mottling could restrain. Even now RA she
came 111 she made an attempt to reduce them
to order, but in vain.
"Prudence," said Miss Mattie, "what did
tho Dootor's boy say?"
"That worldly youth, Mistress, attempt-
ed to Fess the time in vain discourse con-
-corning certain maidens 4010 attire them-
selves in bine rain -lent and smite a heath -0
instrument celled the tambourine"—
" Yes, yes, Pvutieece," interrupted Miss
Mattie, "I tlaresay. But what did he say"
about the letter 4"
"He mei, Mistress, that he was to teke
back an an8Wor ; and I have entreated him
to much peofiteble :conversation until (ho
answer be written."
Miss Alaltie looked perplexedly at the
grave, sereue-eyed, little Quaker maid.
"How old are yon, child 1" she asked.
" Twenty, Mistress," said Prudence,
iss elattie peed at Ole unopened letter
on the table, and then at Prudence. " Pre -
donee, you are young," she said, " but wiser
than your years. Have you—heve you ever
had 8, sweetheart '1"
Mitred e fatal ebstaele to ieetebeila peace.
sions. Whereupon, Reuben hal uttered
wicked WOrdi, elet ken his list at Mettle's
whilethaired old fether, and departed to
lends utiknown iu seareh of fortune. Ho
intil taken a lock of Miss Alattie's fair hair
with him, 011:1 she citillitherished in secret a
little Week daguerreotype of the departed
swain. All this had happened it gno.rtor of a
century ego. At first, the faith of love had
kept Miss Mat tie's hoot warm. But hearts
grow c dd. and faith wavere and dies mey
when the years pass and absent 101 010 make
no sign.
Miss Mattie drifted plecidly :tame the
st-earn of Time, distrilluting little gifte to
lier ueighbore on the banks, Rad winning
the love of ell. But she iouud life rather
dull. Her old sehool-fellowe leygo
families, who yelled Alise Matilda 'Aunt
Meuse,' and confided all their treubles to
hey sympethetie ears. Miss Mattie also
found, te her very great surprise, that men
rather dieturbed her, She lilted her little
nap after dinner, her game of backgammon
with Prudence in the evening, her regular
quiet life. If she had inarrie 1 Reuben, all
these things would have become hives.
sible.
Altos Afattin (lid not like to be Intryied.
And yer,--and yet. As she sat there Mold.
ing Dr. Shirlee's letter hee heed her
Prudence looked a hale unprepared for youth 1,9.1110 back. How the poor boy had
this remark. But she was cotiecieutioes, loved her She recalled his foolith speeches,
" Truly," she s,aid, " there is one stalwart his loudness for Iter yellow locks and blue
youth, ft carpenter, who has fie Leered me eyes, and all the thous:old-end-en° little
many times when goblet to :Sleeting, bat to tricks and jests with wb eh he heti beeeiled
whom I have not been at•awn."
" Oh, yon—you weren't drown to him ?"
asked Miss afattie.
"Nay, Mistress ; whereat he is much pro-
voked, and threateneth "--
" To whet ?" asked el ics Mettle.
" To fare forth to foreign lends and for-
get me," placidly answered the little maid.
Aliss Mettle still etruggled with a certain tion,
shameful corselet -tenon that elle had waver- Prudence still waited, the letter in her
ed. What a tower of strength Prudence hood.
-was " Did you—did you—did he ever kiss Aliss Mattie temporised. '1-1 will ask
you?' she asked in a whieper. him to tea, Prodence," she said, as oho sat
Prudence opened her blue eyes widely. down to her desk and wrote in an elegant
"Surely, Alletroes, 1( 10 the manlier of young Italian hand that she must Mee fuether
men to indulge in such unseentliness unlese time in which 10 41011011.01' Dr Sierke's flatter -
discouraged." ing proposal. "And Prudence," she eyed,
"And—and ditl—you— did you disonur- as she sealed the letter—Miss Mettle always
age him 1" asked Afiss Matti°. used a see.1—" see that your pikelets are
A faint color stole over the pretty little plentiful and of Pee best. Nothing comforts
maid's face. She looked distressfully at the it• mom to much as a, good tea."
taupe% "The youth was stroug, and I bat Miss Alattio was a little bit ruffled by the
slight," she answered in confusion; " and he events of the day. She went up -stairs nold
watt about to depart and--aud"-- looked long and loviogly ata certain little
'W -what did he do V' asked Alin Mettle tin portrait. Then she put on iter best
eagerly, still holding the letter in hea hand.
He saluted me, Altstrese answered Pru-
dence. A. faint smile played over her lips
al the recollection.
"Sit down, Prudenne," said :Miss Mattie.
"I want to ask your advice, child. Yon
know more about men than I do."
Prudence sat clown. Miss elattie regard.
ed her as a daughter, although Anse Made
herself was only forty•five. But people in
her into loving him. Dr. Slurke'e letter
had unsettled lien Though she felt she
weld not marry it non who never wiped his
boots on the ma,t, and eelieved that a con.
gested liver was anewerable for all the sor.
rew in Leo world—yet there might be hidden
depths of love within him. Ho 400.8
doctor, too. That was another recommenda-
lavender silk dress, removed her cap, and
welt clown -stairs to her cosy sitting -room.
A man's atop scrunched the gravel outside,
and the next moment an unknown voice
demanded if Miss Atatilda Sewell lived
there.
Miss Aleltie thrust the daguerreotype in-
to her bosom and went out. " %allot is it,
Prudence?" she asked.
wayfaree from over the seas who
ereeilti have speech with thee, Alistress,"
Little Bingleton rather prided themselves
said prudence quietly, as she went back to
on looking old. It was thought to 01400110
her pikelete,
of flightiness if folks adopted modern
Alms Mai tie felt an odd sensation at her
fashions or travelled often to town Ilia
Ivlattie was the only daughter of the heert. It (lettered and leapt. What if
late Dr. Sewell. lever ?dam bee, ee. this burly strang,er brought her news from
the unfere,etten Reuben
The stranger held letter in his hand.
"I've just wine down on the cars with a
letter from an old friend," he said.
"On the whet?" ask( a le iss Mettle, in
low i !demise t.
t1100'o death, which had Imppened about
ten years ago, see haa lived in her
own pretty little cottage on the ont-
sk-irts of t'ae tetra. People W110 remember-
ed her Eiteen years tack said that Alia
Matto wo.s then very handsome, She was
On the cars, Oh, I forgot. You call
still a sweet.faced woman, with rich ariburn
them trains. Can I come in 1"
hair, and plaaid blue eyes, There has been
ith pleasure," said Miss II tulle, in a
whispers of a girlish romance a Jong Vine
fluttered, othl little tone. "May I offer you
ago; but by-and-by people looked ujion her
as a confirmed old maid. The yeers ones- a 11'81" (ea?"
1 he stranger seemed puzzled. "We gener-
ally drink- it in mugs," 140 04011..
Ho took off his bat and cot- end careful-
ly hung them on a peg in the hall. The as•
ed, and still Miss Alattie lived her quiet
uneventful days, until Dr. Starke, tile one
practitioner in the place, suddenly discover.
ed that Alias Mettle was wastine her life
"You've a mission to fulfil," he had said. !age searana t° shrink when ha walked a on
demeaded nee it, and Ins head hit against the low little
"What is it ?" placidly
Nettie. "I will go home and write it to portal es he followed Miss Alattie into her
smell eitting-room, full of delicate china,and
you," retorted the Doctor, attacked by a
sudden fit uf shynesa His manner had co- PI' with samplera and quaint olcl mirrors
casioned Mies Mettle some misgivings, but
she had concealed them under her meal
placid exterior tmtil the arrival of the fatal
es letter,
The latter lay epon the table. Miss
Mottle dared not open it. It seemed as if
Ole occasion demanded a solemn and formal
ceremony of some sort—a ceremony with
witnesses, " Open it, Prudence" she said
suddenly, turning to the little mud,
Even Prudence could not coneeal seine -
on e mit a.
The stranger sat clown In an Arm chair by
the Are. Ile seemed to await over the sides
01 11. The eat jumped on his colossal knee
and went to sleep there.
Miss Mattie sat facing the window, and
feeling reassured. She trusted that eat's
Instinct 4014008( 08 much as de did the wis-
dom of Prudence, And the cat did not
know young carpenters,
As the stranger glanced around the room
, the ancient Genres on the samplora caught
thing which approached to worldly °linos- his eye. He* sitelied the Impossible pea-
ity. She took the letter in her hand and clocks spreading their tails under equally hn-
opened it with her mould dehboretion. •
rhe man has a concern to marry thee,
Mistress," 010 801(1, after a steady perusal of
the letter.
No woman likes to have a proposal of
Snarriage put before her in eo baldly prosaic
a manner as in this instance, Miss Mettle
felt that the occasion was not being treated
with sufficient solemuity. "Rd it aloud
please, Prudence," ehe seid ; and Prudence
read it :
DOARMAT/4111.—I never proposed to any
one before—haven't had eitheY the time or
the inclination—and have vainly consult-
ed all the literature 011 the subject. Most
of it seems to me to be rubbish. Your are
O sweet, amiable woman, of rather tt melan-
,
choly dieposition ;I am bustling,eomage,irri-
table, lend and overbearing. Don't you
think thetwe each have what; the other lacks?
len tired of living elone,sonme1yon be also.
Couldn't we join foroe teavel together?
"You =Mb() Very solitary,fted 11, 18 always so
comforting to have a mon in the house in
bate of burglars or fire oe anything of that
eort. Will you marry me ? If so, kindly
return a note in. the affitmative by bearer,
eald Pll oome up thia evening to talk it over.
If my letter is looking delioaoy, remember
that doctors are acoustomed to come ateetight
to the point. You event rousing ; so do L
Which shall it be? Yes or no ? I shall be
walking impatiently 01) 10011 down my garden
—an exeeedingly rash thing to do in this
east wind—until I receive yoar
Yours very faithfully, S/LAS &Alma.
"Ts that all?" demanded Miss Mettle,
Who had faint hopes that the missive would
be couched in ell the lonv.winded eloquence
of Miss Austin's heroines.
gyms Prudence ecomed to have found it
disappointing. -She inwardly oontrnsted it
With certain vain but impassioned utter.
fumes of the yeung carpenter, and then
rebuked horself dor Instituting worldly tom-
.
parisons.
"IS there nothing More tha letter,
, Prudence? Nothing about love ?"
"The letter 10,oketh Werldlinese of that
posm trees, and lus eyes twinkled " Alyi
Ain't they real itretty I" he sold, Theo he
looked at another sampler. "I like that
picture of Noah aud his sons sitting on top
of the Ark," he observed genially.
Miss Mattis felt distressed. She did not
like to interrupt his flow of eritioistn by tul.
milting that the Ark was meant for the roof
of a house, end Noah and his sons were only
four ravene perthed on the ridge.
"Exouse me," talid the stranger, bantling
here, letter. "Won't yott read this first,
and then we'll talk."
Hospitality was a sacred rite with Aliss
Alettie. "1 trust that: you will partake of
my poor hospitaliby first, M•Mr.— ?" she
said, with a stately bend of her head,
"Alphaens P. Winterbottom. I'd be sorry
to go assets/ without doing so," answered the
stranger heartily, as Prudence appeared
svith the pikelets.
"Prudence," Raid Miss Mattie tiolemely,
"make some. More."
"YOU're right, Ma'am," said the stranger,
surveying the dish. 'X was just think-
ing I could eab the whole lot of thee° oun.
ning little ealceS.''
And Mimi Mettle actually laughed. Her
tea parties were usually very solemn and
stately affairs. Mre. Pennifather, the Ree'
tor's wifo, always came in a eopper-eolonred
silk, Miss Twinkleton, too, invariably don-
ned her best old yellow lone ruffles for the
oocasion, The stranger, however, wore gar-
ments of a transatlantio out, and had a point.
ed beard, He was a dne handsome man of
about fortytflve, As Miss Mettle handed
him a fragile oup, the last of the pikelets
had disappeared.
" My I Miss Sewell, "he said" I'm
quite forgetting the little men up there on
Ole walls. There won't 1)e a crumb left Pot the earaehe, get five onto worth of
for '0111 at this rate, " dried arnica flowers and put them into small
Mies Maui° laughed again. Another bags; take a pint of whiskey and keep it
5131) 80115(18(1 on the graver path outside, heated on the stovo ; dip the bags of arniea
"Ws Dr Slurke, "she said, tunoomfortab- flowers into the hob whiskey and lay them
ly. "X—X had quite forgotten him, " over the air. As soon tho steam stop
I)r Slurke opened the door, and recoiled ooming hero one bag, thange it fOr anothe
anifrY aolazernent, There 'was Mies Mat- ot one.
the car flew tumid, and at the end of the
taut litriat I felt myself flying Omagh He WOUld let hen love a, splendid horse,
coal -black -411e deacon had always had 14
space. I had gone off on [(tangent, and the
rope near thu ear struck a telegraph pole.
The rope welled itself rapidly Remind the
pole. There was &sharp report 8,0 the lariat
parted and the Oar wont on. Hours later I
revived and got free from the lariat, ivideli
had torn the flesh alont my loins into
shreds. Two ribs were broken, and I was
benised all over. I found a squatter's hut,
and two days later was in Knoxville. I
have been vete' ill ever sinee. My weight
has fallen from 205 pounds three weeks ego
to 1 50 001V, alld 4110 shook has turned my
hair white."
partiality loy black horses—for only four
hundred dollars, when, by taking him to
Lawron, the owner assured him he could
realize much more than that emount, but
he was very ninth impressed with a fellow,
feeling for Deacon Downs, for which he was
altogether unable to accoant. But the feel-
ing was irresistible, and to gratify it he was
%Oiling to melte this sacrifice. Tito man
would take his note for a year, the good
deacon added, when his nife wondered how
he expected to pay for tho horse, and di
year the brindled steers would come under
the yoke, and he could turn out the old oxen
to the butcher, and they, together with
Ooming Into Ohuroh. some otteg stock which he 000111 easily
Did you ever see them coming, into 0110000 11 alit spare, would bring the price demanded for
And attempt to read their temper by the na-
ture of their gait
'Tls 0101)3' pleitAng study, and you'll find 11
worth yonr while,
To observe these people walkinguhe p tcarpet-
covet ei MAO,
First there cornea eerhaps, an aged, bent and
soher.featurecl man,
Whose uncertain shuffling indleates, its Plainly
as it can.
That he is weary, weary, and is haunted by a
dread
That (tooneat time 1(01? bo carried, carried up
the church aisle deed.
Next behind him comes a lady, cheeks a Mlle
sunken now,
Streaks of white in heir and age's tell•tale
wrinkles on her brow ;
But her Ivalk slow and stately, and it plain-
ly seems to say,
" Oh, we've toiled and savc:d when younger ;
WO enioyIng it to -day. '
Then thet•e is amar (laughter, and her lan
gull '01)p botrais
1 ler mivaoiness beneath the craning, comer..
trated gnu,
While her far ont-swinging dress skirts are
elaring it shame
To come into church se tardily, but she 10 1081
to blame.
She Ilan children ana they follow, clinging ono
to calor hand,
And they stumble, looking choirward, asking,
" is that the band r'
Basile holds them up, ami, stooping, softly
tells them to he still.
Thinking, " net bo so late again—contwIst-
ed lf will l'
then 'hero conies a younger sister, tripping
lightly down be aisle,
110011111) on her prouilly•tossing head a hat of
latest style ;
Ancl the meaning of her manner is "I wish
that father's pew
Was a little further _forward ; then rd longer
be in view 10
I"
A Wonderfnl Weapon for Ohina.
There arrived at the Queen's hotel in To.
ronto Tuesday a, young gentleman who 110.5a. large contract on hand. Ho is on his way
to China, and expects to return to England
1.011,'months 115500 with $1,000,000 worth of
John Chinamen's Government bonds. The
young gentleman in question (0101,'Eusbace
1E. Turner, who represents the Southgate
Engineering Company, of London, England.
His mission to Chine is to construct for the
Chinese Government a six. ton arsenal ab Tin
Sing and equip it, with machinery ce.pable of
producing the most improved cannon and
projectiles. Hie company have guara»teed
to supply guns whites will at the distance
of 0110 mile throw a 0t001 cannon ball 14
inches in length and inches in diameter
through incites of solid steel, 25 inches of
0011 and 1 1 inches of iron plates All the
material necessary for the construction of
the axonal has been sent from lengland,and
skilled workman aro now on route. Mr,
Turner says, that within the last four days
both the Japeneee and Chinese Governments
have 13104(18 vast strides in the matter f
naval and militery equipment. They are
spending enormous sums of money and
securing the flnest, munitions of war.
Ashes Pm the Land,
The composition of the ashes varies with
the kinds of wood consumed, and other
causes. The Conneotieut experiment 80001011
reporte a series of analyses made at the
Georgia station, where there wee a variation
of 01000 (11014 ten lone in the quantities of
some of the itnportant ingredients, accord-
ing to the kinch of wood used. For in.
stance,dogwood had more than 10 per tient.
o1 potash,whito oak only ten per cent., and
0105(11(01 loss than throe per cent. Post oak
had 85 per cent. 0( 11100,0.111. white ortk only
eight per cent. We mention these varieties,
80475 1110 Country Gentleman, to show that
preoision in idly prescriptions cannot be em
ployed, and there is probably quite as groat
O variation in the soile to which the 1401105are applied, taken with the different nie-
ehameal conditions and other influences.
The endue and fitness as a fertilizer may
be determined best by careful field trials.
Quantities may vary from 10 to 50 bushels
an pore, according to the determined needs
of the different soils. Light soils are ore-
monly found to be most improved, possibly
boons() they admit the potash more freely
among their interstices,
the horse. He had not concluded the bar-
gain as yet, but had deferred it on purpoee
to consult his wife, which the goat! dame
understood perfectly well to mean that he
did not wish to seem too eager to accept th'e
stranger's offer.
"Keep dark, Molly," said the deacon,
gleefully, as 1)0 1)000 his fat, gonclmatured
young wife a loving little slap on her more
than plump shoulder. "Keep clerk, and if
any of neighbor Davis' folks drop in, don't
lisp a word about the horse, for ten to one
Grant would march right off to the village,
and 08 00108 as he laid his eyes 00 (11,00 horse
he'd buy him, if he had to sell his last cow
to make payment. So not a word, end to-
morrow morning, bright and early, I'll
bring the horse home, and Sunday 111 give
Graut to understand that his day for driv-
ing past me, as if he were bass of the road,
is over."
The next morning, true to his promise,
the deacon led his horse home, and proud
enough he felt when Mrs. Downa waddled
oat to admire the glossy -coated creature,
and the 11 tle Downs clapped their hands in
delight. To 10(1(1 (0 the deaeon's satisfaction,
the whole family of the Devises were on
their front perch, evidently gegieg in ad-
miration at the graceful movements of the
(mime] ao his new owner led him tieum-
phantly about the yard.
By sunrise on Sunday 010011111) the deacon
was on his Way to the pasture -lot with the
intention of bringiug up the black horse,
that he might hail in the front yard until
time fcr church.
Two hours afterward he returned in sore
perplexity, his Mae flushed and covered
with perspiration, and the halter Mill
hanging on his arm. The horse had dumbly
but plainly refused to be caught.
Hastily mellowing 0 eep of coffee and a
slice of toast, the deacon again repaired to
the fielcl, followed by the whole family, in-
cluding the mother, to aid in capturing the
refractory animal, which, tho deacon nid,
"needed a close &equable/um to be appre-
ciated." Hall 'the foreetion teemed, away,
and the horse was still at large, though the
finest salt and oats, tempting enough to
have satisfied the appetite of 13uciephalus,
were offered him.
At length Mrs, Downs bit upon a novel
method to secure the horse. As he passed her
she dextrously threw h eraprOn over his head,.
BO 09 to completely obscure hut vision. In
this situation he was quickly mcuie 1)110.
0)100. When the family reached the house
it was time for (thumb. The horse was seen
harnessed, and then all took theie pieces in
the femily wagon, Tha deacon seized the
reins, leaving the whip in its aecuatomecl
piece under the seat.
" A horse possessed of such spirit," he
sold, " woul•I nood only to be spoken to, to
go off like 00(411005.11 engine." So he told him
gently to " gee up," while Mrs. Down's held
hor breath in suspense,
heit,olt la the 10140 1! the wagon, ant pueh•
ed strentiouely ageinst the vehicle,. wee',
her linalstrel by curve tvhippeti, :welded,
awl coaxed the balky horse, bet In vain,
In tide state of atlitirs the deacon saw,
with disiney, (11410 (115 Devises were outing,
hut there seemed 110 help for It, and with
depot:el mein and eoarlet face, he reeted
fret» his efforts till they should pass, Bat,
instrati of missing, the bays ortme to a balk
and UMW 1)11 111(1, to offer 08818104100. This
was preelsely what the deacon did not
want, yet be accepted his ueiglibor's offer
without ructoneus, if not with thankfulness
At Alm, thowns' sugsestion, the hors
1008 1111 from the wagon, end led by
one of the boys to the top of the hill, while
Grant and the deacoo, assisted by the hit.
thee wife, followed with the wage»,
Onee mote in the (ho horse went
off without Imitation, and $0011 aryived
with hie load in front of the (plaint old vile
lege church. But, though the deacon's arm
had lost none of its pytetine strength, he
found it Impossible to biting the animal to
atand-still, or even to cheek his speed,
whieli seemed to accelerate with every atop.
Evidently this horse had not been trained
in a Sabbath -fearing, eltureh-goiog
Down the pleasant, street, now lined on both
sides with ohurch-goers, lie held his -way,
though the deacon !levee 100 1111 instant CMS -
ed tugging tie the 1`01.110. S0011, to the good
nail's !terror, he stopped close to the dom.
Of an old, tumble-down tavern, which had
Jong been an eye -sore be temperance -loving
Deacon Downs.
Tho horse dropped his head meekly, and
after one or two ineffeateal attempts to
drive away, the deacon, who had profited Advices from Grand Canary, received al
somewhat by his experience of the last hoar, Liverpool, report that the African mai
sprang Wit 111011 assisted his wife to the steanier 13011141 400.8 three timee fired at by
ground. That lady was filled with right- the French guitheat Heron when steaming
eoue indignetion, and avowed "(het never near Grand Pono on (110 13(1 tilt. The BOOM'S
again would she go to 1110011111) behind that captain did not serio»sly notice the first
horse, seeing OM instead of taking her two shots'but when the third one whizzed
there, Ile had brought her to this tobiteco- through tIte ttie, clearly striking the (nate,
scented, whisky -soaked old draon-shop, who wee on the bridge, Captain Hae, ey
where a decent horse wouki be ashamecl to stopped his veseel and demenclect from the
stop in the night, lot alone of a Sunday, end French commander the meaning of the hos-
svhen the streets are alive with people." tilti act. The letter said he lied thrice simi.
Thus, in a subdued voice, Mrs. Downs larly stopped other steamers, ae his OW/ -
gave vent to her opinion, its she followed ernment was at war with the King of Da-
her husband, an(1 wes in turn followed by homey, whose territory the Boma was
the children beck to the church. paoslug, Captain Harvey rejoined Oa he
100 the first tune in Ins life the deacon lsad not called at Dahomeyan ports, but
did not hear the text, and the sermon was the commander of the guuboat demanded
alike unheeded. Neither did he cloth end an inspection of the steamer's papers. Gap.
100(1 in his 11018' 10! on ordinary occasions. tain Harvey, in, writing, proteeted against
His mind was wholly occupied with one ole indignity to which he had heen subject-
ebsorbing question : Whet shall he done ed to by being fired at without being
with that homer signalled. On arrival at Lagos he 134 laid
When the services were nearly concluded, the facts before the Governor, with the
the deacon rose alld 11-01(000 tiptoe from the view of communicating with the British
church, that he might have the wagon in Colonial Minister.
readiness for hie family without displaying
the peculiarities of the horse to it geeing
crowd.
Jost as the congregation came pouring
nut, he drove up, but, as before'the animal
could not be made to stop, bnt began in-
stead a series of the most astottishing kicks
ever witneseod, He kicked as he ran, and
van as he kicked. The deacon's hitt fiew
off; end as ;sicked up by his wife, who
foiled it serviceable as a fan before her long
walk home MS finished.
The uext morning the deacon wont le the
Rtable to feed his home, still undecided its
to what 4400 to be clone with 00 (0111111(01 that
seemed utterly good for nothing but to
look at. What was his amazement to find
Ole stable empty 1 The horse had been stet -
011,
Well, Molly," said the sorrowing dea-
con, yhen he bad acquainted his wife with
his loss, " the Lord often paya transgres,
sore ns they go along, and if that thief
doesn't repent of stealing my horse before
he's a clay older, I'll miss my guess."
Whether the thief ever repentedl or not,
the deacon never kuew. He never saw his
horse agaiu, but was content thereafter to
be drawn to church by his trusty, though
not stylish, farmthorses.
—
Clara Weinreice al Berlin, 01)11 10, agreed
vitlo her hunt bre t hers a11,1 hist Ors to eommit
seieide 111 order to eseape the eruelty of a
brutal atep.minher, All the children were
rescued front deeth exeept Herinnen, aged
7, who perished, 1 iara watt tried on a thitrge
of Melting to mord:es and lies been found
41111131 and senteuced to three yeers' 1 111 -
prime meet,
In the tone of Lodz 111 1111081041 1)0154,01,
a few (lays ago, a mad wolf suddenly ap-
peared running hoin one house to another
and biting every person or anima.' it reel
In this way no fewev than 20 adults and 10
children wee bilt en, besides 14 large number
of borses, «attic, pigs, and sbeep. nolo ease
wits a dottier sent l'Or, as the people had no
idea of tho fearful consequences of the bite
of each an militial. Now tho village is full
of persona suffering from raving 1114 1.11000,
terrible howls iesning from many of the
houses, and being heard in the street, The
victims cannot long survive.
Burglars broke lately into a church at
Montpelier, and stole therefrom the dia-
dems ornamenting the brows of the Virgin
mut Onild, thinking, no doubt: that real
precious atones had been put into the ar-
ticles ie hout,ur of the Fete of the Assump.
(ion, The secrilegions thieves 11.01'0, 11048' -
ever, disappointed, as the diadems were
merely gilt, and had only glass ornaments
in them. This is eet the liseb time that
church robbers have been duped in it sinither
manner by astute perish priests.
THE GENEROUS 14I1WASR.
Ite Loves to Rive Away aft Hie coeds Tut
Make a Reputation Foe Hiraseit,
Speaking with a promiziont Salmon can-
ner few days ago, a representative of a
new Westminster peper enquired how the
Indians were faring this year in the salmon
fishing, and whether they would be rich
enough 10 1101.111(10 in the potlatole "They
won't have much money to throw awey in
that direction this season," replied the can-
ner. " Last year a great, many Siwashes
made good wages, and potlatehes were all
the rage for some time afterwards. They
are a, ourious isotopic, and it is astonishing
the delight they take in appearing liberal
and wealthy in the eyes of their friends.
Last year 1 had an Indian working for me
who earned 51,400. He drew the whole of
this in a lump sum, and laid it 0(1( 111 eight
muskets, a, dozen boxes of crackers, and the
balance—about 51,200—in blankets. Then
the noble red man called all the Indians
within reach together, and announced his
intention of giving a grand potlatch,
" The blankets were spread out in a Mo.
acre field, with the crackers on the out-
side for his friondit to lunch on, mad the
1111011(005 111 the centre. When the appoint.
od time arrived to begin the coreinomes the
Indian waded through the SCa of bianitots
to where the Intakets ley. Here he climbed
on a box, and began a long; oration, which
lasted over an hour, at the end of which
thee he picked up the muskets one by one
and smaelled them over the box, signifying
that all enmity between the teibes present
was forever ended, and rifles woul I.C. bo 1/0
longer needed. Then he gave the signal
Ten minutes passed, and horse and wagon that the potlatoh had commenced, and the
were still standing by the moutiting-Mook j Indian tvomen sailed in and pookei away
but now the deacon was actively employed not only one pair of blanketS, but as many
in flourishing hie whip itt the 4417 (0111. bring- as they could carry, and in a few minutes
ing it down vigorously on theglossy back of there was not 8400 44 single blankeb left for
Ole horse, The strokes came inquiok &woes- the /100 of the generone eoutributor. This
sion, while, the better to apsAy 0116111, the grand give-away, of course, made the fli.
dennon etood up in the wagon, wash very popular, and a few days after he
Sndtlenly, and ivith a furious spring, the was eleoted sub -chief of his tribe. A few
horse dashed forward, rind the deacon watt weeks later this same Indirn came to me
thrown backwaed over the seet, and into
Mrs, Downs' lap, at which that Indy cleolar- je,o
deed broke, and got a sack of flour on cited -
ed that she " never in ell her born 1.070 00414
the like before, and she guessed Davis' folks " Ie the potlatch 00)0111011 among the
never did, either, by the way they ordinary run of Indians?" asked the peek-1)101)01'notes-
man.
But the horse was going fast enough now, th
"4010 rule the head men of the tribe do
mid soon -Mrs. Downs saw, with a feeling of is sort of thing," replied thesalmonpook-
er, "but, once in a While an ambitious yottug
relief, that they were beyond the view of Siwash tries to make a name for himself,
the Noises.
At the foot) of a hill the horse stopped. Last fall a young fellow who had made a
" lit
Get out, boys, and walk up the hill • I tle money flittingfor me, came into the
guess he isn't used to pulling much GI 0, Office end got $150 in silver. With this he
load. Now, get up my black beauty Got ()limbed on top of a shaolc, and, after ad-
dressing the innititude for an hour and a
up, I eay, you old patience -killer l"
no demon, of ooneeo, did not swear. no half, scattered overy cent of the money
had 110001' done 811011 0thing in his life, and among the people below. This young In.
he had no idea of beginning now. Neither l)(13.-16nthle.0 6101m0leteaheuiVans as0g0ttamndmeirnegd mthaen'eaatnnd-
did. be lome his temper vory far, but as he
had never boon blessed uith more than 0111 be
of half 0, dozen seasons' fishing he will
be made a ohlei. 13ut fish ate few and
ordinary share of patienee,11,000) vanished, there won't be many potlatches this year,"
and the whip was again brought into
ooneluded the tannery
Portly Mrs. Downs elambered out of. the
Wagon to lighten MO oven with an empty "I see they have started another 181.1)8 0!
iwnaatn, 1(0014111101)0 horse refused to etit on the Improved Order 01 3118(1 Mon in our vil
lege." "Yes t ray besband has joined it.
Mrs. Downs Was hattolly mid strong, and Hot that'e not'the kind of Order needed in
tvitbal anxione to 901 00 church ih time to ohrtteighbothood," "No /" "No; Whittle
her) a little ohat with her friend, Mrs. wanted- 10 814 improved order of white Men,
The caravels built in the imitation of those
which sailed with Columbus to discover new
worlds 400 years ago will be handed over at
Barcelona to the Muted States delegate. It
is intended to have an imposing demonstra-
tion on the occasion. After the naval fete
the caravels with the Sante :Muria will pro.
aced to Palls to assist in the feetivities go.
Mg on 10 Huelva. Thence they will Rail,
escorted by a Spanish squadron, to the spot
where Columbus landed 111 the West Indies.
They will soon afterward join the American
squadron et, Havana and proceed to New
York.
The London and General Bank (limitedi,
of No. 20 Bridge row, Cannon street, E. C.,
has auspended payment. The bank was
founded iu 1582 with a eapital of $1,000,000
To Sept. 30, 183 (101 81110 of $417,70 had
been subsoribed to the capital. In ISM the
bank paid a, dividend of 3 per cent. The
failure has created no excitement here. Mr.
J. Spencer Balfour, M. P., is chairman of
Ole board of (Riveters.
The agitation among English Churchmen
over the effects of the judgment in the ease
of the ritualistie Bishop of Lincoln grows
apace, At a demonstration representative
of the Evangelical section of the Church, at
which the decision ot the Privy Commit was
denotmeed, the speakers even predicted the
disruption of the Church,
The sale of the 001,1(0 01 the late Charlee
Stewart Parnell realized only 02,000. The
dead leader's mother will go to Irelend
during the present month for the purpose of
making an enquiry into the settlement of
his affairs.
The Baroness Rogues has again presented
a petition to the Home 011ie° pray.ing for
the release of Mrs. Maybriek, and is hope-
ful tha 1 the prisoner will regain her freedom
before the end of the year.
1)o100000u Sudden Death.
Moat people regard dealt by a fall as ene
of the most agonizing forms of dying. In a
lecture at Zurich, Prof. Heim has deelared,
says a Berlin correspondenb, that this opin-
ion is erroneoue, The first fact to be eon-
sidered, according to the professor, is thet
the subjective feelings in the various kinds
of tall are the same. Them ere people who
have escaped detail by a hair's breadth,
who mulled the stage of unconsciousnees,
and who aro able to report what they felt.
Prof, Heim, who los occupied himself with
this interosting question for many years,
bases his observations on personal experi-
elms, and on a large minther of eases svhieh
have occurred, not only in the moenteins,
but also in war, in induutrial establish-
t»ents 011(1 10 rail;vay aeoidents. The victim
suffers no pain, no po.ralyzing terror. Ile
is perfootly aware of' what is going on. The
tirne seems long to lima In '0 few seconds
ho is able th think so 4110011 that he elm re-
port an entire hour on it, His thiuking
power is imineesely inereased, In almost
ell oases the past seems suddenly lighted up
as if by a f/ash of lightning. 411 phases of
lite pass before the mind's eye, nothing
petty or uni/nportaub disturbing the retro -
spool Then gentle, soft tones sound in
one's ears and die away at lost when un-
consciousness 8010 17), Otto hears the fall of the
body, imt one does nob feel it It vill be
romentbored that Mr. Whymper, who had
lt severe suctoession of falls once in the Alps
without losing his consciousness, declares
einphatically that an he bounded from one
rock to another he felt abSOIlltely 110 pain.
The same thing happens on the battle field;
the entrance ot the bullet into the body is
not felt, and Itis 1101 till he feels the blood
flowing or a limb paralysed that the soldier
knows he 18 WOnnded. Persone who have
had limbs broken by a fall do not know
whieli limbs aro affected till they try to
rise. At the moment of a fall the whole
intellectual activity Is inorensed to an ex.
Unordinary degree. There is not a trace
of anxiety. One considers quickly what
will happen, or may bappeu, This is by 00
means the consequence of "preselects of
mind", it 10 rather the product of absolute
necessity, A solemn composure takes pos-
session of the victim. Death by fall is a
beautiful one, Great thoughts fill the Igo.
time' souls they fall painlessly into a
grettt blue sky.
_
An O'er.
Hoy—Want a boy sir 2
Hobson—What for ?
"Why, tor pay three dollars a week to
S at,,trtradradytoiiignghNtv.;:m1 e
"WN) fur walling 4111110 week for it."
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