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The Brussels Post, 1892-9-30, Page 3SE/ T3),i.S)2 THE. BRUSSELS POST, THE CAPTAINS EXPLOIT, minute or two later the harsh clank of tbo b meted by her mestain awl nude. Thoy 111 WM a wet, dreary night, lit that oheer. loss part of the greet motrepulis Ithown as Wapping. The vain 10111011 hail hem felling heavily lor hours elan fell steadily on to the sloppy. pave:note and made, and joining forces In the gutter, rushed impetuously to the neerest sower, Tho two oe three Wrote Whioh had wedged themselves in listween the (lecke end the river, and which, tot a matter of feet, really comprise the beginning and end of \\Pepping, were duetted, except for a boleted yen oraehing over the grun to reeds, or the °hence form of a dock•lebour- or plodding doggedly.itIong, with hoad bent in dth istaste for e rain, and Minds sunk in troneer•pookets. "Beastly night," said Lleptein Bing, as he rolled out of the velvet° bar of the Sailor's Friend, end ignoring the presence of the step, took a little hurried run mews tho pavement. "Not fit for a dog to be out in." He kicked, as he spoke, at shivering i our whieli was looking n at the crack of the basedoor, with a hazy view of calling its at- tention to the matter, and then pulling up the collar of his rough powjaeket, stepped boldly out in to the rain. Three or four nun. utes' walk, or railer roll, brought him to a dark narrow passage, which no between two houses to the water-skle, By a slight tack to starboard at a critical moment, Ile struck the (Menne safely and iollowed it until it ended in a flight of old stone steps, half of which wore under water. "Where for?" inquired a man, starting up teem a stnall penthouse formed of rough pieces of board. "Schoouer in the tier, Smiling Jane," said tho captain grulny, as he stumbled clumsily into a boat, and sat down in the stern. "Why don't you have better seats in this 'ore boat?" "They're there, if you'll look for them," said the wittermem; "and you'Ll find 'um maim sitting than Mutt bueket." "Why don't you put 'em where IL Man 0011 see 'am ? inquired the captain, raising bis voice a little. The other opened his mouth to reply, but realising that it would only load to a long and utterly futile argument, contento 1111111- 8011 with asking his fare to trim the boat bettor, and pushing off teem the stops, pull- ed strongly through the dark lumpy water. Tho tide was strong, so that they made but slow progtese, "When I was a young num," said the fare with sorority, "l'd hi,' pulled this boat across and back Moro now. " When you was a, young man " mid the men tho oars, who hada local rope - Wiwi as a wit, " there wasn't uo boats ; they was all Noah'e arks then. "Stow your gab," add the captain, after a pause of deep thought. The other, whose besetting sin was tier- tainly not loquacity, ejected a thin stream of tobacco -juice over the side, spat, on his hostels, and continued his laborious work, until 0 orowil of dark shapes surmounted by a network of rigging loomed up before them. "Now, which is your little Cargo ?" lie inquired, lugging strongly to maintain his position against the the fast•ilowing tide. "Smiling Jane," said hie fare, "All," said the waterman, "Smiling Jane, is it? You sit there, capien, an' I'll row round all their sterns while you strike matches and look at the names. We'll have quite a nice little evening." "There she is," cried the exptain, who was too muddled to notice the sarcasm; "there's the little beauty. Steady, my lad." He readied out his hand ae he spoke, and as the boat jarred violently against a small sohooner, seized a rope whinli hung over the side, and swaying to and fro, fumbled in his pocket for the fare. "Ft ady, old boy," mid the waterman affeei i mately. He had just received two- penerehalfponny and a shilling by mistake f or t1PepellCe. "Basy up the side. You 011('b 60011 a pretty figger as you Was when your old woman made such a bad bsrgain," The captain paused in his 01111111, 011(1 poie. ing himself on one foot, gingerly felt for his tormentor's head with the other. Not find- ing it, he flung his leg over the bulwark and gained the ‚look of the vessel tie the boat swing round with 1,1(0 1(1(10 and disappeared in the darkness. " All turned in," said the captain, gazing owlishly at the deserted deck. "Well, there's a, good hoar an' a half afore we sdart ril turn in too." He walked slowly aft, and sliding back the companion -hatch, descended into a small ovil.smelling cabin, and stood feeling in the darknees for the inittehes. They were not to be found, and growling profanely, 11010111 his way 110 (1(0 state -room, end turned in all standing. It was still dark when he awoke and hang- ing over the edge of the bunk cautiously felt for the floor with his feet, and haviog found it, stood thoughtfully scratching Ms bead, which seemed to have swollen to a,b- norm' proportions. "Time they were getting :tinder weigh," ho said 011 length, and groping his way to the foot of the Mope, ho opened the door of what looked like a stnall pantry, but; which was really the mateie boudoir. " Jens" said tho captain gruffly. There wee no reply, and jumping to the conelasion that he was above, the captain tembled up the stops and gained the dealt, Which as far as be could see wee in thesame deserted condition as when lie left it, .Anx- foes to get some Idea of the Wino, he staggered to the side and looked over. The bide Woe alMOSt at the turn, and the steady olank, cloak of neighbouring windlasses showed that other craft were just getting under weigh. A barge, ite red light turn• ing the water to blood., with a hugo wall of dark sail, passed noiselessly by, the indis- tinct figure ot a mail leaning skilfully upon the tiller. As those various sigua of life and activiby obtreided themeelyee upon the skipper or the Smding,Tane, his wrath roae higher and higher as he looked eround the web deserted dock of his owe little emit. Then he walk- ed forward and thruethis head down tho fore, castle hatch -way. As ho expected, there Nyea 0 complete sleeping °home below ; the deep satisfied snoring of half a dozen seamen'who, re- gardless of the tide and their ertptain's fool. 1)1(10, were elmnbering meetly, in blissful ignorance of all dual -he Lancet might say upon the twin subjects of overcrowding and ventilation, " Below there, yon lazy thieves," roared the captain ; "1111111(10 up, ttitnble up." Tho seeree etopped, " Ay, ay," said a sleepy voido. " What's the matter mas- ter ?" " Mater 1" repeeted tho other, choking violently, " Ain% you going to will to- mtigh1"' " Trettight 1 said (Mabee voice. in Our. prim. " Wilt , I thought we wasn't going to sail till WOn'sday," . Not trusting Minigolf to rosily, ee careful eves he of the morals of his mon, 1111e sklp• per vim it, end lemea over the sido alld col11. limed the silent weter, In an in. credibly shert epece of tilt° five or six <I tuticy figures pattered np 1011 to the (look, and 18 wintlime echoed fa r and widewere met, by Captein Bing, aupported The eaptain took the whool. A fat nod by Ws mete, who hail he 'fly mottled off yet•y sleepy seamen put, up the aidtblights, from the ,Onsitley low to the teteistance and the llitle eelnioner, del:00111m; iteelf by of his ohief. in tho two !eluting features the Rid of boathooks and fondere h•oni tee befere mentioned he wait lint unlike the neighbourieg male moved slowly dwell mato of the ,Mars an, end mitell strall with the tide, Tee mon, in reaponse to the wail laid upon this f et by 1 lie unfoetunate captain's fervent orders, ellnibed aloft, Bing in Me expliteetion. So muell so in and sail aftor mil was 5(1(0001 10 the goods: Mut, that both the mania got realms ; the breeze, ukipper, who was a plain tnau, and giyen ''1111 you there," wiled the ceptain 1(0 0110 to ceiling a spade 00(10110, ming the word of (1110 (1100 who stood near him coiling up "pimply " with what seenled to thorn 011 some loose line. nomeattry iteration, "Sir ?" solid the man. it la poesIble that the interview :night " Where is the mate ?" inquired the oap. have lusted foe heel% had not Bine stulden• tain, ly changed his taatice and begunlo throw " Man with red whiskers and pitimly fott sleek hints about titaedIng 0 diniter nose ?" said the man interrogatively. ashore, and settling it over a friendly glass. " That's hint to a halt," Answered the Tho face of the Mary Ana's ceptein began other. to (deer, and all Bing permuted from miler- " Ate% Aeon him since he took me on at antics to detaile, a soft smile pleyed over eleven," his expreseive features. 1 was reflected ill "How many now hands aro there 1" the faces of the mates, who by them moan "1 bilees we're all fresh," WAS the re- allowed °lonely that they understood the ply. I don't believe somo of 'owl 116.810 0000 table wits to be laid for four. smelt aalt water." Al this happy turn of attains Bing hiinself "'21,9 mete's been at it again," said the smiled, and ri little 801,118 1,01,11' a, ship's boat oeptain warmly, " times what he haa. HOS; containing „four boon companions put oft clone it afore an•I got lett behind. Them from the m ary Ann and made for the shore. what can't stand drmk, tny man, shoulduit Of what afterwards ensued there is nn (Be- take it, remember that." tinet record, beyond what rimy be gleaned " lie said Nye waan't going to sail till from the foot that the quartette turned up Wen'sday," remarked the Irian, who found at mid n lght arm -in -arm, and affectionately the captain's attitude rather trying. ref emit to be Repeated—even to enter the " He'll (161 000116(1, that's what he'll gob," ship's boat, which was waiting for them. said the captain warmly. " I shall report The sellers were at first rathot• nonplussed, 6.5 0000 as I get ashore." but by dint of nutott coaxinf and argument, The subject exhausted, the seaman return- broke up the pecty, and rowing them to ed to his work, and the captain continued their respective vessels, put them carefully steering in moody silence, to bed, Slowly, slowly darkness gave way to light. Tho different portions of the craft, CHOLERA. OVER THE 00EA11.- instead of all being blurred into one, took upon themselves shape, and stood out wet A. Norse Write): or nee Experience to it and distinct in the aold gray of the break. 815l,0l,lI0g Hose itai I. Mg day, 13n1 the lighter it became, the Miss Henrietta le:mealy, an Bnglish vol. harder the ekipper stared and rubbed his nuttier nurse in the leppendorfer Hospital in oyes, and looked from the (look to tho flat Hamburg, has written 0 letter describing marehy shore, esti from the shore back to her experiences there. The letter, whieh the deok again. has just been published, Heys ; " Here, 00i11e beret" be ivied beckoning " fb is somewhat appallitig to those (10005' 1,0 ono of the crow. tomed to reverent treatment of &Wit to " Yossir," said the man advancing. witness the bruscitio handling of cholera " There's something in one cd my eyes," corpses ab the hospitals here. The porters, faltered the skipper. "I can't see straight; having monied notice to hurry, clash a oar. everything seems mixed up.—Now, speakbolic solution on tho body, bed, and ingdeliberate and without any hurry, roll sheet, drop the body dripping wot on which side 0(110 ship do you say the cookie the canvits.covered stectohers, and uouvey galley's on ?" ,it to tho mortuary. " Starboard," said the man promptly, " The rapidity with which some petients eying him with astonishment. recover is peculiarly striking. They sown " Starboard," repeated the other softly. to get well till at once, hardly anything of " 318 tays starboard, and that's) what it their terrible exhaustion and pain remain - seems to Me.—My laci, yeaterclay morning Mg A little girl of five years, who was it was on the port side." atter/Ho every five tninutes and as often sick The seaman received this astounding com• on Monday, 1006 80 pitifully ill that it wee munimtion with calmness, but es a slight thought she would never recover. She aetu. concession 110 eppearances, said "Lor 1" ally collapsed, yet on Feitlity she was toot - 404 tho water -cask, said tho skippers" ting about the ward, shaking hands with " what colour 10 (11?" everybody, and dropping pretty eourtesiee " Greets" eaid the man. to the sisters and doctors. A small boy, "Not white? inquired the skipper, lean- tyhose beautiful face, with the cholera ing heavily upon the wheel. duskiness lying over it, showed like that Whitish -green , " said the Man, who al- of a Murillo model in shadow, two days svays believed in keeping in with his en- Mee collected about him a pair of odd and perior offieei•s, very large slippers, a house physician's mat, The captain Wore at him. and a 11111080 boimet, and announced that By this time two or three of the orew who he was going home. How he collected the had overheat d part of the conversation had things nobody know10 collected eft, and uow stood in a small wen- " I do not believe that sufferers from dering knot before their strange captain. other diseases have been admitted to the " My lads," said the latter, moistening cholera hospitals and there have contracted his dry lips with his tongue'"1 name no cholera. Even if admitted they would not names—I don't know em yet• —and I cast no get the cholera, ae the sanitation is too suspicions but somebody hes been painting good, despite the orowclingeto allow of 111' up and altering this 'ere craft, and twisting feotion." things about until a man 'nd hardly know The cholera in Ramberg is decreasing. her. Nou• what's the libtle game ?" The Laurel contains El, long ertiolo con - There was no answer, and the oaptain, corning the defects of the quarantine system. who was seeing things clearer and Wearer in When people are led to rely upon quaran- the growing light, got paler and peler. tine for their safety from epidemic, dui "1 musb be going crazy," he mattered, writer says, they almost invariably mese to "Is this the Smiling Jane, or atn 31 dream- trust or oisserve the ordinary measures for ing ?"tnaintaining the publio health, There are "It ain't the Smiling Jane," amid one of menifold illustrations of the evils cense- the 0001h161fl " leastways," he added eau- quent upon the stringency of quarantine for tiously, " it, wasn't when I came aboard." protection. In the eastern hemisphere the "Bob the SmilingJano ! roarecl the skip- most backward natives, from the sanitary per 1 " what is it, then?" point of view, este those relying entirely "Why the Mary Ane," chorused the its- upon qnarantine system to 0800 them theistic(' crew. from the preventable epidemics including " My lads, " faltered the agonised cap- cholera, tain after a long pause. " My lads. " ±15 stopped and swallowed something in his NEWS FROM RYDER'S PARTY. throat. "I've been and brought away the wrong ship, "110 oontinued with an effort ; "bloat's what I've done. I must have been bewitched. " " Well, who's having the littlo game now ? inquired a voice. "Somebody else'll be sacked as well as the mate, "said another. " We must take lier back, " said the captain, raising his voice to drown those mutterings. All hands stand by 1105110111- e11 sail. " The bewildered crew wont to their posts, the captain gave his orders in 000106 which had never beau so subdued and mellow since it broke ab the age of fourteen, and the Mary Aim took in sail, and, dropping her anchor, waited petiontly for the turning of the tide. The church bells in Wapping and Roth- erhithe weve just, striking the hour of mid- day, though they were heard by few above the noisy dm of workers on wharves and ships, as a short Mout captain and 0 mato with red whiskers and a pitnply nose stood ISP in a waterman's boat in the ceatre of the river end gazed at catch other in blank astonishment. "She's gone, clean gone," murmured the bewildered captain. "Olean as a whistle " said the mate. "tho now hands must 'llee run awity with ben" Then the bereaved captain raised his voice and pronounced a pathebie end bustle, tut eulogy upon the departed vessel, sortie - What marred by est appendix which he consigned tho new hands, their heirs, and descendants, to every conceivable misery. "Alloy," staid the weterman, 80110 was getting tired of the busineas, addressing a griiny•looking seaman hanging meditative. ly over the side of 6 schooner. "Where's the Mary Atm ?" "Went away at half -pose one this morn- ing," was the reply. 'Ojos hotie's the capien an' the mate," said the watermees indicating the forlorri ootiple ith a bob of his head. "My eyes 1" said the man," "I s'pose the 000k's j,o charge then. We wore to have gone too, but our old man hesn't turned up. Qa Leidy the neWs Spread amonget, the craft ha the tier, and many and. Various were the suggestaona shouted to the bewildered couple teem the differenb dolts. At lost, jest) as the implant had ordered the weterman to return to the More, he Ives startled by a lond cry from the mate, " Look there 1" ha shouted. Thu captain looked. Fifty or eixty yards away, a entail sllalllof000d-looluog sohoonor, so it appeitrod to his mensal imagination, WM slowly appeorching thom, A minute litter 6. shout went up from the other overt es she took in sail and bore slowly dovio 51p011 1110111. Then a Waal boat put off to the buoy, and tho .,Ifory Ann WAS slowly Werped into tho plaoo she hai left ton hours Wore, REIMS 011,431/YLAIN, some or the Loe nnfarns Left 037' She flrelif Explorer. Mr, W. D, Lighthall,of 11111,11181(1) writing " The Week,' 01075 --Some weeks ego an innirestitig mile'. entered tily door in Montroul, lie W013 a 1)I6001(111English- inati of perhaps forty-five years, anti 0(1011hist vise !Aegean!. n 00011111110 of 111,110(10110(131(00.tion to auyoneacqueleted with the history of Montreal, or indeed of America, Th name was Amberist, and 110 bearer was of the family of them faous Sir Jeffery who comminuted this monies which captured Montreal 171)1) and 1(1( 0(11111 about at the same time the capitulation of all ''Canada and Cape Breton." In the omaree 0( 0011- voreation ho described to me " Montreal' le Bent, his Own P114411511 home—the estate which Sir Jeffery uamed from the town of his great capture and which passed, with the title of '' Baron Amherst, of Montreal" to hie nephew, and thence direetly to the present Berl, 101108e brother the 0(1001000W411. wan a rare pleasure to 1500sueh a man about the town and show him the encamp- rnent site of his amestorie army, the liOnse which tradition asserts to have been his heedquarters, tho gate whereby lie entered tile than, the Stymy° where the Fecund] army laid down its wens before him, and other 000000 of a hundred and thirty yours ago. peeing the day a drive was arranged to the landing -place of the army at Lachine, ni,.,'ay.e miles ,.,'ay. The othur ers In ooar. w riage ore not unconnected with history. They were Omani B. Hart, the author of " The h'ell of New Frame," and Charles Mails author of" Tecumseh" and veteran of both the NorthW -eet rebellions, and the convermation naturally ran much on histori- cal subjects. The Lower Lachine Road, along the Reptile, lime chosen, and a stop 0108 105010 to see the eltn embowered " La Salle Homestead," the 0110100(1 building owned by the hospitable John Fraser in that, neighbourhood, situated, he contends with much 1000011, on the vary grime of 400 acres originally taken for his private domain by lei Salle daring his years at his settlement of Lachine about 1666. Mr. Fraser's olahn is disputed by D. Cironerd, Q. G., the historian of Lachine, but is set out 011(111 sane concessions yet much force in a. late pamphlet on " The La Salle Homestead.' However it maybes to La !Salle, Mr, Fraser Doty claims that at, any rate the chimney of ths house is an extreme. ly old one. Ile mbnits the body of the dwelling (now considerably ruined) to be the erection of a merchant ;lamed Onillerier about the beginning of the eighteenth cen- tury. The 0111010(07',however, he oltsims stands separate and was the chimney of a dwelling built by Champlain in Ale. It was to inveatigate this assertion that ive made our stoppage. We found the walls of the h ' ouse lit fair rroservatfon showing a strong rabble exterior of one storey, faced with out -stone about the doors and win - dews. The roof and floors were half fallen in. The great chimney, Mr. Fraser pointed out, was separate from tho walls, and stood by itself in the hoose, adjoining, instead of, as usual, being part of the gable wall, or standing directly in the centre, as in several early "forts." This part of his olefin we admitted,namely,thatethe chimney appeared to be part of a former building on the site. 13u1,, was it enough to carry the place back to the time of Champlain? That was sbill the question. While wandering inside, however, something peculiar, and therefore unnoticed, struck isle in the wall adjoining the great chimney. ieveral tiera of brick seemed to be inserted in the wall, as if to repair it towards the bottom. A second glance made it evident that these 1)110110 wore built in curved form, making the segment of a circle. Looking closer and picking up ono of those tvhich -had fallen out, I discovered that it was of gray, un- cooked colour, and crude 6116(10. Calling the attention of thereat of the party,we quickly 0111115 to the conolnsion that they were sun- dried bricks made lay hand, of a flatter and larger pattern than those of present thnos. Their position, too,showeil them to be built into the wall during its constiuotion,insteed of added to Well breakage,and their lino of construction seemed. to indicate their being part of turret or round oven, built at the time of the greet 01110111167'01111011they adjoined. Now though familiar with historical Freneh-banadian banding', I do not know that brick enters into construction of any other house in the province of Quo. bec of early date. Only one man is record- ed to have used brick for construction. That Man WaS Champlain. The place where m he ado it was the Island of Montreal. During his visit of 11111 to the site of the future city, he writes : ''There is also much meadow -land of very good rioh pot- tery clay, as well for brick as for building, which is (1(11061oonvenienoe. I made use of it and built a wall there four feet thick and three to four feet high and ten rods long, to test how it would keep daring winter, when the waters cleacend. ' Such bricks woqld not stand the climate, however, which is vary hard upon even the kiln -dried article of to -day. If Champlain builb a house around the old chimney, it is (ma* natural that he ehould have ueed them ; and if, therefore, as is possible, they were made by Champlain, they at o (1011(0(10 the most in- teresting and precious relies Canada. W, D. Lfeirriimm. Montreal, August 12, 1802. Ile 58 311,101110(1 (13,011 Progress in. Exploring Greennw te's East Coast, News of the safe return of Lieut. Peary from his expedition to North Greenland is olosely followed by information from the party that Lieut. Ryder led to the coast of Bast Greenland a year ago. His expedition consisting of nine members of the royal Danish navy, left Copenhegen on Jane 8 last year on board the Norwegian sealer Tickles Seven weeks later the party arriv- ed on the northwest 000531 of 100100111, and thence they proceoied to Scoresby's Souod, on the east coast just south of the shores explored by the Koldowey expedition in 1870. Their purpose was to make eolleo- time along this mast and to explore the en- tire region as for south as Angmagettlik fiord, the northern limit of the oxploretions of Lieut. Holm. They spent the winter in camp at Cape Brewster, 700 27' N. lat., making largo collections (1(111 taking pima - rations. They did good work durieg the aping also, bat were unable to complete their survey of the coast fold conneettheirob• servations with those of the explorers fur. titer south. On Aug. 8 Lieut. Ryder left Greenland and returned to Iceland, but he started again on Aug. 20 for the Greenland coast, 00(1001(111(1 to land at aboab 6811 north lati- tude and to complete his work. Great scientific rosette aro mid to have boon al- ready achieved by the expedition. Whets tide work is completed the entire coast line from Cape Ferwell to Cape Bismarck will have been otitliued, end Ryder's labors, to. gether with the infortnation brought home by Lieut. Peary, will enable map miters to give an epproximate idea of the outline of the east, northeast, and nothorn coasts, and then the cootour of Greenland in its entire- ty will bo fairly well known. It is worth [M- in(1 that although the out coast hes been regarded se almost inecoessible, Ryder reached it last year, end he had every eon- fidenee when in Iceland in August) that he would tench it again this year. Dogmaties Trent Dogdom. 111 10 astonishing what a oloe resemblanoe there is in the appearance of famone dogs and ones not famous Tho man 01110Mir! A dog and pays before seeing Mtn learns a whole lot after. The 'number of quarrels a bone °entente do - ponds on tho number of dogs about. Barking dogs will eometiines bite ; also barklass dogs. Because greyhound carries A long (molt dem uot follow Butt ho e sad deg. What is oonsidere 111,11 amiable dismission Venni" dog mon would be considered &battle royal among other frateenitles. I once lanight a watchdogs mil then had difficulty in aneumulating property for the dog to 'Math, 'rho 1100 that the noliconian Would destroy But while all this was going oe, oho WM he first makes Mad, tal OLE TO X'S OAL'1N, The White Death. 'White Death is a naked, gleaming, Bow Belfry Weed steeener Read the Great shifting !food of sand, moving ever inland Elory. 1 from thi: omen shore, ineli by inch, feet, by was talking 81,1 gm maws wod 1 foot, in huge white wawa; of listening grit, lleeelier a IOW evenings ago (writes Mr. Fel ward W. 13okb and the convereetion 1107>'pond to 10,1, on " 01,015'j'061'5Cabin." .1 asked her if :Br. Busher had ever express- ed an opinion of his sieteret female hook, and she told me tide interesting story of how the famous preacher read the story When the story WAN that peblislnal 111 " The National Era," in ohapters, all 011(1family, excepting Mr. 55001101',patiently for its appearame each week. But, try its seen:tight, we could not persuade Mr, Beecher to read, or lot us toll him any. thing about, " it's folly for you to keep in 001,810111excitement week after tveek," he would my, " I shall walt till the work Is mienleted, and take it all at ono dose." When the work woe finished, tlie book 00509 (0 Mr, Beecher on the morning of a day when he had a ineetine on hand for the afternoon end a epeoeh'for the even. ing. The book WaS quietly laid 05 one side for he odways scrnmilonsly avoided every- thing that could interfere with or retard work he was expected to do. Bitt the next day was a free day. Mr. Beecher rose even earlier than usual, and soon as dressed be- gan to read " Uncle Tom's Cabin." When breakfast was ready he took hie book with him to tho table, and reading and eating went on together, bet speakittg never a word. After morning prayers, he threw himself on the edit, forgot everything lint his book, and read uninterruptedly till din- ner tints. Though evidently beginning to be intensely interested, for a long time he controlled any marked indication of it ; but before noon I knew the storm was gath- ering that would conquer his self-control, as it had done with us all. He frequently "gave away to his pocket -handkerchief," to use one of his old humorous remarks, in most vigorous manner. 1 could not refrain in return for his tealing me for reading tlie work weekly, from saying demurely, as I passed him once: " You mem to have D. severe cola. How count you hem taken it?" But what did I gain? Not, even a half an- noyed shake of the head, nor tho semblance of a smile. I might 08 (0011 have spekon the 89101110.• When reminded that the dinner -boll heal rung, lie roso and weet to tho table, still with his book in his hand, Be asked. the blessing Nyith a tremor in his voice, which showed: the intense excitement under which he was lebourinse. We were alone at the table, and nothing to distract his thoughts. ne drank his °ogan ee, ate but little, d re- turned to 1110 reading, with no thought of in- dulging ie his 11011 1 afternoon nap. Evi. dances of almost uncontrollable excitement, 11 11110 farm of half.suppressed sobs, were frequent, Mr. 13eether was eever a rapid reader. I was eettin uneasy ovee the marks of great feeliiig and excitement, and longed to have him finish the 1 ook, I could sea that he entered into the whole story, every scene, as 11 111 was being acted right before him, and he himself was the sufferer. He had always Mon a pronounced Abolitionist, and the story he was reading roused all lie had felt on the subject intensely. A DOZEN AND ONE. In Japan the women load the vessels. Lemons are being used in soap making. The Arab horse is not brokeu hi until its fourth year, Four men in every six use tobamo, Transparent parasols are now the fash. ion. There is a hotel in New York nearly a quarter of a mile long. Cowper wrote "John Gillen" when suffer- ing from a terrible fie of c opression, Eiftysoven ehousand five huncleed and leven lettere aye written in London every day, requiring thirty gallons of ink. The essence of orange blossoms is said to make a capital drink during the hotter months, A gold double eagle of 1840 is worth 8100. Tho Fijians make fishnets of human hair. A. woman in Nebraska has a nose four and three.quarters inches leng. At Bombay ell the libido.) sentries salute my passing black ottb, thiuking it may possibly be the soul of an English officer, The gold the doubt bones away in hu- man teeth amounts to 1,800 pounds a year in the United States. The R,ussians call the "grip" Chinese catarrh, the Cormane call it the Heedful poet, the ttelians name it the German dis- ease, the French boll 111110 Italian fovor and the Spessish eeterrh. Tho Italians in von tad the tam Militarize, in the seventeenth eo(1. tury, end attributtcl the disease to tho in. , Ibionee of certain planote, inexorable ait fate, silent as t le grave, swat - lowing and destroying everything that Hee before it in ita way. The wind Mom the shifting surface up the crest of melt tower- ing wave anti over the edge in a sparkling mist, Beyond the crest the dry mist fails, and eo the wave moves steadily, reeletlesely forward, enveloping all things hitt universal. white. Standing 01 1(110 edge of a marshy flat, the sye looks far away aerees the level of coarse sedge -grass to the white lino of the sand bills and the black hue of pine woods in the dietance. Hero and there tile flat is lush and green, where Mallow lakes, blooming with white lilies and blue arrow-heade, bathe the arid soil ; hero and there it is burned yellow and brown, where the hot smooth eand, stretching in from tho ocean shore, drinks up water and life, and leaves all dead. That level ilat, reaching for away into the distance, is like the plane of life one has to travel; the black strode of a gloomy pine woode in the Valley of Slhid- ows, and the whites waving line of eand is a likeness of Death ; and as in real life, so here—neither death nor ite shadow looks sinister seen from moil a distance. To travel across the level fiat in a mimic linage of the journey of life. The lakes, so pretty in the distance, are muddy, and smell rank and dank to the nostrils ; they are full of tadpoles ancllizards and orawling things. Hero and there little deserts of arid eand are passed ; they burn the soles of the feet, mil scorch the face with a reflected glare, and mosquitoes rise in clouds, like petty troubles, to bite and sting. There are quicksands under the feet where the grass looks the frothest and the greenest, and hiding the dead levels of sand, a mirage covers the desolation with a soulless sheet of visionary water. First comes the hot black shades —tho' shadows of the pines—and then the foot bills as it were of Death. All is breathless silence, except for the shrieking of the fish - hawk high in the air, and the strange mysterious whispering of the ceaselessly mein and shifting sand. Here and there a etark gray tree trunk, already dead in the 01 01011 of the oncoming death, reaches help- less skeleton arms up Into the air. Each15 an empty hollow shell of bark ; each is sofa - less and void of life, excepting., perhaps, for O nest of woodpeekeris or of men—it squalid metempsychosis of the spirit of the pine - tree. Beyond the foot -hills lies, grim and still, the silent bosom of the White Death—hills and valleys of lifeless sand, blinding, burn- ing, parched, and dry. The air is like viie blast from a fiery furnace, and a breathless 1811 (1 iu of silenoe stretches between the glare of the sky above and the whispering whiteness beneath. The sliding feet sink deep into the shifting surface, and the traveller stands face to face with 'naiad in simile. So the thaw of Death are passed, and the journey is ended. Then soddenly, as the head rises above the creat of the last white wave, all in in- stantly transformed. The last 11111 10 climb- ed with pelting breath, and then Death it- self is left behind. Before the eye there strati:Ilea away the eternal ocean, a glorious purple sparkling with dancing white.o.ps and dotted with shining sails. The ceaseless surf shouts jubilantly on the beech and the cool pure air rushes upward, bathing the hot face like the breath of a newer and purer life. The ocean, the sails, the rushing breeze all tell of something vast and limitless that lies beyond. Behind was left the limited plain, bound. ed by the black shadows and the VVhito Death. Before is an image of limitless im- mensity. The night 18(101 011. It was growinglate, and I felt impelled to urge him to retire. Without raising his eyes from the book he replied : "Soon, soon ; you go ; I'll corm soon." Closing the house, I went to our room; but not to sleep. The Week struck twelve, ono, two, throe, and then, to my great re- lief, I heard Mr. 130e01100 coming upstairs. As he enterecl, he threw " Uncle loin's Cabin" on the table, eXelaiming : " There ; I've done it I But if Hattie Stowe ever writes anything more like that, well She has nearly killed me anyhow 1" And he never picked up the book from that day. Now tor some of the conditions of life. The average number of families to each house in Suotland was 1,07 ; the number of per- sons to a house, 4.02 ; the number of per- sons to a room , 1.52, and the number of rooms to a house, 3.24. The greatest aver- age proportion of souls in each house occurs in Banff', viz., 5.05, and the fewest number of rooms to each family is Mend in ()rimy, namely, 2.76. Taking the rural districts as a whole, however, the average number of rooms in each house is gonsiderably larger than it is in town and village dwellings. Viewing Scotland collectively, we lied that houses with two rooms and more have in- creased, and that a decrease is only ()been, able in dwellings of one room with or 8011(11- 0111 a window. At the present time there aro but 3118 rooms in Scotland in which per- sons live 11(1(1081 00 unhealthful conditions as to be without a window ; there were 7,064 such rooms in 186 1. Of houses of two rooms with windows there has been an increase of 06,170 during the decennial period; of those with throe rooms an increase of 23,. ; and of those with four rooms an in - increase of 10,532. Those figures testify to O notableadvance in the sanitary conditions under which the people of Scotland are lir' ing. For other data bearing_on the phys- ioal and moral situation of North Britain, that is to say, for vital, conjugal, and arim. Mal statistics, we must, await the reports to be laid before Parliament at the 00111ing session. Prof. 11.11. Thurston, in an article in the September Forum'says that every animate creature is a nutelline of enormously higher effloienoy ae a dynamist engine than lnan'e most elaborate construotion, as illustrated in the 20,000 horso-power engines of the Tetttonio or the City of Paris, or in the most powerful locomotive. "Every gymnotus living in the nind of a tropical stream puts 1.0 6)103(80 man's best 8(11011. 108 the production of electricity ; and the minute insect that flashes aeross hia lawn on a seminar even- ing, or the worm that lights his path in the garden, exhibits 5 system of illumination incomparably superior to his most perfect electric lights, Hero is natures ch01leng.0 to man 1 Man wastes one-fourth of ell the heat of his fuel as utilized in his stown boi1. er, and often 00 pet cent. as used in his open fireplaces ; nature, in the animal sys• tom, utilizes substantially all. Reproduces light by candle, oil lamp, or eleatricity, hut submits to a loss of from one.fifth to mom than nine -tenths of all his etoak of available eitergy as heat; 60, in the glow.worni and fire -fly, producea a lovelier light without waste measurable by our most delicate in - 5±1031101118. He throws aside as loss nine. 31 nths ot his potential energy When at- tempting to develop mechanical power ; she is vastly more mono1111001. 13111:, in aliases her methods ate radically different from his, though they aro as 5, et obscure, Na- turo converts available forms of energy into preelsoly them other forms which aro need ea for her pilrposes, 110 exactly the right quantity, end never wastes, as does invert - ably the engineer, a large pert of tho MOW stook by tho prodoetion of energies that sho does not want and cannot utilize, (hp goes dircetly to hoe goal. Why &maid not man? Ho hae bat to imitate her 18(10' 005000.0 Apprzoiatti Afterwati. There are times when men have to be treated like children: when they are very ill, for instance, or when they aro in im. mutant clanger which must be averted first and explained afterward. A member of the Alpine Club read 0. paper before that body on the comparative skill of travellers and guides—a question of great; practical interest to mountaiu climbers, 100111 000 as to which there exists a considerable difference of opinion. He began his paper by relating an anecdote : Seine years age a member of this club was ascending a small and easy peak in company with a famous Oberland guide. Part of their course lay over a snow -field sinking gradually on one side, and ended sharply by 00 preoipiee on the other. The two men were walking along, not far frem the edge of this preeipice, when the Englishmen, thinking that an easier • path might be made by going nearer the edge, diverged a little from his companion's treat:. To his surprise the guide immedi- ately caught hold of him, and pulled him back with more vigor than Oereinony, neat- ly throwing him down in the operation. Wrathful, and half inclined to return the compliment, the Englishman remon- strated. The guide's only answer was to point to a sinall week., apparently like scores of othet eracks m the ioy snow, whieh ran for some distance parallel to the edge of the precipice, aud about fifteen foes from it. The traveller was nob satisfied, hut was too wise to spend time in dispute while a desired summit wait still some distance abo e him. They went on their way,.gain- ed the top, and the traveller's equanimity was restored by a splendid view. When, on the descent, the scene of the morning's unpleasantness was reached, the guide pointed to the little oracle in the snow, which had grown perceptibly wider. "This," he said, "marks the place whore the true snow.field wide. I fool ()sedan that the ice from here to the edge is noth- ing but an unsupported eormee hanging over the tremendous preeipiee beneath. It might possibly have borue your weight in early mowing, though 31 don't think it would. As to whet it will boar nOW that a powerful sun has been on it for some time —why, let us see I" With that he struck the snow on the further side of the crack with his OA% A huge mass, twenty or thirty foet long, at ono broke way, and Ina roaring down the oliff. The Bnglishman shivered to think how near he had come, even on an easy mum. tain and 15 8511115(1 weather, to going down the precipice in just such an avalanehe. Alllong the persons under arrest in etta, Gm, on suspicion of having boon eon. corned in the murder of Mrs. Looney are three John Smiths, A horse in Cireleville, Ohio has a very decided dislike for bicycles, 'While Miss Mabel Valentino 0109 riding along the roat tho horse tried to rim her dotYli, Mid to eevo hatself from being crushed mike his feet 8180 6.1100,1000(1 the inaohine, The horse °Macleod the bieyole, end lvae pawing it to pieces When some farmer arrived and. drove 111111