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OCT, 7, THO2. THE BRUSSELS POST,
ems,
YOUNG FOLKS.
The Children of the Light;
1 crossed the market pine" of (100111,
The shltnthlevpinee of shame awl night,
The 1111810 0.111110 111118 11 01111 'night 111}• 11s0111,
A shadow floated by sly shin,
"Whore are the 11 ue of heart," I (who?,
"Where aro the al,lidren of the light. I"
I heard the iron roar of hole,
The undm'•tMail, of miseries throe,
12011 the biting frost s of fate
Across the moo's tf human woo
I saw incl phnnlmos cone,ul11 go,
That shadow still moved by my side,
Arras the ,cad throb of the night,
Whore aro the busy ones,' 1 (01011.
"Where aro the uhlldren of the light?"
I saw strange deeds of evil dooms,
And I010111 mid launls of human strife,
Pale phantoms wain at sorror'8 loom+,
Woneing
1110 spectre webs of inn
Lone, hungry eyes on every side
Haunting the streets of evil blight,
" Whom are the (( ('(ling hernia 1" 1O'ind,
"Where aro the children of the light 1"
I saw youth 040 its atrothgth for khat,
1 (1011' ago hideous in 110 00.00,
God's angels foaming In the dust,
For bestial baubles post mo go,
I hoard be sons of darkness vaunt
Their brutal strength In hellish glee,
100.00 the withered Ince of wont
Go post with haggard misery,
Great, lowering greed with power did ride,
With low 011d force to loft and right,
"Whorere aro (ho true of thlight `1""
Above the misery and the sin,
The loves and lanes the hopes oral fears,
Thai great, sad markoi,.place whim•
Asweet, weird made filled 10100 ears,
It was the magic luta of lido
Played by Immo 80000101' divine,
That whirled m7800800 to sweet strife,
And set my blood like running wine;
Till
lhe agonj,lthe love d nlnibreath,
Into mine inmost senses burned,
The 008ta0' of life and death.
Tho laugh, the teat, the love that girdled,
Came through the murk -mists of Elm night,
" Whore aro the holy 01003" I Dried,
"Where oro the children of the light 1"
Poor innocence all 0lo1hed in rags,
Sat blinking in the market -place,
Cant and hypocrisy, two hags,
(Vent by with mock of holy fano;
Sect strove with root across the dark,
11 lO' for securer place,
Andjuggled 1(r
only Is ark
Each ricer ' Ours owl n
>ncl c 3
f t face."
Wo only cried, God ace 0
A myriad jargon voices 111331011,
The truth ye seek is here or bore;'
.And over above them in the mist,
In purple gleam of amethyst,
The dread word "self" wits written clear.
Tho whole world's ill moaned at my side,
All my shrunk soul 008 flllecl with night,
And to the great, dread de 1 cried,
"Where are the children of the light.
Where aro the holler ones of old
The high priests of the days of Yore,
Who never schemed nor bought nor sell
With precious .jewels of God's lore;
Whore are the gentle and ahatero.
Tho ohililren 01 the ages' youth,
The souls like brooklet( ranging clear.
With music of the world's glad truth;
Where aro oho Wa•rlors of to -day.
The strang•armOd battlers for the right,
Tho sailors of It evil 1vay,
" WLoro aro the dilldten of the lights"
"Oh spirits of the darks" I cried,
"0 good or evil, if you hear,
Whore do oho true 011.6 faithful nide,
Where are the holy and sincere r
Alahradaho 18tm,Intiemrketoa 00,
And nothing hidden in its glom,
But hath a counterpart 10 Ise.
Lord 01 110 blackness, WO are nang11
But dust -notes blown across the darn,
Where
nour sought?
Vherearethe keepesothe k
?slide
h •re se the mi they spit t 1
Where 6
the of night?
Who ace across t 0 g,
" where aro the morn dro(( 21110 I cried",
"" Where are the children of the light?"
Can 1bo11.
—1Ylillam Wilfred i
C
vane
Grievant*.
e
A Morning
I like to dust, and I like to 8000,
Andto71ko 0 water the fishes,
4
wood and l Iiho to loo ;
1 Bat, oh,
I3nt, how I hate to wash dishes 1
I wish a dish had never been made)
But what's the use of wishes 1
Mammals calling, and -1'm afraid
I must do those breakfast dishes!
rialto ea well 310 auy of the children, Arlin
tete all item frietnLI of the gond u111 dug, Tho
hour at moon- OW le a favorite one with him
for beehive Ilia own dimwit irons timeg0'a
pail, he gets many 0 mouthful from the
other boys and girls,
01111 day at 1'000,18, George 031110 00 with
101/PO in hie "yes n•nd said, " Cin, teacher,
Grover has got snuulhsomething nth, anti
it hurts him awfully, won't you 00100 cold
001 11 001 0" I went at once, and there was
110 poor doh In the tnidet of the children,
00110 were all 1811x10110 to help their friend.
The ,ing'o mouth was open, and there
mewed 1st hen large substance nearly out of
sight in 1110 back of his throat. What it
was we mold not tell, and he would not
allow me to pat my Mond in his mouth.
The ohildren were all 0ma11, and I did not
want to '10k any halm by asking thein to
help 010, for 1110 pain hal made pony Grover
WEBS, Just then two men came down the
)road,
They kindly stopped, and one held his
head while the other put his had into the
dog's month and quickly took out a largo
root Which was wedged across the throat.
Cl rover ;howed joy and relief, and no spoken
thanks were ever more slattern than those
from his eyes.
It might not be well to allow all dogs to
go to 0ahool ; but wo aro all quite willing
that Grover should c0m0; the children
/101101100 of him during school tinm, and we
have grown to love talc; homely old clog who
has been our companion 00 long.
TIES BERRING SBA Sin[TR iS.
Chref 110111o'4'1TR8 (10411 PrisoOers.
The sa:l:min l ;Sloward part of whose
erste )net 0000110y e'aetured hl Behring
;Straits, luta arrived at 1 Inter111, A 11/f01 I'1'
of the Colonist in an lntervh.w with the
oapta1u (liedt0 the following psrtl0nlara of
the, Capture t
"I left \'ie.toria," said the OR1/10 11, "nn
the 10011 Juuna'y hoot, on my salltng cruise,
With nineteen )sande on board, all told,
With one exception all were white men the
exception 001(0 a Jap 000 031113111 tiara, Aly
coast each, about 200 skins --180 1 think it
was -1 Bent clown by the Mende, and then
went on to the saint. Seal were p100011ul,
but they were awfully wild, and hard to
catch. On the 13011 August I was 21 ((,ilea
south-east of Copper Island, Tho wea111ee
a peculiar Mete --very foggy at Lunen, but
11 olears up and 0081100 on again suddenly.
On that slate live boats put out, and as
there was some talk as to the throe (11110 or
throe league limit, I particularly cantion011
the men not 10 go within ten miles of the
shore, The (17001 110P w110 then 01enr, i had
heard that ono of the Marvin's boats hail
been captured. by the Russians, and 1 was
very 000tioua. I saw a Russian Ilan-of.war
—1 don't know her panne—that evening.
She was about tett miles off, and 1 had also
head that her steam laturel wua out, 1
003 the 01110k0 of the launch, bat I did not
see the launch herself,
" Towards night two of the boats rete'?'
ed, and reported that they had 00011 the
launch making in the tlireetiol GE the other
beats, but could n01 say that they had been
taken. I remained all night, signalling amt
flaring up (hurtling torches), ill the hope of
getting the Wnree boats back, but there was
no sign of them. The next day, I also kept
about looking out for them, and there being
no sign, I came to the oonolnsion that I
could not continue with 1)1'1 two boats avail-
able for hunting. I thought I saw the Rus-
sian slaking fur 1110, hut he (slanged his
0011100."
Hew do you account for that 0" 00'110
asked. "Had you heard of the other
seizures,
and the e imnCe fii0ri here that
they
would seize ell the sealers found in those
1 o
waters 0"
The Captain proceeded to explain. " Ono
of the ,basing hunters," said he, " told me
that should he fall in with the Russian ho
would put him off—he wonid not tell him
what his vessel wa0 nor where she was. \ly
idea is that they thought they were sure of
mo, mud went after the boata—thinking.
that, with neatly all hands out, I could not
work. However, seeing there was no
chance of the mel turning up, I sailed for
honkie. I have 800 skins on lamed."
"You believe the men to have been cap-
tured ?"
"I dos" said Capt. Perry. " The weath-
er was fine at the time, and the steam
imunoh was about. There were three boats,
with three men in each, the 13011100 being :
Neil )Morrison, hunter.
Flurry Brown, steersman.
Aleo. McKenzie, boat -puller.
Baby Blue Eyes Guardian,
Bouncer )vas an ugly clog, oven before
bad burns had scarred his brown, shaggy -
mated body. He cane one mgh1 to Mrs.
Link's kitchen door, asking, dog fashion,
for tL h0111e,
Nobody Wanted a dog, but the Links were
kindly people. Manana said, "I cannot
tarn the poor fellow cut in this storm."
Bement was not drivel away. lie was
s0 glad and grateful, and Baby Blue Byes
loved hint so much that Mrs. Link said,
"Let him stay."
Baby wu9 aIle
to
sIt
alone. Bouncer
Y
would lie beside her for hours, and watched
)tied
her faithfully Mamma Link began tatlind
the clog a real help. He was a guardian to
be trusted.
Baby learned to creep, and loved to play
with 0he coal in the coal -cupboard. One
evening, when Mamma Link was busy in
the dining -room, baby crept to the kitchen,
Bouncer followed close behold, his bright
eyes seeing the mischief that a match care-
lessly dropped by Robbie was doing.
The blazing match fell upon Baby's thio
gown, Bouncer barked sharply. No one
saw that the little gown was of fire. Rob.
bio went to the cistern for a pail of water.
Bouncer's sharp tenth gripped tightly a pots
Son of the gown. He quickly dragged the
baby, screaming and frightened, into the
dining -room,
Mamma Link was able to prevent a seri-
ous burn, thanks to 1lonneer's watchfulness
and intelligence. The little dog's shaggy
coat was burned in patches, but in two
weeks Baby Blue Eyes and ho wo"e entirely
healed of their burns. Our faithful dog
friends deservekind treatment.
The Two Ines.
In a beautiful park on a mountain -side
there are two houses in which I am inter-
ested, for they were built by a friend of
mine for some friends of mine.
They were built by the boy of our family,
for our dear friends the birds, the chip-
munks and the squirrels.
They were the owners of these lovely
great mossy boulders and silver waterfalls
and tall trees before we came and built our
cottage here, so we are going to be as kind
to them as we know how to be.
When the rocks were blasted and the
hammers and saws at work, they all went
away, but now they are back again, and the
birds come in at our windows, and the chip-
munks run across the veranda and look at
us with curious, bright eyes, and are not
afraid,
Our boy has his " carpenter's shop" be-
hind the latticework of the basement, and,
there he made first a house for the robins,
or any of their 001(0100 that might liko to
take a cottage, rent free for a mason. He
stained the roof and veranda a rosy red,
and the parts between a yellow-brown;
and upon the front gable was painted the
name, " Cock Robin Inn."
Tho next house was twioe as Iarge as the
one I have described, but made and stained
very much like it, only on the front was an-
' other name, " The Squirrel Inn."
Our boy tells mo this is " for weary chip-
munks and travelling squirrels."
This little inti has been placed a few fent
away from our cottage. Sometimes; it )las
been placed on a great moss•eovered rook,
but just now it stands on a 80uulp that the
chipmunks have often made their speeches
from.
Some nuts are temptingly strewn on the
veranda, and there are more inside. This
inn is nota trap, It has a back door as Well
as a front door, and they are allvays open, so
that our friends, who do not always agree,
may have a way of escape in time of need.
The inn is a now idea to them, and they
are shy about entering, -but another season
we hope they will become acouatoned to it,
and enjoy its hospitality,
11.88,118861.81188.
MEAL TIME -
AN BIallANT'S EMOTION.
THE Was.11n's 8111PWItEOK .
Dbeerrl'.xr,3le11'0001110 n) 31) 047oo11 Ut Overcome bye It1Mb orPee; 1ug 10'benlfe i'nsunlltos 'Thal Iiseape ./1en111•811Vo11ra ,
Gm morel ng. slaw MS Ienllgesor 3)113 deceased. smother, 01s.lreightte8tele 1,8011,3101 Year.
to word Sotoo of tho 110rop0a Ilow8I u ,nrsare tell• li'e hear much of the many linoly.model-
It ix b0liorel b} 801110 that it ([I . ,(
,.g,ei
• o toe a t 1t
''c a t n
I' •,uwlus stet
dimer) aprin;ts Aon n corruption +1C the ing a )truly t1r y n �. Y ed ships that are hail) from time to time,
".1 ,. aures" fn.1(.,, ug t(, tdnu, at 101 tt trained elephant which acorns a but little of the many vessels that are lost.
w•
whiesh, in the old Nmvmul days, this 313131) i F00F00111111,travelling show. Tile prnpuetnr of
W110 taken. Tali mere Mead having dinner the ;drew; anmounell that on %certain night
at oho btebarous ham' of to o'clock. in the his elephant would play the 100001(11 hymn
morning would in all probability, 3100101 a 00 a pian; with his trellis, lot;11x; interest
masers (that foto a 111•,et 11 31.100 at this wee armee, and when the evening came
early time, says Chambers,' Journal, that the expectant public o'owrled the ;11'000 to
croons of quality, both in title country and the reef. After the usual p0'I0l'n cw00a
Franco, partook of the meal, Frmasa't four men carried in 11 cottage pi0uo, which
tllentioua welt; g upon the duke of 1.000101- they placed in the nen 11'0af the ar0115. Then
SENTIMENT IS CHANGING•
-- da.
re nuitnnd 11'nrminmToe'urds Cann
sent 1, ,.
A Halifax dispatch says a big change has
come over the spirit of the dreams of the
most &b1
nri.Canadian paper in N0
-
founil nd. The. Telegram,
organ of Hon.
Robert Bond, publishes the following sig.
nifioont editorial under the heading:
" w E0 00NTID10"
A (lno z 7T.
"It cannot be denied that a growing
sentiment exists Isere in favor of confedera-
tion all over the colony. The attitude to-
wards Canada is slowly but surely undergo-
ing a favorable change; and we venture to
predict that the stoteaman who leads a party
at the next election in support of union
with the Dominion, will have a very large
minority, if not actual majority, of follow-
ers. Now, the question prises, What )ms
led to this change of feeling from strong
antipathy towards Canada, to kindly
interest in her affairs? We think the
causes are very obvious. First the colony's
want of influence with the Imperial Govern-
ment, in consequence of our numerical weak-
ness, as exemplified in the matter of the
Bond -Blaine convention ; secondly, our
commercial and social relations with Canada,
the identity of our interests, and the similar-
ity of our political and national institutions ;
and thirdly, the magnanimous manner fn
which every province of the Dominion ran
to our relief, when, on the 801 of July last,
half of this city lay in ashes and ten thousand
of our people were homeless. Canada's
noble generosity on this occasion will not
soon be forgotten by the inhabitants of
Newfoundland. It i0 looked in memory's
treasure -house, and her warm hearted people
themselves shall keep the key. In a sub-
sequent issue we shall have more to say
about this Interesting matter."
The Shortening Days.
The days of the year have passed their
maximum lougth. There is a feeling of
having passed the prime as we reflect that
every succeeding day is shorter, and that
this will continue to be so until the lowest
point shall be reached in the bleak days of
winter, And yet we are jest coming into
the harvest. We are now gathering the
fruits of a whole year's labor and life, We
are at the period of most intense activity.
For a eonsiderhle time nature will be most
active in maturing its products, and men
most busy in gathering theu1. The rich
days of glorions autumn are yet to be prepar-
ed by the shortened days of summer.
The counterpart of this is in human lido,
Wo reach a maximum point, and ileum -
forth the days shorten. A certain feeling
of impending decadence comes upon us, and
if we allow uta tone of sadness enters our
thoughts, But how le it in fact? 4Ve are
only Doming to our prime, the best days
are before us and near at hand. That for
which we are living is now becoming our
possession. The period of crudeness and im.
maturity is ending, and we are entering upon
the fulness of natured powers. Life is Donning
into its harvest 'Of manliness and vigor of
thought end work, in which the fruits of all
the previous years are gathered and used, 00 -
cording to the spirit of the possessor. It is
useful.
activityand s
g of ;rummer
the full tide
0
H
near, the period in width ens enjoyment is rich
with the flow of life, the gathered results
and the higher purposes and the better
work to follow. After the summer dayo
will Oome the glorious autumn), when the
hidden virtues and graces of life Dome to the
surface and aro seen in their richness and
beauty. When the days have reached their
full limit of length, we enter upon the
period in whioh we can do' the most, enjoy
to the full 10000(re of oar powers and bo of
tho best service to others.
the Dog.
Ute
Do.
Grover is nota handsome dog, hub he is a
good one and 10 trying hard to get an edo'
cation. For two terms he has been one of
the most regular pupils in a little country
school,
ht bris a
'
His master, George Archer, h g
little boy of eight years, and, es he lives a
SOhb01 On a lonesome
from the
tong wayr
road, wen he began to go to school Grove'
was sent with him. From the first day the
dog seemed to like it, and 'almost every
morning at eight o'olock ho would be ready
to start for school with George.
If ho happened to bo 111 the field 02 gar•
den 1011011 ilia little ma0tee started he rare-
ly failed to Done fn soon, and ,Nur. Antler
would say, " Grov0r, ibis almost nine o'clock
if you don't start for wheelsoon you will
get a bleat) mark this meriting." And off
the dog would go, alone to school.
In rammer ho usually lies iu the 080ry
until tho stn gots around and 0hine0 in his
faoe ; then ho goes in the soilo0l-roam and
1100 down under my clonic, Lha beat boltmved
80110btrin allthesehool.
At recess ho seems to enjoy the play time
Chas. Copeland, hunter.
John Rhodes, steersmen.
Sammy (Jap.), boat -puller,
ter at, 5 n'elnoli lu tin aftt'rnoou, after he the inlelligOlt anImul was brought 10,
had supped, and during the reigns of tarso. Paraded wall 11uca8 dfgni4y three times
cis I. and Louis X 1I of France faahim:able around the ring, and Ulan, amid trite keenest) crews ? Ilia story can never be completed,
people dined at 10,;111 and supped at thela0. excitement., advanced to the pima,Withthe su(Coringe may be but guessed at,
eat 1 0 o'cioek in the evening. And again, a movement of Ida trunk he timelier). the And Britain and her colones have more
0 14 b 6 +(
when
t •, lint rd • 1 to clone 31st wh
from m 1,'nrthumbe•land household book , keyboard, I, n t Ila ly had 1, • eon -
than their fair slava, for while 0031
bearing da 1519 "" learn family make un a half of the total 10x000, we eon-
t•us0 at 0 n slack, brook Mated al 7, tithed at trembled will fear and rage, 301001ud his 4ribute'11S,7830 out of the 4!1,100 0000 which
10, supped at •l, and shut the gates at trunk into the air, and then with a scream
0 p. 10.
Speaking generally, though the dinner
hour then, Ise 110v, WI/Slater 1n tins Oolinlry
than in France, (Antis XIV. slid not dine
till 12, while his eontemp0r0rle0, Cromwell
and eharlea II., took the meal at I. In
1700 the hour was ndv0noed to 9, and in
1761 we tins that the dnches0 of Somerset's;
din110r time wars 3. In 1700 Cowper speaks
of 4 o'elork 118 the When fashionable time.
After the battle of Waterloo 0 p. m. was
the time at which the beau Monde took
their aubslant10l meal, while at the present
clay many of the nobility do not dine until
8 or 0 ; so 000 see through 400 Yeas the
dinner hour has gradually moved through
twelve hours of the clay—from 0 a. m, to 0
p. m. When the dinner hour was so early
often no previous meal was taken. •
The Romans, in the time of Cicero and
Angustu3, took an early breakfast, frons 3
to 4 in die morning, a lnnehon at 12 or 1,
and at shout 3 O'01o0k the coma or princi.
pal meal of the clay, corresponding with
our dinner, Concurrently, we read of some
not dining until auoset. A Roman dinner
at the house of a wealthy man consisted
chiefly of throe courses. All aorto 0C stimu-
lants to the appetite wore first served up,
and eggs were indispensable to the first
course. Amon( the various dishes we may
instance the guinea hem pheasant, nightin-
gale, and the 01100811 as birds most in re-
pnte. The Roman gourmands held pea-
cocks in great estimation, especially their
tongues, lalaorobius states that they were
first eaten by Ifortensine, the orator, and
acquired such repute that a single peacock
was sold at 50 (10narii, the denatius being
equal to about eightpece-)tali'-peony of one
money.
Seed Thoughts,
?)ccosiOually publio interest fs excited by
heroism displayed 1111 savini'�, a shipwrecked
strew; but in many 011800 8010 10110 of a good
ship to only indleuted by a linear two in the
1101 of casualties in the daily newspapers. -
Who, for instance, would thick that last
year sixty-eight vessels, 111e larger proper,
Lion ships sailed from sante port or other,
and a100rdiog to Lloyd's annual I'ott[rn,
never again were heard of, and these, too,
were fairly good•sized omit? What of the
o • hunter.
Andrew An w MtG t
Y
+
7. ICelah, steersman.
Maurice O'Connor, boat -puller.
Capt. t. ]artY
reported having,a
seen the
Annie C. Moore and the
Ariel. Re had
also seen the Victoria on August 14, with
480 skins on board ; the Agnes Macdonald,
on the 100, with 800 skins, 60 miles off
Copper • and Arl 0
013
'
ersd
clay and in the same neighOn the name
neighborhood, with
1,000 skins, and several others which be
did not speak. Ho also spoke the E. B
Marvin on the 10th, and parting company
with her thought she would have been
home before him. Ho saw her in the
Straits coning in.
Asked as to the probable fate of the
other schooners about Copper Island, Capt,
Perry shook his head significantly and pro-
ceeded to the sealers' headquarters to re.
port.
Vigor, energy, rogolution, firmness of MR,
pose --these carry 1110 000011111.
Pmtfeneo, the second bravery of nen, is
perhaps, greater than the first.
Row to Reeeive a Compliment.
Not to value honest praise, not to enjoy
the appreciation of one's fellows, to be in-
different to their good as to their ill opin•
ion, is less likely to be a mark of lofty au-
periority than intense self-satisfaction.
Kindly people, friendly people, modest
people, like to be praised. They find is oom-
pliment agreeable whioh is sincere and not
excessive, and in one way or another they
are pretty sure to manifest their pleasure in
it. Often, however, they do so against their
will, making all the time a poor pretense
of indifference which they suppose to be de.
mended by modesty or politeness.
Sometimes they go further, and insistent-
ly disolaim praise which they cannot but
know is fairly merited. Again they giggle
foolishly, or try to waive the matter aside
with an airy gesture and a laugh that does
not ring true. Girls, especially, who are not
likely to receive compliments, are least
likely to receive them well. Often a pretty
girl will destroy a delightful impression by
her billy embarrassment at a few natural
words of admiration for her youth and
freshness. As she flushes and laughs, looks
up and then clown, and turns her head
consciously aside, one feels that there can
be but little admirable about her except
her beauty, if that is so important to her
that a mere referonoo to it in her presence
moves her so easily. Or a clever girl, who
thinks it due to her reputation for clever-
ness to despise compliments, will repel
where sho just attracted by afro of poorly
acted disdain,
There fa no real difficulty iu accepting a
compliment. It is neither vain nor ululfg-
nifiod, but rather gracious and becoming,
to taste pleasure in giving pleasure. There-
fore, if a girl has given pleasure, either by
her appearance or by her actions, and if
some one tells her of it thereto always some-
thing honest, simple and suitable that she
Dan 80y in reply : " I an glad that yon were
t you think I
"Ian
glad Lha o
pleased. "Y
did well", or "" I am glad you approve my
work ".
Only the sublimity of cheep rises to the
grandeur of luck,
God never keeps a willing man waiting
long for an opportunity.
Some persons by (sating vices too much
come to love men too little,—[Burke.
An iron key may open,0 golden treasury,
and leaden pipes carry pleasant teeters.
Actions, looks, words, steps, form the
alphabet by which you spell character.—
(Leveler.
haracter—[Levater.
NeverY
mind your infirmities.
You hays
nothing '
'n to do with ll[' )
them. l o
business 30
to trust and go forward.
There are times iu a man's life when the
tvay toearn his friendship
and
gratitude is
to ass. 1
• him no questions.
Do well the little things note, so shall
great things eon,; to thee by and by asking
to be done.--(Persianproverb.
Frankness and bhiffuess are not the same.
As disagreeable a nuisance as there i0 in
the world is the bluff individual who "al-
ways says just what be thinks."
A man without an ideal sinks ; the man
with one rises, but in so rising passes
through agonies. This life is his purgatory,
Only the man without an ideal is happy—
brutally happy. --[S. Baring -Gould.
The world is a looking -glass, and gives
back to every man the reflection of his own
face. Frown at it, and it will, in turn,
look sourly upon you ; laugh at it and with
it, and it is a pleasant kind of companion.
Christianity is not a state of opinion and
speculation. It is essentially practical, and
I will maintain this, , that practical Chris.
tianity is the greatest curer of corrupt
speculative Christianity.—[Earl of Shaftes,
bury.
ivlany men carry their conscience like a
drawn sword, nutting this way and that, in
the world, but sheathe it, and keep it very
soft and quiet, when it is turned within
thinking that a sword should not be allowed
to cut its own scabbard.
We are placed here in the world to do
the work which offers itself to us as Chris-
tian men and women. The next world may
have its work, but when we get to Heaven
it will be time enough for us to coucern our-
selves with that,—[Prof. Ely.
None but another God, the equal of Him-
self, could fathom what God is. He not
merely does not, He 0311 not, make to us a
revelation of Himself whioh shall uncover
alt the secrets of His life, and leave us
nothing for our wonder, nothing to elude us
or bewilder us.—[Phillips Brooks,
Enough discomfort may be gotten out of
almost any proposition to meet the absolute
necessities of life.
All liquor deface who
openednn
i a
place for
buaftws
h1 Colombia, Mo., recently tarter
out with a determination to justify a
dignify his business and lif0if from the level
usually 1800igned to it. Iia issued 8 notion
with this lead line; "Know all Wren by
these presents." Ho announced that ho Mad
" desire to sell to mums, drunkards of
the destitute," that any "wife with a
drunkard for a hu0band, or any person
With afriend "unfortunately dissipated"
wee requested to notify him of the fact, and
the persons dooeribed would he excluded
from 1110 plasm of bnsine0s. tie believed
" there are gentlemen of bowie, and work,
man who Dun afford it, who 30(1310 to driikr,"
Mid 110 waatod 10 de bu0in08303 a serioty
Segliimat0 lnliness, with then,
of terror rushed out of the arena, have thus passed out of record. The total
of 'nooks, too, 008111s large -1,0811 vessels
There was a great hurrying to a1,11ro of 'of 0.111,0.16 tons—but it must bo remember-
ed that there are probably always aldoat on
tite high seas over 20,000,000 tons of ship-
ping, which fact, althoagh it increases the
surprise that so many vessels 8ho111d be lost
without any news, indieatos generally a
fairly low ratio of loss—three to four per
cent. of tonnage.
the employees, old the 0101.(8 proprietor
and the elephant keeper left the ring for
uoh,oltation, In a few robotism the pro-
prietor returned and announced with regret
that the performance could not taste place.
Tho fact (110, he said, that the elephant
had reeognizod in the keyboard of oho in-
strument u portion of the tasks of bis long.
lost mother, who had fallen a prey to the
ivory Mutton of Africa. Ile hod suggested
to the keeper that another piano might be
procured, but that expert had informed him
that the animal was so overcome with emo-
tion that it would 110 impossible for it 1.0
perform that evening. 'Under these 0dr-
cumetao:es Ito suggested that the " Rus-
sian IIymn," followed by the " Marseil-
latse," 0110,1111 he played by the band. The
entertainment was thus brought to a close
amid the frantic applause of 1h0 oudionoe.
RUBY RUSSELL'S DEATH.
And the Subsrrlaenl. Chnelly Ell icido of Dr.
Ilcrron, an Army surgeon.
AL0100n
despatch tch s1( s •
—Considerable
to
excitement has been caused hero by the
mysboriousdeath of Ruby Russell, an actress
of some note, whose real name wa0 Mari-
eenue Sharpe. At the time of her death she
was living wish Dr. Herron, an army sur -
goon. An inquest was held, but the cause
of her death could not be ascertained, al-
though she is supposed to have beau poison-
ed, On Saturday, after taking sufficient
poison to kill himself, Dr. Herron out his
throat, He was a widower, his wife having
died in Jamaica in 1801. An inquest was
hell upon her body at the time.
Dr. Herron first out his throat while
atauding in front of a mirror. Finding the
gash was 1101 deep enough to eause doath,he
0010(0hed himself on the floor, arranged a
vessel to catch his blood and placed a pillow
80 08 to elevate his head enough to let the
blood llov into the vessel, He then out his
throat a aecoud time, severing the windpipe
andugular vein. He load scribbled his
love for Miss Sharpe and expressing the
hope that he would soon meet her again. It
is reported that Herron left apaper confess.
ing ho had murdered Miss Sharpe.
Sow the Lnoifer Matoh was Invented.
It is not generally known that it is to
Isaac Holden, M.P., that we owo the in.
1 enti0n of the iueifer match. The discovery
was, ho hits told us hin'self, the result of a
(happy thought, " In the morning I used
to getup at 4 o'clock in order to pursue my
studies, and I used at that time the hint
and steel, in the use of which I found very
great ineonvenien00. 0f course, I knew, as
other chemists did, the explosive material
that was necessary in order to produce in•
stentaneous light, but it was very dlflieult to
obtain a light on wood by that explosive
material, end the idea Occurred to me to
put sulphur under the explosive mix -
tura. I curd that and showed it in my
next lecture on chemistry, a course of which
I was delivering at a large academy.
"'There was," said Mr. Holden, " a young
man in the room whose father was a chemist
in London, and he immediately wrote to his
father about it, and shortly afterward
lueifer matches wore issued to the world.
I believe that was the first occasion that we
had the Wolfer match. I was urged to go
te
' 1 0 otol
and take out a patent hmnd
Y, but I,
thought it was BO 0)13001 a matter and 1t cost
m0 00 little labor that 1414 nob think it
proper to go and pet a patent, otherwise I
have no doubt it would have been very prof-
itable."—[Pall Mall Gazette,
Candied opinion—Taffy.
I love the pleasant time between
The growing time and riping,
When vines and trees all burst hi green
And little birde are piping;
When on the apple tree the fruit
Beare promise of fruition,
Unlit the small boy start0 to root—
Yost 0001 I'm •a physief011 0
SUPERIORITY 810' STEEL.
It may beacoeptedas a leat imonyinfavor
of Steel that of the total tonnage lost only
twelve per cent, was constructed of this
metal, while forty•ono per cont, was of iron
and forty.00ven per eent.008 wood and eons.
visite vessels. But it should also be noted
that the iron and wooden vessels generally
are older, so that ago as well as material
may have contributed to the result. Again,
ships bulk more largely than steamers, the
fatter making forty-three per mut. atld
ships fifty-seven per cent, of the total ; bat
age again must be considered, for a largo
number (124 vessels of '07,3310 tons) were
condemned and broken up against only 18,-
037 tons of steamers. A ship is more readi.:
ly abandoned at sea than a steamer, because
board" in a
1,
the masts "' o bythe nen l
wl
storm the ship is often helpless. We have,
therefore,60,570 tons of ships thus abandon-
ed against only 0,000 of steamers, which
latter in itself is a Large number ; they are
all of large size, too, averaging 1,200 tons.
The Shrine a a Murder.
of the Goddess o f Mc
er.
" Blackwood" for September contains an
interesting, artiole on Love and Crime in
describes the
writer )taus
'ho
India." 1
Kali
amongthe
of Vali 1—Half-hidden
shrine
polished sten s of the graceful bamboos,mboos
,
there 010inde SU i11 -kept shrine, sacred to
Kali, savage goddess of murder and rapine.
on the
Can b0 $e
u h the andoorway
hro 1
T
g
P
grinning idol, all foaled with blood, perch-
ed cn a high carved dais. Aooss her knees
lies a keen -edged sacrificial knife, and let
into her breast is a large green stone mark-
ed with blood -red splashes, fit type of fer-
ocious Kali's heart of adamant. The shrine
Is shabby and avis-odoured, yet it bears a
high reputation for sanctity throughout the
province, chiefly because of the stone, whioh
is generally believed to be a stone of divina-
tion: Legend relates that it was used for
many ages by the Wise Men of the South ;
that then it came into the possession of the
Queen of Sheba, who presented it to King
Solomon, who continually consulted it ; that
it was stolen from him by one of his wives,
who sent it away to her own country.
There the atone disappeared, and was not
heard of for many years, when it came to
light again in Arabia, where it was seized
by .Mohammed the False Prophet, who,
after testing its virtues, threw it away, and
destroyed all record of the spells and incan.
talions needful for its proper use, Thence,
after adventures enough to fill a volume, it
found a resting -place in Kali's breast, where
it lay lung unused. All through the olose
September evening there squats at the idol's
feet a half-clad 'Brahmin—weaving white
garlands for the grotesque deity—a fair -
skinned, handsoone man of middle age,
whose high forehead and Olean -cut facie
show signs of breeding and of talent, but
the close -set flashing eyes and square jowl
betray unaornpulous will and evil temper.
He mutters to himself as be deftly strings
the sweet -scented flowers for the idol's neck,
and from time to time smiles complacently
as he glances at the stone of divination, and
thence at an ancient parchment scroll before
him.
au
INTERESTING DETAIL&.
It is interesting to note further that
steamers collide more frequently than ships
or the results are more disastrous. Thus
we find that while 45,070 tons of steamers
were lost by collision, only 12,840 tons of
ship losses are so accounted for. The
number of vessels does not show the same
disparity, forty-three of the former against
forty-seven of the latter, which would in-
dicnt0 that small ships more readily collide,
and one may be pardoned the assumption
that these are mostly in Thome chanuele
rather than on the high seas. Of course,
the hidden rock, the fog-bedinlmed rugged
headland and the overpowering tempest are
as disastrous to the steamer as to the ship,
and 000 find that in each case about a half
of the losses are attributed t0 these more or
less unavoidable causes. As to nationality
we find that the " death rate" of tonnage
of Britain's fleet is 2.07 per cent., and of
the colonies 3.13 per cent. The
highest
ost
with 5.24 per
rate is attained by Norway, 1
cent. ; Russia being next with 3.40 per
cent , and Sweden with 3.35 per cent. ;
' Spain, with
1.05
t lowest while
t roto
he is l w a
P
per cent. The sailing ship owning
st t
ea
come
highest. Britain has a heavier loss
in ships than steamers -11.00 per cent. of the
former against _ O per er cent. of the ]attar,
iu 3
e total losses for the year bei
ves-
sels of 282,012 tons.—[London Engineering, ineering,
A Monstrous Monstrosity.
In March, 1704, a frightful creature,
which Pierre Despire says was "a mixture
of 1000, bear, and wild boar," made its 0p.
poaran0e near Gorvandan, France. During
the summer several prow inoos were terror.
Nod by the uncanny deeds of the terrible
creature, which, notwithstanding its many
depredations, managed to keep out of sight
until about the middle of the following De-
cember, when a peasant woman, walking
along a lonely path came face to face
with the monster, Slloaaid that it had the
body of :Lr, alligator, the " tayle" of a lion,
the claws of a wolf, and the horrid mocking
laugh of a famishing hyena.
According to this woman, the head of the
monstrosity was that of
ans
with the akin
so tightly drawn over it as to give it oho
appearance of a death -head, the eyes being
so deeply sunken in their sockete as to bo
invisible. From this tune forward for about
six months terror reigned supreme in that
section of Prone°, Some one was missed
ever week, and sometimes as many as one
y were carried away or devoured.
a day opinion
1 rofosenr Sanchots gavei0aa his
that the thing wa8 a ghoul. Tho Lso'iola-
ture of Languedoc offered 3,000 livroe for
the thing's head end actually Dent a detaolo-
tn'ont of mounted troops in acaroit of it. In
Septembor,1765,oneSieur Lthinehardt killed
tine creature but ne ono 1060 0811010011 co see
it but the tnotinted guards under tho Duke
of Orleans. To this (ley the people of Ger-
vendee and Langned00 believe that tt tva8
a supernatural monster of a kind never bo
fore heard of. From booember, 1164, t
S0p1embee, 170,0, it killed and carried off
sixty-three mon, women, and children.
Under a cloud—Umbrellas,
WHALING IN ANTARCTIC WATEES-
The Fleet Salts front Dundee Prepared to
Mane scientific Researches.
The report that the proposed whaling ex+
pedition to the Antarctic Ocean has been
given up is erroneous. The 6eetsailed from
Dundee in the first week of September and
consisted of the steamers Selena, Active,
Diana, and Polar Star. Geographers are
taking much interest in this enterprise, for
no such opportunity of adding to our knowl-
edge of high southern latitudes has ocour-
red since the memorable voyage of Sir James
Clark Ross fifty years ago. The Royal
Geographical Society of London was desirous
that this fleet should take accurate ob0erve-
tions as to its position in the south polar'
waters and with regard to magnetic varia-
tion, and to this end it supplied the vessels
with its own chronometers and compasses.
The British Meteorological Office also sup-
plied instruments for taking meteorological
observations.
Two eoienti6o mon are with the fleet, one
of whom, Ivfr, W. S. Bruce, the surgeonof
the Debella, is as enthusiastic, naturalist:
and an experienced physical observer, while
Dr. C. M. Donald, who goes on the Active,
i0 also interested in scientific research.
The well-known Arctic traveller, kir. B.
Leigh Smith, has taken a keen interest fn
the expedition and equipped one of the ves-
sels with the necessary apparatus for scien-
tific observations and photography, The
expedition will probably be absent six
months.
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