HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1888-7-27, Page 6YOUNG- FOLKS.
The One Pet Jame,
Never hada boy so many names,
They palled him Jimmy and Jin and James,
a:Perna and Jamie, and well he knew
Who it was that wanted him, too,
The boys in the street ran after him,
Shouting quite loudly, "Jim 1 Hoy,
Jd m•m 1"
Until the echoes, little and big,
Seemed to be dancing a Jim Crow jig.
Grandpa a, who was dignified
And held his head with an air of pride,
Didn't believe in abridging names,
.And made the most that he could of
" J-a•m.e-e."
Biddy O'Flynn could never, it seems,
Call him anything else but " Jeems,"
And when the nurse, old Mrs. MoVyse,
Called him " Jamie," it sounded nice.
But sweeter and dearer than all the rest,
Was the one pet name that he liked the
best ;
"Darling !"-he heard it whate'er he wee at,
For none but his mother called him that.
MARIAN'S OPPORTUNITY,
BY SATE SnISNEE GATES.
"God never sends you anywhere that he
does not send an opportunity with you,"
Margie's Sunday-eohool book lay open on
the stand, and Marian's eyes fell on the
above sentence as she looked there for her
gloves.
She was in a great hurry lest she should
lose her car, but something in the words at•
traoted her attention, and she stopped to
read them over a second time. As she hur-
ried out of the house they were still ringing
in her ears.
God never sends yon anywhei., that he
does not send an opportaa y with you.
Was it God who was send',c her into the
city to -day, and was he ending also an op.
port -unity for her?
It makes me fee almost shivery to
think so," she said to herself. "I had
rather feel that I am just going out
shopping ; there's no very great responibil-
ityabout that; but it would be sort of
dreadful to feel that God sent you to do
something, and you didn't do it. I might
not see it, you know, and 1 mightn't want to
do it even if I aid see it," she added, with
sndden frankness. And, truth to tell, lila-
rian was not very apt to do things which.
put her out.
Once in the city she was busy with her
various errand,, and the subject which had
oaoupied her thoughts on the way down
slipped her mind.
Just before noon she met Nora King.
"Ien,t it beautiful out 3" said Nora,
" But, dear me, I can't half enjoy it for
thinking of poor Grace Barret. What I
Haven't you heard about her ? You know
she's been studying so hard to fit hereel
for a teaoher, end she's overworked he
eyes. She has been very sick, and now th
doctor says she must stay in a dark room
for the dear knows how long. They say
she's about wild, for they are poor, you
know, and she wanted to help her mother.
if I was one of you good folks, and knew
what to say, I'd go and see her. Think
how the hours must drag; for her mother
has to sew, so she's alone most of the time.
You and I don't have much to trouble us;
do we ? Going to the Symphony this of ter -
noon? Then 1'll see you there. Good-bye."
Nora turned to go home, and Marian
went slowly in the opposite direction. How
hard it must be for Grace 1 She would try
to go and see her some time, She teas not
sure that she knew whet to say any more
than Nora did; but perhaps she could help
her pass away an hour or so. And then all
as once Marian 08100 to 6 standstill, Waa
this her opportunity?
0 poi.,w 3" she said, impatiently; "I
wish 1 heoln'b seen that miserable little
sentence. I want to go to the Symphony
the worst way this afternoon, for Helen
Donglae will have her cousin with her, and
it is my only chance to meet her. I'll go to
see Graoe some other day. Besides, I've
bought my ticket; I must go."
" It doesn't matter if you have bought
your ticket," said conscience very clearly ;
' you know that Edna Graves wovld be
delighted with it; abe never would take it
from you as a gift, but if you offer it be-
cause you can't use it she will feel different.
ly. I don't believe she's been to a concert
this winter; think how she would enjoy
it ! You are going to he busy sewing, and
won't be likely to come in again for several
weeks. I think you should go and ace
Grace to -day. She may be better before
you can go again, and you will have missed
this opportunity. Suppose it is the one
that God sent you to do to -day -will you
not be sorry by and by if you neglect to
do it?" These questions and others like
them kept coming to Marian ae ebo went
from one store to another,
"There's no nee in my trying to go to the
concert now," she said, impatiently. "I
won't take any comfort 8f I do,"
THE BRUSSELS POST, JULY 27, 1888,
She Bays sho 1vw14,a if God loved her enough to
give her His Son to suffer and die for her He
levee her enough to give her everythiug
else that ie beet for her ; don't you think it
moat by so? So auntie eve she just clings
to that verse, 004 treats even where abe
can't see any reason for things happening ae
they do," That was all that Marian tried
to say, and Grace mode very little reply
then, but weeks after she sent a note to
Marian, " Deer Marian," it read, " I want
to thank you for your Aunt MarIon's words.
Tboy olung to me and I to them through
those dark days, and at lest I found coin•
fort in them. I thank Him now for those
weeks of darkness, for in them I have found
his marvelous light, and now when I am
able to take up my chorea work I shall do
it, 0 so differently, please God. I cannot
write more now, but, believe me, I shall
always hold you in grateful remembrance for
the messege you brought me in my time of
need. Lovingly, GRAMS"
"It was my opportunity," said Marian,
softly, "I wonder if it is always true that,
there is one for us wherever we go. I shall
not dare go anywhere without asking God
to keep me on the watch for it, and to help
me do it when I find it, even if it is hard."
Franklin's Addition to Genesis,
1. And fa came to pass after these things
that .Abraham sat in the door of his tent
about the going down of the sun,
2. And behold a man, bowed with age,
came from the way of the wilderness, lean.
Ing on a etatf.
3. And Abraham arose and met him, and
and unto him, Turn in, I pray thee, and
wash thy feet, and tarry all night, and
thou ohalt arise early on the morrow and go
thy way.
4. But the man said, Nay, for I will abide
under this tree.
6, And Abraham pressed him greatly ; so
be turned and they went into the tent, and
Abraham baked unleavened bread and they
did eat,
6. And when Abraham saw that the man
blessed not God, be said unto him, Where-
fore dost thou not worship the moat high
God, Creator of heaven ar,a earth?
7. And the man answered and said, I do
not worship the God thou apeakeet of,
neither do I call upon His name ; for I have
made to myself a God, which abideth al.
ways in my house, and provideth me with
all things.
S. And Abraham's zeal was kindled
against the man, and he arose and drove
him forth with blows into the wilderness.
9. And at midnight God celled unto
Abraham, saying, Abraham, where is the
stranger ?
10. And Abraham answered and said,
Lord, he would not worship Thee, neither
would he call upon Thy name, therefore have
I driven him out from before my face into
the wilderness.
11, And God said, Have Iborne with him
these hundred ninety and eight years, and
nourished him, and clothed him, notwith•
standing his rebellion against Me, and
oouldst not thou, that art thyself a sinner,
bear with him one night ?
e 12. And Abraham said, Let not the anger
of my Lord wax hot against His servout;lo
I have sinned, forgive me, I pray thee.
13, And Abraham arose and went forth
into the wilderness, and sought diligently
for the man, and found him and returned
with him to the tent, and when he had
treated him kindly he sent him away on the
morrow with gifts.
14. And God apako again unto Abraham,
saying, For this thy sin shall thy seed be
afflicted four hundred years in a strange
land.
15. But for thy repentance will I deliver
them, and they shall come forth with power
and gladness of heart, and with much sub-
stance,
So it oame to pass that early that after-
noon she found hermit in Grace's dark
room ; but she was more than surprised at
the welcome she received. " 0 Marian,"
said Grace, with a sob, "you don't know
bow thankful I am to 5eeyou ; it just memo
to me that I oannot hear it any longer, and
yet I can't help myself. Mother is killing
herself, and here I must sit in the dark and
fold my hands, I believe that I shall be
crazy before long. Do tell mo something to
change my thoughts for a few minutes any
way." " If I were one of you good folks,
and knew what to say, I'd go in a minute",
Nora's words flashed through Marian's mind
just then, She was one of the good ones --
that is, she was a professing Christian, and
she ought to know what to nay tothie friend
in her sore need of help; bub she did not,
nor could she remember having ever spoken
any such words in all her Christian life,
I can't preach," she thought, with an
impatient shrug of her shoulders, which,
fortunately, Grano could not see, "I don't
believe in it, and I couldn't Bay anything to
help her if I tried, I should only make a
bad matter worse."
"Then you ought to be ashamed of your-
self," mid that troublesome conscience, "If
you had any real love for Christ in your
heart you would be able to nay something.
Grace isn't a Christian, nor her mother.
Think what an opportunity it may be that
God wants you to use t" 1t all went
through Marian's mind in a moment or two,
and there went up from her heart the most
earnest ory for help that ever she had offer-
ed bather life.
" It roust be ever end ever 00 ha
rd, Oracle, I
dear," eho acid softly and hesitatingly,'
"And I don't see how you oan bear it only'
as you feel sure that there is some good
reason for it being so. I haven't had any
trouble myself to speak of,but you know how
much my Aunt Marian has had, and the I
says she has just clung to that verse, ' Ile
teat spared not his own Son, how shall Ile
not with Him also freely give us all things?'
The Mistake She Made.
At a party the hostess said to a guest :
" I want you to entertain Mr. Blank a little;
he looks bored to death. I will introduce
him and you must try to amuse him, You
know his strong point is butter, on which he
has written a book."
The lady guest graciously undertook the
task of entertaining, the man, inwardly won-
dering that be should be so interested in
butter -of which she knew very little -
when his face indicated a mind given to
much profound thinking.
However, with butter in view, she began
on theweather, gradually got to the oountry,
then onto a farm, from that to cows, and
at last to butter. The man looked more
bored than ever, the magic word butter pro -
duping not the slightest effect, and ho left
her somewhat abruptly and Boon withdrew
from the house,
"I did my beet," she explained to the
hostess; " I went through agonies to prove
that I was deeply interested in butter, but
it was all in vain."
"Butter!" exclaimed the hostess. "What
possessed you to talk to that man, of all
men, on butter? I told you he had just
written a book on Buddha, and I knew how
deeply you two were interested in the same
subject,"
And they said in ohorus "Gracious 1"
Sam Jones on American Polities.
DETROIT, July 1 -Sam Jones, the femora
Georgia revivalist, preached in the Metho-
dist church here today to an immense con-
gregation composed largely of Americans.
After saying that on the whiskey question
Canadians were no better than the residents
of the States be paused something of a eon-
eation by deolariog:-" Now I'll tell you, I
think we are running the last politioal oom.
bat on the lines we have been running them
on, It is between the Republicans and
Democrats, this canton, and it is the last
race the Republicans will make in America.
The Democrats aro going in overwhelming.
Four years from now we will break up the
solid South. The issue then will be God
or no God, drunkenesa or sobriety, Sabbath
or no Sabbath, Heaven or hell. That will
be the issue. Then we will wipe up the
ground with the Democratic party and lot
God rule America from that time forth."
Nilsson's Debut,
Writing of Mme. Nileson-Miranda's farewell
oonoert, Dr. Louie Engel says in the World,
of London: "Never shall I forget the sensa-
tion treated by the young Swedish girl at
the Theatre Lyrique, in Paris, and how
within one week the name of Christine Nils-
son was in everybody's mouth, She who be-
gan to sing in the street with her little
brother, proud of the receipts of her first
concert, which amouted to fivepenoe half-
penny,
of thelient hwo ld6mad inhabitants
ng ti her
su
capital
with England and America, where
she made net proSta amounting to a million
in fifteen months.
The following rnterosting optica is posted
at a frequented seaside resort 1-" Any bath.
ing man who sees a lady in danger of drown-
ing and gees into the water to rosette her
will bo careful to aeio° her by the dross and
not by the hair -as the latter will mod
probably come off in his hande,"
A POTSHERD,
" The roadway of iiJe is strewn with petaherds,"-Oorrif,h Proverb,
nr RA:OS 00E0RL,
Don't go around, I pray. Push it aside
With ruthloae heel and hurry on your way,
Yoe whom I loved, for whom I would have died,
Or deemed it happiness enough to stay
Forever with thy arm encircling me,
Willing to do or suffer aught for then,
Push it aside. 'Tie but a potsherd flung
Out by thy careless band upon the road,-
My broken life -'tie only one among
The many lives with which the way ie strewed.
If it be poesiblo I'll make no moan,
But bear my woe and suffering alone,
" To love and oherieh until death ue part," -
It sounded wondrous eweeb unto my ears.
Alas I I since have learned, with breaking heart
With loneliness and longing, and with tears,
How little mean the promises of men,
How lightly made, and broke and made again.
I gave myself and thought you understood
And knew the fulness of the gift I made,
Myself, arrayed the,
spotless maidenhood
With all life'a hopes, low at thy foot I laid,
For I did love thee better and far more
Than over human heart had loved before,
Just one short year of happiness was mine,
When thou wart all in all unto my soul,
And foolishly I thought that I was thine,
As fondly loved : Over my spirit stole
A"wonderful content to feel thea near,
Would I had died while thus I held thee dear l
My nights were spent in dreaming and my days
In loving service that Is only known
To happy wives, who, sheltered from the gaze
And comments of the world, in undertone
Of blessedness sing softly and prepare
Cradle and dainty robes with tender caro.
The child you had entrusted unto me,
To bear and rear for you and for our Lord,
I fondly held half mine and half of thee,
bad, though today he sleeps beneath the sod,
His very grave is dearer for that time
That glided by as coma sweet, happy rhyme.
And, oh I could I oall back but one sweet hour
Of those glad months and hear you say " my wife'
With the old love•spell's tender power,
I'd give my fame, aye, everything in life.
Ah me 3 with bitterness I since have guessed
I was mere pendant to your life at best,
Yee, but a pendant 3 that is all the place
You could acoord me in your lordly plan
Of life and work. How very little space
Is there for woman in the heart of man ?
And when he wearies of her, as he will,
Poor, foolish soul she trice to love him still,
Ah, yes 3 my life -'tie but a potsherd flung
Out by thy careless band upon the road, -
My broken life -'tie only one among
The many lives with which the way is strewed.
If it be possible I'll make no moan
But bear my woe and suffering alone,
HEAVEN FOR EVERY ONE. I
Musical Sande,
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The Islam heaven described in the Ko-
ran is a place of all sensuous delight,
where the righteous recline on couches in
a fair garden, drinking the delicious
beverage supplied by the fountain Tasnim
and waited on by damsels or hour's with
great eyes and yielding temperaments.
The life of the Moslem soldier was a
wearying one, a long succession of fights
under a blazing sun, and with the prospect
of suoh a divine oasis awaiting him, he
would almost rush to death,
The lives of the old Norsemen were full
of alternate oaroueings and strife, and they
who could drink the heaviest and strike
the greatest number of crushing blows
per minute were their gods. So their priests
placed these gods in the Valhalla, gave
them the beautiful Valkyries to be their
waiting maids, and sent the souls of all
heroes slain in battle, to join these
roystering immortals, and to pass an eter-
nity in chanting sagas and quaffing meads
from the skulls of their enemies.
Of an entirely different complexion is
the heaven of the Buddist. One ought
rather to say heaven, for there are
twenty-eight of them, the gradual as-
cending scale of happiness being as follows :
The not fighting, the joyful, the change
enjoying, the changing others arbitrarily,
the assembled Brahman, the servants of
Brahma, the great Brahma, limited light,
illimited light, pure light, limited purity,
illimited purity, perfect purity, great
merit, unconscious, the not great, the ex-
empt from pain, the wellseeing, the beautiful
the highest, illimited space, illimited science,
the place of naught, that of no thought and
that of not no thought. This means a
gradual firing -out process until the result
18 absolutely nil. The final goal of Bud-
dhistio salvation is, indeed, the destruction
of sin by exhausting its existence, or by
impeding its continuance. The state of
of blessed nonenity and ecstatic nullification
is known as the Nirvana. There is some.
thing pathetioally simple in the dia-
tinotively opposite idea that regulates the
red men's heaven. To him there is spread
out the happy hunting grounds, where, with
his don and bow and arrows, he may follow
the deer over rustling prairies and through
the whispering woods, with no paleface to
drag him to sebool or shut him up in a
reservation.
The Sin of Overwork.
The woman who s ends her life in um
necessary labor le by this very labor unfitted
for the higher dubiea of home. She should
be the haven of rest to whioh both ohildren
and husband turn for peace and refreshment.
Sha should be the careful, intelligent ad-
viser and guide of the one, and the tender
confidant of the other. How is it possible
for a woman exhausted in body, and, as a
natural consequence, in mind also, to per-
form either of these offices, It ie nob pos-
sible, The constant strain is too great,
Nature gives way beneath it. She loses
health, end spirit, and hopefulness, and
more than a11, her youth -the last thing
that a woman should allow to slip from her
for, no matter how old oho is in years, she
should be young in heart and feeling, for the
youth of age is sometimes more attractive
than youth itself.
To the overworked woman this green old
age is out of the question. Hor disposition
is often ruined, her temper emend, her very
nature changed by the burden whin, (too
heavy to carry; is only dragged'along. EEven
her affections are blunted, and she becomes
merely a meohno-a woman without the
time to be womanly, a mother without the
time to train and guide her children, a wife
without the time to sympathize with and
ohoer her husband, a woman so overworked
during the day that "when night comes"
her solo thought and most intenee longing
are for rest and sloop, Better by far let
overythng go unfinished, and live as boot
she oan, than entail on herself and family
the ourse of overwork
ere are many banks of
The sande in the
world which are known for the musical
Rounds they produce when the wind or any
other cause puts the sands in motion, One of
these, in Arabia, has been cleacribed by
Lieutenant Newbold; and another, in Af-
ghanistan, is described by Colin Mackenzie
as follows :
" It is a very steep bank of sand, running
up a mountain to the height of some three
hundred yards. The sand is extremely fine,
and is euppoeed to be unfathomable. If a
hole of any depth whatever be dug in it, in
the course of a few hours all is amooth and
level again.
"On the plain belowanannual fair is held,
when many persona perform the feat of as-
cending to the top, whish is by no means
easy from its steepness and the yielding
nature of the sand, into which the leg sinks
to the oalf, the foot Blipping bank at aaoh
stride.
"The sand displaced by the climber runs
rustling down, and oreatee a sound like the
distant dash of waves on the seashore, which,
when a multitude ascend and the wind
blows strongly against the face of the bank,
resembles the loud clash of oymbles. What.
ever sand may be displaced from the top is
always blown baok again by the strong
winds which eddy round its base.
" Taking off our boots, my comrades and
I struggled up. The feat poet me halt an
hour's exertion, although those who are
aocustamed to it can do it in lees time. Tho
rocks beyond are limeetono whose sharp,
angular surface forbade our further ascent
with bare feet. We made the boys ram
down. One accomplished the distance in
thirty seconds. Atter the toil of ascending,
the sensation of running down is delightful.
" A petty chief 0f our party, wnile bound-
ing down, pitched forward his head, which
sunk deep in the sand, and his heels remain.
ed up in the air for a few eeoonda in the
moat ludicrous manner. His owd people
were convulsed with laughter, but he pre-
served his good -humor."
A Warning to Young Ladies,
Young ladies -and, for that matter, old
ladies as well -who have bestowed their
affections upon gentlemen under 21 years
of age, should olosely study the ogee of
Holmes v. Briarley, concluded the other day
in the Court of Queen's Bench. Miss
Holmes became engaged to Mr. Briarley
while he was a minor, but after he attained
his majority, on account of some change in
her father's pecuniary position she offered
to release him from his engagement. This
offer Mr. Briarley indignantly declined,
though he subsequently threw the lady over,
The question then was this : Did his refusal
to accept the offered release constitute a new
promise, or merely a ratification of the old'
promise? A fine distinction this, and ono
which the plaintiff, to her sorrow, failed to
appreciate. Baron Huddlestono and Mr.
Justice Charles have determined that there
was no new promise, but only a ratification
of the old and invalid promise. Ladies,
therefore, who with tomalie aseuranoelegally
sure, must lay to heart the distinction be-
tween a ratification and a new promise.
They must be absolutely and unconditionally
off with the old engagement before they are
on with the new,
The Work of a So -Called "Trust,"
There was a flourishing cotton seed oil
mill operation in the town of Amontown,
Ala., which gave employment to idle labor,
and enabled the farmer to dispose of his
seed. Tho philanthropio Trust came along
and purohaeed the plant and chub it up, and
for bwo years, says .Hon. Alex. C. Davidson,
"atoam has not been started in the engine,".
which stands as a monument of the lack of
thrift of the people, and yet in reality itis
a monument of the rascality of it combine,
Whioh robe and swindles the people so as to
enrich itself oven to the extent of crushing
competition by buying lb out and stopping
the work of labor.
APlea for Early Closing of Faotories and
Workshops,
or roue :aa011, resoaro,
Lot the tellers have more loieure,
Listen to their urgent cull,
Gehl a not the only trraeur°,
Uteri' fa sweet to ell;
Why should lives he lipeab 1n labour,
atria' morn till dock nose 1011?
When. line I a needy neighbour
]lath 110 work to do atl all I
Wh.t this labour agltatlou
MI along the buoy line?
'Tie the groaning et the nation,-
Toilere feel they must combine
E'ro their rights have legislation,
Ere their wants shallhave redress,
They must band in combination -
Ask their tights -and take pp legs 1
Shorten then, the hors of toiling,
Thus nuke work for Idle men ;
Cease this constant, weary moiling :
01011T hours' work meteod of TIM 1
.luetioo doth exalt a natio,,
]Light le might, and truth shall stand,
Health 1e w•eolth in every station
Good shall prosper such a land I
Terrible Revenge,
The made of Monimayour, at the foot
of the Alpe, was oonnooted with a terrible
revenge in tho fifteenth century, If judges
who render adverse i decisions at the present
day wore thus summarily treated, their
position would be dangerous indeed, The
story'iaasfollows; CouutMonbmayeur owned
large estates, but part of them were claim-
ed by s kinsman, and a suit was begun.
When notice of the euib reached Mont-
mayeur, be instantly rode down to the
Senate House, with a bag full of title•deede
ab his saddle bow, and, whether by logio
or threats, pleaded his cause eo well that
the President of the Tribunal, one Sieur do
Eessigny, staked bis life on the Count's
enemas. The verdict, nevertheless, was
given against him, and Montmayeur vowed
to be revenged; but time went on, and the
threat was not carried out.
Then one morning Fesaigny was surprised
by a visit from the defeated count, and
still more surprised by his courteous and
smiling demeanor. Montmayeur was weary,
it seemed, of family strife, and, having
already made peace with his victorious kine.
man, had bidden him, with other friends
and relations, to a banquet. Might he not
hope to be also favored with the President's
company ?
DsFeesigny hemmed and haw'd, but finally
accepted the invitation, and on the appoint-
ed day rode up to the gates of Clairvaux.
He had passed no one on the road, the
oastle looked grim and deserted, there
were no signs of festivity to be aeon, and
for a moment he felt strongly inolined to
turn and gallop back down the steep des.
cent.
Bub the chieftain, all smiles and affability
stood waiting to welcome him under the,
archway, thanks for his kind punctuality.
The other guests had not yet appeared; the
host beoame fidgety, astonished, annoyed,
and presently ordered the repast to be served
without them,
The President's suspicions were quite al-
layed by this time. The dishes were exqui-
site, the wines of the choicest growth. fife
drank deep, so did the count ; their tongues
loosened, jest followed jest, and the hoot was 3
most excellent company. Their merriment 1
was at its height, when suddenly ,Mont-
mayeur's manner changed, and he said, in
a solemn tone :
" Sieur de Fesaigny, are you a good Chris-
tian ?"
'What do you mean?" asked the aston-
ished guest.
The inquiry was repeated with increased
emphasis.
The President laughed, and, raising bis
glass, answered, lightly:
" You are very kind, my dear count,
What oonoern may you have in the state of
my soul?"
"Turn round and you will see!" thundered
Montmayeur.
De Fesaigny turned and sprang to his feet.
The arras behind him had been drawn aside.
He saw a funeral bier at the end of the hall
and a dozen monks ranged round it began
chanting a Litany for the dead, A masked fig-
ure, dressed in red, stood, axe in hand, be-
side a block.
Do Feasigny's eyes opened, bis glass drop -
pod, and the blood -red wine ran along the
uneven floor, and stained the stones by the
TICE WORLD'S FAST WAR SHIPS.
The erulsers or En ;land, rrnnee, 14crmany,
Rnaa, rain, Auxtriun, Ilair, Itrazll,
ChMs1, C116ra, aud,IO*Pan,.
An interesting and valuable collection of
atetistioe has just been laid before the
United States Congress, comprising the
principal war morsels of all navies, olaeeified
aocording to speed. In those daye there
Is no place in ouch lista for vessels that can-
not go 15 knots, while snores achieve a
speed much greater.
England has four armored and half a dor.
on enamored cruisers that make 15 knots,
Her armored 10 -knot voasels include the
Imperieuse and Warsple of 8,400 tone each,
the Collingwood of 9,600. the Rodney of 10,-
3f0, the Camperdown, Benbow, Anson, and
Howe of 10,600 each. She has building the
Victoria and Sans Pareil of 10,470 tone
earth, and the Trafalgar and Nile of 11,940.
Her six unarmored cruisers going 16 knots
include four of the Leander clues, 3,750
tone each, while four more of the Blanche
class, 1,580 tons, are building, Passing
to unarmored vessels of 17 knots, England
has eight of the Archer class, 1,770 tons, on
which American gunboats of Yorktown olaee
are modelled. She has also the Sarprise
and Alacrity, 1.400 tone; four veseela of the
Mersey glass, 4,050, and the Polyphemus,
2,640, Of British 18 knot vessels, the most
remarkable are the armored Orlaudo, Un-
daunted, Auetralla, Narcissus, Galatea, Im-
mortalite, and Aurora, of 5,600 tons aaoh,
all but the two latter already built. The
same highspeed is ascribed to thewell•known
unarmored vessels Iris and Mercury ,3,730
tons and to four small craft of the Grass-
hopper class, 525 toes, Great Britain's 19 -
knot vessels now building aro the unarmor-
ed cruisers Melpomene, Magioienne, and
Marathon. 2,060 tone. and the Barham and
Benne, 1,800. Of 20 knot vessels, she has
building the Medea and Medusa, 2,800 tons;
the Vulcan, 6,620,and the Blake and Blen-
heim, 9,000, besides seven arpall vessels of
735 lona.
Prance has no fewer than four armored
and thirteen unarmored vessels of 15 knots.
She has of 16 knots the armored Courbet
built and the powerful Hoche, Magenta,
and Neptune, 10,581 tons aaoh, now
building. Tho unarmored Tourvillo and
Duquesne are also 16 Isnot oruisore. Of 17
knots the moat impor.ant vessel is the
Sfax, 4,480 tons, while there aro four more
unarmored cruisers of the Fuuoon class,
about 3,372 tuns. In the Minot array we
Sad the two most powerful vessels in the
French navy, the armored Marceau of 10,581
tons and Brennue of 11,000, Then there is
the awitt unarmored Milan of 1,550 tons,
besides eight torpedo boats of the Bombe
class, 321 tons. France of 19 knot unarmored
vessels has the Forbin, 1,848 tons, already
built, and five others of the same clues build-
ing. She has also under oonetruction the
Jean Bart, Alger, and Ioiyy of 4,162 tone, the
Cecilia of 5,706, and the Tage of 7,045. Sbe
claims 20 knots for the armored voasels
Dupuy de Lome, 0,297 tone, and also for
the unarmored Davoueb and Suohet, 3,09
tone, all now building.
Italy has two big armor clads, the Duilio
and 1Jandolo, of 15 knots, and half a dozen
unarmored cruisers. She has three powerful
armoredveesels, the Andrea Doris, Ruggiero
di Laurie, end Francesco Moriaioi, of 10,045
tons each, besides two unarmored cruisers,
all going 16 knots. Of her three 17•kuot ves-
sels the most important is the unarmored
Giovanni Batman, 3,868 tons. But it is in
her 1S -knot vessels that Italy is incompar-
able, since those include the powerful
armor clads Italia, 13,898 tons, and Le-
anto, 13,550, already built, and the
abe Umberto, Sicilia and Sardegna, 14,000
tons, building, besides four small unarmored
vessels. Her 19 knot unarmored cruisers aro
four of the Vesuvio type, 3,530 tons, and
five of the Dogali, 2,200 tone, three of these
nine vessels being already built. Finally, of
small 20 -knot torpedo oraft she has nine of
the Tripoli type, 741 tons, and six of the Fol.
gore, 317 tons.
Germany has one gunboat bulli and half a
dozen building of 15 knots. She has also
the unarmored cruisers Prinz Adalbert and
Leipzig, 3,925 tons; the Alexandrine and
Areona, 2,370 tom; the Charlotte, 3,360
tons; the Freya, 2,017. Of 16 -knot vessels
be has the unarmored Hohenzollern, 1,700
one; the Pfeil and Blitz, 1,382 tops; the
Ziethen, 975. She bas no veseela of 17 knots,
but abe has under construction the Waohb
f 1,240 tone, which is expected to go 19
knots, and the Grief of 2,000, for which 20
knots are promised. She has also three un-
rmored versals building, the Irene, Princess
Wilhelm, and one other, of 4,400 tons each,
which are to make 18 knots.
Spain has an armor,olad, the Pelayo, of
9,902 tons, which makes 15 knots, besides two
unarmored cruisers of3,342 tons each, two
othereof 1,152 tons, twoof 1,039, and four of 1, -
She bas none classed as 16, and none as 18 -
knot veeaels; bub of 17 -knob unarmored
oruisore she has the Arragon of 3,342 tons,
and the Reina Cristina, the Rdina Moroades,
and the Alfonso KII., each of 3,090.
Spain is becoming famous for fast war
vesaele, and bas ander oonetruction no
fewer than six armored 19 -knots cruisers
of 7,000 tons, each. She has also already built
the famous unarmored Riona Regento of
5,610 ton, making 20 knots, the fastest
vessel of her glass in the world. This
oruiser may bo praotioally the model for the
new 20• knob unarmored vessel of 5,300 tons
displacement provided for in the ponding
House Naval Appropriation bill. Spain has
also the Destructor, of 458 tone, a 20 -knot
ve sol, and both of the Raine Rogente and
of the 20 knot torpedo types ebo is building
three more vessels each.
Russia has ono armored and three unarm -
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"Through you I lost lands and gold!"
cried the count. "Your head is forfeit,
Quickly make peace with heaven, for yon °
have to die?"
The seared President tried to laugh.
"This is a sorroy jest, my lord count," a
he stammered, with trembling lips,
"'Tie no jest. Make thy peace with
God."
Then the betrayed man fell upon his
knees, appealing to the laws of hospitality,
aakiog mercy for wife and child's sake,
But in vain! Ata sign from their chief, two
of the feigned mane dragged the victim to
the block, and in an instant the execution -1
el.5 work was done,
Early the next morning the °Dunt mount-
ed his horse, and -again with a loather bag
at his saddlebow -rode down to the Senate. ,
"Hem is a fresh document oonnooted with
my case," he said, laying his bag on the ,
table, and, hastily saluting the assembly, at'
once quitted the hall and rode away. With-
in the bag was the head of De Feosigny.
After this act of violence the count found
it expedient to leave Savoy, and, flying
across the mountains, long defied justice in
his impregnable castle of Montmayeur,
Girls and Boys of Royalty.
Prinoees Irene of Hesse, who has recently
been married to Prince Henry of Prussia, e
is tho third daughter of the late Princess t
Aline of England, the third child of Queen a
Victoria. She has the brightness and a000m. 1
pliehments which distinguish the women of
of the family and is said to be a good artist, th
a finiehed musician and a pleasing writer.
It is a singular fact that the women hove S
always boon superior to the men in British th
royalty, Queen Elizabeth, the last of the f
Tudors, was one of the strongest mienEng-
land ever had, Queen Anne, the lash save- k
reign of the house of Stewart, whose reign
wee made brilliant by the victories of Marl C
borough and Prince Eugene, had some exool k
lent qualities.
I0 the Brunswick line of the Guelphs the A
superiority of the females over the males has az.been strongly marked, The four Georges a
Were Dither weak almost to imbecility or ed
otherwise worthless, William 1V. wan a
nonentity on the throne, Victoria is a woman •ad
of ability and a000mplishments, and is a 18
stronger ruler than all her Guelph prede•
canonwould have mode pub together, 4;
The deebinotion has been continued in her
children. The Prinoees Royal, now Dowager 8
Empresa of Germany, fa a bright, intel•
Ieotual and gifted woman. Alice, the Grand
Duchess of Homme and mother of the new
bride, Princess Irene, was remarkable for
her attainments as an artist, en author and
a musician. Princess Louise, the wife of the
Marquis of Lorne, le wilful, but in every
romped the " bettor horse " of the team.
Helena and Benrice would bots] bo women
of mark they were nobIrinoeoues,-[Now
York World.
red vessels of 16 knots, and is building
brae armored vowels the Tcltoama, Sinopo,
nd Catherine I1., of 10,181 tons each, to go
6 knots. She alaohas five middloolass iron -
ads, the Dmitri Donskoi, of 17 knots, and
e Admiral Naohimoff, Alexander II.,
Nicholas I., and Pamjatz Azova of 18 knots.
he has an unarmored oruiser of 19 knots,
e Admiral Korniloff, and two smell craft
20 knots.
Brazil has be famous Risohuelo of 16
note and Aquidaban of 15, besides the
narmorod Almirante Tamandaro 0117 knots,
hili hoe the renowned Emeralds of 18
nota, and a larger veined building of 10,
ustria has one armored veaeel of 36 knots
nd one of 17, besides two unarmored cruis-
e of 19 knots and one of 18, with three
mall torpedo bona of 20, China's armor.
veaoola inolude ono of 16, two of 10, and
0 of 17 knots, while aim has four unarmor-
oruisera of 16, four of 16 and bwo of
knots, Japan has three armor clads the
aukusima, Mabsukusima, and Hakidatt,
140 tots each, of 16 knots, and an
armored oruiser of the same speed, and
a has three veseela of the famous Naniwa
type, 3,060 tons, and 18 knoto.
Thane etatistios show that the House
Naval Committee, in now calling for one
more 17.ltnot armored oruiser, two more
le -knot unarmored oruisera, and one 20 -knob
oruiser, are only on a level with the urea.
Boy, to teacher : "Was Alexander Sol.
kirk a olvil engineer? It le said he was
monaroh,of all he surveyed."
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