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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1889-3-1, Page 22 THE BRUSSELS POST. MARCH 1,1889. eeeeenaeleMedifEeriewitnetereenalzememeneonetwemettnennweeemartereneemortanasiesensmeseesninMagenemetramteddremeniesaimeterememessemosaweroimottenememarresemessesettionereentlesesematemeandesordertememoserseireiseeme mineenteeteetinte_renembremnsettes _seeneetheitneneweretetinntanatesettesmeasnemenfeell •ne ending from and intended. When well and barred the door in the face of thoth YOUNG FOLKS. out from the village and near the edge of that renneined. In a few moment:la there was the timber, the beet (in this ogee a quarter of e perfect cloud of wolves routed us, Home of a me% well rubbed with asefro-ide eud br ound them frautioally diggiug the wells', and A Child's Mietake, Russian 'Wulf Hut, IW Ewe Peewee. During the winter 01 tmencto oom- plioatioue made it neeee.,,re to me to take e journey into a wild ...IA s emote pare of Ruske. The hoarse with winch I wee eon- nected had had some very unsetelaotory dealioge with one of its branches, and things, hail come to such a pato Met 0 visit from a member of the mein eatebliehment had become imperative. ft was late in January when I had to make my stint, and the weather had been unusually gold. I could travel 750 miles sub of my journey of 1,000 by ; bub the balance of the trip would have to be made by sledges, not a very rapid or oonvenlenb mode of transportation, though it has the advantage of enabling the traveler to regu• late hie time as he feels disposed, Being extremely fond of field eporta, and know ing that bhe 1000100 of country I was going to visit would, in all probability, contain plenty of game, 1 carried my Colt's breech - loading shotgun and a fine Winchester ro. rating rifle, with a good store of ammuni- tion for both. Well, I arrived at the end of my railroad journey withoub any accident or incident other then the regular daily skirmishee for meals and hot tea at the not overolean eta. tons. We were fortunate in having a 'dearlloe, line, no enow having fallen for over a week —rather a remarkable circumstance in Russia—so we were not compelled to dig oat any enowbanke, though this form of amusement le by no means unusual. The morning after my arrival at Udallo. I scut to make arrangements for a sledge at the post. ing-station. This was soon done, end in an Maur I was clear of the bown and fairly start Looking batik, I saw several black objects ed on the second half of my long journey. corning out of the timber, which we knew to In Russia the aledoes are generally be wolvea, and the way they increased in roofed over—especially those used for trey- aim showed they were tollowing us at full eling—aomewhat after the fashion of our speed. Every now and then several more buggies, and are very low, to that, pro- would dart out of the woods and join our vided there are plenty of rugs and furs, one pursuers ; but not a sound woo heard, for 'Jan make a trip comfortably enough, and wolves, unlike doge, run mute. We now even sleep at his pleasure. The picture prepared to reoeive them, and we removed in the mind of travel of this description our heavy outer coats so as to allow us a is of three horses abreast, gayly dashing better chance to shoot. The horses Were al - along in fine style ; but in my mese the lowed to trot, though it was all Ivan oould actual foots were very different, Before we do to hold them, as they were pulling the had gone two verats from Udalla, the road sledge by their bits, whilst they showed by beoame very lead, for the snow was deep their rolling eyes and quickbeekwardglances, on eaoh side of the 'nook, and though the their extreme terror. traok itself was broken, the snow was he great lumps. Over these the sledge thumped and banged, while the homes stumbled and floundered along as beet they could. The driver, meanwhile, consoled himself by alternately cursing the horses, the road, and hie bad luck at having to come out, with an occasional vogici at me for a mazy Englishman who wanted to kill something so badly that he had to go hunt. ing in the dead of winter; language and impedimenta giving rise to vedette un- founded rumore while every one speaking English ie put down as an Englishman by the peasantry in this part of Ruseia. We reached the poet -station, at the end of our first day't travel, long after night fall. After a hot supper, I continued my journey all night, taking a number of naps, but no regular aleep, became, 08 8000 as I began to doze, I would imagine my ribs to be a corduroy road, and my vertebro a troop of army males terming it and kicking off flies. However, I managed to get along tolerably well, all things considered, and had the satisfeetion of knowing that my unfortunate driver was having considerably the worse tine of the two. Daring the fourth day's journey, while we were pleasing through a very extensive for- est, several wolves came out into the road and followed us a mile or more, but at quite a reepeobful distance. Their number was too email to cause me any uneasiness, though my driver did not at all like their presence, and the hereon betrayed their alarm by their evident desire to hurry along. One large black fellow tried to get up some ex- citement, and howled most dismally, so I made my driver stop, while 1 got out my heavy Smith St Wesson revolver. Taking a rest over my left elbow, leb fly at his shoulder as he stood sideways to me, and had the oatiefaotion of seeing him stumble forward, and take to the timber again with him friends at hie heels. My driver teld me that a sledge had been attacked by wolves on thio very road a couple of winters be.' fore and both horses and passengers eaten np, but that the wolves had been rather scarce since. I had heard muoh about wolf -hunting as rectified by the Russians of the Steppes, viz., driving a sledge through the woods and over the phew/ with a piece of meat drag- ging behind to attract the wolves, thus giving the hunters in the sledge an oppor- tunity to kill them. I had promised my- self to try thio plan and have some sport in matte of the fact that my driver told some blood.ourdling tales of the fierceness of the wolves when banded together and made desperate by hunger. It Wag nearly night on the fif Oa day, be- fore I arrived ab my destination, and, a may be imagined, I enjoyed a good night's sleep, as well as a muoh better supper than I had been having. The following morning I had to attend to the business that had brought me so far. I moon discovered that only prompt action would save us heavy Mesas, eo I at once dia. oharged the loose manager, aft well as two colleotore,whole honesty I had muse to swiped. Thie threw much work on my hands, eo I had very little time at my own disposal. However, I managed to make the acquaintance of a Captain Komanoff, who owned a small estate in the neighborhood, and who was devoted to sport in all its branches. When I mentioned my desire for a wolf hunt to him, he laughed and said he bad been on several, and had generally had good eport. He added that he would ar- range to go with me whenever / should be ready. In the course of ten days I had the rather complicated affairs pretty moll in hand, and aa there had been a damp fall of meow, tot. lowed by a frost, I concluded I could spare *nee for any hunt Accordingly, I notified Komanow ff, and one oleor, calmnight we en. tiered an open sledge, that ie, without any top, and with three good homes hammed abreast, pet oub. I carried my thotgun, with a bounteous supply of cartridges loaded with small buck. shot, thinking ib a better weapon than a rifle to 1900 ab night, while Komanoff had an army carbine, carrying a largemized with which, he told rne, he had killed many a -bear and wolf. Each of us was also arm- ed with a revolver and heavy hunting knife, sPlae driver whom we had engaged for the night had a couple of pistols and a knife in bIt belt, and tee he was a plrioky fellow and heel hunted (or been hunted by) wolves be. fore, we were pretty well prepared for any- thinm Wan (the drivet) took sere that We also had o, small basket of lunch end a bottle Of brandy, se We Were quite in the humor to make a night of it, the mew Wan well °rusted Over, and Wily bore our kerns, thus making a hard, level amino to treYel over, also resifting the oleanthe of a eapeize, Which, if one were waned, might give the ;motSis e/ very differ - with atraw) wan thrown over and allowed to ethers) tr ing the door with them teeth. Said to dear little girl, and I heard her my. self, As she reeohed for a book on the very top shelf, "How I wiah I might) live like the birde and the flowers, With nothing to do through the beautiful hours; Or else like the sun, that has only to shine, Or death with the shadows that hide in the vine I But no 1 I musb study front morning 10 night. Long 101M9 I intigb add; there are copies bo write. To sobool I must go, and for, oh, such a time I Ito just like a terrible mountain to olimb. Dear I dear 1" and the child, with a pitiful trown, And a heart-pieroing sigh, bo her grammar aat down. I shou d give the money for which they had I worked to any object. Papa could provide ouch offeringa, and their own money was Then flashed a fair sunbeem full into her Moe, bo be need for their own pleaoure. That is about Otto way it would have been expressed As if challenging frowns in so lovely a plain. drag et the mid at e Mut surd bout forty feet behind ue. It was oerminly o greed night, the moot, being 00 the full, and the reflection an she snow made objeote almost as/ Weedy die- oernible es in tae daytime, Mer up on the northern horizon the Aurora Borealie alter- nately fief/had and paled, now throwing up bars and rays of violet and gold, and again diffueing itself over the heavens in a soft but ever-ohengeful glow. We had been riding slowly along for a couple of hours, when Komanoff remarked "1 am afraid we shall have our trip for nothing; the wolves don't neem to be about to -nicht, and yet this wood is a famous places ie look for them." Don't be uneasy, Captain," said Ivan; " I am going to make a oirole and cram our track again, and I think you will have some sheeting yet" The words were hardly spoken before we heard, far off to our right, the long -drawn, sepulehral bowl of a wolf. He had evident ly etruuk our trail, and the veal smelled goad, ao he was yelling for his "riende, The mem was at thee atopped, while we liatened and hoard !several more howls, in response. The horses heard them too, and at once sheered their fear by an attempt to get array, bub Ivan had them well under control, and only permitted them to walk, nob wiein Mg to blow them before the beasts began to gather. " I see a wolf,' said Komanoff ; " look away back there on our traok, right under the moon. Ab I and there are several more; I think they will oome along now." Our friends in the rear now numbered hay twenty, and to my surprise they came rushing boldly on, as though we were no more to be feared than some timid deer which they had oornered. When they had come within thirty yards I gave the foremost my right' barrel and in- atanbly followed it with my left among the pack. I saw the lesder'e tail go up as he plunged forward on hie head, and Komanoff exclaimed that two more hod dropped to my second shot. I fully expected than the red would scatter in all direotions, bub they did nothing of the kind ; they simply fell upon their defunct oompanioue, and tore them to pieoes almost before they had done kicking, end then immediately resumed their pursuit of us When Komanoff saw this he looked rath- er grave, and told Ivan it would be well to head for home. " For," said he, "when they eat eaoh other in that meaner, it's a sign that they are starving, and should a large pack gather, we would have a poor chance of eeespe." Acoordingly, Ivan let his team go along at an easy gallop. The wolves were again coming along in hot pursuit, and were al- most in range, when Ivan uttered a shout, and the horses made a sudden swerve, so that the sledge wae nearly upset. Komanoff and I were thrown in a heap in the bottom, his gun being diaoharged by his fall, fortun- ately without doing any damage. Quickly recovering ourselves, we saw that a fresh and large pack of wolves had some out of the wooda, and had nearly run into us, clam- ing the team to bolt at full speed. 1 fired right and left into the thick of them (they were only a. few yards away), while Roman. off began to empty his revolver. This fusillade ohecked bhem for a few moments, till our original peak had come up and joined them. Then, having devoured Otto Main, they came for to again with re- doubled vigor, their appetites] having evi- dently been aharpened by the Mate of blood. As they °hoed upon us we fired as rapidly as we could load, bob without alanning them ab all, only a few stopping to bury the dead (in their sternest*, while the main body tried to come up wibh our horses and sledge. Komanoff now out our bait loose'for we had had all the fun we wanted. As the wave of wolves, as one might thy, rolled up over ib, we fired into the thick of it, and, se they were in a dense mass, meet have done oonsiderable exeonbion. Bub they were only delayed a moment, and on they came again, their long, tireless gallop soon bringing them up with us. 10 was indeed a fearful sight, and enough to shake the !tented nerves. There was that vaeb pursuing horde, crazy wibh hun- ger send wild with lust of blood, dashing after us relentless as death. Their long black bodies swept over the sinew, bhe hind- most oonstanbly leaping over the foremost in Their eagerness bo press on, their eyes a. shine, with great flecks of teem on breads and aides, while the glimpses we naught of their long white teeth showed ue just what our fate would bo should there be an mei dent to team or vehicle. Komanoff turned to me and said: " If they ever pus us and leap on the horses we are dead men. Keep !tool and shoot only those that try to pass on your aide and I will do bhe same on mine." So we dashed on for a mile or so, keeping up a rapid fire, and shooting a number of our dusky friends!. They were thoroughly in earnest, and made repeated attempts to get at our heroes, bub so far we had been able to foil them, when suddenly a big gray fellow dashed past on Komenofee side (who missed him), and flung himself on the out- side home. Ivan shot at him as he did eo, bus the horse swerved and stumbled, break- ing both traces before he could recover him- self. The wolf fell as the ball !truck but our team was now almoob unmanage- able, and we were liable to be upset at any moment. Fortunately Ivan kept his head, and oneceeded in turning hie horses towards a deserted oharooal-burner's hub, whioh he knew, and applied his whip lustily, so we dashed forward wibh renewed speed. " I know where he to going," said Ko manoff, "but our chance is small unless the door be open; but it's our only hope now, therefore be ready to jump the instant I do, Take you the arms, while I help Iran wibh the horses." A /short distanoe fuller and we !lighted the oabin. The door wag ajar, and ad we e tilled up I tumbled out the guns, robes and lanoh.barsket, and with a revolver in eaoh hand faced our pursuers Our sudden stop and the rapid coach Of ny pistols awned to confuse the paok, and oheeked them long enough to enable my oompanione to out the home lome, They potently dashed off through the foreet, portion of our hungry assailants after them in hot pursuit, Whittle We 100 into the Menge Fortunately it WAS a emit ono or Om story would never hevo been written. After rotten a little, we found a opiate tsr two be the walla through wheel we oould 'hoot, and again opened fire. After we had knocked over eome twenty.five or thirty of them, the survivore drew off, though they still !mutinied to prowl round and fight over the bones of the dead, for all we shot were instantly devoured by their cempanions. Meanwhile we had coubrived to start a fire, and having eaten our lunch we lit our pipes and waited for day'to break, thinking then our [savage foes would mine the edge. In this hope we were not diseppointed, for as/ Otto morning light became lear the wolves sneaked off one by one, castiog, however, many wistful glances In our direction, We gave there o few parting 'shots by way of farewell, and as own at the sun was fairly up we came out of our bowie of refuge and started on our five -mile tramp for home. We had nob proceeded far, however, bo. fore we met a well -armed company of men coming bo look for us, 05 000 of the hare is had reached home and they judged from hie condition, as well as the out harness, that we were in a Borne of thine kind We am rived home safely, and after a good sleep were none rho worth for our adventure. The other two horses, however, never taxmen up, butt their bones were found in the forest the following spring not far from the hut, just where the poor animals had been pulled down. This experience cured me of all desire for wolf hunting, and though I spent several months at the post, and had plenty of sport, I never oared bo see a wolf again. A CANADIAN RIFLE. important MoronfoZention in Military The problem which the British War Office has for some time been attempting to solve, that of how to make the gun that will been euill the exigencies of military warfare, seems to be likely to find an ini. portant step towarbs its solution in this city; and if the new Cooper•Chohmore rile a sample of which Mr. W. Cooper, of Bay street, submitted to a jury of pressmen and others yesterday, is as good in sebum' prao- doe as it appears to be by inspection and handling, it is among the few best military guns which the mechanical ingenuity of the gun -making oenbres have yet produced. Since the battle of Sedowa was decided by the Prussian needle -gun, the weapons of all the armies of the world have undergone two or three revolatione, and as the old "Brown Bess" was pushed out by the Enfield rifle, so successive arras have oome to the front, and have entirely superseded their predecessors. The barrel and magazine of the newrifie are made of one piece of steel, and are strong enough to resist any amount of banging about There would be no danger of the barrel bending in a bayonet charge. It may be said, by the way, that a eliding bayonet is attached so the rifle, which is slid up and looked is position with graab readiness. The calibre of the rifle is 32, and the cart- ridge, which is of apecial pattern and con- struction, is of more than ordinary length, while the operations of loading and firing are performed by a simple lever -action !simi- lar to that of the Martini -Henry, bub with the advantage of a much shorter stroke. But the principal feature of the new rifle ties in its loading methane/1n. This is go arranged that the solid breech -block, which takes up the recoils of the explosive, is iso lated from the loading and firing mechan- ism, while the breech 10 so strongly built that it will stand the strain of the most powerful explosive. Another feature of the Clooper•Oashmore rifle is the imperviousness/ of its working parte to water or dust It can be inabancly changed from a single- s/hooter to a repeater and vice versa. Taken as a whole, the new Canadian rifle promises to be a very important addition to canteen - pommy arnag. Two Queer Fade. The economical reforms in the Queen's household, to which it is said the Prince of Wales has been decidedly opposed, have re- vealed a couple of queer fasts. The custom has been to present Epiphany offeringe of "gold, frankincense, and myrrh' on behalf of the sovereign at the altar of the Clhapel Royal of Se James's Palace. The offering Wag supposed to coneht of fifty sovereigns, until Prince Albert, who had a keen aunt for abuses, once went to the vestry before the services and opened the box, where he found ten shillings only. Ib was explained that an old habib gave the rest of the money to mer- men officials as perquieites. Another queer custom appropriated at the begimaing of each year fifty-two bottles of royal Madeira, whereby the offidating clergy at Sb. James's wore supposed to regale themselves each Sun- day altor morning service. Yet none of the clergy had ever seen a drop of it. A Word To Little Girls. Who ie lovely? It is the little girl who drops aweet evorde, kind remarks, and pleas- ant smiles, as she passers along; who has a kind word of sympathy for every girl or boy she meets in trouble, and a kind hand to help her companions oat of diffioalty; who never scolds, never contends, never teases her mother, nor seeke in any way to diminish, but always to increase her happiness. Would it not please you to pick up a string of pearls, drops of gold, diamonde, or precious stones, as you pass along the otreebl But then aro the pre- oious stones that' can never be lost. Take the hand of the friendless. Smile on the sad and dejeoted. Sympathize with those in trouble. Strive everywhere to diffuse around you sunshine and joy. If you do thio you will be sure to be lbved. What .Art Owes 00 00Mmeree, The "Poll Mall Gazette " directs atten- tion to the fact that many of bhe moat liberal patrons of modern British art have below/cid to the commeroial class. Ib saya :—" Mr. Vernon who has spent) £150,000 on Engligh pieturee, and wine° collection is ono of the glories of the National Gallery was a horn dealer. Mr, Sheepshanks, whose pictures/ wore the making of the Soubh Kensington Gallery, was a partner in a oloth business ab Ueda, Mr, Horrooke Miller's pictures ware bought out of the premeds of long cloth.' Mr. Jacob 13611, who was the donor of many of the best known Engliali pictures in the National Gallery, was a ohomist. So far as art goes', culture ' would have been in a very bad way 11 10 had not been for the "Are you the ouperintendent of thio rail. way 3 't Yea air, why T" "I want a pate" " Aro you employed by MAI road ?" " Yes, air." "In whab capthiby ?" "Isot a mem- ber of the Nebraska -Legislature." ength on the !smooth, hard floor ; and sou hey had joined nature in her afternoon nap and the insect world won the day with the boot Mid bum Howard and Laurie were Oho Andrea of ' Christian parents, whose groutese desire for hetn was time they, toe, should be followers , of the blamed Jeoute Bab there was one ubjeat upon which their father and mother did int talk much to them, and that was the subject of giving, Not that they were not generoue people, for they were and Memos geve freely to every good cause. They had their thildren give, too, and every Sabbath morning handed them each a nioke or a dime, whioh they dropped into the eon. tribbution box without 'mother thought Like all other children, Laura and Howard liked to cern a little money gometlinee, and Laura would help mamma with the mending and Howard would keep her favorite flower. bods free from weeds, for there is no employ- er so generthe ae a mother. But the thou lit never entered their minds that they "Why, dal -liege 11/ laughed, all a -quiver with glee, "If you want) to see work, you mush travel with me. I never am idle the theft -rolling day, Bub I go to my task in the spirit of lay;p And wherever I'm ordered there straightway I fly. Chem up, little maid I" said this voice from the sky. There Wag hoard a quick flurry of wings over. head Iron an army of birde; and, as/ southward they aped, Came, clear as a bugle, the leadembirdes aong : "You are wrong, little lady I I'm sorry you're wrong 1 And I can't stop to tell you," he sang as he flew, .1.1300 no one is happy with nothing to do!" And the flower's I A rose peeping in at the pane, Breathed gently this message: "In sunlight and rain, We children of earth, dear to all who behold, Wear meekly our splendonrs of orimson or gold. And, born in the purple, we royally spend Our fragrance in blessing, until our lives end. We seem to be idle, I grant, but you know There's never a lower that has not to grow ; A growing, near child, meows aopiring, see, As I, when 1 whisper fro softly to thee." She picked up the book ; it had dropped from her hand. "Ab lewd)," said our pet, "I van this under - attend: God gives all Hie oreamres some duty eaoh day. And mine is, perhaps, just to trueb and obey. ta not think of the mountain before me to olimb, But cheerfully mount it ono step at a time, —Margaret E. Sangster. HOW THEY DIVIDED IT. RT NELLIE NEW& It was a hot summer afternoon. A. gen- tle breeze stirred among oho tree -tops and occasionally came down into the garden and fanned the flowers that drooped their heads under the sun's fervent heat. It was very hot out there, where something seemed to be quivering in the air, but under the wide ver- anda, where the sun could not penetrate, it was pool and comfortabl e. A hush pervaded everything, as though nettle were taking her afternoon nap, and the only sounds to be heard were the distant burs and hum of the insect world and the click, oliok of "jack - stones" on the hard floor of the veranda, Then a voice was heard to mingle with the click, oliok. "It must be fine to make a will like bhat." "Like what?" asked another voice. "Why, didn't you hear papa toll mamma aboub old Mr. Smith's will, You know he diod the other day." "The Mr. Smith the boys call 'Stingy Smith,' Howard?" "Yee, only he wasn'tstingy, Laura, 'came he gave away all his money in hie will, and ho had loads 01 00." "But," said Laura, " be never gave any. one a cent if he could help ib, while he was alive; I heard mamma eay so one time." "Ho must hove been saving it," said How - cod, " to pub it all in his will so it would be worth while to make a will. I tell you, it must bo splendid to give so muoh money away." "Bub he's dead, Howard," said Laura, with her hands full of jacks. "I guess he thought he might as well give it away, 'clause he can't have it any more, anyhow." Laura wan a little girl, bub she sometimes spoke very plain truths in every plain way. "Why, Laura, aren't you ashamed to say such a thing," said Howard; "11 he is dead his money's going to do lots of good, 'cause he gave it all to societies and things.' There W00 0 pause in the conversation and the oliok, click mingled again with the buzz and hum. Then Laura looked up and said: "Do you know, Howard, lb seems to me if 1 had lots of money like Mr. Smith had, Id rather give ib away whille I was alive, go as to the the good it would do, than to just die and not know anything about it" "Bub what would you live on, Laura, if you gave ib away when you needed it your- self V' "Oh," said Laura, "I'd keep enough for thab; anybody would." Laura was nearer right than she knew. Howard was silentfor a few moments and the jacks began to fly again. Then he turned to Laura and said, "Anyhow, Laura, I with I had some money to give away, don't you?" "What would you give it 001" asked Lau'rOah. ‘, lobs of &info," replied Howard ; "missionaries and hospitals and poor poo• pie and—oh, lots of thinga. But I haven'b, and I 'suppose I never will have enough to do any good," and a aloud paused over the bright fame "But, don't you know, Mr, Freeman said lath Sunday that eometimes the little 'hinge help the moot, and he read about the wiclP ow' s mite." «y-0, I know," Raid HoWard, bub don't you remember that lesson we had about giving a tithe (o tithe le a tenth, our teacher said), and 58 tenth of ouch a little as I have isn't anything at all." "Then you oan glee more than 0 tenth," said praotioal Laura. "But the Bible rays a tenth is enough," replied Howard, Who, like a greet many others, was for following the Bible rule to the letter, in tide particular at least. With mu& authoriby Laura could not argue. She soon gathered up her jacks and, Walking to the farther end of bhe veranda, threw her- self into a deep chair and blood her °yore whit Howard stretthed tttniOolf Out 11 10 had been pub into words bub the aubjeob wag never discus:sod because ib was so well understood. A shorb time before that hob summer aft- eruoon, however, they had received a new idea. Their minister had preached a sem mon to the children on giving ; and he made it all so plain to them, how, and why, and what we should give to God, thab the °los- ing hymn, "Whab Mot thou done for me ?" had a new meaning to them as they thought how great were Godes gifts to them, how small theirs to him. After that they were more careful of their earnings, and mamma, laughiug, said she feared they were getting minty, for she received so many offers of help thab her ingenuity was oftentimes taxed to keep them occu- pied. Their business was "strictly cash," end as soon as a tusk was completed and paid for, away theywould inn to depoeit their earnings in their savings -banks. What was to be done with all this money they did not know, bub they did know thab the more they put in them the more bhey would have to give away when the time to divide it came, lor they were going to follow the plan of giving one-tenth. At last the time same. One d V the dinnentable papa looked at mamma and said, "It is terrible the waythose poor peo- ple in the south are suffering." "What is the matter, poem? asked Laura. My daughter," he augwered, "hundreds upon hundreds are 'sick and dying with that terrible disease, yellow fever. We can have little idea of what a dreadful thing it is to feel that our dear onee all about me and strangers as well, are sick and dying, and we are likely to be the same any hour. " Can't anything be done for them, pa- pa ?" " Nobhing to prevent the spread of the disease, dear," he replied, " but they are &eking for money to help care for tho dolt and contributions are being sent them from all over the land." "Oh, Laura," exolaimed Howard, who had been listening intently to what his father raid, "lot's send them our money, it might help a little." " Yes, indeed, Howard," replied Laurie, pushing baok her chair eagerly, "let's get it and oount bb now. It will be giving ib to God, won't it, mamma ?" " Yee, dear," she answered wibh an ap- proving smile. "Whatever ie done to re• Have the suffering of Godes ohildren is done for Him." So they ran for their banks and were soon poring over their contents. It required all the arithmetio they were able to master to divide it into piles, nine -tenths in ono and one-tenth in the other. At last it was complished, but they were evidently not pleased with the division, as they looked from the little pile to the big ono and back to the little one. It didn't seem right, aome• how, to keep so much for themselves and give so little to the One who gave them such rich gifts. They eat int/Renee for a moment, then Laura said, softly "Doesn't it look mean, eloward ?" "Yes, Laura, it does," he replied. "1 am going to divide mine differently," and he oommenoed to take from the larger pile and add to the smaller one. Still Laura sat looking from one pile of here to the other and over and over in her mind rang the words : "I bring, I bring rich gifts to thee, What haat thou brought to me ?" Ab length she looked up, her facie beam. ing with happy deoision as she said, " How- ard, I'm going to give them the large pile and keep the small one for myself, and even that seems very little to do when I thi k fa11 I h ebeee " . MURDERED nn YEARS AGO, Eerily Found it near idierwardoest NOY the Murderer 10 Tour years ago Complies Sink, un old toddler, living at Plymouth. Me., drew is pension panoutding to over $1,1300. Abeub a week of terward Sluk mysterionaly peered and did not ram/. A year cater - ward his body was dimmed 300 foot down in the abandoned Grand Tuunel !nine, near Avondale, three milou from Plymouth. 'Though the body was much deoompooed it Wee Clearly identified, and it Wen eVid01111 beyond doubt that ho had boon murdered end robbed of all his pension money, for thab was mimed at his boarding hones at bhe same time he loft At the time Binh dieap. pearled there lived at Avondale one Jaok 13raoken, a desperate character, and his sudden disappearenee from that neighbor. mod eh that time was sufficient to make many persons think that the old soldier's didappoarance was duo to Braoken. After the body was found the bown Burgess d- ared a reward for the arrest of Bracken, And sent his description 10 alt the cities tend towns iu the country. Recently a telegram was received announcing the arrest of Brack- en in a Colorado mining town, and thab ,he had oonfeased to the murder of the old got dier. "You're right, Laura," Howard answered, "and Inl do as you do." So he dividei hie money as before, and after returning the portion they were to keep to the banke, with happy faces they parried the remain& er to papa, who gladly took ib in charge and sent 10 on its way. —[Chicago Interior. Girls' Writing. Girls should look to their handwriting, for it may serve them at some future crisis better than the short -hand or the type. writer. There is a lady 'lett in the Department of the Interior, Mrs. Avery by namo, who has a snug and easy place of sixteen hun- dred dollars a you, ohiefly on amount of the extroardlnary excellence of iter peumanship. It is she who le selected to copy the letters of the department which are regarded as of the greatest consequence, such, for example, as are to repave the attention of the preoi, dent, who frequently oompliments Mro, Avery's admirable penmanshm. Coneidering the advantage it is to many girls to write a good hand, it is strange that more of them do not try to acquire this as- oompliehment Of late yeare, our school- boys do a groat deal more writing than they did formerly. Much le done in gehool now by the way of diobation, and in mow schools the pupils have pencil or pen in hand almost half the time, But it would not be true to say that she girls of to -day write more legibly and nee& ly than thou mother,/ did. It would: be well if they paid far more attention to Ishii/ matter than they do. Bub thsy should make a serious study of it—acquire the hab. it of taking the best peeture ; lean to nee the mueolee to advantage, 00 that they may not easily become tired; and then pronto°, ae one who intends to become a probational musideien practicer/. When a piece of writing .gets worth and Worse, Inge after page, it bonne° bhe writer di&the work with only one end of the maculae of the arm'instead of employ. ing the whole of it a exquisite and Moment. oua machinery, Mrs, Avery, 10 10 gala, Writhe as wily 00 oho dont legibly. She Welters 00 Well ab the end of her day's work es at the beginhing, and hor fingers/ neeer ache.—[Youtli's Com. paniOn. Phantom Danger Signals. Two weeks ago a brakeman on a railway running into Charlotte was killed near Con- cord, N.0, In some mysterious way the tram was stopped there by a danger signal, and Campbell fell between the ears and was out to pieces. Since then ib is claimed thab danger signal ie nightly displayed theme. Yesterday W. B. Ryder, Superintendent of the Richmond and Danville Beltway for this divielon, passed Concord on his special train. He took a good look at the }switch at which poor Campbell was killed, and then went on toward Charlotte. On his return, about dark, the engineer of his train was "flagged down " ab the switch by a danger signal. The train stopped, but upon approaching Otto plasm nothing could be seen. The en- gineer than pulled up at the depot, and all looking back saw the same signal waving the oar back. Ryder then despatched a young telegraph operator, named Sapp, back to the place. Upon his near ,approach the signal suddenly disappeared. The moon was shining brightly at cl there was no plaoe to conceal any ono. This/ is working on the ouperstitious greatly, bub those who aro not eeperstitious cannot amount for the affair. The switch is near the railroad bridgo, and all the country is clear and dry about ib. Sapp was within s few feet of the eignal when ib disappearid. Mr. Ryder and many others naw tee danger signal and the lights working. The occurrence is me- eting a groat deal of talk, GROUND TO PULP. An Indian OVerialien by 0 Train and In. Staidly Iiined. ORILLIA, FEB, GI—About four o'olook on Sunday morning as the Pacific express near- ed Longford, about eight miles north of this piece, the engineer observed a man lying on the track and immediately reversed hie en- gine, but too late to prevent the train pegg- ing Over Itim. On the train hands going book they found that it was the body of en Indian named Thomas Jordan, who had worked far Mr. A McPherson at Longford. He had been over in Orillia all day and started bo walk home by the traolr late ab night. He was the worth of liquor and, it is supposed, had fallen into the oulvert where he lay, and gone to sleep. The engine striking him tore the upper portion of his :head off, mashed his hand which lay aeroes the traok to a pulp, and horribly mutilated the body, dragging ib some dis- tance and strowIng pieces along the traok. The train men gathered the remains up and took them to Gravenhurat, where an legume was held. They were returned to Longford on the eight o'clook train this morning and taken charge of by the Rama Indians, who interred them in the Indian con °tory. Jor- dan was about 30 years of age and came from New Etunewiek aboub two years ago. A Snnb for Bismarck. BERLIN, Feb. 21, 1889.—The Czar, Czar- ina and Szarewitch attended a reception given by SimR, D. Morier, British Ambassa- dor at St. Peteraburg, on Tuesday. In view of the quarrel between Sir Robert and Prince Bismarok muoh comment has been caused by three as the attendaithe of the three members of the Imperial family at the recep- tion will be o mark of unusual patronage. A Qaeer Story, A queer story is told of Radcliff Dobson, a Penneylvania oil millionaire. Dobson went to Baden-Baden, whore he drank heavily and lost large 051100 01 monmegembling, His wife heard of it and followed him. She out off hor hair, droned like a man, and gambled with her husband until she won hie entire fortune, Then she revealed hereelf. Dobson was overjoyed, and gave up all hie bad habits, but two months later he blew out hie brains in a publio park. The Russian Empress lifloonering. The ]impress of Russia is gradually re- covering from the shook to her mind and nerves (tamed by the Delhi disaster. Me begins to go to hallo and appear in publish, which oho had not done slime the day she ao narrowly escaped being killed. A letter from St Petersburg rays on good authority that the physicians, who at firth book a des- pairing view of her ease, are now confident that the will recover. A NEEDLESS DENIAL. Czar and Annear are es Ever the Eest Frienda. Lennon., Feb. 21, 1889,—Advioes from Kerki via Sb. Petersburg state that the Amer of Afghanistan is making no move- ments against Russia. The exportation of goods from Afghanistan has been resumed, and there is no obstacle placed in the way of the Importation of Russian geode into the, eountry. No military preparatiocsare being, made by Afghanistan, They Were Good Lavers, A young married lady who moved into the country from Linden oonsidered the keeping of hens a pleasant and profitable undertaking. As she grow more absorbed hi the putout', her enthusiasm inoreased, and "hens" b000mo a favorite subjeet of her thoughts and oonversation. During ono of her animated descriptions of her ?mom, a friend enquired. "Aro your hono god laying hone?" "Oh yes," elle replied, 1010 delighted tone, "they haven't laid a bad egg yeti" 4 0