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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1889-3-1, Page 6THE BRUSSELS POST. HABOR 1, 1889. �s�atutanosew.c�nturwtaca►_ _ .._._...— mortar HEALTH. THE CONGO CANNIBALS I Cat, Co uilhab, en official of the Congo P q On Overwork. Free State, who resided for cue or two M1hOELLANEOU(. and congenial company, They are worse than Pharcah's frogs. They come up every where, avon into bed hembsra aud,kueeding troughs and the only refuge of women and non-smokers 1e apparently either bo learn the vice or die. The depraved condition to which not a little of the most popular magazine fiction literature of the day es sun le a rat n A "Christ Before Pilate," painted by N, A,Primue, a colored artist of Berton, was re - Danny a mac in the difi'toult oonduob of years among the Bangaia of the Upper costly deebroyed by fire in Hortioultural life gets himself on to wrong linea—lines of Congo, and effected snob wends, a in gaining Hall, A fund of $1,000 le to be raiaed to overwork, of worry, of stress --which ib is. their friendship and coufidetoo, and in enable him to repaint the scene. lnipoaaibie for him bo sustain, Whether is it winning them over to military aervioe under Fault•findin is one of the ways in whine better : to stop now, and brave the cheek, the Free State Government, gives in his re• g and the present lose, or to wilfully Persist cane book graphic, descriptions of the ire. men Book to appear wiser than they are. It until broken health, nr lunacy, or death quest warlike expeditions undertaken by seems to invest theta with a degree of auth- eve to he the Onaf alternative f Every one section of the Baugala against 'ether ority in the eyes of those who do not realia° man should so live aa that at sixty or seventy! kindred and adjoining tribes, seemingly for that it is one of the easiest of all things to be may be able to give up his atrenuoua i the sole object of obtaining human flash find fault. To expose errors, to foretell labours with a ccnsttuticn unimpared, ands to eat. Ano yet, as he potato out, th.ir diffioulties, to criticise methods, to make with ouch a',ogree of health as will enable country is well provided with a variety of objeobione, may ail be done volubly by par bin thoroughly, to enjoy a " green and vegetable food and domestic animals, such Bone who have no power to originate bettor pleasant old age.» I as fowls, doge, grate, and cheap, to say ways or to overcome the obstacles which nothing of an incredible abundance of they spread forth, and wh a y Work and Alcohol, fish in their land of lakes end riverod Even pecple who are in the habit of tak• abouts the bloubuttu on the . The same observation uro1R ellds ep of Lug alcohol as pert of their daily food abstain whom we have had such vividpdeWa elle, of from it wnen any. exertion th demanding spode" from .Dr. Sohweinfurth and Emin Pasha. aoovrees, is required of them. One mightNimrod is geld to dr y lass In thio leaeunb land of nestle mannered, of starry with hie lunch rnpoile hie at a nshole oting ennny.tempered people, where the loveli- for the day, and takes a flask of cold tea nese of surrounding nature seamen to im- with him to the moors ; while a fsmr•ue part a joyanoe tolthe native life and a keen violinist, who is subject, as men of genius appreoiation of beauty, which provokes a decided esthetic development of decorative often are, to flee of neraudiense when about art ; in this country of stately forests, where to appear before an audience, refused to the vivid scarlet of a parrot's tail feathers, give himself " Dutch courage"by a cin; la, or the blue-green and purple harmony of glare of wine. He says it would emit hike the plantain eater's plumage, or the cream - playing ; he would blurt the notes if he ton white flower bracts of a nua.ttnda, and the IS. ! graceful poise of a swaying oil palm, appear The Chuvren's Feet. to excite a keen sena of pleasure in the native mind—in ,thio land of beauty and 'Wise mothere see that the children have, abundance, cannibalism is as established, dry fee . Shoes should be loose enough to paratiaal, and ordinary a cuatom as our eat. be eon�forteble always—half en inch longer ng,beef, mutton, end pork in England., In than the foot, but not loose enough to slip Monbuttuland droves of slaves and cap- ound. Nevar let a child wear a oboe that Lives are herded and fatted like cattle is run over on the silt or heel, and constant- ly discourage the habit of standing on the outer edge of the shoe, turning io the tree, or tubbing one foot over the other. Have the ohildtaught from the earliest heave of un- derebanding that the moment hie feet are west he must change ghees and stockings. against killing day. So it is to a great extent among the Manyema people, whose oocasionalrelapses into anthropophagy, even while serving as porters in explorera' cara- vans on the Upper Congo, have excited aomawhat exaggerated horror among the Europeans who reported the news. I say Some children's feet perspire so that wollen "Exaggerated," because the Europeans in stockings keep the feet damp and cold; let question dat d their reports from the B m• them wear cotton. hoes, and buy the elastin gala district, a'moab in eight of cannibal woollen webbing which comae 'by the yard, repasts which trek plane from time to time and draw it over the child's limb to the without exoi:ing nine) or•mment, This phase ankle ; tbie will protect the limbs, which, in of cannibalism ie, in fact, one :of sheer now and elusb, should be covered with leg• gourmandise, and ie ohicfly confined to the ginge• If mothere will make It a rule rhat savagee of Africa, who.•e lands are well sup - the child's hose must be hung up when taken plied with food, and it seemly applies to off, and the feet warmed before going to bed, they will save themaelvee much trouble. Too many mothers tie up a child's throat, a mist pernicious habit, and allow the child to wear thin shoes or sit with rubbers on forhonre. Feeding of Infants. Thia caution cannot be too often repeated: Never give any etarohy food to a ohild under four months. When, for any reason, it ap pears that the infant is not growing' proper. ly, or that it seems continually hungry, a physician should be at once consulted. In regard to the quantity of food suitable for an infant, there are a great many very er• roneene notions which should be corrected. The stomach of a child under four months old will hold, in it. natural condition, only about a small wineglaseful. 0f course, by stretching—for it is elastic --it can be made to hold several times that quantity, but when eo diatended, it presses upon the other ereene, pushes them out of place, and cam - ea pain. When this fact is known, the folly of allowing the child to feed from a bottle containing half a int or more of food will at once appear evident. When the stomach is diatended, vomiting ie often the measure of relief. In dioteatien, when the auperflu- one food ie not thrown off, the baby is fret- ful, and cries with pain. Itis overloading the stomach, which frequently distends this organ, which is elsetin, and loses its power of contracting to its original size. When such a oenditionexiete, the sufferer wastes away, even when the proper food is given n correct quantity_ Many mothers who have believed that it is well only to feed a email quantity at a time find t hat the chil- dren ory soon after and imagining that they have not given enough, immediately jump `.o the conclusion that this method is faulty and fall baok into the old way deaoribed. The trouble here is, doubtless, that the child craves for water, not food. Often when that ie given it at once becomes quiet, and issatiefied until the time for feeding has ar- lived. Politeness in the Home Cirole, Tree peliteneae is founded on coneidera- ler cresta et it is so much a matter of form or habit that politeness is sometimes shown where there ie no conaideration ; ibis sometime§ neglected where there ie affeotion and every reason for kindly consideration. Thus, in the intercourse of near relatives made familiar with each other by daily meetings there ie naturally leas formality than between people who are only thrown together by the chance of a few hours or days at long'•intervals. But along with the laying aaide of formality some necessary features of politenese are sometimes sacrificed by relatives and very close friends. The youth who is careful to salute his lady blends and acquaintances according to the usaages of good moiety sometimes forgets bo pay the same respect to his 'deter, not be- muse he is wanting in affectionate regard, but noeuae he has grown eo familiar with he: that it eeemu awkwark bo him to treat her in any formal way. Yet when he meets her in company ho should, out of hie consid- eration for her, be markedly polite and at- tentive. Although politeness neoeaearily follows to a (seat extent set forms, it should have its origin in affeotion for the individual, or, in a more general way, in consideration for others. When the young man begins to be- have at home with leas politeness than he exhibits abroad, there is much danger that gradually he will lose that consideration for hie immediate relatives which he [should have and exhibit. He may begin by entering the family room withoutformal greeting ;absorb- ed in his own thougbte or purouite, he will soon begin to leave his sister and his mother to look out for themselves in the email affairs of life, and gradually bub surely he will cul. tivate a selfish disposition in home affairs that will make him a bad or indifferent son or brother. It ie a small matter in itself whether a young man finds a chair for his eider or mother when they should bo seated, anticipates their wraps, and offers them the thousand little attentions without whioh and in kis abeonoe they could get along very well by teats own exertions, but it ie not a small matter when neglect of ouch attentions 'ca- sette his consideration for them, develops hie gelfiehnese. and gradually undermines the effe°tion that should unite the family. Pol- ftonees in [moiety between acquaintances or friends is demanded by ouetom. There is no need to remind that it should be exhibited. Politeness at home and between near taint- Ives, even between husband and wife, though of tneloh morn importance in every way, it not go obviously necessary, and is too often neglected. the more sombre eatirg of man's flesh which takes plane tin Polynesia at.f 1 ,'otralia,'and arises rather from deficient food or meat supply, or from religious motives, than from a depraved liking for this particular kind of flesh. TELEGRAPHIC TICKS. e re in ever way inferior to those whom they oritioioe or orates% The leading magazines us a rule eontradiotor interrovate. do nob permit their pages to bo Tho telegrams from Indiana report an in-' degraded to the level of common oident whioh is hardly as big as the moral sewers in which foul -minded writers with attached thereto. A praotiosl joker wanted Sabyr.liko notions about realistic are in to frighten a negro, when only fauib upper• iterature may pour the products of their enbly was that he was supercilious. The I imaginations, bub there are some quite pop. joker attired himself in a white sheat and ular and allegedly respectable periodioala of A FBIEND 1N NEBD I For three or four days after I gob on , ahem I was in bed, hefpieee ; bub the kind I had not been married a greab while, and people who took oars of no, took oar° of my was as happy au 10 was poeaiblo to be, along kitten as well. She recovered quicker the. l with my Mary in our snug little home. But I did. and a0 I lay there, I need to watoh the bime of parting had 0001°. I was cup• her playing about the floor. tain 0f the schooner I,ightniug, and she was On m way home, a thought mune Into pp to sell that night, Ib wee the last voyego I my head, and I planned a surpriee for Mary. f h h k tit ti meant to make, Providencia had boon good I had, of courao, gob the people who had attention and eliciting diealprobation and to me, and I had saved a outnfortable little taken care of 010 t0 let her know I was safe, rebuke even from erste who cannot be ao• neer-egg, which was ego in the bank, bub she didn't know the exact time 1 shouli oused of extreme Puritanical niceness of It was my last evening at horse, and I was be ab home. view. So very thin has grown the dividing a bit down in the mouth. We were oitbiug Ib was quite dark when I arrived ab bbe line between fleshly su0gootivenese and groes together 10 our little parlor; the fire was cottage, with the kitten [aside niy that, 1 sone nelity of deooription, that even critics burning hri6dilly, the little white kitten was opened the door quietly, and found the who have been loudest in their dermas) of rolled up like a big snowball on the hearth- parlor door ajar, and looking through the the nude in orb are becoming alarmed at the rug, The ourbaine wore drawn, and every. Druck I could the r dsitting wnin nb I placed lee rapidity with which bold liberators aro thing was snug and ship-shape as could be. ab work, I [Moppedp stripping the clothes of reticency from l.b. The only thing I did not like seeing were kitten on the floor just inside the roost. my that and comforter banging ever the baok She roomed to know whore oho was In a of a chair, worming for me, and the bright moment, for she trotted round' to where Mary tears in Mary's eyes. I d d nob like going, wag sitting, and, jumping into hor lap, he I eau tell you, Bub what woo to bo, was; etretohed up rubbed her Moo againsu here. the time had oome, so I got up and put my I watched through the °rack and sow my coat on, and Mary, the tied the comforter wife start and turn very pale, and then es round my nook. she seemed to recognize the kitten, she said, Poor ohild ; how she did fumble with it 1 in a half whisper, I. could just hear: Bub then, she could not see for tears ; and "Why, kitty, whore did you Dome from?" —I am not ashamed to own 10 either—I A mew was all the answer she received; felt as if I had gob an apple in my throat, Bub Mary Rammed to guess that I was not far "God bless you, my dear," I said, at I off, and she rose up and oa01e toward the took her in my arms, "and keep you safe dOor. I could nob stand it any longer, and the bill .['m back. "Oh, Bob, you'll want more taking care next moment she was in my arms. of than I will.' Boys, I am ashamed to any for the next ten "Well, dear, HO's able and kind enough minutes kibty waoforgottn, And when we Groat is Cheek and will prevail. We to take este of the two of us." did remember her, she was curled up, fast wish it understood that the word is meant "Yes, I know that, Bob ; bub ib'e hard asleep, in her old place in front of the fire, to be spelt with the very biggest kind of Parting, nevertheless." aand d seemed quit tote, forifite to have ithadnothaotten t shee oupitals, for nothing less than Buell can do .And my poor wife bursb out crying worse her epverisa aa little fe, fora Id hope been my anything like justice to this overpowering,than ever, ebupendone and all but infinite Cheek f 1 know I0 was no good etaying longer : heart I should not be hero now talking to which some people are possessed. Angels the parting had to oome, and the sooner 10 yon,—[GOLDEN DAYS. may fear to tread in some looalitiea, and was over, the better, I gave her one long uet at have some modest reluctance to lay them- I ghat m (1 turn he little whited to the e kitten luwoke selves open to the charge of presumption, 4 and stretched itself, and a notion came into but the hooky man or woman knows no I m head, all in a moment, that I would take fear, no backwardness, no modesty, no re- ; • Y . luotanoe about doing, saying, prang, anyiib with me. I pinked Ib up, and buttoning thing or anywhere that will allow him or . it beide my coati, I hurried away from the her to theme what they have set their minds house and down to the wharf, upon. Hesitancy with such people iefoebleI Often ani often I have wondered whab indecision, modesty is imbecility and re- could have pot the idea into my head of, luotanca to presume is the sore alga of an taking the Icitten, and the only conclusion I idiocy that will never make its way in this can come to is that it was Providence ; and world at nnyrate, and may prove a serious i bet's) I believe you will agree with me when Two children were attacked and devoured by wolves while returning from school near Aitken, Minn., a few day ago. Mr. Henry W. Darling, of Toronto, spoke at the banquet of the Union League Club in Chicago the other night. Mr. Spurgeon has returned to London in excellent health. The new French Cabinet is said to be de• cidedly anti•Boulangiot, The Cologne "Gazette" denies that Morocco has ceded territory to Germany. Rev. Hartley Carmichael, of Hamilton, has accepted a call to Richmond, Va. Four German ironclad& have been ordered to sail at once from Genoa for Samoa. Serious charges have been preferred against License Inspector Stafford, of Lanark. P. F. Clarke, a Chicago druggist, was assassinated in his store the other night. It ie stated that the disease which has been agitating the village of Fingal is smallpox. The session of the British Parliament is expected to be one of the fiercest on record. Additional protection has been afforded Prime Minister Salisbury during the past days. James L. Lane, treasurer of the Piokaway Company, Ohio, is said to have skipped with $47,000.• A smallpox epidemic has broken oat In Southern Nebraesa, and extends across the line into Kansas. A Cheap Elevator. The ingenious plan proposed by'aBerlin in- ventor, of a simple and inexpensive elevator for private dwellings in place of the ordinary tionY etairosee, has attracted some a.tention as a long -felt deoideratum. It is on the principle of the inclined railway, and the motive power is furnished by the city water, which is applied in the cellar • each flight has its separate ohuir, so that, for example, one per- son can ascend from the first to the second story while another is on kb way from the second to the third, or still another is des• tending from the fifth to the fourths' The chair, being only of bhe width of the human body, requires but little space, and still leaves a free passage for any who with to walk up or down, instead of riding. Ib is set in motion by a simple pressure upon one of ha arms, while after it has been.used it elides back to the bottom step, its descent being regulated in such a manlier that the oarrying of a passenger is a Metter of entire safety. The mobive power is, of course, mora or leas expensive, according to the ooet of water, this being, it ie stated, in Ber- lin, at the rate of a little more than one- tenth of a coat only for each trip. concealed his shrouded form in a dark wood near where the victim was to puss. He pass- ed, and the spectre duly made its appear- ance If the negro was supercilious the axe the magazine variety which do thio. A very flagrant case of the kind is shown in a very recent issue of a popular magazine published in Philadelpr hie, the leading feature he carried on hie shoulder was nob, and the of which is a"Story' so uncompromisingly practical joker was laid flat by the terrified prurient that 10 called forth bwo columns man, who at least ended the idiotic tricks of of vigorous criticism and denunciation from one person, for he is not living to perpetrate the New York World whioh has never borne any more. a reputation for being "too particular." A now oombinatlon sugar bowl and epoonetend is a reoonb addition 16 table,train, however, went thundering,by. Both utensils. lads jumped and Were killed. According to a apeo[el gable despatch in Ghia morning's Mail, the collapse df the Electric Sugar Company has paused the breakdown of a magnificent scheme for the colonization of Palestine by the Jews. A gentleman who had invested largely in the shares of the fraudulent concern intended to devote his profits therefrom to the fnrbber- an0 of this philanthropio plan. It is some• what doubtful, however, whether any per - eon eo easily gulled as Mr. Roberta was by Professor Freund would have been equal to so large and so diffioult a task as the re - peopling of Palestine with the widely- scattered idely scattered descendants of its original inhab [tante. Von Billow's Sharp Way, Here is one of the latest stories of tea great von Below. He was walking one day in Berlin when he met a man with whom he had formerly been on somewhat intimate terms, but whose acquaintance he was desir- ous of dropping. The quondam friend at once accosted him. " Sow do you do, von Bulow 4 delighted to gee you I Now Pll bet that you don't remember my name 4" You've won that bet," replied von liulow, and turning on his heel he walked off in the op• poeite direction. Cats in Egypt. In Egypt ladies used to carry their devo- tion for their feline pets se far as to go into mourning for them when they died. And how do you think they went into mourning 4 Why, by shaving off their eyebrows! Favor- ite oats used to be embalmed, too, and I know of no quainter or more grotesque objeoto than the mummified eats whioh may be seen at the Btibieh Muauem, Even now Bata are held in high esteem in Egypt, and in ab least one of the Khedive's palaces at Cairo thorn is a tree ration distributed every day to any °ate that may care to apply, The Eiffel tower hes been well advertised. The whole world has been hearing about tit for months. The last reports were sensa- tional in the extreme. It was said that the drawback to " getting on" even in the You ova sesta my story. tower was out of plumb, and references were " world to oome." Seth persons are of the I We set sail that night, and the kitten enof gineers wereurse to the tower of detailed to examine n ; that it with eegarated byar a of hmind and heart, and are ole circumference from very sin made herselfathome in my cabin. I was glad I had brought her with me, fur theodolites, eta. Bub it may, perhaps, not the necessay bub always respectful„ geeingg her curled up before the stove gave be generally known that the Eiffel tower has and self-reepeoting boldness which in the pines a homelike air. been built expressly with a view to the pos- such a world as this is an 00000- Things.went well with us, and the Noy - been tion fromfthe porpendioulaat r by a sinking time &fliof tial ui part equipment. of everyone's whose endo endowment l and moral fn' ago peamieed to be a prosperous and happy one. the foundations. It is supported on four en- tide reaped) falls short of the average to anydiscWo had reached our destination in safety, celled.ormoue hProbably tdraulie hese reports sa as os from the are Landbaapped 00 the race of liferious extent, are e But proper andwerelasering tour he Newp England ed a r coastn , fact that observations were made to Bee who- boldness and courage are as different from when the weather suddenly changed for the they it was neousaary that these should be cheek, as self-respeob is from self-conceit, or wore°, and we saw clearly tha6 we should brought into requisition, love from lust, h e 'spooking shout before we ware The Chines Government appears to do When the scientists deal with the early its bash to discourage the universal desire to ; history of the earth, ata formation and de - enter the Civil Service. Applicants are 1 velapmenb, they have the general public examined every throe years. At the last pretty muoh at their mercy. Professor Boyd - examination each of bhe 1,300 candidates Dawkins has been diecouraing to a blanches. entered a smell, narrow and solitary booth ter audience on some of the early geological in which he was practically imprisoned for conditions of the globe. He told hie bearers an entire month, the 0 leave themselves, . that, as off the coast of Great Britain the not befog permitted to leave the enclosure, ' doth of the sea was from 500 to 600 fathoms, Soldiers armed with lances, watched the and at the bottom, mountains, hills and teethe and aaw that the rules were strict• , valleys were all as plainly marked beneath ly observed. At one time there was a heavy i the water as they were on the land, eo ova• rainstorm and many of the booths were lastly the large tracts of eke earbh'o eurfaae rortiana. flooded with water, is which the candidates eir ' covered now by the sea must once have beenwork as we AU hands womb working the pompend the , but, ain. bamboo ceedep ncils1Dg0nlyy6 patientlyoubothe h 1,300 in certain phones, were really as plentifah seldom lelt ae ng on us,, and nlmy owwe n mind I very mu h succeeded, blackberries. The similarity in density and doubted any of tie ever eattnng foot on dry Germany appears to be moat unfortunate in , weight of Mara to the earth, and the general lead again. all her colonizing experiments. Wherever : conditions of the two bodies being pretty Night was Doming on when the chip be- in foreign lands she ie brought into contact much alike, convinced him that life in some smashed theoeme rudder, and wares pen had with other colonizing nations, misunder- ' shape or other must exist there. Possibly play. standings and unpleasantneeaee occur, At ' oroaturea likethoae which once inhabited the thing of the waves, tossed about like a Angra Pequina it was thus. At Zanzibar it earth and of which relics were preserved Feather, but aver slowly drifting on to the le the same. And Samoa is only another in museums, existed in Mars, the conditions rook -b and coast. and signal proof of her want of tact, Ger- being favorable for three forme of organiolife. Ah, boys, it was a night the like of which many apparently does net know how to deal In abort, Pofossor Boyd -Dawkins left) the 1 had mover been out in before, and T hope with native character. In this she differs impression that there fa a very wide I never may be again, The sea swept clean widely from England. The Anglo-Saxon is margin for opeoulation about these matters over us, I saw looked up to and obeyed where the Teuton and no positive information to check a lively Wecouldn't ci le6 the p was opeoplo on land hat, now and is hated and rebelled against. Wkerein i imagination. r _ our position, for the water had gob into the lies the secret of Germany's failure 4 It is powder and blue -lights. probably to be found in bhe Dermot of Eng - It was cab about midni h6 as well as land's success. And this is, we think, her 1 midnight, keen sense of justice ; in Lord Dufferin'e we could judge, when the vessel struck large phrase, her " august impartiality." macs, the young , with a oraeh that knocked ue all off our It seems that tobacco has been smoked in turned to o, ` I bei b b lege, and a big sea, dashing over us at the the West Indies from time immemorial. g g same moment, washed away three of our 't bo u that orew. How far baok that may be, TRUTH will not when a lady eases the h' ty It now became merely a battle between the vessel and the sea, and we were the un- willing and helpless spectators, Our only thence for life was bhab ehe would hold to- gether until the morning, and that we might be seen from the there and pinked up by " Good night, Mr. Jones 1' oome life-saving Drew. There was nobh- -- Ing for us to do bub to wait, Was far too Much for Him. What a night it was 1 None of us would First Dude—" Avis Ohappie, me boy, where go below, for if the ship were washed off is Poweonby, the dear old fel, of late 1" the rook, she would founder at once, and Second Dude—" At—ow—hie mamma's take d'wa with her all who were below residence, very ill, don'taherknow, He deck took little Collie Feoblite out to supper When I say none of ns went below, I no and he make a mistake. I did, at a greab risk. I wenb to ger the little white kitten. When I entered my cabin, there I saw her onrled up fast asleep on my bunk. I was determined she should not be loot it I could help it, and, as on the evening when I left home, I buttoned her up inside my coat, next to my breast, and agmn made my way on deck, A LIVELY TUSSLE. An Unarmed limite•'s Experience With a Wildcat In Pennsylvania. Christopher Waterman had a lively tueelo with a wildcat near Choke Creek, in Lehigh township, Pa., recently. Watermau lives in Tobyhanna townehip, Monroe county, throes the Lehigh River from where he wee beating the bushes for partridges with hie pointer dog Major. Ho had bagged half a °sen plump birds that forenoon, and, was resting himeolf on a log near the creek, when he was startled by the howling of Major in the tuehes a few rods distant. He couldn'b see rho dog, and Major's howls of distress came eo quick and fast that Waterman rushed to- ward the spot, leaving hie gun leaning against the log on whioh ho had been sitting. The pointer was in a pib[able plight when Water- man got to him. A wildcat had pounced upon Major's back from a hollow log, and was making the fur fly from the harmless point- er's back and sides when the hunter OAh1E ON THE 80000. have Foolish Boys Killed. McLDEN, Maes„ Feb, 25—Albert John, son, aged 0, and ,David 'Fleming, aged ids to -day boarded an express train in Breton, thinking it stopped at Edgeworth. The eon Waterman's first impulee was to kick bhe safely berthed in Boston Bay. 'wildest in the side, he did eo with all hie The wind rose gradually, bub surely, till mblght inatload d on f 'remakingr the to, and out t e it iWASter blowing great gams, and,• to make • the ravenous beast, for a time, only burled f matters worse, the cold became intense, as it from the da o bank into the trunk, a blinding showers of sleet and snow swept g past tie, couple of yards away. At this the wildcat For two days we ran beton the storm;ecreamed with rage, recovered itself in an oloae•refod, bub the strain and buffeting instant, leaned upon a log, and sprang ab the vessel had undergone at length told upon Waterman's chest, He had not the time to her, and she sprang a leak. grasp any kind of a weapon, and the yelling We were now off the coast of Maine, and wildcat Dame at him with so much force and I made u mymind to tryandget into fury that he oould do nothing bub seize it by P the throat and dash ib from him. Four times the wildcat repeated this, screaming at every movement of its lithe and wiry body, and four times Waterman flung 10 into the buohea. When tho bloodthirsty beast sprang ab him the fifth time Waterman dodged behind a tree, but that did not save him from the sharp claws of the supple animal, for the wildcat dashed past the tree and landed on the hunter's left ern. It bib him on bhe shoulder and tore half of hie sleeve off before be could do anything to protect himself, and then he QUADDED 1T BY THIS throat with his right hand and held it out at arm's length. He might have (hooked bhe wild oat to death in a ehorb time, if it had not frightfully scratched hie arm wibh its bind feet, but it curled up its limbar body and dug its olawe into hie wrist until the blud spurted and compelled him to drop it. He kinked the wildcat in the ribs as it etruok the ground, and partially stunned it ; but, jobb as ho was going to kick it again, 10 wriggled out of his roach and moved about among the underbrueh with the alacrity of a wounded rattlesnake. Waterman saw bhob ho had hurt the wild- cat internally, for 10 did not attempt to spring at him again, and then he piokod up a hard hemlook knob and heat its brains oub as it lay quivering across the roots of a tree. Both of Waterman's arms wore severely torn, and he lost a lob of blood, but he pub quids of tobacco on his wounds and bound them up as well as he could, Major lay moaning not far away, for the viciouswild- oab had made go many rents in hie hide that he was suffering intensely, and Mr Water- man slung the wildcat over his shoulder, ebrapped his gun and gamebag on his back, and started for home with the wounded pointer in hie arms. The wildcat was an enormously large one for that section, for its weight woe 251 pounds. The Final Answer. " If that is your final answer, Mies Rob - man said with ill -con- cealed chagrin, as he picked up his hat and can do nothing u sub- mib. Yet as i never occurredyou p age oft it •seven say, nor be it worth while to discuss the she is not likely to find herself as much question whether Sir Walter Raleigh really aougnt after by desirable young men as she was the person who first introdooe the Use once was 4" " Ib occurred to me with and - know that though Popes have thundered offered yourself just now," ehe replied. their anathemas against 10 and though rulers have punished the smoking sinners with death and mutilation, yet the use of ' he weed has steadily and rapidly made its way, and now it would them that within the next fifty years, the non-smokers will have en- tirely disappeared. Whether that will be a; blessing or the reverse, We will not eay. Only 10 is evident that non•tnekera are already looked upon as poor avatar the opera, don boherk w, wretches who have neither feelings nor actually—aw—kissed him. The deah boy rights whioh oughb to be respected. 'has been going from one spasm into another Smokers never seem to imagine that suet tinea." tobacco smoke is intensely disagreeable to those who don't burn incense ab that There may be a difference between homoio- idol'o feet, and that they ought to keep their pathio and allopathic pills, bub there is very smoke and their expectoration to themselves little perceptible in the bills. WE J00111rElf0 II DITOL While other Minds from his deep. brain aro fed, Impending horror hovers o'or hit head, There were only three of ue lefb—myself, the cook and a sailor. The nook and I made ourselves fast to the mast as well as we could, and we shouted to the other man to oomo to tut. Poor fellow 1 he wag doing his best to obey, when a sea oa01e, and we saw hien no more, I don't know, boys, that loan describe our sufferings all through that nighb. You may imagine them, bub words wouldn't paint them. We wore web to the shin, and the oold eeomed to go through ue like knives. I tried to keep the kitten warm, but 10 wag wrotohed enough, poor little think 1 and kept on mewing, and every time I heard it my thoughts flew over the raging waves to my own snug home, where some one, I knew, was praying for me, and the thought of that gave me courage again. Day dawned ab length, and I was able to see my companion's face, He hadn'b spoken for some time, and I was almost afraid be wag dead, but 1 then found ib was the sleep produced by the cold. Ile was only kept up by the rope with which ho had fastened himself to the mast, and, as the light became stronger, I found the knot had given a bit, and it did not seem very safe. 1 could not rouse him, and at last the knot gave, he rolled on the deck, and a wave dashing over ug that moment carried him away, and his oufforinga were ab an end. I and the klbten were all alone now, the only two living things out of these who had been eo full of life and hope but a few days before. No one oat toll the feeling of thankful. nags and joy with whioh I goon after saw the life•boab nearing mo ; but by the time I was oafs in her, I was pretty well at my keel gaol. WIRELETS. Armed brigands aro onuafng trouble in Sarvia. Wm, O'Brien has been eentenoed at Tralee to another six months' term. On the 16th roar. 2,500 men were diocher- ed from the Panama canal works. Great excitement) is said to prevail in Tahiti over the troubles in Samoa. Mr. Cook has given notice in the House of Commons of a Homo Rule resolution. Jamie Lawrence Carew, M. P. for North Kildare, has been arrested in Sootland for not answering an Irish 0ummon0 under the Crimea Act, The New York " Sun'e" Washington cor- relpondenttays the oorreepondnoein the Saukville matter will soon be laid before Conerous. The third daughter of he late Ron. Thos. White was married in Ottawa the other day to Major John Cotton, of the N. W. Mounted Police at Regina. A beauty show Is to be held in Paris in April, in whioh women representing the African, Asiatic and Cauoaaian raoeo will participate. The first prizo will be $6,- 000. In the townokip of West Zorra, near Ingersoll, the other night, a riotous de- monstration took plane over the pooaes0ion of a cheese fo0tory, One of the aeeauiting party, named Murray, wag shot, it is feared fatally. Mr. Trudel oreated a sensation in the Que. boo Logislaturo rsoonbly by giving notion of a resolution of epntpathywith th Pope, em. bodying a suggestion that Queen Victoria be urged to vee her influence to restate the tem- poral power. Where 10 n0 fib search after broth which does not, flret of all, begin to live the truth whiah it known.