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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1889-3-15, Page 2TEE ,BR's POST. MARCH 15, 1889. A MIN FOR LIFE. 'When 1was a boy , all my near relativoa thought that I was "mit one' for a Motha. diet minister. Upon what particular trate of my obarenter they based tbeir opinion amnia eay, for I Ant not Able to affirm with truth that my general deportment was to be recommended ae a model for other boys to follow. Perhaps it was became my him bad a naturally 'solemn and wise expresaion. Be that as It may, at the euggeetion and with the advice of my faraeeing relatives, I was brought up to regard the Methodist =- Wry as the goal duly studies, and with aora- mendable ardor my father, who wee not wealthy, lent every effort to the attainment of this objects. In consequenee of the two great zeal with whiob I seconded their views, tound myself at twenty with my health much impaired, and mind weakened to a degree that unfitted me for further study. In the general alarm at my condition, my relatives again came to the front, and sug- gested a ohange—a trip to the West. Straightway an aunt on my inotherie aide, who had married a lumberman and lived in Northern Minneaota, being duly made aware of the state of things, invited me to visit her family, and thither I went. That was in the spring of 1870. The Min- nesota climate acted like magic upon my overstrained nerves, and the beginning of autumn found me teetered to strength, and ea far recovered as to be able to teach. More than half the people in the district Were Swedish and Notwegian settlers, and 1 experienced no end of trouble, with not a few halt:mons inoidente, in understanding their broken English and their odd onstome. The term of echoed ended about the first of December, My uncle was at that time carrying on lumbering operations forty miles from home, en the outlet of Lake Winibig- °shish, one of the lakes which form the head waters of the Missiseippi River, Re invited me to join him et the end of the school term, 1 bad never been in a lumber- ing catcp, and determined to spend a month or two in the pine woods with bim. There waa fine hunting—deer, foxes, muek-rats, lynxes, and other animals in the region. in the settlement where I had been teach. Ing there wee a young Norwegian, Lars Bork, two or three years older than I, who had trapped and hunted about Winibgoshish for several yearn He was a skilful woodeman, and a thor- oughly good-hearted young man, strong, sturdy and intelligent. He had been a chopper at the camp through the autumn, but as he thought that he could earn more money at trapping and hunting, nee, male willingly let bim off and acquiesced in my plan to accompany him for 0 trip of a few weeks around the foot of Winibigoshish, twenty miles above the camp. He also offered ua a spare mule—"Bingo" by name —to baul our outfit. It was the middle of December when we started out from camp. We bad an odd assortment of provieione, buffalo thins, blank - eta, camp utensils, toots for constructing a log but, traps, guns, snaw-ahoees, a little rusty stove, and two bundles of preened hay to eke nut Bingo's browse diet, all loaded necturely on an old eled. Wo fol- lowed the smooth, ice-bontad river, whale, as but little snow had fallen, furnished 0 good roadway. It was along da'y' e tramp. It waa getting late when we arrived at the place settled upon for a camp. Nothing could be done that night, beyond throwing up a tem. porarye shelter of eaplings and evergreen boughs, beneath which we mewled with ou robes and blankets, and with our feet to a big fire of dry pine logs, slept till morning. That is to aay, Late elepb, but the runnel and lonely situation drove sleep from my eyes for many hours. Bingo, poor bead, was hitched in a biroh thicket a little way off, where he browsed diligently, We lost no time in selecting a site for our winter stamp. At the end of two days, with Bingo's help in drawing the loge into place, we had constructed a comfortable hut, its chinks tightly calked with moss to keepout tbe sifting snow, which, in that told region, usually fella in fine, dry crystal% A Ramat he back side of the but we also threw up xough "lean-to"forBingo's accommodation. After getting our camp in order, we turn- ed our attention to business. Lars net all the steel traps which we had brought, About the lake shore and along the river he eonstruoted " dead fans" for mink, mar tin and otter. A few otter had been atiptur- ed by the Notwegian the previous winter, but they were exceedingly shy, and not abusidanie For three or font weeks but little snow fell. There was juab enough to make the ground excellent for tracking game, and we were sumenful in securing quite a pack of fur—two of the coveted otter skins among others. -We had trapped several wolvea, too, which proved that there were numbers of them about us, Yet as Lam had exhibited no fears concerning them, I felt none. Several timea, on our anowahoe tramps Dome the country, we had taught sight of them run- ning with great swiftness, but we mild never come near enough for a shale The Norwegian would now and then filmy through them, But the told weather bad given 00 Women- doue appetitea, and our mot bad been very tame, We knew than animals could not have moved about much in the deep snow during the long atom, and that they mush have become Sandalled. Accordingly, we thought that now game of all aorta would be astir, After an early breakfaele we started out on our akeee, which were made of ash, five er six feet long, very norther, tlsism, and smooth ae gleam. There were bound to the foot by straps, and with them one acthe tamed to their use ram Aim over the anow with great swiftness, Although I was thoroughly at home on loo-thatee'it was dome time, with Lars' teaohing, before I could keep Race with him. After getting a little away back from the lake, the country was open, with the exam. tion of strips of timber, bordering tbe streams. Upon the banks of two of these, we decided to wit some of the trap which had been taking nothing'about the hike for several days. In the afternoon started a doe, in a broad strip of timber, near a oreek, As it bounded off over the mow 1 fired, but mail - ad, Scarcely had the report been heard when my companion's rifle °racked, and at the same moment I beard bim try out shay. le, as if in distress. Much alarmed, 1 hastened in the direotiou of the sounds and found that a most distrese- ing accident had bappened. The doe had run towards Lars, who, while skimming along to get a nearer and more effective :hob, bad broken through the snow which had drifted aver some email !shrubs. His rifle was discharged as he fell forward, and the bullet had entered his left ankle, making a berrible wound. Lars Bjork was a man of math courage and as stoical aa an Wien, but the pain was so greet that he swooned alead away. I, on my parb, waa so overcame, that for a moment I lost my head entirely and could do izmg. But Lare soon -recovered consciousness and instructed me how to bandage the limb and atop the flow of blood. How to get him to tamp waa the next trees - ton. In this matter, too, Lars's brain wet more fertile than mine. gorne sort of hand - sled, he declared, must be improvised, end I must go to camp, which was about three miles distant, after the axe, auger and ropes. I dieliked lo leave him alone, in his dia• these, but there was no other way; Bo after providing him with a bed of boughs, Yearn ed off, and aa I bad now become expert in the nee of those wonderful "Aces,' in lase than au hour I had made the trip mad was hack again. Ot eying Lavine diteotion, I now out twobirob saplings, having natural orooks, for runners, and smoothed them off with the axe, Then I bored holes and put in moss -barn Upon these I laid boughs and one of the robes whioh I had brought from wimp. Time sled was now ready, and my wounded companion managed to crawl upon it, The load wail not very heavy after getting under way over the smooth, bard snow. We wane on ab a good pace and bad accomplish- ed half a mile from the place where the ac- cident occurred, when (Mantling to look bank I saw four or five animals about the spot. scrambling end apparently fiphting with each other. I mentioned ib to Lane With an effort he turned to look book, " They're wolves," he said, "Get to °amp as fast ae you can I" The brntea had sneaked from some covert in the timber Assam as we had started, and were licking the blood off the snow. They might even bate been in pursuit of the doe, tee cause of our misfortune. As we bad frequently earn them, wbile out trapping, I did not at first feel much alarmed. But soon a aeries of prolonged bowie from behind warned us that, madden- ed by extreme hunger and the taste of bb od, they wore in permit, and that °there were joining in the ohase mewing out from the timber as we hurried along. I glanced at Lane The face was very wlite, but he grumped his rifle firmly. I now fully realized our peril and put forth my uttoced efforts, Tbe country was half.open here. I had heard that it ia the habil) of wolves, when in large numbers, to try to surround their prey. I was certain that waa what they meant to do if they could come up with no. More over, 1 soon found that they were gaining, in spite of my exertions. VV e had covered hardly more than a mile and a half of the distance, when in going over some concealed ehrub, where the snow was shallow, the sled broke through and threw me down. I thought it was all over with us then, but I was not entangled, nor was anything broken, and =ambling to zny feet, I jerked the sled out of the mow and was off again in a twinkling. But the howls of the pack had came fearfully nearer. "Ply to oannp, mine friend 1 Ply to ()amp I Don't mind me 1" the brava Nor- wegnin now exclaimed, ae he dashed along. "They'll have us both. Bab drop me and yon wen get to the Lampe' Fire bath into them 1" I panted, for I alt ready to drop. Lars managed to turn around and die. charged hie rifie, and at thio unexpeoted elute, the onoorniog paok halted Inc a mis- fit length the snow began to come down mint Thia gave us a little time and I in earnest nearly every day, The °old was made the moat of in yet we had nob gone intone, We had been down to roy unolees fifty verde farther baker° the troop were ramp once for supplies and for the (mail, again in hill try ; and although he continued militia watt brought in weetteeinally by one of o fire as fast as he could reload, the ream. the mem one brutee now paid no attention to the re. CM Candlemas Day we awoke to find that parte. a genuine blizzard had struck us. We were But at Met, and, as it chanced, With his entirely out of meat, for game had bean final cartridge, ke hit one of the foremost of aoaroe on the line of our traps for Beveled the pack, The creature fell, and immedi- days, and we bad decided to devote this day ate!), the others set upon him after the to supplying our larder. Now there was no- manner of wolvee. This again gave tie a thing for it but to stay in shelter tilI the ittle start. Yet they qutokly tore their storm was over. wounded fellow to pimp and were after ne For three days and pieta the gale bluster- again, more greedy than ever, before we had ed and howled through the tree tope above gob out of thetr sight among the scattered our hub, whirling the enow in such thick timber. Then I thought of a fox which we clouds ae nearly to smother one out of doom. had trapped, and I had tossed under the Vire dozed not venture two rode from the lobe beside Lars, at darting, hut, for km of never finding our way beak through the blinding drifts. two of the mete and brought out our furs THE LIME-ICILN °LIM and brae's, Bub I had no lurther dealt° to hunt tlaat winter, " Ince' bin requital/4"state Brother Gerd. nor as the meeting opened, " to preemie to die club dia cavern& de query, 'lo do white man improvinie Pickles Smith will lead off .A very beautiful and youthinlappearing de diaoushun." moiety woman of New ir otk, the preserve,. Brothel' Smith rrplied Limb he had been tion of Nebo() thin is remarked upon by her taken nuawaree. He had never given the acquaintances, says that Whenever she is :natter atlmouglmt, He had seen more or lose going out in the evening ohs prepares her white fella around him each clay, bub had tenet with the exception of her dna, wrings given than no partiouler attention, Ho had a wash Moth out of ais hot wetter as the min A sore throat, os bud heetlache, obilblabie cn bear, smooths it out over hem face so it will both feet, and there were strong indications truth every part o111, and lin with it on that s. firaboless boil was Omit to hit him in her farm for half an hour. When elm re. the log. He would therefore ask to be ex• moves it every wrinkle and line has clisam ousted from expressing anything like mo decide peered. Au English lady over BO muerte od opinion on the white man question. that her lack of wrinkles is due to the fait Col, Anonymous Smith next. followed, Ib of bar having used very hot water all her was a question which bad bothered hint nob life, whioh tightens the akin and smooths a little. Thirty years ago the white man oub the liras. Another celebrated beauty got drunk. He gets drunk to -day. Thirty attributes her preservation to having never years ago the white man sold his vote. He used a wash cloth or towel on bet lime, but saw Havered of them bought in at tho last baying alwava welshed it gently with her election. In the years gone by the white hand, rinsing it off with a soft yenta, dry- man swore, gambled, stole, robbed, lied, Ing it with o toff cloth, and then rubbing cheated and committed murder. He was it briskly with a flash brusb. She used dein these inane things to -day. If there motile soap and very warm water every had been any moral improvement the colonel night, with cold water in the morning, and couldn't Nee it, He had always felt a 5)'m- 11 aha were awake late at eight she always pathy for white fella, and had always hoped adept as many hours in the day as ahs ex- they would do well, and it grieved him that peoted to be awake at night, Another no better progress had been znade. student of the toilet asserts that ahe pre- Elder Toots said he was glad the question vents and obliterates wrinkles by rubbing had oozne up. The white folks were always the face toward the nose when bathing it, concerned for fear the colored race eves m- end Bile Wheeler Wilcox asserts that elle trogading, but the boot belonged on the other eon eradioate a permanent wrinkle by the foot. Within twenty years the white man nee of almond water and friction,—(New bad invented the telephone, but alga 1 the York Sun, states had to pees laws to keep him from send- ing cues words over the wires. The white man had erected wonderful bridges, improved the telegraph, bronghb oub new orders of arobi facture, improved in painting and sculpture and elevated the standard of aohoola and so. piety, but there was another side to the pic- ture. The white man bad discovered other ways to beat the laws passed for the protec. time of life and properly. Lying, swearing, stealing and embezzling were hardly count. ed as sine. Visitors had picked pookete and stolen overcoats, Men who paid the highest pew -rent in church were doing the heaviese stealieg. Dreseing bad become an art, but running in debt and beating creditors had become a greater one. The elder had noth- ing against the whine man on acmount of his color. The Lord had made bim white, and he was not to blame for it. But when the •white man stood on a corner and claimed to own the earth, it was well to investigate hie claire. Waydown Bebee said he had always felt kindly towards the white man and had al- waya been willing to extend ibm a helping hand. He could remember bank for e. quart. er of a century. If them were any decided improvementa he could not name them. If the white man was better educated, so were all other men. If inventions were more numerous, other races bad helped to make them so. Take the nbite man aa a man and he nad doubtiess retrogaded. He was losing his reverence Inc the Bible and the laws. He was living fast and loose, full of gossip, auspicious, and having no care how he muds his money so long as he made it, If the white man had gotnearer to the moon by means of the largest telescope in the world, he bad also discovered new liquids to get drunk on and new ways to beat the law. If the soul has become more poetics la wauits for debt had also become more numerous. If the average mind was living nearer to Milton and Shakespeare just as many bodies were being committed to state prime. About WrinldelL Was Willing to be a Sister. "No, Mr, Jackson, I cannot be your wife, as my heart ie already in the keeping of another, bub Iaan be a sister to you," "Oh, 'tie bard to thus be obliged to give you up, Maud, and mill your very generous offer to be a sister to me cannot go untateept- ed. Will you be ae rear a real sister to me as possible ' "Yea, George, 1 shell endeavor to." "There is Jaok Fourinhand's Mater, for in- stance. Will you be as loving and attentive to me as she le to him ?" "With all my hearts, George." "Very well, then, sister mine, I shall try to be worthy—ab, I really must be going, though—good night, sister." The next day Mies Maud received a package, and upon opening it discovered that it oontained—borrors 1—two pairs of trousers, six pairs of Books and a shirt, A note slipped out, and upon reading it this is what she saw : Dear Sister Maud—I ascertained from Jack Fourinhand that his sister was in the habit of doing all of his mending, Thinking of our arrangement I bethought me of these few artiolee of wearing apparel, Which are sadly in need of buttons end mending, I have Joy needed a sister thab would look after my olothee, and dime yon have so kindly consented to ant in that capacity you may oommenoe your duties at once. Your loving brother. Gronon. Bounced. A friend of mine is the mother of two fine boye, aged respectively three and one- half and one and monhalf years. The elder, o fair specimen of the enfant terrible type, had juet been forcibly suppressed by hie mother in the midst of a circus performance, and having been calmed down sufficiently to assume the role of host, was reviewing hie recent ammisitions for my entertain- ment. He was intently engaged in explain- ing some piotures in a new book of whiob be wen very careful, when his baby brother toddled up and began patting hie little fat bands over the page. Quick as thought Junie caught up the intruder and with an inimitable little nod and "'souse me a mo- ment, please," tugged the unresisting offen. der off through an intervening room to his mother, who had been called out to superin. tend some household matter, and thrusting his burden (almost as big as himself) upon her, with "hems, take the baby, mamma, please," rushed back to my entertainment with an inexpressible air of relief. ---(N. Y. World. . ' Fighting Chances. If Uncle Sam really intends to draw hie sword and have a brush with the Old World, he will nob be compelled to hunt long for a pretext. Canadian cruisere have been warned to keep at a proper distance from our fishing smathe ; the British Minister has been ordered onb of the country; Germany has been taken to tach for not keeping her eimagemente with England in reference to the Samoan islands ; Franoe, and in fact all creation, have been told to keep their hands off the latbmus of Panama ; and far-off China wakes up to .find friendly treaties abrogated and the gates of the Republic looked and bolted because she failed to ratify a new convention on terms dictated by the United States Senate. Uncle Sam can simply aweep his eye over the earth, pick hie vuitim, and deposit hie gauntlet upon the sande.—[Springfield Republican. Miraculous Escape from Death, TV/Fuson, March 18.—The other evening about ten o' olook while Mrs, Judge Horne was driving to the Michigan Central depot to meet friends the berm became frightened iat the expresser coming in and backed over the platform in front of the engine. The driver jumped from the carriage, leaving Mra. Horne alone, The engine struck the car- riage, completely wreaking it, knookbeg Mrs, Horne out, When picked up she was found between the front trnoke and the driving wheels of the engine. She wasonly slightly- njored. Only for the depot detective sig- nalling the engineer to step it would ba.ve been fatal. Sir'Isaao said the query had often been presented to him, and he would take advant- age of this °caution to say that he thought he could see some [slight improvement in the last twenty-five years. Who were Mor- mons ? The white folio. Who were big- amists? The white folks. who were em- bezzling from banke, stealing from poatoffioes and filching eohool momet? The white folks. All the sedition was uttered by white men. All the demagogues were white men. All the truate and monopolies on the one hand, and all the strikes and violence on the other included only white men. It was his conviction that white folke were a bad lot, but not quite as bad as they used to be. Samuel Shin arose to remark that he had seen a good deal of the white folks, and had bean brought into oollision with them more or less every day for years. He eouldn'taay, as a beginning, thab be liked the oolor. It wasn't taste It ran all the way from the oolor of an old roan horae turned out to die, to fresh snow, and he could never be made to believe that straight hair was of any good except in the ease of a wolf. White folks had cheated him, lied to him, stolen hie wood and poultry, and he had come to distrust the room Ho didn't doubt thet there was some alight improvement, but even savagao are compelled to improve. He be. lieved the time was near at hand when blaok would be the popular oolor all around, and when the man with the woolly head would step to the front, "Gemilen," said Brother Gardner as he arose, " de queehun ham no doub tobedecid- ed in de negative, bub we shouldn't bar down too heavy on de white folks. Day hes had a hemp of tribulaohun, espeehnelly in die kentry, 1 fur one hev great an' abidin' faith in de f abhor of de white man. Ho hi gradual- ly learnin' to speak do trod, an' to keep his hands off of odder folkeee' thickens. Time will make him fear or respect do law, brush up hie mannere BA' compel him to realize dat buildin' big Ana houses doan' make manners nor bring bizneas. Let tut gin him a fa'r dame to show de stuff he are made of. Do answer to de query will darfo' ioe. 'He ar' improvin' mighty slow, butt expecte a change of fodder will make him hustle,' We will now dispel de main' an' adjudicate home- warde," Sudden Death. MONTREAL, Maroh 7.—Wm. Sutherland, a married man and foreman of the Montreal Ice Company, met with a sudden death the Foots About Eau de Cologne. other afternoon ab five o'clock under the following oironmetanoes i Tbe deceased The original eau de oologne its made from was employed overseeing the puking of ioe "That fox ?" I geaped, "Pitch that a receipt whioh, according to a writer In in the company's cellars In William street, out 1" he "Leioure Home" has been known to when a large block, which was being hoisted The cold was aimed unbearable. With Overboard went the precious gray fox, only ten people siitoe it was dfaeovered from the top of the load, slipped from the all our °gotta, wo could :scarcely keep from Then on—on—on, Inc life man. But we nearly 200 years ago. The written oopy of hooka and fell upon Sutherland, killing him frees,ing. Portunately, we had prepared a wore within twenty redo ef camp now, and it la kept in a crystal goblet under triple almost instantly. A terribly Bad feature A Great Penal 1)0100)'.supply of wood only a few yards from the with a fresh ere t dashed for the door look% in the room in will& the easential of the ease was the Preeence of Mrs. Slather- Port Earls interesting an the great Pon. door, and by turn wo went through the and reaching it, ran ;wide, filed and all, ab ale are mixed, The casks in whiob the per• land when the sad fatality took Pine°. al colony of British India. It is on the drifts, dug out an armful, and guided /*the ono final leap, fume is kept are made of cedar wood from The poor woman was; peeing at the time, bland of South Andaman, Inc out in eke Bay othert Velce, crawled baok to the hub, with The door was slammed bo and )forced- Lebanon, which ie stronger than any other and the blood Which rushed from her hue- of Bengal, and it is there that twelve thou. hair and clothes and eyes pelted full of move, and mad at ur acme, the hungry creatures and does not emelt More than '2,000,000 band's Mute and ears Wile spattered upon her sand banished criminals from Hincloatan euf. Even with all the lire we could keep, I Watt dashed thenasolvee against it, like a foaming bottles ate sold annually, and of theee clothes: The hueband was at onoe token to for the penalty of their misdeeds. Of these obliged to wrap myself in one of the buffalo ma -wave, 150,000 go to one house in Leedom the 11°01)1E4 where death immediately no fewer then seven &emend have boon robes, and orouoh in a corner nearest the stove. But we were ode, T dropped upon the ensued, and the disconsolate widow was guilty of murder in varying degreee of hoin. °amp floor exheuated. ImprOYed Appearance. taken by kind friends bo her home, onetime and yet strange to nay they are al. Lore, a true son of the North, and moue. Till nearly midnight the famished animals ieged to be the beats behaved men in the homed to demo blizzarde, kept busy mending raged about the hut. Then a little later Dentlista—ii What tan I do for yon, mad -camp, The convicts in this panel octal:matt Out °tethers, trope and "skew," er snow -w. We heard a midden and nage appalling oub- am ?" The MO011'il Infinenee, aro nob excluded by lofty week' from the ex. skate, such as are used in big snow -bound ory. BO it woe se niokly hutthed. The Mrs. altahilly (suddenly rioh)—" I want Upon the weather le a000pted by some as hilarating and beneficial influences of opon native country, and whistled merrily, while %mina lea(' broken into . to " lettn•bo," yez to be Other Min' the amalgune finite I real, by °there it is diepated. Tho moon air natme. Tilay are free to come and go As the wild wind aent little Oddieeofenow whirl- Poor Bingo 1 There was nothing left of onb o' me hook tooth an' puttin' in goal& never &Wade ()erne from the tender, aching they will, but esoapo from the island fa well. ing through the thinks: into his yellow hair, him to tell of hie fate. G Since Mune got the coontratio on bher new i spot, l'Utnahn's Paiillen Corn &theater nigh byelaw:, go well aro the therm The fourth morning dawned bright and In the morning all was quiet. T took acquedook its not the expense am bembidin' ' removes the moot Weinl aorta in three guarded, and Moral rawer& make the ,hear: The weather had moderated, bub the Lets, Who had pawed a night of agony, on in any ways." dye, This groat Remedy makes no wire netiatee very ready to join in punning any enove lay four foot deep over the whole Nun- the sled, and again not off down the river ---- spate, doethie go fooling around a man's poor wretoh who hoe eaeoped into the for. try. Ott little hut woe nearly butted, and toevard My unaleti oanap whioh we teathen J foot, but gate to imitator at owe, and effeete est, In nine ream there have boon no esoapse So hard wore the drifbe tanked that; I, who About neon. The Norwegian Was taken In some parts of Ohio they talk of roganie- e Mire. Don't be imposed upon by sub. i by more than water—Win be mid for the ci Was about forty pounds lighter in weight horne and ultimately recovetod, Ing an artier of Night Caps Inc the purpose stituto and itnitations. Get "Pubnam'e," moat zealouely goaded nrion of theli hi a OM Leta, ehuld run over thorn ,araywhere Next awe I went bask to our camp With of bteaking up White Caps. and no other, wall and barred wandow variety. CORPORAL PITRISIIMEN T A1 SCHOOL, woman !editor Molts that lead SUM Should be Instated. The queeti on ea to the proper mode of M. filoting carpeted pollen:alone ono than bee been strongly &slatted, nem le 110 dentin tt at it ehould never be placed in the power of mile or us:latent teachere ; the head meter oamistreee should alone have the power to punish. Tho question that hem been milked no to whether girla should bo exempt from it is, to aay the lean child ish. T11080 w8*keow anything of the work- ing of ordinary eohoole are well acquainted with the fact that, when girle are prone to be troublesome, they are infinitely more diffieulb ba manage than boys, and theft there are always in every largo school some 105 who are amenable ne no other dielpline, They mud either be &ennead, to their in- evitable ruin, or they roust be allowed to remain and practice their wilfundisobedience to the destruation of the dieeipline of the ris)ouhponosl. and the corruption of the other To say thab en& girls should not be sub - jotted to the only treatment theb can avail for their reformation is simply part and parcel of the maudlin imams sympathy with the wrong -doer that is tharaothrietio of a small aeotion of people ab the present time. Muth outcry has been made ageinsb the degrading effect of corporal punielsment. As often inflicted, the ontory la not without metre; but that a boy or girl oan be degrad- ed or injured by being caned across the shoulders is a flotion. All impulsive puni- tive acts should be interciated. Boxing the eve is a moat injurious mode of punishment; it often causes Wen and permanent injury to the brain. Berthing the bands svith a tome, much more with a hard wooden pain• ter, is objectionable, aa being liable to iujure severely the tendinous tissues end numerous joints of the wrist and hand, bub birching across the shoulders where the broad, dos' bones and ribs ere good bulwarks protealog the vital parte, is a power that should be in- trueted to every hoed teacher in everysohool, ethool, a power to he moot rarely used, but always to be held as A Nemesis that ie ready bo overtake the evildoers. It may be said that; such sentiments are unnatural and not in accord with the higheat philosophy, but to take example from nature, pain is to be regarded as an inabitution ordered by a higher than human intelligence than pre- vents us from injuring our own bodies and ao tends to our preservation. There is no law, human or divine, that prevents our utilizing it for the benefit of our children.— [The London Queen. O'Oonnell's Love for His Wife, 11 The domeatio relations of O'Connell can- not escape the notice of the most oarelege reader. They were broadly distinguished from stone of common men by the vehement and over -flowing tide of emotion that cours- ed through therm They are illuminated by every occasion that comes up, and wo find him acting the part of a spiritual adviser 88detail to a daughter in a grave and 11118.10118 °riga of the soul, the pertioular nature of which is reverently veiled. Their verbal xpresaion is concentrated in his letters to hie wife. From then, 18 appears that his whole married life, from its oommenoernent in 1802 to its close in 1830, was one cola tinned course, not of ardent affection only, but of courtship. Unless Inc the purpose of satire no molt guabing vocabulary of lova has ever, aa far aa I know, been laid open to the publio eye, O'Connell speaks of Charles Pbillipa, the author of •• Curran and his Contemporariee," as "insane with love," Some militia be inclined to re- torb the phrase upon him. After 11 yearn of married life, in a letter of no more than 16 lines, his wife Pi " my darling heart." "heart's treesure," "my sweetheart love." " my own Mary," " my own darling love," " own dearest, dearesb darling," and "I wish to God you knew how fervently dote on you." This Is from him when on circuit, to whom the expenditure of a minute was the expenditure of a drop of profeseion. al life's blood. In calm ways we shall see thab he wan a men who never could eon. tract his eympathiee, In this very letter there is one, and bull one, morsel of pure prom—his business "ie increasing almost beyond endurance." In later years the asta. logue of endearing phrases is goaroely shorb- ened, and he truly describes his thee when he says, "Darling, will you smile at the love lettere of your old huaband ?" The Latest Female Dissipation, The latesb female viae is batoxication by naphtha. It is nob drank, Tho /metes of it are simply inhaled, inducing, so the inebri. Meet ay, a particularly agreeable exhilara tion. Not even hasheesh, it is undoratood, begets more theoineting dreams or more gob. goons visions of eplendor. Tbe girls in the rubber feetoriee, no which there are a great number in Boston and its neighborhood, are greatly addicted to this novel form of drunk. menus, In mush establiehmente naphtha is used in enormous quantities to cleanse the rubber, being kept in big boilers closed against the air. To the valves of them boil. ers the young women employers readily ob. thin moose and breathe the exhalations there- from, some unlucky accident having betray- ed to a °hence experimenter the abominable morale The notion is said to have been bronolib originally from Germany by emi- grant laborers in petticoat% Now the man. ufaoburers propose to put a stop bre the evil by keeping the valves carefully looked. An overdose of naphtha Aimee brings on hysteri- cal oonvulairma and other unpleasant symp- toms, The habit, long followed, mums a swelling of the facie and other parts of the body, with &tipsy to follow, and eometimea epilepsy. On tits whole, it is diffioult know width of them new.fangled vim for womenlo recommend. There ie ether drink. ng, laughing gas aud tea.eating, besidee the naphtha, The eons° entioue pursuit of any one of them will surely lead to the lunette asylum. You pays your money—ars one might remark—and you takers your choice. FROM PA RAMA. Work On dot Canal Almost Entirely tinstiend. ed—Rirettless Crawled. A Panama letter :Aye work on Wm canal le tie nearly auttpentled as it well could be without being entirely we Ib is expiated, boomer, that by the 10th of March thine delleite arrangement for its roeuniption will be made. None of the new oompanies form- ed will melte any immediate attempt to hold off the work until the present company is oonopletely banitruple when they may be able to purchase the whole thing Inc a more begatelle. Sueporation of work will bring about the • entilment of the °outrage with the Oovcrnmant of (Womble, And the enter. priss will pan in a) the ban& of the United Stetes, and a foreign corporation could enter into street negotiations with the Government for the purchase of right, %hook, oto, for some half.dczen minions of ao. %mess eranseobiona in the oily are all but suepended, The Patients railroad hae had to rodeo° 88o ebeff meterially, el so up eover- al of tee 10E8 important Mations, and reduces, the number and size of the trains, The morahante of Aspinwall, vvbere the depreas- iou Is fele oven more severely than in Pane - ma, have petitioned the Government for a material reduction of their commercial eon- tribetione, on the ground that, it is not pee • alba longer to pay the amounts amend. If this appeal is ignored the merchants deolare they will have to suspend business. There have been no attempts at rioting, pillage or violence by the thouaande of laborers out of employment, and who are aufferigg. apatheti- cally. Almost daily hates °outlawing specie in more or lose /ergo quantities, sometimes aggregating $100,000, go across the isthmus. These trains are practically andefended. Another Desert Disappearing. The Australian desert whioh was once sup. poeed to °over the larger part of the in- terior of ehat centinent is going the way of all Jim other deserts thab have failed to shunt the teab of exploration. Jed as the early explorers of the Afrioan maga filled all the regions that had nob been visited with uninhabitable wastee, Ito a greabpart of in- ner Australia has been represented ae utterly valuelees to mau. The faith in this iiiimibable desert was somewhat Waken in 1872, when Giles found Amadeus Leke,200 miles long, at ite geographical centre; and the few explorers who have Awe visited inner Australia have whittled off great motions of the &aerie and pub forests and streams where only sand was euppeeed to be. Sir Samuel Davenport, in an address at Adelaide a shore bime ago, said that the recent thavele of Masan. Lindsay and Tietkens had proven that inner Australia waa by no MAW a Saharan waste and, though now unhabited, it woo oyable supporting a large popula- tion. e They found not only wide regions co- vered with luxuriara grass, bub also mineral deposits that are certain to attract attention. Almoet in the geographical oentre of the con- tinent Tietkens founded several large rivers whose head waters were on the northern slopes of mountain renews. me rivers flow- ed north, and:as far tut he traced them he found a great deal of large and valuable tim. bar along their banks. Lindsayel investigation between 18 0 and 24 °south latitude resulted in some surpris- ing discoverlea. In the McDonnell range of mountains he found oarnots and athlete and altiundent indications that mining in thio re- gion for precious stones will be highly pro - &Ole. On Tennant's Creek he found gold. bearing quartz in abundance, and he brought home stories of almost boundless paeture lan' ds of water in abundance, and of deep, blue lakes, one of whiob, some 300 miles north of Amadeus Lake, in of largo and as yet unknown extent. His explorations cove ered a region, extending several hundred miles north and south; and both ease and west of his route istretabes a vast and whole ly unknown regime that Gives promise of be - Mg equally inviting. The great railroad which is to extend across the continent from north to math through the eastern part of the couotry once supposed to be a desert, will moth facilitate. the work of explorabien • and slthough inner Australia boa been sadly neglected by tray - ellen, it will not be many years before the last of her geographical mama is revealed, This railroad 10 now in operation for 660 miles north of Adelaide. Trask laying is pushing steadily on mid the line is growing aputhward also from Port Darwin, its north- ern terminus. An exploring party hag j[188 been sent out by the Geographical Society of Australasia to more fully explore the re- gion, of which our &et accounts have been so unexpectedly gratifying. Sikkird and Suakin, Sikkim Rue Suakin both threaten to give the British forces and their alliee more trou- ble in the immediate future. The Mandi is about to send reinforcements to Osman Dignn for a new attaok on the English lines, while the refusal of the Thibetons to make any oonoessione to the Indian Government seams so render another campaign among the Himalayas necessary Inc the coming nelson. Again, the dangerous irapetubsity 110 of the Amcor of Afghanistan made to be reetrained. Flushed with bio defeat of Ishak Klan, he propene, it is said, to take steps against, Resole ae the euspeoted instigator of IBM& This imprudence England would lane to restrain, sinoe, however well pleased with the Amara' fidelity to her, the could not permit him to go beyond his frontier and thereby give Russia an excuse for driv. ing him bask and crossing in her turn. Al. together, 11 the bursting of that "thunder aloud" which the British Secretary of War sees gathering over Europe nhould not onto to pass doting the preemie* year, there will yet be acme play of distant heat lightning for the Britieh War Office to watoh.--INY Times. * Sharp Thrust. Some men who pass tor very respeotable citizens, and who really aro nob without good qualities heve a habit not only of fincle mg fault with their wives et every Meat pro- vocation, but of doing it in terms ouch as no gentleman would ever think of applying to any lady exempt hie own wife, or possibly hie own stater, There is a story that tenth a man memo home from the deep one night and found hie wife much exalted over the outrageous be. havior of a tramp. Re had begged for some thing bo eat, and not liking What the woman gave him, had abused her in the roundest berme. "Johnny," said the man, thoroughlyindignant, indignant, "when you heard thab cowardly moil abutting your mother, why didn't you run at ono° to bhe store and lob me know? I would have made ehort work of hint. Didn't you hear 7" " Yee, pa, I heard. T was out in the barn and beard what he said abottt the victuals ; but"— Bite what 7" " Why,pa, I thought it wag yen :molding mother. He wad the nary mane words ysu 0 when the dinner docent atilt you, idn't think anybody dee would dare talk to mother in that 0 te