The Brussels Post, 1889-8-2, Page 6YOUNG FOLKS.
Truly Polite,
AY DtRS, wieners .RCn1BALD,
"Naughty boys," said Johnny's mother, "oft
are rude to one another, bub I hope that
you'll remember careless manner's are
not right ;
And, wherever and whatever your surround•
loge, will endeavor to be scrupulously,
cheerfully and ataeeleooly polite,"
" That I will," said Johnny sweetly, end he
kept hie word completely, and said
" Please," and " beg your pardon ," in
a way that's seldom beard,
And " Allow me " and " Excuse me "—oh,
it really would oonfuse me to enumerate
his phrases as they ooeotently caourred.
AB a youth and as a man he atilt adhered
unto the plan lee had EO earnestly adopt-
ed as hie gentle rule of life,
And was often deferential when ib wasn't
quite essential, es for instance to hie
servants and his children and hie wife.
When his business up and bursted, and his
creditors were worsted, with civility he
told them he regretted each an end;
And at his wife's demising, with a courtesy
surprising be responded, "Dead, I thank
you 1" to the question of a friend.
What I write Ie but a sample of the daily
bright example which he Bet to show
how life by proper manners may be
greased.
Would that we might eee another one so
mindful of hie brother : but, alae t be
isn't born, and John, slack 1 ie long de-
ceased.
"ROUGH JACK'S LITTLE LAD."
A story or the English Collieries.
BY DAVID BIB.
"Rough" enough be looked, indeed, the
great blaok-bearded, grimy fellow, with his
greasy cap pulled down over hia hard, surly,
bulldog fade. And he was rough by nature
as well as by name. Those huge bony hands
of hie, which could swing the heaviest pick.
ax for hours without tiring, and could toes
about great lumps of ooal which other men
could hardly lift, were always ready to
knock any one who displeased him; and
many a sturdy fellow in the Blackpool Col.
lieries wore soars and,brnisee enough to make
him sorry for having ever tried his strength
against the terrible Jack.
But there was one person to whom even
Rough Jaok never said a harsh word ; and
that was his little Jim, the only child he
had. Jim's mother had died soon after he
was born, snd his aunt, who kept house
for Jack, was a big, bony, sullen faced wo-
man, almost asantidy and coarse -looking as
the rough oilier hiimeolf. But no mother
could have been more tenderly careful of
the little fellow than they were. However
dirty and untidy they might be themselves,
they did their best to keep Jim's faoo clean
and hie clothes in order ; and cross•grained
Aunt Susan, who was always grumbling at
having " aitch a power o' work to do," sat
up at nighb several times, after her day'e
work was over to knit a little pair of socks
as a birthday present for him.
Jim had been the pet of the whole neigh-
borhood ever since he could remember ;
and these savage, wild.looking men, so
fierce and surly with every one else,
always had a kind word for " Rough
Jack's little lad," ae they palled him. Ev-
ery day he; used to carry his father's din-
ner to the works in a little basket, going
fearlessly among the colliers' savage bull-
dogs, whioh seemed to know him quite as
well as their masters, and would wag their
stumpy toile and pub up their flat -nosed
heads to be patted whenever be went by,
Indeed, the " little lad" seemed to have
such perfect trust in every one, and to be
ao sure that nobody would hurt or vex him,
that it was nob easy for anyone even to think
of doing so. The rough oollier lade, whose
great sport wan to pelt each other with heavy
jumps of coal whioh made a bruise wherever
they hit, shouted to one another to atop the
moment they caw the little fair-haired head
in the distance, and once, when Rough Jaok
and his mate—who had been great friends
hitherto—quarreled uboub something, and
were going to fight, little Jim stepped in
between them and, taking hold of hie father's
jacket, looked up at them both with an air
of such piteone aetoniohment, that the two
Berea men, after eyeing him blankly for a
moment, turned their beaks and slouched
off In a theme -faced kind of way ; and the
next morning they were au good friends ae
ever.
.but after a while troubles began to come
upon Blackpool Colliery. Realness grew
aleck, and wages bad to be reduced, whioh
bore very hard upon these reokleaa fellows,
who Bpenb their money as feat as they got
It, never thinking of laying anything by.
There wee plenty of grumbling and growl.
log against young Harry Forrester, the great
man of the dietrtat, whom hie father'e death
about a year before had left Bole owner of
the colliery ; and the quiet people of the
neighborhood began to tear a riot, and to
talk of Bending for soldiers from the nearest
large town.
Bub amid all their troubles the rough men
were still ars loyal as ever to their "libble
lad." Many a grumbler went without hie
dinner to buy something good for Jim ;
Rough Jaak, as he danced the little fellow
on his broad 'shoulder, wore somethii g a0
nearlyapproaohing to a smile as his iron faoe
ould aesume,
At last ib began to be whispered one day
among the colliers that a number of them
were to be discharged, No one knew how
thereport had arisen, or even whether it
was true or not ; but the mere thought of it
was quite enough for these wild fellows, ripe
as they already were for mischief.
"We mun [must) strike," muttered a big,
sullen -looking pitman.
"Ay, we mun strike—bub not as thou
meanest," growled Rough Jack, clinching
his sledge -hammer fist with terrible em-
phasis, "I'ee not let my little lad starve
for a' the' gentlefolks i' England. We man
Wstrike Forrester's eyed [hoed] so at he'll feel.
ho'll join, lade ?'
rei will."
"And I."
"And I."
"And eo'Il h"
In fact every man there was as eager as
Jaok himself ; and ib was soon agreed that
they should watch for a chance of attack.
ingyoung Forrester, and then boat him
within an inoh of hie life—"and mayhap a
bit farther, 40 the burly pitman ntubtered,
with a cruel gleam in his eyes, Two sharp
Tads were at once ohoeon to keep watch
Upon "young Squire Harry," who had
come down from London a few daye before ;
and, 00 the third morning, one of the tobute
oats running in to report that Harry had
gone to see a friend a few miles from tho
colliery. and had bent the groom home
with
hie horse, 'saying that he Would walk book
fn the evening, the road being too rough to
risk a goodhorse on after dark,
THE BRUSSELS POST,
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The looks exchanged by the colliers at this )QUAL TO THE BATON'S DEBT.
Ali was boon settled. Midway along the The Enotmou • Coag r the e Gr nd Army
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news said more then any words oould do.
road whiob Forrester must take a a y pabehof
baro, lonely moorland, well known to Rough
Jack ea hie little boy's favorite playground,
Hero they would hide in a deep hollow over.
grown with bushes, and pounce upon their
victim as he passed,
Night drew on, One by one (for they
knew that it would nob do for many of them
to be Been together), Jack and hie gang Dame
stealing up to the Patel epot, and, orouohing
down amid the bueheo, waited for their prey.
But ao time wont on, and it grew darker and
darker, and still there was no sign of him,
they began to get uneasy. Could he have
changed hie mind and stayed all night ? or
solid their plot have been discovered ? No—
there at lase was a firm step approaching,
and the rising moon showed them the tall,
active figure and handsome face which they
all knew and hated.
The savage men clutched their heavy
cudgels, and drew themselves together like
tigers crouching for a spring, But just then
there Woe a rattle of wheels and hoofs in the
opposite direotion, and a light dogcart same
rushing along the highway like a whirlwind,
evidently driven by some wild young fellow,
who thought it fine fun to risk breaking his
neck. As the same moment there appeared
slowly crossing the road, right in the path
of the maddened beast and the reckless dri-
ver, the figure of Rough Jack's little lad 1
With a cry that made the air ring, the
colliers buret from their hiding -place, forget-
ting everything bub the peril of their peb.
As they ran they saw the ohild stumble and
fall, trying to escape, and Harry spring for-
ward to patch him up ;,bub then horse and
dog -part Dame dashing down upon them both,
and everything vanished in a whirl of duet.
Bub as the dub cleared away, Harry For-
rester wag seen rising slowly to hie feet.
There was a thin streak of blood stealing
down hie smooth, white forehead, and his
left hand wee sorely bruised and ont; but
hie right arm was still firmly around the
child, who was looking up in hie face with
round, wondering blue eyes, es if hardly
knowing whether to be frightened or not.
Jack sprang to his child like a tiger whose
cub has been wounded, and, finding him
quite unhurt, took the tiny face between hie
huge, bleak bands and Island it passionately
again and again
" God bless thee, my little lad," ;said he,
in a broken voioe ; " God bleao thee 1"
Then hie mood seemed to change, and
flinging his cap on the ground at Forrester's
feet, he folded kis arms on his brawny chest
and looked the young man full in the fare,
"Look'ee here, Member." said he firmly
"we Doom out this neet [night] to beat and
hammer thee—mayhap to kill thee out-
right ; and thou'eb nigh killed thysel' to
save yon little lad, as I'd gi' my heart's blood
for onny day. New, here I stand ; knock
me down if thou wilt, or gi' me over to the
police, or what ye loike. l's ne'er lift band
to atop thee, for I ha' done a oraddantly
[cowardly) thing.."
"And so say we a', ivory mon of us," cried
the older men, gathering round their leader,
It was a strange scene upon whioh the full
moon fell in all its brightness : the wild
waste of dark moorland in the baok ground;
the slender, handsome, gayly dressed young
man, with little Jim's tiny face nestling
against his shoulder ; the sooty skins and
savage faces of the grim giants around him,
and in front the mighty figure of Rough
Jaok, silently awaiting hie 'sentence.
But the sentence Dame in a form which
Jack little expeoted. With one hand For.
rester put the little boy into hie father's
arms, while with the other he gave the col
liar's great black hand a cordial grasp.
"If you've been wrong, my man, I dare
say I've been wrong, too," said he heartily;
"but, luckily, lb's nob too late yet to set
things straight. We must just try and
understand each other a little better after
thio ; and, please God, we'll do it, with the
help of this little peacemaker here."
He spoke truly, for from that day there
were nob three better friends in all England
than Harry Forrester, "Rough Jack," and
"Rough Jack's little lad."
"The money used in a single year to foot
the salary and expense hill of the traveling
salesman of the United States would pay off
the entire national debt and leave a few -dol.
lore over."
This rather etertling statement way made
by a junior member of one the large dry
geode houses of this city, eaye the Philadel-
phia "Record," who has a foroo of about
fifty travolere under his immediate charge,
As proof of hie assertion he presented these
particulars: "There is hardly a wholesale,
jobbing, or commission hoose in any line of
buaineas in the United States drab does not
have at least a single traveling representa-
tive, and from one lone man the traveling
form ranges up as high ae 125 or 150 men,
and there may be one or two houses with
even more. The average of the most reliable
estimates plane the total number of com-
mercial tourists in this country et 250,000,
and, mind yon, this does not meen peddlers,
but only those who sell goods at wholesale.
" The railroad fares, chargee for parrying
sample bagge by frelghb or express, hotel
bills, and numerous incidental traveling ex-
penses of these men will range between $4
and $12 per day, but some men will spend
$25 in a single day for these purposes with-
out resorting to any extravagance. Take,
for instance, some of the carpet, clothing, or
fanoygoods men who oarry ten to fifteen
trunks full of samples, take a packer with
them, and hire a hotel parlor to display their
geode whenever they open their trunks.
But the number of these men is comparativ-
ely email and $6 a day will fairly represent
the average expeneee of 250,000 men. There
you have $1,500,000 per day for expenses
alone. Multiply this by 365 and you have
$547,500,000 as the amount expended in
one year.
' The item of salaries is nearly as large.
Few men are paid less than $900 a year.
The largest number receive between $1,500
and $2,500, either in salaries or commis-
sions. A lesser number are paid from $3,-
000 to $5,000—those receiving the labter
amount being comparatively few. But
there are travelling salesmen who are always
in demand ab $10,000 to $15,000 a year;
bub they are few and far between. The
lower salaried men predominate, as might
be supposed, and an average of $1,800 per
year is nob far out of the way. Figuring
250,000 men at an average salary of 91,800
per year gives a total of $450,600,000, ao.
cording bo my arithmetio. To this add
$997,500,000 for for these two tems.es nd you have
THE BRIDEGROOM DROFPED DEAD.
And Atter his Burial the Afflicted Bride
Married a Rival Suitor.
A large crowd of people aesembled at
Mount Hope Church, Lamar county, Ala.,
on Sunday morning, to witness the marriage
of Julius Shearer and Minnie Moran, two
prominenb young people of the neigh-
borhood. Just as the preacher began the
ceremony Shearer sank to the floor and died
in a few moments. He had heart disease,
and the excitement of the ooeaaion brought
on a fatal attack. Among those present in
the churoh was William Langley, a rejected
suitor of Miers Moran. At the first oppor-
tunity Langley approached the young lady
and told her that Providencehad interposed
to prevent her marriage to Shearer. He
insisted that ate ought to marry him, as
the Lord was clearly on hie aide. Mies
Moran finally consented to marry Langley
as soon as Shearer was buried. Shearer's
funeral took place yesterday morning, and
Langley and Mies Moran were married with.
out Providential interference.
Treasure Seekers.
A joint stook company is now being float-
ed in Great Britain which has for its objeob
nothing lees than the recovery of the treasure
sunk In the Bay of Aboukir during the battle
of the File. The French fleet, the absolute
deatrnation of which by Nelson changed the
fate of the East, had a ehorb time before been
engaged in the capture of Malta, and on
board the flagship, the famous " L'Orient,''
was the plunder of the Csthodral church of
Valetta of the treasure given to it by the
knights of Malta during their centuries of
warfare with the Turks, The "L'Orient,"
as every schoolboy knows, caught fire during
the action, blew up and sank' and her hull
still lies in Aboukir Bay, within eight in
certain stages of the water. Among the other
French slips Bunk during the battle of the
bile was the transport Maza Meads," whish,
it is said, wee the treasure ship of the Egyp-
tian expedioion, and had on board at the
time the pay cheats of Bonaparte's army.
There two vessels lie in six end seven and a
half fathoms of water respectively, and this
English company be being formed to dredge
up the million pounds, worth of treasure
they are enpposed to contain, by means of
modern maohinery applianoes. If this come
pany succeeds in getting even a tithe of the
treasure believed to be lying amid the scuds
of Aboukir Bay, a regular boom in treasure
fishing aompaniee may be looked for. There
are the Spanish
plate ships that Drake sank in Vigo bay,
the Frenoh Wipe that Rank after Trafalgar
before bhey oould be rifled, and which are
said to hold much treasure, and many other
treasure'ships, sunk by strews of weather or
in war, whioh will give ocoaalon for the
floating of joint stook companies, out of
whioh operation treasure for the promoters
is certain as the othor ie uncertain. Chim-
erical as the Aboukir Bay projeob Regime,
muoh treasure bas been reoovered from the
sea ; on the floor of the London bloyda'
there 10 the bell of a frigate which sank off
the Dutch coast from which thousands of
pounds in epode was recovered for the bene.
fit of her underwritore after ib had been
under water for many years.
Proclaiming His Disgrace,
The Siamese have a authors method of
puniehing their polioe•consbables when found
guilty of ten offence. Not very long ago oaf
of thee gnardiene of the peace was aeon
ebanding near the door of the police ababion
with hie hands tied b ehind hie bank, and
wearing on hie breaeb a board with the fol-
lowing notice : "My name to Cuddy, end I
have been plaood here by the order of Cor-
poral Sin, Last night I stole a sword bo.
longing to His Majesty, the King, and wan
taken in bho not by a guard et the momenb
When I wail oarrying off the artiolo under
my arm, To -day I repent bhab base aotion,
The inepeotor le very angry with me, and
ewe I deserve a puniohmenb, my orange
being a eerloue one, as I belong to the police
I enbreab the paesero•by to look me ;in the
fano, and tell mo sincerely if I ought to be
whipped. In my opinion my orimo is not a
very serious one, beoauoo everybody ,horn
dose the mime,"
Sonnets.
I learned a gong from Nature when a child,
A gladsome sang, betide the gladsome sea;
And in a happy wonder, wistfully,
1 looked with beating heart, all undefiled,
To the deep sky, whore great oloud memos
piled,
Cast tremulous sof b shadows over mo ;
While in voice joy -hushed, and dream -
fully,
I aang my song in notes half sweet, half
wild,
And Iow 1 a breathing ooho, faint and far,
Came o'er the shimmering waters at my feeb,
1n quieb music falling where I stood ;
And ao I gazed across the ocean bar,
And heard the sea again the song repeat,
I cried, "The earth le fair and God is
good 1"
Again long attorward, I Bought the sea,
And listened for bhe music I had known.
The glory of the early days had flown,
And darkness lay upon the world and me,
Where light and love and joy were wonb to
be;
The hymn of praise was changed into a
moan
Of pain ; and I, heart weary and alone,
Stood dumb in hopeless, wordless misery.
Then, as I lingered, musing, on the shore,
And mourning for the jays of other years,
An undertone of peace, beneath the roar
Of stormy billows, stole upon my Bare
" The truth abides, though hardly under-
stood—
Though days be dark, hearts troubled, God
is good."
— [MARY S. DANIRLO, 13, A,
Ode to Hope.
Blithesome thy song ie when heavy life
weariness
Cometh to him whom the world uoes scorn-
fully ;
Thine is the voice that shell charm him from
dreariness,
Hush the sad mem'riea oomplaining so
mournfully.
Eagerly liot'ning he deems the sincerity,
Woes seem illusions, a dream is a verity,
Till Time has shown him thy truth is a
rarity.
False as a siren, thou, still are we blessing
thee ;
Truth is too cruel, 'tie better deceiving
us ;
Still of the future our query is pressing thee,
Show us she snare that bhy deft hands are
weaving us.
We have credulity springing from sorrow,
Poor bankrupt hearts ever seeking to bor.
row,
And what a neer failing faith in tomorrow.
Thine not the mission to tell us truth tear
fully ;
Thy task re ever to smile on humanity :
E'en at the grave thou are whispering cheer-
fully :
"Heaven ie forever, and life a mere van•
Happy mortality questions not warily,
When thou for 'solace thus cried out
"Verily
Fortune has gifts for thee, all will go mer-
rily."
Saddest arb thou of the three sisters beauti-
fal—
Faith, Hope and Charity—thou arb diur-
nally,
Nursing the miserable, yes ever dutiful,
Murmuring never, though toiling eter-
nally.
False; did I call thee? No 1 sorrow mad;
dowering
Man with brief gayety, lavishly shower.
ing
Blossoms whiob die, alas 1 while they are
flowering.
Wir.LiAat BRONSON Ls Duo,
A Railway Case.
MONTREAL, July 24.—Senator Lacoste,
who has returned from England received a
cablegram stating that he won his suit in
the great railway case of u:hos. McGreevy
v. JohnMaDongall. The case was in centime
tion with bbeNorth Shore railway, and some
$200,000 was involved. The courts here
awarded Mr. MoDougall $80,000, but Mr.
McGreevy offered $51,000, and an appeal
was taken to the Privy Council, which bas
now dismissed Mr. MoGreevy s appeal and
confirmed the judgment of the Oanadian
oourb,
A Novel Undertaking,
The Vienna correspondent of the London
" Times " says :—A novel institution, whioh
hos not been tried Many country in Europe,
is going to be introduced into Austria for
the benefit of the travelling public of this
country. Ta -morrow railway lending libra-
ries will be opened at about forty ebations
of the Western State railway. The books
are in six languages—English, French, Ger-
man, Italian, Hungarian, and Bohemian,
and will be lent ab the rate of 2d, or 4d, per
week, the volumes to be returned at ,.ny
station where there is a bookstall. Within
the next two months from 150 to 200 ouch
libraries are to be opened on the various
linee in Austria. The undertaking has been
launched by an English company ogled the
"globus,"
He Refreshed his Memory.
Absent-minded Youth—Dear me, I was
going to say something to you, Mina Jones,
bub it has escaped my memory.
Miss Jones—Can't you refresh your mem-
ory ?
Lob me see. I had ib on the end of my
tongue. Oh, yea, now I remember 1 Mies
Jones, I love you with all my heart. That's
it I knew I'd recall ib. What do you Bay?
—[Texas Siftings.
Mysteries of Navigation,
Sweet Girl(in a row boat)—"What is bhie
place in the book of the boat for 1"
Nice Young Man— "Thab is to put an oar
fn when you want to scull the boat. Row -
mg require& both oars, one on each nide ;
bet in sculling one oar only is used. That
is planed ab the back and worked with one
hand."
Sweet Girl (after medibati'on)—"I wish
yon would try sculling a while,
She Had Been Rude,
Smith—I think Mists De Blank is very
rude.
Jones—'What causes you to think that f I
never thought her go.
Smith—I met her down town thio after.
noon and asked if I might nee her home, "How did you like the sermon to.da ?
She said yes; I could see ib from the top of "Well it wag such a nod dieoourae that I
the high school building, and that it wasn't
neeee8ary to go any further. aleph through the whose of ib."
The firetUnitarian missionary has appear-
ed in Japan, and has begun a theological
oontroversy in the preen,
AUGUST 2, 1889,
MISOELL&NEQUS.
Gloves o chamois skin are need for shop.
Ing,
A knotty proiilom.—tile hlghaab possible
speed for ocean a asele,
Virginia has a dog with two toile, Here's
is chance for a new gatemen,
Would it be inappropriate to wish a "king
of horsemen" a long rein?
The orying need of thie country i0 a bank
gate that nobody can hong a joke on.
Ribbon four Inched wide is eel, in tbo side
seams of bodices, and drawn forward to a
knob at the waist lino.
Mrs. Mackey, or many millions, io said to
be fond of gray walking dreaeee. Bub for
all that gray Is very trying to dark pale
skins.
The white wool veiling gowns, with brooh
borders or stripes in white silk, are almoe
as effective ee white silk ones broohe with
silver,
A Mussutman woman has jueb died in
Meean Meor, India, credited with 150 years
of age. She was blind, deaf, and dumb,
and almoeb inanimate. She died in the
house of a grandson, who ie over 80.
" Well, Johnny, I than forgive you this
time, and it's very pretty of you to write a
letter to say you're sorry." " Yee, ma ; don't
tear it up, please." " Why, Johnny ?"
" Because it will do for the next time."
Col, T. W. Higginson has been appointed
by Gov. Ames, of Massaohusetbe, to write
the hlatory of the Bay State soldier's and
Bailors in the civil war, as ordered by the
Legislature. The historian will bo allowed
five years in whiob to complete hie work,
The old sanctuary of Methodism, known
as the Tabernaolo, on Tottenham Court road,
of which George on
laid the founds•
tion stone in 1756, haa been pronounced un-
safe, and services have been ouepended.
It will probably have to be taken down en-
tirely.
" Please, ma'am, will you give me an old
suit of your husband's clothes? I am one of
the Johnstown flood sufferers.' "Poor
man 1 Of course I will. Come right in. So
you were in thab dreadful flood, were you?'
No, ma'am, but my wife sent all my clothes
to the people who wore."
Religious jealousy in India between
Hindooe and Mohommedans is said to be fit
to involve the entire country in war the
moment the British authority should be
withdrawn. Lately a Museulman procession
to celebrate a convert was attacked with
great fury, and some fatalities were the
result.
Amalie Rtves•Chanler reoently wrote to a
friend in this country that ehe had decided
to abandon literature for art. Amalie de.
Glared that the prizes of literature were not
worth striving for. A book, she said, was
certain to create discussion among a large
number of people unfitted by education to
oomprehend the fine points of an author's
work. A picture, on the other hand, at-
tracted attention only from three oompebenb
to pass upon its merits, Upon these grounds
Mrs. Chanter has determined to depend up.
on her palette for her future triumphs.
The Pennsylvania Stabs Weather Bureau
bee ascertained from data collected by it
that the rainstorm which was the immediate
cause of the Johnstown diameter was a phe-
nomenal one. Over about one•third of the
State, and that the moab mountainous part,
between four and seven inches of water was
deposited by the one storm, and in two large
areae the precipitation was over eight inch.
es. Such a rainfall is said to be almost;
without parallel for a region so far north
and so far inland, especially late in the
spring.
"When the collection was taken up,
President Harrison dropped a quarter upon
the plata, whioh wars carefully watchod, and
the coin piokod out by Dr. Stewart, who
collected the offering, as a keepsake." This
occurred in Philadelphia recently, and the
Indianapolis "Journal" speaks of the incident
as a display of the "extreme of snobbery,"
It may be much worse than this, however,
for there is no mention of the doobor having
replaced the ooin with an ordinary every-
day quarter from his own pocket, Thio is a
matter thab should be oleared up.
Some time ago a Detroit girl was shot ane
nearly killed by her lover because, having
discovered that ho was already married, she
refused to have anything more to do wibh
him. Lash week the villain was aoquitted
by a jury of twelve of his tellow•oitizens on
the ground of emotional insanity, bhe twelve
holding that he was insane at bhe moment
of oommitting the act. The inoident leads
the Detroit "Tribune" to remark that such
an "outrageous and idiotic verdict on the
part of twelve prize j eakasses " given popu-
lar faith in the boasted jury system of the
United States a tremendous wrench.
In a paper read before the American Medi•
oal Aseooiabion recently Col. Geo. E. War-
ing, the well-known sanitary engineer, stat-
ed that proper attention to sanitary condi.
tions would reduce the death -rate of the
United States from eighteen to twelve per
thousand of bbe population, According to
hie estimate at lout 365,000 lives aro annu-
ally sacrificed aarose the border through
neglect of proper sanitary proaautione—that
is to say, one thousand lives every day. The
deabh•rate of the civilized portion of the
world has undoubtedly been greatly reduced
already as the result of the attention whioh
for some time paso has been paid bo ¢ani.
tory ooienoe, but Col. Waring's ebetemente
seem bo indicate that there is still vaso room
for improveinenb.
Care of Children.
Children should be bathed freely, and
should be allowed plenty of fresh air and ex.
eroisc. Tha sleeping apartments should al-
ways be well ventilated. Plenty of good
food should be given, the children should
not be allowed to eat confectionery, cakes,
pies, or any similar artioleo. Unripe fruit
should be forbidden. Exposure to sudden
changes of heat and cold, to web and damp-
ness, or to the direct rays of the summer's
sun, should be avoided as far ars possible.
Avoid any crowding of bhe roam occupied by
the baby, especially at night. Do nob keep
A young child in the game room in which
cooking or welshing is going on. Keep the
windows of the room open day and night in
hob weather. The olothing of a young child
'should be loose and light during the summer
months. Have the night drone thoroughly
aired during the day, and the day clothes
aired during the night. Do not keep the
child's head heated by any covering, except
when exposed to bhe heat of the sun.
Children suffering from diarrhea should
be taken directly to a oompetenb medical
man, Purgative medicines•ohould be avoid.
ed. Avoid also bheao.oalledeoothingeyrupe,
cordials, etc.; they all oontain opium in some
form, and often ohildren are "soothed" to
death. A house in which children are often
ailing with Bore throat or diarrhoea is prob-
ably wrong in its drainage. In suoh
instances be sure to ascertain the soundness
of the sanitary arrangements. Every person,
whether young or old, attacked with loose-
ness of the bowels should at once give pro-
per attention to the trouble and nob Allow ib
to run on.
In very warm weather all persons
should live temperately and regularly on
thee¢ arbiolee of food whioh they are used to
and whioh agree with them. Froth fish,
fruit and vegetables may be baken with im
puniby, provided they are sound and free
from taint. All food that is tainted and
male disagreeably'should be avoided. Great
ogre should be taken not to give stale, sour
or tainted food to ohildren. Sour or tainted
milk is one great source of diarrhoea in ohild-
ren, and should on no account be given to
them, Intemperance and drunkonnoee invite
atbaoks of cetera morbus, diarrheas, and
dysentery. Temperance in eating and drink•
ing ie a great eafeguard against disease of
the bowels. Ib is of the utmost consequence
to avoid all foul smells, ars of privies, sinks,
dente, drains, garbage and the like. See
that your privy pito are well cleansed and
disinfected with ocpperas (sulphabc of iron),
by drab dissolving ono and a half pounds of
the material in a gallon of wester, and then
flushing your soil pipes with ib, or by empty
ins the solution into the privy pit, oprinki.
ing well the sides of the pit.—(Dr. 0, W.
Choncellor.
.Even Ohioago Speaks Out.
It would be dif61ulb to conceive of shy -
thing more revoltingly brutal than the mod-
ern prize•fighb, 10 000 no redeeming qual.
ity, no eXOnae for iia existence. It 10 a die-
grabe to our eivllization, and ono whioh can
survive Only in the more barbari6 parts of
the eoonbry.--[Ohioago Inter-Oonan,j) f,pr ff,
Perhaps the greeted single induetry of
any ofcy in the world is the carpet manufao.
tube carried on in Philadelphia. The ¢stab,
lishmente engaged in this industry employ
7,350 loom0 and 17,800 workmen, Lasb
your they manufaabured 71,500,000 yards of
6arpeb, the value of whioh was 00 d90,000.
The Art of Jelly Making.
There are jollies and jollies. Ordinarily
It is sale bo pane by the moping sweetmoab
whose taste ie lost in auger, or is a sharp acid,
with a dotided Awn: of the pan in which ib
wise made, You oan ;mete the tin or metal
in moot of the jollies and fruit preserves
shown, A few times in life, however yon
comp upon ouch a glans of jolly 40 I found in
a Pilgrim household, at old Plymouth—wild
giltpe cry cryostat, which b perfreeumed the houseot af old
when
opened with its wild, fine odor, Jelly.mak-
in$ is an orb, the height of the housekeeper's i
skill, for ib domande keen taste, Meaty and
prompbneee to leisure perfection miler than
the twenty minutiae' boiling and the pound
for pound of sugar which most women }/
imagine all there is of jellymaking.
To have bho soul of the fruit in ids flavor,
it mush be picked in its firsb firm ripenees,
juetwhen the dew is dry on a sunny forenoon,
uboub ten minutes from the boiling pan. The
stoneware preserving pans aro best for all
fruib user, and a kerosene stove, with an iron
etovo-lid under the pan, works quiokly,wibh-
out overheating jelly or jellymakor. Only
a'quarb of juice should be preened ab a time,
and made up as quickly ao possible. Stand.
ing, it loses flavor and develops sharp fen,
meat, whiob gives the edge to so much of
the jelly offered. Everything meets be sdru-
pulouely Olean, and a bowl of clean water
ready for riming spoons and pupa,
The finest jellies are made without heat.
A sunny day before a storm, when the tea-
kottel boils away fast, is the boob day for
boiling jelly ars the Jules evaporates faster,
but jelly by the cold proems needs fair,
settled weather. A damp, muggy day Is
enough to spoil any preserves made on 10.
Use the beet aonfeotionors' sugar for jelly,
or roll and aifb the granulated until it is fine
and will dissolve quickly. Have the sugar
measured and gleams ready before pressing
tho juice. Prone and strain through flannel,
without equeersng or stirring, but moving
the juice to f reek parte of the straining olotb,
ao it becomes clogged. On careful straining
depends the crystal clearness of the jelly
whioh be read of, alas I oftener than seen.
Repeated etralningleesane the flavor. What
remains on the oloth should be scraped off
for marmalade, but jelly requires the first
ran of the fruit. Use three-lourbhs of a oup
of sugar to a cup of 'strained juice, stirring
spoonful by spoonful into the bowl, and con -
tinning to stir till the sugar is entirely dike
solved—ten to fifteen minutes, Then pour
into glaeaes end set in the full sunshine. A
table on an open porch, or a broad shelf
outside the window, la she beet plaoe, cover.
ing each tumbler with one of the small
equarea of glasses thab Dome in honey boxes.
In time moisture gathers on the underside
of the glass, and it mum be turned and
wiped dry, the nging the position of the jelly
to keep it always In the sun. Sometimes 111
must be exposed for a week before it comes
firm. Eub usually two or three hours is
enougb, and the juice jellies on bhe edge of
the bowl before pouring out. The flavor
of fruit is kept in full freshneeo by this
method, and the jelly ie not so likely to mold
se when boiled. When thoroughly firm,
lay disks of white paper out bo fit the ghee,
dipped in salad oil and drained, on the top
of the jelly, and cover with tin covers or
paper brushed on both sides with white of
egg or the thick water of boiled rice. Keep
all preserves in a dry, cold, dark place,
away from other provisions.
For boiled jellies, sob the boiling rapidly,
and sift in the heated sugar, spoonful by
spoonful, nob to check the boiling, using
equal care neither to ecoroh nor cool the
fruit. The beet manafacturere say the se-
cret of high flavor is to keep fruit boiling as
rapidly as poosiblo till the juice is evaporat-
ed enough to jelly, whioh should be ten
minutes, but in domestic methods is twenty.
The only way to tell when it is done is to
drop a little on a cold saucer, to see if it
thickens, Then take ib off, cool in a draft,
and pour into dry, glean gleams, which goal
as before. Powdered sugar on the top pro-
tects from mold as well as the oil paper, and
paraffins paper, oloealy fitted, may bo used
in plare of the latter. More care ehonld be
given to 0ooure variety of flavor and fruits
for jelly.
Apple jelly is fine if made from /sigh.
flavored, acid, white -fleshed varieties, like
the Orange Pippin, or Bellflower, boiling
the skins and mode, tied In cheesecloth, with
the juioo, which heightens the flavor. For
the finest jelly, press two quarte of cider
and put it to simmer : pare five pounds of
apples, slice and boil in the eider over a
brick fire till the fruit is melted down ; strain
and boil again with ten ounces of sugar to
the pound of juice. This may be flavored
with lemon being required for bhe above
amount of apples—or with quince.
The quince itself is at the head of fruits
for preserving, and should be boiled wits all
the seeds and Olean parings to get its high
flavor. The Japanese quince is esteemed as
a jelly fruit in Southern Status, where it
fruits freely.
Wild grape jelly is the; fineeb known if
properly made, by cooking the whole grapes
in a stone pot in the oven before straining.
White ourranb jelly is delicious. Cherry
jelly is piquant In the highest degree, bub
should be cooked without stirring the fruits.
Barberry jolly ie valuable for oonsumpptivee
as well as a high relish for game, Boil four
pounds of picked barberrfeo in three quarte
of water until soft; strain and boil with ten
ounces of sugar to the pound of juice, Pine-
apple jelly is one of the whitest and oloaresb
kinds, admired for a luncheon treat with ice
oroam, Green gages make a subaoid jelly,
very pleasing to nerve with oaks ab an old-
fashioned tea,
T
The craze for carrying a revolver rule
the population of our Pacific province. The
Nanaimo "Courier" says : "Over a large neo'
tion to the Pacific meet ib is not neoeasary
to ask a man -nor very often a woman—
whether he earflap or poeaee800 a revolver,
but what particular type of this weapon hap-
pens to he his private fancy." Whore le a
gall for Boma regulation of this 000aslonally
dangerous pastime, just as the gale of poison
Is controlled by law. Aa long as such acoi-
dents occur in Ontario as were recently re-
corded through the free use of the pistol in
the hands of youngsters who oughb to have
been in the nursery, we oannof give any ad.
vice to our wooborn brethren.—[Toronto
Empire.
"How does ib fool to lob go of the balloon
whenou aro 2,000 ors 3,000 feob in the air ?''
said Thomas F. Grimley, the parachute
jumper. "I'm sure I cannot bell One
comae down so rapidly he has hardly time to
analyse his feelings. Maoolain, my partner,
compares the sensation to that of being upset
in bhe river. We out loose from the balloon
almost meohenioally, and before wo realise
We are 10000 wo have shot down a oouple of
hundred feet, and thereafter bho remainder
of the deaoentle early. It does nob jar you
until you strike bhe ground, if you strike on
your feet, In fact, there is loss jarring to
the oy0tem than If you jumped off a six•
foot high fence. Neither le there any ap_-
wr0oiable difference in the air to the height
hich we attain. 10 le a great doalpurr,
though, but nob as reflood as yon would stip.
pose,'
The Egg and the Embryo.
We promised a further extract from Dr.
Stronger work; and begin thin week kis In•
teresbing article on the development of
r'THE EMBRYO"
"When subjected to a steady temperature
of 102 ° fahrenheib, the process of Bevel'
opmenb begins: First the germinal veeiole
rises to the surface of the yoke, and the
labbergradually undargue certainalterations.
Demme are developed by the reproduction of
cells, the latter being of various kinds, oath
serving the purpose of forming the several
parts of an animal organism. Carefully break•
ing a fertile egg whioh has experienced the
necessary hoab for the space of 30 hours, is
tiny red•aoloredtube Otsubo Matt ontho surfaoe
of the yolk, in whioh regular pulsations are
taking plane. This is the heart, whioh at the
and of six clays would have assumed its
proper and permanent form. The yolk
undergoes a process of segmentation, and at
bho and of the fourth day itoe been divided
into halves, forming distinob spheres by
the veins which ab that time oover abort
one-half of its ourfaoe. With an egg taster,
used after dark in a room without other
light, the heart and veins radiating there,
from, can be dietinotly aeon. Thus the
extremities, or more delieato portions of the
veins are always oroeping downwards, and
the same temperature underneath the og:(5
as above it will destroy bhom or ohook bkefr
development. Oooasionally bhe germ diol In
a few Bayo after it commenooe'to develop,
and when this has occurred the heart will hi*found clinging to the lining of the shell d refusing to 0,0811M00,0811M0 the proper position when
the egg le turned,,'
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