The Brussels Post, 1890-1-24, Page 66
YOUNG FOLIO.
THE DEATH OF THE DOLL,
Wrenn the french.
One of Nlui's greateob pleasures woe to gee
ail little frionde come with their dolls -,-
dello of wood, of oard•board, of rage ; but
she thought: them all charming, and talked
to them in the mosb delightful manner and
aa If they could understand her, and replied
- I, to ner.
'a`wentythreeyeareego lwasatthe village The lath of August was the doll'o
gof birthday, and all the little girls came with
Ufa.
Boeage, in Central Franco,
hi uns of the little cottages of that village, their della and � brought the aroalNini
Nivi.
a —skis story is not an Invention, it actually
in eecurred ea I relate it —e little girl of per, no bed waa covered with Row'era, and
1 haps 7 years of age wee dytug. the doll was go h..ppy that she said again
She waa it seems the child cf 0Parisian, and again, Mamma f'
but a. Parisian who was born and grew t0 anMae I the core of �ee of alt thehealthful Gerard,
air e oove
f young womanhood at Loeage, had
One morning in Maya earner stepped ue• co atof the little able ilyb to prolong
olongUt e
fore the doer of blether Gerard, who w) y
took care of a vineyard, but in her younger , were ey begant able tt cure
eonatetha weeks, titan the
r.
days had been a nurse fur little children.
Ayoung weman alightedfrom the carriage, dayaSthho to very ielm dllbe with the Nini," she
followed by a maid ands little girl, delicatesaid eareeair the doth" She acerin
and feeble, but very pretty, nevertheless, I , reusing added oke touching ala
"Mother Gerard, as e
suddenly, sa'z.
both arms looked at to with
yearning, shining eyes, and tried to press
The noun ,
feeble and fell back on her
pillow, but still0 cep og her doll.
as it mayseem the spring
In the doll was broken ; the doll, too, Fac
nextsthe wo ,
the two little dead bodies were left with un-
covered e with
flowers of autumn, white an yellow,
mingled with branches ofreleaves,
cheat.
a4.
to which hunger bad accidentally driven mo bohoet, and one a er
What a merry day it woo far them all !
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TEE BRUSSELS POST.
num NOTES. MILK BY PIPE LINE, The Little Fireman,
_ What do you think o' my youngetor, • bo'e a
• Metaled opinion Seem to be That There U likely lad, air, eh
'Siilten of Turkey its' lavish with hie !0ldie • in 11 You wouldn't think he waa a hero in the
gifts, but ho bae a peouliar method of econo•Civilization r P 1 amateur fireman way,
mining in tho ease of some of them. When
the late " Suageb' Ccx was United States
Minister at Constantinople be received seve-
ral valuable and toaatilul deooratioue from
the Sultan, among then the Order of Mejl-
die. Mrs, Con bee now been notfietl that
all theeojewele must bo sent beak to- Turkey,
in aogerdan°o wide the custom of that ocean -
try, The Sultan evidently proposes to nee
them over again,
A levee in the neighbourhood of Los
Angeles, Cal, wan on Chriatmas day the
eoene of a prodigiens flow of wine, and it may
be said of wino and water, The teetotallers,
howoetr, are rather pleased ahcut it than
otherwise, though it is said $100,000 worth
of the fermented juice of the erepe was dis-
tributed on the occasion. It meet be cx•
plafned that the levee was not a reoeption,
bub a river embankment whioh ()eyed to and
d out of exist•
enoe. The winery preprietera think that
levees of this n sou not
but hold lap.
taken ossusion
of the vicar ofnnata , ng a
ra es
Diokeneon an
have resigned their poet tone a
aria an missionaries in
Canada. The sacrifice these gentlemen are
e butwould
mistaken idea t_oneb.
ing the ra sous condition;
in ora of the large Canadian towns." Imagine
"n bidding
friends, and starting out rally equipped to
work in Toronto, where there are thirty
Anglican °hutches a rel y,
uns t roes, We lave
oleotrtcity, steam, gas, water and petro.
leum already anpplIed through pipes. The
latest pipe eahamo, started in ,Middletown,
Orange Comity, proposes to send milk to
New York through a pipe line etinilarto the
oil pipe live of the Stitched and other nom'
But be is. I oan toll you a ebory thab'll
make you look and otare
How he
from he toptdawn a of that building there. sir,
It's a hoepltal, that's what it in, air and
neerlg Slnaota chum o my fortnight
Willi ', wont in air, on
arena, The ptojoetor's talk of raisin ° a000unb of hie health bola' tow,
And my Will he gob anxious and worried,
for bo missed hie young playfellow bad,
And he went aboub gloomy and grumpy, and
always looked lonely and cad,
He wee constantly watching Mob window
(the top ono up there to the right,)
And I'm oerbaiu if I would a let him, he'd
a•looked at it all through the night;
For hie playfellow's bed lay nese it, and my
Willie knew that quite well,
And to look ab that window was pleasure,
far mora than we eau tell.
capital of $000,000, and of collecting all the
milk within a hundred miles of New York,
em as to keep up apperpetual stream of fresh
milk delivered in the city, avoiding the de.
lays of railroad transportation and cheapen•
in the cost.
Looking abort among the milk autltori•
ties of the city for information as to the
fraeticability of Vito scheme,' a Sun reporter
ound nothing hub iucrcdulity. Ono objeo'
tion urged Was that it world he absolutely
imposeible to send milk tumbling tltt tigli
" id the young wcman to greatly , pipes for such a distance without churning rt
the peeeanb, "I have broughb my little girl doll d
allowed a winery to be dilate pretty thoroughly, so that if it could
to you ; she needs the country air and goat's One cunning she eat up dd ]y, ed kid h Id only bo hold come through the pipes at all it
milk. Will you keep her a few months 1' her doll in , would appear upon delivery in the shape
The husband of Mother Gerard made an of lumps of butter and buttermilk. Thi
Impatient movement, but Wore he could the spring. Th d came feebly, and
The missionary epirib has p projectors talk of Binding the milk in i
speak the young woman said I will pay
weakly
The child urepao�ted Mamma 1' with a T IJ E i lad Itev. A. half -frozen ooudition. This is pronounced
you a thousand frsaoe:' + voice still more ,
Pitman, and his two. cu t ,Rave M C absurd for various reasons. ne is the
"A thousand franca, said the man, 1 i d 11 d A. J hal [ht. All three mechanism neoessary to cool milk in such a
"she la very sick, and the doctor will have } t' 0 Tuaotall way ; another is the impossibility of send.
to be aid," She was dead, with a view of laboring ing milk through Oho pipes in such a con.
"Weerp And singular , dition; and another objection is that such a
bruiquely, o"noill tak"cardMotherGehard
i "I will eke care of yoor child, dead 1 making is commendable , it ap cooling,
ng, titer of tven if he mlkble, would ohanga
Nint; I will Dare for her as tenderly as I did Daring all the d y t Nlei'e pear that they have a the til tact fatal rte a alcor urged b exparta
for you, my nursling'" h li ' of the Dominion j' g y
of it." n n d d the last for it is abated that they propose to work to such a schema is the impossibility of keep.
"I am sura erucic$ faces, e t ing such a pipe clean. Any one et ho has in,
"Kiss akl little one," in her
at the good d ]low g selected a deer knows how essential it b
w The little
gigrl
the child in her time, h d mtesmaareoo leavioe all, b'ddi farewell to that all the milk cans and pane shall be
Qhs little girl did not wait to be urged, thoroughly cleansed with scalding hot watt
but kissed her in advance
1 d every clay. Even partial cleansing will not
"Yon ware the t odvance P" acrd the mon, answer. All traces of the stale milk must
"Here are the thousand franca; give mo Whenthay $races$ Ibe
• receipt. time they f and ihab they would have to C°oE see°thsa�eaforonrod = of a 300 -mile pipe would be Such 0. impossible.
cleansing
The carriageythe mother oten gbrongbt from the nae inch torso to take t would require a river of scalding water, re•
edin the Crud's clothing daintily arrang• Id b pexmit t d tl Congo Fre° plenished along the line,
ed b maidmall brought
16 Sha kIsacd tbo child onto mora and, State He waereoonbly san6 to the Uattad Another fatal objection urged is the im
Tce a eaought a large memo d e in withouh trying to saoount fox B possiblity of inspection according to law
which lay a othen one
poll that mold say tmpttlae, oke kissed to enquire as to thefeaeihdtty of ire plan, with such a scheme. There Would be rte
' mamma I when Dae preened a opting.
The thin ee, but
been ear tears were belonged to fficm dreeeee sad bonaotr and hna ]net relurand P of riversble of impure milk of pinto s such thenpipe. leg
during thio time, but the great trate were 1 b and playthings g Altogether, the opinions of the est ex.
UongoregtanoE a aambor of tnduatea of
rolling down her thee, white cheeks, of all aorta. i d b th trap Sonbhern Indus rialeahuola, Ile ie opposed ports coincide that, while it is possible thal
When her mother noticed impatient
the child Thea apart rho bier, y g men might be willing' to sell stock in such
wash she she made ansuppr impabut n t before
b all the flowers an enterprise, it would be surprising if any
whioh she quickly 0 0 it. The but not before nob very heavy they p xa Afrwa be[ng of oho spin' Lh t witlmuL body could bo found foolish enough to buy
Mother Gerard saw it. The little girl also they Deal$ find ,and ih w g such stock. The probability is that the talk
t aw rd her
l displeaeure,meola andatrebohed ,ale of the eohool mnrah d behind, two by 1 mate about getting tip such a company is a hum
toward her the little, appeal,
a hands. g T},e 1\ew York doctor bug.—New York Sun.
It was a teaching appeal, n mate carnes, ALL BECAUSE OF A CIPHER.
client prayer, but irreststiblexn ttsjelcqueuee, were }Dined by others, andh aohhdnew wordolls h Atlantic:, d that the obnnge• _--
;rhe maid turned sway her bead to conceal a er o h d All the A wino's r ire Su1na1 by a Moment of For
her tears. The mother was greatly moved, the numeroae colds which enol by a
and taking the child in her arms, kilned her When they arrived th toy the " There goes a man whose life was ruined
s.
again and d again. g arrived Thte may lee tr a i ark
"My dear ll co do not cry, do nob n any ohildern formed a circle tea rave but there seems to goo by forgetting the simple character 0," snide
more. I shall come bank for yon vary with their dolls is Nm Among that the epidemic has reached prominent railroad man yesterday, pointing
D onn." large eatabliehmenro in th b otby, whmh to a ragged, besotted man shambling along
"Wiyou surely coma?" said the child employe 1 100 hmnde, hes temporarily loot the street unmindful of the rain.
"between cewith
her soba, and ly a r ety," mother's " He was a train despatcher on the Ohio
face with kisses; "surely anrelyto she add• doll for they regret h 200 f thorn who are ill with
el, clasping her little hands as she did when , something vary like icflu & Mississippi Railroad once, having worked
p g other firm cru up to that position from messenger boy in
she eat$ her prayers. p the telegraph office, One Sunday he had
Mother biGerardlooked sharply w ather form• tittle mvand. y y also laid u and othe. businatg tenons only two trains on his division, an express
ex' hater•ohld, who turned away her head own age, wilt a sorrowful,
pale
nearly her but '4 i wonder train westward bound and a fast stook
wt" Willflushed re, 11 wile 't train running east. The day was warm
"Rill you really coma back for her, h f oblp and sultry, and Bill, for that was his
3QiaC" she ly.d iqa low tone. h th b d doll In Bcttiah Columbia th name, had hard work to keep awake. Ha
"Certainty," wh{oh Bite loved devotedly, knew that as soon as he made the meeting
"Surey , yee, b b d will return.'' point for the two trains he could doze,
"d Ly; ken, but cdoare
not he i, Lieut. No one oan know wk b th gab passed report of the prooeedinge aro N w Waebmin end he impatiently awaited the time When
Good ea ;take good car" of dolly, Listen the the trains were close enough together fox
how beautifully h she l re "mamma I' mss its h b t th ew the first epaae• him to figure a meeting ant he sent an
r m the doll he child
many s ilise its d t into the a mobilo hall, cad ono mentor laid bafaxe order to the passenger t rain to meet and
one word,Smamma 1 The a ger was syeu teem hie report upon the h pass the stock train at a little station called
"Shr will be emir little girl, and you will saving Gu with Niu[ I' Willow Valley, fixing the time at 12.50. To
love her very mash t : Thee impnlaiva nob so mpreaeed the other veer. Some p] lees had b Others haducsoltl
"Oh 1 yes," said the child with a deep the stock tram ho sent an order that itcould
•afgh, almost a sob, and ane pressed the doll example, d d ' k the premises have until 1.25 to make Willow Valley for
to her heart. The doll murmured "mamma," It wan a tonohing spoctaalo the passenger. Seo the mistake? He forgot
She really loved the little inanimate thing Go libbl r panted To these s renewal of the 0, and hence gave the stock train thirty
that called her " rectums I" Sherpent hours in lebtmg ner doll fall int b g f o d there was five minutes more than ho should. Bill saw
In looking at it,in rcokirg it, and In talking One only draw ba k to make the his mistake ten minutes after he had made
to it in a low tone, at the came time crying eaori hoe. Sae waa 6 y re old, gerhape 1 is gueneed bhp re• it, but there being no telegraph station bee
for her own mamma. the °hold of a poor wcm doll was tween the points where the trains were
of cardboard, old, dirty, orII and had given the orders or at the meetingpoint, he
°1 Do nob.fear, never aha had named 10 An Interesting Q could do nothing to rectify it. Ire sent Inc
I a herself. I will never leave yon
aver s and sobbingly card . N the sue erinten(leat and ordered out the
I am pont very own mamma, do ren hear . h hole, Ni 1 Ske would be been raised at Paie]ey ebb y M weary wrecking crew, then sat at the key pale as
'Your raal mamma I" And she premed the °Did 1 in nob averrlo to remise g death, the cold perspiration running down
spring Nini t doll repeated "mamma 1 the rat b 11 g boyo his face in streams, awaiting news of the
Then y, as took ib in her aims and hugged andder than the walk to th genua d be collision.
w tightly, as if she feared ihab some one The Wert day t N lie " It came. The passenger train reached
world take it from her. sad brongh6 a ole wi'h lei fifteen new abbey there was r 1163 b W icor Willow Valley on time, waited the required
She consumption was slowly lent surely o the High Stewart 1 Scotland, rho Queen eY thirty minutes under the time -card rules for
became
m re brilliant, deanwork. eo o ayes name of the two Niare. yearend a wise last y to areob soma the freight train, and then pulled out.
obeeko moxa mopthe bones of her Ia tree vrllsga for y y ft r a doll monument in this hietarradl tpct The other Three minutes later the two trains met on a
dyEke more and nts prominent. nA little day, naaordit gly, in the p f di curve, both running ata high rate of speed,
dry coughw oke ,constantlyher
cheek the narrow, } ,} S Michael Shaw Fourteen lives were lost its the collision, be -
day
onset. and ear vofte 00 her
feebler S t Th Lord Lientam+lab of Ran• sides $100,000 worth of Property destroyed,
but ec day.edThey wrote to leer mother, o frewshtre, unveiled a suitable marble mono Bill resigned at once, an the next day die -
lent ereeie no hi xeepoaln following 1 ri ti<n " To appeared. For a long time it won thought
There ieemotnolo Ialing more a pitiful than h b f th Royal ho had committed suicide, but I met him on
whichto wn of the slow ardent Dnb of a rattle ce Moa Muller the street here one dayutet e.t as you see him•"
nor te, o rrp can arrest, neither dom of Howie of Stewart who
Review a rurtous Abbey, this steno is place —San Francisco Examiner.
nor love, nor prayers. (this martyrdom of with Our 0=d Pap g y rule
d Q V t i the oocaeion
Infantryinflioturture. eewhomustwitnees n THE STREET CAR Hotel.
it the eeneab torture,
Mother—
Gel rddl had learned for
love this nae xa his monk ' bed The visit to Caned g There Are Times Wiles the Porker is Not
poor victim of filial affection, for Nini was h; t charged with the is p or lrasenllne Gender.
.dying of grief -because she waa separated g The street car hog is as various as the
ram her mother—much more than of die•. olds e, to P p agement ing of a railroad fora human race, r hog 0 the hog has its
ease, and ;Mother Gerard knowing this ff i b th h b b caste going ehadowe extraordinary p own way and sometimes It doesn't. It was
agreed her with the utmost tewas roe, cff volnntari y p on a bobtail car. A gorgeously attired
PTini came to her in May, and it was now abeamehip C.ty of P 1 ^' rho naw Grana- woman with a square ohm and strident
OotAber. voice gets in with a couple of friends. She
The poor a shite feeling that she was no none when d' ih f it proper'y m' aohnal running t' b b Q e s fills the only vacant spree. To a quiet,
longer a daughter, triad to console herself whioh re 3 b theirs i to ry and San Fra unassuming gentleman next her she says :
be imaginer that she was the mother of their father _. p 1 "Sir, will you kindly get mo apackage of
ser fort She lavf or h upon h all the love } believes, I hb i tickets?"
ane formerly had for her mother. Sive was meaeuro be excepted 1 , h zlu t d of rho world' t f n by rho Ile pulls out of the Beat into whish she
night, o g to be poor little
from it even at old of a Tions Berk p had wedged him to get the tickets. She
night; and the poor —tie brain had own• mann ed, g d, by very old men d lin f t slides along, her party squirms in, and in a
calved a singulaa idea --it was that she war g emend the apace the gentleman vaoaOed is
not seek, but that it was the doth her "dear avhoeo children ft poverty fuller than over. The gentleman returns
N"S" h ld t i th porta of the Congo with the tiokete and asks:
"Son has er Gerrard
all nigh b," had world canto laoom th family bl te choose betwotehn 8U "How many cut?"
•
say otof Mother Ghersel wh"n ke had passed,my thou beth ebsrtnng altrnablve To which madam replies with an air of
d dear
Nin night 6willlf, "You suffer, my than ig th a lee of tueconcealed triumph.
dare her, butrs, will caro you. Wewill therefore, h k f k h h "None 1"
here nice name, will d nobP How feeble would have vary ld illmg to And takes the package. Everybo^w
her vsa is is she would add, in be, be. b 'batches on" and smiles or frowner, as each
to the weak pressure
'which the doll made, grew
considers it a joke or a put -up -job.
cause the he little andn res thinner.
grew roe. Professor Muller ppli hi 1 E e ie a cod story The gentleman fails to cath the drift of
weaker as the Hole hands grew thinner. P li first to the universitree Ther g morritnent, s0emingly, but hooks on to strap
Hour by hour bho would tell her them
and then p } } sal qualities of w y as if it wero all right. Suddenly he feels
Oteto dolgl. but always would yield
he } p hi bh 6th ld gg l i the east part of town in ono pocket, then in another, and then
the soli, At times she would yield to an man
It was a
III.
Mlle Nini for the last
e
he doll from her
grasp, Mother G Gerardwon no
• the etran e
the doll also, Both
were put into the ccffia with all that
little oboes andstockings,
carried e strong -
cab little girls of the village—alga 1 it was
n
was the etran cab
funeral that one could imagine. All the little
e
two balding their dolls ; and on the way they
a
had h doll. Thom who a
gays one to those who a none,
nolle were droned in their finest clothes.
eve at a cemetery
around
their armee and listened
to the last prayer for poor i.
the children who had come to bid a lamb
farewell to their little friend and the talking
ted the wonderful doll
quite as much as they did Nini—there was
one who had been a particular favorite cf the
cripple,neo
ale feet. She
almost adored the doll, and when Nini per-
mitted her to rook it she was perfectly
happy. She, like the others, a s
s on
through that little brain, but ab the moe
meat that the sexton r
fol of earth upon the ceffia she kissed her
doll convulsively an threw i n grave,
," i
children that one after another followed her
with Nini 1" eacho one r
0 the rave.
C unable
oa ,
an. Her o
i andworn,
toot one arm.- She clasped it in her arms
• " o 1 not in the holo I
not in the c e, myNini
'
urn tote viae was perhaps,
Otte
the Vicar wento eve
6 m
d lls and gave them to the children in the
man ears after
was called a Nfai in remembrance of the one
which was buried.
man le the au-
thorte employmentof
American Degrees in the Belgian common:1a!
compaalrs iateree a in the
States by the direo`ors of these eorperatione
to Europe after mak-
ing arrangements for the employment in the
however, to the ougoested eoheme for the
wholesale oolen'zrtion of Amerioeo negr0ea
ion a
special training the men of hie race would
not be fittedto become co c . ,
s assert that the
nfluetza epidemic has not vet appeared on
his aide ofthe an io, an
able weather of the past week i0 the cause of
have given rise to
the belief that the unwelcome visitor has
n ofNew
bed reason to believe
ached Boston. One
a
the services ofn ,
Mitten Orae hundred
and fifty girls employee by an
large
have suffered 1nlike proportion. This ilium
may not be "le grippe,"n i e
ally ex.
e deliberations of
the license commiesiooere on the enbjsob of
the issue of liquor lioeneee are public, A
New .
star a week ago illustrates the methods of the
licensing boards, The oommie°ionere mot at
inspector
for the lest
been well
These were ro• roenee
after hours, or bad allowed minora to pur-
chase an drink liquor on .
the license was de•
nied. The proceeding& were conducted after
the manner o a court, as
clearly no roam for the charge that political
coaeiderat one any way i>
sults reached.
memorial of ween Vie
toria's visit to Paisley last year has jinni
0 lifer a'
a her generation
that oho it: the deanendant of the Soobtieh
Stuarts, and as Paisley is suppose to
the cradle of that family and the anoient
founded n Y u
o
oar
pregame o a ells -
Upanishad company, it
tewar , o or
ment with the neo p i v
the memory of the members o e
aro buried in Paisley
d here bytheir
deecon ant, ween is or a, on
of her visit to Paisley -1588.
JAN. 24,1590
PEARL# OF TRUTH.
A man of °muraggo ohould never put anything
o i k but his 11 e.
t r s f.
It le not dillicult t get the beet of those
who love ue,
Drama i0 the poetry of conduct, romance
the poetry of oiroumstenees,
Oao of the sublimest things in the world
le plain truth,
A man without a predominant inoliaatien
i0 nob likely to be either useful or happy.
He who is everything Is nothing.
Imitation is like oharity 1 when it le done
for the love for the thing, ib ie lovely ;
when it 10 done for show, hateful,
Ba00000 peeoiwn bac never touobed with
Po fire and its glory the prim life of the
testhetio prig or the rotund Philistine, it has
not for that moan perished off the fade of
the earth. It exists in the name force and
name fervor ao in the days of Othello and
Stradella ; and I opufees, seams to me more
fitly a eubjecb for the noveliob, or the drama•
tie than the fictitious "realism" of the
epinele 0 commonplace.
Well, ho kept like theb for ems days, sir;
he werealways a•watohing thab place,
When he ruched in to me ono evening with
a look of alarm on hie floe,
"It's on fire I' he shouted ; "oh, father, the
hespibal'a all in'ableza l"
And ho looked at me with sash eyes, sir,
that 1 ehr.tnk from hie terrified gaze.
" Oh father," he cried in his terror, and he
seemed nigh ready to drop,
" How oan they get ab poor Tommy P He'e
right ab the very tip-top.
It'11 burn him right up to a cinder if he is
obliged to stay ;
i'll run and tell them to fetch him," and he
instantly darted away.
I bold him to etop, bun he didn't ; ao I fol-
lowed him, ter, like mad,
Bab he went on ahead like an engine, and
the crush was fearfully bad ;
The hospital, sir, wen a -burning, and the
fl tines getting fieroor and higher.
While the firemen were working their hard-
est to get some: oontrol of the fire.
They were fetching the petiolate out too, sir,
as quickly as ever they could,
And the flro•osoape men wore all busy, and
doing a great deal of good ;
Bab the friends of the patients wore watch-
ing to see that they all were got oat,
And above all the roar of the flames, air, we
presently heard a shout •—
"There's a boy at the top forgotten I" and I
thought o' my WE11's lltble chum:
And my eyes grow heavy and dim, air, for the
groat salt tears would come.
The fireman seemed well nigh distracted—
the escape was on fire at the top ;
And they said it would be death t ascend ib,
for the ladder would certainly drop.
fi
" What to do With our Old People,"
contributes to the "New
" article on "What to Do
People." He be fns b telling
how the old Hindu law recognized the ru. e
that " meant to learn in tie youth, to
ood to counselin e a v0no
ing years, and to meditate in e extreme
" The veryold people were ts-
peoted to retirefrom o active mai
of 0 u re, those ofe is ee
1 into the forces. At the -( •
sent day the Hindu law still "enable0 the
they•have become of age, to
iaeiet on a iv cion ofthe family ,
oonsidereb to a ore as muchas
The a irrb ofthese aw'•,
Professor Muller o eves, m g n some
in Eo and where, as
he says, ibis the rule forte estates to be
or miemanz a ,
are oftenkeptin
and aelibaoy until the parents' death. Nob
only do b o,o er mon, he says, retain e
e from a property,
h our men might do the workr
tan °mea vee, For e a young,
and for the sake ogoodwork, he
o men more w
retire when they are rich, and the public
more willing t retire them when they are
a es a rue o
earlier retirementi
n to olitios, Hie own experience 10
the universities hag o own m a e o er
t " im ossible to maintain arab
at with e rising generation
which le emends' to make their lectures
efficient," As to politica, a points • ng s
b tesmen to the example of Garoriehamkar,
neer o one o e a
India, who, a few year% ago, at the age of
ended e by -mem sere
aug sncoeas u a minis
e manner of the ancients to
er en•ouse outside e o
where e a lived, an finally,
d into the : forestor religious
meditation, a er or
of old people upon a pay a p6%e y
Canada of Russian en ioeor0,
e eotion of American
railroad ntethode, with a view to the build
serosa Siberia,-
oesibilitieo in the
way of expeditions globe-trotting. Tete
Paris an•..
e ,otinental fast mail train having reduced
rtime between Queue -
town
n -
naiaoo to a little over ten
doye, it is early to calculate the time that
wenit} be rcgnired for covering the other
s a roum exon e
" al Expels." If the
new railroad ebonld be completed at the
game time that the promised line of s oamore
is eatabliehed between Antwerp ,and the
Free State a holiday
tourist'willbe able
s ofa journeyon e
Petersburg Limited or by the new Shorh
Line to As ango.
Avowed work, even when noaoagooial, 10
far less trying co pabienoe than feigned plea'
Bu re.
The poet who sees and foals Mee devele
opmenb has higher knowledge than the
philosopher.
Morbid impulses are one of the luxuries
of youth.
When the day 0om00 that you sib down
broken, without one human creature to whom
you. cling ; with your loves, the dead and
the liviag•dead ; when Oho very thirst for
knowledge, through long continued thwart-
ing, hao grown dull ; in ho pretreat) there Is
no orevin1, and in future no hope—then,
oh with beneficent tenderness, nature onfoldo
you.
Life in Bass's. in 1889.
Melville E. Stone, founder and former
editor of the Chicago News, hao returned
from a long trip abroad improved in healbh.
Following are a few lions from whab he says
about Russia : —"In Sb, Patereburg, in fact
all through Russia thorn le larch in els very
air, There's a dread of something, a fear
of the Goveromenb. One day I saw a oar-
riage oonOainog a gendarme and ancther per -
eon. I asked our guide who it was, and he
said it woo a political prisoner, I naked him
what would become of him. "Oh, he'll
never be hoard of again. Wo don't have
any bother about juries and trials. The
papers won't take up the matter, and his
friends won't attempt to do anything.'
"But if he wore your brother wouldn't you
try to do aomethiog for him 1" I asked.
"No sir, If I went to the officers and said I
wanted to know what they were soing to do
with him they would aay : "Come right.
in. You oan nave the cell next to his and
go with him to Siberia to see what become
of him."' When they want a man in Resale
they make no fuse about it. An cfficot goaa
to the man'° house or shop, and, becko,=ing
tr. him, sole : "I want you.' The man
c aren'e ask what: Es wanted. Ile goes
O,tt. ••'nude a carriage with a gendarme
in it. tie is motioned into the Perringo
gets to, and that'd the last that is hoard of
nim."
Bat a led dashed up that eaooro, sir, as it
seemed to hie certain death;
-While the orowd stood speechless and silent,
and every ore hold hie breath.
That boy was my Will ; I could are him by
the light from the great red fire,
And I felt—well, I can't tell how, sir, se I
saw him mount higher and higher.
h'or the ]wider seemed all of a totter, bub
that bey of ming wee eo lighb
That he got to the window in safety ; and
we saw him get in all right ;
BaO he came nab again in a second, and he
carried a emelt white peak ;
That boy had gone In after Tommy, and
tee was bringing him down on his back. eee
Saab a cheer rent the heavens job then,
air, as I never shall hear again ;
And the crowd got es mad as hatters, and
shouted with might and main.
Bab the lads got down safe to the ground,
air, and both of 'am fainted away;
For after teat dreadful exoibement, 'twee
no wonder at all, I say.
What do you think of him now, sir? A
likely lad, sir, eh?
There's nob many yoaogetera agoing 0s
could act iu that sort of a way ;
For he risked his own lite for his playmate,
and he's ready to do it etill,
Se I hops there's no harm in my saying I'm
proud of my Fireman Will,
nd i p ihab is a good les0oa for those
Ooniing Down to a Pine Point.
told of the oeonomi-
two w011•known and wealth
gentlemen living is ,
0 0
o aro noto
o amore
night one of those gentlemen wailed on the
other to Warmed a e business
formees residence. The host lighted a
b examine roma peera
bub immediately bialy it out again when
they were through, leaving ani 0 sit. ' auraeyon blow o
caller.
a
in rho light, and ib fume the candle," was
They Don nue their oo ve
rookleonly ex remarks :
g } @ Shedid not know what y p y h b travaganb pardons wh p naesoed f "Pardon tae, madam, bub I think you are
b h ]d ry Dub with in rho brua epiri y sitting on roe, ping tenet
iude ate cepa i warm e m h i Oh g t i m Ona aorta n mb to mica"
death meant, batehe o
an ulah . No,Ido nob want ti h "Am I?" sho asks, and rises heavily that
describable g h t ); b little b i sg at the
you to die even to go to heaven." s a he may got it. He slips into the vacate
She neso spoke of her mother to the the Primo Mi i t f f the Sb hos of nandlobhab they might 1 p p , seat
nurse; but they sometimes,whenhearen she reugh0 her. Yes, madam. You were sitting on my
self atone, they world her murmar to eevenby throe, d d hi fifty y of h i i bh both seat,"
bor doll : "If mamma world Dome book Nini
marvelously f 1 d 6rabtoa by bin in the darks Madam is paralyzed, and rho passengers
would be well." In the village ed arrival
retiring, after the , K b d out the candle I" laugh' giggle, scream, shoat, roar or howl,
of the talking doll had produced a g000b de b t id of the old town Wh according to agsox, or previous condition
sensation. A Il the children wished bo see ib, h had n d d fi lly two years ingaired be otto talk in the dark as wall as of servitude. The mortified woman pelts
and 50ndey moot of the little girls Dame 00
ago, retire f 1'gi Oh, w the boll strap and trios to bank off before
admire the m tel lit toy. Wh bh not rho vehement' leo reply. Oho car stops, with a facer you could light •
To go t nee the little girl from Paris and ; h if b ibttob ti d th 1 n eoabloa for a cigar by leaving her Mende behind, The
hear tier doll talk had become a sorb of fete, a car full of people foal
A Snow Parable.
Softly falls the snow and slowly, slowly,
O'r the solitude of weld and hill ;
Winds are breathing desolate and lowly
Where. the wearied world is lying still.
Like a desk of pardon and remiselon
Falls the snow on city den and erect—
Emblem of the contrite heart's condition,
Earnest of forgiving love oomplete.
Where the sin and sadness are unsleeping
Lies a purity whioh to not theirs ;
Theo' the night there compo a sound of
weeping,
Theo' the night there comes a volae of
prayers.
All the dismal blaekneos of the city
Lies enahrou(led with a perfect white :
God in .wonderful otorael pity
Sends His snowy message through the
night).
Turn, 0 hungry souls bhab bite of sinning,
Take the peace whioh earth oan never
give I
Leave the, by -gone for a new beginning,
Leave the drearineoa of death, and live.
Softly falls the onow and slowly, slowly,
O'er the solitude of street and mart ;
Hear, 0 rather 1 Thou art holy—
Lap its whiteneee on the einner'o heart.
gentleman looks serenely unoonseious, and
° ' comfortable the
nddhf for her, or who y mysterious B l root Of rho way biro because Dao oar hog
to all who ell, th free p t pastors would alike no the gainers were it • of the oaller'e chair and inquired whoa hie has gotten such a not book.
eco
loved her dols, tags she had become the idol introduced. friend was doing.
of the whole village, "Why," was the reply, "it's dark in here Clara -1 wouldn't like to have such a tai
The vicar oomo to relate to her beautiful Adorably
and no one can hoe ms, SO 0 thought 0 would 'husband to Itmily has got..
street m heaven, where there lived a g y Pongee—"Yes,my dear.
m n ma marvelously beautiful and adorab.y P tarnish a 1 J h N she mite hor portfolio o£ autumn leaved g
gem ware, and it well Hover ba 8 P y ho bran rII P
end then, Nini was so sweet, eo caroming
in many induhbrios 00 pro Doe ono, certain. short time, when the host heard some
1 ie in the minia5ry, and ohurokee and 1 Donde Domer from the direction
Ibsen's Life in Munich.
A Munich correspondent Saye that Henriok
Ibsen bakes his breakfast daily at the Cafe
Maximilian and atndies the jourreel daring
the meal, So orderly are his habits arab he
can neither feed nor read if he finds any
stranger occupying bis customary corner.
The great dramaturgist's' riehte es a
"Stammgsot" of Otto house are recogn'zad by
theOberkellnor, who generally contrives to
keep Ibsen'e spat end table vacenb until he
appoaro. If he ohanoes to be late he Tooke in
at the door to see whether hie plane is free.
When an intruder bae taken possesston of it
the poet marches up and down in front of
the cafe, panning every now and then to peep
through Oho window, and geotioulating
fiercely at the inn:none invader. Anybody
who hao seen Ibsen, or even a good photo-
graph of the mac, oan imagine the grim
ferocity whioh he can impart to his manta.
nano. The piece of stage play ie nearly al.
ways successful. Thin intruder aeks the
writer who the remarkable old gentleman is,
and why bo patrols before the cafe and keeps
looking in, That is the poet "Ibeen,' ie the
usual reply ; he is aoouatomed to sib here,
and is waiting until the pine is vacant This
explanation, upon whioh Iaben roakeno,
almcsl invariauly made in a courteous and
reepootful movement of the innooenb usurper
to some other seat.
That Unusual Noise.
A.—What is the matter with you this
morning ?
B.—I didn't sleep wall last night. There
was an annexed noble in my room,
Did it wake you up?
Yee, any unusual noise wakes me up.
What was the unusual noise P
Well you see my' wife never ;oolda during
Oho day but stores up all her resentment
like thin stored electricity.
But you were nppcaking of an unusual
noise during the nigh6. Just me. I'm nolo-
ing to that, You see than I'm eo used to
her aaolding that it acts on ma like an opiate.
As long au she jaws I sleep like a top.
Bub what was the unusual noieo P
Well oho began jawing and I fell asleep
as usual, and I would have slept all right .lf
it had nob been for that unusual noiag.
What unusual noise ?
She quit' talking.
At a Public Dinner
Mrs, Pongee—"Isn't that Mr. Bolivar
near the chairman P"
Put cam hot• will
n with our now olivae• oke cflmypaobe to sane the wearer them:' Boesio- iNeither would L But they de "Bow utterlymiserable he looks, Has
a s a long to —NO. Dee ewe, sa o n Oo t ,
The nod sister o ho bad c'0at•F 0 of the, the ;;u•n le theeo. Never wash silver in v under the cushion of his chair, rid hd teoW no ; he's all right. The poor follow
village settee' brought her little images of soap ends to that gives it a white appear• made the grow of have
at atbtsome time stood I Iodates them out splendidly, is booked for o funny upooch poor follti
anfats and angels,
What Makes a Gat Tread Softly.
"Grandpa, what makes a oat tread softly?"
eked little Tommy Findoub of his aged
olativo as the pair sat down to improve
heir minds when the evening lamps were
ighbod.
"Ib is a faculty provided by an All•wise
Creator, my 0011, whioh enables the oat bo
walk softly," replied the old man as he laid
down his paper and beamed on the youthful
seeker after knowledge.
"All members of the eat tribe are endowed
with a fleeciest] tread whioh greatly faoill-
tater their oapturing their prey. You have
doubtless noticed bleat the pedal extremities
of the feline are furnished with soft, velvety
belle or oovormgo instead of hoofs.
Those balls extend below the claws, whioh
are drawn up when not in use, enabling the
oat to walk across a boardfloor without the
eligbbont noise."
"Oh that isn't what snakes a oat tread
softly," said Tommy, when the old man had
finished.
"No? What is it, then1"asked grandpa.
"Rate 1" replied the boy, while a happy,
happy smile lit up his ingenuoue face.
Requirements for African Missionaries.
Some British experts 1u lAfri0an mat -
tore are urging all inbandiug mioelonaries
to acquit() some knowledge of modtoinobe-
fore they start, se they oan add much to
their influence by prescribing for the phy•
deal ailments of the nabivoe, Explorers
aro not quite of ono mind as to the value
of their medical praobice in helping them
through the country. Capt. Binger, for in-
gbanoe, Saye fillet on hie recent journey from
the Uppot Niger to the Gulf of Galatia he
found 1b extremely daogorouo to try to ogre
the natives of their complaints. If bite
medicine had a benefice' Lifted they thought
he wag a aoroerer and regarded him with
awe and dislike, and once or twine when
his drugs failed he considered himgelt In
danger of being killed and eaten. Fortun-
ately, in most regions the noting regard
the au000seful white dootor as a great and
good man who doborveo to bo well treated,
and many explorers like Ilhompeon, Arnot,
goluob, and others have Mee the time
when their groat reputation as pill disputa.
ere wad reeou roe,
A Swede hag discovered a method of tan.
nfng leather by owoobrloity. It 10 said to bo
numb more rapid then the old wayi and
only half as oxponeive,