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THE BRUSSELS POST.
BULLY HAYI-^;S
The Pirate of the Pacific.
THE THRILLING STORY OF A DOUBLE LIFE,
CHAPrERI.
t Tag TRAGEDY AT TUE cRO01erS,
If a man wished to bury himeelfin cbliv•
ton, while yet retaining many of tee enjoy
mode of )ife, be could not find c earth it
spot to suit him better than lie eon, at the
bead of Blend Bey, in the nada a blend of
New Zealand. Sleepy licl:ow ie the name
it goes by, from its current), atony, dreamy
climate, and the total bailer'nce of its it
habitants to all that is going on in the out
aide world,
Nelson is divided into two dietihot parts,
the Town and:the Port, The Town °omists
of two or three old-fashioned, slombrone
streets of tope, merging into rows of pretty
houses in blooming gardens and oroherde,
with a background of wooded hills and
snowy peaks. The Port is a mile and a half
from the Town, and is, if poceible, even
more ptotureeque and slumbrous, The o01 -
ora -are so bright, everythirg is so spick and
span, and'inoh perfect etlllnoeo reigns, that
ie always remirds one of a newly painted
drop scene ab a theatre. Oa the al:ffr above
the quay, overlooking the glittering bay, are
nnumber of charming houses, each enacted
in a little paradise of flowers and fruit, and
all embowered in passion vines and honey
deckles and climbing roesa, which blossom all
the year round.
The residents of tho Town are mostly re-
tired military men and civilian in easy oir
enmotancea, while the Port is the favorite
abode of ata captains and the nautical free.
terhity generally. To have a snug home of
hie own at bbe Port of Nelson is the lifs'a
dream of every master mariner in those
tempest•toaeed waters.
In one of tho prettiest houses at the Part
there dwelt, same yearn ago, a family named
Hayes, aonsieting of father, mother, and
two children. Nobody knew exactly where
Cant. Hayes came from, but hie wife was
the daughter of a well-to-do farmer in the
province, and be made himself so plena:et
to all his neighbors that they did not trouble
themeelvee mach abort his antecedents. He
wan a big, jolly looking follow, with rather a
foolish face, and he was known everywhere
for his good nature. Re was always ready
to oblige a friend, or even a stranger, and
his simplicity in money matters wee a stand
-leg joke ab the Porb.
Just ae nobody knew where he name from,
so nobody knew exactly how bo gob be liy-
--ing ; though, in a little piece like that, 11 is
every body's busineee to find oub everybody
aeries business. He always bad plenty of
money and he never had any debtstwo
things whioh allay impertinent cnrioeity
mole than anything else. Yet he was not
known to be in any employment or to have
anlaterest in any vessel trading to that
part. He owned a little yacht, the Lily ;
but she woe a mere pleasure boat, and hie
exouraionsin her seldom extended beyond
the numerous lnleta and small harbors within
is couple of days' Bail of Nelson. where splen-
did fishing fa to be got. Hie neighbors
remarked, however, that the Captain often
went away on long curneys, sometimes
-lasting for menthe, and thab when he return-
ed he was more sunburnt than ie usual in
the temperate climate of Now Zealand, Ib
weeenrmiaed from this that he wan in bhe
habit of visiting Australia, a belief whioh
was strengthened by his commonly paying
for everything in gold, oepecielly those lighb
nolored Sydney eovereigne, whioh were the
universal medium of trade amang the islands
of the Pacific, but were not often seen in
New Zealand. His bands were hard and
rough,ehcwing that he worked ab something ;
and the prevailing theory was that he had
a share in a mine, and took his turn with
his partners in working it, nob an unarm•
mon practice in those days. Mre. Hayes
never talked about her hnebend's affairs ;
from oaeual remark's whioh she made, it was
gathered that they drew their income from
broad, th angle never a skilling was known
to come to them through the Pod Officer or
the banks.
Capt. Hayes was a very pious man, at-
tending church regularly, and sometimes
reading the service when the clergyman was
way np in the country He had a magni-
ficent tenor voice, and was of great aeoistanoe
in the ohoir.
In short, the Hayes family were looked
upon as one of the most reepcotable In the
place, and the Captain, espoaially, had a
high reputation for benevolence and into -
gray.
There were two people, nevertbeleee, who,
though they never said anything openly,
were known to dieoenb from bhe general
a
estimate of Hoyea'tt abate ter. Ooe of these
was the resident magistrate, John Poynter,
an old English lawyer, who, for reaeone best
known to himself, had settled down with e
poorly paid Government appointment in
that remote corner of the world, and was
rather e mystery to bis neighbors, She
other was Dr. Tweed, a young practitioner
who had come to Nelson about the time of
Capt. Hayee'e marriage, and had always
attended him and his family. The Dootor'
was on friendly terms with Hayes, and was
much under his infiaenae, but Mr, Poynter
never had anything to do with him beyond
giving him a nod when they mob in public,
it was known that when returning from his
journeys, Hayes bad several times been con-
fined to bio room with tabor; illness for a
long time, nobody being allowed to s 1811
him bub the Doctor. On one of these oeoaa•
ions Mrs. Hayes and the children were sant
away on the night of his arrival, and were
nob even allowed to see him for some weeks.
11 was after this that a change was mobbed
in the Dodor's manner when the Captain or
his virtues were praised.
The Dootor, however, made a rule of
never gossiping about his patients, while as
for Mr. Poynter, he was euoh a strange man
himself that nobody thought muoh of his
coldness to Hayes. The resident magietra•
bee official position, moreover, isolated him
a good deal from the rest of the little oom•
inanity.
Years had pegged on in this way, wltbont
anything to rniile the smooth earfaoe of life
ab the Port, when •a catastrophe occurred
which woke np Sleepy Hollow ae it ted
never been awakened before.
Some thirty miles from Nelson, 0n the
eastern shore of Blind Bay, there is a min -
Ware harbor, dotted with lovely Islets,
Which D'Urville, the early French naviga•
tor, named the Croixellee, nnieereally pre.
flounced Creole by the colonists 1 There
aro no habitations in the neighborhood ex -
dept a faro beta, which are only tenanted at
some eeascns by 8,hernten or by braehmen
tatting apars in the surrounding foots ;
and ib le Aspirated from the settled districts
by a barrier of rugged hills, For three
parts of the year Crezilo Harbor 10 in abso•
lute solitude, unless for some small arab
turning there for shelter, or, at rare later.
vale, Dome Vetting or picnic party from
Nelson,
OM day toward the and of June, whioh Three times he had been sant for to attend
ie neldWinter in that Maiden the only llrfag
creature ab thin lonely epob was a half -canto
named Peri—Maori for Perry—a whaler who
had Battled there away bask in the savage
days and taken a native wife. Peri was a
dohsrman, when nob too lany to work, and
on this occasion he had gone alone in hie
canoe from a Maori eettlemenb near Nelson,
where bo lived, in the hope of making a
haul of mullet, which eometimce abound at
the Cresols. The womb .r, however, wee
very stormy, and Pori, glad of an extent
for doing nothing, had drawn up his canoe
on the smooth, !holly beaoh and made him•
calf comfortable in ono of the deserted huts,
to wait for the wind to go down,
Haring eaten a hearty meal of pipis, a
alnd of olam for which tee Maoris have a
voracious appetite, the half meets lib his
pipe and leaned against the doorway of the
bub, wetting the surf breezing on the rooky
shore of the ielete and sending up columns
of feathery spray.
To his astonishment he observed a small
vessel entering the harbor under a heavy
spread el oanvae. She looked a mere toy
boat, and Peri, wondering what madman
bad come out in look a orafb in such wea•
thcr, went down to the landing place and
cgaatted on the land to see ber come in.
The first thing he noticed woe that the
boat was being Bailee in a very peculiar way,
as if by somebody who knew nothing about
nailing or about the place, Whoever the
yaahteman was, he was carrying a great
deal too mach rail to beat into ouch a narrow
eniranoe with safety, and Peri felt sure that
ha would come to grief if a squall otruok
him when he tcfb the shelter of the island at
the mouth of the harbor. Suddenly the
boat went about to tack past the island, and
Peri then eaw that it contained a woman
end two children, besides the' man who was
steering. Knowing they were in great dan•
ger, he ran to his ono and hauled it down
bo the water's edge, bo be ready to render
asofstance. The only chance they had was
to let go the ,beet end lower the jib before
they came out into tee open channel, where
the tide was running like a sluice and the
wind was lathing the troubled waters into
foam. But no, they came right on with all
mile full. The next moment the boat shot
'a c from the lee of the island, lay over till
her mainsail dipped in the water, righted
again, cleared the ohannel and was almost
in safety, when, bat as a squall oame np,
the man deliberately steered her right emcee
the wind, and over she went, nob a hundred
yards from the land.
Peri jumped into tie canoe and paddled
with all bis might and main, bot the wind
and tide were dead against him and the
driving spray blinded him. He was nom
palled to return, and he had hardly reached
the beach when he saw a eight which riveted
him to the spot. The yacht had sunk so
near the land that her mast and sail wore
sticking op above the water. Ib would have
been quite easy for the whole party to get
ashore. Yet the man and the woman seemed
to be struggling with one another in the
water, while Ine two children were clinging
to the rigging.
The half-caste ran round. the rooks till be
got abreast of the boat, sprang into the water,
waded out until he was lif tad cff his feeb, and
then, swimming on his side, covered the re-
maining diotanae with half a done strokes.
The woman was nowhere to be seen, and
the man had already taken ene of the child-
ren and started for the shore, swimming very
strongly, Peri seized the other child, a
boy of five or six, and holding him by the
collar of iris j zoket with hie teeth, like a
Newfoundland dog, landed him without any
ch inanity,
He found the man on the beach weeping
and praying aloud; and bolding the child in
his arms. With en exolamation of anger
he pulled him by the arm and called him to
oome with him and try to save the woman
but ae the man seemed too stupefied or too
frightened to understand him, he returned
alone,
Diving beside the sunken boat, he eaw
a dark objeob swaying about in bbe current,
and soon euooeededin bringing it to the sur-
face, It was the woman, pale and rigid,
and apparently quite lifeless. The brave
half-caste, however, knowing that there is
often a hope of restoring life after it seems
to have fled, lost no time in getting her
ashore, carrying her to the fire he had made
in the but, and epplyiug such means as he
knew of for reviving animation.
Peri then proposed that he should go in
his canoe to the neareBb settlement, whioh,
by keeping alone in shore and taking edvan
toga of the aureate, he might ht have reached
in couple of hours, to send word of the
aooident into town and obtain aeelstanee.
To hie aotoniehmenb the man declined hio
offer and angrily refused to allow him to go
when he insisted. Peri, however, overcome
by that superetitione feeling to which all
Maoris are liable, and having a strong sus-
picion of the man, made an opportunity to
slip out of the hut, and was soon far away
from tiro °tozele in his little canoe.
When the news reached Neloon isgairle'
were made and it was learned that Claps
Hayes bad left hie house the morning before
wibh his wife and children, and had hens
seen sailing oub of the porb in hie yaoht, the
Lily, The harbor master ab once deapatohed
a whale bomb with eight mon and a supply
of blankets and restoratives to the Crowds,
They arrived there at daylight on the follow•
Ing day.
Not a eoul was to be seen. The yaohb
was no longer at the spot where the half -
mote had desoribed her, and the hub was
untalented.
She oonalneion, of course, was that the
whole story was a fabrication of Peri'e, and
some people even entertained come very
unfavorable onrmieee regarding him.
Oerbain fate, however, oame to light
whioh nob only cleared the half -mete of all
suspicion of foul play, bub gave the worthy
folks ae the port a good idea of Capt.
Hayes's oharaoter,
The house where the family had lived
was found looked up, and the authoribioe
deoided not to open it for some days, at ell
Omuta, on the ohenao of the oaptaiu return•
ing. On the third or fourth night after the
Wester, however, the house wan seen to be
on fire, The flames were extinguished before
they had got muoh hold of the building,
and then nnmiebakable evidences were found
that the fire was bhe work of an incendiary.
Moreover, all Capt. Hayes's valuable! and
private effects wore gone, nob a mingle thing
beteg dieoovered in the house whioh could
give the elighteetoloe to his antecedents, tie
profeeelon, or anything else oonneatod with
The polies thereupon made further in -
gaiters, and ane of the fret to whom they
applied wan De. Tweed, The Deeter, on.
adoring himself no longer requited by pro•
tensional etiquette to keep eilonoe, made Ibis
astounding eaatement5
JAN. 31, 1800,
srasmousseenneamemennweewnweimemenestemensommentaminernisiessetammtermnsmumessaass
each lime he found him suffering from) Enoch Arden Outdone,
terrible wounds, oauaed either by a sword
out or a pistol shot, Once be had extracted I If the etpry that Mentrealors are disouse
a bulieb from his neok, and it was ben that ing today bo a oorreob ono—and The Ern.
the wife and children had been sant awayppire" oorreopoodent has no valid reaeone for
until the wound was healed, On the lateeb' doubtlog it—our old friend Booth Arden
of these occasions Mrs, Heyes, who had loug
been very uneasy in her mind about her
buebend, refused to leave the hones, and in-
sisted on acting him. This resulted in a
bitter quarrel hammier the two, with threats
of exposure on her part, and of vengeance
on hie.
The Doctor had acted as peacemaker for
the time being, but he feared that a oriels
of some sort wan approaching. He knew
b at Mre, Hoyee had dieooveted ber bus•
band's eeoret, which the Doctor himself
obly tmooted.
aapt, Hope an We retain front- abroad, and
What was the oeoreb ? Mr, Poynter, the
resident magistrate, new disclosed it. He
had received, barely after Capb. Hayes
Dame to Nelson, a private ocmmunioation
from a poreou in the confidence of the
Brltioh Admiralty informing him tbeb a
mysterious criminal, a pirate and slaver of
the most desperate deaeription, whose mur-
ders and rnbborier, committed under various
names and disguises, were the terror of Oro
western Pacifio,wae;believed to have a haunt
somewhere in tbab part of New Zealand,
and asking him to keep a watch and report
anything that came to hie knowledge. The
magistrate bad all along believed that
Hayes was the mac ; bub his conduct bad
always been so exemplary, and his domestic
aurroundinge were so creditable and happy
that Mr, Paynter had never felt justified in
even reporting upon him.
The Hayes family were beard of no more
in Nelson, and the common supposition was
that the Lily had gone down at sea with all
on board,
It had been well for humanity if such had
been bhe case.
(To nu CJ\TI :TED,)
THE TORONTO CITY DIRECTORY.
Some curious yetis Snottn in the Adeno
for 18100.
Only those who closely study the page
of the volume josh issued by Messrs, Polk,
their edition for 1890, will believe that so
extraordinary a conglomeration of creatures
and things le made to do duty in the way of
patrohymice.
Who, for Instance, is not startled to hear
that while we have in Toronto as many as
37 BIrds yet we have bub three Feathers.
More etarbling still is tbo faob that in spite
of the number of Birde being as stated, yet
we find amongst ne bhe following formidable
and poeoibly incomplete lit of feathered
creatures :-12 Eagles. 8 Parrota, 12 Part-
ridges, 5 Pigeons, 4 Backe, 11 Sparrows,
8 Swallows, 19 Swans, S Herons, 10 Doke,
and bub 1 Drake, 10 Nightingales, 16 Crows,
6Thrushes, 1Blaokbird, 3 Larked, 7 Hewkee,
6 Wrens, 10 Robins, 2 Storks,; 1 Gull, 2s
Teals, and as many ea 19 Finable.
When again, in spite of our many Scotch -
men and their predilection for curling, we
find bub one Curler amongst us.
We have a large stock of a:Mleoietbies and
ocoleeiaobical buildings. For instanoe, we
fiod 16 Ohurohes and 8 Uhapplee, rather a
scanty number, after all, to supply the
numerous officials who figure in the same
pages, for there are no fewer than 45 Par -
eons beeidee 5 Prieto. Some of theao, no
doubt, are found again in the persona of the 9
Vinare or Vickers. For these many clergy
there are but 8 Parishes. Then, again, we
find 24 Bishops doing duty in 6 Sees, and,
oontradietory ae ib may seem, but one Bisb-
oprick among the lob, The B shops double
lees divide between bhem the 20 Crczlere
eeoleeiaotioal cfficee, eta., of anto•lbeforma•
bion times, found in so strongly Protestant a
city is surprieing. Thus there are no fewer
than 30 Abbott,, 10 Priors, 5 Monks, and
several Hunts. who for residencoo have 12
Abbeye and 3 Monkhausee.
has been diabanood by Is geed round
majority, In 1857 a packet boobnamed the
William and Mary running between Liver-
pool and the Sb. Ltwronae had amongst her
Oanadian,bound passengers a seafaring
Man named Wm, Parker, aged 20, a young
wife and croupier of Mild= —a boy and a
girl—all booked for bier city, It appear,
that a ehorb time drat the vessel left the
literacy, and while nightfall was setting in,
Parker was on dealt with hie aornpanione,
and in the nob of leaning over the aide the
Eogliehman lost his balancer cud tumbled in-
to the sea,' The William and Mary was hove
to, and, although every effort, wee made to
rescue bhe unfortunate seaman, the current
proved so strong that Parker was aweptaetern
and given up ea Jost, The wade "drowned ab
sea" were iueoribod opposite hie name on the
passenger list, and the widow oontinued on
her voyage and finally oetbled down in the
vioinity of Montreal. She did not wear the
weeds very long, for the preposseseing
young Englishwoman noon found an admirer
within eight of Notre Dame ohuroh, and in
a ehc rb time the widow again became a bride.
The eeeond marriage was a happy one, bah
it was dieturbal the othar.day, eo the story
goes, by the sudden appearance of Parker,
the lost husband of 32 years ago. He had
swam a half hour or so when ha was enatohed
from the deep by the crow of a Portuguese
merohautman bound to Pou1h America.
Arriving in that country Parker some to
have resolved to Beek his fortune before
joining bio family in their northern home.
ft sante to him, however, after long years
of trial, end now Ib remains to be seen how
this little anpleaeantnoae will be settled.
How's Business ?
" Only fare" mem the restaurant keeper.
"Sow•oow, " replies the farmer.
"Squally," groans the rune staid.
" Sluggish," grunts the pugilist,
"Clothes times," growls the tailor.
"Enough to give a fallow fite. Trade's all
oub up. Two many breechea of trust."
"Looking up," smiles the astronomer.
" Finel" ejaculates the Police Court
Judge,
"Nob shoos awl is ought to be,' remarks
the cobbler. "Bab I'll peg away in hopes
it won't last."
"Waking up," responds the hotel por-
ter:.
Mighty coaly," whines the fishmonger.
"Red -bot," pante the fireman.
"Good deal of tick," tape the watch-
maker. "Don't strike me favorably. I'd
spring ab a chancre to get into something
else—wind this op mighty quick."
"'Deed, l'd rather nob may," warily re-
joins the conveyancer. " Lease said soon•
est mended."
"Huainan] 1 Don't talk about buoineee 1"
chuckles the editor of the funny paper.
"That's shear nonsense I Paste that in
your hat."
Five to One.
Ib he said to be a prevailing delusion
among English tourists that the natives of
foreign countries are guilty of peculiar
stupidity in not understanding the English
language. Sometimes, however, even those
who were nob born "bold Britons" attain a
lloguietic advantage.
Two Eag)ish travellers in the Easb one
day entered the shop of a Jew who, though
that may be discovered, The number of he spoke 'several other languages, he had
bub a alight acquaintonoe with English.
On his failure to make he Jew understand
what he wanted, one of the travellers eaid
oarelesbly to the other: "The old fool
doesn't speak Englieh."
Unfortunately, this remark oame within
the radius of the Jew's comprehension, and
drew from him the following questions :
"Do yon opik Italian 7"
"No," answered both.
"Do you epik Grik 7''
"No,"
De yon opik Turk 7"
"No,"
"Do you anile Spanish 7"
"No."
"Do you spilt Frenoh P"
"No."
Then, attar a panne for preparation, the
old man ejaculated, energetioally
"Me one bine fool ; you five times fool."
" Grand Old Men."
Mr. Gladstone's eightieth birthday, whioh
was celebrated recently, calls to mind many
names of " grand old men" who are still in
the flesh in Great Britain. The venerable
Lord Ootteeloo, father of the House of
Peers, is 91 ; the Earl of Albemarle, who
fought as an ensign with the 141h Foot ab
Waterloo, is 90 ; Lord Ebnry, 88 ; Berl
Grey, the Bishop of Chichester, Lard Ham.
mond, Lard Winmarleigh, and Viaaounb
Templetown, eaoh S7 ; the Dake of Cleve-
land and the Earl of Essex, 86: the Earl of
Lovelace, Earl Sydney, Lord Penman, and
Lord Tollemaohe, 84 ; the Earl of Mansfield,
83; Blehop of Worcester, and Lord Clow
brook, 82; the Duke of Devonshire, the
Blabopp of Bath and Wells, Lord Bramwell, A Long Search.
Lord Daore, and bhe Bishop of Sb Albano, Mean Business Man—" Seems to me you
81; the Earl of Verulam, hunch. Lord Congleton, . take a good while for h, You've been
Lord Hsyteebury, and Lord Tennyson, 80.
gone en hour and a half' and yet reebaoronbs
In the Home of Commons the other ooto.
genarian members besides) M. Gladstone
ere : General Sir George Balfour, 80 ; Sir
Gilbert Grinnell, 83 ; Mr. Ieeao Holden, 82;
Colonel O'Gorman Mahon, 88 ; Mr, David
Pugh, 83 ; Mr. Chriebopher R. M. Talbot,
the " Father" of the House, 86 ; and the
Right Hon. Charles Pelham Villiers, the
oldeet member, 87. Among the "grand old
men' of mimeo there are several, intending
Bir George Airy, ex-Astronomer.Royal, 88 ;
Sir Elwin Chadwioe, 89; Sir Richard
U.ven, 86 ; Sir George Paget, Regius Pro•
r"t0or of Physio, al Cambridge, (brother of
3Ir James Puget), 79 ; Mr. James Glaisher,
the meteorelogiob and aeronaut, 80. Greek
eoholarebip claims Professor Blaokie, 80.
The law has Mr. Justioe Menially, 81; Sir
James Bacon, ex Vioe•Chanoellor, 91 ; Sir
Berne Pooch, Judge of the Privy Connell,
84, The ohuroh, besides members of its
Episcopal bench, has the Rev, Slr John
Warren Seem, 90 ; the Rev. Sir Brook
George Bridges, 87 ; the Rev. Sir John
Fiudyer, 97, and several more. The Oatholic
Ohuroh,bill poseetrees Cardinal Newman, 88,
and Cardinal Arohbiohop Manning, 81. The
bleary hes, among others, Admiral Sir Provo
Wallin, of Shannon and Chesapeake fame,
88 ; Admiral Sir W. Fanehawe Martin, 88 ;
and Admiral Sir Alexander Milne, 83; while
Art' still retain Mr. Sidney Cooper, R, A„
85, There are forty.fonr baronets over 89,
with Sir John Franoie Davin, K. C. B„ and
Sir George Berne, each 94, at their head,
and fifVisayan knights, inoluding Sir Edward
ilainee, of Leede, 98,
A Useful Present,
Mrs, Jobbs--"What on earth is that?"
Mr. Jobb,—"Tris, my dear, la a baro•
meter, a present from our son at college."
"Olt, I've heard of them. Ion'b the dear
boy bhoaghbfnl 1 Which way ao we screw
ib when we want the weather to be fine?"
The Blindness of Love.
"la love blind ' coked. little Johnny, as
Merril end hie slater °atte into the room
looking vory innooent.
"Yes, my dear,' replied hie mabhor.
"If bhab'o so," psreieted the young fiend,
"how could Mr, tlerrib esti when Cora got
under the miabt:toe 7'
are thick as hops about hare.
Poorly Paid Clerk—" I was hunting for e
pleas within my'meane."
Oil on the Stormy Waves.
Mrs, Gazzloton (hearing a crash to bbe
hall ab 2 a. m.)—Hen-ner•y 1 What are you
doing down there?
Mr. Guzzleton—'Sh 1 Jas' tryln' to
p•hiok up the price of that new bonnet yon
want, out o' this blamed hab•raok 1
A Remarkable Winter.
"What a remarkble winter we are having 1
Why, the papers tray bob in many places
dandelions are in bloom."
"And, do yon know, Mr. Oldboy tells me
that his century plant is in bloom, a thing
whioh ho memo me hasn't happen ed for a
hundred winters,"
A Winter Girl.
"I understand you are about bo marry,
George 7''
"It is a faob, my boy."
"Permit ma to congratulate yon• Of
course oho is the sweetest girl in the world 2"
"Well, 'should eay ao."
"Beautiful in form and face 7"
"Yon bet I"
"Angelic in diepoeibion 2"
"You're balking."
"In short, worth her weight in gold or
diamonds?"
' Gold or diamonds! Why, man, here In
December she le worth her weight in wall"
TlEIRISU WIDOW,
21ra. Mngoogin Says Something About Char-
ity flans
"Fwhiobper, Mrs MaGlaggerty, fwhob tliz
ye think av them ahariby belle they dlz be
either givin', 01 dunno 1'
"To toll yo the bhrnth, Mrs. Magoogiu,
ear , eh thing 01 knows above Ode, et all,
ab
all,"
No"
more nur me either," paid the widow,
"bub 01 do be heroin' me daughter Tnc zy
readiu' av them in th piper, au' Id
ehbrolkaa ma they're nob charity balls at all,
me frind, bub th' very opposite. DIvil th
ooighb av a poor craythere ye'il eel ab beim
—only th' riot an' th' holghohooniee., that
kin nbpind their fifty on' a hundhord dollars
an dolly kat dhroosca au' miehklbty bar gloves,
an' that woare ae many daimondo in their
airs an' an th' tope rev their heads as Danny
Mann hex warts an his noon, an' euro aa' God
knows it's many'a th' web he's gob. Bsgorry
id's ohange th' name av id tboy shod. an'
inshtead av °allin' id a ohariby ball it's tit
millionairity hall they'd ought to oail id..
Fwhob nonainsikelify id la, Mrs. MtG Tagger ty
an' !what audaoiniaty they diz be either
perpobhraborin' in th' name av th' poor. Th'
oidaye be awful. They goes to wurruk an'
gibe up a ball for th' poor en' thin oharge
tin dollar a biokab to go to id. Now in th
Dams av all that'd holy fwhat poor parson is
there, unitise id's some dhry goods stark in
Harlim, that kb elfoord to pay tin dollars to
go to a donoel 01 kudn'b afoord id moeel
off 01 had the money. Modllietor'e Naw
'Year's ball bushted me --oh' woioea there
was very hoigh-probed, Mrs. McGlaggerty 1
Twinty foivo ur nfty ants is enough fur any
poor parson to poy for a ball ticket, an' .thin
there ought to be a chance an a ohtova ur a
°look thrown in besoidoe, Felt I say 01, to
their charity ball, It's nawthln but folne
dhreesea and fiapdoodleo an an' bhlnniaked
joode an' the poor don'b gib elven a shmell.
That wurrud charity is getbin' to be terribly
abused, Mrs. MaGlagoerty. It ought to be
mint to th' hospital afwhoile for repairs, so
Id oughb I"
NO Harm Done
B. Jimmy, (do friend): " I'm in a frightfu
hole, I wont to poo 6300 dentine yeeborday
and gob a medioalaertifloatofrom oath. One
was a orthicon of health for a life 'entrances
company, and the other was a oertifioade of
permanent ill health to bond to the "United
Slick and Burial Brotherhood.'"
•Friend : Well, what of bhab? I've done
that myself,"l
: What of ibt Great Soot 1
mixed the oerti8oabee in posting them. That
It Snorts to be generally agreed among lesnranoe oompany has my:oorbldest° of ill•
rlght•thihking people; that the buokob•sbop health and the brotherhood bee my perblfi
Id oetslde the pale of eooletyr 11/401 oil good healrhu"
A Pet Woodpeoker.
The golden winged woodpecker, otherwise
celled the flicker and high -hole, ie one of
the beet known of American birds ; a hand
some creature, somewhat larger than the
robin, with a crescent on the back of its
head, a black crescent on its bread', and
especially noticeable for the yellow lining of
its wings and tall. A New York gentleman,
some years ago, took a young one from the
nest and broughb ib up, and found it to be a
very interesting pet.
The bird ooutd thrust out its tongue two
or three inane, and it was amusing to see
tie efforts to eat currants from tiro hand.
He would run out his tongne and try to
ebiok it to the current. Failing in that he
would bend his tongue eround it like a hook
and try to raise it by a sudden jerk. But
he never anooeeded ; the round frulb would
roll and slip away every time. He never
seemed to think of taking ib in his beak.
His tongue was in oonstanb use to 6 ad out
bhe nature of everything ho eaw ; a nail -hole
in a board, or any similar hole, was care-
fully explored.
Phis curious organ gained him the respect
of a number of half grown oats thab were
about the hate, I wwhed them to geb ac
(painter) with him, an that the danger of
their killing him mighs bo lessened, and for
that roaeou 1 need to take kitteaa and bird
on my knee together. At such timce the
woodpecker's, curiosity was erre to beexoited
by the kibtene' eyes, and levelling his bill as
carefully as a marksman levels hie rlfla, he
would hold steady for a minute and then
darb bis tongue et the bright round obj'ob.
This was held by the oats to be very mys
terions ; being struck in the oye by some-
thing inviaiblo to them, :They soon acquired
such a terror of the bird thab they would
run away whenever they eaw hie bill turned
in their direction.
My high•hole was never surprised at any
anything nor afraid of anything. He would
advance upon the turkey gobbler and the
rooster, holding up one wing as high as
pooeaible, as if to shrike with it and scolding
e.11 the while in a harsh voice as he shtffiad
along toward them. I feared at firab that
they might kill him, but I soon found tbat
he was able to take dare of himealf.
His favorite dieb was cute. When I turn-
ed over stones and dug into ant -hills for hie
benefit, he would lick up the ants so fast
that a constant stream of than seemed dobe
going into his month.
He stayed wibh me till late in the au tmmn,
when he disappeared. Probably he yielded
to the migratory impulse and wont South,
O0PPER BRADS IN BROES.
now n filen Monitored Himself to a ileulthy
Condition,
"Da you see these large copper brado in
the solo of my ohne 7' aekod a gentleman of
the Sb, Louie "Republican's" Man About
Town, as ho held up to view tiro solo of one
of itis ehooa. On being answered in be
a0irreetive he said : "To these simple brads
alone I attribute my present health, For
yearn I was en invalid, subjoob to dyspepsia,
neuralgia, haodaoha, and ether innumerable
palm], and travelled the country over in
search of health, In travelling oub west
tmnng the Indian tribes I was otruok with
their remarkable health, and eepocielly
their exemption from the maladies thab
ufll otod me and ales with the fact their the
etroogeeb and healthieob wont barefooted
altogether, I sought an explanation of the
matter end by continued observation and
study was finally led to the oonolu-
elon that the aches and paine to
which olvilizad man is heir aro owing to bhe
manner in whish the insulate our bodies from
Mother Earth. Science is every day more
slowly demonebrating bhab eleotricity is the
vitalizing constituent of our bodies and bhab
this globe of ours is a mighty battery, con-
tinually generating and discharging eleobri'
oily. Now, I reasoned, if this was oorreot
bhe eeoret of the Indian's health was in his
bare feet, which exposed his whole body to
bhe vitalizing influence of the eleobrioal earth
onrronto; while my ill health was atbribu-
table to my feet being insulted from those
currents. Acting on this hypothesis I smelt
to restore the broken connection by inserting
these bride in the soles ot my shoes, and the
result, I meet say, was astonishing. My feet„
which formerly wore nearly always cold, soon
became warm and inoish ; my health nom-
menoed shortly to improve, sed in a few
months I was entirely relieved of all my
pains, and have over since enjoyed good
health. It is a very simple thing and easily
bested, and I feel sure would benefit any ono
ellIiated as I was,"
The Balvation Army.
The growth in Influence and numbers of
the Salvation Amy ie truly marvellous, as
d
the 1880 report lamed from the headquarters
of the Army shows. iTen years ago there
were 125 corps with 190 officers. Today
they have 2,767 oorpe and 8,700 ofilasre.
Both in England, bhe home of bhe organize.
tion, and abroad the figures tell of unvary-
ing
narying progress. The army's property in
Britain amounts bo £400,000, and the value
of the property held in Canada and Australia
1s £220,000, In the work ot reaming young
girls from wayward lives the army has been
partionlarly euooessful, more than 2,000
being annually influenced to foraale° their
old careers. Tho government of Victoria,
Australia, amide the army's efforts in thio
respect by a money grant. A work whioh
has nob so muoh interest for us here, bub
meet bo of great importance whore it is
carried on, is the supplying of food and
baiter to the poor of London. In one week
3,500 of the poorest men and women in
London slept in their shelters and received
supper and breakfast on payment of 3,1 or 41
each, Since the food depots were esbab•
Herbed over 2,000,000 farthing, halfpenny,
or penny meals were eeld. The mord of
how this was done without lose was the fact
that they had practically ah unlimited sup
ply of labor ab oommand. However great
may be she differences of opinion as to the
Army's methods hold by those beyond the
scope of iia operations, it poems oertain, bo
use the haokneyed expreaslon, that the
belvationiete have filled a long -felt want,
Hie Ideas of Security,
•
"I want to borrow a hundred dollars,"
said he, "Can I have It t'
"Certainly," was the oourteouo reply of
the banker. "Come In and sign a note and
gob an endorser."
"Hain'b 1 good for a hundred?"
"Yes, and a good hundred times that
amount."
"Then what doyen want of a note? Yon
know 111 pay it, non's yer ?"
"I have no death of it; but to loan money
withoutaeonrity is not thepproper way bo do
bnainoae."
"Pahew 11 only want the money for a
Month and It'll bo all right."
"5f yonlive, Bnt should you chanes to
die?'
"Die )' exelaimod tiro man as ho turned
WO with the Moab diegueted look poecible,
"who over heard, of a Man dying tit thirty
days l't
Nervoneness in Horses.
There is one respecb in whioh all tho
most distinguished trotters have resembled
each other, and that is in their nervous
energy, in high epirib and ooaroge. That
Eine which the Washington Hollow horse-
man detected in the eye of Flora Temple
Dame out afterward in the resolute buret of
speed with whioh she finished her fat
mtlea. Dexter was represented as being
"ohoak full of fire and deviltry," and
capable of jumping like a oat. Hiram
Woodruff spoke 01 his "wicked bead."
Goldsmith Maid had a strong will of her
own, and the excitement she betrayed on
the eve of a raoe showed how find was her
organ'zation. "She would stand quietly
enough,' says her driver, "while being
hitched to the sulky, although she had been
previonaly kinking and plunging in her
stall, but be would shake and tremble until
I have heard her feet make the same noleo
sgainat the hard ground that a person's
teeth will when the body is suddenly chill-
ed ; •'.,b is, her feet actually chattered
oa , ,•round. The instant I would get in-
to the aulky all this would pass away, and
oho would start in a walk far the track as
sober as any old horse you ever eaw." Rerus
was so nervous that he never could have
been driven with safety on the road, and his
oonrage was of the fioeeb temper. Ss. Julien
was exeeodiagly high abrun , and in hands
leen patient and dieoreeb than those of his
trainer might never have been subdued to
the purpose of racing. JayEye See, though
1 know leas of bis personal history, ie notori-
ous for the the plunk he showed ou hie lase
quarters of his hard miles, and Maud S. is
ibo most spirited, the moat determined, and
ab the same time the gentlest of animals.
This nervous energy ie the result of gener-
ations of breeding, and while ib insures
speed, calls for extra oars and attention.
Once in a great while a dull mottled horse
has [peed, bub the greab majority depend
upon the nervone energy to carry them
along. A well-bred toolbar noento the battle
from afar and goes into bhe aontaeb with a
readiness that shows not only a willing spir-
it, but a desire for tiro fray. t1n noosing, the
horse will often give evidenoot of ae muohin-
telligence as its owner, swinging Into line,
taking the right position, and showing by
every movemenb its love of the, contest. The
desire bo trot has been [soured y the breed-
ing, and ie the result of ncx votes energy
stored through generation[ and' trongthened
by education andfeeding.—(Atli ado Month-
ly.
The Surroundings of the Ear1l eat Amen -
valleys, we are too apo to think tont of bhe
stream, and ignore the eurroundir y
Though largely so, pa'u unlit/le m 8 t
strictly an amphibious creature; i,�°
aide ofthe ancient Dalai'
on each i
extended wide reaches of upla
and here, too, the rude hunter of
found game well worthy of his in
capture, and so powerful that i y
stood him well in need to es Daps their
equally determined efforbe to o tare hila.
While the seal and walrus dispo ted in bhe
river; while fish in oountleeo e" 'est rho
stemmed its fleode; while geese a d ducks de
myriads reefed upon bbe stream, eo, too, in
in
the foreeb roamed the moose, bhe elk,, the
reindeer, the bison, the extinct real tea -
ver, and the mastodon, all of lett' save
the elk, had long since loft for metre , nava
ernolimeo when European man fit 96 snorted
North America. (
The aeaoaiation of man and the 'htaehodon
is somewhab startling to moat peopl o .bub as
has bean time and again conolusiveli obown,
it is no unwarranted fanny. We oe e a t bo
aonaider the mastodon as a oreatu p
distant time in the unreoorded p
re of me
man must neoeeaarily have appprare ,eb, that
later upon the Beene. The truth is, d mach
atively speaking, the creature so 00mpar-
became extlnot that, in all probabi eeendly
historic Indians wore acquainted ty, our
Certain it is bhab in tho distant ion Rh ib.
the great Iso age, the maebodon c ago of•
and equally certain that with him lav xiebed,
primitive man who fabricated the rued bhab
pimento we have described. The b; de im.
the animal and the bones and weapons nos of
Man lie elite by tilde deep down in biro gi t"„''','
deposited by the floods from the me 1Cs
1004heeb.—[Popular Saimaa Monthly. ng
country:
ro
woo no
r instance,
are river
d forced,
the aims
ennib. to
11 his wit
Chicago produces an average of abet
suicides per week, or G00, in round nut
per year. . ,,.81 ,
A Pennsylvania farmer who was exam
bolero the Ways and Moyne Oominlbht
Washington on Tuesday lash spoke e
plain truths, whioh, however, it in b
feared, will not have much weight with
Committee. He said among other thl
that tiro proteotfve eyotem had not gl
biro farmer a home mat kat euff'iaient to e
penmen him for the ivaroasod cost of
artiolea ho had to coo bub did not raise,
wan In favor of reducing the cost of tb
artioleo bo blip farmer by rodtboiog,
duties,