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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1890-2-21, Page 3171.111.1P1MaliMMMAIIMINIMat r h a IA FE13, 14, 1890 . t lfawsariti to onranrrasi nvinsattlrafae YOUNG ' ' t ems _ FOLKS. TEE BRUSSELS POST. Warned. by a Vision. A TraZ'edy Prevented by a Dream. Tho Scotch express is apeedlog southward. Sunlight glide the autumn haldo into a golden glory and playa upon the (air hair of the man who coupled the oornor oppoeibe mine. Utterly undisturbed by Ha poreieh• enay ho made hie paper Moodily, paying no heed bo baaublee of landaoape, whloh wholly engross the other occupant of the carriage. I am studying the feces of my travelling °ampoulonu with eagerness, Why do they intoiob me thus? Why do I note the ebraighb features of my oppoite neigh- bor with suoh eager intermit '1 I mark the firm jaw, the rigid not of tho mouth visible even under the long moustache, 1 watch with uuuaual curiosity till the sun• light slants etraighb aoroee thoeo sbudious eyes, and with a frown the lido are raised for ,one brief moment, and a blind is hurriedly' jerked down. Pale blue eyes abrangely powerful through the inbone tY of oharaoter h w o h e somehow betray—terrible r oyes—boo stern to yield to any pleading. Why do I cower eo closely 'in my corner ? What have they to do with me ? The sun• light le shut out ; he is again ongroaoed in his paper ; my other traveling companion is still gazing oub of the window. Broad shoulders, covered by the sort of blank coat which gentlemen don't wear, incline me to wonder why he ie traveling first olase, The train le speeding on, Me journey will Boon be over. I shall see these men no more. Yet why do we atop ab no stations 7 Why da I never hear a whistle ? Why is the train so noiseless? Thle is a terrible journey. I never made one like ib before. It is like a nightmare, yet the carriage le real enough. 1 feel the motion of bhe train ; I floe the fame of these two men with terrible clearness. 1 oannob turn my eyes from them. Ah I A whlable ab last. We enter a tunnel. How dark, damp and cold it to I I never thought a tunnel terrible before. What is it ? Ye hat is happening ? Great heavens! Whab le thin numbing terror which ties me power- less to my teat? I hear nothing. The very Grain le gliding noiselessly along. Yee, Oa I God I what le thin? We aro out of the tunnel. The sunlight le streaming in on0e more and falls again on that fair head, but— It is no longer opposite to me. Ib is bonding over the dark manwho le lying motionless againse the cuehione, his head flung holplenely back. The fair man is feeling for something. Is he 11l? Ie Wale fair on an a doctor, and in he feeling for hie pulse? Ah 1 He rises from hie atoopiog position. He has aomethiog in hie hand, a racket of papers—and the other ? I Boom be know whab I shall see. I eiokon with horror. I reooil, bub something stronger than I forces my loathing eyee to look again. No wonder be lies so still, for, doobor or no, the fair man has found his heart and probed it with a dagger. Did I moan 1 Dld I only move ? The fair man turns. He makes one threatening /bop toward me. Some agoniz:d prayer half forms itoolf. Ah I what is this ? I am sink- ing—oinking—sinking. Hoe the earth open- ed to give me abetter? Hae— "My lady—my lady 1 De wake up I I oan'b finial packing till you're down, and you know the luggage most go at 10." My mala'e voice. I did not knew she was with me, Bub where am I? It is no tightly stuffed sloth ouahion in which my throbbing head to buried ; no, it is soft ae down, Ib is down. I am in my own bed, in my own room et dear Oakhurst. I have made no journey, leen—nothing. Ugh 1 I shudder us that ghastly picture again forces itself before me. A dream—can lthavebeen only a dream ? "0h, my lady! D3 tome yourself. past S and your tea is getting quite cold.' Maclean has been with me gime I first came oub—many years ago now, She knows well enough that I hate cold tee, and her devioe suooeede. I raise myself languidly and murmur, as I ebretoh oub my hand for my cup. "00, Maclean! I have had each a ghast- ly dream," "Have you, my lady? I'm afraid you did too much yesterday. Von certainly do look very white. I don't know what S,r Tommie will say if you lookliko that whoa you get to Leicester. You moat try to get Boma sleep In the train." I shudder again as a figure, still with the etillneoe that kuowe no waking, rime before my eyes. But Maolean goes on: Sir Thomas le sure no be at the station and yon must look well, my lady; now, do get up, or you'll have no time for a proper breakfast, and it's just food bhab you wanb, I believe." The thought of seeing 'T'om'e dear lace nn soon dooa mo good, so I yield to Maalean'a entreaty, and get up. Two hours later we were at the station. St. Enoah's Station, Glasgow, is hardly the place to dream dreams or see visions ; bo ,ides, Maclean was right, I did want my breakfast, all the bettor for it. I am rather I feel er lobe—I generally am—and have only time to give the guard Maoloan'o ticket and get into the oatrtoge, where she has already Ineballed my wraps and traveling bag. I always lend maid and luggage first ; I hate being bothered, and loathe waiting about, We aro off. I open the newspaper, and my oyea travel down the first column with- out finding anything to arrest them. What a sunny morning it le ; it will be frightfully hot by and by. Really, the bun comae in as persistently au it did in my dream, Ugh I bhab dream, I raise my eyes. Good heavens! am I dreaming again ? In the far corner, steadily reading the "Times," while the bunlighb plays on close out yellow hair, site the man of my dream. The glaring light brings his features into prominence and nob in the minutest detail do they vary from thoeo burnt ho upon my brain. Will he look up 7 Shall I see those terrible eyed, with the hard, cold light whiting in their blue Y If l Iknow bhabIshall The would jaor ot me I "Oh, guard, jueb toll that boy bo brlog mo sumo truth." I don't want it, bub as 1 was anal a fool as to call film, I must say something. I buy some rather nice looking pears, and on we go aoaln. No sign of my dark: friend, The fair one boo fmiehed the "Timor," and le now deep in something else, He is rather good looking, with a ebrango Hort of dieball• nal 'althea:, Poor man, why should 1 brand him criminal 7 How Tom will laugh when I toll him about it, I have pretty well around. But Irene wee gutting old an shaken off my terror, and, divlog Into my Elsa had to help him to till the libble plots travelling bag, I produce "King Solomon s of Indian corn and millet round the chaplet, SAVED BY A SO11G. In a faraway !lyroloae valley lived little Elea In a log chaplet olong with her old grandfather,, Frowning precipices macerated bhe narrow strip of meadow that bordered bhe rushing steam, laming from the giants of anew and rock towering Into bbo sky all Minos," and atm noon lost to all remora• bronco of time or place. "Dumfries." I look up languidly; no one is likely to gob in hero. Oh, really, as if peopled with oareorowe. She had to this le boo bad I A tall, broad shouldered drive the cows to bhe upland pastures and man, evidently nob a gentleman, who had been walking in the oppoeibe direction, turns ouddenly. Why on earth is he travelling first clase? Good heavens ? It la the dark man of my dream ! Rio hand le on the door; his °yea meet mine with that search. ing, straightforward look I remember so his mouth h linen about wolf. I mark the and chin, the massive head, the long, thick hair. I am eiok and cold ; 1 oannob move— oannob raise a finger to warn him back, The fair man made on. The handle turns, a bundle of ruga le thrown in, hie foot Is on the step. Something seems to snap In my brain, Clutching the aides of the oarrage I try to rise, and say feebly, brokenly . "I-1 beg your pardon, air, bub I feel very ill, and-1—haVe sprained my foot, and I mush get out. Will you help me 7" He raises his hat. "Certainly, madam. Bub ahall I nob get you Dome wine or brandy ? You look very wbito." "No, oh, no I" I exclaim with feverish eagerness, "Only help me oub.' He looks eurprieed, bub complies. Ae I touch the platform Boma feeling compels me to turn round, Those chill blue eyes are fixed fall upon my companion. I burn sick and faint again, and cling desperately to bhe arm he has offered me. "Where shall I take you ?" he le aayiag. "Anywhere, only away from that horrible carriage," I murmur hoarsely, His look of bewilderment rouses me, "Don't think me utterly mad," I say, "I had a horrible dreamiest night. I woe travel- ing on uhle line. Two men wore in the car- riage ; one was a fair man, the other—your- self. When we entered bhe next tunnel he was oppoeibe me ; you were in the far oornor When we emerged he wee bending over you, fooling for something" (my companion cash a searching glance at me). "Your head was thrown back against bhe cushion ; you were—dead 1 Think me au grout a fool ae you please, bub, for heavan's take, don't travel with that man." "Train's going. Take your Beate—bake your Beats' The dark man again raised hie hat, "I thank you greatly, madam," he said gravely." "You may have done me more service than von know. I shall certainly not travel with that gentleman and I shell take ware never to put myself in his power." He pub me into a carrioggrplingiog hastily into the next just as the train moved off. When we gob to Leicester, and 1 saw Tom waiting for me on the plobform, I all but broke down, but just managed to save a scene. Poor Tom couldn't make out what on earth I'd been doing to make myself look each a wreck, and be was much puzzled by my having no email paroels. I explained bhab I had changed carriages, which still further bewildered him, The guard soon retrieved all my belongings and when I sow the door of thot terrible carriage filled by hie burly form, I took courage to walk past it, even to look in. The fair man was gone. Had he found hie victim after all? No. There, comfortably enjoying a huge pipe, and looking as unconcerned as potBible, nab my dark friend, in the corner of a smoking oarriage. To Tom's vast astonishment he book off his hob as we passed. " Who the deuce is that?' nuked my hue• band. But 1 did not tell him until we had driven off in the dogcart, for I would not leo Maoleon hear a word of ie. She would lose all respect for the mietroas whose only superiority, to her thinking, lies in her lack of supereblbion. We epenb bhe greater part of the winter in town ; being in the country only put us both one of temper, It was maddening to watch the horsee eottng their heado off, while Jock Frost riled the earth with hie iron away. 1 took the opportunity to lay in a stook of new gowns. One mush do some• thing. One Monday afternoon, the S h of Feb' ruary, as I was on my way to my dress maker's, the carriaree was stopped by a workingman. " Bog your pardon, ma'am, bub you'd beet go home. T6ere'sgoing to be riobing.-' I thanked him, but remembering that there was some huge workmen's meeting in Trafalgar square, I thought all the mob old the that direction t would b e in onaohman to drive on to North Audley street. Scarcely had we entered it when we found ourselvoe in the midst of a groaning, yelling crowd. Some were drinking out of huge square bottles, othere were smashing windows with those they had emptied. Sheet offer sheet of plate glom shivered on all sides. By the pavement ab my left some men had seized a girl, quite a rough creature, apparently one of themselves, but she wan struggling hard to get away, poor thing, and no wondet, for they were forcing raw meat down her throat, others were kicking about a whole sheep, while some played football with u round of beef. It was impoeeible either to go on or to go back ; we were hemmed in, The hornet' heads were seized, the carriage doors flung open, rough hands pub in to seize my muff, the bangles on, my wrists, my very earrings; "Shut those doors, Let go thoeo horses," thundered a'yofoe, A toll man, holding a red ba , Mande by tho window. The dark and when the oheavoe were rope to hang them up bo dry upon wooden Waves with branching arms, whish made the fields look depbho7 es, ee — nulighb will slant aoroee hie face, in mft • k as 11 df u I Warned, hR 0 yimeelf closes the oar ing° door the man whom as Coldy ywith terrordream anforce r, I watch helplesely. The he says with a bow: "One good turn bun rays dip lower and lower, tab, ah 1 how deserves another, madam. Paso on." olowly1 Ab lent with a trown he raises his Who woo he 7 Who wail the fair men 7 head, and jerking kown the blind, mama i And did they over mese again 7 I fear I hie reading, But I have seen those chill, I shall never know._[ London News. solentloes eyes, which teem, to frac?, 1 my very Awful Beene ata Bull Fight. souk I mock the white„ all ba a bands, and comes to hand of a most liar• boa aide The story c wonder atupidlya if erre Where bag by Y loontaias that d,,ggor. Where io its victim t tibio scene at a bull Saha in Cadiz, The Bah 1 I ant a fool. Dwaine I happen to favorite evade," Et Sobanero had do have a nightmare about a fair man awed then emended into the arena to give the coup de find myself traveling with some one whom grace to a bull, but as he roieed the dagger my distorted fancy clothes with hilt likeness, the enraged animal gave him a fearful blow I mush needs Imagine that my dream is to with his horns that pierced hie chest, A be realised; an if dreame ever were realized second blow torn away the unfortunate, ea- -mine at load, I turn to my paper and try pada'u j tw, Amldeb the tumult of bbo popu to inbereet myself In its aolumi n, All in late a second oepado jumped into the arena vain ; were my traveling companion a to avenge hie master. With bhe greaten nteen,eriot ho could nob faaoinate me more. 000lnoon be e thou biwith weapon apon into eleott cthe bullk rooks I don't seem to faooioato him, however, nook, and g Except to pull down that blind he has never the raging bull fell dead, Amidst the , "Como forward, my men l" cried the once looked up, 1 don't) believe he bps the frenzied ebonite of the Multi ih Ode t saluted lime. battlePoona will yet bin ;l"our fi tg still 11 tats and the vaguest idea that he is traveling with a coolly bowed to the eh enna and 1f bhe account be correct, after bilis en Ills men, dioaouroged and ready to lly, art)cula pretty woman,bull fight want on un- rallied at tine command, and with a °hoer P crdI"1'Kilmarnock. 1 will /Will n carriages, rehearsed11tone the g 4 gone "Guard 1" No, anything n it I l se a afoot. thgo Surely �rnorBoman wpopulaoo wee £o In a ehorb time they had won the victory Arone:id forward. there , i anything o it 111 see it oub, through,Y A;u?'thing in it 1 What rubbinh ! Ilow Tom over Mere Mattel and oalioNa Vo human Iifo 1 and put bho enemy to dight, to make bhe cheese which, every wook, old Franz curried in a basket on hie book down the valley to self ab the oearesb village But when her work waa over she would have been very dull in the evenings while her grandfather sat and dozed in hie arm chair bub for the companionship of her pet and k and 'n loos head d bac b with his bullfino w > g Y fetooab. hie br tekdueh colored wa The grandfather had brought him a: a present to Elsa when he woe quite a young bird; and bhe labbor's kindneue soon tamed him so that he could eat out of her hand. Then hie education began, and on long winter evenings. when the wind roared through bho formmb and the river raged past the hut, OA Franz would pull out his olarfonob, and by the light of bhe wood fire teach Bullie to pipe. After much time and patience had been expended on him, one day, to Ole little mietrees'e delight, ho whfoblod through bhe Austrian national hymn, "God Save Franz, the Emperor," without a mistake. Elea was never dull now, for there. was always some new tune to be taught Bailie, and she and the bird became inseparable. And thus, when one Sunday morning early she and her grandfather, both of them dressed in bheir beet, started over the mountain to the feaat at Imeb, she tied up Bullie'e oago in a hondkerohfef and took him with her. The streets of Inlet were crowded with poaeaote in holiday dreee, proceeding to the outdoor Wage, where was performed the annual rollgioue play. The roof was the blue sky, bhe background the :now peaks, and Elsa eat and liebened, oponmoubhed, to the quaint mixture of Old Toebament story Had Ancient legend. Dinner followed ea Frau Luia's, a cousin's, after whish Bailie hopped oub of the cage and went through hie performances, Rio shrill notes rang oub into the street, and Melchior, the peddler, came, and, taking him on hie dnXer, liotened critically. Melohofr dealt in every sore of ware and was a great: traveler, knowing every village and valley in the diatriob, and sometimes even going as far ae Innsbruck or Munchen. "That's a floe bird of yours. Father Franz. I don't mind giving you ben florins for him. What do you say?" Poor Elea gave a little ory of dismay, but was relievedto hear her grandfather's reply. "Gold won't boy him. Friend Melchior, thank you. He's my libble maiden's pet.' After dinner bhe three made the round of the fair. They watched thepearants riff, shooting at targets, doacing under the trace and singing Bono to the zither with wild, "joddling" choruses, and only lately regain- ed their valley home, A few weeks later winter sob in, with un- usual violence of storm and rain, and brought dixe misfortune to Elea. Her grand- father was confined to bed with rheuma- tism; and the river rising suddenly in bhe night and flooding the valley, oarrled off their crops and drowned the two oowe, their chief support. The damn and anxiety made the old man ao ill thab Elea became quite anxious. Their food and their money were exbaneted; and there WOO no more milk to make cheese for sale. Elea was at her wits' and what to do, when a oheery pipe from Balite reminded her of Melohlor'e words. If she sold the bird she could procure medicine and food for her grandfather. But ie was a bitter wrench, and the bears rolled down her cheeks and wet Bullle's glossy mob, aa, taking him from his cage, she pressed him to her lips for a last kiss. Then she told her grandfather she was off to Inlet bo buy provislone. There was a lull in the storm, but the mountains were mailed in cotton wool like fog as the brave little maiden ascended the winding path. The moisture ohilled her to the bone, and the white world around her frightened her by its silence. Bub on she went, and the fog closed stealthily around, and gradually hid bho path and every landmark from her eight. Struggling on in her terror, a rift in the mist showed her that she was utterly loeb, and on the brink of a yawning precipice. Overcame with fatigue and fear, Elea sank to the ground, hiding Bullie'/ oage ander her cloak, and gave herself up for lose. The oold tog wrapped her in its chilly embrace, and e her it stole over o gradually ' etor r a deathlike g Y P when the two It was nearly nightfall wood -cutters, sent by their anxious grand. father to search for her, oamo groping their way through the fog, fearing the woreb tor her. Suddenly, through the awful stillness a familiar sound obruok on their ears and the ahr ill. notes of the Emperor's hymn name ringing through the gloom. It was Bullie piping away cheerily from beneath the warm shelter of Ws poor little mistress, whom they found lying unconscious in a most perilous spot. Thus had the little bird raved Elsa s life,—[ Exchange, And then they gathered around tho brave elephant, offering to lead him where he could be fed and oared for. But, though wounded and worn, the obedient creature would not move until he heard his maator's voice, The muster could never spank again, A rider was sent io groat haebe to a plane fifty miles away, whore lived the driver's little eon, whom the elephant knew and loved, When the little boy wag brought to the batbleground the elephaab showed very plainly that he waa glad to see him and permitted the child to lead him away. Food for Thought. "Pay au you go," saith the proverb. But, comments one, "What if I oen'b pay 7" Then don't go 1 If men wish to be held in esteem they must immolate with thee° who are octim able, A cause or principle le not necessarily wrong b who advocate on because somo 0 f aloe or sooneintenb. i6 aro injudiciousi Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humility, calm fortitude, take roob and obrongly flourish. Whatever le Doming, there is but one way to meet it—to go etraighb forward, bo bear what ban to be borne, and to do what has to bo done, G ood temper is like a sunny day, ib shade a brlghbneee over ever) thing, ib is the sweetener of boll, and the soother of die. quietude. There will never exist anything perman- ently noble and excellent in a oharaoter which la a stranger to the exoeroioe of reao. lute self•deniol. No one can ask honestly or hopefully to be delivered from temptation unlace ho has himself honestly and firmly determined to do the beat he oat to keep out of it.—[R ce- kin. Some people, suggestively remarks a sharp critic, are so busy meddling with other people's bneineee that 10 would not be sur. prieing at the general resurrection to find some of these everlasting enoope gebting out of somebody else's grave. There f: no key to them dark lebteringa ; we cannot brace them through oar blinding tears ; here we have only partial llnke. But God has the whole chain unbroken in hie hand. And this we know—ib is enough to know—that nothing onmee wrong that comes from him. --(al. C. Duff. Give me these links : First, sense of need ; oeoond, desire to get ; third, belief that God has in store ; fourth, belief that though he withholds awhile, he loves no be coked; and fifob, belief bhab asking will obtain. Give these links, and bhe ahem will reach from earth to heaven, bringing heaven •town ho me, or bearing me up to heaven.— [Guthrie. What are man better than sheep or goats That nourish a blind life within the brain, If, knowing God, they lift nob hands in prover, Both for themselves, and those who colt them friends ? For eo the whole round earth is every way Bound by gold chains about th,. tem of God. —[lenayson. Each one of us is bound to make the little circle in which he lives bettor and happier ; each one of us is bound to see that out of ohab small circle the widest good may flow ; each one of us may have fired in his mind :he thought bhab out of a single household may flow influences that shall stimulate the whole oommonwealbh and the w hole civilized world.—[Dean Stanley. Show me a spot on this planet ben miles quare where a decent man oan live in deoeo- oy and comfort and security, supporting and educating hie ohildeen unapoiled and unpol• toted, where manhood is respected, women honored and human life held in due regard, and when akopbios clan find enoh a place where the gospel of Christ has not first gone and oleared bhe way, and laid foundation:, and made decency and seourity portable, and then lb will be in order for the skeptical literati to move thither and there ventilate their views.—[James Russell Lowell. A Very Obedient Blephaut. In some oounbrieoin Asia an elephant is made to carry the flag in battles. This is because the elephant is Bo ball, mud the soldiers eon easily Bee the flag flying from his back. Oae of these elephants, whioh belonged to the Poona host, was vory brave and very kind, bub he would obey the order of no one except hlo mahout, or driver, One time, while a very lleroo fight wa raginmy brave ebeasb,and l' driver stlled utA moment labe the mahout received a teed wound and fel to the ground, where he lay beneath a pile' of wounded and Blain. The obedient animal would not move though the battle raged floreely around him The Poona soldiers who feared they were being ovoroomc, wore ohaored on by the sight of the flag shill floating from hie bank He never shirred a foot, and all through the hot fight, the noble, the smoke, the con fusion, listened patiently for the voloo of hi matter. Sharp spears were hurled at him, a some of javelins planed Ole admit, his long ears dripped with blood, but he stood like a Miooellaneens. Light guards—lanterns. What is the difference between an honest and diohoneet laundress?—The former irons your linen ane the latter steals (tweets) le. "Marriages are made in heaven," quobh Mies Antique. "Then there is some chance for you yob," was the cool reply of her younger sister. While one of Piebeburg'e mounted police• mon was chasing a criminal hie horse sud- denly lay down. The policeman got off, and so did the fugitive. Mammo"Yon must not nab so many y sweets, Flossie—it will lojuro your Beeth l' Flossie : "How long will it be before I can take my teeth out like grandma does?" A legal Peroeoution,--Witiow—"1 hear Jones has been arrested for keeping a cow."a" Bltso—"For keeping a cow ? What outrage?" "Yee, she belonged to another man," She (ab bhe mint)—"Ah, now I know, Harry, why I think you as good as gold." He—"0, get: out I" She—"No ; but you aro, really. You are proceed for money, you know." Old Ooehbox, to applicant for olerkehip "Havo you any bad habits, young man?' Applicant, with humility : '1 sometimes think I drink too much water with my meals." Small boy : "Papa, what does 'monoton- cue' mean 1" Father, wearily : "Wait till your mother begins bo talk dross with your aunt, my boy ; then you'll realize the full meaning of the word." Mudge ; "Doctor, if I were to lotto my mind do you suppose 1 would bo awore of it myself 7" Dr. Bolero: "You would nob. And very likely none of your acquolntanoe would notloe it either." 13trbar (running Ilia kande through on, tomer'/ halt)—"Your head, sir, ie quite—' Customer (irritably)—"You gave it sham- poo yourself two days ago," Barber (hick. ly recovering)—"lb's quite a remarkably well shaped head, sir, They had chickens for dinner, and bhe hoot said to the guest: "Didn't] I hoar you say that you liked bho nook of the thicken beet?' The visitor, who liked the nook with oome of the rest, tall "Yes." "Well, you shall have both of these nooks." and that was all he gob. S .,.esetanitablailiatell .14S) -- TBB UkbA'1'b1y'1liCFIBEYOHII)IThe Sliephordaxdthe Jogfe. -- In the old Lantern lea ends it la related The Amnao, one Hundred Silks 1110lc at , bhab luring the reign of King Cutch, nomad Ole mouth. ( Laheh, a Jogle lived mho was a wire mon The Amazon, if the I'aro River be loolud• ed all the southern channel, le 100 mileo wide ab its mouth, Pare iraalf, the north- arnmoab city of Brazil, Iies at the gateway' of the most wonderful river eyetom of the world, It le bhe commercial depot and die. tribetlag point for 40,000 mileo of navigable water, The Amazon water shed etnbracee twenty -flue degrees of latitude and thirty five degrees of longitude, Its western Benno are in bhe Andes of Peru and Eouodor, only a few leagues from the Paoifio, Ito northern tributaries travoroe the berdore of Guinea and Colombia, while midway the headwater and wotderlully kkilled in ibe preporatien of her be. For yeius bo had been ocoaiped search Ing for a peculiar kind of green, the roots of which obould he burnt and a mart thrown Into the flames. The body so burnt would become gold, and any of the momberu might be removed without the body eaotaln- Ing any lose, as the vertu so taken would a ways be eelf•roetored. It ao ooerred that thle Jogio, while foIa lowing to {look of gouts, obeorvod one among bhrtn eating of the grass he was Bo anxloun to procure, He immediately rooted ft up and desired the shepherd who woe near to of the Negro mingle with those of the Orin• j bads ot f e�tsd in bhe wood and kinre d. Wa dumve Hoo in the wedtarn spurs of the Sierra de into which the grass was thrrwn, the Joglo,, wdohing to render the shepherd the victim. of hie avarioe, desired him under some pre- tense to make a few airouite around the fire. The man, however, suspeoting foul play, wabohed hie opportunity and, seizing the J ogie hitneelf, he threw him into the fire and left him to be consumed. Next day, on returning to the epee, great was hie enrprlee to behold the golden figure of a man lying among the embers, Re immediately ohopped off one of the limbo and bid it. The next day he returned to take another, when hie astonishment wan yet greater to see that a fresh limb had re- placed the one already taken. In short, the ahephord soon became wealthy and revealed the eeoreb of his rich- es to the king Laheh, who by the same means accumulated so much gold thee every day he was in the habit of giving one lac and 25,000 rupees in alms to the poor. Paoara'ma. On the south the Madeira bol innumerable eourees in the mountain levole of Bolivia, while the Tapajoa, the Xingu, and the Too. Entine penetrate the central provinces of Brazil, If a comparatively email group of o thea amount, ' a s be loft out f vm e southern pro me bhe Amazon, with its tributaries, hurice water eyatem for an area Larger thfor the an that of the States or Canada. 11 furniehee the only means of oommunloation between the smaller centres ot population in fully one-half of the vast territories of Brazil. Between most of its leading tributaries are broad stretches of IMPENETRABLE FORESTS which wore never explored by white men, Ib is the Anne, ,n aleoo that renders any form of goveramenb possible in the heart of South America. W ibhinethe range of bhe 40,000miles of navigable water Bebblements have been made, rubber farms opened, and maga Mentes empowered to condaot local admini- stration. Para, lying ab the eonthornmost outlet] of the Amozin, lees than 700 miles from the sea, )s the metropolis of this won- derful valley. It ie a city wioh perhaps 50,000 inhabitants, and with as much cam meroiol enterprise as is possible ender the equator. The commerce of oho Amazon is nominally carried on under the Brez lion flag. Foreign. ere are not allowed by law to own steamers or sailing veeeela employed in inland navi- gation; and hence it is neoeeeary for the English capitalists who control the oorry ing trade of the river to assign their inter- ests to Brazilians. There are forty steamers owned by an English line, which receives a large mail subsidy from the Brazilian Gov• eromenb for plying between various ports and villages on the main tributaries : and In return for this financial eupporb it is well satisfied to fly the national flog. Another company has eight steamers, under similar conditions; and there era as many as a dozen more on the river and its tributarfee whioh sail the Brazilian flag. 'These sixty oteamere axe gradually opening the Amezao valley to oommerce. Only the smaller vela Bela are now running beyond Maraud ab the junobioo on the Negro. bnb next year the largest English vessels will make regular tripe to Ygoebos, 3,750 miles from the coach, Some of the tributaries are only navigable 'or long distances at high water duriog certain months of the year but bhe lower villegeo on their banks are visited by a steamer oche or twice a mouth. T1IIS RIVER TRADE in almost completely in the hands of the Portugneee merchants and the mercantile houses represented at Para. Mance, with a population of 15 000, is the most flourish- ing town week of Para. The other settle- ments, wibh few exceptions, are straggling villages inhabited mainly by negroea, Indians and half•hreede, The forests of the Amazon, consisting mainly of hard wood, are not available for commercial requirements. The finest of rosewood and mahogany are used there for firewood. Even if there were a demand for hardwood lumber ab Para, it could nob be logged and brought to market on a large scale, owing bo bhe denaiey of the woods and the lack of roade and oloarings. The one tree which is a source of wealth in these immense foreete is the rubber tree. It fa found everywhere, from the lowlying delta opposite Para to the Tapojos, the Madeira, and the Negro, and probably bhoueanda of miles beyond those goeab tributaries. In bhe interior roads are impracticable, and the rub- ber trees that are milked lie along the river, where the forme can be approached. The milk loan only be drawn at certain levels of the river, for the trunks of bhe trees are often fifteen or twenty feet under water after the rainy amens. When the oonditiono are foveroble the bark of the trees le tapped and the milk drawn off in cups to be compacted and rolled bogether layer by layer like a snowball, Ib is then cooked or smoked over a fire made of etioks—a process that involved contraction in cooling and imparts elastlbity to the oub• otanoe—end then it is ready for eleipmeob to Para. The operation of aunh forme and the opening of new veins of teens in the trackless ewampo and forests require the employment of native labor under the moat inclement conditions of Ina recent grammar oxaminatien, in ono of the Boston oohoole, a /lase was required to write a sentence containing a noun in the objective oago. One of the boys wrote the following sentence : "The cow does tot like to be linked " '`What noun le there in the objective naso?" naked the teacher. "Cow 1" cold the boy. "Why is'oow' in the objective ease 7" "Buono() the now objoote to being licked," Food for Thought. Good thought/, good words, good deeds, make up a good day ; seven good days make the round or a week. Goodness in the heart makes all time good ; Bo, i1 you will have " a good time,' have t good heart 10 may be proved with much certainty that God Intends no man to live in thle world withont working ; but it seems no lees evident that he intends every man to be happy in his work, Nothing sharpens the arrow of earoosm so keenly as bho courtesy that polishes It. No reproach is like that we clothe with a smile and present with a bow. Death, to n good old man or woman, is the Doming of the heart to its blossoming time. Do we oall it dying when the bud. bursts into a flower? Leb no one be discouraged because hie time is fully occupied. An industrious man's odd minutes aro worth more than a lazy man's all day. To think kindly is good, to speak kindly is better, but to alb kindly ie beat. Let warm loving light shine on all around you, and you will never lack Mende. If there is really no euob a thing as uneol- fishneos, as has been said, it is a very sweet kind of selfishness that prefers the pleasure and happiness of another before his own. Leb the things which thy heart suggests to thee to say be well considered before they pass on to the tongue ; for thou wilt perceive that it would be well bo keep back many of them. Success is rarely a matter of accident— always a matter of character. The reason why eo many men fail is that so few men are willing to pay she price of eolf•denial and. bard work which auoeees exacta, What the Searoh-light 1s. The eearoh-light Qon:iets of a powerful are light, uenally ot about 25,000 candle power, 000tained in a metal cylinder about bhiroy inches in diameter. One end of the cylinder le closed by a silvered concave reflecting. lens. The carbon pointe of the lamp are placed in such a position within the cylinder as to bring them In the focus of the len,. The opposite or front end of the cylinder in fibbed with glass doors, through whish the beam of light passes. The apparatus is on a pivot ao thab ib may be revolved around the centre, and it is also arranged for elevation and depression from a horiz Jabal petition. Ae ordinarily used, the beam ot light emerging from the cylinder is so oonoea- trated that at the diabance of 1000 yards from the ship ib illuminates a path only about fifteen yards is width. When neoeeeary, however, a broader are can be illuminated. One of bhe 20,000 candle- power lights will reveal an object ab o dis- tance of two and one -halt miles. The effect of the perpendionlar search- light in a fog, to those ab a distance, has been deeoribed as very much resembling the aurora borealis. EQUATORIAL HEAT AND RAINS, If there be any quarter of the world where nature seems to command inaction and Indo. levee, it is in those vast sbretohes of bhe Amazonian forint. Nowhere else can exist. once be sustained with so email an expends. tore of effort. Oa an caro of cleared land beans can be rale - ed in sufficient quantity to keep eonl and body together with the adventitione aide of nuts and fruibfrom the woods. A torpid, somnolent existence theme to bo the imperious require. mane of the climate. The Indiana, half. breeds, and nogroes in the villages can live, if they choose to do so, with what may be described as the minimum of human labor involved in obtaining a livelihood. They inofinotively resist all appeals to ambition and self.interest. The efforts of rubber farm - ere and agents to induce them to :hare in bhe dangers and labor involved in exploring the forest and striking now veins of rubber trees are ordinarily futile; and bho employ- ment of even the poorest classes of labor is carried on under the most insuperable bit- )Bulbioo, In Great Look. i' Poor boy 1 your father disinherited you, T heart" "Yes. Daat old dad ; he always looked after me." " What do you mean?' Why, the old man died head over heels in debt . All that went to my brother:, _-[Harpor'e Bs z tr. Drawing the Line at "Rid -Ridded" Beans sea wornin —be 01 kin rave B Y Msid , mim : Ol'm gointer lava yeas this day week." Mistress—" Why, what's bhe matter. Nora ?" Maid—" Ther cook has a new beau, min," Mietrees—" I cannot see why you should lemon me on that immune," Mold—" 01 don't like him, min." Mtebrone—"Why not? What has he said 7" Maid—" Nawthin, mim; bub he's bad luck." Mistress—" Bad look 1" Maid—Yin, mim, ; he's rid•hidded an' that cork eyed he can see in both his core ter want," Tho Emperor William hail eebabliehed uniform for the court hunts. The dreee e never to be worn exeepb at the Emperor's hunting partial, and only by those parson. ogee who have been granted the privilege of thus attiring bhemoolvoe, of whom thorn aro at present only tet. The uniform con• Put in your bosh licks all bho tome.—[Cone• sista of a double-breasted grey frook omit,( with geese -green Dollar and lapelo, grey and `try (lenticllben, green striped pantaloon:, high boot: and McGlnhy went to the bottom of the sea to grey Tyroleto hot with a wide green band. find out how large the orop of 0uokore WM, An Investment• "That would be an exceedingly good in- vestment," said a tailor to one of hie younger customers, " What is that?" " One of those new fancy waiobooabs,"was the business -like reply. Would Make a Good Short Stop. "0f what nationality in your friend —a Brazilian 7" Well, I guess he'd half Brazil and semf— Colon•" A Romano° Blighted. Young clergyman (taking his fair parish. loner by the hand) —" My (kart/Use Amanda, I foelfthat I atm no tenger conceal the omo- tious of my heart, I must spook to you now of the hopoe I have long oherlohed, the deep levo—" Parrot (working hie head out of muzz'ein cage over piano) —" Cub it short pard 1 Cub 'or abort 1 You make me tired 7" Young clergyman (itifliy)—Resuming or oouvereation of some moments ago, Mien Janoint, my opinion ooncernieg D'Aubigno'o ' History of the Reformation' le," oho., eta,