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AFRICA,
TEE BRUSSELS POST.
encoded 111 terrible internee, them tire the
80(.110$ of blood Stroug)? which the march of
r I 1 '1 1715 • 1 tel I 1
with grim reelity there lute alwayil been
A til.8mont IttettA(I'd
1011101111)181011101111)18Invested South A Mut with he hal(
• tef a future Eldorado, andscued reit front th
. ;Pullin -relive ;,1 the world, The mitotic ir
proplieey descended coi the shoeldere of 1111ir
chum then wanderers 1010 t0111 theie (elven
1111014 in story and In veese ; the rerclitiem o
to-tlay aro the romances of twenty year.
ago. C11"11121111100 111 110111 SSW/118114 OA a
ill1I1 WAN, 01111 will advance rapidly am
comprehensively, The ;armies and defeats
of the past will be the etepping-stones
the future. Territorial extension by forc-
ible annexation is being superseded by the
peaceful and diplomatic mode of obtaining
a, reining in native 000(11r108 by meteus of
coneeseicnis from entramount chiefs, 40 010-
limey, laden with presents, vents the king
of IL desirable country, and should he prove
friendly, as is often the 01130, peaceful
negotiations are Mitered upon with the ob-
ject of obtaining a concession, or right to
hula, trade, arid mine in a portion, or the
whole, of his kingdom. Rifles, ammunition,
textile fabrics, and money from the 0011008.
1310110141.1S Meilitate the completion of the
bargain ; everything is done in an orderly
nituiner ; pene, Mk, and paper are produc-
ed ; an agenneent is drawn up and the
liable monarch for the first time in his life
handles pen, and attaches i1131 mark to 0
document which in his eyes possessee talis-
manic powers.
The latest outcome
of concessionm
s fro
native chiefs is the recently incorporated
British South Africa Company, which 1 ly the
terms of its charter is granted power to
develop, ndminister, and govern a tract of
comary nearly four hundred thousand square
miles in extent, lying between the Central
and Lower Zambesi on the north and the
frontier of the Transvaal on the south. This
vast addition to the British empire inoltules
some of the finest and
FAIREST PORTIONS OF 10111 EARTII'S SURFACE.
Matabeleland and Alashonaland, which are
included within the scheme of the company's
operations, are eminently fitted for per.
00118111 occupation by Anglo-Saxon settlers.
The are mostly high table -lands, five thou -
01(11(1 feet nlove the sea lee -el, which means
in those latitudes a climate similar to that of
the Transvaal high veldt, almost ideal in its
cool, clear, and invigorating character. The
mere superficial expknation of British
Zambesilend—the 1100(8 of the newly
cquired territory—reveals unlimited com-
mercial and agricultural potentialities,
numerous tribes of peaceful and in-
dustrious natives ready to ally them-
selves with those white nations who will
treat them fairly and honestly and protect
them from slavery ; wonderful fertility of
soil, magnificent forests, plentiful streams,
and abundance of useful minerals and pre-
cious 1110101011101010There are drawbacks, such as
patches of waterless desert and swampy
valleys productive of malaria; but they can
detract very little trom the advantages of
vast country on which Nature has bestowed
her favours with such a lavish hand. In
addition to British Zambesilancl, there are
other portions of South-eastern and South-
western Africa towards which, as lands of
promise, European nations are directing
their attention. Exploration proves the ex.
istence, throughout the whole of the south-
ern portion of the continent, of
SPLENDID NATURR
AL ESOURCES
p ()m•
eet Me y otnet e 811
ROMANOE AND REALITY IN THE
DARK CONTINENT,
--
weaderrut Na; rind 1.111.11011111.)111-
51011,4 Ilr Ant -fent mining 011(,311 101115
81110 111 gigia Among the 1111)18 Englund
Secures gen 111111 red Thema Ild SIlU0
81110e or New Terrirory,
Recent remarkable dieeoveries of gold in
portions of South Africa °templed hy tern
ropeans have led to the active investigation
of adjoining teccitocice which are still the
undisputed home of the black min, Border-
ing on countries which have for many yearn
enjoyed the blessinge of civilization, there
are vast; regione possessing great natural cid-
vantages and resciurces, but only just mink-
enieg the pmetical interest of the enlighten -
oil world The iffinthitents of these hither-
to obscure regions arc bitelarians, steeped in
Ignore -me and superstition. A few tribes
1610 ef warlike disposition ; Ina the majority
(010 tracteele, and susceptible to the soften -
Mg influences of truth and light.
Until recently, the few white men—in-
trepid 10011018 and adventurous traders—
who penetrated the depthe of these unknown
(011118, returned to civilization with glowing
amounts of their beauty mut wealth. Fee -
pent dangers were encountered and great
hardehips endured by the wanderers, who
were the only sources of information on the
arcane of the interior. Stretches of sandy
desort--"thirst," as thein itrid tracts aro
laconically called—where both themselves
and their cattle severely felt the want of
water • the tsetse fly, whose bite is as fatal
to cattle 05 that of the cobra 18 10 human be-
ings ; stony plains, formidable hillte end
inalarions valleys were
:AMONG TUE DIFFICULTIES
A
YOUNG FOLXS. I Th6 111111111(11011110feature the giant tweakeil WAKI1 UP, BOYS,
Nee Burtlar.
Ili 115018prayer-meeting night, end the
grown-ups ' wide all The hue era
around the kitehen fire popping corn and
• tellnig 1/1001-eurtiling taint
f 'rho Mencius s, in from next door
they surmounted. Their toilsome journe
over, they found lands of eternal springs,
genial climes of such fertility that the fruits
of the earth were abundently reaped with-
out cultivation ; flocks and herbs roaming
over the grassy undulations; gigantie forests;
rivers of ele(10 water; valuable wild beasts
and birds; and mune of all descriptions. They
brought samples of virgin goltl, ornaments
of rude workmanship, ivory, skins, and fea-
thers, with which to corroborate the stories
of their adventures. Their recitals of the
wonders of the countries they had visited
-were tinctured with archeology; they gave
graphic accounts of the traces of mines, the
gold digging of past eges, old workings still
extant as examples of ancient engineering
skill; they told of mysterious caves where
hidden treeaures of gold, precious stones,
and antique objects of virte, were jealously
guarded; and they described magnificent
ruins, the remains of departed civilisation
and grandeur. They depicted the natives in
all the barbaric splendour of the skins of
wild animals, gold and silver bangles, ear-
rings, ancluncoothileweley;fanetstiettlly care--
ederlabs, aesegais,and shields; their faces and
forms painted and hideously disfigured;
their passions excited by war -dances, songs
of triumph, and inordinate eating and
drinking; tend, in theepale clear light of the
African moon, indulging in grisly orgies,. at-
trective in their -wild grotesqueness, but re-
pulsive in their savage cruelty. Greatly as
the imagleation assisted in these portrayals,
they were "founded on fact."
The existence of natural caves hollowed
OM with such precision AS to 10011 RA the
works of experienced engineers has suggest-
ed the theory of ancient mining operattone.
Some of these eaves, intricate and perplex-
ing in their windings, the galleries opening
into immense chambers, with beautiful
stalactites and stalagmites decorative pen -
dams from the roofs studded leith myriads
of sparkling beads of water,
MATTER -13o; IN TDB FITFUL T01lCI1I.01l.11Ta
and the statuesque hgures of the native
guides glancing silently from place to piece,
have supplied the excited fancy with mater-
ial for speculation as to hidden stores of
diamonds and gold. The results of vast
seismic disturbances, thinbled rook seenely,
enormous piles of blip stones thrown into
the fanciful shapes ot brokenevalls, columns,
and pinnacles, rugged reminiscences of geo-
logic ogee, which when viewed from a dis-
tance have the appearance of the wrecks of
massive masonry, readily lend themselves to
the supposition that they are the ruins of
ancient architecture.
Lo Benguela, king ef the Matabeles ;
Umbancline, late king 01 1118 Swazis; Khama,
end many other paramount chiefs, have
shown, in their receptions of white men,
lavish hospitality, rude festivity, and dice
plays of barbaric pomp and splendour, in
Which might be detected. traces of Oriental
magnificence. Their wardlancee, songs, in-
cantations, and mystics -ceremonies ; tho say -
age paraphernalia of skins leathers, horns,
hair, and teeth ; the superAitions and cruel-
ties manifested in their belief in witolicraft,
and the supernatural powers attributed fro
certain animals—show that among the
natives there is a fondness for pageantry,
and a reverential fear of the weird and
mysterions.
A shamfight ainong the Zulus is au M.
pressive spectacle. The dusky warriors are
fine muscular fellows, active, athletic, and
highly trained. The rank and file, untram-
melled by ornaments and dress, move about
with grace 1111d. freedom. The officers—
chiefs and headmen—wear edemas of
ostrich feathers, whish rustle freely with
every movement of the body; circling their
brows are rolls of tiger-ekim from which
descend fringes of coarse hair ; from the
neeks and shoulders downward to the knees
their bodies are covered with the tails of
monkeys ancl tigers and strips of various
hidee strung together in girdles ; their waists
are girt about with tufts of lion's- mane and
cowhair. Forming into line, their variegat-
ed shielde are so close and regular that they
appear interlocked, whilst above them bristle
rowe of
C4LSMaNti AsingrA.L HEADS.
The foe is imaginary, as even emong their
own tribes they aro roused to such a, pitch of
excitement, that, had they tiny opponents,
though only in mimic werfare, they would
be so carried away by their feelings that a
close quarters bloodshed would inevitably
melt. At the word cif commend they ad-
vance 1t1 peeeise order, first slowly, than
quick march, then double, and with shouts
of 10hicla l' they cheep their imngivary
erten-dee, and 1110 1101110 bemenee fast and
Melees. Branclishine, their assegai% stabbing
and hinging with strength end dexterity,
each stroke accoinpunied by a flora+ grunt
of satisfaction, stamping, gesticulating, and
gnashing their teeth, they work themselves
into a mad frenzy, in which their features
are distorted, and their eyes glare.. with a
fierce lost of blood,
Suddenly the word of command is given
to retire, and, rte 'victors' ehonting triumph,
they march from the field, Then there
,sppeere upon the 800110 11 1(00(10 01 wild -look -
Mg blank creatures, running and leaping
from place to place, screaming domenincelly,
and frantically beating the earth with short
heavy clubs. Those ere the womon, mul
they are engaged in the horrible atrocity of
killing the wet:ruled. After sham -light
111111 )11(1111 ie spent in Meeting and revelry.
DOI/need. of their epeeteeellar tinsel and
; were great tellere 111 ghost-etories, lint some
- 11011' NAC1. SLIM'S alwaye told (1)8 015831 alerei
ing human, and not ghostly, onee, perhaps
beeeente 110 Willi so fond of highly 8e0e011011
story•books, and haul such remarkelde 11n-
1 agintition 111 dreeeleg op the crude detaile of
0. house-brealsing item in the newepapers.
f It WAS0 wonderfully wide-eyed and tower-
, ing eircle, as Lein el ulk ins gloomily whisper -
I ed f McAdoo», stealthy and slow, creeping.
1 erre:pi/oh ettrecerne itt midnight around 0
I terrified writcher'e bed, Perlitipeleen thought
it a good 1111,1,10111 1,> leave the circle with
shuddering ellen behind 111111, for 111 the
milenee that followed hie tale of icicle lingers
trailing over e staring Mee, he called upoe
Sem to may " Goodrnight and go home
with him.
"Oh, don't go yet 1" exclahned the other
boys, "Iles only a little after nine, There',
time for another game yet."
"Mother tffiel 00 not to stay later than a
querter prat," exclaimed Leta.
"Before I'd be tied to my mother's apron•
string I" laughed Ned.
"Mother's are not emit bad things; to tie up
to," pleasantly answered Lem.
"Well, I can't eny I have 80 0013' much use
for 0110," puffed elaster Ned, grimily.
After the deperture of the Alulkins boys,
Ned had the field to himself. He always
liked to hear himself talk for better than to
listen to another, SO 11010 he grew eloquent,
and confided to his admiring audience once
more the glorious ambitions that fired hie
noble breast.
Yes, he was going to astonish ell 1110 001111-
113', and any other there might be, as well
as dead -end -alive Europe and all Green.
land's icy mountains and India's coral strand,
with tleeds of valor and dash.
He (008 (10111(1 to have the swiftest black
horse that ever galloped, and WAS going to
be strung all over with pistols set with (1111-
1 0011(18, and was always to wear black velvet.
elothes, and IMPS stern determination writ-
ten on his Mow and lightnings in his eye,
and bo known as "RedNed, the Slaughteree
of the Sioux."
Ned pehnoremed Ib' Syookses," but his an.
dience was riot; critical,
"111011 List 1"
Nedinterrupted his own glowing narrative
thus, with uplifted finger and blazing eyes,
just as he had seen heroes do on the CON em
of storybooks.
They histed and they listed, being toe
frightened to do anything else. And
icy little bodies froze to icy chairs, 08
they heard stealthy footsteps creep-
ing about the slimmer kitchen behind
where they sat. Ghostly fingers groped for
the latch.
"What 1 Up yet ? I never saw such
night -birds I" exclaimed mamma, walking
in, followed by two unexpected visitorsfrom
Lynn.
"Thought you were bugulars," whispered
frightened little Joe. Then he added, in
an easier tone, "but we weren't scairt a bit;
Ned was goin' to lick 'e1111"
"It is just as well yon are not in
bed, after all," said mamma, "for I must
change you about some to make room for
our company. Ned, you musngo into Arther's
room and Arthur must sleep to -night with
Joe."
"S'posin' '' quivered Joe, as the Steele
boys trended bedwards, "sposin bugnlars
really were to break intothe houseto-night—"
"S'posin; they did,' "proclaimed Ned, a
fierce light in 1118 eyes and his bead lifting
itself toward the stars, "I'd soon make'em
blubber for their mammies I"
'I guess he's about as brave as a real
pinite,"whispered Joe, adtniringly.
"Guess I weld lick about nine burglars,
-
modestly assented Ned, "and they don't
generally go any thicker'n that to one house."
After which, nothingvalorous remained to
be said.
It seemed about midnight when Neel
awokeewith a start. But 11was really some-
what litter, for 11 110 had looked in the east
he would have noticed that it WEIS just faint -
1
•
•
of every 101101. Scientific evidence points to
geological formations in which goal, iron,
copper, gold, and diamonds may be looked
for with certainty ; ancl the old belief that
South-eastern Africa, is the land of Ophir
has every appearance of being founded on a,
rational
The serious difficulty of the futitre will be
the divieion of Africa amongst European
U
powers so na rights will not clash ; and tho
poor native, inevitably as he must suffer
from the advancing wave of white men, may
yet be subservient only to those nations who
in return for the occupation of his happy
hunting -grounds, will allow him freedom
and domestic happiness, proteot him from
the revages of slave -hunters, instruct him
in the arts of civilised life, and secure for
hen the blessings of good government.—
Chambers' JOUIllai.
A Hundred Miles From a Dentist, _
"When X hear a, man talk about dentis-
try," says an old pioneer, "I am reminded
of my experience there in Nevada,
"I had the toothache. I had it bad. It
ached days and it ached nights and it woke
with mo in the mornings. The miners did
what they could for me. They tried to dig
the tooth 01111 10111) their jack-knives and pry
it off, and what I suffered under their man.
ipulations no tongue aim tell, It was fur-
ious. One day they seggested that I put
some Reid in it that they used in testing
rock and I tried that and it eased it for a.
few hours, when it began again with re.
doubled fury. If we had pincers WA would
have heel it out, but I decided it no (1o, and
1)0(1to give in nerd look forward to tromp-
ing to Austin.
'On the morning of my Mating I found a
man who wits going up with a pea of cattle
end a par of wheels. I went along with
him, sick end weak from lack of sleep. It
WaS 150 miles to Austin—five days and
eights of travel- For five days and nights
I suffered. I walked most of the time,
rode somo on the wheels; slept at night; on
the earth with a pile of sand scooped up for
a pillow; had awful dreams ; was exhatieted
by pain and worn to tho bone. At last I
exude Austin. Despairingly I hunted for a
dentist. There WAS none. Finally I found
a doctor, who had an old pair of tooth -pincers.
Ile sat me (1(11011(1(11011on a soapbox in a grocery
store and went for me, fuel as it seemed to
me, after two hours of agony, he pulled, that
tooth erten its socket, and I rose for the first
time in many days happy in ecilief, Since
then I have never looked 0de1111811 in the
face without thanking God for their clispen.
0011011 and that 10101 surrounded by them,
Borax Baths,
Delicate women, writers and sedentary
personeewho feel chilly 011011 in the Summer
should never sit without footewarmees 011
furdined slippers 11 ,01 ell chilly, Mental
exercise exhausts the bodily heat. Yon re,
member how George Eliot always was chilly
When writing, end malty 0 professional
worker recomfizes the familiar feeling. Hot
bath'is with plenty cif borax in the water,
and frction afterward, got ua h
p ealthy 00-
tion of the skin, which leaves the Mee fair
end opal -tinted hours afteeward. One of the
most beautiful emetic:dons I know is kept
by tide'
practice joined, to cate in eating,
The eyes will be dark and bright rater Buell
a, bath, hot if you want to insure their bell-
lianey a pharmacist who studies those things
says ono mud eat freely of tomatoem for the
sake of the ;amino 01 110 10111(11011 quality
they contain. Ceetitinlywholesome tomatoes
keep 511111and eyes in good condition as fter
as food can do it,
Coral rodw
, hich u
is nob nlike cherry
eolor, 30 0 great favorite this season,
tinecl with
Y g grey.
A -t fast he clid not know why he awoke, or
even where. Strange forms were about
him ; ghostly images thrust themselves from
out every inch of blackness and threatened
with wild gesture and awful stride. Even
the window was not in its right place beside
his bed, but had slunk away to the foot.
where it stared blankly out upon a square of
pale sky.
Ho dicl liot know why he bad waked with
heart beating so heavily, nor even why that
heart clid not cease its dull ffiamor after here -
cognized those phantoms as no phantoms at
all, only the unfamiliar features of Arthur's
room instead of his own. But—" Hist I
List 1"
Ned did not say it—he only felt it in every
drop of his icy blood. AS distinctly as he
ever heard his 0W11 voice declaring to thc
other boys the daring, deeds of " Catcher,
the Cantering Cowboy, ' or " Dick Dawson,
the Dore -Devil," as distinctly ILS ever In
heard Joe and Arthur risk how long it wet
going to take him on five cents spending.
money a week to boy bowie -knives mid r0.
volvers enough to start ant to kill " Nuns'.
and slay bears—as distinctly as over he had
heard all this, he heard slow, stealthy move-
ments moping up the Yes, lie hard
them ; he did not dream or imagine, bet
heard them, :weeping, ereep.ing, Mum I
Who but Ned can tell, in all this wide,
wide world, -whether et, not he hid his terror
stricken face under the bedclothes? None
but, ho could tell and he did not tell' until
ten years later, when he wits 0 grown men,
Then he confessed that he did trot / And
the reason was, that he was too frightened
to move 1 Creeping, ereepinib eiturItio—
the hideous sound became plainer anderdain-
er, Now, against the miler° of eale sky at
the bed's foot, " Rod Niel, the Slaughterer
of the Syookses," Was certain 110 SILW WPC
straight slim lines which ho know to be the
ends of a ladder, planted against tho window.
sill.
Faseinated by the startling sight, h
00111(1 1(01 turn his eyes. Then ho RAW 1111
dim outlines of 0 head rise slimly above th:
winclow.sill. It rose higher, 8011 higher, till
O gigantic feint, huger, "the Slaughterer"
was sure, than any humati being 'he ever
saw or dreamed of eeeing, filled the whole
aperture of the open window. So monstrous
WILS 1110 11g1111), that it managed itself
with difficulty, and advanced with
exceeding slowness, apperently careful lest
the ladder yield beneath the enormous
weight.
Then with stealthy movement and elow,
it Hanel; one log over the Thr
next minute the other leg followed the first,
Then, to the frozen figme in the bed, the
whole remit was filled by that awful p08-
501100, 0 thousand times more awful that
any time 01/011 interrepted Christian's pr0.
gross to the 001001101 (1113' Gigantic OM it
was, however, it still found space in the
chamber to move slowly up to the bed,
There it extended one hand, which it lahl
not upon tho famous Slaughterer's throat,
but upon his cold little peg nose 1
rudely', 1110113111111111.1 3
'Outer this (111101; this 1 (lit np
Thep, for the 111-51 tithe, the Exteratinal or
of the 'Avookeem found hie Might ily
rake the whoitj.es:18.11.1t)tior,ir You Are Calif.
I was looking this ;flooring at a squirrel
he raised 11, 1,111 lalt 10 Stky, "Surrender, 81)1111 (1(31 in him Page. TM` 1111111 fP1111W 11-11.11'
10431, bad, glaall, 10 Red Ned the 811mghter- pelting en limeeme ailment of energy into
. +.4
From her adjoining chamber Mrs, Steele
lieurd a cowardly scream, "Mumma 3 rump
ina ! A burglar's got me ! come (01011
Vee-oo.u.glt 1 Yee‘oo.it-tt !"
Of course every nue in the house retched
nto the burglarized chamber. There they
taught the btu:glare but shrunk to a fraction whew, it eurret1 up iny CiA11111INS1011 for the
of Ms size in le cd's eyes.
"I thought it Was A 1111111.," the "burglar" 15(111'1111171gilit011reltvignwitli,
sni 1110,1 ; ''1(11111111180(1 Lo wake him up to go the freedom 1,11118 f,.„.„t. 11,otea,1 „f thp,„1.
the work tif tuning lue wheel, mei re, ell
that he aceoniplielied 1031.0 10 make the wheel
go round unit round with -wonderful rapidity.
But the eijuirrel WAS 1101 10 MAIM, fot th1t.
misspent energy. 8)0 ear; etimmilie11 the
limite of his werid awl lie herl ((0 111110>' way
ol exereisieg his museles but to turn hie
Mg upon the bounty el the keeper for bit
"IL'S wily jest Sammy eitilkins cher-
redly feed, be would be in the tepnerst
toned joe mid Arthur, Then ;Joe added, branches of the liana tepee soleetine the
eluneest nuts and laying 111 a comfortable
ether; for the winter.
The squirrel 18 entitled to pity, but van.
not be blamed ; for if he eould get out of his
cage he wrearn gladly take the freedein to
whieh he is entitled. Bet how rtbent the
human squirrels who deliberately cage there.
selves mad ha 10 ilia osiel> a limited field for
Innocently, Can I. Ned lick a burglar thou t
1110111 11130 eine of 'ein ?"
"No," maid Arthur, contemptuouely ; "he
blubbers for hie enatniny'r
AN INTELLIGENT DOG.
gie Beeseed Agaftect center -metes Stools the exercise of their energy., 1 What can you
an d 11111301ght 31Is 011131119.000310111, ray of the num who c1,0015es 141house up hie
An English officer who 1008 111 Paris in 1 815 faculties and expend the energies of Me
mentions the ease of a dog belonging to a 1>0(1110 1110 circumscribed monotonone work
shoebleck which brought cestomere to his that cannot bring out the possibilities of his
master Thu it ditl In a very ingenious, talents 1 And yet a young num 10110 proposer
thongli namely honest manner. The offic- to go through life without securieg the very
er, 1(0018(1 00000300 to ems one of the bridges best education that OM be obtained for the
over the ecine, had his hoots which hacl been , pinpose of qualifying him for meeting and
previously polished, dirtied by a poodle dog disteharging the duties that every human
life must encoonter, delibetately puts him
self 'mole a cage and Ins work in life 11
necessarily limited to one weary nemotonoue
turn of the wheel that represents the onlj
application he eau make of his energies.
The squirrel that would refuse to turn his
wheel would be token ont and killed, and
the incur who by ernteation is fittel to only
one kind of ineutal work, must turn the
wheel or (lie.
"He wants the whole earth," is not a slang
expression when used in its highest educe,
timed sense. Every youne man provided
with brains for voutpreliension and energie11
and musclee for Roden wants toe whole world
as the territory of hie powere. 1( 117 virtue
of education he enjeys the range of unlimit•
ed freedom, he will not be like the caged
squirrel, dependent upon his owner for his
renamed tvith him a day or two and then daily food mud protection, but the best psi -
made his escape. A fortnight afterward he tions of life will be within his grasp and lo
rubbing against them. He, in coesequence,
went to a man wile 1\'08 stationed on the
bridge 141111 111131 them eleened. The same eir-
menstance having occurred more than once
Ids curiosity was excited and ho watched the
dog.
Ile saw the dog roll himself in the mud of
the river, and then watch for a person with
well polished boots, against which he eontriv-
el to rub tan -melt Eluding that the shoe -
black was the owner of the dog, the oiticer
taxed him with the artifice; ancl, after a
tittle hesitation, the Mart confessed thee he
had taught the dog the trick in order to pro-
cure customers for himself. The officer, be-
ing much struck with the dog's sagacity,
purchased him at a high price and brought
him to England. He kept him tied up for
some time 11101 111011 released him. The dog
WAS found with his former master, pursuing
his old trade of dirtying gentlemen's boots
on the bridge.
How Horseradish is Grown,
Near large cities vast quantities of this
plant are grown, and usually as a crop to fol -
IOW others put in Cady. For example, it may
be placed between the POWS of ettrly cabbage,
which will give the rows the same distance
apart as the cabbage—two or three feet—the
roots being fifteen to eighteen inches apart
in the rows, The planting is performed by
making holes ten to twelve inches deep by a
planting stick or light crowbar. A mece of
root is dropped into each hole, leaving the
top two or three inches below the surface.
By having the roots below the surface no in-
jury is effected by hoeing over in the early
growth of the eabbag.e. Arid by the time of
the last hoeing of the cabbage the horse-
radish begins to show top -growth, tuul when
the cabbage comes off, has the ground to it-
self. It is a crop that requires but little
after attention, except to keep down the
weeds by the hoe tho entire summer, and it
usually well repays when the crop is taken
off.
Of course any eerly crop ground is as good
as the cabbage quarter, the only feeture is to
have such a crop as will come off say ie July.
By growing this way, 0110 1011)0101 011111000 10
give good, stout, clear roots, and is afar bet-
ter way to grow, even for family rise, Ulan
the old one of having 1110 110180 radish in some
neglected corner to plant itself, and (lig as
wanted. Such roots are gnarly and small,
and of no use as a marketable product nowa,
flays. Foe house use the aim should be to
grow only tho best.
•
A. Spoiled Romance,
Two lovers welit to the baseball game
011A afternoon in May,
He was a, "crank ;" she never had seen
PPofessional players play.
He faithfully tried to explain it all,
She tried to understand ;
But the more he talked the less she knew
Why he thoughe the game was "grand."
He cheered, he clamed, lie yelled "1111 111 3"
She calmly looked about,
And if any one made a three -base hit
She asked if the 111011 MRS OM,.
She tried her best to keep the score,
But when the game WAS done
rie 10511111 Una whenever a foul was hit
She had given the Mall O. run,
rt dampened his ardor to have her say:
" Why doesn't the umpire bat?"
And each question she asked diminished his
love,
Though he wouldide have owned to that.
Till at last she asked In a guileless way,
" Which nine is playing now ?"
He broke the engagement then aml there,
And 11015 they don't 015 10 bow.
The PoaOher and the Keeper,
Soine years ago the Athole disteiet was
overtem by tr. stalwart Highland ponclicr
who struck such terror into the hearts of
the under -keepers that he was allowed to
do as he pleased. The head -keeper was
naturally in a rage, and declared that if
ever he came across the poacher lie would
make shore work of him. This coming to
the knowledge of the illegal sportsman, he
declared that he would he reedy to meet
the keeper at any time. As Mole would
1101'0 110 the keeper mot the poacher with a
good bag on his shoulders, and, on going 1111
to him, charged him with ponalling oil the
partientar estate under Ms charge. "No,"
said the potteher, " I have not been there
yet; but I tun going now, and I mean you to
carry my bag." The keeper 11,01/1 OAS de-
prived of Ills gun, mid told that, aft there
were no Nvitnessos, if he did notdo ae lie was
told ho weeld receive the amanita of his
own weapon. Hnowiug the desperate
charaetee of his commie, the keeper had no
;dunce but to shoulder the gemerneg„mid
accompany the poacher ovee the moor till it
pleased him to desist, 11118 keeper kept
this story to himself- Tho poachee is dead
now.
It is not so great a wonder, come to think,
thee, so many people are illiterate, Every.
body was born that, way.
You never ime the man who dome in
church going to sleep at a baseball match,
But then there is quite a differeuce in the
etyle of delivery.
Atlas supported the world, but it is not
recorded Goa ho ever supported affiehionable
wife, That tvould be an accomplishment
worth bragging about,
Nvill enjoy the sovereignty to (0111( 11 ('ver)
aspiring man is bonding his energiee, the
dignity of independence.
Now, boys, put yourselves M the cage of
ignorance, if you wish, but when in after
life you find yourself grinding away at the
same wheel, living on the food provided be
the =price of your employer, and then loot;
out between the bars of your cage and see
your fellowmen with 110 1151100 abilities than
you once possessed enjoying the delicious
freedom of the great big world and partak.
Mg freely of its choieese fruits, don't lay the
blame on your bad luck, your cage or your
master, but blame yourself for ohoosing tie
narrow limit of a, cage instead of the great,
big, beautiful world.
Plowing too Deeply,
It is many years ago that Horace Greeley,
reasoning theoretically on the advantages of
more room for the roots of pints, took to
advocating deeper plowing as the beet means
to that end. He was strongly controverted
01 11)') time by many practical farmers, but
never gave in that he was wrong until some
New Jersey farmers ou the light, sandy soil
conencm in parts of that State tried both
deep and shallow plowing, and thee prauti.
cally demonstrated Mr. Greeley's mistake.
Even then the most that the theoretical
philosopher could publicly acknowledge was
the fact that under some circumstances deep
plowing was a bhunler, and that light soils,
with only a thin layer of vegetable matter
on their surface, seemed to be especially
tutadanted to it.
Farmers ou many other kinds of land
have fennd too deep plowing an injury to
the present crop and to future fertility,
The fact is, indeed, becoming generally reo-
ognizeek that on any kind of soil, if deep
plowingeis to be successful, it must be pre-
ceded by clover, and accompanied with a
heavy messing of memo of some kind.
We have never yet seen a good piece of corn
on a timothy socl plowed more than six
inches deep. No better test of soil fertilite
AMA be found than the corn crop: If the
soil is full of clover roots, a plowing of six
or even seven inches depth May do 110 11011111.
but if there is no clover in the piece, then
all below four inches from the surface will
bo foencl cold and inert. If turned to th(
depth of six inches, the bottom two inchet
will he Made the seed bed. A hopelees,
worthless planting place it must prove for 0
crop which more than any other loves not
merely light, but warmth and fertility.
Cultivation, top -dressing. with manure, and
mixing this with the soil turned up will
imp roveit to some extent, but not enough
to make the vigorous early growth that is
needed if corn is to be a good crop.
After midsummer corn roots may reach
down to the vegetable mold and richer soil
turned below, But even then this cannot
be warmed euffiaiently for them to get the
same benefit from it that they could nearer
the surface. More damage to cern has been
clone by plowing heavy setts deeply, 80 110 to
smother the grass roots'and 1.11011g up loose
soil for freed bed., then by any other ine
cause, Clover sod will beta deeper plow ng
teran will the griisses, because the roots 01
clover extend Into ana to a certain extent
warm the subsoil. „Yet for corn crop We
would not plow generally indee than six
inches deep., and unless the soil is very rich,
five inches is a still better depth. Only for
winter wheat, where 0 somewhat hard ser-
f:Lee is required, is deep plowing advisable,
and even then the compacted surface is
better mural by judieions use 01 1118 roller
than by turning ttp subsoil.
What is welded to deepen heavy soils is
O judicious use of the subsoil plows. This
does not turn down the best part of the
soil and bring the worst to the surface. It
leaves the subfroil where it belongs, but
pulverizes it so that all roots can more
easily penetrate it, and it is Made 11111011
newe &Inceptive of wnter. hi this condi-
tion it is 11,11111/11414 fitted for clover, and a
(SW 8031111110 of this mop, allowed to reach
full growth, will extend fertility downward
SA fast as it can be done without the ap.
plication of more manure thau any faience
can afford. It, nmst be remembered that the
under soil, whieb 'leftover been exposed to
light and air, is inttell ponrer than evon the
poorest surface soil, that has been long eul.
*AWL T310110 limy be mineral plant food
in itt giving tho elements of fertility, Ina it
requiree to be brought, to tho surface to
bo made available, and this can only be
done gradually. It is as great a mistake to
spread the manure ton 'thinly downwards
as to spread it tno thinly on the RM.
face. If one or two itchee of new subsoil is
bronglit up there will be reeeived as mueli
immure 01 woeld be required by doublint:
the stirface atreage ploWed at the 1101101
(*ADO.
Lives from hand 10 mouth -41W 4ente8t,
1
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Meditation,
Te all who keep the Sabbath "If theu
turn thy foot awe), front the Sahleali, from
doing thy pleasure- on my holy day turn eta
the Sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord,
honorable 1,1(1,1 shalt hinter 11 not doing
thine own Wityli. 1101! fielding Ohm own
Pleeefure, 8(01'eperiking thine owe worde.
Then shalt then delight thyself 111 triA 1.4111
And .1 W111 AMMO you to rule upon the hip,
plaerei oe
f the aand
rth, feed thee with le
heritage of JILC011, for the month of the Lord
hialt spoken ie."- •Isuiall Nth, 11e-14.
Moires, the lawgiver of aneieut
miller the elinelow of that ewful 1110111110301dna trembled with empeet und lei re ed tents
fire, proelaimed the ,roneteuelmenttlua link-
ed toil with reet ; fuel gave the order of six
dayre week being followed with a day of rest
When the greatest lawgiver of the panel
ago came --the preacher of the Beautatutes
-he proclaimed amid the grasey slopes of
H411111011 the spiritual character ofthe moral
11110, He lifted the thoughts rif men here
the form peel the letter to the spirit and the
life. 1(110 broke in any detail the otaward
form of the old Sabbath ceremonies, it was
bemuse He might the more theeoughly keep
the spirit of it. So doing good, good, feeding
hungry men, 1(0 1)00(111(1 the Erick, He jedged
to be jun as good Sabbath work 1080,11 1188 out of pit. So it came to pees 111
'Inc course of time that He had to assert
that authority which ii8 the light of the
world, as the (01010111 of God belonged to
Him, and he ettitl ; " For the Son of Man.
18 Lord also of the Sabbath 1" A startling
saying, 110 (10014, to ninny who heard him
speak. Still more startling WAS 010 eaying,
" For the Sabbath was mule for man.' Ib
was tut 11101118 caprice, but a divine
plan. To 11111E0 MILD'S life on earth
earth worth living it watt 1100088013' that
man should have an ever recurring day of
met And so the Sabbath was made for
man. The beantiful and suggestive words
of Isaiah concerning the Sabbath have bone
greatly overlooked; as indeed the whole of
Isaiah's words have been melerestimated.
The world has never seen a greater poet
than the prophet Isaiah. His wings of hope,
his pictures of a golden age, his calls to fiat]]
and courage and abiding patience have no
equal in fury land or ago, He gives God's
greaternomtse to Sabbath -keepers. And all
the,history of modern years at least gees to
prove that, as a rule, the Sabbath -keepers
have ridden upon the high places of the
earth. There i$ one word in this promise
of Isaiah's which attracts attention. He
speaks of Salthatlokeepers as men -who make
the Sabbath "a delight," And thates just
what. the Sabbath must be, or it is no
Sabbath at alL 9 " gloomy Sabbath"
is a contradiction in terms. lf ever the
Puritans made the Sabbath a dull and mel-
ancholy day, they eouldonly do it by taking
all the Sabbath out of the day. We wrong
ourselves and our children, WO WPCMg the .
Lord of the Sabbath and tho Sabbath itself,
whW
en A (auto
l make it -'holly and in all
its hours "0 delight "To invite a. 111010001)01mood, to look sad, and to feel sour, and to
cast a gloom on all around would be it,
strange wily of making the Sabbath a de-
light. We should 1111 1(11 its hours with songs
of gladness, withjoyfulthoughts, with happy
prayers, with tender fellowship in home and
church and Sunday school and as we walk
by the way. The poor slave in his quarters
in the old sad days found Sunday suoh a -
"delight" that his only dream of heaven
was of an eternal unbroken Sabbath. Awl
there are tens of thousands of "old men
and maidens young men and. children" in
the courts of the Lord's house and in happy
Christian homes who find sunshine enough
in these delightful Sabbaths to fill all the
intervening weeks with glory.
A HEROIC GIRL.
1181515-11 Brave :Lass Ended the Lire ora Hon-
ing M,111185g.
Word was received the Other day that
Miss .Maggie Dickinson had slain a mad dog
which had been terrorizing the community
in the vicinity of Oklona, Ark. The young
lady is not yet twenty and is the daughter
of Colonel Joseph Dickinson. For some,
time post there has been great eXelt011181M
0111011g, citizens and surrounding country -
over the fact that a mad dog was at large
and hail bitten others of his kind, as well
as several horses and cows, A crowd of
men, armed with shotguns and pistols, was
seaming the country in pursuit, of the brute,
when it unexpectedly appeared at the resi-
demo of Colonel Dickinson, Miss Dickin-
son and two or three women were the only
persons on the premises and the girl's com-
panions fled, sereaming with terror. Some
distance from the dwelling is it school house
and Mies Dickinson, fearing that the dog
would fatally. hurt some of the children who
were at that mstaut clisinissed, resolved to
10111 1111(1. She ran into the house, seized
her father's Winchester rifio, and, returning
to the porch, fired at the dor, striking him
in the head and killing him in his tracks.
Just a Trifle too Late.
” Will you be my wife, Jennie?" queried
the rustic lover.
"I run very sorry for you, Jamee," re-
plied the blushing maiden, "but you APO
31181, 0/10 day too late. I am engaged to your
brother George."
" Thigaged to my brother 1 Why, haven't:
I courted you for seven long years 1'
" Yes, James. 13111 in all that time you
never asked me to be your wife before 1
Your brother George WAS hero last evening
and he 811111 10 me Jennie, it's none of my
busieess, but has Jim proposed to you yet 2'
Of course I had to say 'No I' Then he said:
Well, Jennie, I have never courted you,
but I want a wife, Will you have no
Then I said Yes l' and it WaS Settled. So
you see, 101111113, there's no use of feeling ells -
appointed in regard to the matter. It will -
do no good now, You've no ene to blame he
this matter but just yourself 1"
Then James erushed his hat down Gym hie
beetling brows and meandered forth into the
pale moonlight, a 11110011 if not sadder man. 1
Carlyle and the Queen.,
Au unpublished letter of Carlyle gives an
interesting account of a conversation be-
tween the Queen and the philosopher in
Westminster Deanery. Carlyle was tolling
Her Majesty, whose interest he keenly
excited, about Nithsdalo and Annandale, "
and of old weys of human llio there in the
days of his youth. Aineng other things,
he told her that his father had occasion once
to (10 (0 Glasgow on scene urgent businese, and
that, arriving about eight in the 100101111g,
he found every door shut. Neither itimeelf
nor his horse could haveentranee anywhere,
"(01 'twee the hem; of family worship, your
Majesty, and every family WAS at morning
pmyer:',The Queen had never heard any-
thing AO astonishing. "111111 it wee the
case," 15110111 4111 Carlyle, "and that exPlain5.
why your Scottieh eubjects have tho place ,
of trust aml lemony they occupy to.day in •
every portion of yoitr Meielev's demininee."
8111011 timed wreaths for the neck, with
ende which are brought dewn 011017 1110
1/0111110, MVO usecl by young, ladiee with their
ball dresses insteail of jewels,