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THE BRUSSELS POST. ,Trur 11, 2800.
YOUNG FOLKS. was a 1atr.1.-4,411ieg, boy, and never
made himself ready for lied.
Bui lief's., he retired he 'took down ids
.The Stery Of a Little Boy Who Was Turnea father'. double -1 'envied shot -gun, and set it
within reach of his bell. lie knew it, was
Into a Bird. loaded- hi, father had been shooting field
'lers only the ilicv before, and had loft
both bac rels h soled.
Then he blew out the light and tumbled
himself into the little bed jUgt, Off t he k i t ellen,
and WW1 80011
Ooee there was a little boy,
n,1. for 00 rea.n. owln
Frew the day of his birth nothing else on earth
Dnv id lie clo but wIlioi t TY.
BLECTRIOAL bullets, 1111 ingeni. Ink; SylAtli) of chmt tie cool
targeta has been devised,
The ovation is clivicled into the electrie 100.
A siheY or Ed 131,41 *11 ow, 1" 11144 11 got, awl the itelicating Inspartitus. The
—Inierest 1 the Hams siermucla 001111.11 the bays 11111('I,S'able Gteetete Guenter Climbingm
, e. „„,,,,pi„, „„amoms is formed of coneentrie
A eharcieteristie 01011' of Edison is told by i1.011 014,8, iill the exception cif the ono Is
at friend of his who called int business at the is Estems eAt the bath of each ring
Orange latioratc,ry not 1111131 1310. The visitor or 8)11110'tre 18 11 13) 101131 horizontal aiming soh itch
waited patiently for 14,1)0110, 031111 was net in is 111111014 ill 00111,00t With 11, vertieol lover
asleep.
sight, and hi 11e ititerint observed a :harp '1 1/11 a bullet sti Joking aoy one of the four
Ohat, no oucc AVOIlla 14., nem m • lie 111ai,know luiw how 3111
1,1 ilt fusillade of neittly 11111 (111 paekages whist
eEmotions that partiettlar section and Its cep -
The netilc $010, "it. best,. 1410 i1111 011
)3.0 erled so verv, vory much
Way, tie shin 111 the smon 0,31111hear Mtn( 110 11.4011I0 S11111:10111Y 10 11011r a keY fitted on from the roof of thcc iorittciry. Ny ben respooding !coring are forced book until the
and tinned, again and again, in the kit.hen the ground wits pretty well strewn with spring hits its mom:solve lever, yawing tlw
Tbis noy's home wits neon the heath. a,,or. 1118 Mat thought was that Sawyer Vies.: novel missiles an attendant ',quite along latter to hill 11111 1 horiscintal )1 1111 AK
• And df there's a lard knows how to se10.01•11. WIIS playino trii.11 main him, Mit when 110 11111 Setioped them into a baskeL 'rho sit- the lewer falls it establishes, by 11106118 of
The sea -gun iS that host. heard si steps go aroninl the house, tuition beemne interesting, uot to my inyis -contact and a battery eleetrical uotionuni.
Where the geassoll's scirecon is heard.
oiel the sash cif olio of the klishen windows terious, ho• although the nentleman happen -
Thor scream their best when the winds Mow ,
tieing slowle iutcl eauticniely sawed away, he ed. Le ho very familiar with the wonders of
. . • • • , • vith the origintil
And the sky grows dark end hazy
13111 Jet that hoy begin le :ow
And he'd drive Ow s•ot-goio, crazy
Until, at last they said. "oh, jey 1—
We must be very due -
This child is no use at sit as a boo,
But he'd make a splendid gun 1
So off they fiew and tola the king•
'flier cod hint not to doubt it ;
That thls boy's seream heat e-,•ryttting
That'e all there was thent it.
The king he saddled his best MOON 1
lie flew down the wind bke mad
V think it Wits a fUllIII 110rs0 i10:11 you
'Twas the only kind he had./
• And when he heard that little boy yen
Ise thought his MIN Wol1111 0111/1,
Alla 80 110 turned hitu into a ghll.
And uonody eared a bit.
Late Cable News,
English Polities—The Government in a
Coiner- -Cholera Aotually M Rurope-
Kaiser on "the Briny,"
The ship of state has had more tossing
1111(111 111St 1V0Pli 111111 has been saved from
foundering only by jettisoni10.; 111000 V14111111110
000310. T110 11111i 1110118 spirit prevailing
among the erew bas Mond vent ill a loud cry
for Et change of Captain, but the mutineers
cation with the indwating upper:duo (Tooted cannot even agree as to who 18 best fitted
at the tiring cold of the mile, thus sliciwing for
llio11081. "mile w1mt Lord lIntaington,
knew it we s not ;sawyer, but a ott„ ; whieli section of the target uta been struck.
Or easy-going, pletucure-loving, indolent
Gni:mist party, but ilartington, although
311,1011aling 0100g 00 silently as a oat, placed l'he solittiou was simple aucl tritium% Vie of a ecralit ion between the 1Vestimshouse
the roboer at work. It seemed hours before Edison and his zealous coadjuter, Ilatehelor, pany for the constructien and equipment of join the tlIlVerIlltullt ill 31100 of a grave elm
throbbed so bonny he almost feared it would paeliage contrdned a speaking '1"hi undertakiug an air brake, devised for use himself with a defeated and discredited
lie ,ss.p: flom his bed and drew on his way that Edison sometimes has of dewier.
chief of the iiristocratie wing of the Libmal-
cdothes very quietly, 1 hen It, took the gun, ing them, he ivas oompletely nouplussed. There is reason to believe that the rumors
himself before the window where lie hoard was soon shown into a room, auil there Ives Pullman interests in the formation of a cont. Lord Salisbury holds his written promise to
the sash was I.:mowed-110111% measured, by , opening out the pacikages W111011 theY 111111 61 601;110 sit60t rtlilWilyS ore well foinuled
ergeney, is naturally reluctaot to connect
the wild beating of kis young heart, tha141)1 t ' 100o: pitching front the top .,f the laboratory, It is said th18 at cam of the features of the -new
betray his presence. carefully peeked, and the object (11 the in. on electric ears. Admin)stratioo, although he only have the
Then he heard m hoarse voice whisper, spection was to find out whether the con- --- Premiership for the asking.
i• Give me a coMeh," and heard the match tents hail come unharmed through t mit Electric. burglar catching has received an• •
struck against the wan, ino1 he knew he rough ordeal, for the 111011 103' argued that impetus in Paris at the hands of an If enter. there be tem much abont Beituch politica ,
hail to contend with at loast too assailants— if they were well enough packed for that prising, 001110 merchant in the Roe Secretart, there is ii certain amoun1 of relief in the fax
how many more he 'mold not tell. they could take ti trip rouod the globe with who has jest landed hie 111111 man in the that just 110100 no other European country
The match made it momentary gleam in safety. Oh owing way 1 there is no &mei, roe for his seems to have any politics at all, Save for
the darkness. Enough to show him the --- premises, and lie hashed his store connected
the whispers of what Franco and Russia are
. • . with the room ocenpied by his waiters by
boils. of a man half way through the opening; The German Government is not only keen -
1 • I i. • mum :11 to enable him to lo alive to theadvantages of modern science, means of an electric wire. When the burglar going to do in the Zanzibar metier already
enters the bell in the waiter's room rings, referred to, and to sundry small variations
mod the intruder is quietly nabbed. The upon the chronic state of intrigue and
wine merchant's experiment has been so unrest in the Danubian States,.publie affairs
successful thitt several other traders in the on the Conthient are wrapped in an absolute
vicinity have adopted his modus operandi, Su mmer ohne
and tire omit yearning for a real live "mid-
--Banisnr H. FLETCHER 10 SI. NICHOLAS. raise his gun and 'hive it against the breast but, is promptly utilizing them, num ei
•
01 110 mem and Me, of non-commissioned German officers, who
But the ottp snapped, and the mateh went have been instructed in telet4raphy,. have
, AN _ADVENTURE W11.11 TRAMPS. out, and the man dropped into the darkness been dispatehed to east Africa to join the
— without. ' 1Vissman forces, with the special object of
BY ELLA. wroucua wmcmx. Des wrate and conscious only of peril, establishing an improved aews and
"
Clarence thrust the gun through the apes, mumeatton sem ne. le) '111 take W'lth
1N
"Be careful about the fires, Clarence, and tore and iirecl iuto the darkness. His as- them field telegraph apparatus and supplies.
'bemire and lock the doors and windows he. sailants now knew that he \ VHS in their Their several garrisons end outposts will be
fore you go to bed." power. Both barrels of his ,etun were empti- connected in the same way as those of the
"Yes, father." ed, anti they were unhermed. - Italians in Abyssinia. :tenth with the investigating committee
"And don't leave the house alone any , Qttick as the sprino 01 11 furious cat, one — wIliel'i sought to fornmlate 0111)01 to regulate nations. The 011010110 IS m hump. . hus
length of time. We will be back by to -mor- of them leaped thChugh the window itud A very sigcantnifi meeting has just been the use of high tension and other eleetric far it is not exciting Butch alarm for the rea-
row noon, if possible. There are so many seized him in the darkness. He dung, held hi Chicago for the organization of au currents, has just given in his report to the 00110 that 11 00.0 110t brOlIght at/ tirst hand
tramps roaming about the country slow, the to his gun, and beat his enemy over the head • assogiation of phonograph -companies. The l Chniromn of the Senate Committee on Gen- from the Orient, but 10 11)51.0011 a local merits
house might Ve ransaoked 11 you were to and shoulders with it whenever he could most. striking mature of the nwetiug was the ' !sit Laws One passage in this report mtg.
leave it alone," said his mother. : make use of his arm. I exhibition and comparison of the respective
"I will -see to everything, and forget ! But u id, lv 't W18 snatched. from his ' powers of the phonograph and the graphop-
,s I ‘,11 . 1 w
...nothing," answered Clarence. ' grasp, and theu a desperate thought flashed. hone, which were used on different days.
He was a bright, manly boy of fifteen— into his mind. He beoan to jerk himself As the sentences were uttered by each speak -
the only 0U:1 et his parents, who resided in and assailant 1,1101z. iONV07101 the StOVVP If he er they were repeated into the instruments,
the town of M—, in Ontario. They could only reach the knife he had left on The phonograph showed superior qualities
were well-to-do farmers, with a comfortable ! the hearth with the kinclling, he niight save of recording and reprodm•ing, and indicatecl
night martinder" to come their way.
southern horizon there is indeed a single
A cove the sleepy 11000 of this peaceful
cloud visible, but it has not been raised by
Mr. W. ones, who was associated re political devices, and it threatens something
other than armed conflicts and the 0111011 of
SUMMBR SMILES,
it bust developer - Whisky,
inovi ouersfll 1. all spotters- • -Flies.
it
I 10140 right to call km expert 001'8111RD
11. 11r14.011108 110111101%
A1111111 WAS p01.1171,118 1,1111 lired man who
cleeinell marring.. 0 failure.
Whettiver shorteomings, he knew
enough to go in when it rained.
11 What is there hosidca look that amounts
to anything in stools 1" " A good decd."
Mr. Cuthin -" Mks 111111, 1101y 1 h0110 to
o
win yu Miss Ellie—. Why, Mr, Cathie,
do you think I'm to be raffled
W 1!"
htli VaSt: allI01110
010 11 111111c0H with the
average man whether he pleks up ft carpet
took with his lingers or his heel10111111Coleol \1'1'1'l''' Well, w ell, Itoc111 y''u like
the ?" 11 ilhooly—" I was so ghicl to
get home again that I woo glad 1 Nieto.
"Man wants but little here below
All that is very true ,
-Sod, i,o,1'3' than this ft n. fart,
Ile en
eerally 111'1, 11 toe.
0 Did your girl ever refuse—you 00 ever
011Y ' No' belore she finally (consented 1"
" No, but since we've been married she Rays
nothing else."
As a man leaves tho 1-,arber's on a rainy
tiny those in the shop turn their heads simul-
taneously as he walks towarda the umbrella
stand to see which one 110 18 going to take.
Mrs. N. Peeks—. Well, you need not look
as if you were going to eat me." 111r. N.
—
l'eck "There's not the least danger that
I will. I'm dead sure you would not, agree
with me."
Matilda Snowbell—. I say, Uncle Mose,
Mutt does yer think ob my new Spring suit ?"
Uncle .Mose--" Folks Molt puts on all de
cloes dey kin git puts me ill of a sweet
per tater petch dat's all gone ter vine."
The lion is very fierce and bold,
The tiger we meet shun,
And when0000011 rattlesnake
A good Man Is to run
But the thing that spurs 1111111 on the moat,
To run his hotel hest
Is to disturb, in a carelesa way
A. yellow hornets' nest.
A Handkerchief Specialist,
descence due to digging up a lot of cos t 1
The other morning, as the departing Gun-
gests, somewhat, graphically, the difficulties which in recent yeara became saturated with
ard steamer was casting off its lines and
connection on telegraph limes. "'Pito lines This sort of warmehover cholera is dead- awinging out into the stream, an elderly -
occasionally met with in maintaining the cholero. germs. . .
on turnpike and wagon roads," says Mr. ly enongh. Nearly 50 per ecnt. of the peso looking business man hastily embraeed a
Jones, "111101 be patrolled by men 011 ple seized with it ha various villages of lady who was one of the passeugers, and
horselawk or on wagons. and in spring, fall, Valeneici, seem to have died, but it spends rushed down the gang-pi:Ink to the wharf.
!loins. hurriedly. 1111 10 II melancholy loafer
. and winter such roads are frequently nearly itself in destroying what is within reach,
home, and the neighborhood 1011S 11 peaceful, ; his ONVI1 life at the rterthee of another far -greater sensitit micas o boom or quite imptissible from mud, water, or and c oes no sp e • ... t. 1011' mom was watching the busy crowd, the
quiet one, where Clarence had spent his , . ' ' • '
The robber s hands were on his throat, and graphephone. The results •were moss I sumo. In many eases of my own knowledge tagion, The latest reports declare that it
. ..a farmers keep shotguns, with which they isdisappearingin the Spanish province sehere end "'Lid'
gentleman chew him ce lini a pi t ' 's ,
" Want to earn m11011001"
it burst forth ten da) 0 ago, and luts not in-
vaded the noighbot Mg districts, but there
ere munernus uneasy rnmors of t-Ite exist-
ence of the genuine pest at different points
in the South of France, and though these
are strenuously denied, it is evident from
the sudden activity of the French authori-
ties that at leaat they have an acute fear of
fifteen uneventful years. death seemed vers. near—horrible, 1111110 et- lemssiss, 131111 500111 0 1101(11.1
During the summer of which I write, the 0110 death in the darkness, ancl alone—when in verbatim reporting. went off all linemen from trimming oi na-
whole Province had been full of homeless, lie reached out and felt the stone -hearth, —
idle men, known to us all as tramps. The ' cold, muter his hand,
hard timesn had throwthem out of work, , ..
Another jerk, another acid reach, thof the inignity of subjeeting firemen on
e knife The complaints which have been made
and many of them had determined to beg , was in his hand, its blade burned deep in
.others. to steal, for a livelihood. All sorts ' his assailants heart. Then he felt the warm steamers and men•of-war to the frightful
of rumors of petty thefts and robberies, and ! bent entailed by forced draught have brought
' blood spurt over his Minds, the clutch of the
assaults, anti sometimes murder. were heard , out m number of snggestions for ameliomt-
from neighboring places, bot so far the town , ssrong up
robber loosen, mul sick and, horrified, he
ing the condition of these human salarnand-
and kicked aside the oaken prop ss„ kino.g
of M— had onto been annoyed by baggers the remedies named is the
' that fastened the door, and rushed out into., c'e
and loungers, That very c as aelectric motor blower, It is pointed out
villainous-. the m„cht. He had con:melee co
looking fellow had been to the kitchen and ! modern passenger slcamet
begged. Mrs, Ward—Clarence a mother—for , knew not how many more lurked outside,
enemies alone and singlehanded, but he i 11111ast a8 0"07
'its electric.: light plant, such blowers
' could be easily run and the motors them- the propulsion or cars on t te 1
numtal trees to place the wires in si arising
order. The effect of Olio is such that en
rainy clays the telegrams of the public must
stop on such wires on account of the leak
age of aliment to the earth through the tree
leaves or limbs in contact with the wires,"
Prof. Elihrt Thomson, who is one of the
first electricians in the country, on being
questioned repo:ling the feasibility of sub-
stituting electric power for cable power for
00111711
Bridge, stated as Ina opinion t le
would be no particular difficulty in super-
posing on the bridge an electric system, if
desired, or replacing the cable system by an
electric system. Prof . Thomson thoweve r, adds
that he has always been 01 (1131111(11 that -the
Brooklyn Bridge presents conditions specia-
lly favorable for the working of the cable
system.
something to eat, and she had got hill) His calls and cries broil& Mr, sawyer to
good 101:1) and allowed him to rest an hour ' Ike door, to listen to the boy's excited tale selves not only take up very little room101:1)
but could be placed in any desired position.
III the kitehen before gam' g farther in his and see his blood-stained hands.
quest for employment. ' "It is better not to go back to-niolit," That the adoption of the electric motor 011
6 board. ship for this and a variety of other
. .
And now she and her husband were called said Mr. Sawyer. "1\ e do not know how
'to a neighboring village, ..some eight miles many of them there may be. Let us wait till
distant, by the sickness or her sister, who ! =rubs. o
resided there,and Clarence 000 tobe left alone
At daybreak they returned to the scene
an the hoese until the next clan . of the horrible 4100" le
"I feel -uneasy about you, Clarence, said The kitchen floor was covered with blood, Considerable interest attaches to the lay. -
liege beside her husband. "I wish you
and the sheets from the adjoining bed. were ing of the cable betweeu Bermuda and Hali-
his mother, as she took her seat in the car.
would get some neighbor to stay with you evidently used to bandage the fax, and its completion will marl: a new era
to -night." wounds of the assassin, of whom no trace in the histor of the island. An American
Clarence laughed.
"Yon tall; as if I were a baby, mother," he
said. "It is not at all likely any of the
tramps know you have been called away
from home so suddenly, and they Etre Ito
more likely to trouble the house to -night
than last night. I am not at all afraid.
,Good -by. Give my love to auntie, and don't
worry about me."
Be waved his hat after the retreating car-
riage, and with a merry whistle turned to-
ward the stables, where there were cows to
;milk, and horses to feed and bed.
He was hard at -work when he heard a
-voice speak his name, and looking, saw Mr.
Sawyer, a neighbor who lived half a nine dia.
taut, approaching him.
"Where is your father?" askecl Mr. Saw-
yer. "I want to see him about that trade we
ore trying to make."
"Gone," said Clarence, and then explained
:the situation.
"And you are all alone," said Mr. Sawyer.
‘"Are you not afraid 1"
Clarence flushed with boyish pride. He
. was a fearless boy, and he did not like to be
.considered lacking in courage.
"Because if you are," continued la Saw-
yer, "I will run home and tell my svife about
it, and come back and stay over night With
yon."
"Oh, no, thank you," returned Clarence ;
"I am not at all afraid ; there is nothing to
he afraid of."
Mr. Sawyer remained chatting with him
nntil he had finished his chores, and, with a
-milk pail in either hand, returned to the
house.
They paused by the kitchen door. It was
now early dusk.
"Re sure and look up well," said Mr.
Sawyer, "before you go to bed, Clarence."
Clarence glanced ot the kitchen door, Ile
luul. lef the key upon the outside when he
svent to the barn, and it was gone
"Look here, sir," he maid, laughing, "yort
are trying to play game on me. Give me
the key."
"What key ?" cried Mr. Sawyer, in
amazement.
"Why, the key to this door that you took
nut a fONV 1110111011tH ago to give me a scare,
Corne hand it out. You thought you would
nee in was as brave as I claimed, didn't
you? Well, you see I am not at all sholy
over the absence of the key ; but all the
same would like it."
"Open my honor, Clarence," cried Mr,
Sawyer, "I heve not touched the key. Let
us look around in the gran by the door."
They looked vainly.
"Ah, well, it is no matter," said Clarence,
carelessly. "I am :pith sure the fron. door
key will lock this, And now I roust go in
and strain the milk before the cream rises.
Mother told me 10 ,80 goodmight."
"Goodmight, Clarence," and Mr. Sawyer
vas gone.
Clarence strained tho milk, and lighted a
lamp, and 'nought in the wood for themorn-
ing fire, and laid the 13)00 10 out intokindl-
ings, 1301 1110 butcher knife beside% on the
stove.hearth. Then he went over thehouse,
and looked windows and doors, all hot the
kitchentdoor, whioh no key would fit
purposes is only a inattet of time is 01100
by the success which has attended its Intro-
duction into the United States Navy.
could be found, He NVAS never found, amino
trace of thewould-be robbers has ever been
obtained.
A. week later, in the loft of the barn, on
the hay, the sheets were found, stiff with
blood, and, as perfectly red as if they
had been in the dyer's hands. It seemed
probable that the woundel num had died
and been secretly conveyed from the barn,
as had he benn. carried away living, the
sheets would not have been left.
Nothing else from the house was taken.
The robbers were evidently in haste to get
away from the scene of their attempted
plunder without a further loss of life.
I do not think Clarence could be hired to
stay alone in that house now, and the fear
that the surviving tramp will yet wreak
vengeance on his head for the life he took to
save his ONVII, is ever present with the brave
boy, who is still regarded as the young hero
of 111. --
An important decision was rendered by
the Justices of the Supreme Judicial Cotirt
in a deoision Bent to the Massachusetts Leg-
islature lest month. By this decision cities
and towns have the right conatitutionally
to manufacture and furnish gas and electric
Light, both for public and private uee, aud
the decision of the Attorney -General is thus
completely overruled,
.A.FGHAN COTTON FOR RUSSIA,
Tim Czar CtretunIng to Tap :Sew Great
sources or Cotton Supply.
Despatches from Chardjui, say that hun-
dreds of bales of Afghan eottonhave arrived
there from Kelif, This is the first direct sale
made by the Afghans to the Russians,
Kell/ is on the Orre River or Amu Daria,
on the boundary between Afghanistan
and the Russian dependency of Bokha,ra,
The cotton was doubtless taken on boats
down the river to Chardjai, where it was
loaded on cars. The cotton had to be hand-
lecl five times after it leaves Kalif until it
is placed on the cars in Russia proper, The
first train shipment is at Chardjui, where
it is placed on the oars, At Michailov, on
the Caspian, it is transferred to steamers,
"It, is very ourious about that key," h6
mused. "X know / left it in the door when
13 vont out. I believe Sawyer AZ take it to
try my eourage. 1,Tever inintl—'I'll fix it,"
Me took Et stout piece of oak, several feet
long, and braced it under the door -knob and
0, against the floor. It fastened the cloov so
securely that any attempt to open it from
j. the outhide Would only serve to brace it
tighter.
:Mtn) Weary With day't labor—for he
electrician w to has just returned from the
Bermudas points out how 11111011 more para-
doxical the absence of telegraphic commun-
ication there is from the fact that it is all
important British naval and coaling station,
with one of the largest floating dry docks in
the -world, and ti large military garrison, and
that the prosperity of the island is mainly
dependent on its export of vngetables, which
brings in a revenue of over 81160,000. The
people have become alive to the necessity of
knowing what is going on iu the world
around them • they are putting up better
buildings, dreaging the harbor cluumels so
as to admit thelargest craft, Imilding docks
and wharves, and now aro placing them-
selves in a position to reap the full advan-
tage of daily prices current. This evident-
ly is not the end, for it is munored that plans
for an electric road are already under con-
sideration.
That electricity lends itselt very kindly
th the correction of vice several instances
are on record. Not longago the owners of a
house in the suburbs of this city left for a
few days visit in the country. .A burglar,
seeing the house untenanted,got in through
the window and "prospected' the premises
to his satisfaction. His comfort of mind,
however, was presently materially impaired
by 1110 appearance on the scene of a couple
of policemen, who promptly handcuffed
him and removed him to tho station. He
was in blissful ignorance of the fact that the
window by which he entered the house
electrically connected with an 11101311 in the
nearest precinct,
The tents made by the Government on the
ironclad Konig Wilhelm for the purpose of
determining the praotical value of the new
electrical steering apparatus are reported as
having been most successful. The claim of
the inventor that by this apparatus the Cap-
tain can control tho rudder from the bridge
or from any point on deck is said to have
been thoroughly established,
s
A singular and mysterious plot has just
coma to light in Paris, having for its object
the assassination of the Nvoll-known electri-
cian, Dr. Cornelius Herz. In 1888 an ad-
vertisement, in the Fiyaro set forth that an
How "Shakey" Recited the Story of Mary
and Her Lamb.
A very fat Etna good-natured hot extreme-
ly dull German boy was &pupil in a school I
taught in a country neighborhood some years
ago: The Intl's name was jakey Siefert, but
his mother, who came with him on the first
day, called hint "Shakey," and as "Shakey"
Ito was known front that time forward.
He proved to be as dull as he was good.
natured ; M feet, although he was ten years
old, he was still unable to read.
We were going to close the term with a
little exhibition at the school -house in the
evening. Nearly all the boys and gills wore
to have short recitations or parts in dies
logues, while others would sing or read
essays.
Jokey had not been able to ettend school
during the last week of the term, but he ap-
peared at the exhibition, and early in the
evening came up to me, his round face all
aglow with excitement.
"Teacher, oh, teacher," he soil, "I haf a
piece I vould like to speak, too. I haf been
a 'eek learning it."
"Very well, Jakey," I said "you shall
speak your piece." And when several boys
of about his own age bad spoken, I called:
"Jokey Seifert."
Ile came quickly forward, and stepped
upon the stage a comicial picture of over-
grown boyhood and childishereitement. His
fat body was clad in a. pink calico waist, and
around his neck was a huge embroidered
white collar, such as used to be worn by our
great great-grandmothers. His face' was
shiny as soap and water could Make it.'
After u, jerkey little bow, Jokey cont.
menced ;
and on the western shore of the Caspian, at agent was wanted to carry cnit a difficult
'Baku, to the cars again, At %tom, on the and dengerous undertaking. The advertise -
Black Sea, his again trmisferred to steamers, -111011tW115 answered by a, former police com-
ma at Odessa it is loaded on Russian rail- missary named Atniel. Having discovered
road ears, Since the building, of the Trans. that the undertaking was to compass the
Caspian railrv
oad cotton owing in Central murder of Dr. Hem he determineb to do a
Asia has received a great Impetus, and it is
mated that Russia 11080 dcrivem 01101i011111wraith:1;1e little business 011 1110 0300 account.
estimated that a room near the propesed sceue of
of her cotton supply from that region, and action, he pretended to mature his plans,
the supply is coustantly increasing: and did not fail to draw prettyfreely on
In Central Asia. She has 11000 begun the he means whieh wero placed at Ms (110110511.1(110110511.1Itussta is vigorously pushinghor interests t
for their consummation. Having obtaine,1
survey for the extension 0) 3110 Trans -Cos- 15,000 francs, ho thought a, term of foreign
pian railroad from Semarkand, its present travel would not he out of order, and lox -
terminus, lig) miles to Tashkend, the most in c Dr. Herz and his would.bc murderers
important town in 'her central Asian pos. betiind he Hailed for Buenos Ayres. Here
sessions. She is :ago :stripping the native attempts were made on his own life, in
-
rulers of most of their power, and in the stigated, he was convinced, by the :Haat).
district of Mery she has dismissed the Khans pointed plotter; so, returning to Paris OH
as governors of the people, and replaced 111areli 4 last, he submitted the xnatter, with
them with Russian officers, documentary evidence, to Dr. Hers, who
has published the affair, It iH 1101 known
The widowed Arclulucheaa Valerie, of Atm- who the delinquents are:, but Dr, Herz is
tries is ablest engeged 10 10 retnarrhul, 1101 11' one of the wealthiest men in Paris and 1100env:being theArchdukelfrenaisSalvater, UM mini„ „ ."11 as 111111100000 101011(10,
of the Archduke CharlesSalvator eflittpsburg.
Lorraine. The Iiimperor has refused to allow --
Ido dattghter.indaw th aceept the wedding The methods usually adopted for indiaat-
presento whieh Municipal C'ouncilo all over ing the exact spot struck by the bullet in
the empire intended to vote fof her. She has target shooting aro °rude and often danger.
about, 815,000 417000 in all, and her future ono. With a view Co overcome this danger
husband about $0,000 a vitt, so they will
not be very wealthy, for royalty.
and to enable firing parka to ascertain
for themselves the Aetna vet hit by their pointed 11 1341 the speaker.
" Von bet."
" YOU see that holy in black on the bridge
there ?" said tlie citizen.
"Well, that's -myswifo, going to Europe.
Now, of course, shell expect me to stand
here for the :next twenty minetes, while the
steamer is backing and hill aroun , as
another visitation.
Kaiser Wilhelm, after wec•ks of hard
soldiering end State work, is again playing
sailor, a game of which he has been curious-
ly enamored since -Qneen Victoria mule him
an Admiral of her fleet. The Kaiser went
aboard the flaghsh of the German masuorivr-
c squadron the other after000n at 'Kiel,
to wave my handkerchief UR watch her out
of Gs:ht. bee .
"1 ketch On 110811."
" Well, I'm too busy to fool around here
stock to buys biz to attend to. She's it little
near-sighted ; so 111 )1181 hire you to wave
this handkerchief lostead. It's a big cote,
with a red border, aml as long as she sees
oti'd sailed in the evening m the teeth of a it, shell think it's Inc. Come up to OM:
strong gale for Copenhagen, where he an. Street where they are well off, end I'll
rived next afternoon. When last seen from
Kiel the youno monarch WaS stem ing on
the quarter de7:k. of his ironclad, with the
caller of his greatcoat pulled up over his
ears and his cap dragged down over his
eyes, his whole attitude being of the Ajax
Defyiug the Lightning type. He hod not
then left the comparatively smooth waters of
Kiel harbor, He stayecl with the Danish
royal fetidly until :Monday, when he started
for Christiania on a brief visit to King Oscar.
On July 5 he will sail for Bergen, whence
will begin his holiday trip proper among the
beautiful Norwegian fiords. It is understood
that the Emperor has been suffering some-
what of late from the effects of overwm
ancl thatphysicians ettach great value to the
trip from a. hygienic point of view.
"Mary had von noodle lamb:"
Then be stopped short Eta began twitch-
ing at his trousers log with the thumb and
forefinger of either hand,
"Mary had von loodlo lamb."
He stopped again and fell to twisting
around on one leg. His lips moved rapidly,
but no sound came from them. Some of the
other boys began to laugh, Then jokey
cried out,
"Yon nead not geegle like dot 1 It vas
so—Mary did hal Nom leedlo lamb I 11 says
so in de book 1"
Everybody laughed at this and Jakey, re.
covering his good nature, said, in a eomical.
ly loud and shrill 010100
"I cannot clink hoW it vas in boetry. It
vas meexed in mine head, but 11. 0111,0 like dis
Mary had a leedle lamb. It vont to school
mit her, 41011 tho teacher he did not like,
De children cloy did all holler und yell.
Dot Made de teacher mad, He yoost got
after (1111 11311)1). I bet you dot vas goot fun.
1 visit 1 VOA dere to see it. Ha made de
lamb 3111 oud. I weuld laugh to see dot.
Von de lamb vas out it 'multi not go 11,VNY
11 otaid 'round, going 'ha -toe -0,1' dill Mary
did come mid and den it run up to her voost,
so glad as never vas, De lamb did love
Mary because she was shentle mid iL
like dot lamb story, Good-py
Jakey's recitation was the couicess of the
evening 11114 his face 9110111 with pride as be
took his seat amid shouts of laughter and
applause.
The Ration Prime Minister, Signor Crispi,
reamatly gave moot extraordinary evidence
in the Chamber of Deputies of his supersti.
tion regarding the evil eye. Signor ImbriEtni,
having allude:1 to Signor Crispi's life as
necessarily terminable, the latter fumbled in
his pookot, drew out one of the horn.thaped
pima of coral used in Naples as a counter
spell against the "jettatura,," and openly
The Treatment of Widows in India.
The practice of treating widows as quasi -
criminals, outcasts, or slaves, 15 011101131 Hin-
dus of high antiquity. It isprobably a sub-
stitute for a still older custom once univer-
sal among the conquering tribes, of the Asia-
tic world, of slaying the wives of chieftains
on the burial places of their lords. As man-
ners greys milder and men less desperate,
and new religious ideas were born, that
practice VMS aboliohed, and widows were
permitted to live, but, only as persons whose
right to survive must be regarded as imper-
fect, Their position became that of house-
hold slaves, or rather family outcasts, entitl-
ed to no honor, bound to servile offices,
dressed in the meanest olothes fed with the
cluntpest food., and regarded by oil around
them as persons who ought to consider them-
selves incurably degraded by all aromul them
as persons who ought to consider themselved
incurably degraded. liadnot the very gods
themselves, or the fates, pronounced them
deserving of heavy suffering?
It is the rooted belief of every convinced
Hindu tint unexpected or severe misfortune
brought about without human hands is evi-
dence that the sufferer has in some former
state of being deservedly incurred the dis-
pleasure of the higher powers, and is justly
expiating by his own misery his own actual
though forgotten guilt. They think this
even about themselves and wo have known
a respectable Hindu, fell of life (col energy,
and by no moans specially bigoted, 111300 41110
death of an only son suddenly to renounce
the world and thenceforward to live, cover-
ed with ashes and repeating only prayers,
the painful expiatory life of the 01111316550, or
Hindu hermit. What he believed about
himself, his friends were more ready to be-
liesto about him, and, as the death of a hus-
band is the highest, misfortune his wife can
endure, those who insult or degrade his
widow, even if her own closest connections,
do but carry mit the visible will of the
Divine. The widow is therefore, in theory,
at all events, abandoned to her fate. Of
worse, nathrttl laws Etre not wholly stispond-
ed even by suporotiticm, and thousands of
widows protected by personal affection, or
by their own Ethilities, or by their wealth—.
for widowhood does not cancel rights of pro-
perty—lead decently happy and contented
lives. Tho majority, however, onffer under
the ban typified by the shaving of their
bowie—that is, they are regarded till death
HS fallen from all title to respect, and are
treated with 0 habitual indignity which,
oven when they are exempt, from actual op.
pression, Makes the position of millions of
unoffending women no better than that of
slaves or convicts. So severe is their lot
that ib excites pity even among them who
believe that it is sanctioned by religion, and
it would probably have been ameliorated
long since but that it fits in with one of the
principal Hindu social arrangements—that
of early marriage,
Pay Yen.
" S'posin' site looks through a tclesoope,
or within' ?"
" In that case you'll have to bury year
face in the handkerchief, and do the great
weep act."
" That'll be fifty cents extra."
"All right Time is money. Look sharp
now 1 You 0011 kiss your hand a few times
at, say, one clime per kiss ;" awl snapping
his watch the overAlriven tusiness man
rushed off.
We print this affecting little incident to
call attention to the fact that the man thus
employed has gone into Die business regu-
larly. He is now a professional fareweller,
aud businessmen and others can Bova valu-
able time, and yet give their clapartiug
relatives an enthusiastic send-off by apply-
ing to the above specialist any steamer clay.
(10 early to avoid the rush,—(Muellow
Traveller,
They Don't Like It.
It is stated that Mr. Gladstone has given
much offence to some of his supporters in
Parliament by his advocacy of the English
Channel Tunnel scheme. It is said that Sir
William Harcourt and Mr. Fowler are much
irritated by the contemptuous manner hi
which their leader inveighed against all the
ridiculous simpletons, as he considers them,
who oppose the hill; and when he sat down
they walked out of the House. A corres-
pondent says that he wonders whether Mr.
Gladstone ever heard the opinion which
Von Moltke expressed to the late Lord
Ampthill about the project. He declared
that a Channel tunnel would destroy two.
thirds of the coming trade of this country,
as goods would be consigned through it
overland to liarseilles, Brindisi and other
convenient ports, end shipped thence to all
parts of the world in French, Ittdiau and
German vessels. As to the military view, if
a foreign army ever succeeded in landing in
England, and obtaining possession of our
enci of the tunnel, it corild bring reinforce'
nents through it as it wanted, 11111 Nvoulcl
speedily be in a position to dictate terms,
one itoin in which, in Von Moltke's opinion,
would bo the retention of Dover • and the
111111101 in forest) hands.
One of the saddest sights at a plonk is to
see a young man, with three bctlo as largo
as hens' eggs on the back of his neck rowing
a merry party of girls on the lake,
Her Duel with the Doctor,
An extraordinary 11101 10 reported to have
taken place in Vienna, A font clays ago a
girl, aged nineteen, challenged a young doe.
tor, who had offended one of her friends and
refused to apologize. He was challenged in
the usual way by two seconds, Itattulent and
an officer of Reserves, and when he ridiculed
the idea the girl threaten's:1 to horsewhip
him publicly. The challenge was then
aceepted, and a mooting, with seconds cool
doctors, toolt place in a hired room in a,
Vicuna sulinth. All the rules for 33 duel
with swords were strictlyobserved. The
doctor first acted on defensive, but woo soon
oblieed to 531111 111 earnest, and left off aftior
the occond round with 0 svonnd in kis lett
side, which was declared not to be (bulge's.
owl, The girl, a Clroatian oduceted in South
America, is said by the seconds to be tho
best fencer they over 800, After wounding
her adversary she left the place without
casting another look at him.
Charge of Felonious Wounding.
Toumo, July 10,—W. Clarkson and Fanny
Crawford 0.0013 41 house that does not, it ig
Hai& hoar a very good reputation, at 180
Agnes street, The other afternoon the
woman's husbAd, who does not live with
her, rioted thelMuse. Ile quarrelled with
Clarkson, and picking up api axe struck him
over the head with it. Sergt, Gregory
called immediately afterwardo and arrested
the two men, thc woman, and another wom-
an, Nellie Harris. Crawford was charged
with felonious wounding,