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:EIOUSEHOLD.
My Rebbie,
. "What le my Bobbie boy thinking about,
-With that faraway holc in Ida eyesa
as my darling one divan:Mg of dityn yet to
come, •
As hid le the long grase he hat?
•• Does he mess in theta:Oh, &Loy &tomb( pairing
by
Fair visions obeeured from my sight?
.Does he hear angel Voices soft ebanting their
As they mile on their (Trawls of light':
Cuae on, little dreamer, I'll break not the
Spell
That hale thee So fast in its power,
And pray that the years its they come in
their turn,
'May bring thee fall oft such an hour,
In which nut a. sorrow shall trouble thy
heart,
Not a worry 'snail ruffle thy brow,
Dream on, elfin Robbie, my own darling boy,
May thy .future prove )(right as ais now.
Cod help me to keep my dear boy ever His,
'May iny ehild be secure iu his love,
blay the path of Ids joutheyinge lead him
t 1 •t
'To the bees'en of rest that's above.
ANNIE H. STREATER.
THr. BRU2SELC Pos.
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tog the lona whiter eveuinga the eeek 1
; 11114 11,111.1.111,0.1 141 41.'11 frre 111 entertain
Dr Vb it d11'ir the nui atagirl '
pato:1.11y, or 41111/111 a, !I!, 01,1,1 a'
ra1.1.1, far the lit/ b., 1,111,0 in 111t,, 11111,
1, Hay,
I da not less pay to the rook or
hoeserattill, bet( et. matglY4 11114 Mart' Sy111.
Pal ity 1111. l'111,1011t
! The woloun who ettnimits her little rau.,
to the (see of an Mean:tent girl ham no right
• to the name of mother, and it Should be an
impos,ildlity for spelt girls b../ find, j/111000,
A aria aurae -girl, like a g,,,,(1 minister of
the gaapel. is worthy of her hire, and 110
I Minister Ulm ltclieVes that " Of sueli is the
kingdom of heaven," will olate(tt to the
comparison,
The ehildren'e muse is the Mother's best
friend, awl idiould revive her respect end
' eenaideratioe, and on her part the 01000 lie
w. tut hy of her pisition. It le said it is (Ulla
cult te and good eurse•girls. This 1 grant;
' although I nave heard. ladies of experience
say that gra' wages has brought to them
efficient, faithful girls; but to make this class
of giels a-mirk:et to supply the need as -1 say
' need, iestead of demand -0. eleutee ef synth
1 meet is inte,tsttry amour the mothers.
llow eften we hear it said, " I pay my
eook three and a half or four dellar, week.
I can only afford a. dollar and a half or t wo
dollars for 111V nurse girl. "
" Consistency, thou art a jewel." It is a
question, which is of the more conacquence,
otir dinuers or our chiblreu ?
Is it any wonder that poor, tultrained
youeg girls, often needing mother's e tre
themselves, fail to care properly for the chil-
dren under their charge? We found hospit-
als to trait) nurses for our sick, I ouestiou
if we amnia not do better to found homes
told sehoels to train girls to care for our chil-
Greta that there may be less -need of hospit-
als aud nurses fur the sick.
It needs no ar =lent to prove that the
early traieing of t e child, determines to a
large extent the child's future. Of necessity,
even with the most watchful and careful
mothers, a young child is much of his time
wit!: Ida muse, atel loans of her.
The society lad,- is satisfied only with an
artist for a aressmaaar. :she must alao have a
professional cook ; her house furnished and
decorated artiats ; her ehildren must be
pictures In their al t ch•eases. a: hat al tist
is carving ineffaceable lines in the minds tool
hearts of the children? la it the work of
some leasable girl Whoae elliltilleod is not so
, far in the baekground that she has no to1-
; derstanding or sympathy with children
Or some mother -heart in the person of a
Wonina who wisely cares for both physical
awl spiritual needs ?
I As well expect a mere "hewer of stone
I and drawer of water," the one to carve a
, model of beauty from the rough idone, the
railer to set•ite a poem and set it to the
musk( of running le•ooks and dashing water-
! falls, 0.s an ignorant, untaught girl to train
i our elogren to be beautitul without- aud
within.
Blessed be that clog whose nurse is but
another mother, prepared. by natural fitness
and conecientinas training for her respon-
: sible position. And what of those who
must not only supplement the mother's
work, but because the children are mother.
less, or have int:mule:lent Dr careless
mothers, are the only leathers the children
know ?
Where is the man or woman of means, 1
who will endow a home or school where girls I
may be trained to 1,0001110 competent nurses
for the childrea of our homes': Verily, the ,
mothere will rise up and call hint, or her, I
blesaed, alai the children about, Hosanna !'
Aree Haatharox Men.
Clatsupe.
Catsups Etre a pleasant additien to meats
game aud fish, are men more wholesome
than pickles maitre very easily prepared at
home. Every housekeeper, will tinti itse-
during the winter for catsups, in seasoning
ae well as serving 'them with suitable dishes.
TONATO CATS. 'CP. -Put a half bushel of
tomatoes over the flee and let them boil
gently for one hour, then press through
• *a sieve. Return the juke to the kettle
.and boil very low. Add a quart of
strong vinegar and boil half an hour; then
zuld a quarter of a pound of sugar, half a tea-
cupful of salt, an ounce blaek pepper, UDC
ounce of allspice, half an ounce of cloves,
a fourth of a teaspoonful of cayenne pepper,
and stir until well mixed. Lett boil a iew
anmutes. Bottle and seal while hot.
CDCMIDER CATsre.-Pare large, ripe en-
cumbers and remove the seeds. Grate tine,
1 to 1 • • 1 •
onions, two tablespoonfuls grated horse-
radish, half 0, teaapoon fill of events.) pepper,
a teas oonful wl•it s la • tl
soul black pepper. Cover witheold vinegar
and seal.
• SLICED Comment; CATArr.-Take large,
• , 1 a s
I `.
with salt, and let stand twenty four hours,
-drain through a mieve. 11011 a quart of vin-
egar with a tableapionful each of black pep-
.
• a s ,
peer over the euctunbers.
Canaan): CATsrr.-Clitm one gallon of win-
ter cabbage, 'ale tiart of onions and six pods
of green poppar together. Boil half a gal-
lon of ,•inegar and one ounee of mustard,
ginger and allspice, one talaespoonful each of
cloves, einnamen, erre ;old muted horse-
radish, with one potutd of brown sugar. Pour
-over the eablatee.
MrsIlltoon CATsre.-Take freshly path-
.ered mushroems, wipe, but do not wash
them. Put a layer of mushreonis in the
bottom of an earthen diSh, sprinkle with,
seat, then put entailer layer of mushrooms
and salt, alternately. C'over with a damp,
folded cloth, and stand in a warm place for
thirty-six home ; then mitah and strain
ihrough a coarse bag. To every quart of
jure add one ()mice of pepperoorits : put in
a kettle coal boil half an hour, then add ati
ounce of whole allspice, half an onnee
in or root, two dozen whole cloves tug
of mace. Let simmer gently fifteen
minutes longer, then take from the fire and
let stand in a cool place. When cold, strain
thrnegh a flannel bag, put in glass bottles
and seal.
CATsrr. -One quart of
vinegar, half an ounce of cayenne pepper,
four heads of garlic, bruised, half it dozen
anchovies, mashed, (mule& chives, and one
blade of nutee. Cover and stand aside for
eighteen hours. Strain through a sieve, add
one gill of wahint catsup and a tablespoonful
of made mustard ; put in stone jug end let
stand for two weeks. Bottle and seal, This
acateup is an excelleut substitute for Worces-
terSlure sauce.
GUEEN TOMATo CATSDr.- Ciliop one gallon
of green tonettoes, it half gallon of cabbage
and a pint f oniens with aix peals of roil
pepper : aprilikle with salt mid let stand
over night ; (train, and told twe tablespeon-
fals ea+ of mustard, ginger fuel black pep.
per, with one tablespoonful awn of eitina-
mon, cloves, allspice, horseradish 1111.1 1010ae,
and a pound. of brown sugar ; pout' over the
catsup ; put in a preserve kettle and boil
four home, when it beeomes thick and
smooth.
On.IPE Caraer.-Take eine ponnils of
grapes, remove from the stems, weigh iota
put in a preserve kettle ; set on the lire and
scald ; rub through a collander, add five
pounds of sugar, three tablespoonfuls of ein-
nalnon, one each of ground cloves awl all-
spice. Boil fifteen minetes, then add the
vinegar cold, Bottle at once.
goensat's TOMATO CATSUP.-Onedialf
bushel of perfectly ripe tomatoes, Wash and
break in pieces. Place them over the tire
and let them come to aleph, When cool rub
them through a sieve. .Aild one-half cup of
salt, one tecompful each of allspice and cloves,
one quart of strong vinegar, Cook one hour
or Instil quite thick, stirring all the time.
Bottle and seal while hot, DOItoTI1E.V.
Our Eurse-O- irls,
I sometimes wonder why tho sick are at
si loll a premium. To be Sere we hare the
blaster's words, "They that are whole have
no teed of a physician, but they that are
sick ;" hut why need a physician?
We spend ottr money right royally for
trained. nurses for mu! sick. "We take no
note of Buie but from its loss :" and Nr3
count that lost spent away frotn the bed-
side of our clear ones, Bay and night
are one. The life and stt•ength of the
mother is freely given, evon until sho ger)
with her child into the "dark valley."The
father importunes the doctor to n kro no ex-
pense of thne and labor for his child . The
trained nurse is queen of the sick room ; her
lightest wish gratified ; herinstructions car -
lied out to the letter.
All this is well, no more than is our duty
and pioneer° ; but the child recovers and in
few short weeks is returned to the care of
a young girl who has had neither experience
nor training for the °aro of any child, much
less a aelicato one, The parents who spared
neither time nor expense when the ehild. was
sick, now think two dollars, or two dollars
and a half a week good wages for the care of
the ohild when well. 'Usually 11111011 lass
paid the norsesirl than tho girl for genond
housework. IVIty a difference, and if a
differonee which has the better right to tho
premium, tho girl who 000lts our food,
WaSneti Our dishes and sweeps our floors, or
the nursesirl who cares for our children ?
--
Seasonable Recipes.
Cony C.txxs,--Beat two eggs, mix with 0.
piht of buttermilk, sift in a teacup of meal
and half a teasem of liour with a teaspoonful
of soda Emil ',elf a teaspoonful of salt. allx.
well aud bake on n hot, welbgreased
Blinn -01i 'TANI,- -Slice ham thin, pour civet
boiling water, drain, wipe dry, lay on a broil-
ing -i am, put DV00 hot coals and broil done.
Take up, sprinkle with pepper, pour over
melted butter and serve very hot.
Enna) lam PLANT. -Parboil, slice thin,
dip in grated cracker, then in beaten egg,
then in the croaker again, and fry in hot
butter.
PINEAPPLr, one cep of but-
ter aud two of suaar together, sift in four
imps of flour and two teaspoonfuls of irking
powder, stir in the well -beaten whites of
six eggs and half a teacup of cant watev,
flavor With l'emon, Bake in jelly -pans.
crate one pineapple, sprieltle with mega'',
apread between two layers. Tee top ana
Ssrl,rrit TtOr.Vrt 'ES. -Take one doxonlarge
tomatoes, cut off the MIN, take out the seeds
and pulp, sprinkle with salt alai pepper.
chop pound of cold meat tine, mix with
tomato juice, add a slice of cold, boil( d hani ;
fry one minced onion in rater, add a tea•
cup of broad crumbs, two vggs, a 1 ttle salt
and pepper. Mix all thoroughly, till the
tomatoes and bake..
Cons Penmen, - Grate the corn from a
(11,0011 ea rs 50110)01 wi th salt, pepper and a
little sugar ; awl the yolks of font• eggs, two
ounces cif butter and a (part of new milk.
Bake slow oven. al hen done, beat the
whitee of fuer eggs, pour over the top auil
brown,
A Ottirassior Rana Amuck,
"I must gay three ur four foot soldiers 1"
exelaimed a cuirassier named Lefranee, as
With 130111(1 of his comrades in the same Peg!.
teeth lie stopps Creiscin an ireiffenaiveficia
amain, in the streets of Ailgers, hi which their
respective corps were quartered on tlic, even-
ing of the National Feta. Suiting the action
to the word Lefrance drew his sabre and
proceeded IA) at leek the infantryman, who,
parrying his threats With 1118 bayonet aS best
he could, drove nearly the whole of the
weapon into hie adversitryie side, The mar,
(Mier reeled, mid then fell down dead, Croi.
son returned quietly to his barracks, where
he was put under arrest in the course nf the
night. He has just been tried by court -mar.
tial. His officers gat him an extiellent
character, and he himself declared that he
trinall regretted what he bad dime, but fold-
ed that hie life was at atake, It was ascot. -
tallied that the enisauisier had already thraehed
a font soldier belonging to another regimen t
onthatiatine evening, and Crobion wasacquit•
toil, the court arriving at the conclusion that
ho had simply acted in eulfalefeese and had
had no retention of killing his opponent
outright, French soldiers always go out with
their midi:arm, and their conduct is, as a
rule, so steady and orderly that only 08 rare
and exceptional OcenSiOnS like the one just;
cited dd they make a bad, or rather any, use
of their weapons.
A Sad Aooident
"cal, 800 Sollivan ?" asked the re
o t
"Ko. gr. Sullivan is 111, He attempted
to swat a mosquito en his forehead lad
night, and lie hit ao hard lie dislocated hie
scalp, Come in next week,"
Obedience to the Death.
The eaiter of oil 1u,04,... ;a his leo issue,
voilehee 1,0, the truth 01 this story t Na•
poleon 1. Was entertaining the C,..te Abtx•
ander and the Prussian King. at 1 weakfast
111111;,1,111s\i..t, when the conversation turned on
fy soldiets obey me blindly," cold the
" And mine itio anxiima ta die for me,"
added la apehon,
At the suggestion of the Pressian Meg a
teat of devotion 'Was agreed upon. The
royal parr. were britaltarting in the 11111,
stare .if a building that awed a paved Asset.
ERA member was 1 tt t.tall in olio of his sol-
diers and command hint to jump Bann 1.1
Whitlow, Nals0....11 Made the 111%0 test,
"Call the 1 ,Tht alitrettn," he command-
, ed, and 'I0 0411 appOltrea.
" V.1 1 you obey any order give you S'1
(rhea Napeleon,
\ es, she.
" whatever it la?"
" sire."
" Then jinni) out 1.f 1' .,",inamv."
"But I have a 1c1i0 1.10t1 elfflarr11,
."
"1 will care for them. Female' 0" And
the tiardiste alartaita with a military )(elute,
walked to the window and leaped mit.
"Call a private of the body guard," order.
, . • • • • t The
. soldier rune.
0 "What's your moiler
"Ivan I vanovitch."
I "Well, Ivan, just throw youraelf ont of
that window."
,
'I es, cattier," answered the guardsmite,
and he did it.
"Command the bravest, of my soldiers to
. come here," said the Paussian king to hia
servant. sa. six-foot uhlan with. a row of
eel (r a roes nis breast and a soar on his
forehead, entered.
"Nyf' ,"•1' II I' i,"t 1 •
their loyalty a French mid a. litorianguards•
man jumped at commitmil leen that Win -
dew Have you the pluck to (lo same ?"
"Is it for the Patherlaad ?"
"No."
"Then I refire to do it "
Bleot thinks this anecdote contains n.
fine lesson for Cesman army cancers of the
resent
-a.--
Final Destiny of the Barth.
In the Dublin Pi ie the Rev. J. S. 'Yang.
han sets forth a curious speculation of bus
01111 as to the ultimate destiny of the earth.
Ilia theory is that the world will continue
mad every particle of rts immense bulk (1)0
passed through Monne bodies, end the whole
of its enormous weight will Lc just sufficient
to furnish forth new bodice; foi• the human
race when the trumpet sounds for the Re-
surrection He calculates that the dead
weight of human cerpses ameunts to 2,000,-
000,000 tons per century at present, mg the
total is going up. At preseut he thinks 100,•
000 persons die every twenty-four hours,
when the population of the Nvorld ouly 1, -
Or a 000,000. In 4,000 years the population of
this planet ought to rise to :320,000,000,000,-
000,000, Now, the total weight, in romicl
numbers of the earth is 0,000,000,000,000,•
ootimot000. The number of the total aggre-
gate of souls at the Last Day Mr, Vanalian
does not venture to caleelate, but he (Melts
that it is a divine design to idiom. human be-
ings to inereire mil multiply until the whole
of the existing globe will just be suflieient to
furnafh forth the substance of their risen
bodies, whether they be the bodies of saints
in gliwy or of the reprobates in hell. This
is his theory of the Resin:metre- -
Then the rising bodies, flying- at a tangent
from the earth, will leave nothing behind
them of a material world. The ball of earth,
which a moment before was whole and en -
care, will then-hke the ball formed by a
swarm of bees when the bees fly off -be
broken up and divided into as many parts as
•
depart, bearing away its glorified lolly as to)
independent and distinct entity. The earth
will no lougee exiet, as WO no.. knew it ;
will be, indeed, as tit. Peter aays, "a new
earth," an earth no longer moviug round
the sun as a clark and sullen mass, but an
earth consisting of the unnembered hosts of
glorifled human forms revolving for all °ter-
nity Breen(' the divine Sun of eternal justice
in heaven.
Bursting of a Swiss Glacier,
The Swiss Valor/and reports that the
Lake, which lies at tbo foot of the
Egging:ore, in the tapper\ alats, had lint•st
the glacier dam which lay ituross the valley,
and, spreading over the glacier, had poured
a black mass of imul, stones, and broken ice
into the Blume below. Fortunately there
was waterin the river at the dine other-
wise the eimaequences might have been very
calamitous for the people of the Upper Va-
lais. A peasaet, who was close to the lake
at the tine) declares the scene was most ter-
rible and indescribable. When the ice dean
gave way the vast mast; of water came tumb-
ling out, sweeping away the huge fragments
of the glacier, with the reeks upon it, tomb.
ling into the crevasses, bursting thent tp in
turn, and rising met the grater in gigantic
WaVes, itgitin to carry all before it. Just at
the end of the glacial, the valley had nar-
rowed Mtn a little defile, While face of
the glacier WaS 001110 litunlrecla of feet; high,
I
the ice, which, attacked above and below,
gave way at last with a deafening crash,
while thealood hurried down themonntain side
into the Rhone, The lake was mutely 8000
foot above the sea -level, and usually tits -
charged its surplus water by subterranean
channel, oecasionally bursting its ice barriers
as on the present Occasion, cantonal
government are constructing an overflow
canal, which, it is hoped, will put an end to
those peri (lira outbursts,
English .Death Rates.
Landon'a drub rata showed an increase
last week, having rime fi•om 18.8 to 20.0.
The deaths were 1 28 above the average of the
past ten years. The greater mortality was
due to metrics, scarlet fever, and ;
mete of these diseases, however, exhibit any
marked extension, while diphtheria., which
lies been prevalent, showed a further con-
siderable deoliee, so that tin:fatal emir were
below the average, As compared with the
other large towns of the kiegilom, tondo»
seam slightly below the average, which wae
21 per 1,000, It wits, however, exeooded in
salubrity by 'Nottingham with return of 1 3.
O. Oldham 12,8, Bristol 14.1, Beadford 14,3,
and Derby 1 4.5. Preston lias tho unenviable
notoriety of holding the worst place, with ft
mortality for the weelc of 43.5 per 1,000 per
annum. In tho annual report; for the Hack-
ney district, whieh has jest been published.
themeclical officer, Dr, Tripe, states that the
death rate for 1880 was only 116, which ap.
preaches some of the healthiest seaside re-
sorts. LI the previous 3rear it WaS ra,a per
1,000, The return just made for Battersea
ORM 11, calculated death rate of 14.48, .As
the average for the whole Lomlon was
1 7.5, it, will be seen that the outlying and
Mae densely peopled distriets of the metro -
polls are deeidedly the most healthy- am 11, it
ifi plciasant to observe, (lathe result of better
sanitation, aro improving from year to year,
GOING TO MASTIONALAND.
Now conulry 'Vito i Manta ArrIettn
Conitinto' Wilt ellen.
IThe 1 It i1 1,11 S.11101 A frivait Company Was
fornied t purpo of l'1111.1ing and
Ding that p tri Soul h :Cana bes wet it Irt .
• and lir stetill latitude and tin 1111'1
, longitude, Mitslutitaleii 1 ht the lialtittej hi.,
eountry, The comp:illy lias oyal .:Itarter
. an,1 it vapital of at20,000,001). The erganiz.
ation ol this company i8 .11141 1.1 010 energy
lid enterprise a a preluilient Engli diman,
'1,0 111,,, 1 ei by 1111111e, lb'.
among Opt foreinost to seenre eoutrol 0f t
diamond Mined at liiiniterley smite filter,
years ago.
For it number of years past, all
travellers who have visa ea 11114101111111 1101
11111 reported that the emeary Wad mit
.
only eXtreinely rich gald, Ind also an Da-
colient emirate:la laud. The entente and
intnierous rivers whieli tire found :esti, red
all over tlit,tlionitlittid were Fuld to be all
that voidd be desired. Such reports, so
11111,11y 1111,1 11111111it111,1D, pinise rd (salary
hitherto unknown to white Men, seem) eer-
: tain to at trait( he at telt lion ot so en ter•
prising a non as ale Rhodes, Ahem two
years ago that gentleman tool; (aims whiell
will undoula (ally moon moat 111 the settle-
ment of 3.1 a:thitherto] and the development of
its mieera 1 and agiaeulturid resources.
Mashonaliuni in ruled by the Klee of
alatabelelaiel. the etinutry immediately
•
Ovr. 8, 18n.
_
ttgo, May be of ititeredt. Ile saes .NEWS,
King, lvinwe 04,, clothing e,elsist 0..1 of rug
thrown tlrer bla lap. weighs over ‘,„No pounds, la Wedite,biy, a whale snventcon feet. in
Never have I seen Anelt a bria_ol, sensual, length wait wash( ,1 ealuese Sherriea, near
Lola et 111/ 11,04. 11(er:ter, Dublin.
west. This It ing is Lobtaignlit, one of th,
most dospotie and cruel eaten( of Afros •
He has never permitted any white Men I
TO TO17.11 WIND -
of liashomtland or of bi:4 DWD 011111try,
Whiell is also known to eon min much of the
precious metal. Many whites have again i
mid again endeavored to get it concession
front Lobengula. As far as levrn only
two wore steer successful. One of them I
was the traveller Barnes, who died shortly I
after receiving his COD", i,-11. The other
Man Was :Mr, Rhodee, who induced. Luton-
gula to grant hint the rigli' to develop tbe
mineral resources of .M 1-itonaland. 1.'0r
eertain cotedderation the King willingly
attached his mark to the pro vv pavers.
Lobengula Ilea Lamas a lora ashimaland ,
and the alashontes, a peaceful and hales -
trines people, to Men ase Ids herds of oxen
and his vast ounilice of slavea IVIteeever
he chooses he has only to may the word and
one or mot,: id' his chiefs or "indenae" will
head an "Militia' or company of raiders and I
make for alashonaland to philuleroXen from
the Mashonas, kill all people not fit for
slaves, and carry others back to Matabele-
land to live horrible lives as Lobengula's
slaves, From all this the i•eitilee will see
Dun. the granting of the Rhodes concession
and the sittyess of the Solith Afrioan Cent -
pally can 0111v: reeult in a "Teat benefit to
the unfertunate alashoeas,
The Nlatalicle tribe is a branch of tlic Zu•
lus which went north some seventy or eigtity
years age. They have all the warlike spirit
and brasery of the Zulus, and hare (qua 0 -
ally extended their territory by plantierin,
neighborieg tribes. Some twenty pare tig0
al osilikatze, the King of the *littabelcsilied,
and Lobengida, the present ruler, was
01100011 by the chiefs as King. Lobengula 18
a110ut 30 years oltl, and his reign has been a
mon ntooltY ANY) CitrEL.
one. Lobengula nos no regard whateveefor
life, The King killm any oily he wishes at
any time he ehoosea, He has simply to inty
to some of lila Men, "Kill So and So," mut
the order is at once executed, I Was talking
with a man who with several otherm N'isited
Lobengula's capital a few years since. These
men had a number of Lobengaras men and
boys working for them, -011e clay they
• missed sem of the best hoes, and asked the
others where the inissiug servile t was.
" Toe King killed him One morning," they
replied.
Later, when the matter WaS mentioned to
the King, he said that the bey was too smart
and was learning tho ways of the whiten -um
too rapidly. This is but one of the Many in-
Stallee$ whieh Could be given of avhat occurs
almost daily in 'Matabeleland. .Another in-
stauee which illustrates the cruelty of the
King was reported to mo by a missionarywho
lived some years in Matabeleland, The
Matabeles have a great hatred for the alas.
lame, but, some months ago there was a
gushier boy, ono of Lobengula'e slaves
at the Kinfs'e capital, who Was eSpecially
dialik0,1 by ;tome of the gatabeles. So, in
order tn get rid of him, they took tho usual
Method of preferring some charge against
Min, They Went to the Killg and told him
that the MaBlinna boy had drunk some of
his beets Ana ono who touches the King's
beer without lir permission be killed. C61) -
oilman, when told ithout the alaahona boy
said ; "Bring me tho boy." The boy Was
brought befin•e Min and Was aelscal by the
Kieg, "Did a•ou drink 1ny beer."
The boy, being too frightened to deny the
charge, was wholly false, replied :
" Yes, las Mg, I drank 901110. of your beer." At
this the King took op a knife and with his
awn hands cut otr the hoy's lips, 1111d then
ordered his Men 1.0 eat 011 IliSearS. The pow:
boy was killed ill the eight. 'Jim usual way
of killing a peeson is to knock him on the
head with a "bongusa" ot• deb.
But Lotion -pale is mit more cruel and des-
potic then his people wish him to be. In feet
it is said that he is continually restrainiug
this people from te king the lives of many
whites who have of late years visited their
countt:y. Lobengula's predecessor is said to
have advised him always to be friendly to the
white man, This advice Lobengula seems to
hair° heeded, for he has nevee been knownto
take the life of a white nutn. The Matabeles
aro very jealous of the
rEESENCE 01, WIWI% MEN'
in their country. They only wish to have a
few traders so that they can obtain things
which they use, and inissionariesso that they
can have modicum, Lobengula allows trad-
ers and miseionaries to settle in hie country,
butt no one is permitted to accept, Christian-
ity. Death is the penalty for BO doing
Miesionai•ies have been at work for perhaps
fifty years in Matabeleland, but they nave
done absolutely nothing because of the at -
Mode of the rulers,
I WM told by a man who has just spont ton
months Lobengula's (siert as interpreter
for the 13ritish South African Company, that
upon Revered occasions when ho eat by the
side of the King a number of warriors tlan.
cod around hini, brandishing their assegais
and bogging the Xing to allovv thom to kill
him. The King always reinsed, sayleg
"No, he is a friend," and would eeinetimes
odd: "I see you tvish to kill white men, I
will let you kill white mem bayou must go
and kill them where I tell you. Go to Kim-
berley and kill as Many as you like,"
The Xing said ilia simply to armpits° the
\variants for the time being, knowing well
that Kimberley or the other places mention -
(el were a thousand or more miles away, and
that it woold be hopossible for them to dr)
MB 110 was "perfectly willing" they should
do,
oenetatia3 this subject, a, quotation
from m letter written by mit 14nglish blajor,
Who wam ono of the bearers of it letter sent by
Queen Victoria to Lobengula some Months
ha alsTivol 11" V"'Y "'111 " 0111' . A t Siitiontichl !tinier:6 near Ilkeston, on
lei I t'1'11.1d 11,1'11 and Irit11,1111A1D1, "1101111 t'4' looreing, Charlie( Davila, an
;salve t g ‘vir pro. lure,1, and we Ivey, soon obt,,,,.iy fell down a shaft of 1.2011 foot
busy tr.aring it Up mut teeth lingers. jaaptiji.j. h twill upon a•1011.11 i„. 011,4
1110 K.I1114 tq't 1D.11,-, 1,, Ills eapital riding, The baty ware friefully mangled.
ae-iog gollt, j,4 111,‘t. bring t011,1,', ,
, prieats of the Di•anitry 'tViati port
(113.,:t !cif' '111 argPl'i aL c"life'vam
yesterday ealling on the “overunient to 1;0
touched a 1,1,noi,,,m."
011,1, illt1,r1,11D, hy giving entplovonnit,
1 111,'11.• 1..i."1 010 11. ihe '" 01,0, p,„,ple 01 the tvest from the l.tinino
the Matabeles.
1,1 " inVt. “r,t1tvent,91t.d. by the failure of the pdatia,
jar•lin ,Iiilar,•nt .c.rin, sae, am. tvetif.10, ac• ,
all South Aft•aatti waive, 11s, 11, lei' 'lid.
1; bp, 1 , 1,..,„ km. ! A Iriper isMed TIll"tillity by t3110 1,,Pri1,1111:11:
1,5„ 'rraie 111111 daring .1 \tenet reperta
os,..i(g •
mail reeentiv, the asaegai as I, 11.01.1. re,i1'1'11 ef tile lose of it t
of (Ii•fence. It ia mad, i1.0„, „ vessels, represt Ming, a tonnage id 1 naafi 1.
wit h a ,,t raight and reaet imea ata 1, a bar: Ti." 1""t. %vas 13g. Of these
( t0e1 ivere eh:aware, einineetion.
paat, ee that it 111.1111,11. 111.' 111.111, .. 11111 l4 • ,T1'"
• ' ' ' 11'101 Wilieb 11' '1" 11,41
satgais Willi an inikeown poison 1so•tlea tilt. the etairse of c'Xi 1.1114V0 resume going
,• . • •
4.ts to emote the (Math ((f man or beast (rhieli en itt 111V (.11111.(-11 ILL Unroll:tin Norton, Nor -
it penetrates. It id .,,t1.1 that doetord lind it tette, the bricklayets found a largo , this of
1st is 'amnia: la, save 'run 1.11,0 honey in it eavily of the roof. They monies-
: to go early the next morning to seoure
any one Who has 'been Womnied with the the prize, 1.111 some of the other workmen
puntonetl assegais of the Beginner 'The and the pat•lall cleric wont at an earlier hour
natives attain wonderful skill in throwing und renewed the honey, whien weighed
their assegaia, I is said that. the average alt0111 `Wren 4tollet
nativo Van throW his As00411.1 WWI ainlost An implest NV1114 hehl at Dedham, lasaex,
perfect tunny:MT a distance (if oyer fifty; Irarry Evans, 141, son of a buteher. lie Welt -
yards, and With a force Handout to cause: (al I Wo companion, to go on the river Stour
the weapon tii go through the body of a in boat. These two lade fired several shots
man. It was the assegai that proved so with a ',a -4,N. aj lava, :while a eariejaaa
deadly to the English troops, dating the, was 1,110g extracted the weapon exploded,
Zulu -war, The asSegaiS are 11111010 111010 lo and Evan, WM shot through the head, A
be feared then rifles in the 11111)(18 of nal tree.' verdiet of ',Accidental death" was returned,
It is the custom of natives to ace!) upon an I, with a rider condemning' the reekluss side a
enemy and iitableilly rush linth in great ; fir:seer to young lade.
numbers and hurl thou/ands of assegaim, I
This 11`118 1110 0,1,0 i11 11 non il..le nutearre 1111.
1"8"ving °a° 14 a "314 to 110104 c'611"'"`" ing tourists returning from the Continent,
A heavily -laden passenger train, 11011V11,
the 14%,,;lish in the 2.,111; war, I left Dover on alowlay morning eliortly he -
1 fore 1101.011 1/.0111410 for 1.011l10111 and when
To return to the Tiritiall 8001.11 African
1.1ollipitny, The pioneer force of this rem ritimilig bet mon 1 femleorn alai Staplelturst
pany id note en DIM° to liechltalialaild, aml ' at high 81'"`I' (Stetted into a (trove or lonts00
it is from its camp, nettr :Ninfekitig, il : whieh had strayed on to the line, killing
nthot north of Cape 'Pewit, that this 14t((.1-11.1. tin'''''' "f them, The Latin was brough t to 0,
sudden staralatill and kept. the rails, though
is written. The last detachment of this aa„ p:,:sat,ag,aia „,,,,,,, „ in,,,,„a by ,b„ .1(40,44.
or (.3 to which they Were subjeeted,
• •
p1001,111, 11. 1 11111111SO IL 1. It 1 DILI . IC. 11 dill 1
eonsistea of 111)1,11 1 is dozen ears, or ()twitters Mather Charles 11.11$10.V, IL LDWit11111111
they aro called in CD111111.V. '11,1 1.11114'11,Mill1, 141111 111.1 Wife were remanded at
carriages arc made after the inantter.or ti,„,,,, (;riyawidi 11...o.11iiig 'thole child, The
in hogland, each oim containing or 11001 ILIA. 11114 11 LA RIM' (11/.11 i,1 L1 -
four apat:tments Isaiah extend thi: entire faet, a perfeet. slceleton and reamed with
width 01 the 1.1111`1.111ge, 1,„,1.11,g 110„,.,,,,o both vermin. It weiOted 111b instead of aboilt
Sides. I hare been utterly unable to learn 1111b. Thew Were ie. bedclothes in the
er imagine why such tillage Should be lthell r""2111 111111 1111:1 relieving (aver toned the
here in preference to the Amet i01411 coach, yeimeest of the children in the fireplace eat -
except, that they a re English. They do! mg cinders. Vitae!. the child's insurance
eery f, „ ee„, '1,„t for bmg!pulitty the ',treats Were entitled to ,123 if it
perneys they are certainly unlit, and are 1°' •
voi 1 of any comforts and convenlaneaa • A disastrolls thimilerslorin pas,ctl over
WeSt Cheshire aud North Sidtb,r,bilirtl.
01'111'11111, OD the berth i•s ot Ntationldliire,
the lightning Week the house ol a labeurer,
and demolished the kitchen, where the fam-
ily were silting at their evening 111,111. The
man was badly eta with falli lig gl,iss, and an
ohl lady is serioindy ill from the shock. The
other members of the family luta 001tr,Tht.
capes. The lightning killed three pigs in the
yard.
The Home Secretary Ire iesued an 111,1,1`
to the Governor of StaiTord Ca. 1 fer the lib -
elation cif Sainucl loll and dente • Olderoft,
Who Were recently sell leaved ttt Chester As-
sizes to seven years' penal aervitmle for
alleged highway robbery et Bromine:m.1a
Ciretimstances are stated to have been
brought to tile know1Hlge of :Mr. Matthews.
which have convie tad him that the men had
nothing to (10 with the rubbery.
A little girl nearly six years of age, named
'Mabel was 11111,;011 ill 1110 (11101C at
Brent fop enarged with pinching a baby a
few months 01‘1, mooed Elizabeth Pildetoli,
w hose pareats live at Twieltelillain. Amid.
501110 atilluleillent Court at the absurdity
of the charge and the grant Mg of the 011111-
11)0115, the accused was discharged on the
grolind that, being limier seven years of age,
she was not In law responsible for any assault
she committed,
The gas department of the Birmingham
Corporaticm have ender consideration 0,
" ponny.in•the•slot " for the supply of ens
in small tenements. The idea has been test-
ed and proved to be feasible. The system
would involve the fixing of a machine in the
house of each consumer, and the doing out. of
gas by pennyworth& The priee now charg-
ed to small consumers hi fid per 10011. Under
Llie 1111111' principle the proposal is to supply
25 ft. for Id.
A Sheriff s assessor heard a case at Alan-
ohoster, on 'Cnesday, against the alanchester,
Sheffield, itml Lincolnshire Railway Com-
pany, in which Mary Duggan claimed it 1000.
Mrs. Duggan had a lialmiongery busiuess at
Hyde, told was badly injured in the collision
at Ardwiclt May, She had nine teeth
knocked out, head and face injured, and hail
since been paralysed on Or right side mud
unable to attend to Meatless, The damages
ivore assessed at 1:500.
In connection with the shrieking vitriol
nonage alargaret Sullivan at alackoom,
an attempt has been made to linch the
thief prsoner, Lucoy, on his removal to
Clerk Jail. On arriving at, the railway ter -
111111118, laise eroWd of angry people attack-
ed the three prisoners, and made several at.
tempts te get Lacey from his escort, with
tho determination to lynch 111m. The little
posse of police who were conveying them to
wore utteely powerless until help arriv-
ed in the shape of some of the Cork police,
who, with some difficulty, managed to get the
prisoners out of the hands of the threatening
crowd and (awry them away 011 cars to the
county jail,
13etwoon forty and fifty men left Saltley
• hunday morn nig, and Prent for a walk
drawn by Oxon, Gallaillarai probably have as far as Marston theism At that villaacthey
little idea of the method of travelling hero. onteredp, flow and oomnioneed searching for
The wagons (tee very neavy and about mushmom8. While taus engaged, a farmer
twenty foot long; three or four tons would and eight or nine harvestmen, armed with
be considered tui average load where the 0301,0 and rakes, came upon them for the
roads are not too roegh. Eighteen oxen purpose of driving them away. The &Utley
constitute an ordinary span for such a lama men fought with stones, and the local men
but often itiOre aro reqUired. 1.1Sed their rakes and sticks. After fle sharp
teen days, but tvithout delays 11 should be
The joentoy to Mistaking occupied nine. contest the havvestmen succeeded in turning
their opponents out of tho field, and thon
done in fifteen. Alt overuse of eighteen or thaY drove them to the railway station.
twenty miles per day is conahlered good Thny arrived an the platform about half -
term. Two and a hal ini les an howls es fast 11,8 /1150 0110, ;Mat RS t110 train for Birmingham
travelling or "troking" to uso the Deteli I
appeared, The battle was continued on the
can be done With a heavy load, and a trek platform, and the passengers wore consider -
should not, lag Icinger than four hours at a ably alarmed, hub finally the Saltley mon
time. The proper time for trelting is in the entered the train and rode home.
night, because the oxen do much better 'hire. 'Mary Lemon, aged 20, wife of a
work with loss injury to themselves than fisherman, residing .North-14nd, Lynn,
when working in the sun. lies in a very precarious state from burning.
lip to this date WO have travelled 250 filio was making preparations for smelling,
miles. After few clays' rest we shall be. Seine elotalee, and wilt lel; the aot of light -
gin another trek to a camp 400 miles north ing a tiro ender a fixed boiler, she 1140(1 (1,
of here. After another short stop, foe re- quantity of pasaffin oil from a bottle. The
emits, arms, and provisions wo will begin liquid fell epon her olothes and instantly
the final journey to Mashoalanct Our das- ignited, and lit moment she was a mass of
thudion la IOSS than 100 miles south of the flames, She rushed into the open thrwough-
Zambesi River- about 1,000 miles from fare exclaiming, " I have set fire to my
this place, This makes a distance of 1,200 house I" whereas it Nvas evident she had set
miles to betravelled in an ox wagon. Xoth. fire to herself,. Neighliours came to her aid,
ing can be Said with acenettey (unlearning and by wrapping somo carpeting round her
the time which will be requiredfor this join, Olely eXtilignisited the but nett befOre
ney, The fruit that then is no road for 000 several of her friends were considerably
miles and tho probability of our being coin- burned. Medical old was emonanied and
pellet' to contend with hoeille natives have biro. Lemon was put to bed, when it was
to bo considered, i found that the flesh en tal parts of her body
Or.,Atitn A., Can, I was feu/ally oharred,
whates ea,
Kinibc-rley is 042 miles from Cape
Town, but if you were to take the
trip, not knowing the dime:nee, you
won1,1 flunk it to lo three times as
many miles, The seliedule time for this
distance ie ferty hours, For DS many as seta
enta: miles front (.'ape ToWn there are 1111111.
al towns and villages. One of the
crier set
largest /11111. br,i1,k11011,11 of the towns is 'Wel-
lington, in aeltieli place hi mie of the best fe•
ma.le schools in South Attica.
Our train reitelied Wellington some time
before ini(Inight. Early morning 1411.11" us
crossing a country almost treeless. One pe.
culiarity WOrtily Of notice is that of the
:mountains and hills. There are many of
these to be etre from the railroad, mid every
one presents the sante cluaracteristies, that
of having flat and level tops, whielt look
exactly as though they had been cut off by
some artificial means, 'The
Till'14 or 1101-STAINi
of the same height appear to lie cut off' at
about the 80.1110 diS1/11.100 (1,0111 1110 b11,40.
The gealogy of this part of Africa, as well
as that of other parts which 1 have visited,
seems to be very interesting. The same
may be said of tho zoology, botany, and
anthropology. It is ignorance of these
branches of science, as well as of the history
ktof Africa, the, noes itthe Dark Continent.
Kiinberley wts reached. at 3 o'clock on
April 17. It Was iny intention to make Kim.
beeley the subject of a letter, but charnel -
stances rendered. it impossible for me to
gather sufficient reliable material. I will,
however, speak briefly of the place. Oa one
summees day of 1807 a white 3131111 going
along the mad noticed a, native boy playing
with it brilliant atone, which Ito took front
him, This Stone was afterward found to be
Et diamond. To -flay the place is covered
with a city of 1 0,000 or 1 2,000 iehabitants,
all the result of the brilliant stone which tha
native boy found.
A large number of diamonds weto found,
and there are to -day seine half doy.en mines,
all doing a large business. The mines are
very riell and 1111,11 out more diamonds than
any others in Om world, and in fact, so many
diamonds have been found that the maaket
is overstocked, and the supply ie 11011, being
limited to meet tho demand. Thetotal value
of the diamonds Oaten from
T111.1 ItInlIERLEY MINES
has been eatimated at S0,000,000 per year
for fifteen years, and the total value is telly
$1 35,000,000, The weight of the diamonds
representing this vane: 1$ ab011t, nine tons.
The largest diamond over found weighed 400
karats, but was not a firsteclass stone, Two
stones, weighieg 150 karats each, were found ,
and one of those Waft valued at$500,000.
The Men employed in the diamond mines
number between 5,000 and 8,000. Our
party left Kimbeeloy for 250 -mile triple it
wagon, All travelling in tho Lev-
ier of South Africa is done 111 large. wagons
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