HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1890-10-24, Page 86 Var BRUSSELE7 posir.
OCT, 24, 18n,
THE LA.ND OP RUBICON
rietureti tee the seettisii Wieder,
It hes long been my wish to see sentethlo
reef Royal Berwick, and eur acquaint:owe he
at le-outh begun. This its it town ,of mute.
gray "Muses, capped with red roofs 1 a tow
-of elabornte, oltbfashioned, disueed fortiti
eationsi a town of dismantled. military walle
-11. town of noble stoma bridges rind stalwar
etieis ; a ;owl' of breezy, hattlenieut welke
t oe sea.views, epaelotts beauties, ettetellatet
remains, steep etreete, broad squeres, Dar
row, wiuding ways, many ehurolies, gale
customs, and ancient memories The Pre
Sent, indeed, has marred the Peet, in thi
old town, dissipating the element ef Immune
und putting no adequate eubstititte in it
place. lem the element of rommiee ie here
for math observere eau look on Derwiel
through the eyes the imagination ; 11.11t
even those whe l.an imagine nothing most a
least perecive 1 hat its (1/41lel1 is ritgal. View
ed, as 1, lied often viewed it, front the area
Border Britige between El:gland and Seot
land, it ekes on its graeeful promentorv.
bathed in ettnehino and darkly bright and,
tile sparklieg silver of the sea, a ‘(•I'i'abb
(bean Queen. ...lay 1 bee 3: walked mes
all 'Le welle, treielnel its prim:iv:1 etre, te
crossed its madent ,22212h2red. it, -0(1
urbs, entered it. 1210,02,i2,222.1 1,2311. visited 11
parieh therell, and taken 0 loggit me Liming]
the country that t•uoirelee it awl oew
midnight, sill Mg in
Tins LoNELY eiremnett
of Kluge.: ..ertne, must've upon the pitet
writing 1 heee wools ef net impute ,em,
inemotatieu. liver not eittiply the roll 0;
a carriage wheel, of the ften.1011 ,•1 a let.,
traveller tlying awey in the distanee, but ill,
-music With wbich warriors prod:dined then.
eictories and kings and queens kept feetivel
and elate.
This hes been a pensive and sembre day,
for in its course I have raid farewell to many
lovelyand beloved mimics. Edinburgh was
never more beautiful them when she fatted
in the golden. mist of this aneuinual morn-
ing. On Preston battlefield the gobbet
-harvest stood in stacks, and the meadows
.glimmered green in the soft sunshine, whilt
over tlo•in the white aegis drifted and
peaceful rooks made wing, in happy indo-
lence and peace. Soon the ruined church tit*
Seyton eame into view, with its eingulai
stunted tower and ite venerable grey walle
couched deep in trees, and all around it the
cultivated, many -colored fields aud the
breezy, emerald pastures stretehing away to
the verge of the sea. A glimpse —1001 it is
gone. But one sweet pieture 110 stealer
vanishes than kepi:tee is filled es ith another.
Yonder, 011 the hill -side, is the manor.liouse,
stately with battlement and tower, its an.
tique aspect softened bygreat mitesesof cling.
ing ivy. Here, nestled in the sunny valley,
are the little stoue cottagee, roofed with red
tiles and bright with the adornment of arbo-
r us and hollyhock. All artiuml are harvest
fields end market•gardens,—the aboutlaut
dark green potato path,. being gorgeonsly
lit with the iutenuingled lustre of mil-
lions of wild flowen, white and gold, over
whieli are teeny ilighte of doves. Sometimes
open the y •Ilow les el of the heylieds a aid -
don w tve of brilliant poppies seems to
break.
ITART.1 iN"r0 SrAIILET 10A31.
Timid, startled sheep scurry away into their
pastures as we flash swiftly by them. A
woman standing at leer cottage door looks
at us with curious gam Foams teeming
with plenty are swiftle, traversed, theiv many
circular, cone -topped hayrielts standing like
towers of ember. Tall, smoking chinmeys
in the little factory villages flit by and tlis.
appear. Everywhere there Etre signs ef in-
dustry and thrift, and everywhere also there
aro denotements of the sentiment and taste
that are spontaneous in the nature of this
people. Tantallon lies in the near distance,
and as we speed toward ancient Dunbar we
are dreaming once more the dreams of our
boyhood, and can hear the trumpets and see
the etenuons and catch again the silver gleam
of the spears of .Marmion. Ihmbar is left
behind, and with it the sad memory of Mary
-Stuart infatuated with barbarie Bothwell,
and whirled away to shipwreck and ruin,—
as so many great natives have been before
and gill be again,—upon the black reefs of
human passion. We are skirting she, hills
of Lammermoor now, and speeding through
plains of a fertile verdure that is brilliant
end beautiful down to the very niargin of the
ocean. Close by Colauginspath is Dm long,
lonely, melancholy beach that Nrell may have
been in Seott'e remembranee when be
fashioned that weird and tragic close of the
most poetical and pathetie of all his
works, while near at hood, on the
Moat desolate of headlands, the grim
ruin of Fast Costle,—which is deemed the
original of his 'Wolf's Crag,—frowne darkly
on the white breakers at its surgmbeaten
base. Edgar of Ravenswood is no tenger en
image of fiction, when you look upon this
scene of gloomy grandeur and mystery. But
we do not look upon it too closely, nor for
long—and of all scenes that are conceived as
distinctively. weird, I think it may truly be
said that they are more impressive the
imagination than in the actual prospect.
This coast, at little later in our course, is
FULL 01 DARK RAVINES,
; the Castle, of evhieh only a few tectonic -Ms An Unfair Comparison.
1100 reurgin (these heing ode:went to Om
Neel II British liailway etationS king 12:
QUICK SIGNALS AT SEA. NEWEOUNDLAND FISH.
•d A Nen se +tent ieet keg hy a grits& Nits itt
1.1
101 People mdto wish to visit foreign eetudritet
es (are eingfeil over the 010811 in tne great& itt.
peettilde comfort at a high speed 0:01
w Minted absolute safety. There ill nub, nue
•1 ,thiug wanting to mete ocean travelliug al,
• nuett perfeet, end that hi a geed system of
'aigualiee, evliereby env ship tan communicate
g. with anothor by maid, 08 well us by day,
1.• aid in thiek well as in clear weather.
11 Lem 1. Crutehley of the Naval lleeers i. in
t', I.:indent!, has, With others, expellent:v(1 the
t 'tlilliettlty when weights homeward or out -
1011.1111 18/1111 1 1/151 810111110r 01 getting any in.
I., "11 lt sad Vo111111elitary f81 one bomit
w.312,1 eatnled to he e0ntined in a wmale
g cage, Mutt intrepid Countess of Buchan wl
orowned Robert Itruce, at 80014
9 Hither moue Wievartl the Third, afeer tl
11 battle of lialidon Bill, whiter lies close b
• thia edam!, —had finally eetablithed the En
; lish power in Scotland. All the priite
t that fmight in the ware 01 111(1 Roees has
, been in Berwick, mai have wrangled Qv(
1 the poteteeeion of it, Rielmrd 111 &wino
• it t. isolation, and Henry VII declare(' it
t mental state, By Elizabeth it maii fortifiet
• —hi that Wise sovereign's rest/lute on
vigoroue resistunee to the schemes of th
1,..11111,11 t 11111111 for the suonmattott of ill
5 kingdom. John lidutx pretwhed here, in
, ohm 311 111 tbe street, in whieli these aeod
t are written, before he wont to Edinburgh t
I shake the throne with hie tremundeus elo
t queuee. Tito picturesque, unhappy .latme
- IN' weld fis en this place tit hie death at Fled
t den Field. 'Here it wag that t(Air .1 01111 Cop
• liret pansed in his 'uglily, ride from the tet
- field of ih...-1011, and 11...re he s 0.1 a
1
•
Writeit a gentleman in WO1
to 14001V0 1:RW10411081, "W111411 we teenpare
• women of tu-day with those cif fifty yea
70' wee Then he goes on to tell of the win
y de01111,0xploitti of our grandmothers ho
g..1 they eguit and Wore and merubbed
t/81 worked embruideriee which were exceeditigl
.„1 tli 11101111 if not. very artistic, end 11h1 all • th
• werk for largo reinitiate besides lindin
g • time for it lit le gardening by way of everts
01 ton. It all went to prove that the wonte
of toglity tire phyttically Weldor to the me
d imet of forty or fifty years ago, and tha
„1 they also leek veto:Mho, Itei
iel !mann., 10111 11 intuit point tat moot nalins,
do not nee011ipally all tillsoinol body, a
81 iilids that 111111.1 .;411 we nay appear more it
el telleet oal iteenuse (if greater (elevation,
▪ tele, to eggs, WO 1L14/ 111 144/1111y mentally in
• lerior to ellr grandlnotherS ; then in• elms'
1 ▪ with a few inottenful predictione rugartlin
the teeming goverat bete
1.1 is tan to hear smite men talk ou tha
formation t i int lier, Ss in fine weather, with
0 im wind, deo: are intlietinguittlialde wheu
oleo,' on, end 1 e mg 1 liree 1101.ete aro theutitiost
el items van 1.. et:Antigua by vessels passing at
- i speed. I.. c.o...., i ne. tee he has introduced it
8 C.8.10 Of siglials by whit.11 beth owned -war'
g ! and ntemi,ant. vcs,..+1 can hold a 1,1+1 eon.
1 .._____,_
versittion 1 ven in 1 he shurf, opilee of time
t that time 010 0111,111 signalieg distance, of Oboye21 " De Sseret."
.
1, !ally 11181,111i, 1/1 11 Iiii•11 11110
11VWS rit i/ 0,1/.10 llail lir/41,1/1 liV
11 vatuinadied Oeneral 1,in,elt, Alai atoms
Within .4/.1.1 oi Beni:eh s: • th.,a,
I 117, i. I
e where, et 1 • wee, -4 1 • :eget:ghee:, tit
1 heroism .,1 a veami, wie,ti. Ur' 1110 111$1 0E1
t, pege Of 1/4,/,1 land, ill tot1,..1.A ,,; imp giehald
gimes the mei . of ode,. I eirlieg.
heiteinet h. however, lete done ler
thie reel, m 11,11,13 eould nevor /10.
toot et this mantel wee ketiwn te
• Walter Seot 1, :old for leeer ei that
great author 1:1011 feet el ie lialleweit It
lA tile 1: oder Letn.1,--the land d chivalry and
. love and (mg—the land that has endear-
ed to all the world—and you come to it main-
ly for hie take.
The village of Norham lies a few miles
weetwaril ef Berwick, upon the teeth batik
af the Tweed, and. certainly the wandever
seldom comes upon a more sequestered and
primitive settlement—wherein, neverthe-
less, the eiviliention aneient and homey.
1,1y established. „a minim is a group of
, eottages clustered around a single lung
street Thu buildinge arc low and are most-
ly roofed with dark slate or red tiles. Seine
of them. are thatched, and grass and flewers
, grew wild Amen the thatch, At 0110 end of
the main highway is a Market Cross, near
to whieh is a little Inn. Beyond this, and
11811,t01' 1110 Tweed., whieli ilowe cloee be.
side the phate, is a little elinreli, of great
antiquity, see towel :1 the western end of a
lote4 and ample eiturellyara, in which malty
greeee are marked with tall, thiek, perpen.
dionlor slabs, many with dark. oblong timilie
tumbling 10 ruin, and many with. sheet
stunted m000liths. The church tower is low,
square, 011,1 nf enormous strength, Upon
the entail sitie ef the chimed, are five
windows, beautifully arebeeigothe ease-
ments being do,e-teethetl, foul untionammily
eomplete epecintens of this fine arch I-
tectuad device ; end on tile outshle
surface of this eletneel well, in the
first bay, there arc not kss than thirty:sieve
cuminarks. This chnigh has been "restored"
--the South Aisle in 1 `eel, by Bononi ;
the North Aisle in 1852. by E. Gray. The
western end of the churchyard is thickly
masked in great trues, and loeking directly
east from this poiut your gaze falls upon ell
that h left of the stately and storied Castle
of Norliam. It was built by a Bishop of
Durham, in 1 121, and reetored by another
Prince of that See in I 1 74, It must once
have berm it place of tremendous fortitude
and of great extent. Now it is wide opeo
to the sky, and nothing of it remains but
roofless wells and crumbling arches, on 0111011
the grass is growing and
E IMNIIENT MMEBELLs
tremble in the breeze. Looking through the
embrasures of the east wall yont see the tope
of huge trees that are rooted in the vast
trend below, where Once were the dark
waters of the moat. All the courtyards are
covered nom, Avail sod, and the quiet sheep
nibble and the lazy cattle couch where once
the royal harmers floated, and plumed and
belted knights stood round their king, It
was a day. of uncommon beauty --golden
with euushine and fresh with a perfumed
air ; and uothing was wanting to the perfec-
tion of solitude. Nearat band a thin stream
of pale blue smolte curled. upward from a
cettage chimney. At steno distance the
sweet, voices of playing children mingled
with the chirp of small lerds 0,1a tile 00014-
Si0118,1 cawing. nf the rook. The long grasses
that grow upon the ruin moved faintly, but
made no sound. A few doves were etten
gliding in ant" out of erevices in the mould-
ering. turret. And over all, and ealnily and
coldly speaking the survival of Nature when
the grandest 11, orks of moo are dust, sound.
ed the rustlimg of many brunches in the
heedless wind..
The day wait setting over Norhain as I
drove away—the red sun slowly obscured 111
a great bank of elate-oolored cloud—but to
the last, I bent my gaze upon it, and that
picture of ruined magnifieence eau never fade
out of my mind, The road eastward toward
Berwick is a green lane, miming between
have -est fields, which now were thieltly piled
with golden sheaves, while ovee them swept
great flocks of sable rooks, There aro but
few trees in this landscaige—scattered
groups of the ash and the plane—to break
the prospect. For a long tune the stately
ruin remained in view,—its huge bulk and
setrated outline, relieved against the red
and gold of mallet, taking on the perfect
semblance of a colossal cathedral, like that
of Iona, with vest square tower, and
chancel andnave: only, because of its jagged
lines, it seems in this respect as if shaken by
convulsion of nature, and tottering to ite
momentary fall, Never was illusion more
perfect. Yet as this vision faded I could vo
member only the:illusion that will Ilerer
—the illusion tett a, magioal pootio genius
has cast!over those crunibling battlements,
rebuilding the shattered towers, (outpouring
through thoNe ancient. halls thoglowing tido
of life and love, of power and pageant, of
beauty, light :did song, W. W.
emporia.; Negotatione so itt lo cuing
oa with Wein:ester gistiermen.
11.11.Ir 1X, Oct, 22. Ctioeiderable 111 fewest
is man i it•el et' in a (.1 le weeder ae•
Donnelly the premeice ill that city of 11 on.
Ibtlert. 11011(1, itwinber.,1 the N't•wfound.
lar.11 government who 111 urging Clouteetter
Niisel,v,..}.,nalle21111t(12:11(1131751111tia01111(1 Congrees to admit
prod eels free t o
the 1%111(.4 810,108, 111 re111111 for free 1100108
to the bait, ice tool outfitting privileges tif
the Newheindlancl yeast to American "teller.
men. 1 t 18 ille011eliirable 10 1V1/11/111ThillIfill
0111 1114/1$'1111118 111rr how els 13181,1 could be
engitged iheee alleged news et; ,,,i,s with
al or official knowledge "1' Ile' '1•1 " '19 1
teanieut, but appel enily it Moo 1 ,• .ppi or•
the apparunt comoNane.. 1,1 UK, 11, 1,41 11,,y.
emilwni, 1,
tislierInen ar0 deeply inter., :0.1 (;: 1110 sro.
grog, tti,,1 i// 811 of elle neemiatireo,
isn't it ? i seenied lw .mo ;ow, 11,ir,
• very 11111011 11 011148 ', his editorial will sw,„ , hi "Mini!T" " ' i"
01 doubtless have gr.,. welt.70 111: 111110 100 tlIU principal! ,..,0411int...1 the 011 !WV. •'
Will1010..1.11.14-01 1011, 1111 I 1,,,tti,g of 1 lee 1 1., II,. 12,1 ,. • . . •
superiority of tete eremite:elite 1. 'I bee,. i
im doubt but that they It ere 1,131 1101101/
„,/ 1111.4r time, and .101 01 11 More 1.11111 Was de
, • mantled of them ; tird is one of woman'
!Add ..lutracteri..1 1 lowsver. v. "(en Malt
111,, ... n , n 1 11.13
I attention elimild givel,
; nt the demands titt. , ntl now.
I Some idea ef that • i , inty pine.
by emnparing herenw of the Impala..
'stury of eveu twenty years With
most 01'110000d heroine of toglay ; for 101101
shorn ol a few of the impossibilities glom
by• the anther in hitt eilbrt to thaw an idea
eliaraeter, they are usually very fair re
presentatioue of the women of theie day.,
rho most that was requited of the old
fashioned heroine 1i•as that S11$ Well/814n-
led in the est of housekeeping in all its dif-
ferent branches, be tilde to minister to the
comfort and well being of her husband and
family, and be accomplished to the extent
of knowing how to embroider samplers and
play an accompaniment on the tipinnet.
This refers, of course, to the heroine uf the
short story who is in the majority, and
most made' repre?entative, Ileroie hero-
ines ore to be f01111.11, 110 more heroic than
momy of our heroines of to day.
Our heroine of toglay must p ay cies
music, and play it seed. histeati of working
a tombstone Mill willow, and a
mourning womati nearly as tall ae the willow,
in gay worsteds on tem vael she must be able
to paint in oil and wit: ee colors so well that
her picture will take 0 prize, or at least re-
ceive favorable Mention. She muist dress
well—not fashionably merely, but artistic.
ally, which requires leek time and study.
She must be well•informed oil all the ques.
tons of the &tee and able to tliscoss them
hitelligently. in limey of the novels,
written by kith sexes. she is represented as
argning A/ on subj.s10 that a 0001a.11
Wolthl have knoWn nothing alion a few
years ago that her opponent haS 110111ing
11101 0 to Say. She must have a good. know.
ledge of business methods, and be aide to
take an active part in all outgloov sports.
The heroitie who sat Eted crochetted while
men fell ht leve with her dainty white heeds
is lloW tOnSiglIcd tO the waste luteket, and
in her plane is a busy, bright, energetic,
capable wmnan who you'd not be what she
is without at least a. fair amount of physical
and mental strength. Thu heroine of toglay,
though exaggerated, as WaS the lierioue of
twenty or thirty years: agn, indietite§ the
standard set before the every -day women.
When men aro compariog us with our
grandmothers they forget Oita it takes time
nisi strength and ability. to malto the woman
of toglay what she is, quite oS 11.0,•11 RH was
used by the Wolna11 who did great things in
the Way of scrubbing and baking and 1111.
hroidering samplers. lf the women of to.
day pvefers to paint her floes :gel spend het.
time in Study 0111011 her giettelne ghee spent
in serebbing, why isn't that en indication of
good sense, and why should it be looked
upon as an indieatitu of phyeeal weakness?
Women have never (lone so much of the
world's evork as they are doing 110W, and
there surely can be no question but that the
homes of to -day are just as beautiful and
just tot homelike as they were fifey years
ago. The modern man would not be satisfi.
etl with the simplicity of the old-fashioned
home, Dor does he stop to consider that our
;resent style of housekeeping cannot: be var-
ied on without at least a fair degree of ex.
cutive ; nor that if in addition to
ler housekeeping the woman takes up one
r mere of the other requirements of the
opular heroine she might to receive credit,
ot adverse eviticism.
11 want to bolieve ho ,01,1 who ae,iept, !us(..1, 1. ;1y 1•, 1118
stretching seaward and thickly shrouded
with trees, but in thetn 110W and then a
glimpse is caught of a snugly sheltered
house, overgrown with flowers, securely pro-
tected from every blast of storm, The rest
is open lona, which many dark walls part.
tion, and many hawthorn hedges, and Many
little white roads winding away toward the
shore for this is Scotish seaside pageantry,
and th sunlit ocean makes a silver setting
for the welled landsempe all the way to
Berwio
The p ofit of walking in the footsteps of
tbe Past is that wo learn the value of the
privilege of life in the Present. The men
and women of the Past had their opportun-
ity, and each improved it after his kind.
These are the same plitine in which
and Wallace fought for tho honor, and
established the sepreinacy, of the Kingdom
of Scotland. The some sun gilds those plains
to-doy, the same sweet wind blows over
them, and the sombre, majestio ocean breaks
in solemn murmurs on their shoro.
Milli, crag tibi"---as it used to be written re
the altar skulls in the ancient churches
Yesterday belonged to them leglay be
longs to 118—and well will it be for us if we
Improve ft In eueh bisbnie Wien as
this the Leeson is broughtluan loa thotight
fulanind with convineing foree and
canoe. So much has happened here—and
every motor in the great drama is long Mom
doad and gone 1 Hither enme King John,
and.
SLATIMITERED Tun 1,1;o1LI4
vie if they were sheep, and burnt the city—
himself applying the torch to the house in
whieh he had slept, Hither came kaward
tho Pirst and inercilessly butchered tho in•
habitants, men, women and children, violet -
Funny Looking Tea.
Repeated attempts have been made to in.
troduce compressed tea into England, but
tiever with complete success. At the preeent
me there is a eouipany Louden which
exclueively in this orf 8.0000 of
1/1/1011 1/1 in the Kew Mto minis 1 t eleint
ed for the; tea, that it lie many advaut,00.,,,
ver 1480.114 the 01110 f of which is dud the
hares, being stIbluitted to heavy hydiatilit,
pressure, all the cells aro broken, and thr
onstituents of the leaf more easily ex I ranted
lacie, the boiling water, thus affeethee con.
idol able saving in the mutntity required foe
use, Ito great advantage over loose tea,
however, would seem to be its more portable
ellaraoter, mul, in the ease of long era voy-
ages, or 00' MB 111 081X1Clit1011$, the redumion
of its bulk by oncothird, The compreseion
of tea into blocks, it is amid, 00118E111/tee a
reel and im ortant improvement in the
maraca o ten,. These blocks weigh a
natter of a ponnd each, and aro subdivided
it° ounces,hal 1..011mm, and quarter.onnees;
hie eesures exactitude in measuring, and
ayes the trouble, waste, and nneertainty of
easuring by spoonfuls. It also insures uni.
may in the strength of the infusion,
ing oven the sanctuary of the ohurchts,
Ilene, in his viotorious days, efir William
Wallace reigned and prospered, end here,
when ivrentoith's treachery had wrought big
rnin & fragment of his mutilated body 350,5
long,dispIayed upon the Bridge. Here, 111 fo
LIGHTING ON OLD OCEAN.
Tlie Notions nee Doing in Nil 11111.
Wli entre,
lIandling fleets in not 1(111 and the general
fittbjeet of aignitling are veleta (hid aro just
11.iltiigaiititiiiiii,"‘"gi este: to81:
in deeigning remelt Alpe which itee t o act ae
have riot 11m:1511e ont
sithere the Admiral 5hould be stmioned in
maim] so that lie may have a elem., all-rmuld
view of t 210 shipsconnaming his fleet, Well
its thost. of the enemy. lifter Itritige
1111d signal deck," mays /1)Dad eiteme, "hove
proteet hal 11'111110VC/r,i1,11/1 }try would lin-
doubtedly lie etyma by the enemy's mathine
Ions, whielt weithl speedily place the A:I-
:nivel, hie elan anti the eigrialnien
besides ,eitting the Agee! hellierds
.1101 .1e4troying the semaphores, 11.0.1(ing
light... and ether peetatite. ( 'on•
ly, atter one tef ette reete, e1:1111'"eell
tif Ade. ee toted at preeeld, lee: ve :tese,1
enemy': i• 1. ....1r..(10.1V pl,.b.d.le that,
even 11 111, A.110(ral 1vere not 11,1110 Ily
11,111i1 1 • 1,11/01-1• tii 1 /IC 11,..1
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ate.' iii.ely : tt it, t, et y
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It!:: ei -lit there Lt 1,,, 1. vou• &Ai .1IS 1:(1-(.1 Neve! ie tel..
• eottinte g o• 1, :e heyetel t 1::: ori c,, temiplete :ghee mu iteelele sleiwine t he
A avy dietreee, piles end private eetepsne ;If s g„, trigs, g preerct• intor navy, from votini,i8tee.
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• 'signal,. Titei•t: itte• tiertain 11,.• eg. 11 -1 l. t• • •• 1. • •/ • Willi. Ammo; oilier noje..t, ,.i interest Will
0,,y 1,1 , 1111,,,,a
01111 1, 1 1,01 pla..., al,,,nt the 1,1..
where a to be ',roll ttt ,l,
1 lance would II" OW :Ill/II/111M 0111 4111 or el.,
' of danger of being 1.0•13 in sending 01.11
0 hauling down. In the eami of two tititnitti
1 meeting with a t'grAii,1111.,1 :Teed of went)
1 eight knots per tgaw the thee hir netted fla
1 hoiste le me ,:11,•12 more than live minute
- as the ves,..20 are approa((hing and sep.tratio
lit the rate of about a toile t wo ethotte:
• \Vith, 0 good distant siguel [Ind the eters
syst em tide t into y 1 very lutteli ex tende
aul a great deal lieu e siege done;
1 o being this admen oreposed using
"shaptie' inettail et' flees, te be hoistea at the
' 1110F1 0,1181/1,11,113 014110r gaff, ya leian,
or stay, or in faet ete gem ce 1110y 01111 181 00441
be$8 eielring vessel, Such a
eystem tett nearly 10 ell1111/1/0118 as a sot of
eigtial Ilege; it.can le: worked by one man,
and can be for more effectually tweet. The
present 00418 of lettere coal be adhered to as
being more :simple and less likely to cause a
ntietake. There are only two "shapes" to he
sited, a triangle and. a tall. The former in
altitude ;,3 111AS thau the diameter of the
latter. 1.115 ball is always to the right of
the eignaler. A penitent hoisted at nuy
lunette:el meane communication
otherwise the .....untercial code is ithderstoml.
A paled: is made after eaell letter, awl ie
indicated by bet "shapes" being inottit•nt.
tit•t of sight ; a longer geese eignities.
the end of a Work. Attention is called by a
continuous bobbing up and down of the two
"shapes,•' end is enewered
For night sverk a system of fl(011 :signals
whith tle: eleetrio light i$ called into play
takee the place of the " sletpes." A wordy-
five:eat elle. power ii man descent lamp fe
thought to le, of eutlieient pewee, and -with
the working apparatus handy on tho ridge
oten alwaysbe kept bearing on the vessel
with which it is desire," to communicate.
There is a Anatol. worked by a lever which
paesee front of tho light and gives the long
or short fiat:hes at the Neill of the operator,
tnd a handle et one shle turns the standard
on wItioh the shuttev works so that it cau
alwitys lie fairly presented to the observer
aboard of the passiug vessel.
The extensive naval manteuvres of the
past two or three yeare are held by the high.
est English authorities VW emphasizing the
ne,•essity of malting (lietinctive abets tes
ward increasing communication between
vessels. The moment the evolutions were
started it wits found how even the imitation
of War (lowed a dependence to be placed upon
signoling that, tons not before renlized as a
possibility, Whether he commttnicatingfrom
ship to ship at sett ov from the ships to
shore and back again, it 088 made quite cob
dent to all that existing arrangements were
unsatisfactory and would inevitably lead to
seeions complication, if not disaster. It was
conclusively proved that in the event of war
breakieg out it evonlel be impossible to rely
upon a hastily -devised system of communi-
cation, end that too much attention could
not be given during these days ot compara-
tive inactivity to this all.importaue eubject.
In the proposect code, Admiral
ilowdengemith remarlead 'hat he was one of
threat who thought that in case of war Eng.
lish commerce (laid trade routes could be
tooted, and ought to be protected, by means
of her magnificent etring of coaling stations,
Ind with the assietance of cruisers eleillfully
etationed at changeoble rendezvous between
those etations. To carry that out effectitally
the hearty co-operation of the misty and mer-
eentile marine waS necessary, tool the way
the latter could bo of most assistance Wili$ by
having some system of signaling whereby
they could ennummicate on the principle
pointed oe t, by Lieut. Otatchley,
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The Traffic in Human Hair.
It must be an onpleasant reflection for
hose ladies who are indebted for lexurious
ocks to other heads than their own to learn
hat in the course ef last year 80,000 lbs of
-Inman hair were expoeted from Canton
lone. This circumstance is not in ilself
,ery agreeable, for tho Chinese are not ode.
anted for mtnetilions cleanliness. But when
he report from which we quote adds that
he greater part of these forty tons of in.
intent "fronts " and other tresses was
liken from the heads of criminals and vag-
ants, the possible wearers must fool that
heir artificial charms have boon purchased
t a serious cost. to sentiment. Human hair,
must, however, be remembered, under-
oes so many processes before it is " made
p " even did most of what is used by
cogramiere come from the Flowery Land,
nd were the original ownere loss partook'.
Imut the state of their heads than the
Meese usually aro, the germ of disease
•ould probably be wholly eradicated from
hese glossy adornments, There is, wr-
aps, very 111110 MUM for alarm on this
moo. The sentimental horror is considered
ullicient, though no doubt tha inference is
hat the heir of the overage beggar or mint.
utl, and of the Chinese ono in portioning,
alma be free from what not even the least
cimpulous votary of fashion mold desire
; have within a hundred miles of her per-
ms
Bak1-11 ceded Bachelors.
Why so many bald.hetuled mon arc back: -
lore is 11018 explained by a recline weiter
ia a great deal of eapillary attram
lion in love. (111.18 adore a handset:le snit; of
glosey hair ; it is lovely. Anil when it lover
uninea 1.0 'woo her with the top of hie head
eliiiiing like a greased ptingelein ho is at a 31
disadvantage. duet tho evords that grow
and thoughts that burn begin to ewakee
her bottom a eyinpathetie thrill she may ham A
pen to notice two or three Mee promenading
This Wincopipe Dade.
Air : Old Oaken Bucket.
11818 01141 ill my spirit for Tolinage 1110 preach
01,
Allti for many mother good soul in his lino,
allot the growth of true grace ie so scarce in the
creature
Caned man, till T Raked on this (hullo divine.
Be isbright from the tM of his shining shoe -
leather,
tro Iblirompnalt en that plane whore, in others, is
And he elleered lin my faith when he lispod of
the weather,
AA 118 glowed at tho nib of his eglantine cane,
This, (ion tetshytenaw dude thisdearlittle audio,
This wincopipo dude with his spieular canc.
How eweetly ho smiled oil the doormat by Fan.
11`110611,00,1110011 Roll soft, on his yellow nine-
Yhile hie tongue made a noise Mee the seed, if
there's any,
Snell int balms used to elialto from a green
ealabash,
Ito etruggled, quite manful, to ask her to toll
11101
flerniblrishilleoktee end bale -part had wearlodhle
she t knight, donee( 011,1.0-ilitte,
les could exeen Min
In the number of knot', on hie eglentine mine ;
Ills (learnt le (ludic, 1.111,1 9/111 and span &tulle,
vernaline dude with spicular cane,
A
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onto may Ii11000 that hie elm (who wan one° a
Like (torlield, the' not in n president (hone
Vas a Dublin born lerenclimam by trade a leo,
steedulte
W1111 the beautiful brogue of else County ten-
don%
tut just 0100 on his font, yo who sneer al pro-
gressien,
And the port on that epot whore, hi others, 111
18'8111,
mils, cheered by the sesgelpedalhat more+
sion
On the Nee, doneettilimnaw, of Me 191011115
over his phronologicol organs,. and all 1:I eane.
over. Girls arose frivolous 8he immediately This dear Ole who:relive audio,
becomes mom interested in those flies than ThleuLll'rlY th"19 W1111 Ms 'Plcniar
in all hie lovely language. While lin is pour. ow Ycirk A. Itemegg
ing out his love and passion she ie wonder.
Mg how the flies tnanage to hold on to snch Ono (tempers bad habits niore easily to.
slippery surface." day thm. to -morrow.
One of the Besides& eights angels have to
Colored India silk, brocaded in monotone, 1,03t at is a man who Is mean in money mat. Lauy "What'? can the little fellow read
is dressy for the front Of tea, gowns,
tors. already Poor child l"
' oil ...ill It what
" '1.,igion, salt; ditt'e what (sets .1. Pet,:
and John on' de'elph.,, when du 101(
er net, an w...1.1 on' hot 011
fee,h, .111' now, wh(st de ty,-Pn atm
ow, an' h..ts ler .10 ((.1
all' gunter east de 10.1, w y you etnitt
ned ealls ine er ligions er man ev.
you ea oughter 'slumps] .. \y'y, I
recken ef yen Meter lilted „I,. days tin'
hailer seed Peter m. fee,dilit', pm wee lit pa
after him, too. 1 1.10 was jes Melt 111011 1.1-
104111 Ill ilia time, gilt, ale 011 t did de de ••;
Da :drat tel oil ett v gelden euei El'
an' let de fetish o' right (mastless 0r lente• e:
speret moved me ten et,ine off ,10011 y ere au'
east dig e'er, net, an' ',Wet ler de spert..
" object t you stealing My lid), you
trifling reseal.'
"I ain't eteelin' yo' ftesli, salt. 1 jesI.
eastin' de net like de small tole Me to .1o.'
(` 8.1 you haven't taken ility fish
" No, $1111, riatill 1111111; hot 14.,11111 1101i
it if Ile speret tole ine ter cast 111.
" \\*hat have you got 1.101'. I stg
" Die bag right :Vero?"
" Yes, that bag mid there,"
" Vliatee get hi 1t
" Thal 'tt what 1 1."
" Wall, eith, I put er feW feesh in yere
st ter keep -on Altai Lein' proud in .14
Feesh is Mon:dos pr.10.1 s..1111(
au' I jes wanitcr 0110W 10111 (18310 811/13i -r
11111181,1 pride coming down putty
" Yes, and 111 just- show you there's mall
a thing as going to jail.-
" ‘Vlittt ! .C.101 1 follererl (le aperet
tuvk de pri ae outun de feesh ? \Vail, 1 sees
one thing mighty erar. liar ain't to usen
man follerin. spvret doze days. elf Peter
30119 put., now ye'd git 'gustea wid de white
folks 101' go WI down yrouler wid de Ma-
sers. Now, sith, ef you, weeder diegrace
yo'00'1 by takild me ter jail l'ee wid you."---
.Momphis Avalanche.
Chinese Fiancees.
As soon ati a Chinese girl is ono" betrothed,
she is placed in different relations to the
wot 111 generolly. She is no longer allowed
such freetloin as hitherto, although that may
have been little enough. She caunot
anyewhere, because it would be "ineen•
venient"—ehe might he seen by some mem-
ber of the family into which she is to Marry
- -than Whieh it is hardly peseible to think
of anything more horrible. "Why e" the
irrepressible Occidental inquires, and is
quenched by the information that "it would
mit be proper." Why it would not be proper
no ono can ever tell, except that it never 11815
proper, and therefore it is not so now, tool
therefore never will be. 'rhe imminent risk
that the girl might at some unguarded zno.
Mellt be actually seen by the family of tbe
future mother.in.law ts reason why so
few engagements for girls 11,110 made in the
town in whioh the girl lives—an arritnge•
ment which wonld miem to be for the con.
001110110c of all nitrides in a greae variety of
ways.
Will they Beat the Trotters ?
The bicyclists are gaining very fast on the
trotters this year. At the close of the rec-
line 0105011 of 1 880 the best mile record ever
made by a trotting horse in harnees was 2
mientes fq seconds There it edit remeius,
and the chance that Mattd 8. will be depth,.
ed of first honors this year is a very slight
ono, At the close of lost year the best time
for ono mile ever made on a bicycle was 2
minutes 26 4-5 seconds, Now it is 2 minut ee
20 3-6 seconds, Ono more such advance and
the wheelsmart wonld be loss than three
seoonds behind the trotter. Even now the
fact that the teeing horse starts his mile
when under Dili heat I way, while the bicyclist
starts from 41 stand, makes the distance less
than the records would indicate, The pros-
pect is certainly foie that men on wheels
propelled by themselveS will yet beet the
best tine of the fastese trotting horses in
the world. For any diatom° beyond three
miles the bicycle mord is alveatly the lower
of the two, and for shore bursts of speed the
whoelemen seem to be the faster.
He Had a Wife at Home.
" I have a little Bible at home," said the
bad man, " that, in 1863 I wrestled from a
Sunclay•sehool class of nineteen. I haven't
opened it since, and it is as now and clean
as the day I got it."
"13ring it. down some dity ; I'd liko to see
ite" said his friend, carelessly.
Tho next day the bad man 00,1110 into his
friend's office, and throwing a little half
worn otit book on eh° desk, said :
" There she is, old nutn, but stets it little
wrong about its ereelit ion."
" thould say 801" 8841 the othen, " ITOW
4000 11 happen Hist this little hoelt 18 so
badly worn, when you thought it was clout
cool all right at home?"
" said the ball men, and 1125 1-0101
W11$ bit husky, " the truth of the 11111 ilier
IS, I've got a little wife up at, the belie° told
a couple of young ones They etenctinue:
rummage through my things,"
Times Have Ohangel.
,,Do you dictate to your typoweiterr
asked ,fobson of a Fleet eitreat li Weary man,
"I mod to do so, llef, I mareled her, and
now she dictates to ma "
Infant Precocity.
Gent (fancies inmseit it poet) ",Tudge or
my horror, madam, when I yesterday caught
my little Otto, aged three, hi the act of
tearing,:ny newly written poems into frog-
ee tee :::eleeites 1 auteierbent. .1.1110 1083
01111 1,2 1' lan 1011,it 111i01115
i/ 1/,/, 1'Y 4 (;"'"'44
''123.‘ 11 1111 his eompanions, nart...wly
s.aped mug at the trial in Kiel liar-
bor. Th1-, inns 1,1 ing retie of vinly
!..1111,, $1 alter lying for
',UV .4 /MT. 31,./1,11,11011 III/
Pri,<4.(4//1 1,,y the doeliyitr.1 (Ms
110,rd le ... Thoi 11A eminent yord 11111 1111e11118.
haven init 81.105;4 1:8 0%1111(its a eo101)1.31.0
ship's seeking amtiout hospiii11, emeere'
hin, and tlisitenettry 11,4 fitted .o1 beard 14
arge inail.of war. Tlie exhibition of life -
,a i n!!, pra rat (isle egivret Its is very .....1(11.11 te,
taLes up it lark.,.e Wlit•re the Working
11(1. r-divi and r eyeteme 114 l/ry
:dem shosve. The inaell hue y exhilete ere
dee vely complete from a naval ttf
de'13'51;.ti new grei,er 11 u211,2 1,1121,11,d at
11111,0o by ow Que0n Regent tif spain reema.
ly sea:: eerie:, :eel the Dame:: :11 He Tei eset.
:ler 11$/111. 15 7,01111 401,8, 1011gl 11 NO
Fuel, $11/1 05 feet. 2-230 ted le
1,(01,1 I pr.Wet. 1.101 to attain a
-peed of 020 10,1,, 1.110 $01111/1` 18/11, l0
:tithes thielt, and ele• is to 1m armed with
I um 2.1.,:ehenet 1,11-1,..,a ow: and ten 14-
•,initn-tet 1, •, glele-el gene, auxilteey
ern:uncut eoseiete of eight ti -pounder
tiring guile it lel ten maeliiite gives. She Lae
also eight tormeltetlieehareing 1 nbee.
Nitry is melting pregeg s
ileetrt of maritimeatteostat ion. a ml Te1.1on
there has 1/0011 212111y praetiee y el ex•
perintent, mitli a complete peelt el leille•eie,
.1 udgiug by 1 in: nessopeper Lepel 1,, it i, the
greateet ;nest perfect 1Me of toe e -tee
t ion yet itt tempted. From a height of 1 tem
feet, 1 110 tli/rlilli11114 tiro /11/11. 00 011
that takes plave 1..(r a ilistanet. of le: ty
miles.
Eashfal Bridez ooms.
Ministers declare that in nine eases .1..t
ton brides are much more self-posettesed than
are bridegroolue whenahe marina° coreintiny
is being performed.
A shy, modest -looking little creature rob-
ed in NV111. 10 Will $1 awl pethwtly ereet, loek-
ing the mildewy calmly and (Sparely in the
eye, without for en inetant losing her self -
poise, while the big, blunt sixdooter of a
bridegroom le,. her sole is pale, nervous and
trembling. His fingers eve likely to twitch
,,niedrrytt.natly, and he may even hitell at his
trouser lege or t \Met le corner of his (eat.
1 was once "best man" to a stalwart,
middle-aged bridegroom, noted for his cour-
age tut(' feats of daring, anti when the time
came for us to go down Males to meet the
bride and her attendant he nearly had a fit,
and he looked like a walking corium all
through tho ceremony. I had to keep say-
ing, "Brace up, old boy," and "Come,
come, you've got to go down," to get, him
started at all, told at, the door he wile idiotic
enough to teach al ine and Hay :
"Say, Fred, howevould it do to hove Mary
and the preacher slip in here and have it all
0Vor with before We go down at all ? I can't
go through with it, before all that crowd."
"Idiot !" I said, bviefly and pointedly
01101101 to leave 110 dunk aS te my meaning.
" Mary won't come in bore and you will go
down this instant 2"
BO got through it at last without tloing or
saying anything ridiculous, in which res.
poet Ile 11118 lueleier than another stalwavt
bridegroom of iny aegeointance, who was so
dozed and overcome that he held out ono of
his own liegers for the ring when the minis-
ter said : "With this ring I thee wed."
Another beidegeoom I know lost his head
to such a dogma that when it cattle time for
him to my, "I, Horace, take thee, Annie, to
be my lawfol wedded wife," he eaid in an un-
naturally loud tone, " 1, Mary, take thee,
Home, to be my lawful wedded wife ;" and
when the time came for eine to introduce his
bride to some of his Mende who hail notyet
seen her, he did it by sayhig awkwardly,
er—Aliss Carter this is my wife, 12,fiss
Barton," milling her by her maiden name.
Few men say "my wife" easily and nettle -
ally the first time thoy use the words in
"Ablfieu,nny ease was tut of the badly rattl-
ed bridegroom who eland blankly at the
minister until asked if he took "this WOMM1
10 be hiS 111A5111, Wedded wife," when he
started suddenly and hastily and in the
dandost manner :
" beg pardon—were you speaking to
no?"
A village preachar says that he Mee intLe-
ged it, rural couple at the 110111$ of the
irides teem ts in the presome of a largo
OMpany of invited poets. 2.110 bridegroom
vas a big, bony, red-faced you»g fellow who,
onkod as though ho could hove felled en (ge
with hie list ; hut he shivered and turned
ale at the beginning of tho ceremony,/ and
ies Close be fell down hi a dead faint, to
he manifest annoyanee of his beide, who
unl Isom as 0001 "ne cuatunber" through-
ut the whole earemreir.
0
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Under the Baloony.
us, slender vine, yonr hive Is mine,
I watch yen as ton go,
A lyrie budding 1180 fill 1180
11100,i111141`11;111105114141W1
1411, on, milli Mir window sill,
tette liCiLV(111.0 gale 111 sight,
111‘111.(vi al I your heart With helm to nu
And bloom with its .10141.1.t.
And when her eyes, soft, ewllight
1 Mon you nestled there --
When ail about you is :immerse,
And all below, deepair;
T11011 to iny moot iny love repeat ;
Yield her ono nerlect himen
Which, though Ifeeerish et her foot,
May, ghostlike, liana hor room,
flut if to:mind and heart, be kind,
And grant, yout gracious rest,
And for title gift& pIllOW And,
And fohl it la her brottet—
Up, upl kit% my fate to learn
0010 who WititsitheVO;
Let ,m22 a ni muesli rettirn--
lfor 15,:• we( and net love 1