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The int -eyed maidens, when they spied The cue of Ah -Top, gaily cried. "It is some mandarin!" The street -boys followed in a crowd; No wonder that Ah -Top was proud And wore a conscious grin ! But one day Ah -Top's heart grew sad. My fate," he said, °•is quite too bad ! My cue will hang behind me. While others may its beauty know, To me there's naught its grace to show, And nothing to remind me." At length he hit upon a plan, Exclaiming, I'm a clever man! I know what I will do : I']I simply wheel myself around, And then the pigtail will be found Where I can see it, too." He spun himself upon his toes, He almost fell upon his nose, He grew red in the fare. But when Ah -Top could whirl no more, He fount the pigtail as before, Resolved to keep its place, " Aha!" he cried, " I turned too slow. Next time, you see, I'll faster go. Besides. I stopped too soon. Now for a goon one! Ah, but stay - 111 turn myself the other way !" He looked like a balloon ! Fo fast he whirled, his cue flew out And carried Ah -Top round about. An awful moment came— The helpless spinner could not stop! The poor man had become a top This gave the top its name. THE EAGLE'S VISIT. Once upon a time the eagle was the king of all the feathered world, and because he lived np so high on the mountains and occu- pied so exalted a position he grew to think very much of himself indeed. He imagined that he was ruler not only of birds, but of the whole created universe. Now this is a very dangerous. state of mind to be in. A very wise man said once that pride goes before a fall, and the eaale found this to be true. He wasn't called the eagle in those days. He had a much more high-sounding name. It was magna avis, which means the great bird. And that, too, helped to make him con cei'fed. One day the dove met with an acci- dent: She hurt her wing and was oblig- ed to fly very near the ground. She could not reach her home at the top of the moun- tain, so she had to remain down in the valley for several days until she got strong. When she was able to fly she hastened to the eagle with a wonderful story. "Oh, great one," she cried excitedly, "I have made a discovery. Far down below the crags on which we live are the most wonderful creatures. There are great beasts many times larger than yourself. They walk ea four feet, and instead of wearing feathers they are covered with hair, and there are other things more strange still, who are clad in something that does not grow on their bodies at all. They walk upon two feet, but they have no wings and they carry their heads very high. And when they meet each other they make queer sounds and bend themselves forward in the moat peculiar manner." The eagle smiled in a very superior way and replied:. "My daughter, you grew weary with your long journey, and I fancy you saw most of these things with your head under your wing." "Indeed, sir," protested the dove, eager- ly, "I was not dreaming. Pray stretch your great wings and go see for yourself. You will be convinced then." She was so very earnest that it made the eagle think. "I really ought to investigate this mat- ter," he said to himself, "If there be any such wonderful things in the world t would like to know it. As yet I have discovered no animal as great as myself." "None that you acknowledge to be so igreat, you mean," said a voice close by. Turning about the eagle saw the condor perched on a crag above him. Now there has been for ages great strife among these birds as to which was the larger and strong- er. But as the eagle was more beautiful than the condor and had a smoother tongue, he had held his position. " I think," continued the con dor, " that if you would consent to a fair measurement you would discover that there dwells very near you a bird larger than yourself." " Look here, my friend," said the eagle loftily, we will settle this dispute here and now. I heard that down in the valley below us dwell beasts who are able to van- quish us both. Now I am about to go and see if this be true. If it is, why then there is no longer any use for you and me to quar- rel. If it is not true then, we will have a fair contest for the mastery. Are you satis- fied?" " Perfectly," answered the condor. Then the eagle .galled all the feathered tribes together and spoke to than. He first told the dove's story, and then of the com- pact between himself and the condor. " And now," said he, " I'm going to find out about this thing. If there are any such creatures as the dove has told me about, and i meet them and they overpower me, and I never come back, why, then, you mast choose for your king the one whom you think most worthy. And now I bid you good by,"and spreading his wings the splen- did bird shot clown from the mountain. There was a great flutter over the affair and the birds crowded around the dove to learn all about the matter. There never has been such excitement in the bird xingdom before. They waited very anxiously for their rul- er to come back, but day after day passed and the eagle did not return, nor did he send any- tidings. At last they made up their minds that some evil had befallen him and a council was held, of which the condor was chief. After several plans had been discussed, the condor rose to make a speech. "My friends,"said he, "you all heard our king say what agreement we had made in case he did not come back. But I am re- solved to take no advantage of his absence until I have gone to find out what fate has befallen him." Before the affrighted birds could offer a protest the condor had disappeared overthe )liffs on bis way to the valley. , Meanwhile, where was the eagle ? He had found when he reached the valley that the dove had told him the truth. He saw thereat animals of which th1 dove bad spoken moving about. The eagle slighted upon a high stone wall that over- looked a great city, for this was in the old world, you know, hundreds of years before the new one was discovered, and this city was in China. As the eagle sat there considering what was best to do next, a mandarin named Wang Tong saw him. "What is that?" he cried. "A great bird and a strange one. Why, our chickens and sparrows are but mites beside him." The more Wang Tong gazed the more his wonder grew. At last he decided that the eagle must be a god, and he fell on his knees before it. Then he ran and told all his' friends about the wonderful winged god that sat on the wall, and all the mandarins cssr ne out and fell ora their knees. At Use one of them said: " We must place this new god in a temple, where we can offer proper worship to him." So they seized poor Magna, and before he knew it he was held captive by chains. He was terribly frightened and very much mor- tified, but not for a moment did he forget that he was a king. He could not Under- stand one word of what the men said so he could not tell what they ment to do with him. He thought he would speak to them. " Most mighty sirs," he said, "1 do not know or what you are but I am Magna Avis, King of the Birds. I came down here to see if such creatures as you did really live, and now that I have seen I would like to return to my friends. I will not trouble you. I came with no evil in- tent—I beg you not to hurt me." But of course they could not understand hint and were preparing to shut him up in a splendid temple, where he would probably have died in a short time. Suddenly there came a whir of wings, and the condor swooped down with such force upon the man who held the eagle that he let him go at once, and immediately he soared far above their reach and returned with the condor to their craggy home. "Now," said Magna, "you have saved my life, and hereafter you shall be the king, for we will still hold our own dominion in spite of those who lives before us." But the generous condcr answered : " No, no ; I will have it so. You shall be the king now and always. Only that I think I have proved," he said, with a sly wink, "that I am the stronger." "I admit it," said Magna ; " and if it pleases you and the rest of the birds we will settle that way. You are the stronger, but I am King." And that is how it happened that in the world or birds the eagle ranks above the condor, although the condor is so much larger. The Oar of Jugg ernath. The Temple of Juggernath at Pooree Orissa, says the Rev. W. Miller in the Mis- sionary Herald, with its surroundings, was completed as it now stands in 11943A. D. Its erection occupied fourteen years, and cost a sum equal to half a million sterling. It stands in an enclosure, nearly in the Corm of a square, marked off by a massive stone wall, 20 feet high by 652 feet long and 630 broad. Within the enclosure are found some one hundred and twenty smaller tem- ples dedicated to the principal objects of modern Hindu worship, so that each pil- grim, of whatever sect, finds his own favor- ite god or goddess represented. The high conical tower rising above the others, "Hee an elaborately carved sugar -loaf," one hun- dred and ninety-two feet high and surmount- ed- by the mystic wheel of Vishnu, is the shrineof Juggernath, where he sits in jewel- ed state, with his brother Balabhsdra and sister Subhadra. The images are rude logs, clumsily fashioned into the form of the hu- man bust, from the waist up. On the occasion of the car and bathing festivals golden hands are fastened to the short stumps which project from the shoulders of the idols. The next tower is the Hall of Audience, in which the pilgrims assemble to gaze upon the images. The next structure is the Pil- lared Hall, appropriated to the musicians and dancing girls. Adjoining the above is the Hall of Offerings, where fruits, flowers, and various articles of food are deposited, preparatory to being offered to the idols and appropriated by two priests. The outer structure is the eastern and principal en- trance to the enclosure, called Singa-dwara, or Lion's Gate. In front of this is a beautiful monolythic pillar which stood for centuries before the Temple of the Sun at Kanarak, twenty miles of north Puri. The structure, with a double roof resting on pillars, north of the Lion's Gate, is the Srian Mandugs, or Place of Bathing, where the idols RECEIVE THEIR PUBLIC ABLUTIONS before being repainted or decorated for the car festival. It is only at the bathing and car festivals that Juggernath appears in public. The Brahmins say that the reason for this is that people of the low castes, who are prohibited from entering the temple, may have a sight of Juggernath and be saved. The open space in front of the Temple is a great place of concourse for the pilgrims. It has stalls and shops on each side and down the center for some distance. It is the commencement of the broad, sandy road, a mile in length, along which the cars are dragged to the Goondicha Temple, or Gar- den House, its terminus. The day before the festival the cars, which are forty-five feet high and thirty-five feet square, supported on sixteen wheels, seven feet in diameter, are arranged in front of tiro Lion's Gate. The idols are brought out of the temple in a most ignominous way. Even Juggernath is pushed and rocked along to the car, a rope being fastened around his neck. What with pushing from below and hauling from above he is hoisted up and fastened to his seat on the car.. Seven Years Without a Birthday. A Scottish clergyman who died nearly thirty years ago, Mr. Leishman of Kinross, used to tell that he had once been seven years without a birthday. The statement puzzled most who heard it. They could see that if he had been born on the 29th of February, he would have no birthday ex- cept in a leap -year. But leap -year comes once in four years, and this accounts for a gap of three years only ; their first thought would therefore naturally be that the old man, who in fact was fond of a harmless jest, was somehow jesting about the seven. There was, however, no joke or trick in his assertion. At the present time there can be very few, if there are any, who have this tale to tell of themselves, for one who can tell it must have been born on the 29th of February at least ninety-six years ago. But a similar line of missing dates is now soon to return ; and indeed there are some read- ers of this page who will have only one birth- day to celebrate for nearly twelve years to come. The solation of the puzzle is to be found in the fact, which does not appear to be very widely known, that the year 1SOOwas not a leap -year and 1900 will not be. The Feb- ruary of the present year had twenty-nine days ; but in all the seven years intervening between I896 and 1904, as well as in the three between 1892 and 1896, that month will have only twenty-eight.-7[Rev. George McArthur, in April St. Nicholas. A weak mind sinks under prosperity, as well as under adversity. A strong and deep one has two highest tides, when the moon is at the full, and when there is no more. There are two methods by which God might prevent human suffering. He might every moment change the laws of nature of things to avoid the consequences of maxi's sufferings, or He might send an all -wise angel to each human being to take that person by the hand and lead him through life, as you lead year little child through a machine shop or over a narrow bridge. In either case, human progress, would be for- ever impossible.—jRev. Dr. W. S. Crowe, WHEN THE BIG SHAFT BREAKS. A Story of a Mishap at Sea That Somz- times Calls for Heroic Work. " Stand by your boats 1" This comn.and was shouted from the bridge of the steamship Kansas of the War- ren line on Nov. 4. 1891, by Capt. Alexander Fenton. A report like the discharge of a heavy piece of ordnance had just been beard in the after part of the fillip, and the great iron hull had been shaken from stem to stern. Immediately the screw had ceased to revolve, and the Kansas was as helpless in the arms of the ocean as a babe in the lap of its mother. Capt. Fenton, with the true instincts of a veteran seaman, commanded the crew to stand by the small boats ready to face any emergency that might arise. The men re- sponded with alacrity and in leas time than it takes to tell it, everything was in readi- ness for a hasty departure from the ship if necessity demanded it. While those pre- cautions were being taken the chief engineer emerged from below, and, going to where the Captain stood, informed him that the shaft had broken short off about twenty- five feet inboard. It can readily be under stood what an accident of this nature means as the sail area of a modern steamship is hardly sufficient to give her steering head- way even in a gale. It is on such occasions that the ingenuity and tact of the master of the ship is called in active play, and the Captain who can bring his ship into port UNDER SUCH CIRCUMSTANCES, and thereby save to his company the enor- mous sum that a tow would involve, is just the man for his position. That all this was successfully accomplished by Capt. Fenton will be shown by what follows : The steamer Kansas sailed from Liverpool on the 28th of October with a general cargo of English merchandise. She was in splen- did condition, having recently came off the dry dock in thorough repair. It was her ninety-third trip across the Atlantic, and, while not starting out to break her record, the Captain believed he would have a moat successful passage. Everything worked smoothly until the afternoon of Nov. 4, when the accident occurred, and the ship took even chances of going to the bottom of the ocean. There was a heavy sea on at the time, and the wind howled through the rigging with a force that threatened to wrench it from its fastenings. The log showe i that the ship was just 811 miles off Fastnet when she re- ceived the shock that came very near end- ing her career. When it was learned that the shaft had parted, an examination show- ed that the tremble was in the stern tube, which is probably the most dangerous point on the whole length of the great shaft, as at this particular spot the packing is used to prevent the water working into the tunnel. ' Here was an emergency that Capt. Fen- ton was quick to appreciate. It was shown that the ship was making over 200 tons of water per hour, and that the safety of the vessel and perhaps the lives of those on board depended on checking this flow. It was a perilous undertaking to go into the tunnel, as the water rushed in with the force of a Niagara. " Who will volunteer to follow me ?" said the Captain to his men. All of the officers stepped forward and one brave seaman. While the Captain could have ordered any member of his crew into the tunnel, yet he felt he would not call upon them to go where he was not willing to lead the way. Down into the black depths of the ship descended the men until the tunnel was reached. A hasty survey showed that it was half filled with water. Grasping their way along in irurky darkness the stern box was finally reached. Here the water was nearly up to the armpits of the daring officers and of icy coldness. The danger of the undertaking was enhanced by the fact that any accident to the pumping engines and the tunnel would have become filled with water, rendering escape impossible. But the machinery worked all right for the time, and kept the flow partly under con- trol while the repairing was going on. The officers had taken with them ropes, blankets, and any other material that could be used to advantage in diminishing THE RUSH OF THE WATERS. An attempt was made to chain or chuck up the broken end of the shaft, but in this only partial success was attained. The men re- mained at their labors for over four hours, and when they emerged it was with diffi- culty that their limbs were made to relax their rigidity. The next morning it was observed that the water was gaining in the tunnel, and again the Captain called for volunteers to repeat the hazardous experience of the day before, and again the officers carie forward. There was a renewal of the first experi- ments, and after being in the water for over three hours the men again came out. They were utterly exhausted, but under the care- ful treatment of the ship's doctor they ulti- mately regained their lost energy. The Kansas is fitted with a half dozen powerful pumps of the very latest pattern, and by their continual use the water was kept under partial control. The wind st this time began to subside, a most fortunate circumstance, but the sea continued to run very high. One precaution was the opening of the tunnel so as to allow the water to pour into the engine room and stoke halls, and thus in a measure relieve the tunnel. After this the Captain turned his atten- tion to doing what he could to make port. First of all the sails were set, then the can- vas on the small boats was hoisted, the covers were also put np to the breeze, EVERY SPARE SAIL was brought up and ringed so as to catch the puffs of wind ; the cargo booms and derricks wer also utilized, and thus decor- ated, the Kanas presented one of the most novel marine pictures which ever decorated the Atlantic. Under the influence of themoderate breeze the steamer took up a sort of drifting course, or, as the sailors call it, she had a leeway of six points, and crept the water at the rate of 21 knots per hour. Practically she went dead to leeward. The prospects of reaching shore were not very assuring, but all that human ingenuity could devise had been done. On and on she drifted until it was believed she would ultimately reach the French coast. In the mean time the pumps began to cause trouble, as under constant use they became choked and worn, which necessitated stop- ping them from time to time to make re- pairs. During these times the water fre- quently rose to a height of seven feet in the ship. The ship rolled heavily, and a great part of the cargo became broken and the contents of barrels and boxes were a confus- ed mass in the hold. On the sixth day after the accident the British steamer Vondram sighted the Kansas and -sent a boat off to see what assistance she could render. It was decided that the Vondram should tow the crippled ship into Liverpool, and arrangements to that end were immediately carried out. The Kansas was prg£ically.helpless, and the great strain that came upon the hawsers was more than A FIGHT WITH SEA -ROBBERS. they could stand. After the two ships had kept company about forty-five miles the A New Version of an Old Story About Col - ropes parted, and all subsequent attempts to umbar. It is one of those tales that illustrate the manners of this cruel age. The pirates had long been the scourge of the honest Venet- ian traders. Sometimes they would dis- guise themselves as merchantmen trading peacefully to Candia for wine, and then throwing off their disguises, would prey Upon all around them. No mercy was shown in these fearful contests. Between the sea -robbers and the merchants there was a lasting and deadly hostility. It was to the pirate class that the Colmnbi belonged, and of all the corsairs of the day they were the most renowned. The elder Columbus had apparently lain in wait in vain for the rich fleet that sailed yearly to the north. But he had a son, known as Columbus Junior, who followed the same profession, and whose true name was Nicolo Griego. or Nicholas the Greek. He at last succeeded in the project which his father had so long essayed in vain. The prize was a tempt- ing one to the bold buccaneers. The Flanders galleys a ith their freight were valued at two hundred thousand ducats— perhaps two million of dollars and would have proved an immense fortune to the captors could they have retained the spoil. In 1485 the galleys were equipped with unusual care. We have the decree of the Senate under which they set sail. The Doge Giovanni Moncenigo appoints the noble Bartolomeo captain, with a salary of six hundred ducats. Four great galleys are provided, and to each captain a bounty of 3500 golden ducats is promised upon their safe return to Venice. This money was to be paid out of the tax on the Jews, and calls up anew Shakespeare's unreal picture; it is plain that the merchants of Venice were the true Shylocks of the time. A medical man was assigned to the fleet ; his salary was only nine ducats a month. Minute rules are given for the conduct of the ex- pedition. The freight is to be paid to the state. No deck -loads of tin or pewter ware are allowed, no currants nor molasses are to be stored in the hold. Two galleys were to go to London or the English ports, the rest to Sluys or Bruges. On their passage they might touch at Malaga and other ports in Spain ; on their return a ship was detached to trade with the Mohammedans along the Barbary shore. The Venetians were too keen traders not to find profitable markets even in the lands of the infidel. The Columbi or the Griegos were at last to seize their prize. They watched with seven ships—powerful, no doubt, and well equipped—off the Spanish coast to intercept the fleet of Bartolomeo Minio. The com- mander of the pirates was Nicolo Griego, the son, we are told, of the elder Columbus. His father had disappeared from sight. But with him in the pirate ships was an- other Columbus, the future discoverer and admiral of the Indies. In his " Life" Fer- nando Columbus boasts of his father's share in this famous engagement—famous because it led to the settlement of Columbus at Lis- bon, his marriage, and his future exploits. He was now a man of at least fifty, harden- ed by thirty-six years of ceaseless adven- ture. What position he held in the pirate fleet, whether as commander orseamen, his son does nor tell. We only know that he served under his relative, Columbus or Griego, and that he fought with desperate energy in the famous sea fight off Cape St° Vincent. Tie corsairs or the Columbi approached their prey in the evening ; they waited all night on the still Atlantic, and in the morn- ing rushed upon the Venetians. It was seven, perhaps eight, ships against four. The galleys were heavy -laden and unman- ageable, compared to their swift assailants. The Columbi had evidently resolved to make sure of their prey. They sailed under the French flag, and may have been fitted out in Genoa. It was the custom of the pirates, it seems, to assume false colors. But dreadful was the contest and fierce the fight that raged all day, as Columbus had told his son, on the tran- quil sea—the scene, nearly four centuries renew the attachment of the two vessels failed, and the Vondram finally STEAMED AWAY OUT OF SIGHT. On the following day the steamer Iran bore down upon the Kansas and attempted to do what the Vondram had failed in. But the task was too great, and she, too, was com- pelled to abandon it. The thought of leav- ing his ship never entered the mind of Capt. - Fenton or his officers. They had resolved' to stand by her, sink or swim. The vessel continued on her drifting course for ten days, and was nearing the Bay of Biscay when the wind suddenly shifted to southwest, which changed the course east -north-east. About this time the disabled screw began to thump and crash into the stern of the ship, and there was imminent danger that it would tear out the whole stern. But alarmfrom this source suddenly ceased, as one of the blades became wedged fast into the race of the vessel, as was shown when the repairs were being -made in dry dock, The Kansas held to her new course for an additional ten days, and gradually drew toward the coast of Ireland. On the morn- ing of the 20th day after the accident Capt. Fenton Iocated his ship about sixty miles off Queenstown, and concluded to communi- cate with the land if he could find a crew of volunteers who would undertake the task in a life -boat. The men were readily secured, and, under charge of the second officer, they put off for the shore. They had their orders to land, however, and, like good soldiers, they carried them out. Before assistance arrived the ship had drifted within nine miles of Old Head Kin- sale, and ultimately brought up four miles off the coast, where the waves tossed her about as if she were a birch canoe. Finally three powerful tugs put out to the assist- ance of the disabled ship, and she was towed into port. A Strange Optical Illusion. Well may Superior breed mysticism in the minds of savages, for it is given to startling tricks. The mirages that are seen upon it have bestowed upon it a peculiar and dis- tinct fame. They are known to the people of the lake only as "reflections." I have heard many sailors describe the wonderful ones they have witnessed ; I would give an- other journey out there to see one. Men have told me that they have seen Duluth when they were 185 miles away from it— upside down and in the sky, but distinctly Duluth. One sailor said that at one broad noonday he suddenly saw a beautiful pas- ture, replete with an apple -tree and a five - rail fence, shoring green and cool before him, apparently close at hand. The effect the clear air produces by apparently magni- fying objects seen upon the lake is most astonishing. To illustrate what I mean, let me tell what happened the very last time I saw the lake. I was on a tug -boat, and upon corning out of the cabin I saw ahead of me a tremendous white passenger steam- ship. The boats were approaching one an other at right angles, and this new -comer loomed up like a leviathan among vessels, bigger than one of our new naval cruisers, high above the water as a house would look. I called attention to it, and a companion, familiar with the lake, replied, " I wonder what boat it is ; she's a whop- ping big one, isn't she ?" Something distracted my attention, and five minutes afterward, when I looked at the approaching vessel again, she had passed the mysterious point at which she was most exaggerated in apparent size, and had be- come an ordinarily large lake steamer. But that was not the end of the trick. She began to dwindle and shrink, growing smaller and smaller in size, until the phenomenon be- came ridiculous. In time the elastic boat had become a very small passenger pro- peller, and I found myself wondering whether she would be discernible at all by the time we were abreast of her. But at that the optical frolic ce tsed. -A small screw steamer of the third class was what she proved to be.— [Hai per's Magazine. A Sioux Indian's Prayer. Thefirst recorded prayer of a Sioux Indian was made 1837. Walking -Bell -Ringer was not a Christian, according to Rev. S. W. Pond, his teacher, and his prayer had little reference to Christ. The Sioux had no word for forgive, but they asked God to forget their sins. 'The following prayer shows the earliest manner of worship, and it was offered in the Mission house at Lake Harriet, which stood a few rods beyond the park pavilion t— " Great Spirit, my Father, I would wor- ship You, but I do not know how. How I wish You would teach me. I want to understand Your Book. I have grown up in ignorance, and have worshipped stones and trees and everything, but I wish now to worship You alone. I want to throw away everything that is bad, and listen to You. If I hear evil conversation among men or women I will not listen to it, but leave the house. I wish my soul to be happy when I die. When the spirits of all the dead are assembled in judgement, and the bad are cast into the fire, I want to be saved with the good. I will not unite any more with the Indians in their idolatrous feasts. I want you to forget my sins. I want the Son of God to forget my sins. The Sioux are all ignorant and wicked. We have all grown up in ignorance and have done wrong. We have forgotten Yen and pray- ed to things that have no ears. I want You to pity all my relatives and take care of them. I want you to pity nee." Many a child of the Church would be put to shame by -the pagan's prayer. The Li mit Beached. Johnny—" Where you goin' ?" Tommy—" Home. Don't you hear maw a callin' me ?" " That's nothin'. She calledtwo or three times before." " Yes ; but she's out at the peach tree now, cuttin' of a ultimatum." Among the most notable achievements of Emperor William since his accession to the throne, is his success in reconciling to the existing order of things the rulers deprived of their sovereignties,and of -their dominions by Prussia, at the close of the war of 1866. It was in vain that Prince Bismarck extend- ed to them the olive -branch while he was at the head of affairs. They refused to enter into any friendly communication with the Court of Berlin. Since, however, the young Emperor took the negotiations in -hand they have entirely modified the original attitude, and at length proclaimed their adhesion to the German Empire as now constituted. The most important of them all, and the one who was the last to accept William's offers of friendship, was the Duke of Cum- berland, ex -Crown Prince of Hanover, ail sovereign de jure of the ancient Duchy of Brunswick. - later, of the battle of St. Vincent—and his narrative is confirmed by the Venetian archives. The four great galleys under Bartolomeo Minio defended themselves with unfailing c urage. From the first to the twentieth hour they beat off their savage assailants. The ships grappled with each other, and fought hand to hand. They used we are told, artificial dre and the pirates fastened their ships to the galleys by hooks and iron chains. Then no doubt they hoard- ed, and were at last successful, And then Fernando Colon relates the romantic inci- dent that led, he thinks, to the dicovery of a new world. The ship in which his father fought was Lashed by chains and hooks to a great Venetian galley. The Venetians seem to have set Columbus's ship on fire. The flames consumed both vessels. The only resource left to the survivors was to leap into the sea. Columbus, an excellent swimmer, seized an oar that floated near him, and partly resting on it and partly swimming, sustain- ed himself in the water. He knew that he was about six miles from the land, the coast of Portugal, and made his way toward it. Wearied, half inanimate, he was dashed upon the shore. He had much difficulty in reviving himself. But he was near Lisbon, and made his way, a shipwrecked, penniless seamen, to the Portuguese capital ---From " The Mystery of Columbus by " Eugene Lawrence, in Harper's Magawane for April. The Fisheries of F ake Superior. At Port Arthur alone the figures of the fishing industry for the market are astonish- ing. In 1888 the fishermen there caught 500,000 pounds of white -fish, 360,000 pounds of lake trout, 48;000 pounds, of sturgeon, 90,000 pounds of pickerel, 30,000 pounds of other fish, or more than a million pounds in all. They did this with an investment of $3800 in boats and $10,000 in gill and pound nets. This yield nearly all went to a Chicago packing company, and it is in the main Chicago and Cleveland capital thee is controlling the lake's fisheries. The white -fish is, in the opinion of most gour- mets, the most delicious fish known to Americans. The lake trout are mere food. I am told that they are rather related to the char than ter the salmon. They are pecu- liar to our inland waters. They average five to ten pounds in weight, and yet grow to weigh 120 pounds ; but whatever their weight be, it is a mere pressure of hard dry flesh, calculated only to appease hunger. The Duke of Richmond and other peers of Scotland are directly interested in the liquor traffic, either as distillers or owners of public houses. Among the principal offenders are the Dukes of Hamilton, Athole, Sutherland, and Fife ; the Mar- quises of Bute, Ailsa, Breadalbane ; the Earls of Rosenery, Aberdeen, Moray, Zet- land, Haddington, Home, Elgin, Wemyss, Stair, and Galloway. Sir John Gladstone, the nephew of the " Grand Old Man," is oneof the moat extensive whisky distillers n North Britain. LIFT'S LIGHT AFFLICTION& The pathos of life showe itself in many ways. Sometimes it can be mei in the -pin- ched features and sad lips, or ieA eyes humid with disappointment. It is not seldom expressed in words, or if it reaches the gates of apee„h it is too late to make itself heard. Dead faces tell the story often - eat, and the mourner, reading it -written there, cries -aloud : • " Oh, if I had only known 1 But I never thought of it," A woman lies dying who has had one grievance all her life. It is such a simple one that the telling of it would provoke a smile, yet to her it was an intolerable suf- fering, mental as well as physical. But she had never spoken of it to anyone, least of all to him who was the one to remedy it. They were young w hen he bought a gig such as people rode in fifty years ago, and it had no springs and very little back. In this they traveled long miles over bad roads, to church, to funerals and to christ- enings. At first he helped his little wife up into the high seat of the gig ; then she jumped up ; as the years went on, she climbed. Sons and daughters came, and her hus- band bought a spring wagon still higher, to keep out of the mud, or the dust. The man never thought of its being a hardship for his wife to clamber over the wheel into that farm vehicle. Her neighbors consid- ered her a fortun to woman to be able to ride. When it became too hard and her strength gave out, he would call on the tall, strapping boys to " give mother a boost," and mother couldn't have told which was hardest, the boost or the climb. But at last she was unable to get in with- out a chair, and amid much good-natured, unfeeling raillery, mother was gotten up to her perch, where her feet touched nothing, and she could not lean back, and was in mortal terror of being jolted out, and no- body ever knew ! Now she lies dying in that darkened room from which she shall go forth to her last long rest, and she is talking wildly, delis, iously of all the things of her life, and at she talks her husband looks perplexed and says to the neighbor who is taking care of her : "Mother seems to be getting flighty." But soon she addresses him : " Don't put me up into the seat," she says wearily, "I'd rather go in underneath than sit dangling up there. It's broken my back and worn me out a-riden' in that oncomfort- able way. I'd rather have walked a thous- and times, if I'd only hed the strength." " You never told me, mother, that the wagon was hard to get into afore," said the man in a troubled voice. " No, I didn't want to vex ye," yard the poor little woman, "hut I dew hope if they come for me with the chariot of Israel it will be easier to get into than our farm wagon. If it ain't, I believe I'd rathei walk." It is not much of a story, but it is one of the hidden tragedies of a human heart, and it exemplifies what I was talking about—the pathos of life. Another case is worthy of notice. A woman died recently whose husband wa, known in his neighborhood as a good pro- vider. His wife had all that any reasonable woman in her walk of life could demand of expect ; that is, she recieved clothes and board for a long life of labor. Sometimes she wanted a little money to expend for herself—perhaps to purchase some of the useless things that a man never buys. But when she asked her husband for money, he sprung a series of answers upon her that effectually silence her., " Don't I provide well for ye Jennyl What do ye want that I hain't given ye 1 You kcow I ain't made of money." So he carried the purse and provided liberally; gave everything but a chance for his wife to feel independent; she was really less in the household than a server: t, since she would have her wage. But when the wife died, and the tide of remorse that comes with death had set in, the husband remembered that the one thing she had wanted all her life was a little money to spend as she pleased, and then his heart re- lented. Ile went to his, money box and took thence some of the shining silver coin it held and placed them tenderly in the dead, cold hand of his wife." There," he said, "she allus wanted ter have some money of her own, and mebbe she'll know that I've give it to her." And it never entered into the sordid soul of the man that what he had done was ever- lastingly too late. In great calamities we have the sym- pathy of our kind to help firs bear them. It is the nagging pain that goes with us and takes all the sweetness out of life that we must bear alone. And because we must not reveal it to the world, but keep it un - shared, it becomes to us at last a demon of unrest. A man may wear a wooden arm and go through all his days with a smile, but there is not a moment day, or night, that it does not cause him pain and apprehension. When he is alone the smile becomes pitiful, it is so full of self -sympathy. These light afflictions have not the dig- nity of misfortunes. They are the martyr- dom of life without its crown. d 0 Posture In Prayer. The Bishop of Huron, in a recent ser- mon, had something to say to an Anglican audience respectiug posture in prayer, which we suspect might with much pro- priety, be said in some Presbyterian church- es also : " It was a painful thing to look over a congregation while prayers were being offered and to see the light part taken in the homage by many of those present. Many never condescended to bend the knee, hut lounged back in sumptuous in- difference, while at the close there came but a feeble and meaningless ' Amen.' It was not wealth nor any other temporal power whieh the Church needed so much as the deep, spiritual power of prayer. There were three positions in prayer: standing, which was scriptural and implied service ; kneeling which betokened consci- ousness of sin ; and another which was so popular among the elegant people of mod- ern society. It was that of sitting and it implied equality. If in the presence of the Queen, they would know that they had no right to sit, and would never attempt it, and yet they do so in the presence of God. They apparently felt themselves the equal of Him. Although God's awful majesty was there, they assumed the right to sit. Strong, able-bodiedanen lolled back in their seats, and the occupants of pews cried out that they were miserable sinners, while the carpets in their richly furnished pews had never been touched by the bent knee." The Countess of Zetland has made herself very popular in Ireland by appealing to Queen Victoria not to interrupt the Dublin season festivities on acconnt of the general! mourning. Victoria in .:iced re gracious ear, so business is good in Dublie and every body is happy.