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fOr 04o 'English sparrow, says the
' New 'Folk t4tiverftxr, r, lige .id as
•tank as he lsas been ihiiuti;il, tu,i.
499sider,tbly more so.
The ne.gs freln' i`iorth Plain,
vi.ttually strips hint of
°very re,athat° Af reti,,eobnllility and.
lttaVOd 'ljitn 1J5ked to 'tile ecoJlr of
the world, The 13tptist chore l at
1`terth Plain has been robbed at
Various times' of seine aggregating
ty,two' dollars, and atter three
years • of bickering, charges and
counter chargee, the stolen money
hie n traced to a couple
•of 'eh sparrows that Itrdaa neat
in a wipe soar the church, The
evidence against Lite sparrows is
illdiepputablo, Its the missing money,
tq, bin ranging from one duller to
, fixe d'otlitra, has been found woven
into their nest.
With the discovery of this money
peace ie restored in a church which
bas been rent and torn since the
thefts .were first disouvered. Tho
money was always mieaed out of
the sumo turned iu by the de:icona
who took up the colleotions, circuit]
dances sometimes pointing to one
deacon as the thief and sometimes
to another. At one time the minae
ter was believed to`havo been caught
"dead to rights," and.• when a dee-
coil flatly ohurgad pito with boiur;
•`a sneak -thief," hojeft the church
and did not enter it again.
Two deacons came to blows Over
these mysterious disappearances,
and during these three long and
terrible yearn suspicion was contin-
ually poisoning each ,brother's cup
—and all because of athiovish pro
pensity of an Engli.h' sparrow
which took advantage of au open
window to fly into the church and
nigh au occasiondl bank note.
Therefore, on the top of his
ther meanliesees, it is here boldly
charged that. the English sparrow
s a thief so steeped to wickedness
hat ho does not hesitate to rob a
'onnecticut church.
.a.
HE EARLY USE OF COFFEE
The original home of the coffee
ee, which is cultivated iu nearly
pry tropical country, Wa8 the
rritory of the UpperNile, where
t shrub may still be seen growing
•ld. Coffee was first used iu Ab-
nia, and is said to have been in-
t sauced into Persia as early as 875
D.,,but it was not cultivated in
tabic until several centuries later.
axe severe' legends Concern
-ate .discovery of the excellent
uCi of coffee. The Persian
ory ie that the Archangel Gabriel
rat brought a cup of coffee to
ahomet when he was ill, and that
hrough the prophet its secrets was
first imparted to mon, The Arabian
legend tells how a dervish, who
fended goats on the hill side, notic•
rid when these animals ate the leaves
f a certain plant,or the ripe berries
*hat fell from it, they became ex
iceedingly tnerry, and skipped about
as though they had been driukiug
:';wine. The dervish himself chewed
the leaves of this plant and found
-that•-they-anade•.11ian-feat-merry. (leo",
Ile then made a decoction of the
leaves and berries, and found it
not only a pleasant drink, but in-
vigorating, and thus the virtues be-
came known to the world. The
earliest his orical mention of coffee
occurs in Arabian writings of the
fifteenth century. Its nee gradually
extended over • Europe. ,.It was
publicly sold' in 'Constantinople in
1554, and found ita way to Venice
in 1615. A coffee house was open-
ed in 1626, and in 1652 a returned
traveller opened one in London.
Thera were probably coffee houses
in every European city before the
end of the seventeenth century.
Down to 1690 Arabia was thesouree
of coffee supply for both Asia and
Europe. In that year the govern-
or of the Dutch East Indies obtain•
ed a few seed whioh he planted in
a garden in Batavia, Java. One of
the plants from these eeeda was
sent to ,Amsterdam and placed in
the botanical garden there. Being
well tended it flourished, and :its
sends were sent to the \Vest Indies
where the cultivation of coffee in
the 'new world began. Sonia pla4ite
were also taken from Amsterdam to
France, and from there some were
taken to the island of Martinique.
From the West Indies the plants
and seeds were taken to the Guian-
as, and thence .to Brazil. The
firet seeds wore carried to Rio in
1774, but it was some time before
the coffee cultivation became an im-
�►rtant industry in Brazil. Now,
however, that country leads the
coffee trade of the world, its pro-
duction being hundreds of millions
of pounds annually; The progeny
of the little plant sent to
Amsterdam !00 years ago now
praOce more than all the
.coffee plants of the old world.
IR f t,I, , 1, til 4 Altka ,,R,4tQSIA �1fp P r44-
in the
nee9 it they wake tt ooigl telepvopa,
t eros sore out 'lit Jolll, MOON to WIte UQ11e4 Aft Jt
Until late inthe afternoon s he Jtingfrau'tr, #Iluwerlat,
as,eot .tai that 44 apotlestiAlesekCatiiseW sea
upop edga agalust the sky,Mkt by 04*afternoon sQInQ tale sgesa, sQlliolt tics sot
01.ilia western borders'or the desert, 04
`41"4541# preaenca. you perhaps had not lieteet,
ed or suapaoted up to that tithe, begin to
,' ' Cast b:auk ehadewa eastward sones the
It is a good many yea's .sides I was in gleatnipg e4efacti: At first tilers is only
Ssvitzerland last, In that remote time quo shadow It l.stpr there aro two, '1'otvaf;d
there was only oXte ladder railway In the 4 p,ni. the ostler day I was'gazing and wor-
country; That state of thing's is all ohang. ehipltieg, a4 ussal,, when I chanced toilette('
ed. • There isn't a mountain .in Switzerlapd ttiat ,altudow No. l was begiuuing t.4 take to
now that hasn't a ladder raflwe or two up itself something of the shape of a human
its buck like suspenders; indeed, some of profile. By 4 the bank of the head was
them ere letticed with them, and two years good, the military cap teas pretty geed, the
honco all of then will be. In that day tbe'noea was bold, and strong, .the upper lily
peasant of the high altitudes will have to shuri,' but not pretty, and there was it
carry a lantern, when he goes visiting in the great gestic that shot straight aggressively
night to keep from etutnbliug over railroads forward, from the chin.
that•have been built since his last round. At 4:30 the nose hail changed its shape
r1• td alaoin that day, if there shall remeiniconsidorably, and the altered slant of the
ig;t•altitude peasant whose potato patch sun had revealed and made conspicuous a
a,(su t a railroad through it, it will make huge buttress or barrier of naked rock
•
`•im as eonspieu.ous as William Tell. i which was se located as to answer very
However, there are ouly,Iwo best ways to well for a shoulder or coat Dollar to this
travel through Switzerland ; the first best is swarthy and indiscreet sweetheart who had
afloat, the second best is by open two -horse stolen out there right before everybody to
carriage. One can come from Lucerne to In-, pillow his head on the virgin's white breast
ter:alten over the Brunig by Iadder•rallroad� and whisper soft sentimentalities to her to
intanhour or •ao now, but you can glide the senuous musioof crashing ice dumesund
smoothly through in a carriage in ten, and the boom anti thunder of the passing ava-
Ihave two hours for luncheon at noon. For lanclte—musio very fumilar to his our, for
Ihe has heard it every afternoon at this hour
�f`� ���1� �t /4 r a Isince the first day lie came courting this
y� h, (, ga r/ / child of the earth, who lives in the sky ;
0/f1/ 4 and that day is far back—yes for he was at
ai/ett�� ' this pleasant sport before the middle ages
e I / i drfited by him in the valley ; before the
Romans marched past ; and before the an-
tique and recordless barbarians fished and
hunted here and wondered who he might
he, and were probably afraid of hits ; and
before primeval man, himself just ettierged
from his four -footed estate, stepped out
upon this plain, first sample of his race, a
thousand centuries ago, and cast a glad rye
up there, judging ho had found a brother
human being and consequently something
luncheon, not for rust. There is no fatigue to kill ; and before the big saurians Wallow -
connected with the trip. One arrives fresh ed here, still some loons earlier; 0, yes, a
in spirit and in person in the evening—no
:ley so far back that only the eternal sun
fret in his heart, no grime on his face, no himself was present to see that first visit ;
grit in his hair, not a cinder in his eye,;( day so far back that neither tradition
Chis is the 'right condition of mind and nor history was born yet, and a whole
body, the right and due preparation forthe weary; eternity must come and go before
solemn event which closes the day—step- the restless little creature, of whose face
ping.with metaphorically uncovered head this stupendous Shadow -Face was the pro.
into the • presence of the most impressive' phecy, would arrive in the earth and begin
mountain mass that the globe can show— his shabby career, and think it a big thing.
the Jungfrau, i0, indeed, yes ; when you talk about your
The stranger's first feeling when suddenly poor Romans and Egyptian dlty-before
confronted by that towering and awful ap- yesterday antiquities you should choose a
uaritfon wrapped in ate shroud Qf snow fs titne'when the hoary Shadow -Face of the
breathtaking astonishment. It is as if Juugfran is not by. Iu antedates all anti -
heaven's gates had swung open arid expos- guides. known or imaginable ; for it was
ed the throne. here the world itself created the theatre of
It is peaceful here and pleasant at•Inter-'future,antiquities. And it is the only wit•
taken. Nothing going on --at least nothing 31081 with.a human fee's that was there t0
but hrilliant, life-giving suushiue. There see that marvel, and remains to us a me -
are floods and floods of that. One may tnot•ial of it.
properly speak of it as "going on," for it 13y 6 o'clock the ince has dissolved and
the gone. The great intervening barrier, seen
is full of the suggestion of activity ;
with visible through a faint bluish haze, seemed mad,
tight pours down with energy,
enthusiasm, This is a good atmosphere to of air, madsubsttutcelcss, so soft and rich it
be in, morally as well as pilysieally. Af v s, so shimmi•ring where the wandering
tet trying the pol '_ 1 atrtas .-•li I :tucked it, and so dim where tate
the neighboring monarchies, it is healing slit ows ley. Apparently it was dream
and refreshment to breathe an air that stuff, a work of the imagination, nothing
has known no taint ' of slavery for 600 real about it, The tint wa's green, slightly
years, and to come among a people varying shades of it, but mainly dark. The
whose political history is great and fine, sun was down—as far as that harrier was
coucerncd, but not for the Jungfrau, tower -
superlatively great and fine, and worthy
to be taught in all schools and studied by ing into the heavens beyond the gateway.
all races and peoples, :For the struggle She was a soaring conflagration of blinding
here. throughout the centuries has not been H'lute light.—�I tri: Twain.
is the antgr AV- ,t. vase -tn.-elf-41.-`. v "'
`'-"i Ceylon' at the World's 1 -ells.
church, but in the interest of the whole The Island of Ceylon intends to make a
body of the nation and forsheltei• and pro- big exhibit at the World's Fair, and hair
te,tion of all forms of belief. This fact appointed to represent it here J. J. Grinlin•
is colossal Iton, one of its wealthiest and most dis-
Fran the Victoria Hotel one looks tint'uishetl citizens. Mr. Grinlinton has
straight across a flat of trifling width to a enjoyed nearly all the
lofty mountain barrier, which .las a gateway political honors which
in it shaped like an inverted pyramid. Be- ithe island could offer.
yond this gateway ,wises the' vast bulk of He is at present a
the .Jungfrau, a spotless mass of gleaming 1:....'',' t member of its Parlia-
snow, into the sky. The gateway in the mens and was formers
dark -colored barrier nukes._ a strong ,.►•'� fell j
id t F ly its Governer -Gen -
/frame for the great picture. The sombre; 1
df�(r eral. Hb went to Gey -
frame and the glowing snow -pile are I1 ; - fon thirty-five years
startlingly contrasted. It is this frame I r'
which concentrates and emphasizes the 4)r'iYi;; i' ago as an officer- in
�� the British navy, and
glory of the Jungfrau and inakos it the i seeing opportuftities
TELL'S CHAPEL.
41081 engagingnan(1 b guiding, and,faseiuut-
ing spectacle that exists on the earth. There
are many mountains of snow that are as
lofty as the Jungfrau :Ind as nobly propor-
tioned, but they lack the frame ; they stand
at large, they are intruded upon and e.bow-
ed by neighboring domes and summits, and
their grandeur is diminished and fails to
effect.
It is a good name, Jungfrau—Virgin.
Nothing could be whiter, nothing could be
purer, nothing could be saintlier of aspect.
During several afternoons I have been
engaged'in an interesting and maybe useful
piece of •rk—that is to say, I have been
VIEW OF TILE JIINOFRAII.
trying to make the mighty Jungfrau earn
her living—earn it in a most humble sphere,
but on a prodigious scale, on a prodigious
scale of necessity, for she couldn't do
anything in a small way with her size and
style. I have been trying to make her do
service as a stupendous dial, and check off
the hours as they glide across her pallid
face up there against the sky, and tell the
time bf day to the populations lying with-
w•u.,,.,ra t Rik>sl�no r. fOt'- ..Wealtlt..�,n.tFeued.
there, resigned hie commission ped began
raising tea and coffee. I•Io became the
largest plantation owner on the island, and
his advancement in wealth and political
honors progretoed with equal rapidity. He
was selected by the Governor-General as
World's Fair Commissioner because of his
prominence and identification with the in-
terests of Ceylon. His acceptance of the
position was regarded as self•sacriticing.
Tile Parliament of Qeylon intends to ap-
propriate about $$.;2,000. Commissioner
Griilinton will shortly leave for Chicago,
and announces that the Ceylonese pavilion
will be constructed almost entirely from
material imported from that country.—
Chicago Herald,
Affairs in Fiance.
There is not the slightest doubt that
affairs in France are now in very had shape.
Tho trouble I'residcnt
Carnot experienced in
getting a Cabinet to-
gether and the almost
utter lack of confi-
dence m the one he
has arranged with so
much difficulty, indi-
cates only' too clearly
how narrow the line
is that separates the M. coesraNS.
country from a crisis. That still more
trouble is ahead there is no question. De
Freycinet, Ribot and Rouvier, who remain
in the Cabinet, are all powerful statesmen,
but this than Loubet, who is given the Pre-
miership,has never given any indication of
extraordinary ability, and experimenta are
dangerous at such a juncture. But the
streegest indication of future complications
it that M. Constane, who is generally con-
sidered one of the foremost figues in France,
is compelled through cit'cumstaneea to re-
main out of the Ministry. The very man
who has been credited with knowing how
to guide the ship of state removed from his
position, and an absolute bar raised to pre-
vent his return, and a Chamber of Deputies
racked with dissension and ripe for diesoln-
tion, shows the gravity of the situation.
Mr, Laffan (humorist, looking up eudden•
ly from his work)--.ajy,dear, I de wish you
would break yourself of, that silly habit' of
laughing out lend when you are reading.
flow do you expect me to do any writ.
114 MOS' 40t*r.r-0044"Ig
DOTH OF,4AMEa13011(1'
gry t
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PlONEER4Qt1RNAU r,,
Ottete4 and ?eitratt, of t?uo: or Terento''s
A1sl„st Cittaane- VatrIott Ptoneert ;oar*
naltstr 1Le lslntor, .gltli,en .TLe trtory of
is Prominent and Remarkable 71te, •
There was something tenderly pathetic in
the little gathering which aesembled ou
Saturday afternoon, 411, March, 1892, at his
Barkdalo borne, t4: gaze for the last time
upon all that was to,
of James Beaty
or. The sturdy old pioneer looked oaln
and worm as ever in the cold embrace of
death, and bore his almost century of years
with remarkable vigor and vitality to the
end. Until within four days of his death,
the deemed veteran had somewhat relaxed
his accustomed mental aotivity, but when
the end was near hia recollection returned
with remarkable vividness, and he din•
coursed brilliantly and accurately of the
many eventful scenes which have gone to
make up his remarkable life. He remained
reonseious to the end, and just before pass-
ing away ho took an affectionate farewell of
the sorrowing members of his family aesem-
bled at the oedsitle.
Mrs. Laffan--ilut it's the manuscript of
'sour own book I'm reading, dear.
Mr. Laffan—Ali, yes—certainly, of
:curse ! Ah—what was 1 saying ? 0 yes
wonderful how tnucir more work I can do
it 1101110 1,219.10 could at the office, isn't it,
Maria y—Puck.
Nineteen Ways of Keeping Well.
At a recent meeting of the Twilight Club
the question for debate was, "How Do You
sleep %Yell Y" and twenty members of the
dub gave their answers to it :
No. 1—Keeps well by taking Turkish
baths.
No. 2—By horseback exercise.
No. 3—By resisting disease and avoiding
lectors.
No. 4—By keeping clear of colds and
never working when tired. •
No. '5—By obeying all the laws of
hygiene.
No. 6—By opea air exercise and oatmeal
porridge.
No. 7—By keeping the mind content and
taking a month's rest every summer.
No. 8—By boating.
No. 9—By never thinking about illness.
No. 10—By athletic exercise antl.refrain-
ing from overwork.
No. 11—By moderation both in work and
play.
No'. 12—By daily sponge baths and out-
door enjoyment. •
No. 13—By horseback riding, cold baths
and discreet dieting.
No. 14 --By thorough mastication of all
food and by genial companionship.
No. 15—By heeding the doctor.
No. I6—By guarding the health !n such
s. way as to give promise of a hundred years
of life.
No. 17—By avoiding extremes, eating
arcfully, and sleeping as long a5 possible.
o. 1S—l3y dieting.
Iv r 9—By all-round development, virtue,
.xercise, temperate. living, the Turkish
baths, agreeable society and a fair share of
'lard work.
No. 20—Can't keep well anyhow, and al-
ways forever ill.
THE SNOW AND THE STEEPLE.
An Incident Strikingly Illuetrativo of Our
Eccentric Climate.
r.i
d '
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The village church steeple needed paint•
ing for years, but the congregation was too
poor to employ "Steeple Jack " to do the
job. But au unusually heavy fall of 4110%
made it a safe and easy matter for the
local artist—
had not a sudden thaw set in, which
�•omplicatod matters somewhat.—Harper's
Young People.
Political Proverbs.
Partizad pattriotism ought to be muz-
Fled.
Politicks that pays divvidends is the most
popaler.
The Beaver's promis to pay ought to be
as good as gold.
Pattriotism as a bizness aint the thing
we aro lukin for.
Somepollitishans don't kno how they keep
or.t of the penitenshery.
Usuhly the best candidates is them that
don't want to run for offis.
Tho diferents between a milyunair and a
statesman seems to be that the milyunair
pets the job.
JAMES BLATY, SR.
At the time of his death the deceased
pioneer was 94 years of age, having been
born on September; nd, 1798, near Killus•
hemdra, County Cavan, Ireland. Ho came
to Canada in 1818. He was engaged in th(
leuther'•business in Toronto with Mr. W.
Armstrong, his brother-in-law, and after
the latter•s death carried the business on
Himself for many years. In 1852 ho pub-
lished the Leader as a weekly paper, and in
the following year us a (18113', continuing
the publication for about 25 years. He also
acquired control of the old Colonist, and
the Patriot. He was practically the found-
er of the TorontoGeneral Hospitnl,of whidh
he was a trustee fot many years. He was
also one of the original trustees of the
Lunatic Asylum and a director of the
Northern Railway. He was one of
the charter members of the Westorn
Assurance Company and a director
for a number of years. In 1877 he re.
tired from business, being then 80 years of
age. In politics he was a Reformer until
theClergy Reserve question was settled. In
1849 heran for M.P., but was defeated. He
waselected a member of the first Parliament
of the Dominion of Canada for East Toron-
to in 1867, and was returned a second time
for the same constituency.. For many years
he was an alderman of the city, and assisted
in establishing the Mechanics', Iustiture,
He always took an active part in the Clergy
Reserves question in the old days in con,
nection with Sir Francis Hincks, Hon.
Robert Baldwin and others, and subsequent-
ly took a position with the Conservative
party, like many others of that time. Iu
1856 he ran for Legislative Councilman for
Saugeen, but was defeated. He was presi-
dent of the Toronto Roads Company, and
purchased the roads from the Government
and carried them on for a number of years,
During the rebellion of 1837, although he
never approved of resorting to arms
to enforce the contention of 'the Reform-
ers, he acted with them up till that time,
and was suspected as a rebel. At one
time, while going t•, his own house from
the Bank of the o ,je5 of which he
was' a director, he wits ordered to be shot,
but the parties detailed for that work re.
fused to obey their officer, they knowing
him well, and many of them being his per-
sonal friends. He was married shortly af-
ter he arrived in Canada, and his wife died
in 1829, leaving two children, a son, and n
daughter. The son, William, is dead, but
the daughter is still alive. Up 'till tlhr(e
years ago he enjoyed physical and mental
health, but since then his memory began to
fail. In religion he•was originally a Church•
man, but after coming to this country he
started and maintained a congregation in
Toronto for nearly 60 years, and was one of
the principal speakers. He was one of the
first Orangemen of the city, and with his
brother, John Beaty, walked in a proces-
sion of 12 in the year 1820 and carried the
first Orange flag.•
An Aspirant for Polar Honors,
Dr. Fridjof Neilsen, the Norwegian sa-
vant who is the latest aspirant for Polar
honors, is now mak-
ing arrangements in
London for his de-
parture, which is
timed to take place
in January of Feb-
ruary of next year.
Dr. Nansen has al- 0
ready achieved fame
as an explorer in the
artic region, and his e.
feat of crossing the
mysterious ice -coated DR. RANSEN.
continent of Greenland still stands un-
paralleled. He proposes to get to the
North Polo by a new route. He assumes
that there is a current across the polar re-
gion running from the north coast of
Siberia to the east coast of Greenland, and
of this current he WS] try to take advan-
tage. The expedition will pass through the
Behring Straits and proceed north as long
as there is open water, trusting to strike
simultaneously the ice and the current that
beat back and baffled the ill-fated Jeanette.
Dr. Nansen depends upon the current to
pull him through the open sea between
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Stkit*1p+rft li INud fltOt 1)0 ,
llwl ,of tire' d'@s,nttte were found, three,
YOS.Tigt000tOundorlogetbstlreSusittlaat
the pouthor4 Aoaat of (itteenlegdt tegathet
wird other•evido>ace'o it iika !later°, MA*
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s110,4'A otifient,
Ae lir 1810111011'el<ppot's ,,%4 Maki, ,ut4aG
I4 . aha IOW iatlirlaolacd Uy ioft•fiooe, tna:
vastel h whims :he will sail la to be: jy,tllt
specially for the as, atli'ti41r• $ton4th wits
be the chief, fektero Af tate Yesv` I wbiMlt
will bo .about 25O toes.burdeu. ger L;tlt
will bo of oak, and an arrangement of crow( .
beeams and bt'aeee will make her hold loofa
like ► spider's web. Her bows will bo owon
stronger than the rest of her. Sha will be
equipped with engines giving her a epees{
of six or seven knots, and she will be also
fully rigged for sailing. It is hoped te,
arrange her lines so that the ice will raise
her above its embrace instead of crushing
her. •
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A NEWFOUNDLAND DOG )'
Barks at Death and heroically Shows
Men How to Die.
Fully a hundred pooplewaiting at Thirty-
ninth street for an I1linoisCentral suburban
train one morning not long ago witnessed a
big, noble -looking Newfoundland dog stake
a losing fight with fate on a cake of ice otic
in the lake. The splendid creature had
evidently been on the treacherous crystal
raft all night, for he was literally 'coated
with ice and frost, while his hind quarters
were almost totally useless, evidently beiug
frozen.
Every few moments ho would utter is
howl or ery so piteously as to resemble the
death moans of a human being. Now and
then he would look toward the shore troth
which he was separated by some 50 feet of
ice -clogged water and slippery piling, as if
pleading with all his might for some one to
lend him a helping hand. Then, when 3 0
help came, for it would have been madness
in any one to have tried to roach him, her
would look about him at the gulf of angry
water, drag himself a little way up and
down the rocking death raft, and then sink,
exhausted with his nose upon the ice.
So deeply dial the desperate plight of the
noble fellow impress the spectators that a-
score of women turned away to hide their
tears, while several men forgot their busi-
ness and made a tour of various small boat-
houses in the vicinity to see if some plan
for rescuing the dog could not be devised,.
But all to no avail.
Suddenly, far out in' the lake, a mighty
wave, crested with huge, jagged blocks of
ice, was seen rolling in toward the shore.
There was something indescribably awful
in the din and roar made by the grinding
and crashing of that incoming battle line of
ice.
. At the sound of the tunvelt the New-
foundland turned, and facing the oncoming
mountain stood for a moment as if strnek
4111 -� lit -.
AT BAY.'
motionless with fear. Then, as a proud,,
fearless soldier of fortune who, whets
brought to bay by overpowering forces,
tarns derisive, the great fellow began bark-
ing like a fog trumpet square in the face of
his foe.
As he felt the forerunner of the malt
commotion jar his foothold the doomed
brute seemed to bark the louder, more de-
risively.
A great cheerwent up from the men and
women now gathered at the scene. The
dog heard it and turned his face for a mo-
,ment.npon..the source,..as•though saying -e --w--•-•-••-•-••-.••• -
"Hush ! Watch how a dog of 'New-
foundland can die 1"
Scarce had he turned upon his foe again
and uttered another bark of mockery when
that wickedly plunging battle line of ice
blocks, streaked with the foam of their
long race, bore down and ground the noble
brute, as millstones grind a grain of wheat.
A dog had shown men how, . to die.—
Chicago Herald.
A Icing by Divine Itlght.
The German Kaiser's recent declaration
of his belief in the divine rights of kings is
practically a repeti-
tion of what lila
grandfather said 3G
years ago, when the
jewelled crown of
Prussia was placed
upon his head. Thera
was one essential dif-
ference in the pro-
ceedings following the
delivery. In 1861 the
THE EMPEROR. people aho'tted lustily
"Amen" ; in 1892 they are . inconiiiatent
enough to digress from the male question.
and.cry for "bread" as well as kick up 'a
•'shindy" right in front of the king's palace.
The divine rights of kings! How queerly
that sounds ! And it was only the other
day that this same monarch expressed him-
self in favor of anything that represented -
progress or was in touch with the advanc-
ing age. Perhaps the youthful and alto-
gether too impressionable William II. is
bliuded by the career of William I.,who, es
related above, held precisely the same ideas
with regard to the kingly prerogative.
However, it would be well for the present
monarch not to go too far back in search of
precedents for his pet theory, and ho has
besides neither a Salmaaius nor a Sir Ro-
bert Milner to back him up against the
combined argument and common Bente of
the entire living world, while in tho tombs
of England, France and his own father-
land, the ashes of those slaughtered for
maintaining just such doctrine, cry on&
against it.
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