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The 4. Gowdert Link. • Ernest nodded his head in reply, he could ?Shrove himself off and drag his hone out by
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iberereinble, itridieport, C,onn.) not sPeak, • , , • ' [OM hridie. He Struggled nu, and at last.
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waectWafitae seicideonY bonnie *ea " By Jove where Boer r.,.* he, went Cape, tO, the diP W11111,110 had seen,. the
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, -• • . man, hove in sight, and, recovering from his reckoning:- Just, tiven, to make matters
'miss ye at mem and r miss yo ateen; • fright when he saw that the great altiMal j worse, a thunder,shower name up' With a
.In. yer wee bits o' myssnatter'd roun' can see
Thu e,e gowden link that binds Lizzie au' me.
The hoose is no hime withoot Charlie, ween; was stone -dead, •rushed up with,,yells of ' bitter wind, aad 'drenched him to the skin.
exultation, and, climbing on to the u r I The in
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The-pri e ra3r he and yer fond Loftin: s joy ;. on, tUrting pale as he he „ missed his sop. for wagion-tent.: It WAS a great viiite Istone'
I'm weary:W*1u' eairyer biythe face the see-- the! first tithe, „ pero ed on A mound of brawn' ogee. •
.Y.e're the ae gdwcien that biade'Lisziettn' But at thia moment tlie young gentle- t!Jis time he had• -utterly lost- his
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hours.are like days aud the days areliko
years,
_Ppe p0 'ate wind Oul nat. rt
him. • -
us , gall to point out where he ht)it' blew like ice and'ohilled 'his *frame Oiler-
vated with. the tropical heat in 'whieh he
Meanwhile ldr; A/stpn he'd 'extraoted the h a
-4Ik more: brings its hope, and- ilk e'ening it
toar,Pain, wa4I elti p tae ray heart ,fora.wee
. ae nowden. that binds Lizzie WI' Epp.
I can, see yerwee face lookin' .nouh Onnie noo,
But its only a picture -it's no my we? (lee ;
• „But my heart fonder grows when, X in parted
wee „
r9e. the se. go -don that binds lassie an
May theaviie Lord abune send ve safe ham° ance
..rivae fain Lee my lamb in his ingli.:backit chair;
Wi' yer wee bit ronif- face riiinin...owre itii
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yere ae gowffeh link that binds au'
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story of the adventhie-from Erneet
You young rascal," he said to his So,
come off that tin*. Do you know that if
it had not been for Mr. Kershaw hero, who
courted almost certain death to, save ,you
from the results of your awn folly., you
would he as dead as that elephant and as
flat as a biscuit? Come down, sir, and
offer up your thanks to Providence.and Mr.
Kershaw that you have at -sound square i oh
been Wandered 94regiZee°81114 andtiitshn %Pet lh y. hisile
tired horse pat his foot in *hole and fell
heavily; throwing him to his bead and
shoulder. For a few minutes his 'senses
lefthim, but he recovered, ' and, mounting
his worn-out horse, wandered on again.
Luckily he had broken no bones.. Had he
'done so, he Would prObahly .heye perished
raiserahly he that lonely place. '
, e sun was sinking now, and-, he, WAS
0 &Mil Jeft OA yOur.WOrthleSSy00rig body !'d : faint for want of food, for he had eaten
,. Roger descended accordingly, consider. nothing that day but a biscuit. He, had
ably crestfallen. . -• , • ' not even a pipe of tobacco with hint ' Just
"Never. yon
rattling good shot, of -yours at his what might ones 'have been a path.- He
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'u. mind, Boger, that was a , as the sun -vanished he hit a little path, or
knee," said Erneit, who had now got his followed it till the pitch .darkness set in ;
• breath again. "You *Mid net de it agair then ho gotlOff his horse and tOok off the
if you at elephants for a week." ,
,:i....Andsothe-mattetcPassed-effi-hutiVaftW
ward Mr. Alston thanked Ernest with tears
in his eyes for saving his son's life. ,
This was the firet elephant they killed,.
and also ,the largest. It measured ten
feet eleven inched at. the shoulder, and the
tuskeweighed, when dried out, aboutsixty
pounds , each. :„They remained' in the -
elephant country for nearly fciureinonths
*hen the: 'approach of the . unhealthy
season forced, them to leave. it -net, how;
ever, before '•, they had killed a. great
quantity-eflarge genie of all sorts. '
It WAS on the occasion of their return ...te
,Pretoria that Ernest ' made, the acc)uaint-
&nee of a canons charaCter ,in a curious
saddle, wimp_ ha_pri_t_fl.-
so veldt,lor's fire had recently ewerit 'off m
the dry grass, and, wrapping the saddle. -
cloth round his feet, laid his aching head aa
upon the saddle. The reins of his horse he tr.
hitehed round his amt. lest the animal, th
should stray away • from him to look for th
food. The wind was bitterly 'cold, and he al
-was wet through; the hyenas - came and 11
howled round him. He cut off a iece of a
the raw meat and chewed it, heti. it turned kle
his stoniaola and he spat it DAC Then he
. • Such an "Alice in Wonderland" sort . of
performance on the partpf a tree could not
but excite the curiosity of an intelligent
youth. Accordingly, Boger pushed ‘, for-
ward, and, getting round -an intervening
tree, this WAS ' what ,luz Elt4W.. In a little
, glade about ten paces., from fum, flapping
its ears, stood an enormous- elephant,. with
great white tusks, looking., as large ' as a
,house, and as cool has cucumber: Nobody,
ttoblook at the brute, would have believed
Oat he had given them A twenty miles' trot
Oder a 'burning sun. , He was nowrefresh
• ing hiniselay,pullint up_mimmia-treeii-ae.
`easily arthough they were radishes, and
oating the sweet fibrous roots.
ogersatv-thM'andhis hrierrehledidith
'ambition to kill thit-elephant, the mighty
great st aboufe, hundred tiznes as big as
Z
hinzie who could pull up a large tree and
. make ,dien_ er Off the roots., He was a
., pinolzkbcye'Was Roger, and in, his aporta-
mantkOesi be quite IMO that A repeat.
ing oarbine,is not exactly the weapon one
, would ' elicioiiii. to ,shoot elepliatitth,
•-i.--.---Indeek-WzAout.-giving the matter another
' . thought, bWfted the little rifle, aimed if at
the great east's hOtta and fixed.' He hit it
' :somewhere, that was very clear, for next
. moment -the air resounded Voith the most,
A,
scion as they got to the boinidarksot,
the;TrainivastErneat hohght-alibise from
a Boor, on whicih he used to ride after the
_kerils _of buck that swarmed-uporithahigh
veldt. They had noilewith them, because
in the country which they had been 'Shoot,
ing no horse would. live. One day, , as they
Were travelling Slowly along -ii little before:
naid-dayr; a couple of bull vilderbeeste
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oped heress the Waggon -track about two
hundred yards in 'front of the oxen. The
Hooper stopped the Oxen in order to give
est,'Who•Witinsittingon the -Waggon -her
'a . rifle by his Side,. a steady shot.
eat fired at the laza of the two galloping
. The line wai. 'good, but he did- not
D sufficient .,allowance for the, Pace ht
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h the hall. was travelling with , the,
t that instead of • striking , it forward
killing it. the bullet shattered itidlank
did rint stop its career. ,
_Dash At r' ,'Siti4 Ernest,' when- he saW.,
he had done, "1 can't leav he peer
as e that. Bnng me my,ho e ; 'I will
go after hini,and finish him."
• 'The • horse, which Was . tied already'
Saddled • . behind the - waggon; was
quiekly. brought, hint Ernest 'mount..
Mg 'told.' them not t k •
he
one for is he wouldOtrike across
ry and 'meet them at ,the outspan
ahoht a Mile or Soon, then he started
'his: wounded bull, which could. be.
y discerned standing:with one , leg up
e crest of a :rise about a thousand
away. But if ever a vildeibeeste was
sed by a fixed detennination not to
nished off, it was that p9;rtiehhir
beeste I The p800 at alVildiar-
ean trayel on three legs when . he is
oo fat is, .perfect1Y, astonishing, and
t had traversed a couple .of nines of
rolling ,plain before be . • even got
a .fair.gallOping distance of
cl a geed horse, hoWever; and: at
Within Afty- away
exit at a merry pace,. Erneit's °Meet
0 . ride alongsid and put 'bullet_
h, •Their gallop .laste a • gOod
les or. More.- On the' level, Ernest
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with
Ern
bulls
mak
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' 'terrific se eam of fury that it had ever been resul
, his let hear. T scream was too much and
. for he turned 'and fled swiftly, and
Elephants- ere evidently'. difficult things "
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for Roger,. the elephant
,Ooflld n SOineseaondd make out 'where
hi y astaiilant Vag., Presently, lieWever,
lie.' d him,. end, came crashing 'after
• aming shrilly; with its .trunk and.
rip.., On hearing the shot and the
of e ephant„ Ernest., who was, „wagg
4,ing soine why ,Oht"..E in • the.: open - count
anticipation of a driving ,shot at the place
• Giiineadevid,' toward the ,Spet after,
. Where Boger had entered.'.'the:- bush, and, pleiril
, just hi he get oppOsite to . it, out , he came,- -on .th
• Souttlinci along for hie • life •• Vdth (110
- elephant not more than twetty .pac�s•
-v • 0. ••.. • , .
Then, Erlieet did AbraVe thing. • •%, : ,
"Mille for the bush t" ha yelled to • the.
Who it once istieiried to the right; .:On
thimdered the . elephant, 'straight \tonzard
Ernest. • But with .Ernest it was : evident
considered . he:. quarrel, for
preientlY he tried to swing 'himself ,roLind
after Roger. then 'Ernest lifted,r_liiii:shOt,:
-gnu and sent cio charge :Of•No..4 into the
•..'brute7s fade, itifiging him:: sadly ' was
yardi
posses
be fi
vilcier
beciste
not t
Ernes
great
within
hegot
Hekha
they w
• being t
umanly spealung,_certain-death' Ahrong
'courted; but attliat moment hianiain idea \two mi
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, 9 eve e. boy, , Sereanzing,"Afreah,
-the -elephant: itbandOried' 'the ...pursuit of
Roger, and made straight for Erneet, who
. fired theether :barrel of iirinall.Shat: 'In. the
' Vain hope of blinding; him. '''By now the
'amy .had pulled up;'•heing Scinie. forty' ,yhitle
" and :Seeing !Erneet, just abOut, • to be
. crunikned hp, wildly fitedtherepeating rifle
in their direction. • SO.ine.good•, angel must
iihve guided the little „bullet, for it, .;• as. it
happened, Struck the elephant': in the
region of the 'lime, and, forcing its way in,
; • tiliglitkv.ipjhred hteffdon, 'and :brought the
- great beaSt -"thundering 'to the-A/mind.
• , Ernesthad Only just .time' to deagerte one
aide AS; Mies' chine! to the earth.;
:indeed, as it 70s., lie.'got a tap .from.the tip
nf,..the elepliinit'e trunk Which knocked him
.down, and, though he did not feel it at the.
•. time, -Made him , sore for:: days. afterward'.
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, In a ..Moinent, 110Vvever„ he •was again
ittvii30 cit•liis beta speed, 'legging it as he
' never legged ithefore in ' his ,life, and se.
ivas the .elephant. Peoptehave no idea at
What a Dace an elephant can no ,tylimi he is
• ' of temper, , until they put it to the
proof." : Had ..it not :• beep for the slight
..in,jidry t-�the knee, and the ttventy ,yards'
star the get, Ernest -WO@ have been repre.
. lziented. by little' pieces :before lie was. ten
secands older. 'As it was, when; A diendred
•,-And 'fifty yards', farther op„. elephant ,and
Erneet brokeluppri.the.astonished, view. of
AlstOnjand.Xereity, who were hurrying
• up te the seene Of action, they' were alinost
•one flesl.;;thatis; the tin of the elephant's
trimic ,Was now ; ,up in ‘the Air, 'and heti
ab.ut• :, six inclies off the •Sehe Of tritest's
. trousers, at which it snapped convulsively.,
wont• jereiny's heaVy , rifle; which .
,he hafl in his liancl, . •
"lle,hiiid the. alionider, ' helf•tvay.dowh
thi,eai," said Mr. Alston, beckoning to A
., 'Kafir to bring his rifle,. which he wh8 ditriSt,
ing, :The probability •of , Jereniy's
• Stopping the betist, ht tinit -distaricethey
'Were 'quite isiXtY yards off:. -:•was,
tesirrial. •
• There W,,ai second'a panse. *The snap-
, ping -tip touched .the -retreating, trousers,
' but(11(1not gethold thein, arid the con-
thet sent' inagnetio thrill Einest'S
bank. . ; , •
Booni=thild-. Crash l":ahil.tlie elephant
, Was clown dead a doornail • At' .
•.:•'• --made-no-mistake:: the ;bullet went straight etrildk ;hitt!
.,• 'ilirotigh the great hrute'S heart, 9,ncl broke sphinied,-tv
the' Slietatler On 'the other Aide. .He was ohe back. • '
;of those Men who not only rarely but rie Waggons
• always seem -to hit their game in the right was an ern
, • •arid
• Pinot Shnk exhhiisted 'the ground far away,
Fand. my, Algon and. Jeremy, rushed hp White, cep
rejeiehig;- • • ,. 'straight '
"Near
go that, Erneste"' said the' fern -10i begged in, a
giakinedon ...the vilderbeeste, but/ whenevei
t eymanie to a patch Of ant -bear holee or ti
'ridge or stones,- ;the , vilde.rbeeste :had the
pull\and drew.awayagain.. At list...they
broad„ croWcled with' hhndred8' of, Nick of
came. a dryPan or lake about half a Mile
all'sort ,, which Scampered ,ciwaY tils they
chineleitring'hlong. . Here Ernest at length-
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drew Up 1 vel . with his.quarry,;. aid, grasp-
ing. fhe rift with his right , hand,' tried to:'
got it SO that he could put *bullet. through
tho. beast an, \ drop . him. y: But it. was 00
easy matter, a any.ohe who has ever tried
up -his: mind, ,the ,vilderbeeate : slued
t\
it Will know, ah ,• While .lieweie still niakirig ,
round-arid:dame at Ifitir-brivelY: ' Ilad his
horse been Unused \to the 'work, . he must
have had his • inside:: ripped out . by the
Crooked horns; but he, was an old Minter:
and • equal . to the oecasion. . To turn -was
impossible, the speed wiatoo great, but he
Managed to, slue, With: the result . that the
charging aninitil brushed; hishead, instead,
of landing himself , in hie belly. At the
\e\ \
same moineht • Ernest ,•stret hed„out, his
rifle and piffled -.the triggef,' and; • ad. it
chanced, pet the ,bullet right through...the
vliderbeeste chid dropped him,dead. : , .
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Then ho pulled rip,.and, 'disiiiourithig che
off sci,me of the best of the beef.With his
lihntinghnife, stowed, it away iti a ehdclle,•
hag, and set off on his horse,. now pr,etty,
well fagged, CO find , the, Waggons.- But. to;
find ,,e. ,Avaggeintrack on 'the great veldt,
unless you hare in the first ;.instance.take
the most carefIC bearings, . is • alinost , as
-cliflicolt as it. would be tereturn 'from a
diatance, to any given- spot 'on the ocean
without a compass. There are no trees or.
hills • to ., gnicle one, nothing ;but . a vast
wilderness,of 'land resembling , a . sea. petri-
fied; in a heavy, stvell'. . "
Ernest rede on for three Or fear miles, as
Ise thought retraeing his Steps over the line
Of country' he had traversed, and at hist ,to
his • joy struck .the.. path. ' There were
Waggointrricks on it; but he thought they
did not lOOk qiiite fresh: Hdwever, helot.
lowed them; faule de mieta for some fil'te
miles: Then he became 'convinced' that
they cold .not have beeh made by his
,Waggon8.-Ile must have,overshotthemhrk;
and, mnst Juirk" !Sher SO he. turned hiii
'weary horse's llea&-andifilicle lire way
ni, theac o ie 'spotwherethe spoor
it. The .waggons Must be out.
tilting for hilt a ' little farther
went on, One' mile, tivo, ;three-.
, A little totheleft of the .road
Mena!, He rode to, Wand hp
a ,the herizon. • Oh, joy! there,
five or Aix miles- off,. wad . thc
Of a. waggon, He rode to, it
ro'ss-6rintry; ..Once i,• he got
. till , er,sttarap, -add had' to
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the liVefienS. Clearly he Must during the
latter part of his wanderings have been
unknowingly. Approaching it, His mind,
'relieved upon this point, was at liberty to
satisfy his curiosity about his friend. Ile
seen discovered That be was a harmless
lunatic, whose craze it was to wander all
over South Africa, dragging his hand -cart
ft h' . -made ,for no
nor had he anysettled ratmd.
Axed point,
The begin -
Mpg Of the year niivit, find him near . the
Zambesi, and the endnear Cape Townor
44YWheYe. elect:. • By the, natives •• he was
looked upon as inspired. and invariably
treated' with respect, !Ina he lived upon
what was given to him, or what. . he shot as
Ile --walked along, This Mode of life be had
pursued for yenrs,ana,,,tilough 49. had many
adVentinee, be never came to harm.
" Yeti see, my friend," said the simple
man, in answer to Erheet's,inquiries, ",,,I,
Make my wife down there in-.BOatterclorp,
in the old colony. all*. hOuisee are la long
. way off each other there; and the..church it
'is in the Middle . And the good. volk there,
they' did die very fast, end did -get tired of
carrying each. ether. to be buried, ' And 80'
theycometeMe and say, ' Hans, .,you area
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:carpenter; you. must make a beautiful black
putrt to:u8. in when we_dte.,Arid..eo. I
et30;•And I-147:6*,4incIT work, and work at
y cart till I gets quite -what you. call him
stoopil. And then ono night; just as my
it is, finished, I dreanza that sheand I are
aveling • along a wide straight road ilk's
b road oil the high veldt, and .I- kndwe
at she is my wife, and that we must trayel.
ways togifther till. we. reach ' the city Of
est. And fel., far away, above the top of
high . mowatain like the Drakensber , I
e a great wide tree, rooted On A cloud and
vere all over with beaetifill snow, . that
Med, in the sunlight like' the diamonds at
inberley. And I know ' that under that
ee Zs the gate efthe real :'lliistenbnrkthe
y of Rest, and My Wife, and L. we must
they on, on, on till. we find it,' ..• •
__Where -410. you copie frti •-iieW-74'1*ed•
From Iltreoht, from . t.„Of the oast,
eSt'.. . • --••• • ,' . ;,' ,
ere the sun Amis. so red 'a ery-Morning
r Zululand„ the land of bloodshed,' Oli,
land will rim With blood there. I'kno*
Wilheinina.told niehe We came, along;
I don't know when. , But you are tired.'
od1 yeti shall Sleep with W.ilheinina ; I
sleep beneathher. No you h II • .
or
will be--7•what•you'eall him -offended."
riled creptintd.the_cavity„nnd-;-O-Pne
ITm-ropp, andldreamed that he had .been
tined:alive.: .At . dawn he ernegge.d,_ bade
hiefrierid' •farewell, and gaiiiirtrthe..,read
rejoined the wagon in safety. , .., '
' • 0. HAPTER,KXKIL ...-,
e : siiiisr AC•Ch1;113 A,' conniiiiszpii4 ',.• .
A young Man of thcitardentvi - -dhotis;
Making Mind • (infinitely ,the Most. useful'
itip
intelligent mind Which makes hiinc arniihg
and 'a -:,thing to love . cOntratited. with the
-.young men of-the:801;er, 'cautions, money-.
article), which makeir him A ": cornfort'' to
his relatives and a thing to respect, avoid,
and marry your daughter to, has two great
safeguards standing betWeert_ him and .,the -
'ruin :which '.dogif-the -.heel* of...the •Arderit,.
the inipetOns, and the. intelligent. . These,
are; his religion and his -belief in WOMen. It
is.probablelhat he will Start on his erratic,
Career :With af:fhli store of ,beth. He hak!
never. qiiestiOned the former; the latter, .so
far ha:W*001..61am, irrlifeie concerned, are
to. him bit,. sweet 'and geed; and perhaps.
there is ehopartibilihrstar who ,OlilY. shines
for him, 812(1 is the sweetest. and „best of
theni all... But one .fine ' day. the 'avieetest
and best of all threWs" him over; being -9,
.yeiniger son andmarthieti his:eldest:brother,
01'..a. paralytic cotton-sPinneeot„enOrmona
wealthand uncertain , temper, And *then a
:iluddendialige_00,1nOlkover.T-ple:vir4 l'of the'
ardent; hitelligent;•• and ininetuoue one. . Not
beihg.ef a Well-balancednuhd, he.nisheei to
the other eXtreme,:,anctbelievei- inhissere,
heart that-AlliVernen Would throW'oVer shell'
is he and marry mirry eldest hrotherS or einier-
intimated cettonlipiMios. '' He nihy he right
,Or he . may : be Wrong., . The niaterials „for
ascertaining the fact are wanting, for .all
,wemen . engaged .te inipectinioiis yohng
gentlemen• de not get the chance.. But, right
or ,Wrong,,the result upon the 'inifferer is the
.same,-hisiaithin womenis 'shaken, if not
destroyed. .Nor does the mischief stop there ;,
his religion often fellOws.. his belief in, the
.other sex, for in eomeniysterions way' the.
two things . are intertioV.en.'. . A Young Man
Of the. nobler class of mind in love, .isgener-
hllyfer the timebenig a religious Man ; his
'affecti'on-lift8 'hiin Mere or 'legs above 'the
things of earth, and floats hitnenits radiant:
wings a. day's journey nearer Heaven.. • . ••
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•,' The Sanie,thihglimilies. conv,ersely, If a
nnin's . !religious belief ..ieemaichlate&he.
becomes •:- stspicious, of the '" eiveetest and
,best;."Zhe.growe •eyniehl, and -no longer pots'
faah in stiOeriatives.-,' !Prom htliehini.there
is but a small. step tbMieogyny,ior rather to
that disbelief :iii humanity WhieheMbraces
a ' profounder censtituent. dislielief 'in, •its
fentiiiiiie section,- .and' in turn; as 'already.
*said, the Misogynist,walks daily along, the
'edge of htlienina. . Of courde iheed is a way
out of these discouraging requite , If the
'mind that suffers 'mid Mlle' :thrdligh its
suffering he of the' truly noble Order, it May
in.:in:he, cerne,to -see • that this world . le -S,
,World not .of sup'erlativeis • but of ' th ' .
. .
h'
veresi
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and aank„nate a torpor • from eh
which thero. was a poor chanco. of his Ki
awakening.. , , tr
How long he larso he did not knew, ' it. Cit
• seemed a few minutes, it wag rb-rilly an jou
Era
hour, when lie was saddenly_awakened • by ,
shoulder, •
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" What is it ?".,,he said, 'wearil3.
dat is just wat I wants to know. , , What do the
Wat hat , wat-is it ? ove
you here? • You shall die so."' . .
The voice was the voice of aLGermari, but
language ! " I cannot find the waggons " she
and Ernest knew German-i-vell. • , .G0
41 have lost my way," ;he said in 'that will.
Ah, you Can speak the tongue of the E
Vaperland,"'said his visitor_still---addrees-.
" I. will embrace you,"
'and he dideo , • .
-Ernest sighed. ,It is' a 'bore % to • be
embraced -in the dark by an unknovin male
German when you feel that, you are not far
off dissolution.. " , •
"You are hungered ?" said the German.
• Ernest signified that he was.
And athirsted
.Again he signified aseentc-", •
"Ansi perhaps you haie, no 'gni '
(tphaeco) ?"
-"No; none." •
i'.Good! my little wife, \ray Wilhelmina,
,
shill find you all these things." .• .
What the zniiiehief," thought Ernest to
himself„ "can a German he doing,vloith liis
little wife in this place?" .
By this time the stars had aline and
gave a little light. ' •
"Come, ronee,YourSelf,and chine and, see
, my, little .wife, • Oh, the pferd 1". i, (horse)-,,-
‘! We willtip 'Min to my wife. 'Ah, she is
beautiful, though her leg shakes. Oh, yes,
you will love her." a
- " the deuce I shall 1",ejtichlated'Erneet s;
andthen,"thindful Of .tho. gecid things the
lady in qiiestion was to provide 'him , With,
he Addedsoleinnly, '" Lead On, _Mewing,' '
• 1",lfii-Cduffer. l; my, Milne- is not 196; my
twine is.Harisi all ze great: South Africa
know Me very, well, arid all.•:Sonth• '.'Africa
love Wife2.--,--------
.'4 "Really !"„ said Ernest. :.
Although he Was iso.niieerable,, lid hegait
tOieeLthat the.;:sithation was interesting:
A lady to whom, his horse was to be tied;
and whOna all South Africa Was-Miami:Wed'
of;',,cinild-lardlYfail to he interesting. Ris-
ing he advanced. a 'step, Or two - with his
friend, who, he could see was zi-lirge,
'hfirly man With, white, hair, Apparently
about 60 yefere'of'age. Presently theY.tame
to soinething thtit in the dim light reininded
hire . of the; hand :heilise in . Kesterwick
oliurch; only it had two .wheels inStead. of
for, and no springs. . • , '
G• ."Behold My beautiful 'wife": said the
erman.. " 'Soft 1 Will-shott•yoti, howler
leg,shakes;', it shakes, 'oh, horrid." ,
.." Ile -4s the lady inside ?". Asked ,-Ernest.
It tiocurred to him that his ftiend.intiht be
carting about a corpse; • ' . • .
• '''Insidel: no, she • is Outside, . She is all
-Over," andstepping back the German put
his head ori one, side. in • a Most•cornical
faihion, and, regirding-the .unofACial
hearse With the deepest affection, Said in h.
low voice, . '. " 4.11,. lie,be vronw, ah;
Withentina, is, you tired,: iny dear ? and
how is your poor At ? " .. a h d he caught hold
of h groggy Wheel and Shook it., ' . .
' Had Ernest beet a little less Wretched',
and -one degree further off Starvation; it is
Probable that he,Would have eXpladecl. with
laughter, ;for he had ..a, keen sense of ',the
ludieroin:i.; but he had 'not get a laugh left
in ' him,. and, besides, ' lie: was afraid Of
offending ,the Oetinari. „ SO he merer
intitmj.ireflf ".Poor, OoorIeg n' sympa., • and. .posi
thetically, hnd then alluded to the "question
Of . eatables,.• . ' ' -' •
" 411,!-yee of cohiSe. Let ne, see.what
,Wilhernina.'sliall gite. us," .9,nd -lie trotted
round to the back end of the chit, whieb,
iikkeeping, with its heareb,like cluiracteri
opened by means of two little folding doors,
•an,d \pulled Out,'first; two blanketa, • one,. Of
whickbe, gave to Ernest to put round "his
shoulders; 'second; A large *bp Of biliong,
or sun-drie,d game -flesh; and seine biscuits ;
and, third, a bottle of -peaCh.brandy. Ori.
these viands they fell • to, -and thoughtbey
were not , in, themselves of sly, appetizing
nature, Ernest never enjoyed. anything
more in his life. Theiriheal did not take. -
long, and, after it his friend ,Irazis produced \
Sonia excellent I3cier tobacco, 'and over their.
pipes he told him how lie had lest. his way.
Hans asked birn which.road he, 'had been,
traveling' ciiti: • • '
" The Bustenburg ro cl."' .':•, '
e T_,hen,..2rty•friend, yo are liet More than
cuirgirrifikkill 'pacels:Off it. My Wife, arid I
We travel along him all day, till just now
Wilhomina she think she Wo jd like to tone
up here, enitso 1,_.come, , arid' 7new - yeti' see
e reason why. She know you lie here and, ay with
die in the cold, and she tint hp to Save believe," an
your life. Ah, the good, s-oman - 'qualifying
Ernest as grehtlyrelieved to hear Unit unbelief."
lie ss'it 0C: near the road; as, onceupen it, '
he would have"nodifficnItyin &Hirgt ith 1 .
tives, with here and there • littl
nmarative oasis to 'break the inenoton
of its general ',outline. Its Owner may lear
that the fault lay with thin, belieVin
toe iinich, for trusting too far, for. settrn
up as an idol a preature exactly like him
self, , Only several degrees beneatl
proof ;, and. at last may come to see thti
tliohgh " sweetests And are
chimerical, there are women in the .world
who ,may' fairly be Ohlled " sweet and
gbod.", Or, to return to the converse side
of -the picture, it. may occur to our 7young
gentleman that although Providence' starts
its in the world with a , full ihherited or
indOctrincited belief in a given religion, that
is not what 'Providence understands by
,faith. Faith, perfect faith, is only to be
won by struggle, and in most ''cultiVated
Minds by the paseage through ,' -the
mirage'.01ad, land of. disbelief. The true
believer is he,who has trodden down dia.
belief, he whohak„run :away from it,
'When we have descended from the height
of our .ohildhood, vfheri 3vii.have entertained
Apollyon, and, having considered what he
has to say., giyen him battleand roUted'him
in the plain, then, itinthet till then' 'bah
guileless hearte, " Lord,
a feel no need to add the sadly"
words; " heIP ,Thori niy
,
(To be den tin mkt)
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CURRE11•111' *TOPICS;
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A.- Wuni., at •Yakutels,in Siberia, has been
AZitanding. puzzle to ,:iicientiste for many
years. It It was begun in lfnfl; but ;given up
at'thit ty feet becanse it was Still in froseit
earth.- Then the Bussian Academy of
Sinehces contimied for :eones. months the
work of deepening, the but etoPPea.
when it had reached, to the exten't of Oonie
three hundred and eighty-two.,feet, when
the ground was froaen- as hard aa,a.
In 18-14 the Academy had-thatem.. . •
Perature of the excavation carefully taken •
at variousdepths, And . from the data thus
Obtained the ground was estimated to. be .
frozen to, depth of six hinidred, and
.tWelVe feet. ;.' As eiternal • told could not Or'
freezethe earth ta.anieh a depth; even .
Siberia', geologists haitt, concluded that the/
well has penetrated a frozen, formation der
out. - • • • •• '
,
the glacial period which hat! never Unitized
_ tug ,Queen of R91,1M4.44 has undtirtaken.
course Of lectures 012 national
literature .at the high school for giHe-ift
Bucharest; Her Majesty, .Who Is we
knOwit azt_a_poetescsr nuder,the-pseutliinyin:-: -
of " Can:nen Sylva," has been hcoluitomed '
for , some time past to ..give • leoturee •
privately in her palace to the young Indies .
Of the leading •families in. Bottirtani---
These literary assemblies proved so attrac-
tive, that the demand e for earnissibn to
theirigrew incenvoilient, so that the Queen
thought Of delivering her lectures in the
•high school to all pripile. who. 'cared Act
attend. •Beforeller'INIajesty.onld do this,
liewever, she had to obtain '• a regular pro:-
fessor's diploma :rein the King and thti
Minietei• of Instruction. thize required an
examination,:, to which the Queen gaily -
iiiidgraCiously submitted, and the
having now been ‘Yon,.. nOt granted • :by •
faVor, Her Majesty .' began 'her, lectares at
Seginur faVer; Vilfich is, apidetri-lo in many
N-
i7e,nin,g-o,f-terMTSiter the evIT-Freiii7 • '
citieSHOrrthe-Xrielin ...continent:it ..the• ••
present time, and Prevails tO'a limited ex-." '
*tent in liainilton, is . esSentiallY . in.
dieeacie,Andbrealci frein'tinie
to :time, either sporadically or ispidemicallye • •
in nearly all '.latitudes " (except,' per -haps,
some semi -tropical regions). It ie. an,
'ported disease In.' this country, having been
ftratintrOduCed-7-frona..TErirope into .NOrth
America 'nor • About the Year. 1734 and •-• •
into South,'America in or about 1829.. • Re-
eentlY. had'establiShedAiselfin Lnciia. :rt
propagation by Means of infection is :prac-
tically yerified by the fact that it hecomei
-speedily • :diffused among •„:the,:preclisposed-
when•no peeveritive ineaauteihre Adopted;
and nipidly. stamped when 'thew
have been vigorously enforced. Air tainted
with the .poieon ie the Maud method. Of •
traiiimiSision; arid niciy. he carried by cloth-
ing, ing,' letters, bedding, toys, apirrialzi; etc. „
inay he. cominunicated. directly : from the
COW or. throhgli her : frOm pelluted , *.
water,•..hnd by 'healthy -milividuala 'who'
have' recently ,been in contact ,tvitli scariet
fever patients..., aohtagicai may he. car-
ried by the -breath; as 'long As-. pore • throat •
remains; by the 'perspiratiOrt, so long as,
desquamation continues; And by the digit's -
tion, he,long as the 'alimentary „mucous
lining contirmea congested.' Probably it
actively; infectiou4 for .six or seven• wee
'froth the third bk•\fdiirtli diy• Of its. incep•
tion. InEnglhnd scarlet feverie reepeneihje
for about 22,0,00 deaths thinyhlly. among
.the young. , Second even third attacki
soznetiniee occhr; bUt, :these are. '111Way's: • .
without danger. . • . • 1- • •
. .
. nw System.: bi :'""eehnectirig-SeVeral
thicknesses •of. •leather, hither:in makiiig
double or triple thickness' \leather belting
Or in .affiXing-- the: soles of\ boats to:the
impers,' describ'ed .tbe:Vnginor, le being LT •
introdueedlii--.Eriglahd, *here 'machines -
are being exhibited As used for attaching '
'the Soles Of boots. ' Tho new, eYstent.
fakes inore:ef .the character of riveting than
of any .eitlier knoWu.i' Method, the. new rivets :
being:made ,Ol..motaLeovered Wax thread.
Each faetener thus . atnbUlar rive :filled
With firmly enclosed,. wax three. One of . •
thechief objects Of this 'tubular 'rivet or, .
pieCe..ofMetalcOvered..threaci „is a firm. •:
fas-
tening, with 'greater' • Aekihility than 4
. hitherto beenobtained with Machine Work.
It 'Wotild.be impossible, l'to :explain:the eon...
struction Of 'the machines need 'without
.drhvirings, but we maysay that the covering
.proceSs, 'is', performed- . on a mihehine.ru":
which ti;etrip of brass i8. pulled throughiliek,.
which inClese the wax threadfed to it. The.
!tube.covered: thread . from • tine imichnie
;pasties . to another,' in • Which. the 'tube •
roughened or 'corrugated cirofiniferentitilly
by small rotating disca'Withfine teeth.. Th
'corrugation helps to give the fistenerh firm
'held,: fand also make ' it. more' ecuili
fleiible than it VvOuld be if the metal 'tithe ,
were plain': 7The edges of the strip are not
soldered or i.mased•so to make it .into :
,actiihl The. nextinaChiiie shown in
Operation ie one whiCh boot; soles ,hre
.AffiXed , few seconds; the niaelinie
pierces,the:',Iekither, cuts Off .h lengthvof 'the ;.
nietal-cevered thread; autoruatically adjust- .
ing it according to the thicloiess of the
•
leather:being fhstened.. The covered :wait ; .. •
'thread is theWdriven ,•vertieally into ' the
Ole Of the boot. thus preients,An end- „
wearing- ;sin -face; the, brass covering„ as .•
.the leather,.'Wears, burra. hitter, terming •
-head the .outsicle of ',the' Sole; And pre-
ventsits. Woking" into: the. feat; .an objeo-
tien Which tittaehee to other metallie fast.
eninge • .. • • a. . •
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An old MaWs.,74Yainink... ,
Lientenant wotild like •Very Mt:mirk,
have a leave of absence for thise daye."
dolonel-t‘ Going on a " ," Yes,
colonel, are going to have a little fishing
party out -in 'the -weoda.". '''Geing to die
ladled in the •phity ! " Yes, colonel,'
quite: el .nuniber of piling ladies will bo in
the 6arty,.." ." Yoh chn go, and I hots) yoit.
will enjoy ,yoursolf; bat for heaven s
young man,. bo Careful. ; it .whe ci
such an innocentpieJIic 610 1 curie. to he '
'gobbled up by the old.lady 121 there."-...
Fliefiende 131a3ttei% " '
• ".. ' About Lips.*
ao&tthink lips ripefl. 00,11aClayS," ana
what would the old poets haVe clone if they'
could not have filled their lines with
effusion's to•ripa lips ? Come -to • think,.pf,',
it, I don't know What 'ripe,,-.1ips;*itioari.
never met with a pair of aeon An "4. '!S4 4
you The fernsle
title, it SCOMS to • •
withott 11:1
3' y Wit •
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