The Exeter Advocate, 1889-5-23, Page 6The Iffidow's Stratagem
One evening* after day of fatiguing lin
bor, the Widow Wells set at the are la the
eittingsroom, with her feet resting upon the
leuaer.
"If I ever am so 4/heate4 as aot to have
worin so hard." she mistral:mod, "1 then
4°14P1's it's hard lite keeping boatders,
If I was only as well tiff as Deepen, Bans
e roft,--"
Still :tee :widow kept) up her thiukieg, end
lay -and -by her fee° brightenea„ ape She heel
Au ideje whet •the wise resolved to poe bete
e.T9gati.94 at the very exirlteet praetleable
moment, Whet was t.44 1044 -Or WM 414"
, veva ire the teeereel, ,
4.1dearye” seid She • to.• her eon the resat
mormeg, "I weett you to etop at Dee.C9O
• )3euerefee, ae you go along to aehnol, mai
. • Jam if Oa 'Oa oall and Zge me he the course
• Of memo.rhiog.or awl:40;14 heat eti he ands'
ti mane ceoventeat."
itencon Heocroft tirae 4Utt1cBorprieed at
•theeittranone, Rewever, 'About eleamed'eloch,
ue.cogie4 i The .widew heti get On the
eltieeter andzd N4141'014 hit .4oNi7h, .4e zips
• peart4a fittle..emberrneted, .
"Henry fold. *TM thet 794 Weald. like to
Bee me," he COnnetehrea,
"Ynee. Deem. r atteroft. X de, ret
vg -7 a.freld you will think strange of
iteene leeM of whetI have to say to rare" •
The deaeon Feu politely proattieechaot to
be avapreseetl, then& at the sante tune bee
earieetty wee vighly excited.
. ,t5eppesee," eAel the vildOw, oestieg dawa.
her eyesee--"Mind, 1ion SeppeelK,!, 4 r eeenrs
eurpme a. pete94 Monad. Coed re, pee of geld
pieetee ire their' cake, weefiel the ley beVe
e ight to -keel) er wettid i Indeug te
them 7'
Tim cleteeme prithedeep Itere,
"Apar, ef geld piezete wide?? 1 Why,
onqueetieuebly, the law Would haVe netting
to oe With it"
Awl
the moo who bed formerly owee
the hoese Coeleltet come.forwerd. end clei
it, geoid bia deerneP cothired the widow
farther With enneteat antiety,
madam, unqnettionahly not.. Whoa
the bowie was ellepoisedeteverythirsa weal;
Witle itt•sos a meteer of coon"
"1 ate glad to hear it,. demon. Yen
wou't think ittrange of the queatioa ; hat it
Leavened to genet tez hen 'Mods aud I thfmght
ek I would like te hatee L efied."
'Vert...Airily,: widow., certainly," veld the
deecau. abstemeteelly.
**Auclmsleatem, ati yea. are bate I hope
11 atop to. aiatier with us, It will
pnaetuelly on twelve."
um" mid the demmte, thing
"No ; she ;mid she only asked from mien
mityea
IThe deacon left the bent in deep thought,
Re °axe to the cooelemen that Oats cwri-
oeity.." only veiled * deeper motive. He
no longer entertained 4 doubt that the widow
had estually fottud a pot of gold la her
cellar, and appearmicea seemed to indicate
that Its probable maim wag at least email te
five thoneand dollars. The geld niece which
she had' exchanged at the benh appeared to
confirm this More,.
"1 rather thiek," ealci, the &won, cem-
PlaeetttlYs "I ea 4 ems into a nulletone 49 far
aii most peeple-a statement the literel
truth el which I elefy any 0110 to fieeeti0111
• though as to the prime fact of peeplee belog
elele to see tete a millsteee at ell, doubts
heve ow au d then Intruded themselvee
upon my mind.
Next Seny the Widow Wells appeered
at chorab la a ow etyliele bet, which
led to some repeat -Its sueh tee these --
"How much Vaulty genie people hew, to
he Surer'
"Row a Woman that bast to keep boarders
ior a 'Wing can afford to daeh eat with shch
4 12,0anet is more than 1 Celt telh I ehoold
atok she was old entuagh ta know better."
The! aim remark was made by a yogno lady
&et Oa menthe, yodamer than the WicloWa
hitherto wooed utterly OneFailing•
whose et tempte to cetett A oZehand hal
"1 SPKK7,..e" continued the 'male yonii
lady, "she- te trying to eetelt a sect:ea has -
head with her emery. Before 1 cm/d con-
descend to sneh Mee= rd-erd drown rnY*
self*"
In litiOlest =liable epeech the yorma leely
bed utawittiegly hit open. the Me Metive.
The widew Wm intern) epee eatebieg Dereeee
Bauttrefr, mad elie ledeleed, to 4 cOStly bon.
net, net beeweee the multeeeed be weeile
be caught with filwry, but beverage el&
Quid etreesthen In bit) oiled the idee thee
alas heel ethreleled upouleiddea weath
:ate wIdeve olmileted, ehrewdly ; awl t
iepley bed the deeired effeet the settle
ed.
eutley efternetou Deanen DenCrOft Ione
:rand that celled itimever to thewidevete
ed to he abeut tee time. lie wasi
el to etey 0 tea* MA, SOMOWITAt
to4f owfl eurpriee, aeteelly did.
The pelitie widow, who knew the cleacon's
weak point, hregghtea One of her Imet mince-
"piem a elks of which her pot aertitok ot
1 with zetith
"Well mkt' emother piece, 1 ;mow," e
elle, perauativeiy,
"Ideelly, I ern aeliemeas" aeld the ammo*
, hot he peened Ma plete. "Tile feet len' he
eeid apelogetieelly, "yenr plea ere sa meta 1
deu't know where to
ITIT Pi KING OF ralTBBS.
Return otUr. Seamus topagieuti ewer Amoy
yeers emorteuene and Reentutets.
Mr, Fred. C. Selena, the great African
hunter, has returned to Begland after
twenty year spent in the wIlde of the Dark
Continent ie bellevea theta itette a the
Feat explorers ever travelled so nhiny utiles
in the Atrian wilem AS this lantern
hunter. Bee trips efield 'awe eametimea
(imaged two meare, during which nothhig
has been bora of him.. Probably eveey
native ehlef hi the beet heating regione of
South. Aimee, from Cape Colony to the
ZahteTebe4ite4,01Ttrtals8aelliit; eMirtelsePiire°17nit
Bengela, mid for >Tare be was the elan
White Man who was free to enter the terri
tory of then Savage rider. Lo Bengula's name
for the yinfl3glannter ie "The Lion."
Selene 349 4 =robe, ices than 211:1 yearn
eld, when he went to Afriee, The gamest
geme the (pantry affords has beea his prey.
The °twat for his Icing journeys, inducting
ox enema; eervaats, ateratentiem and gooda
to barter for fetid often represented an ent.
lay et asveral theusands of dollars, 13ne
Seloua meats it pay. When he emerged
from savage regimea into civilization. agate
hie wagon wee -always lieevile)
UMW:C. W1711 WonTo
ostrich feAthers, men, valaable thine. Uhl
ewe° =gaily Fet4 the expenses* Ohio ttles
sric;14...01i4senteoq ere rApstl the
firui3t,s of
t i4ber, ti,:a
to
attvea fon gold 4ont. When he Onst went
Affiea hie Well-to-dO tether new and
Eyler him reetitteneete Bat Selene in,
Wetly pet the ;newsy in a Natal bank and
supported bittreell wholly by hie rine. Of
eouree be bee bed meny renearkehle edven-
turee. OnCe he wee lot end waedered for
I dart an ahneat impenetrable,
emote with nothieg to edit aril au
e to tiglitea ha belt wheeever
otneth proteeted tee coegrily. Bet the
edventare of hie life was ene
at befell bine bet tenumer ; seed if it bed
e been for Met nelebtep he Weall. now te
the heart of the coutitteet, arochs the
e:n:17s of the Ongo* inlite4d oL betnella
alleptente are getting very egaree smith el
the Zembesi, and go seeue deternsinea to
Make smother trip nerth of Matt river aid te
Ike for the Garteeaeze couotrY, north.'
f lake Bengweele, where elephants
14 to he very pleetifele Tiele very In,
O Te, Vat thtylt b4 expeetitto zee "DO yeu them meta ettil the wh4.
ow rnedeatly. "I CAll then), conUnten, 1 esti
clento4r0 enla the widest-, nrake releemnice when CA 04t. te, tZlit
reteee.pie freeethe even, this time I dlita have mach wan bask ite
e. were; obeeet to taking 4 plea. of name. I %Prat.
pie. Yen mese know I rather pride inyeelf I I ehonidn't want any better," SAW. the
op my mitmemiee." dean,
eon emptetkelly.
Tee wenn pie seat forth midia eliciees Theo I trope IC you like them. yea%
cdor, that the tionent was soneln tompted, dmp in to tea (atm We ought to be more
and after seyieg, '4 Well, reelly," with nelgaborly, Dean Ber.crefieo
eee teacake, Qf refugiggi he flatted by een. Donee Beuereft aaseated, and he wont
"ng, "On the whole, 1 gem 1 eenn es, nt whet, he said. The feet it, the deaconbegan
loeke ee eke.' ,to think that the widow was a very Oman -
The widow was really a good gook, and10, g woman., She was verY 0;1111615h and then
the deeeon ate with much gusto the goner. IMO Wall ellen en eXcelleu0 Ceek 1 Beidden
ems slice which the widow cut for him, and he had no doubt in bis own. mind that she
after a little more cbsettog upon =Import- was worth cormiderable SUM of money,
ant eubjectt, withdrew In nom° meatal perk.Wbat objectiou would there be to her hae
looming Mrs. Barcroft ? Ile brought tide
'Wes it eolueete,” thought he, "that the question before her one evening. The veld
WidOW Chula reelly breve feund a po. of gola ow bluthea-profewsed to be greatly eerpris-
In lier celiac? She did not say so, to be " ed --in feet, she had never thought of the
• ; but why phonic/ ehe have ehown so thing in her Wo -but on the whole, she had
much anxiety to know as to the proprietor. ,alwaye thought highly of the deacon,
ship of tresanre thus found, if the had not to eut short the shatter eceepted
happened upon some!" To be sure, as MO A month afterwards oho was Installed ne
as hts knowledge extended, there was he ralatress of the ammonia lamp house, eau:e.
one telio bad occupied the house who would what to the surpriee of the village people,
be la the leme Decay to lay up ellet, an who could not coneeicat how ehe heti brought
amount of gold ; but than the house WaS one bine over.
hundred and fifty years old, at the very , Some weekafter the ceremony, the deacon
haat, and undoubtedly had had many ooeu. ventured to inquire about the pot of mad
plots of which he knew nothing, It in14ht nahleh ahe had totted In her coller.
be,
after all. The widow's earnest desire "Pot of gold 1" the exelaimed in surpriee,
tohave him think it was only ouriceity like. "I know of none."
muse gave additional probability to the anp-
position,
said the deacon, disconcerted,
"you know you asked me about whether
"I will wait and watch," thought the the law °°;ild °Win it"
deacon. "0„ lor 1 deacon, I only asked from ourIt Ho happened that Deacon Bancroft was bait "
"And -
ono of the directors in a allying's inetitution, was that the reason you made In
tquirks at the bank ?"
situated in the next town, and lacer hael-v .
need to ride over there once or twice a "CertainlyWhat else could it be ?"The deacon went ont to the barn, and for
month, to attend meetings of the board.
e.bout half an hour sat in silent meditation.
On the next occasion of this kind, the
Widow Wells :lent over to know if he could At the end of that time, he ejaoulated, as a
mean consideration, "After all, she
carry her over with him, as she had a little ms"'"e'isen geed mince pies"
busmen to attend. to there.
The request was reedilyaccorded. Arriv-
It gives me pleatare to state that the
union between the deacon and the widow
ea in the village, Mr8* Wells re'Peatecl t° proved a very happy one, although to the
be set down at the batik. end of his life he never could make np hie
"Eel ha I" thought the deacon; "that 'mina a. *u.
s "The Pot of Gold."
means something."
He said nothing, however, but determined
to come back, and finclout, Ito he could read-
ily from the cashier, what business she had A VISITOR ]?.ROM JAPAN.
witb the bank.
The widow tripped into the office, pre-
tending to look very nonchalant.
"Can you give me small bills for a five -
dollar gold piece?" she inquired.
"With pleasure," was the reply.
".By the way," mid she, "the bank is in
quite a flourishing condition, is it not ?"
"one in the Province on better footing,"
was the prompt response.
"You receive deposits, do you not!"
"Yes, madam, we are receiving them
every day."
"Do you receive as high as -as five thou-
sand dollars ?"
"No," said the cashier, with some sur -
Who Bones to Sec an Extensive Trade
Between Japan and Canada.
Tonoree, May 21. -Mr. N. Host, a Jap -
nese gentleman, is visitine Toronto just now,
and in conversation with a reporter the
other day imparted :some interesting infor-
mation. Mr. Hoshi has travelled. exten.
sively and studied taw in England, being
admitted as a member of the English Bar.
He is now making a three year& tour of the
world and intends seeing Canada pretty
thoroughly. after which he will visit the Unit.
ed States, Great Britain, Germany, Italy and
other European countrys. He had been
looking at Canadian legal methods in Oa -
prise; "or rather we do not allow interest goode Hall this city, and stated that he
on so large a sum. One thousand dollars intended spending some time in Ottawa.
is our limit. Did you know of any one
who—"
"It is of no consequence," said the widow,
hurriedly; "1 only asked for curiosity. By
the way, did you say how muoh interest you
allowed on such deposits as came within
your limit ?"
"Five per cent., ma'am."
"Thank you; I only asked for curiosity.
What a beautiful morning it is 1"
And the widow tripped lightly out. Short.
ly afterwards the deacon entered.
"How's businees, Mr. Cashier ?" he in-
quired.
. " About as usual."
"11a4 any new deposits lately ?"
"None of any magnitude,"
" I brought over a lady, this morning
who seemed to have business with you."
"The Widow Wells ?
"Yea."
"Do you know," milted the cashier,
"whether she has had any money left her amne ess-
lately ?" In Matabele-land a wife costs five cows;
"None that I know of," said the deacon, this is paid to the girl's father by the happy
pricking up,, his ears. " Why ? Did she man. The price varies with the rank of
deposit any ? the dusky damsel, sometimes as inutile as
No ; but she inquired whether we re- fifty cows being demanded; but in such
ceived eposits as high ae five thousand cases part of the cows are returned with
dollars." the girl as dowry. Then an ex is killed be -
"Indeed 1" ejaculated the deacon. "Was fore the girl "kraal," she ire anoieted
that all she came for ?" he inquired, a mom- with the blood, and a dance ensues, which
Ont afterwards. terminates the wedding. The Matabele
"No, she exchanged a gold piece toren:Ian country is beyond the Transvaal, between
bills." the Limpopo and Zambesi rivers, and five
"Ha, 1" pondered the demote, reflectively, or six hundred miles from Delago a Bay, on
Didehe give any reason for her inqnlrleav the African east coast.
Regarding his native country, he talked
freely, telling his hearers of the railway
mania in Japan, of the erowth of Tokio, the
capital, and of the recent constitu-
tional changes. He was a Liberal and
did not think the new canstitation
was a large enough step in the direc:
tion of liberty. Trne, it copied to
some extent that of Britain, but there was
many objectionable features which, if not re-
moved, would probably be made the subject
of a revolution within ten years. The peo•
pia of Japan had very little desire for a Re-
publican form of Government. They pinned
their faith pretty well to the raonarohy.
Referring to the recent appointment of a
Japanese Consul at Vancouver, Mr. Hoshi
said he hoped 50 880 an extensive trade spring
up between Japan and Canada. His country-
men had been advised by him in letters to
try and do as much business as possible with
Canada.
tegien is Mail maly pmtly keown
to u Ito eternIallexplerer• Itelettard, and
the Peratetwee treveaere. Capello and 1Yeats
epeat a little time there, bat meet et onr
fermetime tibeat the ematry hoe beta derived
frau the intrepid yeung Scotch thiallePsry,
Mr. Arne% It dame
711M DAUM.; rATVng
of SOO thet deter:Maul to p for this
region through the countey gene
bleelnikuleurbwe tribe, who have yet
permitted% whiten= tO peee through their
elletriee and who brought the Holub expedi.
gen, lifted out et an expense of MOW. ea
tech 4 diMAstrens end, Tee Masthakulenthwe
live about 170 mike northrnat of the femme
Victerie Fall* in the Zttrilatel. With an
equipment that cot bim about $2,000. Selme
r
polled into the forlidtleu land, mid bad
Inerly caused it when hie advanee nortb.
ward came to a redden end.
On July lam he was in camp at the
village of Chief Mirtenga. The chief impact,
ed very friendly. &Moe shot some zebras
and an antelope and gave all the meat to the
thief, who promised next day to seed hie
on to gulde him through the Ogantry. That
night Selous was gettlog tan ited,
when he wae told that n11 the women heel
left the village. That wee a eign of trouble.
•Selous drented hurriedly. He taa, 31111 rifle,
•Lee they were only font certridges in hie
belt. Ile bad juat terted for %Imo ammuni-
tion when the IlasItukulumbere :suddenly
poured into the camp in warms, hurlteg os
they. mane hendreda of barbed amegsin.
Twelve of hie twenty-five people were killed
on the :mon and. five more wore wounded,
All who could escaped in the darkness.
Selena, unscathed, got clear of the camp and
hung Around out of eight for hour; hoping
to find mono of his men. He coulnihear the
treacherous savagee jublIsting over their
booty, but not a eoul his petty did he
not. So he started alone for the Zambeei,
The next day he shot a wildebeest, broiled
sotoe of the moat, an shouldering as much
of the carcass as he could carry went no his
way. Seen after he was nearly murdered.
At midnight he entered a village where he
thought the people would be friendly. It
teas an unusually cold night', and he could
not resist the temptation to warm himself
at a fire that was blazing in the centre of
the town. Some of the people heerd him, but
they did not morn unfriendly, and he lay
down and went to sleep by the fire. He
was coon awakened by some men coming to
the fire. He sat up, and jest then a man
RUSHED 110 BEHIXD HIM
and seized his rifle. At the scene time a
man at the fire threw a bundle of grass on
the embers, and by the bright light Salons
saw a fellow crouched under the thatch of
a hub, about thirty feet distant, taking aim at
him with an old musket. Seisms bounded
through the fence and was outsidathe kraal
in an instant. He now had no weapon, and
made the rest of the journey to friends south
of the Zambesi amid terrible hardships.
One by one the remnant of the party mime
straggling in. He had been three weeks
without a blanket in the middle of the cold
season, and his fare had been anything but
sumptuous.
Some ten yeare ago Selene made a short
visit home, when he wrote the volume that
has become the text book not only for hunt-
ers in Central and South Africa, but also
for explorers and naturalists. • Elia scientific
attainments have enabled him to add much
to our knowledge of Africa. Some of his
routes appear on all the best maps, and his
charts and records have for years been pub-
liehed in geographical magazine% But it
is as a born hunter that he is best known,
and he is the central figure among the best
sportsmen of the world. He has been to the
Transvaal and the Zambesi basin what Dan-
iel Boone was to Kentucky.
It is understood that Selous now thinks
of remaining in England.; but he is yet
hardly 40 years old, and no one will be sur-
prised if his adventurous disposition carries
him back to the scenes where he has had
much glorious sport and encountered some
thrilling dangers.
His Bad Break.
An old bachelor -through no fault of his -
was looking at a little baby, and was ex-
peoted to admire it, of couree.-"Well, Mr.
Blifkins " said the proud young mother, ex-
pectantly, "is he not very lovely ?"-" Yes
-er-that is to say-er-um-about how
old must such a baby be, Mrs. Tompkins,
before it begins to look a human being 7"
• It is said that Ellen Terry invented the
"fish net" now so stylishly used for drapery.
In silver or gold Itis especially elegant -if
used with care.
Cruel:and, riellaiell 7504X.
Oor radera wfl.. cell to mind an ex-
traordioaryniarriage„ width waetardel to hew,
boo eelebeated io 4 400 in tiiht city, tee-
medietely followed by the death et the groom
a Ale, lielph B. 11144494, of Brighton,ep.
beed, . The -stony Wee tft the .effeet that
gua-
aon, *belted been living in 044444, beeetne
engaged to 4 bUO,. Afttleehy, of Mae eltmhe-
terana to Bagiand, and becoming Iteritetely
. came °At with hie tether and a clergy.'
•tnan, and the lovers were reerried upon the.
perey's aroival. Tide: was in tathetange the
story related by Mrs, Moic4ay, 'thee paothefO
of the youpg weenie...mho was alleged tee have
begettera bride awl WiaeW within the same
hour. •
• The lo.eel • nereePepeee petbliened goitteens
of detail, but no ,940-e941.4 be found to teli
What heel been elmee with the body of the
young Regliebresee, . and A geed thaw utt,
edetwent thinge.had beerteaid and "Ineinnat,
ea with refereene to the "coedit -len of the
ytheg lady :who . was the . most totereeted
in the Poe. The matter was • renewed •to
drop,. and there appeared to be very few
whodeeired to COntAnne the loventigetiove
The peergirl'et father, who Was a eeinpeal.
tor in tiee Gag„sette office, teed; the =tar o4
teeth to bent that he threw up hie stun -
ion and went to Ct
ieleage 'while. diestIll living loMenfaele
'<MIS ,:g319411.159 fAM.
•
nOti-f reheaine tn. give •the age vendee% Oi
the story, whiebbee been obirehreel after an
endleessereenut of reeeerch and .Itaveofig.k• .
gene eod It will be Seen that Mks anleehit
ben heat Made the vietiese el One Of the meet
'gruel:told wieked jeltee ever perpetr.eted In
shie or any ether velem:unity. Tire feet" of.
the' gale are Se followe ; Humeri was
no myrth, awl not eely did . ho board iu.
e boot" on Bleary street, but paid frequent
vielte to the .Alealeelay beesebteld, where he
was reeeicttl Withgreat fever by the eldest
deetoliter, •It eeeree that the yeeeg. :gentle .
man Irene Rrighten, previous to hie depert- •
ore for the Old .Coatitey, had made knew
hie hatentiota ef meeteengMias Mulgeby at
a 'future dateto a tambee of meeheettmed.
mete. At a eulaequent date, however,. to
tineSen'a eallieg for home these eathe
deetere resolved to perpetrate a ben on ttze
young womeo.
'rimy Inn re wan A V=";OSAtien.
Oie a. Watley nterhing Mrs. MuloAlly re,
ceiveda notOICO4i a frimel, eayiee that her
-preeteee wee required at Ottee. No 44;tcner
WWI the geed ledy Inc her home than a.
Se4:tend =tanager eeteeed feeerlog a note for
Mite Meleebyeurreetieg tem') lady to repeir
at euee Oa a well-knewn hotnl. in the eity,
w.here lazialueee et the • utmost leapattore •te
lieraelt heed :tee be tumult...Md. The yeting
ledy et don (leaded to Aerate ber reotbeee
retract but at the canoe) .eotreate! of *
maul tarty elle put ou bee bet and eaceue
and wept directly tO the .plue ludiented,In
the note. A. geptlemen well mu .. ed. la
with rewdered keke, Mee the .excited gli
at the deer of the heal and •aiiid "1 inn
• Mr. Ilnesen, senlor, Aly SOO, who grew
gradually Welle after condos home, has ex.
pressed a dotal to become your bueband
before he dice."
VAHRIED TO A CORPSE,
• "We have -jest arrival, and both he and A
clergyman are in the coveted sleigh et the
door," What e3hid.tho lady do but comply?
So thegoe late the eleiyb, wbereethe mew the
form of a man, whoe.e beedwaa completely
wreppedup awl ohly the Month, from which.
• blood was streaming, appeared to be elate.
The hantLwhigh we Pleced In that et the
ear paled bride, was can and chimney, and
it ts by no mons eurprising that Miss Mel.
• eahy felt her serretandings to be Mange and
: mysterious, The elergyman'it portion 0.1
the he.artless whom) WaS soon actromplislied,
and a3 aeon as the girlrealized that elm wait
linear ees wife they infermed her that she
wee. aka a widow. The eeppaseci father4m
law then told her that he would take her
to Iiieglan.d upon his return, but she would
not hear to thbe and wee :let out of the
aleigh at Vieteria spare, and golim at once
to her home on St. Eleverd street ;old her
astanithed mother all that bad transpired.
Both, however, had been wilfully deceived.
The participants in the mocie eermony were
nothing more than young medicos' from. one
of our leading unive.reities, and the aupporied
dying lover wee is corpse whichhad been
stolen from rho allocating room.
iwonER$ a THE HAVENS,
Movements ot the various latancesemaneme
away eters.
IThe. elder Seneve madethemovement of
tho sna thron0 aparn to :be about Ova eallee
4 wend, bet oie the etippettitime of the,
hrighteet stem :beteg between two or three.
I thene nearer to ua that they .eeem, ;oily te
1 bee We OA POW 800 "kWthe aetnal speed
1 ' of the solar .vetero eau: scarcely 'fall ,thort
of twelve er exceed tweets. =lee 4 Wend.
By 4 zeo.derete 00mete, then, oor peeitfen
le epeee le theegies to the extent Of On,
9(9,(101 of miles etinually, ee4 a eollieiere be
I tween our sun eat the nearest fixed mar
would be Inevitable (were elAr .0egree dtreee.
eel 41 4 ettaight ,line .teweeet .10 afar the
lapse of woo Tore 1
The cid problem of "how the heeveete
reeve," mmeestafelly attacked in the solar
stem; has retreated to a stronghold among
t.. 0 state,: irem whittle le- will be :ditealt to
dhecedge It, In -the etereedoes metheeltat
of the Sidereal nutcase the eetieg leave On
Maly betrey theneseivee to oe he the vary.
leg ttme Corilguratione et ite perM. But as
yee oar hoowlesigenof etellar tneVetneote ie
-mmerebly eceeta. They are eppereatly ao
Sainnthae to become perceptible in genera
only throushobeervetiene of gm et preettiom .
teedieg 'over 4 number . Of yore.. Rven
he quickeet..movira • star would teemed 274
7eare In efelliW an NO Of the ieeeneee Neel
I ZO tEe Mee of the • fen MO9O, Yet all 'the
1 time iewina to theiatentelvohle dieteate of
the objeets le ettetiVel tOnee 4144;04 4V44e4^,
qtIlt alepheeemente repreeent eeltieltien .W
meey ogee ea, enerntens ee tO beftle .every
attempt: eo tieeeteetfor them. •
"Runaway Mere" are 49 lamed exteeme
rarity. ' • One In the 'Ortee Peer, knowu ea
"•Oreembridge, 1$34," invielble to the net,.
.eed eye, but raweepiug over at leeet WO mike'
ech knead, keg led . the vete et salter
need ; ?ref, Pateheae 'phetearepitie ds -
of the pertelitex. el -Ceeelopele
thew; however, that iimeeepletweie *Noe
t fealty te be * een ebene forty three as
'tem as the OW% but tO be trevediee et
predigioni rete. of -100 mile*. while P;,
litin'a rota for Areturuegiveeit a Weary
of lietle Ina thee 400 441mi-a wend!
• The "expreee" fuer of the Soutlaeru Herm
lapheree se far, . le one et the knelt meanie
ttatle, situated in Tweeze Ica topeed of
ells= 200 milt* 4 Sneed Play, however,.
"eau tern out to be cerremed by same Of the
teepidly metvieg Mera. peeked mat fa mem-
%yeoman) at tee Cole. A.moteg theca axe
Me peire"driftleg" mamba end pattern -
the) efere, to . :mugged' by- a ep alai
lea 11"004 444.1
his etneaely the tame
tsure 1 frata tetreelvee. Tide peenamptlen
be Weight teethe team
The Britich in Africa.
Under the repeated puniehments inflicted
upon them by British troops the natives of
West Africa will at length realize that 10 18
chingeroua to interfere with the march of
trade. The destruction of the chief town
of the Wandab tribe, in the interior, north-
east of Sierra, teone, is the latest praetical
leeson taught them. Of late years a great
impetus has been given to commerce in tide
region by the tribes converted to Moham-
medanism, who have welcomed Europeans
on the coast and have become the Interme-
diaries between them and the negroes of the
interior. These latter, howevet, resent the
intrasions and eneroachments of the traders
and their gobetweens, and have for gener-
ations been in the habit of blackmailing
and plundering travelers. Occasionally ale°
they have attacked the trading stations.
While commerce doubtless does not appear
as saered m African eyes as in European,
yet the progress of the trade is unquestion-
ably that of civilization, and wherever the
sway of white men extends the horrible na-
tives' practices of beheading and of making
human sacrifices by the hundreds are check-
ed or abolished. The advance of European
civilization also diminishes slavery.
Peanuts.
The consumption of peanuts is 3,200,000
bushels a season, and the highest production
is but 700,000 bushels more. All these
peanuts are raised in Virginia, North
Carolina, and Tennessee, but the Tene-
see production is comparatively small.
During the peanut harvest the peo-
ple, the picaninnies, the dogs, pigs,
and nearly everything that eats get
fat in the land of the peanut. Peanuts
are planted at corn planting time; each
kernel produces a running vine like arab
grass, and each root develops about 20 pods.
When ripe the plough is run through the
loamy soil, on a dry day. just before frost.
The nuts are dried and shocked up like corn
to keep dry before housing. When market-
ed they go to a cleaner, where they are put
through steam power machines and polished,
after which they are graded according to
size and variety.- [Ex.
Bridget's Mistake,
Mr. Poseyboy is taking tea at the Popin-
jays'. Bridget in the absence of the maid is
waiting at table.-Mre. Popinjay: "Bridget,
you forgot to put spoons for the stewed
pears." -Bridget : "Sure, mem. I thought
yez wud plook them be the toils 1"
Green remains the color most in vogue.
Black trimmings, especially Week moire
or satin ribbons, mote than hold their own
against all the colors of Paris and Persia
combined.
it
- V^
Mere We 31A
a wpzeau bee a hen to drivo lute
eite tAiteti hold of her slate with
eleekee them quickly at the de.
ltqneae ar4 *eye. "Shoe, there l" The
ben k I tele leek at the °bleat to enure
handl that to is n women, eed then stalk;
majestically lute the coop. A mau doceule
do lz that way. He gene auttlowe, seyieg,
"It's eingular nobody cen drive a hen but
I" and, picking up a Mick al wood,
le lt at tb3 effending biped and yells,
• In there, you thee'!" The hen im
mediately Iona her reason and daallea 00
the other end of the yard. The Man pluu.
gee ;after her. She come* back with her
bead down, her wiuge out and followed b
a minellaneous essortmeet of etovewoo
fruit Cant% ellokere and a very mad man
the rear.
Then the Wan under the barn and oer
a, Imam or two and around the how back
to the coop 'smile, all the while talking ae
only an excited leen on talk, and all the
white followed by Mugs convenient for
throwing, mid by 4 Man wheat coat le on
the 'sawbuck, whose but ie on the ground,
and whose perapiration is litnitlean By
this thno the other hone hems come one to
take a hand in the debate and help dodge
ralealles. Tile man VOW6 that every hen on
the piece shall be sold at mum puts on hie
hat and coat and goes down town. The
woman newes out, gooa right to work end
Iota every one of those hems howled and
counted Meld° of two Lahr:Mem-Mobile
Regiater.
Lag SooTou
The rivers he Dumfries Markt are to be,
stocked with trontsma ero.ea. •Itetweeie the.,
Loth Leven and Loeb Shensi trout.,
Tim Leith 'bakersh.eve redneed the prima,
el bread teesiepezeee for the 'heist 4 ih, lea
end 04 fer aegend .quality, a reductioa
The Royel itetartio .aardem.Enialturgim-
opemed PO tile 701 AV the arab time
A.SetIday When it Was criminal by 1740,
-
people, •
Mho Oleo -even "Men" man During the •
lestersemth Or Mx wok a Tery general
epideneie of meeeke tete prevailed in
Coatbridge, .exed entroending villages, And
in
most onee the eleieelo :seem to.' be et:
bad type. In Airdrie and Ctoetbridgethe
aelteal thildreo . Iowa been wereed not to:
attend if :measles is in their homes,
detkthe have occurred doting the lam month'
he Airdrie, Setne.42 hey° provedfatal caeee '
.Qoatbridge, enti gee kid :severe ere res
ported dea( ROM' .1deilleetert ised Gleatttig;
within the laerliteeir or. two. Rem.e .of the,
etheols :reeve • be4 to be . eleeed.
•efiever'eled diphtheria else eineter several
WS in Airdrie mai Cfeetbeidge,
be returns kr the bet quarter ehow
cateiderable 'jeer:ea%) Lo em fereien ship=
ping •tred.e of the Clyde It ouly Trbee PetW
peren with the ionnaigitly 14.$4e4ing qe4rt4'
bet witk the gerreepending_, retied') QE
tiin yeare. Lest giterter eeS VONSPIN
aggreeetteg 23.S2 tow arrived Ine the
Clefie .freua • foreign : perk: .thowieg en lie -
creme. ef 791X/term 94 the preeedieg quartet,
Wa4efWAIN. Wee getriparetd with the or.
respooding quarter 'et bet year, et 4.2.000
teng Against the eente querter of: Ite$7,, teed
of 4Se300 00155 gontreemd• with dm firet.
quaner at 1S56- The eeditage 44 goatee
also show otablereble: haereme on Vele.
dem egregereedingteseeriers el recent yoaroi,
Inter querter 371 veggie, eegregetieg. 397.
%50, Noe, left the au. Were:es:Doi 70.09
Wee en the cerropeeding period of lest
03,00 teem ever .that of ISg7, nod
of fa7,0f4 NPlik over the: fiat ;puler of l$F.O.
NAYS was reeeived reettutly from Mey
elend Liehthouse, Pirtle of Portb, thee OU,
the preview) uiplet the beepers had ett
no-
neaai experience. 4e•foreigo Oielt4414 aneuteb.
ed one of rim windows Of the eightherme,
a...v.10-4.ga a by into the epetttneute
lowers inenedintely himself, in the nem
etwerel feeeelee were filePPieg, and that at
go renal me elem. -Tao beepersteart
eppeered, mad the amen ezpleluee thee he
wee the certain id alierweeime ethectier
width bed jeet been (beta eia' vitae ou the
Wheel late weeel wee -bound freer N.orway
tesaegetuontle with lattede, but be kat
wey, ord did nee, owing te tte nuin and
Og, ke the light en May If4al24.- WiN12
WW1aerurk 00 ZOVA 1114 eorapeetien
open the roelfe, The mete. followed,
as -Illoweed, ea were oleo dm other
Os et 'the ere.. .One of the lightheeee
knepnes wen e out to teeth if he cerrifi aid
the reliting tnee, and in the elarkee.se he fell
ever a d114tl9 feet higb, breeking eeireed, ef
his relit Aletligel: Odd wee:sent to the Is -
laud, Oa April O the two may've:, of tb.e
wreelf were lauded at Leith, 'a here they are
nese: in the Sailers' Hemet,
PUNISHMENT IN TURKBY.
How the itnettnadol4 Adnetalstered to the
Sultan's Sob' ects
witnemed this punishment in front of the
Peahen palace at Daum:rue. The culprit was
lying full length on the ground, with a
brawny Turkish !Radler sitting cross lerged
on his abeam like a nightmare, by way of
making hire comfortable, while two men
held up the soles of his feet in the air and two
°there belabored them with long minim, as if
beating a carpet. The victim himtself never
uttered a sound, but the two who were
thrashing him screamed and howled like
demon's, perhaps to save hint the trouble of
doing it himself.
The moment the puniehment was over up
jumped the two other men and flogged the
floggers themselves, doub Mess fornot hitting
hard enough, and then a fat Turkieh major,
who had been watching the whole business
with a smile of quiet, heartfelt erjoyment
waddled placidly up and boxed their ears all
round, as if he were giving them his blessing,
after which the congregation dispersed.
A Third Wife's Witty Comment.
Not a thousand miles from Boston dwells
a man who has recently wed a third sponse.
It was the somewhat eccentric whim of the
second wife to have a picture painted where-
in she and the first wife were represented as
standing together with their arms entwined
about each other's waist. When the third
wife came into power she was at first some-
what puzzled to know what to do with thiu
extraordinary production of combined affeo-
tion and art. With genuine vroman's wit,
however, she hit upon the idea of having
the piece worked over, and with what re-
sult may be judged from a conversation in
regard to the picture which took place be-
tween the bride and one of her wedding
callers. The visitor inquired if the picture
represented relatives of the family. "No,
not relatives," the then wife replied. "1
believe the originals were distant connections
of my husband, but the picture represents
'Faith and Resignation.' It is thought
that the figure of Faith rummies a former
Mimed of Mr. Smith, but I oannot tell, as I
never saw
Light gray is now the most stylish color
for a raling habit. If the wearer wishes to
oomplimene her escort she will took a hand-
kerchief;of the color of his necktie in her
bread -pocket, so that all the world may see
it.
Man min be afflicted with 1,145 different
ailments known to naeclioal science, and on
top of that his dog may die, his wife run
away and his homethurn down without
Insurance
• The question whether the freedom of the
city of Edinburgh shall be conferred -upon
Me, Parnell is to be submitted to the . vote
of the ratepemere.
A Bit of Hideo'.
Hero lo m chapter from United S0aee bia.
tory etre tr. ad by the ecnteeniel ealebratione
of Waelt inenguretion as preeident
particularly worth reatling at this janotnre
of one affeire, While In Itnglend recently.
Pref. L Seers, of the Huivereity of Vermont,
found no impree3lon prevailing among went.
kmen whom hornet that the thirteen eolon.
les uevered their pelitleel commotion with
tlreat Britain battily and petulantly, with-
er ei.fileient mule, and he Twee Au Eng.
Hih biatorian as eayiree, *et tico :nen who
led reeiettince to the ObWaiehe acht of
Parllawnt had a separation in their
minao and heerte from the amen Prof.
Seere hem undertaken to refute, thie theory
by prenenting, in an article printed in the
"Andover (Man) Reelect" for May, the
evidence of a number of Revelutionery load -
era to the contrary. Washington wan
setiefied two rare before tee Declaration
"that no each thing (as independence) is de.
area by any thinking man in all North
Anaerica." Preoltiln the name year said he
had never heard the loeet expreasion of a
wish for a separatism. Jay never heard
from ony American o, wish for independence
until after the seootel petiticn of Congress
in 1775. Jefferson never heard a whisper
of a ditposition 00 serarate up to the` aotual
commencement of hostilities. Media= eaten
in his old age of the men of the Revolution
that, so far as acme to his knowledge,
none of them was understood to main-
tain a purauit of indepeodence at the
assembling of the firat Congrese or for a con-
siderable period thereafter. By quoting this
testimony and other like it Prof. Sears
makes out an exceilent case for his side of
the question, but there is no doubt that at
least one far-sighted statesman had not only
long duce perceived what was coming but:
had worked with all his might to bring lb
about. Samuel Adams, it is tweed, made
up hie mind at /east as early as 1768 that the -
separation of the colonies from .England was
the only means of preserving their liberties.
He had no liking for the scheme of giving
them seats in the House of Commons, a pro --
position that won thn approval of Franklin
and other influential men of the party. So,
when the day of Lexington came he declared
it a "glorious morning." Undoubtedly
there were other men more or less of his way
of thinking. John Adams is quoted by Prof.
Sears as denying the existence anywhere in
America before the Revolution of"a general
desire of independence." Yet all four of the
Massachusetts delegates to the first Congress
Samuel Adams, Cushing, Paine, and John
Adams himself, were suspected of entertain-
ing such a desire, as they were secretly told,
just before they reached Philadelphia in
1774, by Bayard and other local Sons of
Liberty. It was this warning that caused
them to take a less prominent part in the
proceedings than otherwise would have been
theirs. The language of Patrick Henry also
implies a willingness to go beyond half -mea-
sures. In France American independenoe
had long been anticipated. It has been
said that the situation here depicted is being.
repeated at this moment in Canada. We,
hardly think so, at any rate et ot to nearly so
pronounced an extent. But if there be an-
nexationists insidiously as work, all that
those opposed to them can do ie to take,
warning and to sturdily and honestly meet
them.
An Idiot Anyway
Wife (counting over her change after maks
ing a purchase); "1 guess he's given me
the wrong cha.nge."-eHusband • (savagely)
: -
"I thought so -I thought so ; that's' the way
my hard-earned money goes. Trust a wo-
man to get fooled. Go back to the counter
and get it made right at once." -Wife re-
turns to the counter and hands the assistant'
ten , shillings -Husband: "Why, what ,
have you been doing ?'-Wife: Making the '
change right. He gave me a half -sovereign'
too much." -Husband (more savagely than,
ever): "Welt you nee an idiot!'