The Exeter Advocate, 1890-12-18, Page 7LAST GRNTQR Y ZIOV,ERS"
Tale of the American
Revolution,
The sky was of the deepeat blue, reflected
in the ripples of the little inlet that washed.
almost to their feet over the smooth sand,•
Across the water, beyond the meadow, they
Could free the white.pillared front of Lord's
.Gift. The russet, autumn fields, in the
soft air, were, veiled here and there with
the haze of brush -fires, blending into the
purple of the horizon.
"There are not many youngmen in the
neighborhood to make itgay,re there "
asked Tom.
?
" No, indeed ; and that is whyI was very
glad when I heardk.
lx a you had come back.
You zee, it is so dull. Bab is most buey,
and Aunt Clem is moodyand rather stern.
I have; no friends. I oten thou gheof you
when you were away, and I have the hlf.
penny you gave me."
She was looking away into the blue with
eyes as blue, speaking with the utmost
eimplioity.
" Well, are you glad I have come home,
now that you know me ?"
Betty looked at him for a moment and
laughed.
" Yes, T am ; though, to tell the truth, I
did not like you mach the other night. I
thought you too modish and oonoeited."
" Upon my soul, you are a piece of can-
dor 1 'Gad! you are no more what I fan-
oied you the other evening. You are as
changeable as Mother Hubbard's dog, and
hie • moode were far from reliable. Now,
the other evening, since yon must know, I
fancied you rather missyish and affeoted.a
" I knew it," said Betty, delightedly.
"I was affeoted, vastly so. I protest that I
do not feel natural all deoked up in turbo.
lows. I want to be mincing and saying
' Oh, Lud 1' and putting on all the sirs and
grime in the world. I can't breathe or
think. Buth t
w s a leaenre it is tobep
nat-
ural, like this, without powder or hoops, in
easy deshabille. I feel as free as those
r birds."
With whirring wings a flock of wild daoks
rose from o the marshres
s ftkimmin
he
b ,
g't
water, their snowy breasts white against
the blue as they wheeled aloft.
She was a childish slip of a girl, as she
eat looking np at him from under the shade
of her big black hat, the sunlight falling on
her dimpled, freckled p r akled face and slim Eiders,
clad in plain blue gown, big neckerchief,
and white apron, her sun -burned, supple
fingers playing with Cassius's long hair.
"So you feel lonely?" said Tom. "I
have felt lonely, too." He gave her a quiz-
zical glance. " There I am of the eame
complexion ae you. But how about Will
Ringgold ? is he not in sympathy with
you ? "
Betty was slowly nibbling a cooky, wbioh
the gave to Cassius, not wishing to be
nterrupted in this interesting conversation.
"In some way he is not the same," the
said, "though he writes poetry. He even
writes poetry to ni ."
" Does he ? The coxcomb! By heaven 1
the fellow must be mad. But how does it
seem different with me ? "
"You do not prate as mach, but I feel
that you really love Nature more. It
seems like home, this water, and as though
we belonged to it, and should love it always.
Now, when it Tooke thus quiet, I feel like
going out with the ripples, as free as they.
The reason we love the sky and the world
around ne must be like Canine's love for
us, beoanee it has a meaning we cannot
-understand. But do yon know, it makes
me sad sometimes, Tom, to watch a sunset
or a beautiful view? It must be because
there is no one to enjoy it with me ; bat
now you have Dome it will be different."
Tom was silent before replying, smiling
into her eager, uplifted face.
"I think," he said, gravely," that we
shall be great friends, dear little' girl.
Whenever yon feel lonely, send for me."
Betty was very happy to have found
eaoh a friend, and they were both quiet
over the compact, Betty gazing at the rip.
plea, always changing, always the same—
at one spot where a line of grass onrled like
a water snake, until it seemed that the
water was still and that she and Tom and
the pine -tree were drifting slowly over its
placid surface—out—out.
CHAPTER VI.
It was February 14th, 1775, and snow
had been falling eine morning. Betty,
spending the day in the village, at Mies
Stacy's little oottage, wearied with her
chatter, as unceasing as the singing of the
, .copper tea -kettle over the fire, sat on a
chest by the window, looking through the
=small, square panes at the people passing
down the road to Mr. Atkins' store, for
the opening of the fortnightly mail -bag..
Through the veil of snow, falling thick and
fast in big flakes, the landscape showed as
in an etching, barely suggestive of the hid-
den color.
Between the waste, white tract of the
garden, where the evergreens were bending
beneath their heavy burden, and the waste,
white tract of the meadows, there was no
line of demarcation save a faint zone of
woodland.
" Betty, if you see anyone going by, be
sure to tell me," said Miss Stacy.
The room, used ae dining -room and sit-
ting -room, was aromatic with herbs. On
the wall hung a mural memento of the late
Dr. Anderton, in the shape of a eilk
sampler, representing a dejeoted female
under a dejeoted willow. On the bare,
oiled floor stood, at regular intervals,
ntraight, epiint-bottomed chairs. A dresser
furnished with dishes, a chest of drawers,
and a table completed the simple furniture
of the room. Mies Stacy sat in a rooking-
ohair; on two low etoole on either side of
her were her dog Norval, asleep, and her
little negro maid Judy, whose round, blaok
face was bedewed with tears, for she was
learning to knit, and every missed stitch
was visited upon her head by sharp taps of
her mistress' thimble.
On the mahogany work -table, besides
-she piece of sewing that Betty had thrown
down, was Mies Stacy's tortoise•ehell snuff•
box, from which she now and then extrao-
;ted a dainty pinch of rappee, indulging in
the luxury of a suppressed sneeze, careful,
not to awaken the slumbering Norval.
The hand of the high clock was nigh upon
Your, and Betty was beginning to be imps-
•tient to see the messenger whom Mies Bab
bad promised to send for her.
For hours Mise Stacy had been holding
a disconnected monologue, as involved as
the stories in thea' Arabian Nights," where
one contains another. She had begun on
the subject of the Vaughan family history
and an old love affair of Mies Clem's,
whioh, by some circuitoae process, led to
the following sage aphorism :
You can't account for theheight of
people. Now, there was my departed
de parted
-father, so tall of stature that the joiner said
he was thelongost corpse he ever measured
and I'm nothing much. And there's Judy,
her father was a Guinea nigger belonging
to Mr. Pace, and seven feet high, and
rudy a little—like a dwarf—bat it all cornea
of Judy'B having, in early youth, been
knocked down by ems animal. Wasn't
you, Judy ? "
"Yea'm," said Judy, demtrely, with the
in ho haslearned
a r of o e a lemon by rote :
vsi,
. r It stinted me,"
i' Well, t is Mr. DeOouroy, that your
Aunt Clem was a -going to marry, was a
gentleman of good keight'and personable
ports. They doted on eaoh other, and it
all but broke her heart when he was killed
bafall off a horse; and then, when your
father
and mother died of yellow fever, she
took on so that she hasn't been the same
since, to my mind, though she always was
oddieh."
Here Betty, whose face had been hidden
by the muslin onrtaine, uttered a little ex-
clarnation of earpriee.
"La ! Betty, what is it? What do you
gee ? !;.
"Peregrine, Tom Rozier's bound man
that lee brought with bine, has just gone by
in a sleigh. Mies Stacy, I think the post-
bag must be open now, and I'll put on my
wraps and get the letters"
"No, indeed, ohild, Judy'll go. Sure as
you're born there's a visitor Doming. My
nose has been itching on the left aide all
day for a lady, and Judy's on the right for
a gentleman ; but Judy's never fails.
Don't go out, somebody might come while
you were gone."
Judy, wild for freedom, slipped a shawl
around her and was out of the door and
away from the detested yarn and needles.
Presently Betty saw her with envy, a fleet-
ing silhouette on the white ground, dispers-
ing a flook of drooping fowls.
" That Judy ! " sighed her mistress.
Would you think it I she's got ideas of
drese and finery : came to me the other day
and asked me it I thought pink or bine
wrappings for her wool beamed her moat!
" But now, Elizabeth," said Miss Stacy,
solemnly, bending forward with impressive
and uplifted forefinger, "now that we are
alone, I wish to speak to you serionely, and
I want yon to tell me the truth."
Roused to curiosity, Betty rose with her
hand over her heart, bowed and said, with
an excellent mimicry of Will Ringgold',
finicky voioe : " Yotre tres humble serviteur,
Mademoiselle. '
" That's just it," said Miss Stacy
mysteriously. " Nobody knows what he
means by such gibberish, and you a poor
motherless girl with no one to speak to you
and warn you—Bab knowing as much of
the male sex as a babe unborn, and Miss
Clem
so hig h•minde
d and mighty, h with
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her th
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on books e andoetr —
p y not
that Bab's not fond of poetry too, when
she's washed up the dishes. But they're
neither of them alive and active, and I'm
only speaking for your own good."
Speak,
prithee,speak, p pe k, Anaetaeia, more
plainly. Unfold the dread mystery, the
tortuous windings of thy fevered imagina-
tion."
" Oh, yes, you may laugh if you please,
and rant like some play -actor for all the
world, but there`e no knowing what these
travelled young gents mean. They are sad
rakes for the moat part, and woe to the
yielding fair who gives ear to their per-
jured vows!" Mies Staoy seemed carried
away with delight at her own unwonted
eloquence, continuing in the same rapid and
turgid strain "'Tie for naught that I have
read the history of that sweet creature,
Clarissa Harlowe, writ by Mr. Richardson ;
I know the wiles of these Lovlaoes, with
their allaremente, laced coats, and Frenoh
phrases stealing into the heart. For all
Will Ringgold', such a deleotable spark,
'tis not for good that he ogles and sighs—."
" Oh, Stacey," Betty's voice oame sad
and muffled, from the window, "do not
tell me that you are not sate from his be-
guiling arts. Fly, fiy from temptation 1
Get thee to a nunnery.' To think that
those gray hairs—."
" Hoity.toity, child I my hair's as dark
as it ever was, and the Anderton's never
get gray, though my mother's aunt's—that
was a Posey—was snow-white at thirty,
but it all oame in a night, because of a
ghost she saw. I'll tell yon about it in a
minute. But 'tie all very well for yon to
change the subject, and refuse to confide in
me which is the favored swain. I know,
for all you're so close, and a real mum.
budget. Tut 1 I'm out of all conceit with
you."
"Ab, now, it isn't angry with me you
are ? Why won't you believe that my
affeotiona are disengaged ? Like the
miller o' Dee,
I care for nobody, no, not I,
And nobody cares for me,'
except Bab and Ceseine—"
"And me, Betty."
" Alae l no. The heart which of old was
mine haft been given. to a rattling blade
hight Will—' Sweet William." But be-
ware ! " said Betty, gazing as if into
Oesianio futurity, and mouthing her words.
"Dark lowers the tempest overhead—the
walls of the cottage are desolate and dis-
mantled—the blue eyes of Anastasia, that
beamed so brightly erstwhile, are bathed
in dew--"
" Pshaw 1 how paltry. What gibberish
you oan talk."
"Forbear 1I see,"continued Betty wildly,
" a dark form approach—'tie the sable
minion—she bears aloft a message of
love-- "
Here Judy entered, panting and covered
with snow, having been parsed by Johnny
Atkins with snowballs.
"Letter fur Miss Betty," ehe announced.
It was a folded sheet of paper, direoted
in a disguised hand, and the interior bore
the following verse -
TALENTINE TO BETTY.
Fortune, gifting Phyllis faire,
Made her witching, debonnavre;
Made Chloe, steadiest, pure, and wise,
Sound judgment, and sweet soft Replies
To Betty Fortune, Goddess kinds,
Gave Phyllis' Face and Chloe's Minde. •
Betty held it, beaming silent delight,
while Mies Stacy put on her spectacles and
studied every line critically.
" Merely another lure. Bat what a
clever youth Will is 1 for it never was writ
by Tom, he's too high and mighty to trifle
with your affeotiona ; besides, he is making
court to Mise Ramsay, who ie a fortune.
But 'tie the sweetest thing, I protest."
It irritated Betty to hear Miss Stacy
speak so confidently of Tom, whom she
had long since ceased to regard as a " con-
ceited prig." He had eoemed lately to
belong to herself in some intangible way ;
she, alone, knew him well, and it was
absurd for other people to fancy they
understood him, though, of course, she was
quite indifferent as to whether or not he
was courting Alias Ramsay. Her feelings
were disturbed and contradictory ; she
became enddonly depreesed and weary of
Mies Stacy and the ticking clock; experien-
cing a Sensation of relief when Judy, who
had returned to the fray, rushed to the
door, announcing the approach of Mr. Tom
Rozier.
Mies Staoy pointed triumphantly to her
„ "
ro hello nose. hat
W did
I tell on ?
she whispered. y
Betty was so unfeignedly delighted and
cordial in her greeting to Tom as he oame
in, ruddy with cold, large and handsome in
WO long, green great-ooat with three oapes,
that the impetuous young man eeized Mise
Staoy, in lien of a better, and gave her a
hearty embrace.
" I've been to the house, Betty, and Mies
Bab sent me for yon. I was only too happy
for an excuse for gazing. again upon my
charmer, my Anastasia."
" Fie I fie ! " Miss Stacy flattered,
delightedly. " We were looking fornein
Betty half expeoted yon." Tom glanced at
Betty, who looked 000lly out of the
Window. " We saw the g sleigh e past with
g
that man of yogre. For certain, he's an
outlaw. " Stith a pook.marked, 'terry -
looking rogue 1 "
Peregrine's as honest a recoil as you
oonld find ; pleye on the Frenoh horn and
has numberless a000mpliehmente. I kit
him just now at the tavern, mixing a brew
of bombe for the parson, and talking
religion and politics ; but if bis views are
too liberal the parson will use convincing
arguments ; for he is one of those who will
' Prove his doctrine orthodox
lay apostolic blows and knocks.' "
Seeing that Bettyhad donned her 1
mantle, with its blong
t a of dark fur, above
shioh her fade looked liked a mischievous.
nun in the severe setting of the olose hood,
Tom oleo rose, and took up his pointed
beaver.
" Stay," pleaded Mies Stacy. " The
humble contents of my larder are atour
service. If you stay I'll make you a tansy
podding, and, well made, ther's nothing
more delioious to the palate,"
" Oh, no," said Betty. " We know your
dishes too well—the cakes with which you
poisoned our youth and over which we
wasted our days in trying to piok out the
not delectable caraway seeds with wbioh
they were flavored. No, T will boar Tom
away from your wiles."
Leaving Mise Stacy bobbingourtsiee
they escaped into the keen aiand were
soon far away from the low cottage.
(To be Continued.)
Temperance Notes.
One year ago there were no Woman's
Christian Temperance unions in Prince
Edward's Island ; now there re eight.
The women of New Zealand, where fifty
years ago cannibalism existed, have now
the right to vote for M. P'e.
Mies G. E. F. Morgan, Buckingham
Palace, Brecon, South Wales, England, has
been chosen secretary of he World's
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
for Great Britain, and will work there
upon the great petition against the traffic.
inintoxioating liquors and pium. Mies
Morgan is an earnest Christian, an ao-
oomplished lady sed an experienced
philanthropist. She is a friend of Lady
Henry
Somerset, Bt who ho recom
ends
her for
the plane.
The Young Men's Christie Association
have purchased the famous"canteen"
which is situated so near the parade ground
of the State oamp of instruction at Peeke-
kill, N. Y., as to virtually be in the oamp,
and when the national guardneat year
goes into camp the banner ofthis amain -
tion will be floating from these buildings
that were formerly so object onable ; and
religious services, meetings' of song and
harmless games will take theplace of en-
toxicating drinks and their degrading
accompaniments.
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" An endeavor was recently made to
show that total' abstainers do not live so
long as those who consume aloohol in
moderation ; also, strange to gay, that
those who often drink to excess outlive
the teetotallers. Statemente purporting to
come from the medical profession in Eng-
land were adduced in support. The whole
story had a suspicious appearance. The
facts were evidently cooked, but so skill-
fully as to deceive unwary people. All
persona possessing common sense are aware
that an excessive consumption of alcohol
leads to ill health and a high rate
of mortality. But many are not
convinced that even what is called moderate
indulgence tends to lessen the duration of
lie. The United Kingdom Temperance
and General Provident institution, Lon-
don, England, has two oiasses of insurance,
one for total abstainers, and another for
temperance people who are not total
abstainers. All insurance officers carefully
avoid insuring the lives of drunkards, or of
those whom they suspect to be inclined to
over.indulgence. That of itself is sufficient
to show that the universal experience of
life offices is that alcoholic excess means
a high rate of mortality. The directors of
the before -mentioned institution at
their last annual meeting reported that for
the total•abetinenoe section on the
whole number of life policies for every 100
claims estimated to fall due by the aotu-
ary's tables there had been only 59 deaths,
but that in the general eeotion—that is
among those who drank in strict modera-
tion—the death° amounted to 86 out of the
expected 100. Therefore, out of equal
numbers of two lots of insurers—total
abstainers and temperate men -the ab.
stainers showed 45 per cent. better than
the temperate drinkers.—Toronto Mail.
AFTER goag'S SECRET,
English Doctors' Oode Won't Permit n iI1I Its
Use While a Secret..
MUST -
BE CAREFULLY USED.
A Berlin cable says: Dr. von Gensler,
Pruseian Minster of Boole .
eiaetioal ffairs
replying in the lower House of the Diet
to -day, to the interpellation of Herr Graf as.
to what meaenree the Government lea
tended to take to promote the adoption pf
Prof. Kooh's remedy, deolared that the
aepereions oast upon certain physician')
engaged in using the lymph had proved
groundless, The Finance Ministry, Dr.
von Gaoler said, had placed at the disposal
of Prof. Koch sufficient funds to enable him
to continue hie enquiries and produce the
lymph. There was now good ground to
hope that the remedy would be found to be
efficacious in the treatment of other diseases
than tuberculosis.. Care has been taken to
make the remedy perfectly aooessible to the
poor. In the course of time the prepara-
tion of the lymph would be entrusted to
competent persons employed by the State.
A private gentleman had given 1,000,000
marks, the Minister stated, to be used for
the benefit of poor persons snfferieg from
tcberouloais. He had requested Prof..
gosh to make public only to a limited
extent the composition of the lymph, so as
to render its imitation impossible. Touch-
ing the present preparation of the lymph,
Dr. von Goseler said that Prof. Koch and
Dra. Libbertz and Ptahl were occupied
solely in providing a supply. After ardn-
one researches, extending for a period of six
weeks, it was found that the lymph oonld
be supplied at a Dost of 25 marks per five
grammes. An ordinary phial contains
sufficient for 5,000 innoonlatione, eaoh cost.'
ing five pfenninge. Regarding the question of
placing the manufacture of the lymph under
the exclusive control of the State, Dr. Von
Gassier thought that a feeling of satisfao•
tion would be experienced throughout the
world if Laramie ehonld set her stamp upon
the lymph, but a guarantee must be given
against
financial nuclei
or subsidiary conditions.
The Government would eventually invite
other nation() to send representatives to
study the use of the remedy in order that
they might apply it in their own countries.
Dr..Von Goseler's statement, indicating
as it does an intended prolonged guarding
of the secret of the lymph, disappoints the
numerous foreign medical men assembled
here. The English group affirm that it is
hoopelese to expect the college of physioiane
to reoognixe the use of the lymph as it is
against the canons of the college to permit
the application of a remedy the composi-
tion of which is a secret.
Dr. Kowalski, a leading Austrian army
physician, and Chief of the Institute of
Bacteriology at Vienna, defends the guard-
ing of the preparation of the lymph on the
ground that it ie one of the most powerful
medicines dieoovered, and cannot be applied
too oantionely. Prof. Koch ,aye if it were
placed without reserve in the hands of all
practitioners, more deaths would reenit
from its use than ever were caused by con-
sumption. Dr. Kowalski and other
prominent Austrian army surgeons have
come here to share the inquiries of the
German army dootors, beginning on Tues-
day next.
Must Keep His Head.
A general ordering a battle has not so
confusing a task ae the chief of a fire bri-
gade, who has to control a campaign
extending over a square half mile end forces
which arrive on she scene he knows not
wh a or where..The chief has to know
y 'tthn 'i ng- ° and the resources of every
hydrant with regard to it. He has to deoide
whether to call out the whole brigade and
whether the steam engines can be advan-
tageously utilized. He has to plane each
ladder, reel or hose, where it will serve its
beet purpose in connection with the rest.
He his to keep in mind exactly where each
part of the mechanism is so as not to dupli-
cate or waste any. This has to be done,
not after deliberate thought or planning,
bat on the inspiration of the excited
momet, where on the saving of five min-
utes depends muss or defeat. It is easy
for the crowd to admire deeds of daring
and even recklessness on the part of the
brave men, but the cool decisions on which
the success and safety of the men depend
can only prove themselves by genera
results, -Montreal Witness.
Let the Hissing go On.
Cleveland Plain Dealer : Mrs. Frank
Leslie has recently written a dissertation
on kissing ; not the " soulful pull " sort of
kissing that Amelia Rives tells about when
giddy young Spooner° allow their lips to be
attracted towards eaoh other when the
moon is behind a cloud or the gas reduced
to a hungry spark, but the common every-
day sort of kissing. Mre. Leslie's direction
is good, so ie' her theory in parts, such as
kissing a ohil or one's grandmother. Bat
why should s e draw the lines so taut on
girls that are -well, girls that look kissable,
aot kissable and are kissable ? Has Mrs.
Frank forgotten the days of her girlhood ?
What is the nee of having girle in the world
if they are not to be kissed ? We do not
advocate street oorner or tea party kissing
bees. Far from it ; but we ,tend np for
the right of the girle. For Mrs. Leelie,
now that she has done most of her kissing,
to put all girls on starvation allowance of
kisses is an outrage. What inducement
would Gen. Sherman have.to visit young
ladioe' schools under Stith a rale ? What
inducement would the moon have to go
under a cloud ? What would tunnels on
railroads be good for ? What would be-
come of Copenhagen ? Nonsense, Mrs.
Leslie. Come off. Let the girls enjoy
their innocent osculatory indulgences and
let the only remaining pastime of the poor
editor remain es it is.
Andrew Oarnegie,Please Answer.
According to a newepaper report Andrew
Carnegie recently committed himself to a
very curious statement. He averred that
the annual salary of the Prince of Wales
would suffice to keep 30,000 people for a
year. Now, the annual salary of the Prince
of Wales is $565,000. Divided np among
30,000 people, it would amount to just $19
apiece. Mr. Carnegie Beams to have very
queer ideas as to the sum of money that
would support an American 'workingman,
or, indeed, decd a workingman of any national-
ity, and ,. enable
him to provide•the woes -
series of life for himself and for his family.
But a atill more interesting question is
thio : How many millionaires of the type
of Andrew Carnegie oonld be supported
upon the annual salary of the Prince of
Wales ? And is it not the least bit indeli'
nate for a member of the gilded brotherhood
to be aesailing; a oomparetive pauper like
the Prince of Wales ?
Ossip Sobnbin, whose olever novels are
having cenoh a vogue in Austria, i4 not a
man, ae generally supposed, but aoan
woman who writes ander that nae. Her
Her
real name is Lola Kireohner, and ehe leads
a retired life in a Bohemian village.
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Government by AIdermen.
Philadelphia Record : Ex•Preeident An-
drew White, of Cornell University, in an
article on " The Government of American
Cities," in the December Forum, says :
" About a year since, I stood upon the
wharves and in the streets of Constantino.
ple. I had passed from one end of Europe
to the other ; these were the worst I had
seen since I left home, and there oame
over me a spasm of homesickness. Daring
all my residence in foreign cities never
before had the remembrance of New York,
Philadelphia and other American centree
been so vividly brought bank to me. There
in Constantinople, as the result of Turkish
despotism, was the same hap -hazard,
careless, dirty, corrupt system which we in
America know so well as the result of
mob despotism ; the same tumble-down
wharves, the same Sewage in the docks, the
same ' pavements fanged with murderous
atones,' the same filth, the same obetaoles
to travel and to traffic)."
Bismillah 1 but that is hard.
ALL the returns are not yet in, but
enough have been received to make it cer-
tain that the Methodist Episcopal Church
of the United States has answered in the
affirmative the question, " Shall women
be admitted into the General Conference
Imlay delegates?" The following is a sum-
mary of the returns received :
Churches
Hoard From, For. Against
Pennsylvania.. 125 2,014 3,269
Camden..... ........... 9 169 939
Northern New York 70 1,047 1,053
New York City 67 1,638 1,850
Boston and vicinity 61 1,261 25
Cincinnati and vicinity67 9,656 1,306
88 1,534 289
41 1,269 769
299 811 330
•an Francisco 26 939 32
Omaha 22 660 146
Washington 14 338 017 r." 445
Pittsburg
, Chicago
Buffalo
Total 699 'ki 17,338 10,619
This gives the women a majority of 6,719
votes out of a total of 27,957, or 62 per
1 those who oast a ballot are b o i n
favor of admitting lay women delegates.
While the result of this popular balloting
will not be binding upon the action of the
neat General Conference of the Methodist
C i? clergymen Church, prominent cler men of that
denomination express the belief that it
will have a very great influence in shaping
legislation relative to this interesting
question.
Cora --Wonder why the pretty yonng
minister calla HS ' lambs of the fold'?
Dora—Oa account of they'shoeps' eyes we
are always coating at him, I pra m:ee I alts
rioan otioe t a
ben
Ane e N h !E ati idll` velvet
award in wbioh our hills are plotted,''
Englishman—Huh 1 'That's nothing. Many
of oar hills in the old countryjweer furze
]five TUQvsa.N» v*suileRB
Needed t4 Transport a Steamer Through
Darkest A,fetea.
A Glaegow despatch last Tnes
day says ; Think of Building in
a Glasgow shipyard a steamer which mast
be taken to mopes again before' 5,000 Afri-
cans oan carry her over 500 milee of wild
African country and float her on the inland
sea of Vioteria Nyanza 1 She is the first of
a British fleet which Metiers. A. Le ,T. Inglis
have oontraoted to build for the Britieh
East Africa Company's service, This
necessity for building the vessel so as to
allow of taking her to pieces again for over
land porterage, makes her progress very
elow. After ehe ie launched and fitted,
all the work which is now handled. with so
much oare moat be undone. Before this
ship reaches its destination ehe must be
carried through miles and miles of African
forests and jungles between the coast and
the big lake. It is estimated that 5,000
derbies will be required to replace the sok,
the runaways and unmanageable.
The new vessel is commissioned by the Im-
perial British East Africa Company, of
whioh Sir William Mackinnon is President.
This company will float its own flag, issue
its own postage stamps and coin its own
ourrenoy. The first steamer of the fleet is
about 120 tone, builders' measurement. She
is stoutly built of steel plates bolted with
steel bolts on steel frames. The bolts will
be, of course, only riveted in their proper
holes when the steamer arrives on the
shores of the lake. Each plate, like every
other part of the steamer, ie limited in eize
to a load which a negro oonld conveniently
carry on hie head, and it is oaloulated that
with their loads, and in their places, the
negro caravan will, when marching in file,
extend over three miles. The steamer,
with its plating, is put together with bolts
and nuts to be removed when the
parts are taken to pieces and packed
aboard the railroad oars, which
will parry the steamer in piecemeal to the
clocks at London, where"is will be shipped
onboard the London and Zanzibar' direct
steamer. Though constructed for the pur-
poses of peace this vessel will be armed for
rough fighting if it is necessary. She will
carry an armament two of w
o Maxim machine
guns, besides small arms and s hose epe-
oially fitted to throw boiling water from
the boiler among warlike natives. The iron
plating of the vessel is, of course, proof
against rifle or musket balls. On eaoh bow
will be fitted up an iron rifle and conning
tower. The engines will drive` her at a
speed of ten knots, and with handsome and
easy lines fore-and-aft the steamer should
be easily driven. Her length over all is 80
feet, with 16 feet beam. Tanned oanvae
sails will be sent with the steamer.
"An idler is a watch that leeks both hands ;
As useless if it goes, as when it stands."
Alas! how many women, though house-
hold and children need their care, are
necessarily idle, because suffering from
diseases peculiar to their sea. To all such
Dr, Pierce's Favorite Prescription is a
precious boon, speedily curing internal
inflammation, lencorrhea, displacement,
ulceration, tormenting periodical pains,
prolapses, "bearing -down" sensations,
morning eiokness, bloating, weak- etomaob,
nervous prostration, and tendency to oan-
cermet disease. In all those ailments called
" female complaints," it is the most reliable
epeoific known to modern edema.
Funeral Reform.
Chicago Herald : Custom is cruel to the
living in its funeral proprieties. It adds
nothing to the esteem in wbioh the dead
are held, and cannot assuage in the least
the pain that ie canted by their passage
away. Humanity and right reason alike
demand that burials shall be private ; that
only the few ohoeen by those direotly
interested shall attend them ; and that the
weaker members of a Buffering family shall
be induced to remain away from a epee.
taole that is heartrending, bat which they
cannot soften by their presence. The in-
humanity of permitting the weak and the
bereaved to suffer the wholly useless torture
that must always accompany the echo of
clay upon a coffin will gradually have the
effeot of making cremation desirable as
rapidly as it becomes convenient.
How to Polish Furniture.
The new servant girl tried two kinds of
furniture polish on the rosewood dining
Wile. She declared that American furni-
ture polish "was no good at all, at all." She
got half a pound of white bee's wax, two
cakes of motile soap, and a pint of turpen-
tine. She boiled the soap and wax together
—*het ie, she melted them until they ran
together. Then she poured in the turpen-
tine. All the hard wood in the house
shines like mirrors glace now. "Tie the
way they make the bars shine in Dublin,"
said ehe.—New York Sun.
No matter what the school of physic,
They each can cure an ache or phrhaeic—
At least 'tis said they can;
But as Science turns the wheel still faster,
And quacks and bigots meet disaster,
To us there comes a man
Whose merits bath won countless zealots,
Who use and praise his "Pleasant Pellets."
The " Pleasant Purgative Pellets" of Dr.
Pierce, though gentle in notion, are thor-
ough, and never fail to cure biliousness,
diseased or torpid liver, and oonetipation.
Heredity.
Aunt Penelope -How vain Fanny is
Old Crusty—Yes ; just like the sex.
They drink it in with their mothers'
milk. Aunt P.—There you are quite
wrong. Fanny, I know, was brought up
on the bottle. Old' C. (determined to
have the last word)—Yes, from some con-
ceited tool of a cow.
The girl who runs away with the hired
man is held up to ridicule, but ehe fre-
quently does better than the one who
marries a poet.
Mr. Fuller to Clarence, four years old --
Why, Clarence, how much you look like
your father. Clarence, resignedly—Yes,
air. Everybody says that, but I don't
think I deserve it.
Baster has a very good opinion of his
father's calling, whioh is that of a clergy-
man. Still he thinks there are other pro-
fessions that take equal rank with it, and
on being asked whether he too would be a
clergyman when he grew up, he replied : "
think so. Either that or a burglar."-.
Harper's Young People.
eassmasimiasineptinummintatiatiaisairmiliontorne
A DAM41111st.Xr'rilaz8.
l0anwav companies Not Responsible for
People Jumping Prom Trains.
Judge Wurtele, in the Superior Court
at Montreal, gave judgment Wednesday in
favor of the Grand Trunk Railway in an
action for 010,000 damages taken against
the company by the mother of the young
man Hugo Bouthiller, who wee killed by a
train at Iroquois about a year ago. Thin
Iad and two companions, who were making
their way from Lake Superior in the best.
manner they could, had boarded freights
train, the result being that young Boutbil.
tier fell under the wheels and received
injuries, from the effects of which he died
an hour afterwards. The plaintiff's pre-
tension was that the young man was pushed
off the train by one of the officials, but the
defence produced evidence that he had -
jumped himself from the train, and under
such oiranstanoes the court dismissed aim
case.
Rubbing Rim' Down.
New York Tribune : Arominent
p clergy-
man gives this description i
of the life of a.
minister
"My ea erienoee with
p churches make-
me think that ministers are like oaten
When you go to a new plane first everybody
Saye:
"' Come, pussy ! come, pussy 1 nice
pusey,' and you come.
" Then they begin to rub your flu anis
say
"' Poor pussy 1 poor pussy 1' and then
they say 'Seat!
The rage for colored oandlea ie over.
White wax is the order of she night and
light.
DONL. fit. 90.
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FARM FOR SALE.
FARM CONTAINING 100 ACBEB,
70 acres cleared, situated lot 33, 9tH eon
cession Township Ancaster, on Bra_ttford stone
road, 10 miles from Hamilton. Enquire W
KAVANAGH, 393 King west, Hamilton, Ont.
Berim d,.. ottled.;
"You must go to Bermuda. If
you do. not 1 will not be responsi-
ble for the consequences." `Ent,
doctor, II can afford neither the
time nor the money." "Well. if
i
that is impossible, try
OF PURE NORWEGIAN
COD LIVER, i'IL.
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tled, and many eases of
CONS INEPTIOIN
Bronchitis, Cough
or Severe cold
5 have Cumen with it; and the
advantage is that the most sensi-
tive stomach can tattle it. Another
thing ivhiefi conantends it is the
stimulating properties of the fly.•
Yaephosplaitcs which it contains.
on Will fund it for scale at your,
Druggist's, in Sala son wrapper.]Ile
surd yon get the genuine.
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