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CHAPTER. L
- ashat fellow will be your ruin, Jack.
)dark my vvords. He is idle, dissipated,
reckless; no fit companion for any honest
self-respeeting young man. I have seen
h deep sorrow the marked change iu
year manner and gondueb since you made
ararcoures acquaintance. Believe me, my
ear Jack, that in arriving at this decision
e
asat nsulting your best interests. Take
lee,. or rather, I should say, obey
eland, and 1 p omise you that
at
live to thank me for what, I
'ea now think my setierity."
k you misjudge Harcourt, uncle,"
young man to whom the above
rditim was addrethed.
"1 imagine that my forty years' seniority
gives me clearer perceptions than yours, At
any rate, I have quite made upmy mind on
this point. You must either give up James
Harcourt or—I give you up. No nephew of
mine shall consort with a—dissipated young
rascal,"
"Come, uncle, aren't you rather too bard
on him?" remonstrated Jack Tratlinnick
Moore.
"Not a Mt of it. He deserves every
word I have said about him. He is an idle,
geod.for-nothing scamp, a gambler, 9, drunk -
Pad."
"Ho goes into very good society," mur-
mured the younger man.
"What de you oall good society, Master
Jack ?—And yray, why do you wish to have
better society than that you can get in my
house? Better society 1 Why, God bless
me! I owe illy friends an apology for nam-
ing them in the seine breath with James
Harcourt and his allies," cried old. Tredin-
nick.
For a minute or two nude and nephew
looked each other in the face. Jack was
the only sou of ola Tredinniek's only sister.
Daring fifteen years the prun, formal, but
extremely comfortable house in Russell
Square had been Jack's home, for he had.
lost both parents in early childhood, and old
Tredinnick had done his level best to sup-
ply their place, crusty old bachelor though
he was.
" I.—I think you are unjust to Harcourt
uncle," said the young man at last, his
handsome, but rather weak -looking face
wearing an obstinate expression, as weak.
looking facea not uutrequeutly do; "and I
don't see why I should be unjast to hint
too."
"Does that mean that you refuse to obey
me?" said old Tredinnick, ruffling up his
stiff gray hair irritably; "that you Intend
to—to defy me ?"
"It means that I decline to accept-, your
estimate of my friend Harcourt," replied
jack sullenly.
"Then you must take the consequences
your determination carries with it. Tho
stool you have occupied. in my office will be
vacant after today; and the room that has
been yours since—since your poor mother's
death," added old Tredinnick with a tremor
in his gruff voice, "will be empty—after to-
day."
" Very well, allele."
Old Tredinnick looked acrosa at his
nephew's downcast face. The lad's eye.
brows were drawn together in a frown; his
rather full under lip was thrust forward in
a sullen pout; his cheeks were paler than
usual; and there were •dark circles under
his eyes, a result due to late hours rather
than to the agitation of the moment.
Old Tredinnick sighed as he watched him.
Then some memory of the past seemed to
possess him, for 1114 gray oyes softened, and
he was compelled to bring out a red -and -
yellow silk handkerchief, with which he
blow his nose rather ostentatiously.
" I am sorry," he began gruffly—" very
orry that you have allowed a mere casual
quairance to—to come between us,
lee—But," he went on, resuming his
er positive manner, " I mean to be as
ate as you. You elect to stick to
friend, Haecourt ; and I am resolved
to my word. You leave my office—
my employment shall consort
like Harcourt—and leave my
uncle," mut teredJack,turn-
ough he intended to take his
e and then.
n.
money have you
v—four or five sovereigns,
ck carelessly.
do you suppose four or
seep you in bread and
ent," was the
't to be
ed city.
eome
li'enclreagnudigilolunw. handkerchief was
Jack shrugged his shoulders, sauntered
out of the room with his hands in his
pockets, and within half an hour his
portmanteau was packed and hoisted
on to the roof of a hansom, inside
which sat Ma John Tredinnick Moore with
his hat tilted over his forehead, his hand-
some boyish face wearing a decidedly sulky
expression. As the hansom turned out of
Russell Square, he just glanced up for a
moment at the house that had sheltered
him for so long, and for that moment's
space he wished he had acted otherwise
than he bad done. But by the time the
Imam had rattled along Now Oxford
Street and reached the corner of Tottenham
Court Road, he was in high spirits. He
had twenty pounds in his pocket. Harcourt
and he were to dine at the. Criterion, and
later " take a look in," as Harcourt phrased
it, at one or two of the haunts frequented
by men of fashion like themselves, then
wind up the evening with a hand at whisp
or ecarte at Harcourt's club. It was this
programme as set forth in a note Jack had
received from Haraourt that morning which
had brought matters to a crisis in Russell
Square. Old Tredinnick had then deliver-
ed himself of an ultimatum which as we have
seen, resultrd in a rupture of their frionally
relations.
"I've got twenty pounds in my pocket --
there's a lot of amusement to be got out of
twenty pounds," soliloquised Jack, leaning
back in his cab turd lighting& cigar. "Whoa
it's germ, I'll look out for something to do.
But I'll have a jolly week or two, first,
After grinding away at that confounded
office, I went a holiday; and I mean to have
it."
Jack's twenty pounds lasted just one
week, One fine morning he discovered, to
his dismay, that when he had paid the bill
his landlady had presented to hint the night
before, he would have exactly half-tacrown
in his pocket. It was clearly impossible to
make half-a-crown provide for the wants of
even a single day: so he sauntered clown to
Harcourt's sprucely furnished chambers in
Suffolk Street to take counsel with his eats in
Mentor.
He found Harcourt at brkkfo.st.
"Well, old fellow, what's up? You look
rather down in the mouth. —11axe a brandy-
and-sodat" was that gentleman's greeting.
Jack shook his head.
"You had deucea bad luck last night at
ecarte. Cleanea out elt ?"
Jack felt in his pocket, then showed on
his extended paim the single half-crown
that remained trout his quarter's allowance.
" I hope you admire it," he remarked
haterly. It is the only portrait of Her
atajesty I possess."
"Hum ! That's serious. You'd better
apply to the amiable Tredinnick, hadn't
you?"
"Not I. I wouldn't face my uncle aud
tell him that. I've spent all the money he
gave me in one week for a hundrea pounds,"
declared Jack, gettina very red in the face.
Mn, James Harcourt surveyed his pupil
critically through his eyeglass, pulled his
long sandy moustaches thoughttully, and
then remarked coolly ; If you don't play
the part of returned Prodigal, I suppose
there's nothing ler it but an application to
Your other uncle.. You wear a watch and
Chain, I observe; also sleeve -links, a gold
pin, .and a signet ring. One's jewellery
usually goes first."
"Do you mean that I am to go to ft pawn-
broaer's and pawn the things ?" cried the
lad.
"1 do; since you refuse to betake your-
self to Ru.ssell Square. I am extremely
sorry that circumstances over which I have
AO control compel me to repress the strong
impulse which rises in my breast to—alt—
come to your relief. At the present moment,
my own funds are low—very low. As for
—ah.—the little tra.nsa ction I spoke of—why
it's nothing—nothing, I assure you. Have
done the thing myself scores of Ones, and
ahall again.'
Jack's face brightened. The idea of a
piavnbroker's shop MS astoeiated in his un-
sophisticated mind with extreme poverty
and general disreputableness. But he ar-
gued, if such a stmerfine and fastidious man
as Harcourt condescended to raise money
on his personal effects, why should not he?
" iVhat do you suppose I should get for
—ray watch, say? It cost with the chain
five and twenty pounds, It was a birtlalay
present from my unele," he said hesitating-
ly.
" Five pounds, I abould say."
"That won't last long," grumbled Jack.
"You may have better luck to -night.
rn take you to a. place where you can have
a turn at baccarat. Baccarat don't went
the skill whist and ecarte demand."
Jack's eyes brightened as he listened to
his friend's minute directions as to how the
necessary sinews of war were to be provid-
ed. After all, as Harcourt said, his luck
might change; the five pounds he would
get on his watch !night be decupled that
night.
n hour later, Jack returned to his lodg-
e richer 1:y five pounds, ad the pour.
watch and several shreds of his
ut to all appearance he was
' qs, for he walked along
'aunty air, and laagh-
r when Harcourt
'es about the
known
don.
a-,
NEW inuNGs_IIMBOICANIOS..
Bricks are of plate glass,
The arolight is not blue, but is practically
the same color a.s daylight.
Paper treated with a mixture of camphor
aud linseed oil becomes water proof.
Sheet 'iron kites will be used by ships to
•communicate with the shore when in dart -
ger.
A German has invented an incandescent
lamp apparatus for showing the iaterior of
boilers While under steani.
So delicate is the adjustment of the most
powerful cannon that allowance has to be
made for the onreature of the earth before
the diseharge.
An invention by which an ordinary cloak
is practically magnified to such is size as to
permit of its being seen for . is radius of 50
nriles around is a recent mention.
A matclacutting machine is au automatic
Curiosity. It cuts 10,000,000 sticks is day,
and then raises them over a at, where the
heads are pat on at a. surprising rete of
speed.
The telephone line over Pike's Peak is
said to be eclipsed in altitude by A line
that crosses the Andes ort the Trans•Andean
railroad at an.elevation of about 16,6'00 feet
above sea level.
The enormous steel trusses to sustain the
roof of the manufacturers' building in
Chicago are the largest ever made for archi-
tectural purposes. They span 308 feet and
rise to is height of 211 feet.
It is statea that a Paris fism of glass-
makers has produced some porous glass to
be used for window panes, rho pores are
too fine to permit of deaught, but causes is
healthy ventilation in a mom.
A German engineer concludes that if the
speed iustead of the load of freight trains be
increased. front fourteen to twenty-eight
miles per hour the expensea per car a mile
at the higher speed would be one-fourth less
for repairs and wily one-fifth more for fuel.
An installation of electric light is being
laid dowu in Batignolles tunnel, near Paris,
in which the incandescent lamps are placed
at a, height of fifteen feet above the rails.
The light is received by pates of burnished
tin covered with glass, whieh refieet a soft
and agseeable light into the carriages.
One of the naoat important problems of
the hour is the cheapest way to extract
aluminium from the inexhaustible deposits
of alay abounding in this country. The
latest process is that invented by M. Faure,
by which he expects to reduce the cost to
about sixteen or eighteen cents a pound.
The mnnicipal council of St. Etienne,
France, has decided upon an interesting ex-
periment, which is to distribute electrical
power to 18,000 looms, scattered about in
the homes of the inhabitants, 70,000 of whom
are engaged in tho ribbon industry. Tho
power is to be supplied from the city reser-
voirs.
Among the achievements of scene impor-
tance in mechanics is this: A tool has re-
cently been invented that may be attached
to any drill press for boring any geometrical
figure, such as round, square, hexagon, me
tagon, triangle, diamond, star, oval, half
round, etc, It can be fitted to bore any
shape of halo having straight sides or curv-
ed sales or both. Any machinist of ordin-
ary ability can succeesfully use tho tool.
Pros:rasa in Science,
it is believed that nickelcarbonyl is about
to play an important part in metallurgy.
In pletinurn pyrometers for very high
i
temperatures it s found that procelain an-
swers satisfactorily up to 1,200' centigrade.
A block of carbon la inches square rep-
resents the amount of that material that
goes to make up the conatitution of a man
of average weight.
In using what is known 43 the Canadian
method of boring oil wells, a wel11,090 feet
deep was bored in 228 hours, or an average
of 4.78 feet per hour of actual work.
Mr. Krupp, the great gunmaker of Ger-
many., says that service charges for guns
should not be larger than the amount that
would develop a pressure of 2,400 Minos-
pheres.
The advantage of the single -acting air
cylinder over the double is that it com-
presses a volume of free air only once every
revolution; hence there is a bettor chance
to cool air during -compression.
Omitting a few Esquimau exceptions, all
other bpear throwers appear to be ambiclex-
terous. The development of a purely Light-
headed implement points to a southern ori-
gin for the original inventor.
The distance between division points for
changing engines has been increasing in
this country, and some roads are now run-
ning engines from 200 to 300 miles, where
they used to run 100 miles or less.
The difference between the so-called
"chemical "focus and the visual focus of a
telescope may bo little or it may be halt an
inch. In either case the photographed im-
age will be decidedly out of focus if allow-
ance for this difference be not carefally
made.
A new valve for preventing serious loss in
furnaces has given excellent results. It is
a trap constructed of malleable plate like
an ordinary gas tube, the passage being
closed and opened by being filled with and
em tied of water. A vessel holding water
ed and lowered on this trap. When
d currents are passing, the passage
dry, and thus evaporation is
silicon have been found
eta on the way in which
• iron in a chilled
up to a certain
on during the
i• to separate
anese, on
h e affect
ation
0 Tell Me, Is it Love -
I'm feeling very strange of late;
All is not right I fear.
My mind is approaching such a state
'Twine mild to call it queer.
It Orst began with writing verso,
And seeking rhymes for "dove
But now it's daily growing worse—
() toll me, is it love?
Ispend my fortune in perfumes;
' My candy bill's immense.
I buy the rarest kind of blooms
Regardless of expense,
I pose before the glass and smile
In every sort of
I turn and bow in every style •
Now, is it love/ 0 say!
To woman's ebarms so long quite proof,
Smiles, blushes, dbnplos, u.),
From each bright snare I held aloof,
And viewed my comrades fall.
Who would have dreamed that ever I
Would keep a female glove.
And blush and kiss it on the sly —
0 tell um, is it love?
I do not oat enough to keep
A. hummtng bird alive.
They say I babble in my sleep
Such honeyed thoughts 'hive.
I know I stammer when I speak;
My hands are in my way,
A certain doorstep makes- me weak—
No w, is it love? 0 say!
'used to laugh at stars and meows
As only titter "chaff."
Now I go humming old love tunes
And hardly over laugh.
I seek by night a vino wreathed house,
And watch it light above,
Then sneak away Just like a mouse—
() tell me, is it love?
Within mv brain queer fancies come,
And problems strange and now;
If one lives on a certain sum,
How much will servo for two?
And then anon I'm darkly sad,
And then I'm wildly gay,
0 tell me. run I growing mad?
Or Is it love 0 say: —la. M. Pock.
The Way to b a Happy.
A hermit there was
Who lived in is grot,
And the way to be h:tnpy
They said he had got
As I wanted to learn it
I went to his cell,
Ann this answer ho ga va,
As 1 asko d lain to toll.
'Tie being and doing
And ,•aving that make
All the highest of plc:wires
That mortals partake—
To be what Lied teaehes,
To do what is Gest
And. to have a good hears,
Is the way to be blest.
Wisdom of the Serpent.
The Greeks, the Romans and the Hebrews,
as well as many of the oriental nations,
believed the serpent to be the wisest of
God's creatures. (Inc speaies, they affirm
ed, the cerastha made it a point to hide in
the sand along well traveled paths where
he could bite the horse, and thus aet at the
rider. Jaeob, the patriarch, in allnding
this superstition, said (Genesis, xlix, 17):
"Dan shall be . . . an adder in the
path, that, biteth the horse's heels, so that
his rider alien fall backward." Nearly all
semi -civilized races believe that prior to
taking a drink the serpent vomits up all its
venom, for fear of poisoning itself, should
any be swallowed.
The Bible also tells as that tho adder
"stoppath his ears" that he may not be
charmed by the charmer. atioo psalms lviii,
4, 5.1
All species of serpents are said to take ex-
traordina.ry care of their heads.
According to popular belief and folk loro
stories this is because bis heart is situated
near the head, therefore a blow in that
region is likely to prove fatal. To the ser-
pent God said: "The seed of the woman
shall bruise thy bead,"
The Greeks had is superstition that one
who bad his ears licked by is serpent would
ever after have the gift of prophecy. Cas-
sandra and Helenus, both of whoin were
said to foretell events, had their ears licked
by it serpent while sleeping in the temple
01 Appollo.
In inythology Jupiter Ammon appeared
to Olympias as is serpent and became the
father of Alexander the Great; Jupiter
Capitolinus assumed 0. similar form to be-
come the father of Scipio Africanus.
In olden times the Ottsman believed that
eclipses of the sun and moon were caused
by some gigantic dragon or serpent who
was doing his best to devour those lumin-
aries.
A New Powder And a New Rifle.
A London correspondent says that the
attention of the war office is being actively
directed to a new smokeless powder which
the Swedish Government has accepted. For
this powder are claimed three advantages.
It is esay of manufacture, produces no frame,
and does not heat the rifle, while it also
gives the ball agemarkable velocity—en in-
itial velocitya .!.,)1.00 feet with is pressure of
2260 atmosphere. The new powder—which
is said not to heat the chamber as much as
an ordinary sporting gunpowder, and is as
independent of damp as it is of heat—is
known as " apyrite ;" and two well known
English officers have presented reports in
which it is spoken of as probably the most
effective powder in Europe. The new Rus.
sian rifle is a formidable weapon, and the
experts who were employed to select it as-
sert that it is the most powerful in use. It
is of the Manger type, and. has a calibre Of
7.52 mim. (.296 in) and a cylindrical ob-
activator with a magazine for five cartridges.
The cartridge in 3.9 inches in length, and
in its interior part is covered with a me-
tallic bottle -shaped case, weighing about a
third of an ounce. Smokeless powder is em-
ployed in these cartridges, and at a distance
of 3)0 metres twonty pine planks, each la
inch in thickness, and placed at a distance
of twO inches from one another, were . pei -
forated. The Roumanian Government, 1 y
the way, has just selected the Mannlicher
rifle for its arm,
Fifteen Days • Days in an Ope is Boat.
The crew of the ship Clare, which left
Liverpool in July last year, have had a
errible experience through the destruction
their • easel by fire at sea. The Clare
.ie Mersey on the 22d of July last
an Francisco, and a report receiv-
day in Liverpool from Sydney,
vs the vessel was burnecl at sea,
of the second boat had been
i by a sailing vessel which
up. This vessel was the
had en board eleven of
she fell in with them
in their small open
days they had ex-
cuit and a mouth-
icked up they
austion, and
e brouvht
n and the
by the
cisco.
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THE TREASURES OF THE VATICAN
A Privileged Peep at the Priceless Gems
and Ifietrloorits.
A bit of good luck alone is responsible
for the peep which' had into the sacristy of
of the Vatican a few days ago writes & cor.
respondent at present an llama. It is a
privilege accorded to but few, and al-
most never to the casual visitor to Rome. I
could have lingered for days in ecstatic ad-
miration of the beentiful things which I
saw ,in this series of rooms close to the Sis-
tine Chapel. Would that I had the pen of
Ferdinand Fabre, the illustrious novelist
wbo has devoted his life to paiutiag scenes
from clerical careers, with which to describe
the surroundings of this world famous sac-
risty and its guardians. The pencil of Vi.
bert alone could do justice to the beautiful
ard costly treasures seen there. In beauti.
ful ettsketi are kept the altar services of
the different Sovereign Pontiffs, and the
immense mass of pontifical ornaments and
vestments, forming is complete history of
sacerdotal costume down through the long
centuries.
Timm are four rooms, exquisitely decora-
ted, in each of which are great cupboards
with glass doors. In these are is score of
miters, ornamented with costly gems, °hal.
ices in gold and silver, chasubles, copes,
stoles, garments which, the Popes don only
on occasions of the greatest ceremony and
some of which are almost priceless.
Many of the most beautiful robes are em-
broidered in gold, with the arms of Gregory
XVL, Pius IX., and Lon XII, Among the
most ancient relics preserved there is an
" twin" which belonged to Boniface vur.
It was presented to Pius IX. by the Caetani
family. A dalmatapre given to Clement V.
tAldobrandini) by the Grand Duchess of
Tuscany is also shown here.
There wero formerly many hundreds of
rare and precious objeots in these cabinets,
which had bolon,ged to Popes in the four-
teenth and sixteenth centuries. Bub it
must be remembered that Pius VI, in on.
der to pay is part of the 200,000,00d frames
which Napoleon Bonaparte imposed upon
hint as a war tax, had to melt down a host
of chalices and treasures of the olden days,
and even to soll the gems in the Vatican
treasury. This was better than to borrow
the immense sum at an extravagant rate of
interest from the bankers of the time.
When the French army entered Rome, in
1707, this treasury was sacked—not all the
things were carriea off but the soldiers of
tho revolution made it choice of what they
thought most available for sabsequent sale.
This was at the sante time that so many
pictures and statues a one stolen from the
'Vatican galleries.
There was it gees,.„
scandal about the
sacking, and the French soldiers were fin-
ally constrained to return a goodly number
of treasures, ainong them a hundred beauti-
ful missals ornamented with precious minia-
tures, The superb dalmatique now, in the
treasury was saved front pillage because ib
was undergoing repairs just then, ana so
were most of the tapestries employed in the
service of the State.
One of the most beautiful collections in
the Vatican treasury is a wonderfully rich
altar service in gold and silver offered to
Pins IX, by Baron d'A.ubigny. Here also
is it crucifix, as richly ornate as that on
which Mare°, in 11r Crawford's delightful
story, spentsuch infinite labor ; this is the
gift of a, famous Englishman converted to
Cathelicisni. Here also the "golden roses*
given by the Popes to royal personages who
lia.ve deserved special distinction aro kept
uutil wanted. They are all made by a fent-
ily in the neighborhood of the Vatican, and.
these goldsmiths have had a monopoly of
the manufacture for 300 years.
In the glass cases ono sees many superb
swords. Ono of these weapons, presented
to Pius IX, by the Pontifical Zouaves, is
peculiarly rich; the hilt is studded with
gems. It is the custom of the Popes to
send these swords to those who have fought
valiantly for the cause of the church.
I saw a tiara of extreme richness cover-
ed with fine pearls, emeralds and other
precious stones. It was told that the
costliest objects were kept in the Pope's
private apartments, and that the really rich
treasure, as the guardian said, is in the
Pope's sleeping room, where no visitor is
ever allowed to see it. Thero have been
severalrobberies from this Sistine Treasury,
and great caution is now exercised. Among
the tiaras, one of the most noteworthy was
presented by Queen Isabella of Spain. It
has no less than 19,000 brilliants upon it.
Another deliciously rich one is that which
was given by Napoleon I. to Pius VIL .A t
its summit a cross in brilliants is sustained
by & huge emerald, which serves as a base.
This emerald', the chasing of which is rich
gold, bears on its contour the name of
Gregory XIII., which proves that it had
been taken from the Pontifical Treasury.
"Napoleon might at least have 1 ad the
good grace to efface the name of Pope Greg-
ory,” said my companion, pointing this
out to ma; but it seems as if he did not even
care to conceal the emerald's origin.
The tapestries, or arazzi, as the Romans
call them, because they were made at Arras,
in Franco are rarely shown nowadays. Some
of them still hang, I believe, in one of the
corridors of the Vatican. Those which Leo
X. ordered for the Sistine Chapel were made
from cartoons by Raphael in 1515. Seven
of these cartoons are now in the South Ken-
sington Museum in London. A second ser-
ies was made at a later period from design's
by Giulio Romano and other of Raminters
pupils. They represent various events in
the lite of the Saviour.
The history of several of these tapestries
is remarkable. They were carried off by
the French in 1793 and cold to a trader at
Genoa, who burned one of them for the sake
of the gold and silver threads used in the
bright lights representing sunshine, This
speculation proved unprotitaale. The tra-
der offered to sell the remainder in 1808,
and they were bougnt by Pius VII., who re-
turned. them to their original places. •
Pope saw an arm apparently c
through the wall, and made inquiries after
its owner.
Swedenborg believed that he had the priv.
spirit
ilege of interviewing persons in the
world.
Great Men's Visions.
oining
Dr. Johnson heard his mother call bis
name in a clear voice, though she was at the
time itt another city.
Sir Joshua Reynolds, leaving • his house,
thought the lamps were trees and the men
and women bushes agitated by the breeze.
Oliver Cromwell, lying sleepless on his
comb, saw the curtain open and a gigantic
woman appear, who told him that he would
become the greatest man in England.
• Reveille°, while chanting the "Miserere"
and "De Profundis," believed that the
sounds he emitted were of the nature and
bad the full effect of the trampet,
I3on Jenson spent the watches of the night
an interested epectator of is crowd of
Tartars,. Turks and Roman Catholics who
rose up and fought around his armchair 1,111
sundae.
PEARLS OP TRUTH.
•••••111
Plough deop, while sluggerds sleep,
And you shall hal e corn to sell and to keep.
The trouble we expect scarcely ever comes
How much pain the evils cost us thab have
never happened.
We judge ourselves by what we feel cap-
able of doing,while others judge us by what
we have already done.
Once heving determined inyour conscience
that you are sailing under the right colors,
nail them to the mast.
Obtuseness to danger often passes under
the name of courage, whereas to merit that
• appellation the danger must be felt.
A great many men employ the first of
their years to make their last miserable.
Spare when young, and spend when old.
A man should never be ashamed to own
he has been in the wrong, which is but sayir
ing, in other words, that he is wiser to -day
than he was yesterday.
If you want to know the value of money,
go and try to borrow some; for he thab
goes a -borrowing goes a -sorrowing. When
the well is dry we know the want of
water.
As in days of old a pillar of cloud led
God'a chosen people, ao full oft 'tis a aloud
that leads as now; but thank God it still
leads to the Promised Land of Rest and
Peace.
The nobler is man truly is the stronger
is his desire to live a, yet richer and worth-
ier life ; the mpre valuable his work, the
more earnestly does he long to improve
upon it
The formation of his character is not, ae
it ought to be, the chief concern with every
man, Many wish merely to find is sort of
recipe for comfort, directions for acquiring
riehes, for whatever good they aim at. —
[Goethe.
PlanninT a Picnic.
Who is there that has not it happy recta.
lection of some bright sunny days spent in
the open air, and of the cold collation, call-
ed a picnic lunch, which has been eaten with
a keener relish than the most elaborate din-
ner course in the boat appointed dining -
room we know of?
A picnic, whether A be a largo or small
ono, ought to have a manager who will see
that provision is made for the necessaries of
the excursion, and not leave them to
chance.
If the spot selected for the day's outingis
near is dwelling -house, many things, such
as hot or cold water, milk, ice, cooking
utensils or dishes, may be obtained there.
But this sh ould be arranged forbeforehand
by letter or interview, that one may be
certain of these requisites at the time desir-
ed, and to make sure they have not been
forestalled by previous arrivals.
It is always well to take a tablecloth and
some paper napkins. It is a help toward
making the lunch look more appetizing.
Dish -towels will be found useful ; knivea,
forks and spoons can be pecked into &small
compass, and salt, pepper, mustard and
vinegar sbould not be forgotten and should!
be carefully placed by themselves.
Santiwtohes of ham, sardines, chicken,
potted veal and tongue aro always appre-
ciated. Cold hard boiled eggs are easily
carried and universally liked. A large sup-
ply of bread is necessary. There is nothing
that wilt quite take the place of it, and
buttered rolls and biscuit aro generally
found to be more satisfactory than slates
from the loaf.
For sweets, tu mblers of jelly or marmalade
are appetizing with the biscuits, and fresh
fruit will always be found most grateful.
.Avoid taking much cake or pia; itinvaria-
bly arrives in is mussy condition.
A plentiful supply of pickles, with lemons
and sugar—for lemonade is a wise pro-
vision—and cold coffee prepared 'with sugar
and cream, and cold tee without • sugar or
cream, is sure to be enjoyed by some of the
party, and can be safely carried in fruit -
jars if carefully packed.
Ilona is dependent upon a cup of hot tea,
ib can be easily prepared by means of an
alcohol lamp and tin cup.
Soap, towels, some pins, needles and
thread—in case of torn dresses—should not
be forgotten by the manager of is picnic
party, and several of the Japanese rush -
mats, that can be purchased for about ten
cents each, add greatly to the comfort of
those who feel it an exposure to sib on the
ground; and, if a hammock can be con-
veniently tucked into the conveyance, A
will be a rest for weak backs that are easily
tired.
Supplying his Wants.
A short time ago a banker gave a valets-.
dar pedlar a florin to get rid of him. The
pedlar, however, volunteered to leave a
calendar at the banker's house that evening.
The banker paid no attention to that offer -
but when he reached home he was informed
that a man had been there only a few -minu-
tes before, and left a calendar.
"He said that you sent him here," re-
marked the banker's wife, "and told hien ao
collect a florin from me." " 4
"Did you give him the money ?" asked
the banker, with rising colour.
"I did," was the r ply. ,
The banker muttered a few harsh words
to himself ; and summoning a man -servant,
sent him out with instructions to "find that
pedlar and bring him back."
The servant overtook the pedlar, and
bade him return to the house at once.
"My master wants to see you," said he.
"Vy, yass, I was shust at der house,
and vas miss him." drawled the pedlar.
"But I know vat he wants; he vents a
calendar. Here it is. I am in it hurry.
You gif me de florin, and he vill bay you.
The unsuepectingservant handed over
the money, took thecelenda,r, and hurried
beck with a beaming face. The beam did.
not retain its heaminess long.
The Color of Byes. •
It has been conclusively pfoved that wo-
men have a larger proportion of brown eyes
than men. If in parents the mother has
brown eyes and the father blue the chances
• are eighty-eight to twelve that the girls of
the family will be brown -eyed, the percent-
age in favor of the boys having blue eyes
being seventy-two to twenty-eight. If the
parents have eyes of like color the chances
in favor of the children, both male and
female, having eyes of the same color is
ninety-two to eight. Candolle the in
says that the health of ndatk.eyed
persons is much superior to that of the light
or blue-eyed type.
The Boy in the Gallery.
A certain preacher was holding forth to a
somewhat wearied congregation when he
lifted up bis eyes to the gallery, and Wield
it youngster pelting the people below witb
chestnuts.
He was about to administer a sharp and
stringent reprimand for this flagrant act of
impiety and disrespect ; but the youth an,
ticipating him, bawled out at the top of hit
voice •
". 'ion mind your preaching, and I'l keep
'cm awe, e•" •