The Exeter Times, 1886-1-14, Page 2"I tell you
be glorious; fun
year and propos
lor, and see Wha
said Cobweb to
we were ta int
''What do you a ink about it &lei '
We all agreed t . t it would be glorious
fun. Y
"But who has Aluck enough to ar‘ it 1"
gala Lela Gibes. ,
.4. who, , „badeed,Olut •r humble ser-
,
vant I" Bald Cobwi
"Oh, ye,
s Cobs, i. can do it to perks
-
don 14 maid SteppW Barnet, clapping her
hands in high. glee "and you know the
rest of us will be ound where we can
hear &lithe fun," id she.
"Bub, Cobweb, how will you manage
Ib 7" mad Lou, " Iknow you are equal to
any emergency, but I don't seem to
think of any one you can practice on. this
time." ,
"Well I do,"ald Cobweb, "so keep
still a minute and I will unfold a plan."
"Go ahead 1" oaid all of us in concert,
for we well knew there was something
rieb on hand when Cobweb put on that
face and manner.
" Well. girls," said Cobweb, with a
smile, "You knew there is to be a leap -
year ball next Monday night at the town
nail, and I small ask - Olu Black," as we
girls call him,"
' Oh," said Lon, "you will never
dare 1 He will annihilate you with one of
his looks 1"
"Oh, psbaw 1 don't you believe your-
self. I rather think Cobweb is up to that
sorb of thing."
"Well, Cobweb," said I, " get the
programme all arranged, so that we can
all hear the fun."
's ;Proposal.
that it la, girits, it would
tei take advantage of leg)"
to some °rose old bache,
he would do about it,"
he rest of the girls, as
wn11; one ;eight.
OM that night, and I, determined to take
advantage of it. Now I am ready to
make you the happiest woman ih the
world at aninlme ; the sooner the bettea-
What do yea eater
Cobweb lazed Up at him, end, seeing
that he wae inearneet, wilted, alenthe
said, Then ha reached out lila hendtand
dew her to kat, paying;
"Now it rrasiu8 with you to Pan
whether it sha be binding or not. I am
Ali
willing to at, by my promise ; are you 7
Shallyesen ,er it a bona fide engage-
' or not V' ,
And he drove her to him andt planted
a leiss on her pi.affing lips.
"1 don't know; let me go," egad Cob-
web.
"Y4)14 Will tell xne soon," said he, as
he held her feat. "Promise, and I will
let you go."
She promised, and he said :
"Now, gilla, coseae out here and per-
suade her she had better marry " Old
Black."
We all came out, looking theepleh
enough I expect. I never saw Cobweb
cornered before, but I think she will
make it all right. We went home in
higla glee. but Mr. Black would basist on
eeeing Cobweb home safe, for he said he
always raade it a duty to lookout for
valuable property. How the affair will
terminate I don't know, but I hope she
will conclude to have him, for he is really
a noble fellow, and then such good tImee
we would have going to eee her in that
fine old hourse. If the does I will let you
know all about It. But we shall, never
forget how she looked when ehe dropped
on her knees and. rolled up her ()yea so
lovingly at him when she proposed.
" Oh, yea," said she, " that la all
right."
Well, we got everything arranged be-
fore we went home that night, and ceuld
hardly wait to wee how it would work.
Firat, let me deecribe "Old Blank."
In the first place, he le not old, but a
fine-looking man of about 35 years; but
his quiet, dignified manners, and the fact
of his being unmarried gave him the title
of "Old Black," his real name being Mr.
Levi Black, and the owner of one of the
fmeet farms in the town of L— where
he lived alone with an old housekeeper.
The next day Cobweb Bent him an in-
vitation to the ball, which he promptly
accepted, and Cobweb wan in high glee.
The wished for night at length arrvied,
and we were all on tip -toe, you may well
believe. Cobweb went early; ehe drove
up to thedoor about 7: 30, and, running
np the steps, rang the bell. The old
hotteekeeper came to the door and looked
as though she thonght Cobweb was crszy
when ehe asked for Mr. Black, but she
managed to ask her to walk in and she
would tell her master she wanted to see
him.
"But what ander the sun that chit of
a thing wants of Mr. Black I don't see,"
she muttered, as she went out.
Cobweb sat down and waited with all
patience. Soon the housekeeper came
back, saying Mr. Black would in ready
presently.
Cobweb waited an hour, and he did
not come; then another hour, and= Mr.
Black. She was about to ring for some
one to find out what the trouble was
when in he came, all smiler, saying :
"Have I been long? I have hurried
so I am all nerved up " -
"Oh, no 1" said Cohiveb, "you have
been no time at all 1 Well, we will go
now, if you are ready; but it seems hard-
ly poesible, you have been so very quick 1"
" Oh, yea; I am quite ready.'
"Well, now we win go."
She waited on him into the buggy and
tucked the robes around him as sober
as a judge and gathered up the reins and
they where soon at the ball.
Oh, how honored Cobweb looked as
she came In with Mr. Black hanging en
her arm.. She gave us a look out of those
eyes of her's that set us all into a laugh.
Bat all the while he was ad sober as
could be ; yet I saw a twinkle in his eyes'
that riteant mischief.
Well, all went merry as could be.
When supper -time came Cobweb gave us
the wink to be on hand, as agreed.
We all swallowed our supper as soon as
poseible and Went and hid in a closet
that opened out into the ladies' dressing -
room, where Cobweb meant to entice
him after supper, and then propose to
him in the moat approved atyle, as she
said.
We could but just keep still. We got
all arranged. around the door, which
stood partly open.
Soon we saw them come in. Cobweb
led him to a seat, and, seating herself
beside him, she looked over to our hid-
ing -place and made up a face.
That set us all to giggling, and Sep
laughed out; but he took no notice of
it, so we thought it was all right.
"Dear Mr. Black," said Cobweb,
moving up to him, "I have long waited
for this of opportunity to open my heart
to you, but never until now found one
favorable to my purpose."
He looked rtp, a little surprised, but
did nob seem much frightened.
"1 have long loved you, and know
you to be the the guiding star of my Ex.
istence. Say, now, truly, dear, darling
Levi, don't you love xne I Den% say no,"
said the, dropping on one knee--." don't
leave me withont hope. Give me some
encouragement, and I will be the happi-
eat woman alive! Say, darling, do you
love me a little 7"
And she looked up in his face With
such a complete counterfeit of devotion
we were all convidaed with laughter.
He loOked at her a moment, and then
went off in mesh a fit of laughter as you
never heard.
Cobweb :straightened up with all the
dignity oho could command, and looked
nt Min with a face as long as your arm,
midi he Mopped laughing, when he look-
ed tip and said:
"Well, you dM that well; better than
I Coal, Miss Reed. I am glad yeti did
Ito, for 1 could never have the outrage to
pop the Omni= ; but Mew yeti have
done the thing -I can only say ; I shall
only be too htppy to except your heart
and band, I do love ort;pbave for a
long While, 1 oinerheerd roar conversa.
PERSONAL.
T)3EE. FAIMEI
Swampy Lots. -Not BO Bad as They Look,
When and can be drained, and yet is left
year after year, to grow sedges and swamp
geese, there ought to be a good reason for it,
or elite it ehowe negligent farming. I have
just such a lot- three sores or more in extent,
iest tehx ho ear% d 1 In al t s gnu,. along
eg roonde 1 ads rey, he ue ruen
ed the
cows go to find a dry epot to lie upon. A
tall willow hedge fences It on a pert if one
side, and there is a brook end many :Triage
of never failing water in it. Here the bog-
graes is gretn earlier than anywhere else,
and my Jersey °owe get enough of it to col-
or their butter a month or two earlier than
they otherwise would. In fact, as soon as
the green shows, be it in March or February,
they have a chance at it, and we get golden
butter from that time on, there 18 not
muoh nutriment in the grass, cr whatever
the vegetation is -I think sedge or ore ex is
the name for it- but it contains chlorophyl
all the same, which, though green in the
plant is yellow in the butter. It does not
take many days of mild. weather to start the
tussocks sprouting, by day, and the peepers
piping by night, all over the swamp, and
very boon the cows will need very little, if
any other f &len I do not think there is
as much butter in these sedges, even though
tender, iniceulent and abundant, as there is
in poor upland pasture. Still, the butter
comers abundantly, audit has not only good
color, but a fresh grassy flay in
The warm weather comes on,
and the
sedge becomes tough and vsb y. The cows
gnaw the upland grasses, which grow on the
few patehee of hard ground, down to the
roots, so after the grass starts well on the
upland, the cows of mune " go to grass,"
and leave the sedge to grow. Well, it does
grow, and after the hay orop is all in, we
mow this, and it gives me a big stack of sev-
eral tons of at least good bedoing. Young
stock will eat a good part of it, and cows
and horses nibble at it. It is rich in ash
constituents, and goes a great ways toward
making a big manure pile. If I were to
"reclaim" the meadowe, I should hardly
know what to do, It would change my
whole system -no yellow butter in Maroh,
and very little in April. I would have to
raise more rye for straw, get less and not so
valuable manure, and net have such an easy
time with my hat log. No doubt the mead-
ow would yield splendid timothy and or-
chard grass, and there would be more mon-
ey in it, but now, as for a good many years
past, I am not quite resell to give up the
only :swamp meedow I have left.
The daughter of the millionaire of the
uture will probably be a billion heiress.
The late Marehal Serrano of Spain dur-
ing hisepolitical career saw eighty-four
changes of Ministry in that country, for-
ty rebellions, and twelve changes in the
head of the State.
Mies Nellie Hobson, of Piralfingford,
Conn., has been offered a situation to
teacli oil painting in a college in North-
ern India at a salary of $4,000 a year,
but it is not MUM Hobson's choice to go.
Mr. G. M. Crawford, for thirty,four
years Pads correspondent of the London
News, has jam died after seven weeks'
auffering from blood poisoning, superin-
duced by the Ming of a weep un the car-
otid artery.
Mme. Sembrich, the prima donna, has
presented her leige lord with a son in
Dresden. Mme, Nilsson, who is also in
Dteaden, as Boon as she heard of the
birth Irremediably offered to become god-
mother for the boy.
Mr. G. W. Duff Assheton Smith, the
English politician, lives in a little world
of his own, a park surrounded by a wall
eight miles long and fifteen feet high.
Day and night the gates are closely bar-
red. None of his neighbors have any
idereef what is going on within the wall,
save occasionally they hear that he has
purchased another elephant, or that his
pet bear is dead, or that he has taken out
his five thousandth dog license.
new Pretender has turned up In
Paris. He is a young man of intellig-
ence, who claims to be the Prince Imper-
ial. His story is that he was not Jailed
in Zalnland, but captured by the Zains,
from whom he soon after escaped. He
says that he walked clear acroes Africa to
the Mediterranean and creased to Mar.
seines. He resembles the late alleged
Prince slightly and has been kindly cared
for by the police.
Caricusly enough, Frederick J. Stim-
son, better known as "J. S. of Dale,"
doeernot regard the writieg of" stories as
his business in life. " Gaerndale," "Mrs.
Knolbys," " The' Crime of Henry Vane,"
and other tales that have made his repu-
tation, are the outcome of hours of lei-
sure and amusement. Since in 1878 he
was graduated from Harvard,. he has
studied and practiced law assiduouely.
Daring the last five years he has been at
work on a laer book, which Is eeow,in the
hands of the publisher. The title Is
"t American Statute Law."
, •
Representative Romeis of Ohio, whose
seat,Frank Hurd 18 contesting, is a Ger-
man. The New York Tribune says: He
began bueiness a cabin boy on a Lake
Erie steamer. Then he got to be porter,
and finally became a baggage -master on
the' Wabash. Read. Dalin last years'
campalgn'a Democratic speaker fulminat-
ing against him said: " hle's nothing but
a baggage -smasher." Romehe friends
took up the cry and elected him on the
strength of it, just as Rawan was elected
Sheriff in Philadelphia this year on the
cry "nothing but a paper -hanger."
Just aS Bad.
The Boston Transcript tells a atory
about two men who thought that women
as conversers were far behind men In the
choice of topics. The story recalls the
lime from Hudibraa :
" Compound for sine they are inclined to,
By damning those they hove no mind to."
"What things women are 1" exclaimed
Brown. "My wife and another woman
sae a whole half-hour talking aboub how
to narrow off a Mocking, and from the in-
tereat they took he the discussion, one
would think the ealvation of the race de-
penoed on IL"
"I know it," replied White. "I've
heard a °Duple of women disease for half
o day over the best way to pin a tidy on
a chair -back."
Then Brown and White spent the re-
mainder of the evening in a very betel,
lectual conversation over the reepective
merits of Curve and atraight pitching as
dpplied to the national game. Each ev,
menially gat as mad as a Much hare, and
have not spoken to each other since.
There may be nothing wrong about
taking tea qtaletly, but Mr. Andemon of
First avenue, Neve Yerk, doesn't think
so, Burglars took 1$1,000 worth Of tea
frota his tea store ab night. He hopes the
burglars and hot the tea will get into ho
water.
M. Lookroy, the Realm' leader, le one
of the gayest and wittiest men in Paris.
WISDOM'S WOBDS,
The more you say, the less people reinaena-
bet.. '
Sinaplicity of character la the natural. re.
suit el profound thoughte.
The plant of happiness comet thrive With-
out the air of cheerfulness.
The innocence of the intention abates
nothing of the mischief of the example,
lnfake friends with your creditors, if you
eat, but never make a oredltor cf your
friend,
The harvest gathered in the fielda of the
past is to be brought Immo for the um of
the present.
Many people mistake stubl orness for
bravery, meson:tem for economy, and vilenees
for wit.
Deprive the people of the means of pro-
per subsistence and you enslave and des-
troy the netion.
Cheerfulness is an excellent wearing qual-
ity. It has been called the bright weather
of the heart.
We should be ae cheerful of our words as
of our actions, *rid as tar from eyeaking ill
as from doing 111.
Gold and silver would be better as mere
medals of oommerce than as fluctuating le-
gal tenders in the hands of speculators.
For a gold currency the people aro being
encouraged to notifies their goods, their
liberties, their children and themselves.
Give 110 quarter to those vices which are
of thine inward family, and having a root
in temper plead a right and propriety in
thee.
To avenge one's self is to confess that one
has been wounded; but it is not the part of
a noble mind to be wounded by an injury.
Who is vi ire? He that learns from every
one. Who is powerful? He that governs
his passione. Who is rich? He that Is
content.
Those that would be safe have need to be
suspicious of the tempter. The garrison
that surrounds a party is not far from being
surrendered.
He who expresses in his conduct justice
and charity accomplishes the most beautiful
works; the good man is, in bis way, the
greatest of all artists.
Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared
with our own private opinion; what a man
thinks of himself, that it is which determines
or rather indicates, his fate.
It does us good to admire what is good
and beautiful; brit it does us infinitely more
good to love it. We grow like what we ad-
mire, but we become one with what we
love.
Tee foundation of good labor in any
sphere is a good man, and all that is done
to give breadth, depth and fullness to him
will react in nitimete improvement upon
his work.
Timely Suggestions.
We find the following plan floating among
our exchanges : Have a strap in halter long
enough to pats through ring in post or
manger and each to the hind feet when the
horse stands as naturally tied. Fasten a
strap around the ankle of one hind toot, pass
the halter -strap through the ring, between
the fore legs, and featen to the strap around
ankle • pass a euroingle around the horse
to ho:d up the strap. Let him pull; he
will sit down like si dog, only to get up the
worst beat hone you ever saw. A few at-
tempts will break the most inveterate
halter -breaker.
Probably poets and timbers out now will
not prove as durable as if out at midsum-
mer. Such is said to be the experience of
those who have tried cutting at both sea-
sons but few want to epend time then to
out fence -posts, and it is well to save out all
such as are suitable for that purpoee when
cutting fuel. Bean poles and pea -brush may
also be saved out now, which will save
time in getting them at planting time.
There is great economy in feeding corn-
stalks which have firat been cut into as short
pieces as posaible. If the stalks are cut
before frost injures them, cattle will devour
warly the entire stalk. An acre ot etalks
thus managed will keep a cow three months,
but it will pay to add some corn -meal, es-
pecially if the cow is giving milk for butter.
If milk only is desired, bran made into a
slop with W141M water is better than corn-
meal, which is likely to fatten rather than
increase the milk yield.
The Homestead finds no trouble in mak-
ing a hog fence of wire. Use 'six wires,
and poste about a rod apart. Use hog wire
for the lower stranda, and pull the lower
wire quite close to the gourd, and the
`second four inches above the first. They
are cheaper than boarda and in every way
better.
Most of the farming that din be done in
winter is in the barnyard. Before cold
weather it should be covered two or more
feet deep with straw, which will be trampled
down waile the gronnd"is soft, and will
help to save the droppitige of stock from
waste. Successive layer. of , straw may be
added at times, especially if there is stook
enough to make a due , proportion of
manure.
, Live Stook Rotes.
Janna.ry Is a critical month with all kinds
of live stook. They should be kepG com-
fortable and gaining. If they begin to fall
off in condition, they will be almost sure to
lose rapidly, and will require more food and
better care to keep them up, than if well
housed, and continuously well fed. Be sys-
tematic and regular, then they will not
stand and worry for food or water'and will
take time to feed, to ruminate, and to rest.
Look after shede and stablea, 'to keep them
clean and warm. Water ought not to freeze
in cow or horse stables, on the coldest
nights, and at the same time the ventilation
should be such, that the air is always sweet.
Piga suffer greatly with the oold, and should
have dry, well -littered nestle always. Lit-
ter them with straw or swamp hay, enough
so that they oan cover themeelves out of
sight in it. Sheep should have dry sheds ;
they bear a great deal of cold, but sheuld
not have wet nor dirty astraw to lie in.
Where much straw is to be thrown into their
eheds, provide a few movab'e platforms,
like old barn doors, for them to stand upon.
They will be a great comfort to them, and
they are easily turned ever when fresh straw
is thrown in, or they get dirty, Fowls will
ley if they have warm houses, are well fed,
and have a chances to exerolee. The free
range of the male sheds, theep elied'
t and
the barnyards:, gives uettally sufficientex-
ordia.. If debarred from there, ;hey innat
have sheltered rune and bare ground. Ducks
need to be well fed, but not a/leveed to get
too fat if they are to begin laying limey.
Too much corn is always bad, except for
fattening poultry, as it produces internal
fat, stops laying, and makes the fowls lazy.
No exercise, no eggs.
The Florida sponge fisherman have just
oornmenced the season's bit:sine:3a. The an.
nual yield is about 350,000 pounds.
The late M. Perrin of the Comedie Fran-
cais when a young man was betrothed to a
remarkably beautiful young wenian. She
fell ill with amallpon and was disfigured for
life. The first person to visit her whon she
was allowed to ambled any ohe wee M.
Perrin. 44 Ah 1" maid she, with a istaile,
"you have come to be set free from your
engagement." "I have cense," eaicl he,
"to hasten the day of ottr marriage I"
Jite(ie
Peop'e often we der what would be the
reeulte of a greet p. eel battle at the present
time. Would 'iiieny shits be deetroyed?
Would the lose otlife be rent? Let ns try
to detoribe shortly 4 few of the probable
features of a fight between two fleets of
modern honolade. Although two beadle
fleets might approach one another in Dome
taotical forznatien, this could not be ad -
bored to for any length off time, and the
battle WOUld 20011 become a series of inde-
pendent duels between individual fillips.
This is at once apparent when we consider
that most, if uot ail, of the ships would
have rams, and it would therefore be highly
necessary for a oaptein to have perfect con-
trol over the movements of his ship, to pre-
vent her beieg rammed by an enemy.
At the outset of the action the torpedo
boats would probably take a very aotive
part, and until exterminated, which they
certainly would be in time, would engage
great attention, and be effective in einhing a
few ships. It may be eaeily concluded that
every ship would be steaming fast during
the action, this being neoeseary to avoid
beirg rammed, to get into favorable posi-
tiona for discharging torpedoes, and to elude
the iire of an enemy. Heavy gun fire would
of course be maintained from the commence-
ment, of the Action, and those ships
engines got disabled from this (wage would
speedily be rammed; and at this point we
consider the great lees of life would take
place, for the ettarion that the boats of a
ship, being always exposed to meohine.gun
fire, would at an early stage of the :taloa be
riddled and shattered with allot, and in the
incredibly short time in which a ship sinks
after being rammed it would be impossible
for the crew to improviee other means to
save themselves from drowning. NAteps
seem yet to have been taken by our .Admin
alty with a view of ptoviding for this con-
tingency. It has been suggested that a
hospital ship bearing the Geneva cross
should accompany a fleet into the action to
receive the wounded. We would make a
further euggeetion-narnely, that thie ship
should be provided with fast steaming boats,
peculiarly marked to show their pacific na-
ture, which would proceed to the assistance
of the crew of a sinking ship; by this meane
numbers of the men might be eaved who
would otherwise certainly be drowned. It
is not probable that the lose of life from gun
fire would be large, as a great part of the
crew of an ironclad would be under water,
the rest being inside the armored portions
of the ship.
Give the Boys a Chance.
Frank and trustworthy boys carry their
honesty on their faces, and when such are
needed for services, or desire any favor, an
intelligent person is not only excusable for
putting faith in them but may confer a great
eamouragernent and benefit by doing so. A
gentleman of wealth and high official posi-
tion says:
.
Somewhat more than fifty years ago I was
appointed midshipman in the navy and sent
to New York. I was only 14 years old, and
being of a delicate make and email stature,
did not look more than 11. My previous life
had been epent in the country, and I knew
nothing of city ways oribusiness proceedings.
Payday was the 30th of the month, but I
wanted some money on the 20th, and passing
through Wall street I went in a brokers
office and eaid :
"You lend money here, do you net ?"
"Yea."
"I want to borrow $20 for ten days," I
said,
I did not then understand the quizzical
manner with' which the broker looked at me
before replying:
" You shall have it and I won't charge
you any interest for it either,"
He gave me the money and I signed the
receipt; and I need not add, the twenty dol-
lars were promptly returned at the expire -
tion of ten days. I am sorry that I have
forgot the name Of the broker. I mentioned
the ineident many years afterward to a gen-
tleman who said it was the most extraor-
dinary story he had very heard of a Wall
street broker, of all men.
Another case happened In Washington
about fifteen years ago. I was standing on
the porch of Willard's Hotel, when a little
boy with a bright, honest face said to me:
Please, sir, lend me twenty-five cents
to set me up in businees. I want to buy
some newspapers to sell."
I replied :
" My boy, Itiaven't got twenty-five cents,
but her are fifty centre and when you
want to return it you will find me tat this
hotel."
"Thank you," Bahl the little lad, "1 will
bring it back."
I never expected to' see him or the money
again, and considered it a donation; but in
the evening as I was walking up an down,
in the entrance hall, my ooat was pulled by
a little newsboy, and I turned and beheld
the youngster wno had applied for a loan in
the morning, with the same bright face that
had attracted me then.
"Well, my -little man, what Is it ?" I mid,
as though I didn't know him.
"I have .brought back your fifty cents,
sir," said he, "and. I am ever so much
obliged to t ou. I have made more than a
dollar clear profit with your meney."
A Swindler's Sharp Trick.
A French nobleman played a game ea
ecarte with a foreign Count. The latter won
and the Froroehman pulled out 10,000 frame
and handed them to tho winner, who quiet-
ly secured them in his pocketbook and went
home. Early next morning a gentleman
of aristocratic bearing and decorated with
the order of the Legion d'Honneur was shown
into the apartment of the foreign Count who
Was still aeltep. "Monsieur,' he mid in
tones trembling with excitement " you hold
in 'yeur bands' the honor of a whole family."
"Indeed 1" "Kindly tell me, was it you
who played with M. de EL?" "Yes." "You
won 10,000 francs and he raid you." "Vet,
in bank notes, and I have them here." "Web,
sir, the notes are -false,- Imes night we hoard
of the nefarious; practleee of our,
and I came' int beaven's matte to oak ' you to
exchangeettheni 'for ten cams I have
brotight." The noble foteigfter at once ex-
ohanged"the notes, In the evening he was
not a little surprised to meet his epponent at
the °lobo and to be asked to give revenge.
The foreiguer curtly refuted, which led to
an expleuation. The Count drew from hie
pocket the exchanged notes: he heel reeeived
In the motning,,, They were false. The gen.
Marian with the decorations was a notorious
Prow+ swindler,
A Kansati man "points with pride" to
the foot that .he wife has wore one bohnet
fer tweuty-five •yeare. The feeling with
which the Wife points to the husband has
not been describe&
AI Parliament at Dublin.
It looks now very much as if Home Rule,
on a solid foundation, and within retie
bounds, had been promised to Ireland by
Mr, Gladstone and the Liberal party; and
in response to the preposition Mr. Parnell'e
ohief organ has shouted, "God Save Glad-
stone." We have not heard yet, specifical-
ly, what the details of the new plan are;
but we presume that the same measure of
home government will be accorded to Ire-
land 08 18 given to a province under the Con-
federation. Such a concession, it seems to
us, could not be much of :a menacel to the
empire, or to the tights of the Protestant
minority; for all such questions as Inland
Revenue, Customs, Militia and Defence,
Justice. etc., would still be in the hands
of the British Parliament, wherein would
set aepreeentatives from Ireland, just as we
send our delegates to the House of Com-
mons, Meanwhile, the most intense excite-
ment prevails over Ireland respecting the
intelligencethat Mr, Gladstone "has at lad
yielded to the out -throat rebels of the Em-
pire." There aro rumors of civil war, and
of riots and burninge, and some of the moat
enlightened of the newspapers Boman] like
fish -w yes whose reason has departed. If
Mr. Gladstone's echeme comprehends for
Ireland nothing more than a Dominion
province has under our unioe, there is noth-
ing wh atever tofear ; and we do not be-
lieve that it does. Some of the newspapers
declare that such an act would overthrow
the Conetitution ; but suppose it does over-
throw it? We are the master of the Consti-
tution, and the Conetitution ie our servant.
But it seems to us thee there is more jubi-
lation in Ireland over the promise of a par-
liament at Dublin, than there will be in the
enjoyment of the same, Inthe first place the
-Emerald Lie will look upon the appointment
of a Lieutenant -Governor by the Imperial
Government as aninterference ; and they will
grow disgusted with the meaaure of national
honor that has been conferred upon them
when they find that under the new order the
higher class of public men will go not to the
legielature et Dublin, but to the alien par-
liament at Westminster.
8gORT AND CRISP.
BetelAniON ABROAD.
Ponsionbn--Edueation I don't tell me I
Amerioa is far behind Europe, Why,air
look at Frame°, for instance.
Bagley --Well, what of France ?
Ponoeby-Well, sir, even the little
dren them can speak French,
A FIGIUND IN NEED,
De Guy -Don't say auything
Mudge. Re'ie a friend of mine, b
deed.
Bolgertop-Then he ought to b
in need.
Da Guy -I should say he WAS.
meet him but he strikes me for e dr.
WUY TOY AGBEED.
Mrs. Breeze -1 cien eo sorry, Delia ,
hear that you have rind trouble with ye
husband.
Mtn. Geeze-You
ed, Amelia; merely a
You know married
agree.
Mr.teali'teeze- Can't t. ey ? Well,
ways agree. In fact lamake it a poi
see that we do agree ; or rather that Joh
ogrees with me, which amounts to the same
thing.
Scarcity of' Servant Girls.
The agricultural returns to the Ontario
Bureau of Industries are just published for
the month of November in a pamphlet oft
fifty pages, and very instructive res ding it
is. The great difficulty which the farmers
of Ontario have to endure is the scarcity of
servant girlie The wages of hired men
have fallen from $20 to $17 per month,
while girls' wages have risen fifty per cent.;
but young women are ecarcely to be hired
atal). " Girls for housework are hard to
be got at any price, says Mr. C. H. Kit-
chen of Townsend; "it would be a good
idea to import good girlie" " Plenty of
girle to marry, says George Buskin of
Artemeeia, " but not to work in farm bonne
at milking cowe." " Domeetio servants are
very scarce," writes Tnomas Loyd Jones of
Burford, " which is a great drawback to
our wives, who are nothing better than
white slaves. What with raising a family
and doing the drudgery of a farm house,
this state of thinga will have a Most damag-
ing effect on the rising generation." The
ease in North Grimsby is still mo,e interest-
ing. According to Mr. J. W. Van Duzer,
" servant girls are scarce, and those we have
are getting to be good organ players." So
in Wbitchurch, according to Mr, M. Jones,
" there is a lack of domestic servants. The
agent convinces a family that an organ its
the only thing to'afford uninterrupted hap-
piness, ad when a girl can play 'Old
Grimes is Dead' she is no long,.r a comestic
servant." At HaldiMend, es we are told
by George Kennedy, " the girlie have tell
got ebova hiring; vso canrot get them for
love or motley " At, Yoege elan, according
to Mr. Thomas Moulton, " girls for ser
vats aro arearce, but for wives they are
plenty."
The belief that agricultural dullnees
Eegland has been greatly exaggerated for
party purpoaes fincle support hi the fact thet
an official return from the 13ankruptcy
Court shows that in the past fourteen years,
out of a total of 1,175 bankrupts in Eaat
Kent, only 59 were farmers and dairymen,
while under the act of 1888 only fear faem-
ere in East Kent heve filled petitiotte in tile
Bankruptay Coutt. Yet the fattetere howl
piteottsly for a duty on A:nark:at importe,
which will not be imposed, hoed they never
so loudly.
The misery of Bladed is nearly manifest in
high life aa iti the rags and filth of extreme
proverty,
ve been mieinform
ittle disagreement,
' cannot alwaye
,wttse ,j •
we al -
‘t to
BE GREW FAT ON WATER.
" Bromley, here's an acoount of a Geer -
gin woman who lived forty-eight days on
water,"
"That's nothing, Derringer. My father
has been living on water for the last ten
years."
" You expect me to believe that, eh?
hy can't you add that he grew fat en
it 1"
"Well, he did. He's a sea captain."
INCTJ RABLR.
Scene -Pavement in front of Muldeoly'e
saloon. Time -Sunday morning.
Foliar min 498 -Good morning, Mrs, Mc-
Carty.
Mrs. McCarty (with the family allow-
ance of beer under her ,apron) -The top o'
the morning to you, Sir.
Policeman 498 (noticing the protriber-
ance)-It's not well you're looking. Pwhat
is it ? Tumor ?
Mrs. McCarty (shyly) -No. Can, sir.
MAXIMS FOR MTMORAITTS.
True bravery is shown by performing
without witnesses what one might be oap-
able of doing before all the world.
He that talks big and arrogantly of him-
self, is univereally condemned as a trouble-
some and ill-bred companion.
Beware of careleesness ; no fortune wil
stand it long. You are on the high road to
ruin the moment you think yourself rich
enough to be careless.
Affectation in any part of our carriage is
lightieg up a candle to our defect, and
never faile to make us be taken notice of,
either as wantingte seta- wanting sincerity.
The man who ne failed in business can
not possibly kno whether he has any
"grit" in him, or is worth a button. It hi
the man who fails, then rises, who ia really
great in his way.
There is nothing with which men are eo
liberal as advice. le may benefit or blight
a life, or save or ruin a man. Good advice
is better than gold. It should be given with
wisdom and received with caution.
Every man is a debtor to his business.,
from which as men o, of course, seek to
receive countenan an profit, so ought
they of duty to e 8 or themselves, by
way of amends, to a help and ornament
thereunto.
Character is a fabric., Every faculty is a
spinner, spinning every day its threads, and ,
almost every day threads of a different cola;
and character is made up by the weaving, -el rw
together of all these inntemerable threada I h
of daily life,
The generality of mankind create to them101
-
selves a thousand needless anxieties by vaixi th(
search after things that never, nor never 1 the
will be found upon earth. Let us be con- n etc
tented with our lot, and endeaver to make
it as happy as ev-mcan.
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A Specimen Spiritualist. ed
of r
A noted spiritualist of New York visited,' Pc't
Montreal some time ago, and before leaving'„a 8'
had several conferences with some of the. "ct`
leading dead of that City. His acquaintance. „ ewei
ship in the other world extends back to tuherui,
gentlemen who lived at the time of the I'm"
deluge; and he has been enlightening somew
of the penple in the United States, as we',' th,t'
perceive by a New York paper, upon cer-r °, 11
tain S3riptural problems. He is perfeatly ' boar
well acquainted, he says, with Jonah, whom , add
he describes as a persen of wavering tharae: I Ad'
ter, though "extremely sociable r and he er
declares that "the gentleman never was ailai
wallowed by a whale." The Scriptures are ing
true be maintains, but "the incident with pref
respect to my friend Jonah was this : He, ' .or18,
was fleeing away from certain people, an, nig
God put in his way a ship whose name was - Past
The Whale. Into that vessel my friend went; ped
and after the days mentioned in Holy Writ, ' two
he was delivered from the ship, which Wad keei
oast upon dry land." The New York papers
seem. to delight in his irreverence; and a,' of r
large number of persons accept the new yen, "Ch
tion of Jonah, and ask all mrtnner of ques- a thou
tion a respectivg his personal appearance ardnena
The spin tealiat, however, is allowing lite ney
mind to wender aye y from sacred thinga,
and he spends: his ale, at latest accounts, , orun
ravingaboutof
onoutabof eau ' Egyptian Princesse mu
e
odaughter
reartabs, who, he, peel
decleres, reciprocate in affection. Twon four
obstacles are in the v thy of his marrying the ; veri;
Eastern beauty with the large, dusky eyesin of ay
namely, he has a wife in New York, and he- This
has not the advantage of being dead. He' Sten
playa for hie release from life hourly, and meet
the only cloud that etch& upon the exquieite wee
horizon of the other world is the dread thee,
when his wife followa, she may Heck to
eeperate him from hie beautiful bride, with
her lotus bads'and her divine tioara.bei. He
wae 8d/A with an illness loot wok, whiclg
ho bolteved veould be fatal, and as ,heelay
uipeanhisc:07ofdelight, h, vielltfhrt,igid ever, he repeated
nn Goat
Elbasthmcloim
YI:rg'EsoTlife•lodbYhlogd :fast-'
bis
ileesftag,tlaoarrnO1 dn
oyuet visionvvlspeechlets woe upon
ew, pa rs nbereeekse ntriupPpbdy,batelike
gly
vole° of his wife, "You're dbrunk agin you
into th0 "vaiity deeps, ' end the spiritualist
Sat up and ilooked in
Arabi Pasha is in failing health. The
climate of Ceylon does nob agree 'with him.
It is recalled that Senator Shermaft Was
the stemma person -next after exTreal-
dent Arbletir-to shake hands: with Mr.
Cle-veland after hip inaoguration 08 Prod'
dent,
spore
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