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The Exeter Times, 1886-5-13, Page 7YOUNG FOLKS. A PUZZLED 'TIGER. A orenn OP nevem Tie'1XA Two men eat under a clump of palrn trees on the bank of a email river in upper Ben.( i gal eating their tlffin lunch with thea1?P e- itite of men who had been all morning is the open air. One of them, a tail, weather. teemed, blaols.muataobed fellow, was evt dently an Eaglieh officer. Hie companion, who was a good deal mailer and slighter than himself, did not look much like either a fighter or a hunter but the almost ouper• etitleus reverence paid him by the Iiiedeo eervaute showed that he must boa great man in tome way. In+ fact, there were few' more famous acientlete or more adventurceie travellere than Profeeeor Anneroyd, Fellow of the Brltibh aye' Geograp hical Society, Peew- ' Ydent'othe Ccloottu Aatiq ca r a Club, Hoverer amber the RUAalanImperial Anode ion of S tientifio ltesearah, with other titles too numerous to mention. There was hazily a corner c f the earth, however remote or dangerous, into which' he had, not thrust his little bald head and gold - rimmed spectacles ; and people who saw him for the first time, after having heard of his exploits, were greatly startled to dao, instead of the big bearded, sun -burned fel- low whom they cxpeoted, a slender, pile faced little man, who looked as Jibe would- be knooked up or knocked down by the first mishap that befell him. In the centre ofan open tiptoe just behind the two picnickers stood a large looking. glass, which the Professor had, just been nw- ingin ane of his experiments ; and at' this the native . attendants were lookinlg and pointing excitedly, although keeping their distance from it all the while as carefully as if it had been a packet of dynamite, " Sse those fellows 1" laughed Maj tr 'Hampton, as he finished bin second plate of cold chicken, " I'll he bound they all take you for a magician cf the very first olaea. Just now I overheard two of them having a discussion about what you could be trying to do. One would have it that you were at work to discover a buried treasure." " So I am, ' chuckled the Professor, cut- ting himself a elide of bread, "'but ft's a treasure of knowledge, not of money. How- ever, thio e:an't be n nth fun for you, my dear Major; and its toe bad of me to keep you hare all day doing nothing, jest for my convenience. Couldn't you find a wild beast ortwo to amuse yourself with while I'm at work ?' " No such look," replied Hampton, shak- ing his head. " This bit along the river here used to be a famous cover for the big game ; bat niece they began to cat away the jungle you can't get a decent tiger here for love or money." The words were scarcely uttered when, ' as if on purpose to give the lie to them, the native servants, who had been erj eying their long pipes in the cool shade of the trees that flanked the olearing, euddenly sprang up and fled in every direction with shrill orieerror. Mingling with their outcries oaihe a deep, hoarse roar, which the hardiest aportamen never hears quite un• moved—the ory of a hungry tiger on the track of hie prey, " Up into that banyan -tree for your life, Anneroyd 1" shouted Hampton, leaping to his feet, " for that fellow means business, and no mistake." Up flew the Professor as nimbly as a monkey, and the next instant Major Hamp- ton was beside him. But even in that mo- ment of deadly peril the veteran sportsman had found time to snatch up his double-bar- relled rifle an ammunition pouch. Hitherto p Bight of the llindoos and the fearful sound that accompanied it had been the only signs of the terrible creature's presence. But the Major's keen eyes soon detected a stirring among the bushes, and then a great flat head and fiery eye gliding forth from them. "Isn't he a eplendid fellow ?" whispered Hampton, as coolly as if he were looking at the beast through the bars of a cage in a menagerie. " He seems to be in wait of a lesson, though, and I'm going to give him one." But byy had hardly loaded one barrel of his rifle livhen he euddonly broke into a fit of laughter so violent as alined to shake him off his perch, And well he might. The tiger was indeed about to get a•lesaon, but ouch a one as neither he nor hie two enemies had foreseen iu the least, The tall mirror wan still standing fn the middle of the charms., just as the co Ales (native.porters) had left it ; and the tiger, coming out right in front of it, saw' (as he thought) another tiger advancing against him open-mouthed. His very whiakera bristled with rage at thie defiance, and with a -savage growl ho drew baok , for a decisive spring. But in doing so he moved boyend the line of refleotion, and inetantly the other tiger disappeared as if he had never been. This was evidently something quite new to the "royal Bengal," He stopped short, stared blankly around him, dropped hie tail, and altogether looked so utterly be- wildered and foolish that the two watchers almost burst their sides with laughing at him. " Well," gasped the Major, "if this isn't the beat fun I've seen since I came out, my name's not Dick Hampton," Meanwhile the tigeroeemed to have made up his mind that the puzzle lay in the mys- terious looking•glass, and that it was hie duty to examine it more closely. IIe crept cautiously toward it, and of course the other Alger reappeared at once. Now for it ! With one tremendous bound ho was close upon hie en; but the shock of his leap mirror, and the phantom tiger vanisher overturned le.,), no more. This second disappearance was quite too much for the nerves of the " jangle king," With a low whine of dismay he turned sharp round, and was about to make off, when Maj sr Hampton, who had no notion of loving his game ao Deadly, levelled his rifle and fired, The sting of the bullet in hie fienk changed tbo tiger's fear to fury, and with a roar like thunder it darted to- ward the tree whence the shot had coino; but instantly the second barrel sunt its charge home, and the rimester rolled over int* the jungle grass, a harmless heap of black and yellow fur, Couldn't Stand Civilization. A hoar broke into the house of a Nevada miner the other night, He was away, and hie wife thought he had come home inebria- ted, She did not wait to light a lamp, but began operations at once, When the boar fin ally got away. it is said that he did not stop funning till he had traveled eight miler into the heart of the mountains, and he was euoh a sight that the other bears would not aadoolate with bum, Dr.York, aninfidel lecturer who has lately bean visiting Now South Wales, on leaving was preeett3d with an album con• taining photograpt a of ersonsand places hi the colon, He closed a speech df thanks to the honors by flaying, "God bless you 1" w'ot# uy All Accident When we eay that something beppen. ed ;from chance we really moan only that it occurred, without or in spite of. prevl one pianis ug by the men who wished t control ev'ante. History knows of em Aires which have been lost or saved "b accident," thatis, ere the result of ac Which were not within the eenbrol of so verelgne and generals. Oae such ease—the story is narrated 1 the sepond part of the'Glreeill Memoirs was bhe victory, in 1846, of the Eaglfe oyer the Sikhs ab Forozeshah. At a er'ti`oe of x 1 point) in the battle,th governor-general of India, Lord Hard loge, who'commauded in person, though the battle was loot. Believing that hi army would be deabroyed, and not ex peoting to survive; the defeat, he gay his watch and some other tillage to one o hie ofri oars ,skin theythat might t be oon g g veyedyohl his f with the assurance tha hie last thoughts, were about her. Just at this time, one of Lord Hard- inge'a staff, also in despair, baying lost ilia head, through nervousness or fear, rode up to the commander of the Ecglleh Cavalry, and communicated an order which he deolared he had received, that the cavalryehould retreat. The comman- der asked for a written order ; the . staff - 'liner admitted that he had none, but spoke sa positively` as to the instruction which he was charged to deliver, that the commander gave the order that hie mon should retire, The Sikhs, seeing the cavalry drawing off,. enpposed the movement, to be for bhe purpose of�attaoking'them on their flank, and ending off their communications. A panic Selz sd them, and they began to retreat. The English commander•in- chief noticed the disorder in the Sikh ranks, and ordered a charge along his. whole line which reunited in the rout of the enemy. Thus a viotory whloh saved India to England was due to a nervous cfiiGer who invented an order he had never received. If the British troops had been defeated, the whole of India would doubtless have risen, to throw off the yoke of those whom bhe Sikhs had beaten. 0 y re n h e t e • e f • Four Noble Dogs. Four excellent dog stories come to us by way of our exchanges. One of them tells of a Georgia dog which was lying in the yard when a negro girl rushed out of the house with her areas burnirg. The dog sprang at the girl and tore away part of the burning clothing. She broke away, bot the dog again caught her and continued bis efforts until all her clothing was born off. That the girl, though much burned, still lives is due to thia dog, whose mouth and foreteeth were badly burned in his efforts to save her. Another story le of a good dog owned in the wicked city of Chicago. His name !a Blamark. A few nights ago he found a very young baby that had baen aban- doued, and stood guard over it, apparent- ly dividing his attention between efforts to stop the little one's pitiful wailing and to attract the attention of persons in a house near by. He showed great satin• faction when relieved fro az all responsibil ity concerning the waif. The third dog lives in Cincinnati, and his name is Jumbo. He was sitting on the sidewalk by his master, a negro, when a child fell on the track dire:holy in front of an approaching street car. Before the car could reach it Jumbo rushed, out and grabbing the little one's dress palled ie out of danger, Within six inches of the wheels. The fourth story relates to a bird dog owned by William Goodall, an ex -pugilist of Youngstown, O. One night last week Mee. Goodall was sleeping with her two children, when she was awakened by the dog barking and pulling' at the bedclothes. She at once becarne aware that the room was full of smoke, and rushed out to give the alarm. While she was gone the dog 'seized the night dress of a little girl of three, and carried her out of the room. The other child was rescued without trouble. Tho bnuse was burned. Ways •of Stjending Honey. A young man anxious to be admitted to a fashionable cligae in one of our large cities is reported to have precured intro- duction to twenty young married, women within the circle, and then to have invit- ed them to a dinner, which was the most lavish and costly ever given in this coun- try The dainties for each guest, exclusive of wines, cost over one hundred dollars ; the room was formed into a bower of the rare est roses ; the menu for each, lady was featened to an exquislte fan, worth fifty dollars. The host allowed these details of cost to become public. The day after the dinner, the young women who had accepted it met, turned their host into sport, and resolved to brevet him in future with cool canbempb. His money was spent, and what had he gained for it? Nothing bub well deserv- ed esert/ed ridicule. The doors which ho had hop- ed to open with a golden key were still locked in his face. A'few rods from the hotel in which this feast was laid, another young man, about a century ago, gathered a few of his comrades, and laying down ten dol - lava, eakped by hard manual labor, urged each of them to do the aanie, and they "might buy some books to supply the education which had been lacking in their lives." They purchased a few volnmea which were kep in an attic room in an alloy. In time other books were added and the library grew. " This was tho mother," days Bigelow, °'of all the subscription librarian in North America. It wive soon imitated in other towns and other provinces The Ameri- can people became thus acquainted with books, and in a few years were better 1 etruoted and ,nore intelligent then people; of the same rank in other countries." The young man whose outlay of a few dollars helped and etrengthenocl him throughout all his work in life, was Ben- j Milne Franklin, and the work which lb enabled hien to do was the founding of a great nation. E soh of theme lads spread his table, and invited hit guests, but how different was the feast, and its resalta,—:,1m, Ea;, Cadmus was the first postman. Ho brought lettere to Greeee, WOMAN SU,F4iAQ . BY A. R, OAiRHAN, Z. A. Our humanity ie strong en surface; indi. , cation Let come fellow hurrying aerobe a stony field kink up a lump of co > 1, and we mink a shaft loeklog for tons of the bleak diamond. An idler disoarne a obit of gold - Oast eparkiing in a, shallow stream, and we turn the whole mountainside into a siuios* way starching for the preoloue metal. So with all popular movements, It re quires the keen mind of a Napoleon to sift away the 'parlous fron the reel and found .aa empire on the tumult of a revolution; and even a Napoleon overestimated' the dieoontent of Russia and wrecked his fortunes by trusting them to untried forces. This fault is more partfoularly marked in agitations strictly of the people than in those that are controlled by astute and harmonious leaders, The maltase, far too buoy for careful and abstru ere study, um readily to nenolu el os from, times, nue moot trivial of surface Indica- tions." The striking Knights of Leber, ignoring the counsel of their leaders, fancied that the !introduction of force would be to their advantage, but they Sailed to calculate upon the calling out of the militia. So our great hearted tainperanoe reform - ere, ever anxlouely pressing ouward, are apt to follow with incautious eager nest, sparkling will -o' the -wisps that seam to promlee a ehort.cut to eu000ss, but too often lead to the quick sande of failure. At one time Massaohusetts rejoiced in a practical prohibi- tion, but it was iffioult to enforce, The ory wan reread : Let us exolude beer and light wines from the operations of our law,all drinken will be content with them and h will be then ns trouble to stop the oonsumption of strong spirits. The Prohibitionists eager- ly caught at this seeming panacea for the weaknesses of their Aot, but found when too late that beer drinking vas but an alluring mask for the most beatlal of drunkenness. Similarly delusive, I cannot but think, will our friends find the present movement•, for woman suffrage. They claim, with an ap- parent show of reason, that by enfranohia- ingthe women, a etreng Prohibitory Aot could be carried with a sweeping majority throughout the country. This is a mere supposition, based upon the faot that a majority of the women who have spoken out upon this question have favored Pro- hibition. The natural shrinking that ten- der woman would have from braving public opinion as to what she ought to do, and flaunting before the world her alliance with whlekey and drunkenness, must not be lost eight of. Her's would be a eilent vote. And those of us who have to do with actual temperance work know that in too many instances the avaricious woman exercises a silent but potent influence against reform and right. But grant,for rake of argument, that the woman -vote would be oast solidly for temperance and moral reform—some thing the most ardent advocate of woman franchise would never olaim—why should this be so ? Because woman is a stronger- minded advocate of right than man ? No. Became her moral convictions are of tougher fiber than her husband's. No, they are more easily swayed. Simplybtoauee her's is an unselfish vote, unmoved by party as- sociations and not vitiated by a thirst for off:oo, Bat have we any guarantee that when the woman vote is once fairly in the political field, that it will not be bought and bribed and corrupted until it surpass even the suffrages of men in debasing infln- enoe. Is woman more proof against temp- tation than man, that she should stand un- shaken whore he has fallen ? We have been aoouetomed to speak of them as the " weak- er vessels," and surely we will not expect them to stand a strain with which the sterner six have been utterly unable to cope. "But," says one, " she will not be such a diligent officer -seeker or keep out so restless au eye for the loaves and Sallee Another supposition, my friend, and a very wild one. If woman has a right to vote, she has a right to be voted for, i. e,, to hold (ffiee and draw a stipend. And has it struck you that she is without ambition,, content to be a hewer of wood and a drawer of water for the lends of creation ? I trow not, See has shown a determination to take every inch offered her and is ever struggling for posi- tions higher and mere responsible. At the risk of being deemed ungallant, I would venture to say that her vote would be less reliable than man's because mare easily prejudiced. Women boast that upon short notice they are more acour:te than men, because they move by instinct, while stupid man trusts to hasty, and hence un- reliable, reasoning; and their boast is not far astray, So upon any great question, looming up gradually .above the horizon of thought, women rest upon that mixture of prejudice and impulse that mho delights to term "her inetinot," while man safely and surely reasons from known premises to legitimate conclusions. That the nisjir premise is very often "self ' dorm rot destroy this fact, But the roost destructive effect of granting the french/8e to women would, be seen in our hon;ee, The home is the cradle of moral reform, the fountain whence the pure waters of'oleansing flew; and any movement that ,tire that fountain to muddy impurity blasts the future of the race. A homeleee France is infidel, licentious and abandoned ; while the safety of Britain rests in the sanctity of her hc:mss. This is not a question for duly collated statistics or cold logic. Everyone must go to hie own home and, standing by her moot sacred shrine, lat'his heart and his truer ;manhood What a hale of love and tender respect mete about the names of "mother," tt paster " and "wife!" In the saaotnary ofycur home they seem to embody all that is pare and gentle and nnoiflsh in thle world of oroas-ourrents and greedy, grasping avarice, O.rtside, it. is fret an drag' in a sordid at n x ri d r ogle for eiatenoe, dol - tars and oeute, bargain and dioker, all day long ; inside, it le rest and oslm, a higher world that at times eeonrs nigh onto the greet rest of eternity. Will you tear down the bulwarks and let the clattering world rush in ? Man to -day reeeivee We greatest impulses toward' right at his own firovide whenpbuel- nese and money making have warped hid nature and dried up his life, the uet is dieaolved amici the associations of home and he is sent forth with generous readiness, to dare and to do for ooneofenoe and truth. The home makes the man ; without it he hecomee aekllful, calculating machine, good to makechange and grasp at honors, . And this woman franchise movement will sorely destroy the sheltered haven of the home, and dry up the very souroe of all moral reform. It is not merely the deposit• lag of a ballot paper, but it thrower back the broad doors of political life and invites all women to enter. Then with the wivee upon the hustings and the mothers at the coauoil beanie, all sweating with the vituperation sad brute struggle for politital , flue; what becomes of the calm, soothing infiaence of our fireside 1 This is no fanciful picture, woman has never yet refused a fancied ad• vance, and she never will. Would to Gad she could wee that with one hand on the oradle and the other on the heart of her hus- band, she ie the mightiest factor in the world to -day 1 But enough for the selfish nide of this question. In another letter will be consider- ed the utterances of the Btbleand the Bible's great Anther, 1 have nothing but the highest praise for theChrietianAssolatione, Temperance Unions, Missionary Saoletiea and kindred organizations founded and onntrolled by women. They are there doing their proper work, and laboring grandly in their God-given sphere. But it behooves all temperance workers, men and women, to be very careful how they trust all to even such dazzling " surface -indications." THAT SNAKE STORY. Further Particulars about the Young Alan who Cara fed a Snake Around with him, A Grand Falls, Me., despatch gives the following additional particulars of the case of D avid Ferguson, who had a snake Inside of him : Yesterday afternoon he began coughing violently. He had grown purple in the face, when a snake's head suddenly darted out of hie month. Ferguson saw the snake but a moment, and then fell fainting to the floor. His sister Rebecca came in, and when he recovered he told her what had happened. She asked him to cough again, and said if the snake showed his head she would seize it and pull the reptile out. Ferguson there- upon coughed two or throe minutes. Re- becca stood up in froat of him with her hands upheld. Suddenly the snake's head appeared with such a hiss that Rebecca jumped away. David told her not to be afraid, but to grab sure next time. Rebec- ca wrapped a towel around her right hand and steed ready. Ons more coughing spell, and the snake's head darted out. Rebecca made a lunge at it and naught its head in the towel. Then she quickly wound it round her hand and gave a jerk, Out came three feet of a snake, and around its toile pieoe of flash from j eat below the throat, into which the snake had grown. A blood ves- sel was ruptured and Ferguson bled to death in a short time. Lical doctors think tee snake must have been swallowed by Fergu- son while drinking water in the dark dur- ing some of his deer -stalking expeditions. ei-sea—v The Crrrier•Pigeoc. The carrier, the acknowledged king of pigeons, has In ate name the source of a great annoyance to its sensitive fancier. He admits fer it an anoeetry dating back to the mees:tge=bearers of Persian kings and Tnrkiah sultana, and that the peculiarities of structure -the prominent wing -butte, the great muscular development which gives the full -rounded breast, the wing best adapted to speedy and long continued flight, and the protruding eyeball peculiar to the traveling bird, all points he values for their part in the perfect symmetry—that these wore all fixed is its day of naefnlness as the courier of royalty. Bat he is oare- ful to explain that he has counted out all useful qualities and premiere' values in the bird of to -day ; that the points he valnea highest are those of development of growth to perfect which his bird is oarefully se- cluded from the deteriorating itflaences of tun and outdoor air ; that the name is only applicable to it for its elegant carriage, one ref its most valued end to be remarked proportiee ; that it is only the ignorant who could confound the grand high class bird with that little shapeless measage-bearer, the homing pigeon. The carrier has always been held in the highest esteem in Ragland, Moore, writ- ing in 1735 tells of a fancier in Bishopsgate street who kept a silver hatchet and block with which, to chop off the heads of those condemmed to death, "that being of the blood royal they ought not to die after the manner of the common herd." G 'd keens his people from trouble by sav- ing them from sin 'OaY,S7� �',I i Y• 1. '✓� ,. \ l t P�' . No Allowance fol' the Willow's Orowth. Pompey sitz,um etttortirc 1 1 BhIN' GwiNi+, 2'0 MSAStiAll W1.D YOU NO MO! I S DUN SETTLED WAY DOWN n'LOW 11tir `' l .,. LAS YEAR hrAliit, I S nIEdilD A .Pow .4 UL HEAP 'noun Sn0RT WAX' LATELY, BUD I DID'N' Know ex DisEASE WCVS. Senius:An' EBBW' DE eine SYSTEM. PaT rXNG T$E FlLES TO WOR$, 4 fiehtwze to tree rue Pellets or Masora Ban JI*U wheels, As a burleeque,t •sn Yankee in cneit . 1 used to be eatd in the eomio a ere tea Uncle Sint would some day mere e pate aha uudeeNiagara`Veils and run all the intohin ery ,lu the oouutry: ;Iildiouloria aa till ,seemed, Yankee ingenultyhas devised cam thing very like it,, and a bill to put the scheme into praotioe hue recently passed both Houses, of the. I,egialetare. The bill says that • the;company le formed for the purpose of constructing, maintaining. and animating, in oonneetioq with the Niag- ara River, a hydraulic+ tunnel, er subte'rran- cap sewer, for the pubiio <use ef, sewerage and ,drainage and foe furniahing hydraulic power for manufaoeuring purposes in the town of Niagara. The capital Moak is to ba $200 000 at firat, with the right of Increase to $3,000,0l0. The plan Ba f r a m le one. P A great at t e or shaft is to be out through the re k o ose by and parallel with the Niagara River, 160 feet deep and running half a mile or more bank from the falls, The open end of this little shaft or tunnel is to empty out of the rook at the fella a faot or two above the level of the water below the caeoade. Whenever a company wants water power it may sink a vertical shaft from the outface a'mowt down to Cale horizontal abaft. In the bottom of this vertical shaft a turbine wheel is to be placed, and below this a smaller shaft, fora tail race, will carry the water from the wheel to the great horizontal shaft, which will then work as a waste pipe to carry off the water In order to get the needed water to drive the wheel It will only be neoeaeary to build cut a short pier on the river shore to catch the edge of the swiftly flowing current and divert a little of it, by means of a ditch or p'ps, Into the vertical shaft, and eo past the wheel and through the great.eubterranean shaft and back into the river again below the falls. These vertical shafts are to be, big enough to admit one or two of the workmen, who moat place the turbine in position and after- ward attend to It. It is said that a wheel as big as a man's hat will supply 200, horse power, though this was said, carelasely by the 'reporter 'a informant, who acknowledged uncertainty as to the precise amount. The plan is to sell to mannfacturiog nor_ poratione the right to Bink shafts as oloae together as practicable along the line of the great a ante shaft. A glorione suoeeso is prophesied for the oompany. It is meld that cheap,` steady, reliable power le so great an item iia manufactures that a committee of Conneoticut mill owners declared that it would pay them to remove their mills and factories to the town of Niagara. Freabeta, droughts, and lee play misunief with those interests that depend on . water . power throughout New Eogland, but no such an- noyatce, it is said, attends the use of Niag- ara water power. The Niagara never freezes, never overflows, and never runs dry. A Pen PPature of Pasteur. u, Pasteur, the lion of the day. Is, like Irlr Qrevy, a Franehe f)eintoise, lie has the. intonation in *peaking of the P,esident of t She Iimpublip= that 11 o say, ha drawlp Slightly arid. omphesizea strongly the leading, e words in ea,ob sentence. There is' an Indo.. lance in the walk which arises from an In- completely cured attack of hemiplegia, from e-. whioh some years e a o.h . was n d II e r u y eo I e � Y 8 ill. He manages not telimp, although be has to use dragtin, thehim mltf ce a glog, ork onwhioli e is nenotten of an" an much active thigh, Tho; epos of yellowish brown, with leas brown than yellow of a topaz hue, ate set in b eo ieteoua lids, and appear too much fatigued to see without first being well rubbed. I dare say they are what they e look, There are v ,e 1 wrinkles- in the brow and queer unnatural crow's feet about the temple. Concentrating attention through a mY ioroscs a on the infinitely KIWI animal 1. outer w o rld 'ritesP ro duoed them, Pasteur's countenance to en ce bet3kene orlgnalty ; and the whole man shows sturdy strength and grit. He muet be kind as he 1a unaffected, The outer man is short, thfok-oet dee-ohested and a massive head Is sets, P elope to a pair of broad shoulders. Tne face to fat though not glabre (you have no English words1 think for glabre), and the beard, which in short, soaut and grizzled, does not certainly adorn it. I like the epoonblll nose. It dhows character and intensifies the homlinees which keeps company with hie air of Intel llgenoa, and which shows freedom from small conceit. But if Pasteur is not self- suflioient and self•oonsofoue, he is not with- out quiet dogmatism of manner, euoh as one finds in old Frenoh'country cures who have long been looked up to by their flock, ' The servant of the Rue d'UIm la genuine, but he means to turn the altar of science to good.. amount, and has for mealy yeara turned it to good account in procuring an income, for himself, Thu homely kindness is devoid of sensibility, heeds him no pang to immo- late doge, r:.bbits and guinea -pigs on the altar aforesaid. e --e ->_ Work for the Humane. The American Humane' Association di- rects the attention of the public to the barbarities and abuses continually being, practiced in various portions of the country,, and oftentidsea in localities and cities which, are deemed very highly civilized. In order - that the friends of the defenceless ands, helpless may know the extent of this evil,_ and devise measures for their relief, men,. tion is here made of some of the EXISTING CRUELTIES; Animals in freezing and starvsnir condition in exposed localities on the Western plain, in the winter season. Animale so horribly burned r n their bodies, through careless branding, as, to make wounds that never heal. Animale severely wounded and tortured by club, and long, sharp iron prods, when being loaded on etoon-cera. Animals so cruelly crowded, trampled, starved,and kept without water, when transported long distances by rail to market, as to make their meat uafit for feed. Horses compelled to endure excruciating torture by the over -check and other high oheok-reins, through the ignorance and pride of thoughtless drivers. Dogs and cats driven to desperation madness from want of water. Horses ruined in health and limb through being over-Ioaded, lack of food and improper feeding, , Old, galled, oripled horses ail -fed, over. leaded, and generally abused by hard mestere Cows compelled, through the penurious• nese of their owners, to ran the streets, in many cities and villages, quenching thirst from mud puddles, pounded by clnbs, beat- en by atone, and mutilated by dogs, when driven from yards into which the animals force themselves because of hanger. Calves with feat tied and tortured, while being transported long distances, in dis- tressed condition, over rough reads, by butchers and others. Fine horsee, outrageously high -checked and brutally over -driven by drunken, care- less and cruel drivers. Pigeons wantonly wounded, mutilated sad allowed to linger hours before death oomes to their relief, at shooting tourna• menta. Horses left standing in exposed conditions, through severe storms, without covering. , Beautiful Bong and useful birde needlessly slaughtered by men eta boys for sport. Insects, birds and animals of various kinds cruelly put to death by thoughtless persons, when a little care would make death lege painful. The cruelty and savage insect aroused:by pugilism, cook and dog -fighting. The useless, barbarous cruelty inflicted on hares and foxes in allowing them to be. chased and hunted by hennde for hours, as sport. The debasing, o2u31 erect on ohildren by close confinement at labar, often in dark and unwholesome factories and other puree, The cruelties and beatings inflicted on patient, uncomplaining wives by brutal and drunken husbands. The whippings and abuse endured by boys and girls who have been given into the charge of coarse and hard masters. The starvation and neglect endured by infants and small children, when left by, their parents with those who promise to care for them, The privation, distress and degradation of little waifs of children, in the streets, who often have no one to protect them, Tho deplorable condition of, the horse, ao longer useful, turned loose to starve and die; the child, whipped by the heartless parent ; the discharged prisoner, whom no one will employ ; the little tired cash -boy and cash -girl, that ehonid have been, hours ago, in bed ; the haggard, sunken -eyed, poorly paid sewfng•woman ; the starving family, that can get no work ; and many, many others not here mentioned. Cleverly Trumped. Two pretty quick-witted minds came in conta t when the Rev, Dr, Vincent intro - awed at Chautauqua a 0 `ioago clergyman who was to lecture on et Foote." The pre- liminarice are thus reported r' WO aro now to have a lecture on foole by one (a very.: long pause and loud laughter from the atidi- enoe, when the President oonciuded from tee saving oleuse) of the wisest men in the country." The lecturer advanced to the deck and reapenrled : " I am not half so big a fool as lar. Vincent (another very long pause, and still more hearty laughter from the audience) would have you suppose," Big Hearts in Little (Bodies. A blind man eat beside his hand organ. He raised his sightless eyes and appeared to be waiting the s,rrlval of some one, as his remaining acnees told him that a storm was brewing. A small bootblack came round the corner. His trousers, being too song, were rolled up at the bottom. His coat was Mao made for a boy of larger frame, he etuok his thumbs ander his dilapidated anependere andrelieve- ed himaolf of n mouthful of tobacco, Catch- ing sight of the blind man, whose evident anxiety was piotured on his fac 3, he ceased his swaggering gait and brought, bimeelf to a atandatill. "Io that you Willie?" queried the blind man. " My name ain't Willie," replied the street Arab. "Can't yon take me home? I'm 'fraid it's going to rain and Willie is late," contin- ued the organ grinder, getting ready to move at once. " Bet your life I kin. What do you eat ? Hain't you made nothing to -day 1" continu- ed the boy as he saw the man take two cent piooee from the tin cup on the organ and desposit them in hie pocket. " Only made them two? Well, just wait a holy minit, till I call the kid." A shrill whiotle brought a still smaller boy, whose visible wardrobe was made for hit companion. He had a cigar in his mouth, " What s de racket, Cully ?" propounded the new corner as soon as he was within speaking distance of his fellow workman, The latter explained, and in a jiffy the two boys were out with caps in hand begging for the blind man, who etood as if half uncer- tain what was going on. The boys took dif- ferent sides of the street and stopped every pedeotrian, man and woman, and asked for a nickel to help the blind man. An the rain began to fall they returned to their blind charge, and having escorted him to a neighboring store for shelter, turn- ed over to him the money which they had collected,It amounted to $1,65. .115 She Required no Further Explanation. At a rent dinner an one of their estates the Duke and Duchess of M—happened to be present, when a son of the soil appeared in a state of great excitement, Tho duchess, inquiring the cause of his dietrese, was told that, having come a long distanoe, he had lost the rent on the way, but if agreeable to them he would go back and look for it. A few days after he appeared with the lost money. The duchess asked him where he found it. and was answered in the following rather singular manner : •" Well, you see, on my way I stopped at the Benrigh stables to speak to a friend. I took out my pocketbook to gie him a letter and must have dropped the money, for this is hoo I found it. Supposing his grace was the stables and your grace the manure an' I was the re..t Weel, you roe—" " Yes, yes," interrupted her graoe, quick- ly ; " that will do. I perfectly understand the whole affair." Eopkinsona's Hat and Wig. Old Hopkinson was walking in a London street when a man suddenly approached, snatched og his hat, :end bolted with it. Llepkiunan g•avo chase, and ,pother man, svho had observed the outrage, joined him;. Away they both ran, At last aid Hopkin- son stopped, being completely out of breath, but the mac who had j tined him enoouratig- ed him to go on, "Aim a little longer, sir," said lie. "No," gasped old Hopkin= sen," I can't.'' t. Can't you run a atop further, sir?' "No, not a step," " Then," bald the unfeeling rascal, "1'il have your wig," and he twitched off poor Hopkinson's svlgand disappeared, +a♦ no e "There's no place like home, repeated Mr. Henpeck, looking at a motto, and he heartily added, t' I'm glad there isn't." Lemon juice and salt will remove ordinary iron that, If the hands are stained there is nothing that will remove the endue so well tee lemon, Cut a lemon in half Mud apply the out eurface es if it were soap. An instrument called the mebdometer has been designed for the study of mineral') in a state of install, Eggs are eight dente a dozen in Missouri. . Jay Gould could get a big reception thereat a Small cost,