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The Exeter Times, 1887-3-17, Page 6.torpoi,„.„....mitr.004.04021,0xsammtwomerommviontsa_. THE I3LUE SPECTAOL . BY FRANK WA -MRS, strike threo—tho very hour, ati I 'Qineni- 1,„,, bored, welon, ou this day a week gone by., I had foully murdered iny—any-- ; hiM I Lz ha !—Goa 1 what was that? On men shriek ie their gravee ;shriek, wilco the yery tongue has melted from the fleshless bead? Raising my bleuched fitee— (CONOWDme.) suetehed the glass, and raised it tor his or, rather, lilted up as by frame awful un- 4seeritiz filet wee quite et hie lips. Shoving home the stepper, and seen power—I looked toward, the vacant service, I left the room ; and preeeutly' re. goililding the vial ell tile table, I fixed' MY chair °I)P8ite. 0, wrath of Heaven I -it tamed with a smell jar of alcohol, some eyes on his: just as, throwing baek hie was vacant no longer There he sat—there heed, he eulp,ed down death at a MOWthfal, he sat—then 'aelV couvulsed, ghostly, waxer, aud a couple cif glasses, The storm atill raged with en ewful fury ; hat my hor- ror had by thia time wont away, to be SUS. eeeded. by a wild recklessness, a spiritual bitoxieation, each tie I bad never before experienced. A kind a diabolical gladuess had seized me—a fiendish sportiveness whieh made me feel as though I could dabble my fingers in the blood of murder, and laugh for very glee of its wickedeess. As to my OOMPalliOn, 1 was by now tUiiy convinced that I entertained in him no prime of dark, ness, but a More mortal like myself. The one point yet to be Solved—for this I never ' I knew it would be sudden; bee neleen, overwrought bralu—all these, and a thou - even me by osarnecrl aoutdheorveerxtpoialivuyttsieoun,s,tihnatvieleyI irzeealtoesdt uestioned--was why the evil one had wee complete suddenness took t Il Id The effeet wins as megtc. Springing from avengIng h e .$4 eu slaw inn, y hia (Amite aud overtnruMg it IA the aOtien, ' that the rigid right arm extended, pointed, the glass fell from his hand, euel shetterecl with an index finger from which the flesh to thousand piecos ; his frame atiffeeen hung ragged end mouldering, at the yid suddenly, from bead to heel ; Ids Linda which in my bellish caruivid of blaspheme °leached until the nails dug up the Rola ; leg joy, had plaeed before me on the table, his blue epeotacles, like great, blank, sight. .A.4d. bas never left rue since—never left less eyes, glared horribly upon me; me 1 Where I go, he goes; day and night smothered, hideous shriek—or rather its he is with me 1 I have fought, I have abortive attempt—rose to his lips ; and struggled medly, against the unuttereble then he fell agi ene thunderesmitten—stone horror of his ..preeence. In vaba 1 in Vain dead I Spectral illusion, disease of the nerves an t most unlikely -looking messenger at my °all. Ret this I felt I would find out, all in good time. lie had left his couch, and seated him- self at yonder table there, in the centre of the room. Taking a chair, I seated my- self opposite him, and filled my glass in tune to his, Ilitherto, I had been—from choice, not from principle—a total abstain er from all spirituous liquors so that, now, the potent aleohol flew to my braiu! and heart like so much liquid fire. Yet it did not intoxicate me. No ! me 1 I can- not plead even that wretched excuse. It aimpla drove me to madness, but to a ena,dness all in keeping with my ohaxaoter madness cold, iotellectual, and utterly devoid of heart. Little guessed the men before me, as he heard my commonplace re- marks, ray polite replies, what a human tiger confronted him, what a human devil looked him, laughin$, in the eyes. In the oyes? es 1 that was it! Oh that—that was it Save in one single par- ticular, there was nothing in the least sta•a, age about my guest. There seemed nothing mysterious about him; all—to use a nautical metaphor—was open and above board. He spoke freely of himself and gave me to understand that he had been a great traveller; that he was just come back from the far East; and that he had a wife and child living with some friends up at—, on the Georgian Bay, whither he was now bound, after an absence of three years. As to his intrusion on me, he explained it very simply, as the result of a broken carriage whose mishap had. forced him to seek his way on foot to D— (the neighbouring village, some miles off), and had ended in causing him to lose his way, and so, as he said, in compelling him to inflict himself on me for the night. So far, all was clear and simple, and there was nothing in his appear- ance to make me doubt the entire truth of his account. But, as I have already ,la said, there was one thing curious about ' ground -floor -1 removed some othe board- God 1 God 1 amliouPdLs'for a brieked with in' sane end devilish all .rneaning, and seemed like the mere gib. beriab, I le.new them, in my case, to be, inerriment—as I thought how the withered and night, day and..night, that fatal hermit of the laboratory had out -witted, this Pay , ruager has pointed, until it has made clear the mighty traveller, this sapient and experi- path of hell and doom to me, See 1 the glass enced man of the world, entrapping him is full, the Romeo poured ; I only wait the sig - even to his destruction. Had I not cause nal ere I drink, When, once more, he arises, for merriment ? and then the great prize at as he arose G./ten—when, stake ! the mighty—Ha ! what was I doing once more, that here, wasting my time in laughter, instea smothered shriek, awful, horrible, but now agtioulate, pales tushing to his lips, and of seizing the demon's granted boon? Not , dies there in a. single word—then my hour for an instant did I dread a disappoint. his word shall be my word— ment ; I knew my work had been priced le eetne, , and with a price. Flinging myself like a fain- 1 "NOW' 1' ithed tiger on the dead body, I tore off the 1 There la but one thing; more to be fun, blue spectacles, which hid its treasure, filled ; and. then—Hell and. Eternity 1 Hell and there—yea 1 there, SS the devil and Eternity 1 Hell and Eternity I You, had for once truly asserted, burned. his wife, to whom these pages are address - and blazed the gorgeous jewel, the , ed, wilt receive with them the accompany. rich reward of a paltry °dine : a peer- hag packet, It oontains that vile trash, less diamond, such as never shone hi the ' those worthless jewels, for which I bartered starry treasnre -rooms of Golconda nor blitz- my soul and God—the infinitely great, the ed from mortal monarch's crown. It was infinitely good, the infinitely terrible God 1 cunningly fastened into the socket, where This is the extreme torture of all—to have one eye was in truth wanting; and it quite rejected Pfim, yet be forced to praise and filled the cavity with its orb of liquid light. , confess Him. But he wrings the truth With. frenzied fingers, with digging nails, E I from me ; yea, and He compels me again tore it out, held it up to the liglet for a mo- , to admit tint I myself have damned my- ment, and gloated over it; then, shrieking self. Orie taing more. Think not that any anew with hideous laughter, I fell, in strong desire of reparation has prompted me in convulsions, on the body of my victim. i writing these lines, hi sealing this packet. 1 .no ! what do the damned care for re - When I came to myself it was near morn- I No Still is it He who forces me ; ing, and I bethought me of disposing of the ' Peratum ? and you, most fearful guest, dread corpse. I felt no uneasiness; detection was He, i instrument of His just vengeance. impossible. The man's friends knew noth- 0 hand of Fate 1 0 guest of Death 1 ing of hie arrival in Canada—he had wished see 1 he rises 1 ell 1—he stiffens, to surprise them, he said ; the roadside so- See 1 and, with inexorable finger, points to the ciclent had. occurred some -miles away ; and draught of doom—to Hell I and now that my welcome guest had reached my house shriek 1—It gathers in his breast 1—it alone, and on a night so intensely black , that no human eye could have seen him. 1 swells upward. to his lips le -a mement more, But, indeed, the lonely position of my dwel- and I shall hear it 1 But still the pen speeds 1—still I write, I write 1—driven ling, and its evil reputation, were security onward, onward, even to the crack of doom 1 enough in themselves. Therefore, I spent Hark 1 hark ! the lips open, the air vi - little time in thought, but proceeded to my on the brates, the earth trembles, Hell roars l— b t • t ted here. him—a something very curious an in- I ing. Then I dug a deep pit, and 1 "Now 2" explicable property possessed bier one of 1 threw in certain chemicals, such as * * * * EPILOGUE. his eyes. Indeed, it appeared that he had , weuld Speedily resolve the man to his but one, or so I understood him to say in I ultimate elements. (Or, as 1 thought , some °lance allusion to his remarkable then; now I know that there was one de- 1 spectacles. But surely one such eye was ment—the elenient of God—. -in him which enough; or was it my frenzy which mvested no chemical could touch.) Fmally, I tossed i its glance with a lustre so preternatural and in the body, covered t up, replaced the stupendous? For, at every flash of the boarding, and washed the floor. Then all electric fluid, the eye of the stranger shot was done, and. I sat down over the buried forth an answering gleam; and when the man—or body—and laughed ?nee more. It storm, gradually subsiding, rolled sullenly would be pleasant to have him here under - away, still 'did I fancy that 1 could detect foot, I thought, as a constant reminder of an orb of fire glowing furtively upon rae my cleverness and good fortune. I felt no from behind those dark ,glasses. Indeed, further interest thau this in him. I had so vivid was this feeling as to be even made no attempt to identify lum : hy should 1? . kept no ngbelonging to hini, awful, until my rising frenzy rendered me incapable of fear, and I should have mock- ed at the Supreme Being Himself, had. He appeared before me. Then the devil spoke. Oh 1 he knows ' his time, and can abide it 1 " How the man's eye gleams 1 Gleams like the light- ning ! Gleams like— !" Ah ! dog of hell 1 , now thou hest said it 1 Now I grasp and understand all I This —this is why you sent him! I stro e, nip the thought in the bud, as it formed itself in my brain; because, for one moment, even then, I shrank from its dimly -seen consequences. But, an instant more, and the thought was fully blown, and all revealed to me. I never asked myself if I might not be mis- taken : I knew I was not The evil one had heard. me. His pert was done; what re- mained was all my own. How should I do it? By violence? No I no 1 That was a brutish and. savage method k from which my whole nature—all my train- ed and scientific modes of thought—revolted I for its stupidity. Besides, this man was tali a.nd strong—stronger, certainly, then 1, the lean and withered student. Should I, then, drug his drink, and sta,b or suffocate him quietly, 'while he slept? If 1 stabbed him, he woula bleed, and the blood rni:ght possible: betray me; at least it would dis- figure the room, and give me the trouble of washing out its traces. Suffocating would be better—indeed, excellent. But still, some clinging trace of human ideas—some mere mechanical habit of thoueht, not any faint- est remorse in me—made me dislike the idea of killing a sleeping man. No! I had a better and. swifter method; that I would em- ploy. Turning, with a bland. smile to my guest, I spoke :— " You seem to enjoy my scientific fare," I said; "1 am traly glad it pleases you. Bub do you not think our beverage were all the better for a little flavouring? To my palate, at least, it is tasteless." "I believe you are right, my host," he replied; "1 never complain of good liquor; but if the means were forthcoming, an added zest would be an added pleasure." Rest content," answered I; "you shall have such a flavour to your cup as few taste. T shall be with you again in a mo- ment." With this I left the room; and repairing to my laboratory, close by, took thence a bottle of concentrated prussic acid and re- turned to my companion. My smile was of the blandest as 1zhook the deadly vial be- fore him, and said with truly hellish du- plicity :-- " This, my guest, is an essence which I have never yet given mertal to taste—an eseence of rare and wondrous powers. When you have tasted le, you will enter art entirely new field of sensation. Btit it is volatile and swift; therefore pennant drink quickly. The moment I say 'no' seise the glass and drain it, and you will feel -- what you shall feel," He, all unsuspecting, laughed and nodded, looked with an amused curiosity on the wonder-working vial, and with a cheery "al -right, my geuerous host," prepared to obey me. Not for a moment did I welter. Hite glass was already full, with a steady hand and sinning face, 1 loosed the stopper, and, carefully avoiding to inhale the deadly furrice, poured several drops quickly into the liquor. Then 1 gave the word of doom "Now 1" fe pealed from my lipe like the blest of e, k umpet—the trumpet, say, of the Angel of the Dead --startling me, the speaker'and him who heard ate, km. knew it lay the nervoue fierce of his gestere, eel he Here ends this most fearful MS., discov- ered by me, Mark Lovel, in a secret drawer yon old writing desk, which I found in a garret of this, my new home—none other than the old abode of the Mayferns. They are all dead now; and let us hope, for their sake, for the sake of humanity, and, above all, for the sake of God, that this dreadful confession is but the ghostly freak of a powerful but diseased imagination. Yet, as I have said, it may be true; see- ing that there is no evil of which man, when wholly given over to himself and his bad passions isnotcapitble. Supposing ittobegen- , except the stone. And one thing else. In uine, there is nothing but conjecture to guide lifting the body from where it had first fal- us, as to somepoints left obscure by the fear - len, a small memorandum book slipped from ; ful document. the breast pocket of the coat, on to the I How the unhappy elder brother, travel - floor. This I had mechanically and thought- iing in the East, mayhave become pos. lessly thrown tato a drawer of the table, and sessed of that which indirectly caused left there, forgetting all about rt. Little his death; and why should. he have chosen did I dream that the great and most out- ! such a strange mode of concealment for it— these are things we have, so far, no means of determining. Otherwise, all is plain enough. The chance meeting ; the non -re - raged God had there written for me my sen- tence of doom. But in truth I dismissed my new-born be- lief in God or devil, the moment I resumed cognition of the brothers, due to the changes work. Old habits of thought at once reas- wrought by time, misfortune, travel; the serted themselves ; again 1 was the scientist, secret revealed, by the flashing lightning, to again the agnost'c. And for seven days I one whose bent of thought predisposed him worked, heart and soul, at my task. Then to its discovery; and then, (that discovery on the seventh day—it chanced, too, to be once made) all whieh follows :—all these matters are plain enough. I need say no more. Such as I have found the horrible story, I give it, reader, to you; with one last remark—that, whatever the horror of the tale, it is, after all, compensated for by the unconscious and most solemn moral it conveys. M. L. the Sabbatix—witli a blasphemous jest I rested. My work, also, was done— my creation completed. My object had been to manufacture diamonds. Some chance discoveries had prepaxed the way to this, in the first instance; then, as stated, I had worked out the whole etia in of reason- ing, with the exception of one missing link, which I could not possibly supply, without a large stone to experiment on; such a one as I had just sacrificed. I had not hesitated so to use it. In itself it was a fortune, but to attempt its sale might be to invite detec- tion and ruin. Then, too, there was the scientific interest at stake—a thing not to be lightly foregone. And, in fine, I was so perfectly sure of success, and sucoess meant such absolutely illimitable wealth, that to less. falter would havebeen sheer ninon -madness. In selecting a wife, choose one that will And now, on this still Sabbath evening—it wash, was awful in its stillness—all my efforts Infancy is the preface of man, old age the were crowned. There, from the bottom of melee,. the crucible, gleamed several of the brilliant, Tears sprinkled across life's highway, set gems; and as, trembling, I lifted them out tle the dust of sorrow. and weighed them, it was with a feeling of , surprise that I noted their exact coincidence many act as if they believed the horn of in weight, with the original stone. Ha! plenty was a glass of whisky. Men seldom e.onceat their virtues, nor do their faults waded them. A train of pure thought will only run on the track of a well -graded mind. The man who never committed a folly never appreciated wisdom. [TILE END.] WILKINS' STAR PROVERBS. Song is prayer on the wing. It is a wise tramp who eats his own pap. The child of slander is never born tooth - hal where now was God? Where was the devil of the theologians? / was God 1 1 was devil 1 I—and I alone—ruled and was master 1 Now, let me sit down, and dream dreams, and—Stay! my wild gladness of seven nights ago was comina beck on me. Let me repair to the scene of my late tri- umph; let rne reproduce, as nearly as may be, all its features—let tee—me, the her. ; me the ascetic philosopher, ha, ha 1— let me drink once more, and once more make merry 1 I acted at once on the happy thought. I produced the alcohol, water, and prussic acid. I set my own chair and that (A mer late guest in their respective places, and I filled our glasses. Then, in the cordiality of my completed triumph, I was about to invoke him to bear me com- pany, whea suddenly, and for the first time it struck me that I did not know his name. To be sure what did that matter? And yet, at a high festival like the present, it was a sad omission and breach of ceremony. Hal well thought of !--the book 1 There, most likely, 1 shotild find the name of my guest. This is the drawer—yes I And this is the book. And heren-here-0 God of Justice 1 this is the name a -- "ROBERT MAYFERN I" The book fell from my hand,; the 'room leaped from, its place, and eput dizzily round and round. me ; a mortal 8ielcndas seized upen my heart ; aix icy numbness congealed me; and then I grew oblivions of all things. When the gray twilight of returning con- sciousness stole back upon nee, a nameless horror, an unutterable dread made my blood to chill, mY flesh to ereep, and the hair to rise in brietlee on my head, Vague" , as in a dream, I had jest , hosed the clock there Nature never builded so perfect, but that Fashion tried to improve her work. Men often rise so high on the wave of success, as to lose sight of earthly joys, What people often denominate a sea of i trouble, s frequently a notion of dyspeptic ideas. Kind Friends. Friend—"I have brought you a few slices of ham." PowNeighbor—"Ah! How kind you ere." "Don't mention it. It is redly a pleasnre for Inc to shove you any little attention," "Wall,,I appreciate your kindnesEs. I 01141 assure you of that" I said before, I am only too glad to be able to accommodate you, The Bikes are Mit from a ham that was given tile By the way, if you discover any aymptoins of trichina in your family, after you have tried the ham, you will let us know, please. We are not going to eat of it until we hear from you," In.own—" What do yoti think of the play ?" Fogg—" Fairly good thing hut What I object to is the intense realism m the third act—a church scene, you know, It 'VMS SO nettled thet I actually went to sleep," FLOUSEHOLD, Hogn AND POREION NEWS. Wealkint, nay, There is no day in the whole calendar so ullwexsz1Ilydmaued by beesekeepere of onNtiolie*tihae0,1a,rendon school boys play baseball every eondition as washing day, with its teenme eperetione, involvine so much hard Many brutal assaults on Chilies° ciare re- el?, „Imo, is oet ported from Victoria, B.C. chlobnohrtied"lQto ltoisriTelenv()Iliet.re the housewife does A brood Irene belonging to Francie Morrie her own washing, but is felt equally in the , sQ11, MOKillep, gave birth to three colts one house of wealth, because of the aced of over- ' day last week. sight to 4eouro even partially eetisfeetory POSnita, and beeextee of that some general An eagle was shot et Sydney Island, B.C., dieconifort which is its concomitant in even recently, whieh measured seven feet from the best regulated families, From early tip to tip ef the wings. Celery soliool district prcpases to borrow e3,000. morning, sometimes till fall of night, there es a gloom in the domestic atmosphere, ao- ceatuated by a smell of soap suds, a damp- ness of Steam, and IN general sense of Len ending disaster. The heed of the houae ia Mr, Napoleon Lavidette reopnkly trapped a beaver which weighed 48 lbs. at Messrs. Gillies Bros. Waite on the Coulouge. The body of Patrick Madigan, an Oak- isturbed and anxious, the children are vale sailor, who wes droned laet November out of sorts," the cook is cross, and the in Late Superior, lies just been recovered, dinner,edaw it were liangg rdeaay"pickt ob 1 P ho i ationneinBdseeirevd- wnDeuellsceaan? from gaol Ayto Burn,gdflooir.ds e ifleiewf by a condesceuding superior uncler aggra. days since: was re -captured at Essex Centro, voting circumstances, as indeed, they are And the family patiently endurea, knowing A! twoeyear-dd child of John Byrne, that on the morrow the atmosphere will be of Guelph, fell out of the bed and broke the cleared, the dampness gone and everything 1 right arm between the elbow and. the wrist. go pleasantly under the more cheerful in- fluences of ironing day. • But general discomfort is not the only evil attending the processes of washing by the ordinary, long established methods ; there is one more lamentable, and I might say fatal, evil, and that is the early break- down of the health of the person on whom this labor devolves. And takieg into con- sideration the exposure to sadden changes involved in leaving the steaming hot kitchen to go out into the wintry out -door air to hang up clothes, the fatigue of rubbing, rub- bian3, rubbing on the wash board for hours The constituency of Alberta is about 000 miles in length by about 250 in width, em. bracing in the neighborhood of 150,000 square miles, and containing 35 Polling divisions. Mr. John Terry, aged 84 years, attended .servicie in the Methodist church at Clarence. ville, Que., on Suuday week; in the evening he ate a good supper and retired in his maid health. Next morning he wee found placidly in his bed, dead. A correspondent writes that this has been a hard winter on fishermen along the eat at a stretch, also the constant inhaling of shore of Lake Huron. The ice has come and foul soapy vapors, the eaternate soaking of gone so often with the changes of the wind the hands and arms in hot water and cold that many have had their nets torn into shreds and others have lost their nets aa. together. water, is it to be wondered that even the strongest constitution gives ori? It has long seemed strange to me that the many advantages arising from inventive genius should laave been so largely on the side of kinds of labor allotted to men. Is itbecause men are readierto appreciate, and hence readier to adopt, thee° improve- ments which are the result of so .nreach thought and ingenuity on the part of man ? It is well .known that the efficiency of .these improvements is worth many nailliona of dollars annually to the farming interests of this country, to saynothing of the saving of labor. Where a man formerly plodded his weary way after a rude plo-w drawn by oxen, working almost as hard as they, he now may sit jauntily on a cushioned seat driving his horse or horses, who with the improved ma- chines accomplish the necessary labor. And so it is with nearly every process connected with sowing and hoeing, and weeding, cul- tivation and harvesting, man is helped, while in the majority of households the wo- man's work goes on by the simple and :crude processes of our ancestors. I say majority advisedly, but not. all, for there are house- holds in which invention is allowed to do its part in helping the wives and daughters as well as the huebands and sons, I have iu mind such a household, in strik- ing contrast to the households where matters areeconducted on old fashioned principles; to these also, however, I hope the day of en- lightenment- is speedily coming. Itt this household both husband and wife, clear- headed, intelligent people, are quick to grasp an idea and utilize it. Consequently, the fanning and domestic operations, aided by the best mechanical devices, go on as by clockwork. Especially remarkable is the absence of all weeli day dread and litter, this house being as sweet and agreeable on Monday as on any day in the week. Household Notes. Put freshly baked cakes away as soon as cold in a closely covered cake box. A soapy dish -cloth should never be put inside a teapot or a coffeepot. Set a dish of water in the oven with cake when baking, and it will seldom scorch. Do not put salt into soup until you are done skimming it, as salt will stop the ris- ing of the scum. Wash ironware outside as well as inside, itt hot soapy water, then rinse in clear hot water and wipe dry with a dry crash towel. Tins shoul I be washed in dean, hot, soapy water, and rubbed. freely with min- eral soap. This will keep them as bright as new. Two apples kept in the cake box will keep moderately rich cake moist for a great length of time, if the apples are renewed when withered. Never put a good knife into hot grease, as it destroys its sharpness. Have always at hand a kitchen -fork fot turning meat or frying potatoes. Granite dishes, browned by use, may be cleaned by siropiy letting them remain about half anhour in boiling soda -water, then rub- bing with a stiff brush or iron cloth. • Never put pots and kettles on the stove half Red with water for the purpose of soaking loose whatever may be adhered to them, as it has a contrary effect. Put plenty of cold water in them, and keep them away from the stove. Plush goods, and all articles dyed with aniline colors faded from exposure to light, will look bright as over after being sponged with chloroform. The ecmmercial chloro- form will answer the purpose very, well, and is less expensive than the purified. To KEEP THE FLOOEFOLISHED.-The clean- est and most perfectly polished floors have no water used on them. They are simply ' rubbed off every morning with a large flaruael Cloth, which is soaked in kerosene oil once in two or three weeks. Shake the dust out of the cloth, and with a rubbing brush or stubby broom go rapidly up and , down the planks (not across them). After , O few rubbings the floor will assume a pol- ished appearance that is not easily defaced by dirt or footprints. Reports from Battle River'N.W.T., are not satisfactory. On account of the deep snow the Indians and white hunters have met with little success so far. The coyotes are very numerous, and trapping has been greatly interfered with through their coming in ahead of the trapper and oarrying off the captured animals. A gentleman from North Bay says there is a large influx of settlers from Western Canada going to take up and settle lands around Lake Nipissing in the spring. The fame of the excellent lands to be found in the district has gone abroad, and many will embrace the opportunity of having first choice. The building of the Northern Rail- way has opened up some fine stretches of agricultural lauds. Frank Modeste was found partly frozen west of Lone Pine'N.W.T., two weeks ago and was taken to Calgary tospital by the police. Parts of both feet and hands w.ere badly frozen, and as it was about nine days from the time he was frozen until he reached the hospital, he will probably lose at least the frozen pacts. When found by an Indian he was ceawling on his hands and knees and had done so for twelve miles. The Theresa Fish and Game Club visited the St. Lawrence fish hatchery at Clayton a few days ago. The members were highly pleased with the inspection There is a good prospect of a fine fish crop in that section. Two more hatchings will be had next summer, and it is calculated that mus - °along° will be propagated if spawn are obtainable. The plan which many seem to entertain is to induce the State to buy the hatchery and increase its facilities. It is rumored that a treaty of alliance has been established between Italy, Germany and Austria, by which they mutually guar- antee to each other their presentpossessions. If this is so, both Italy and Austra would require to join Germany in case the latter were at war with France, should the French undertake to repossess themselves of Alsace and Lorraine. It is not improbable that such an alliance has been formed as an out- come of the rumored alliance between Russia and France. • Few of the opposition leaders have yet re- tained to Berlin, but it is believed they agree with conservatives that the present danger of war is past. Prince Bismark con- trols the speech of his followers, so that un- til he announces his policy to the other government leaders they refuse to permit the publication of their opinions over their names. I hear on excellent authority that Prince Bismarck will make early next session a speech as pacific as his last great speech was waxlike. The British Government, in granting a subsidy to the White Star line of steamers, have insisted thet the vessels shall be built in accordance with admiralty designs. so that in case of war they may be utilized should the necessity arise. This will have the effect of building a much stronger class of vessels than those usually employed in the commerce of the two eontinents. The disaster which happened to the Oregon in sight of New York harbor is of itself suffi- • cient to show that many of the ocean steamers are not of the most substantial construction, and if the effect of admiralty superintendence and stipulations is to secure vessels more strongly built and better suited to survive the storms and accidents of voyaging across the Atlentic, it will be all the better for the travelling public in time of peace. PEARLS OF TRUTH. 1 The higheet, the best, the most permanent 1 pleasures . are those which are not sought, .1 but which come from the faithful fulfilment I of life's duties and. obligations. Indeed, eager search after pleasure in any directio±x l is always fruitless because it implies a con- dition of mind to which enduring happiness is it stranger. Selfishness and en'o Mont may dwell tegether foe a brief season; but the latter will soon Wither away under the scorching influence of the former. The Highest Pleasures. Be Was Posted. "What is the leading branch in your achool ?" asked a lady of a teacher. 'Before the teacher could vouolistife a reply, , a little bey interrupted the eonversation "I know !" "And what is it, little boy?" asked the lady. " That switch In the corner, ma'am." / Since Time is not a person we can over, take when he is past, let us honour him with mirth and cheerfulness of heart while he is passing. • Women accomplish their best work in the quiet seelusion of the home and family by sustained effort and patient perseverance in the path of duty. The influence they ex- ercise, oven though it he unrecorded, lives after them, end in its consequences for ever. The silent pressure of the hand is often of more vital good than a whole volume of good counsel; and one tear, one kiss, one bright encouraging smile, can help the broken heart, the sinking spirit, where words of advice would fall unheeded, cir be an aggra- vation to present pain. The good man who is reflective will find that as his views on varione points change with increasing knowledge, his standard of " • • T.'', PARK. liAy TO GPASS, Aiv Erm.VILF,N. POWEAS, The importance of turning the sheep ahmicl frequently during the winter, at Iced; when the ground is bare, is recognized by every good :shepherd. But as soon es the graes begins to grow, even it little, upon the rip- pyoaclx of spring, it will be neeeseary to exer- cise centime The old gress which they had during the 'winter, the long tate of roweu mixed about equally with deed grass and lurking under bushes or brides on Borne north hill.side, which the sheep neglected during the einenner, has a different effect on them from that of theyoung growth. The letter is washy and scours them, and "takes away their appetites," as the old fermers say. Duringthe wieder 1 frequently let any sheep out twice it week, if the weather is favorable; and 1 find Ile injurious result from it, even thoueh they remain on the grass all day and fill theinselves. In fact, I generally give them only their grain ratione en thbe days, and no coarse feed at all, Nor do t find their appetites, the following mornba wise dulled for their hay and fodde , any- . But after the grass starts a little this wil not an - swore If they are left on it even half an hour, the next day they will mince over, their dry feed and not consume a quarter of it. They are purged, and they stand with hollow bellies and look through the gate all day long. They must now be restrained in their run on the grass; it must be greatly curtailed. The last two or three weeks, or =nth, before terning them out to pasture, I do not suffer them to run on the grass more than aquexter as much as they do through the winter. Fif- teen or twenty minutes a day, or, say, while you ace putting it fresh feed. Into the racks, are long enough; and, with this restriction, the privilege may be granted them every day. 1 do not lengthen the time at all up to the very last day of feeding them on dry feed. Then catch and tagthe flock, and. shorten i the long hoofs. It s well to attend to both these matters several days beforehand, on rainy days, or at any other convenient time, and let all go. DEP.ASTURING WHEAT WITH SHEEP. It is when spring has fully set in that the uses of depasturing appear.The ground ie then seam ' ed with frost cracks puffy; the wheat tufts are more or less thrown up; the earth Leeds to be compressed and packed about the roots. Cattle make deep foottracks, with the wheat thrust down to the bottom of them; but the sheep pack the surface gently, an inch and a half or two inches deep, with their innumerable tracks, covering it all over; even when they run on naked ground during a winter thaw, they do not pack it over two inches. Sheep are very peculiar and capricious in their way of grazing growing main. They do not fancy. it much at best, and avoid all long stalks, seeking to bite close to the ground. I have seen them deptisture a field of rye in a singular, patchy way—here a spot a rod or so square, eaten in the very ground, while close at hand another, with the rye heading out three feet in the air, never having been touched. This happens when they have too much, or are allowed to stay on the field too long at a time. If permitted to graze wheat in thislfashion, it would work mischief. WikemEei is seen that they are inclined to do so, hey must be broken up, herded, pushed about, not allowed to settle down on their favorite spots and gnaw them down to the earth. The rank patches, which need depasturing most, they will graze least, if they are not some -what controlled. They ought not to be turned intoa wheat field in the spring until it is dry and settled enough to be fit for harrowing—dry enough to . be a little crumbly. If there comes a sudden March freeze followed by a thaw, I do not allow them to return to it for a few days. It is „.4i not a good practice to allow a large flock of sheep to run into and out f wheat field a number of days at the same place, If a flock of young sheep can be turned on at the proper time and kept in the field day and night until their work is done, or turn- ed in at a different place every day, better results will be accomplished. I turn them off before the wheat begins to joint. The effects of depasturing wheat aro: The amount of foliage is reduced,. the tufts are rendered lower and more stocky; the whole field it cleaner, more open and more even appearance; there is a freer oirculation of air through the growing grain, and a re- duced tendency to rust. A judicious de - pasturing hardens and toughens it up. The Training of Youth. Children are very apt scholars in the matter of finding happiness. They sympa- thise with and take the toneof these who are with them. If they are taught by word and example that the chief pleasure of a kind- ly deed conies afterwards in some pleasant result that ensues, in thekindly deeds which are received in return, or even in the expres- sion of thanks and gratitude called forth, they will soon learn to fix their hopes there, and to feel defrauded of rightful reward if such results do not corm. If, on the other hand, they are led to find their chief delight in the • happiness they bestow, then the favors they gives, the kindness they perform, the sacrifices they make, will of themselves afford such true pleasure that they will ask for no more, nor be sadly disappointed if nothing more ensues. • Acquaintances. It is the misfortune of young people, be - 1 ore they become fully engaged in the rela- tions of life and businee' s that they look too much to acquaintances for encouragement, and make the amusement which acquaint- ances can furnish too indispensable. The tender mind of youth is reluctant or unable to stand alone; it needs to be one of a class. Hence the hours which ought:to be out in the acquisition of that gezeral owledge which is so useful in after-life'd which can be acquired only in youth, are thrown away in the most inglorious pursuits;f or ae- quaintances are seldom the companions of study or the auxiliaries of business, A woman will call her new bonnet a " duck, " but never thinks it can bear the mast wetting. Don't judge a man's wit By the clothes that he wears ; Don't judge a man's grit * the way that he swears. action ellen es also, Some thin s which he c ed with the utmost enieney he Bismarck le anxious to have 18 believed once regar that now looks upon as grave wrongs, and 08 it is all owing to that naughty France that Europe is kept in hot wate.., He fast as he discovers the best path in any r would have the world believe that German direction it becomes for him the path of le as peacefully inclined as a neve weaned lamb. It is more than doubtfut if there is a Every breach ef faith, every ,mean adva,n. word ef truth in all this At heart French,- tag° taken, however small and trifling each men are crying out on the other hand that may appear, lielpe to buildup the dishonesty they don't urant anything but to live at hieh itt game time, and by some one, wrecks peace with all men, and that the Republic the happiness of multitudee and drags down ineans peace. In the ineentime, with all the sliming one to degradation and ruin. these peaceful prOteetatione, things seem The honor of the country and the integrity steadily drifting towards war. Can any. of the nation are in the hands of every citizen; thing be more Monstrous? Is this all that each is reeponeible for his sha-ro in making our beaded civilization aid Christianity °an or in marring therm • accomplish