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The Exeter Times, 1887-7-14, Page 7The " DeatieBeat." sr JOitri t41tu8,101tONTO, T.et's beware of "the man (?)" who scorns to work, Yet dares not refrain from eating 1 In ,the core of Ws heart doth meanness lurk, In spite of his bland, fair greeting I He may talk and look like "8, gentlemari,,, And dress in the height of fesitton ; Lew run on credit" wherever he eau, If dunned "—gets into a passion I Be will Mttimos talk of religion, too, And pray With Eeeming devotion ; fie will go to church, yet pay for a pow— Of that he neer had a notion 1 He carries his head like an English lord, Though he sometimes tastes of hunger He will eat at the WhiOW'S frugal bosrd, And " skip " when she " trusts " no longer ! Ws heart is devoid of affection dear, -- He'd live of his poor old mother ! And will sponge" on his friends both far and neat, Claiming each one for a brother Oh I out on the man with the heart of stone, Who know e not the plearsac Of giving; Who will iiltimper, and whine, and beg, and groan— " tho world owes him a living I" lie Who " will not work " should not dare to eat The brtstd of another's earning; Far rather a thousand times sweep the street, Thereby independence learning 1 „ That Box of Strabworries EY MRS. WILLIAMS am:mows. The Widow McNeil had. had a hard. time. Her four boys, the eldest only ten years of age' lied all been ill with measles, and little Tedhad had whooping cough also, andfor eix weeks the mother'S- time and strength had been taxed to the utratnit. One would think it enough to take care of four sick ohildren withoat any other care or anxiety. But Mary McNeil for two years had earned the daily bread for her fatherless boys, and, as her slender scores of money and provi- sions fast disappeared, with no possibility of adding to them in these weeks of illness, it is no wonder that the brave little woman grew faint hearted. Many a bowl of broth and loaf of bread and. `plate of cakes had been sent in by the kind neighbors, but none of them knew the extremity to which the family was now reduced. The last cent of money was spent ; there had been nothing in the house to eat but bread for two days and that was nearly gone; while the needle work and laundry work which had been the mother's resource had been di- verted into other channels. Would it ever COMO back again? The widow's head ached, and her hands trembled and were hot and feverish. Even if the work were here, she could not do it. Was illness coming on her also The constant toil, with hieufficient food and sleep, had weakened her more than she knew, but her trust in God had not failed, and as the sat trying to mend a torn and faded frock of little Ted's she lifted up her heart in prayer for help. The long, warm June day was nearing its close when Johnny the oldest boy, came bounding up the stairs of the tenement house. "Mother, mother, just think of it. I have earned " ty cents working -in Mrs. Berry's garden; gave me ten cents an hour. wasn't she good.1" • "Thank God 1" said Mary in her heart. "He has not forsaken us." "And she has plenty of sewing for you as soon as you're rested, but you mustn't have it yet; and she says I may come every Td morning, and she will have !something for ' me to d.o and pay me for it. Hut.= 1 I'm going to support the family. But I'm a,w- fully hungry now; isn't there anything but bread? Let me go and buy something with my fifty cents. Poor mother 1 you have the headache, or you wouldn't ery now, when we're sll well again and everything is jolly. lelta ;Just then the cry came up the street, "strawberries 1 strawberries! Two boxes for a quarter." "0 mother, let me get a box of straw- berries, they will do you good; and we do want something beeicles breed." The mother hesitated, which Johnny in- terpret/11.as consent, and was off like a flash and back again with his paper bag of ber- ries. The children had a gay time at supper hulling and eating their strawberries with their bread. Sugar? Oh, no 1 they did not think of it; there had been none in the house for weeks. Before thg supper was finished, good Betsy Borden, who lived in the rooms below, came up with some ginger- bread, and the joy of the children was coznplete. "Bless their hearts 1" she said. "How good it is thsee them well again! But you don't look well, Mary. Have you eaten any supper ?" "'Yes, a few strawberries and a bit of bread; but, for the strawberries I could not have swallowed a mouthful. Johnny bought them, you know, with the money that he earned. I couldn't deny him, and I ;think they've done me good, though it, might seem strange that wo should buy them when we are so poor." I "Can't you drink a cup of tea ?" Mary shook her head. "Mother hasn't had. any tea thi4 long time," said eight-year-old Harry. "She says milk is better, but we haven't had any milk either—nothing but bread; and it's lucky it is hot weather, for our •wood is all , gone./ "Hush, Harry," said hit mother. "You' mnstn't tell all our secrets ?" Betsy Borden was lame, but the boys noticed how much more quickly than usual she 'went down stairs; and not many min- utes had passed before the click of her era& WM heard in the hall below, and her vcice calling Johnny to come down. ",here, child, take that tea to your mot I've put sugar and milk in it to save h r trouble and she'll excuse it being in a boas, ; you'll not be so likely to spill it going 'over the stairs as if it was no cup:" There was a half grnile on Mary's face as she listened to these explanations, and it would be hard to tell which did her more good, the bountiful supply of fragrant steaming tea, or the delicate kindness of the friend who was almost as poor as hereelf, ....... The day after these occurrences seine ladies were together to sew for the poor, and Mrs. Hall, the minister s wife, mention- ed the McNeil family, saying she feared they wore very destitute, as the mother had not been able to earn anything for so long, and was now unfit to work, • " Y. es," said Miss Rand, a bright young woman who was cutting out work; "1 heard they were wi thee t fuel, and almoot Without food, and we must help them." " Wo ought to," taid old Mrs, Harper, " for, wheii there is any sickness in the neighborhood, Mary MoNellis always ready to do anything in her power, and she'o an extra good nurse." " Well," said a eh erpvoiced woman from the corner' " I di e't, know as we are under any obligation to help her ; when people are extravagant and indulge in luxuries, they re not generally conaidered objects of oharit " " You surely do not aectise Mrs, McNeil 0 living in luxury and extravagance," said Mr. Hall, with Mine "1 call it extravagance for her to buy strawberries ; it is somethieg I never did in my life ; and a they're so very poor, I should think they'd let the fruit arte go gy.e "But are you sure they have bought strawberries lately ?" " Perfectly sure. I SOM John stop the cart and buy a box yesterday." "Is it so wrong to buy a box of straw- berries ?" said Mrs. Hall, who suddenly re- membered that she had purchased several boxee in the past week. " Perhaps Mro. McNeil needed them for a relish if she is not well," Perhaps she did ; but dried -apple sauce is a very good relish and ever so much cheaper." " Not if you count all the cost, Aunt Ab. igail," said Angeline Rand. "It takes a deal of firewood to cook dried apples, for yen have to stew them and stew them, yon know, and the MeNeile have no fuel. When we begin to judge our neighbors, we ought to consider all of their circum- stances." " One circumstance is enough for me in this case, though there are plenty of other alines that how how extravagant Mary 1114eil is, and kind of proud and stuck up. "Do tell us," asked Fanny Jones, with sudden interest. "Oh, shewears white collars and white aprons, and always looks so like a lady ; you needn't ask me to give them any thing," Do you ever find any truly worthy peo- ple to whom to give ?" • asked Fanny, de- murely. Not very often. I give mostly to for- eign missions ; that is something reliable." "'But are yeti sure that neither the mis- sionaries nor the heathen ever eat straw- berries ?" continued the audacious girl. " Now I think of it, I believe there are some parts of heathendom where dried gp- pies do not grow, and where strawberries are in plenty ; what would you do in ouch a case, Aunt Abigail? And if they should wear white aprons,you would have to stop your subscriptions., ' "Go away child, and don't make fun of serious things ; I've no time to talk longer. I must gohome and put on the teakettle for supper. " Auut Abigeil, do you indulge in a tea kettle? it's what the South Sea Is- landers don't have, and would consider a useless luxury. I am astonished at you 1 but stop a minute ! I thought Mary McNeil !was ever so good to you when you had rheu- matic fever last winter ; didn't she come land take care of you two or three nights? Yes, I remember about itnow, and you gave her a calico apron afterward." I When the ancient maid had departed, Miss Rand opened to the other lathes more fully the condition of the McNeils, and told how it happened that John bought the strawberries, and how exultingly he had ' showed her two loaves of bread, and a quart of nulk that he -was carrying home that imorning—" All bought with money that I • earned myself, Miss Rand. I Why didn't you tell this while Miss l Abigail was here ? asked Mrs. Hall. 1 "She gave me no opportunity, and it would have done no good. I am tired of setting her right; ,she always will judge everybody so harshly." 1 "Let us not judge her harshly," whis- pered old Mrs. Harper. "'Abigail has many good qualities, and means to do right. 1 I'm sure." " Charity thinketh, no .evil," said the minister's wife, softly; and so the party broke up. Fanny Jones and Angeline Rand went round by the market and pleased themselves in buying all sorts of nice things for the McNeils, while the elder people attended to the needs of tbe family in a more quiet and substantial way. But Angeline Rand had hard work to keep Fanny Jones from going to tell Aunt Abigail that the MeNeils had not only strawberries, but pine -apples and oranges, and that somebody had been "dreadfully extravagant.". Emin Pasha's Future Plans. It is more than likely that Emin Pasha, , who has lived ixgCentral Africa over eight years,will choose rather to remain at his post than to return to Europe with the Stanley expedition. in his latest letters he announces his purposeto establish tstatihealtThful and permanenon 1: , fertile district of Maliagi, on the southwest coast of Albert Nyanza, and,he also speaks of :hie projects for future egpl .ration: The purpose of Stanley's expedition is not to , bring Emin Pasha home, but to supply him with the ammunition and other resources 'needed to enable him to withdraw, if he desires, or to still maintain the author- ! ity of Egyptin that parted equatorialAfrica. Emin Pasha and .Dr, k 1 h " protested- in eloquent wards against aban- doning this province to' barbarism and the slaver. Brain Pasha has taught thousands of the natives improved methods of agricul- ture and the arts of weaving and shoemak- ing. Teo abandon the work belies so well begun will be to throw 'away the opportun• ity of plauting civilization in the heart of Africa. By means of the newly discovered waterways to the Congo, Egypt's equatoriaL province may still be -kept within easy reach of Europe, the Soudan may Stoma day -be re- gained, and millions of blacks preserved from the Khartoum slave drivers who formerly ravaged their homes. Ernin Pasha's territory was one of the two provinces of Egypt that paid all its expenses and turned a surplus into the trea- sury. According to Dr. Junker the Gover- nor. General has on hand a store of ivory large enough to pay the entire cost of the Stanley expedition three times over. Janker aleo says that if Emin Pasha decides to remain at his post the majority of his force of 14800 men will remain with him. Egypt authorizes Emin Pasha to hold the province he has defended so well add has done so much to develop. No one familiar with the record of this remarkable man be- lieves that he will abandon the equatorial province, even for a temporary respite from his arduous labors, if thereby the fruits of his past efforts and the Well-being of the natives must be sacrificed. THE IAMB -KILN CLUB, " While I dean' want te seem eel:dame or ober pertickler," oaid Brother Gardner to He meeting was called to order, " dar' arn a few things I deoiah to call you attenohun to at dis time. Heretofo' nuflin' has been said when membere sat in de meetin' an' ate herlings. Datpurceedin" must now be stopped, 1Dey might hey eaten smoked herrings in de Roman Senate, but dat was M anoder edge, an' perhaps de smell wieen't so bad. "Some ,of you members walk he heah wid a raw onionein one pocket and a cold biecuit Id de odder, en' you sot an' munch, aa' munch an' sot until dere am not a dry eye around you. Arter dis eavenin' sich things must be left at home. " Sartin members git in de back seats an' remove deir shoes an whittle off deir toe - nage, pare down deir co'ns, an' rub away at deir stone -braises. Kin such purceedingo be witnessed in Congress? From dis night out de member who is cotch in sieh a per- formance will receive a paralyzing 8hock. " Sartin members hey got into de habit of elevatin' deir hoofs on top of de stove an' winder sills an' takin' things powerful easy. When dat triangle sound herearter all hoofs mus' be on de floor, an' if it become necessary to elevate 'ern an applicashun oent to the Seckretary's desk will probably be favorably acted upon. "A few sertin members hey bin in de habit of slippin' out of de room widget exin permiehun, as purvicled fur in de by-laws. I hereby warn sich pussons dat de nese one who slips out win slip in a great deal faster, 1 ur I shall be at de outer door in pusson to help him. "Wo want dignity—not too rnuth, but jist 'nuff. I doan want so much dignity here dat I can't wink to Samuel "Shin to tab a pin into Elder Toots when de latter geralem begins to snore in his sleep, or dal Kurnel Cahoots will carry off a resolushion us his pocket bekase he am a feared to pre- sent it. If a member's cones ache he kin withdraw to de anty-room an' cajole wid 'em. If de flail bells ring one or two mem- bers kin step softly out an' post deir selves on de location of de huneseerin' flames. I doan' want to be too strict, but I shall in- sist ou de same dignity heel as kin be found in de State Legislachur'an' de sooner you all accustom yourselves to de change de bet- ter it will be fur you." WARNED TO STAY AWAY. Under the head of communications the Secretary announced a letter from Kurnel Backspring Johnson, of Selma, Ala. The Kurnel bosses a department ire an oil mill through the week, and preaches to the best of his lung power on Sundays. Be has isa- vented a uew method to the world. After delivering his addrees he should remain. in Detroit several weeks to take lessons in. VS hitewashing, and would be the guest of Samuel Shin, for whom he had conceived a grand admiration. The reading of the let- ter had scarcely been concluded when Sam- uel was on his feet, trying his hardest to urn pale. Visioris of giving up his bed an sleeping on the floor—of his household ex- penses increasing one-half—of calls 'to loan his ruffled Sunday shirt and nankeen vest, . danced'before is eyes un i his tonguecould not utter a word. "Sot down Brudder Shin—sot down ! ob- served the President. "Dis Chair not only realizes, what your feelin's ar' but sympa- thizes wid you. De seckretarywill write to de Kurnel to de effect dat dis ar' our cyclone, small.pox, cholera, an' airthquake season, an' dat he couldn't live five matte atter strikin' Detroit. If dat dean do we will te egrap him dat a pueson of his name is wanted here fur murder." WIPED OUT. For some time past reports of a very un- favorable character have been received from "The High Old Steppers," a branch of the Lime -Kiln Club eetablished. at Nashville. The officers and members have been charged with various derelictions, and early in May the President was arrested, convicted and sent up for ninety days for having a bag of meal in his possession which belonged to a grocer half a mile away.. He wasno sooner incarcerated than the lodge ' at once passed. a resolution that the laws of this country. were made by despots, enforced by • tyrants, and should be resisted by the bay- ! onet. Its charter was at once demanded by the parent club, and in giving notice that , the brach no longer existed, Brother Gard- , ner said: 1 "De High Ole Steppers will step a good deal lower al er dis, an' we shall be keerfnl how we establish fucher branches in Nash- ville. When a man in dig kentry cams to de conclushun dat de laws ex' agin him he will b'ar watchin' wid boaf eyes open. lie's either bin stealin' somethin', or is achin' to kill off a policeman on gineral principles." 00:CTVICTED POR .PLAWARISII. Sometimes hese Prof. de Ruyter Bangs, an honorary member residing in Columbus, 0., sent in the following poem to contest for the annual spring prize voted by the club. The committee thought they discovered the fine Italian hand of plagiarism in it, ,and it was laid aside for further investigation. Way -down Bebee now reporter that the poem was stolen bodily from the work of the Sweet Singer of Michigan. Here are three of the twenty-seven verses: One night when I scnight my couch, All tired ont and forlorn, An angel appeared to me, and said; "You'llmarry a Man named Flenry Smith Rogers" The days rolled swiftly past, And I was almost discouraged, When father hired a man, And he was the one of my dreams. And so you see how fate. Will sometimes wcb us on; And how no girl should despair ' Because she has no beau. On motion of TruStee Pullback the matter of expelling the Professor was put to vote, and he was expelled at the rate of forty miles an hour. "In notifyin' him," said the President,"de Seckretery will state diet it is mo' on account of de poetry don de atealin.' Let us now lock up de 'refinished bUSilie88; BOt de safe to open , on the word 'X" and retire to our domeeti. cated homes." Mystetioile Photographs. A wonderful thing happened in Louisa ' county recently. A Northera lady Mrs. Eaton) died and a white handkerchief Was folded in four layerS and put over her face. When they took the handkerchief off there wore four distinct pictures of the lady on it, the size of a quarter of a dollar. Spirits of camphor had been put on the lady e face just before her death. Dr. E. S. Pendleton, who attended the lady, has the handkerchief, and will show it to any mac, or reply to any ques- tions regarding this matter. M. Yellin, a Frence chemist, has in, vented an improved land of cement, pos. eesing durability Ana the old ap potence of marble, so thet a , wall set with it not only becomes imp'ermeable to moisture, INFANT PRODIGIES. Willie Gordon, the ten/ear-old son of e Mandan wholesale clothing dealer, is his father's bookkeeper and confidential clerk. He shows a surprising aptitude for business and always tekes entire charge of the store when his father goee Eaet,to buy goods. Eddie Race, a fide -year-old youngster, of Olen's Falls, is the best drummer bay for miles around. He performs the moot diffie cult beats without a flaw and never seems to get tired, although the drum he carries is nearly as big as his body. Eddie has never had any tuieion, but gets the beats right by instinct, Lillie Stull the fourteen -year-old dangle. ter of State Librarian of Pennsylania, recent- ly composed a cradle song so diffictilt that her music teacher advised her to modify it. She said that she had made it difficult so that she might send it to Patti, who would be able to sing it. This she did, and it was sung by the diva with great success in the Weet. Mies Fannie Bleek, of Jackson, Miss. is said to be one of the most precocious dill dren in the state. Though only nine years old she reads, writes, and speaks English, German and French fluently and reads brew with ease. She is now begineing to master Greek. It took her only two months to learn German, and she acquired the other languages with equal readiness, A little negro lad about seven years old, living near 'Union town, is said to possess a wonderful talent for sculpture. He can take a lump of mud from the road side and with his hands form any animal he ever saw, the porportions being perfect. He recently marlfi out of clay a life-size statue of a dog that astonished everybody who saw it because of ite extraordinary fidelity to life. Paul Williams, the twelve -year-old son bo G. B. Williams, of Mendon, has neither arms nor legs—only stumps two inches long from his shoulders and similar stumps, eight in- ches in length, in place of legs. Yet he is an accomplished penmanend a very good artist. He holds the pen or brush between his chin and one of his shoulders stump and moves it with his head. Besides all this, he his a pupil of high standing in the g Menden High School. A 'Very Remarkable Fight. "While travelling through the country with Barnum in 1881, said a veteran show- man, "1 witnessed one of the most remark- able fights on record. Four elephants against OM man, and in the water,too. In July or August, 1881, our show struck the pleasant little City of Ottawa. You are doubtless aware that elephanis are extremely fond of bathing. For some little time before coming to Ottawa they had been deprived of that pleasure. No sooner were they unloaded from the train, however, than their sharp little eyes caught sight of the river and the news was trumpeted about be elephant lan- guage from one to the other. They were very restive all day and betrayed great anxiety to bathe, and as soon as the after. noon performance was over the under keep- ers marched them to the river bank. I assure you many seconds did not elapse before the whole herd, twenty three in number, wers splashing and dashing in the Water like a lot of school boys. Such a stragge sight natural- ly attracted the attention of the townspeople and the farmers who, with their families had driven in to see the show, and I doubt very much whether the river at Ottawa ever presented such an animated appearance as .on that day.. " After awhile the keepers houted 'Mile up,' which in elephant phrase egg means all in. Nineteen immediately FM n. to shore but no amount of shouting could. became the other four to return. Men were sent with rocks to the bridge and the entire circus force swarmed along both river banks try- ing with stones to turn the huge beasts in the direotion of the canvas, but all in vain. As a last resource the chief trainer, George Artingstall, was sent for. The poor fellow had been sick in bed for over a week with malaria, but on learning of the difficulty mine diately dressed himself and came to the bank Calling each elephant by iaa,me he ordered them to 'Mile up.' For a moment it looked as thOngh his command would be obeyed, for the elephants, recognizing his Voice, halted and seemed to waver in their course. Albert, the oldest and biggest set- tled the matter by uttering a loud snort of defiance, and led by him they once more started up 'the stream. Seeing at a glance that he could do nothing on shore, Mr. Art- ingstall made for the dressing room tent, from which he soon emerged dressed in tumbler's tights, and placing the elephant prod or fork beta een his teeth, boldly swam out to the elephants. "Used as we were to strange sights we yet almost held our breath at this daring act. When within a few yards of them A rting- , stall again shouted Mile up, but without effect. Then, seeming to lose his temper, he sprang upon the back of the nearest one, and commenced using his fork for all he was worth. Pretty soon a cry of rage came from the animal, upon which the trainer jumped from one to another, repeating the fork per- forniance until after at least ten minutes fierce fighting end jumping, the elephants cried peceavi and swam trembling to the shore. Once there the keepers soon had them under subjection, but Arbingstali, who had displayed such intrepidity and courage, sank into a dead faint the moment he touch- ed shore. A FRENCH LOVE POWDER. The horrible Use to Which Unman BoiteS Are, rut. A curious instance of hen: deeply old su- perstitions are still rooted in remote puts of the country is a case which has just been, brought before the Magistrates of Merquet in the Department of Lomet, in Franca A short time ago the gravediggers of Fortenity- ; sur -Long said to some workmen with whom he was talking at a Ferrieres factory "Per- haps you think that dead men's bones are ' of no use to anyone, but you are rnistak- e ; v so C some o o women r Ferriers." The police hearing of this oc- cumronce made inquii ies, and the following facts were revealed : The women from Ver. rieres went to Fontenay sur Loiug and ask- ed the gravedigger for some human bones, At first, he refused, but was soon persuaded ,to yield by an ample bribe. The women, who pased in the district for serceeesees, re- turned home, hiding the bone e for a short time, and then burning them and carefully gathering up the chedels, their purpose being to prepare a love draught for a young and pretty lass, who had ordered it to re- conquer the heart of a lover who had turned her off. Not So Proud of It. 1VIany were the rencontres between Will Speir and the Earl of Eglington, who con- descended to' familiarity with him, and in return allowed the same latitude of expres- sion ift the wayward Will. The vagrant one day made a demand on his lordship for a bottle of ale, "'Decd, Will," replied the earl, " I have not a farthing in my pocket just now ; but just gang in there to Leezie Patereon's, and I'll tell her to gi'e yc't, and Pit return in a, few minutes and help you drink itm ,' The earl, faithful to his proise, returned in a short time, and taking a scat opposite to Will. " Ye may be a proud man this day Will, said his lordship. An for what?" queried the wit. " bating drink- ing wi an earl. flech, leech, man great cause to be peoad, sitting eekle an earl that Inagua, bodle his ponch to bless 1 himsel' There neVer wars a good war, or a bad but can be polished and made beautiful, 1 peen. The Co-operative Societies of England have sterted large factoriee, end they are employing workmen just like ordinary cap- itelists and these -workmen Inane recently been out on strike because, as they allege, they are not fairly dealt with in the wity of wages. Is net this tne very evil that co-operation was intended altogether to de. otroy ? Toronto's Coronation Ode, 10 W. AS, 811BILWOOD. Long before yon grey cathedral rose to greet the Sabbath ditY, Long befoie its silvery chiming echo'd o'cr the watery way 1 When the red man roamed the foreet for the bird whose plume he wore, Far beyond his homely wigwam on the thlekly-wood- ed shore, Uterine returning Old Toronto saw hen wandering up and down With the braves WhO OAMe tO greet him from the neighboring Indian town; Came they in to bee the banners and to hear the hands men play, Grand old strains of British muck: on that Comte tion -Day. Trembling when the little cannon dared its iron voice to raise,— /Ten the forest seemed to startle at the vigor of its praise : Joyously they heard the story of the Young Quo= erowled, till they, Homeward hastening flung the war -dance 'round the From <trtnreca:tt withtlbn4411, e kindness came the full- ness of their song, Yea, since fifty years of progress how the echo floats along, Balsam, pine and eugar-maple, birch and beech and sturdy oak, All have fallen 'neath the forward, sweeping of the WOO 1118ti 8 stroke , And as backward moves the forest, so the red man steals away, Seeks the enema, of the woodland from the noise and glare of day, And ten thousand, stately mansions tell of eonwthing we have done, Since upon this day commemorate fifty years our race has run ; Other lights than Indian eaunnfires 0e:seeing all along our bay, Stars of oiveization triumph on this Coronation Dayl Yea,lrom furthest loyal westland see approach the iron eteed, See the golden oars of commerce, synonyms of power • and speed, Bearing tribute's costly treasures, hallow'd offerings of peace; I Lo 1 ye traitors of the Empire, look and let your scoffing cesse. Know ye not our young Dominion rests her head on 13ritain's breast, And the standardn'er her floating is 'Victoria's Royal Crest? And, until that honoed sceptre passes from our Mether's hand, Till her dying biosing crowns us undivided shall we stand— By the blood of Balaklma, by the battles of the plain, By the Burnaby and Gordon on the Khedive's desert slain liy the chains of slavery broken, by the clod that we adore, By the grand old open Bible we are one for ever- more! Viotona's Childhood. Few royal children, many as are their toys, ever had such a remarkable "play- thing" as that with which Britain's Queen amused herself when she was a toddler of / fourteen months. In consequence of a very civil message from the Duchess of I Kent," wrote William Wilberforce, "1 ; waited on her this morning. She received I me, with her fine, animated child on the floor by her side, with its playthings, of which. I soon became one." Had an artist been present, he might so ha.ve painted the ' scene as to suggest the childlike nature of gthe great philanthropist which won the heart of the little Princess, who was too in- nocent to be a respecter of persons. The little Princess delighted in muse°, and her mother once sent for a child who played on the harp, to amuse her. The Duchess of Kent, seeing er daugher engrossed with the music, left the room for a moment. On returning she found theharp deserted, and the two children seated side by side on ; the rug, surrounded by the Princess's play- ' things, from which Victoria was making a liberal selection for the little harp -player. The Duchess inculcated consideration for others upon her daughter, and a little " scene" at a London jeweller's, which oc- curred when the Princess had grown up, showed the effect of this training. Having gone one' morning, xneognito to the jeweller's, she noticed a younglady looking at gold chains, One of the trinkets pleased her, but the price being more than she could afford to pay, she reluctantly put it aside and selected a cheaper one. After she had left the store, the 'Princess inquired who she was. • The answer being satisfactory, she ordered the chain to be sent to the young lady. With the gift , went a card, whieh expressed the pleasure of the Princess Victoria in observing that the young lady's prudence had conquered her desire to possess the chain. The Duke of Kent, the Princess's father, had assigned a cottage near the palace at " Kensington to a soldier of his regiment, who afterward died, leaving a sick boy and girl. The Princess visited the family at intervals, and two days before she left Kensington to ascend the throne, she sent to the invalid girl a copy of the Book of Psalms, and a marker worked by her own hand. "Look there!" exclaimed the girl to her pastor, drawing the book from under her pillow. "Look at what the Queen of Eng- land sent me, and with it the message that, though now Queen of England, and o'eliged Id leave Kensington, she did not forget me. Was it not beautiful, sir ?" Once, while on a vitt at Wentworth House, she was running about the gardeu on a wet morning, The old gardener, seeing her about to descend a slippery piece of sgirareueInci, called out, "]3e careful, miss; it's "What's slape ?" asked the Princess, as her feet flew from under her and she fell down. " That's slape, miss," said the man, care- fully lifting her up. "Thank you.; I shall never forget the word," answered the Princess. Preserved Game, In an opeu sunny spaee in Hampden Park, not far from the road, ;tending among the thick gre.ss, we see two handsome birds as large as our ordinary poultry. They are pheasants, and do not appear to be in tbe least disturbed at setiug us. They probably know that no one will be allowed to harm them except in the game season, which will not arrive for several menthe. The lams regarding game are very strict in England, and even in the shooting season no oue who does not "preserve" game, as the rearing and care of it is here called, is allowed to kill a rabit, a partridge, or a pheasant, even on his own property. All such game is con- sidered to belong to those persons in the neighborhood who have "preserves." If a rabbit shotild come into the garden of the house where We ere staying, and be found eating the cabbages, it may be driven away, but it the owner of the garden should cateh or kill it, he would be subject to a penalty. It mutt not be supposed that the great proprietoes are always stbsgy a,bout their game. On one of the estates of the Prince of Wales each poor man is allowed to come to the house every day it the shooting sea - eon, and get one rabbit. He IS perfectly woke= to the animal, now it is dead, for the Isrince end his friends could not possibly eat all they shoot ; but if he shoald presume to deprive the owner of the pleesure of kill- ing it, he would be a poiteher and be pot in prison, The Croevn Prinee of Italy ie t very &ever yoling main He is only eighteen years of age, but tan opeak ilaently five or tie lan- guages. He eau talk strategy with a genetal 05 scienee With a ecientist Stringing the Clothes Line. My wife was determined to de the wash. - lug. bought her a patent washer, about a. ton of cottomand-wool corrosive soap and is wringer. Then she said I must string the clothes line. lf there is one thing worse than another' embraced in the catagoiy of doineetic woes, that will break up the eel e,ne urbanity of a, moat's flow of reason, it is the stringing of a. clothes line. I have launched another fel-, low's eehooner, I have oat the lead with a, dismal plunk into old ouean'e viecera, I have guided the flow and pulled the tiller of the careening canal boat, but I had yet to learn, the myeteries of stringing the clothes line. 1 took a monkey wrench, a pound of nallse two hundred yards of line and a step -ladder,. and went forth in seersucker az ray to string; that line or sweat in the attempt. My wife was there in the garden; she had anticipated ane with a basket filled with our very best garments and an apron full of non- reversible clothespins. Also she held One in her mouth. A woman never forgets to chew a clothespin during the modus operandi of hanging up linen to dry. It may clog her gift of epeech, but the gets there just the same with her damp, limp and saggy wear- ing / a-adox. " Where do you want—" Then I falter- ed. I caught my left foot under a beam hill and plunged heed foremost into the thinly - growing cucumber array. "Not there 1 Come over here by this plum—" Then she grew red in the face, coughed up the clothespin, resurrected herself from the grass covered tomato bed and pulled up her cardinal hose. She had mentioned the plum. tree. I planted the step -ladder against the plum tree and was about to drive a emu, when my wife shrieked "Are you an ignoramus or a feel? kill the tree if you drive a nail into it." I acknowledged ray mistake and dropped the mcinkey wrench upon my slipper -clad foot, "Just eive the line a bitch around the tree," advised my wife as she shook out hes- dress and scattered the clothespins itmong the - sweet pea vines. I again planted the ladder against the tree and mounted it, holding the line be- tween my teeth. I have felt a ten -pound fish jerk at the catgut leader and I know how a mustard. plaster pulls, but I never knew that a six- year old boy had such drawing qualities. My dentist told me that my teeth were very hard • but that boy of mine jerked out four of my gold-filled grinders in two seconds of time. My complex figure formed an invert- ed V as I careened through the atmosphere, and fell with a dull thud upon my wife's neck. She swooned over without any grace to speak of plump into the basket of washed, garments. .Before I could rise I had lost, any quantity of gore—all over the clothes. Then I chased that boy who held the other - end of the rope. If any army had invaded the garden it couldn't hare created more disturbance among the "saes." The next morning we sent our clothes to the laundry I have never attempted to string a iothes line since., Superior Persons. The other day Mr. IL D. Trail discoursed very wisely on the supposed fact thee, the. people of this generation are diseasedly self- conscious. Perhaps there is a . good deal of ruth in what he said. It seems that "never was there a. period. when eo vest a, multitude of human beings were so ridiculously eager to create and. sustain for theihselves the reputation of intellectu 11superior sons." Very likely so, but it is not merely the r-putation for superior intellect that es sought.There is an eagemness to be spoksn about, to be noticed for any thing or almost in any way. The devices resorted to Id order to secure this are infinitely varied an& often exceedingly amusing. God pity the poor newspaper man and give him grace sufficient to keep him from being cynical, for his temptations in that direction are manifold. it would be an easy thing to raentioa Doctors of Divinity by. the dozen who stick at almost nothing en order to keep themselvesbeforethe bli y carueot deliver a lecture or preach a sermon but they wriggle about to get a puf- fing notice of it in the papers. They cannot go for their holidays but the fact must be published to the world,. They cannot return from the seaside but it has to be proelainsed that they are "looking SO well." They affect to care 'nothing about what the newspapers say about them. The. lying wretches! They clip out every com- plimentary notice este it in a sorap book and read the precious document once a day. It is the sauna with almost everybody. Of - course it is all right about the intellectual reputation craved for, but that is a very small pert of the self-consciousness. Partiesa have to be chrouicled, dresses described, marriages boomed Why all this fuse? Simply that so and so's name may be kept. before the public, and his movements mark- ed and his achievements glorified. Would it not be well for the newspapers to form a conspiracy of silence to report no speeches, to chronicle no movements, to puff nobody - and th abuse iiobocly for say, e t 9 Wh would be the result? *her, that those who. now- cry out against what the papers say, would ory out far more at what they "don't' say. The world would soon lose sight of its great ones or, at least, its vain ones, and the consequences of course would be deplor- able. Think of men opening churches and no notice taken of their doings. Think of them speaking gross nonsense and not a. word printed m condemnation! Think of a. minieterial assooiation meeting being unre- ported 1 Or an " motor on Robert Burns passing unpuffed 1 No one calamity, in short, of the preeent day is not to be taken notice of iit all. Even evengelists crave for reports of their fine bursts, for the good they do, of course, but also for the honor and glory of No. 1. The obligations of multitudes to newspapers is, in short, beyond all estimate and the diseased desire to get credit for something or other which is either very par - gaily possesse4 or not et all, is wonderful.—. Toronto Truth. An Unfortunate Misunderstanding. "My dear," said a gentlernao to his wife, " where did all those books on astronomy on the library table come from ? They are at11.11:ltr : os." drnitnhg thatlady. "Yu know you *1rOoughtht studyast"ron sant little surprise for you, re - A plea otny, and so I went to a book etore and bought° everything I could find on the sub- ject." It was some minutes before he spoke, My dear," he then said slowly, hio voice hasky with emotion, "1 eever Ortid we must etutly astronomy. I said that we must study economy." H. Rider Haggard IS a slender man with it fine head and a strong well-balanced fseo. Ile is not much over 30, 'Ile hasAslentrc of timein before him which to do goo veer isa fictiou if he Wonlcl but avoid the produe. tion of hurried and anfinished storiee.