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The Exeter Times, 1888-3-1, Page 6t'enta It is Absurd 701' People to expect a cure for Indiges- tion, unless they refrain font eating what is Unwholesome; but if anything Will sharpen the appetite and give tone to the digestive organs, it is Aye's Saxe. attparilla. Thousands all over the land testify to the merits of this medicine. Hrs. Sarah Burroughs, of 24$ Dighth street, South Boston, writes : "My hs. band has taken Ayer's Sarsaparilla, for Dyspepsia and torpid liver, aud has been greatly benefited." A Confirmed D yspeptic. C. Canterbury, of 141 Franklin st., Boston, Mass., 'writes, that, suffering for years front Indigestion, he was at last induced to try Ayer's Sarsaparilla and, by its use, waS entirely cured. Mrs. Joseph Aubin, of High street, Holyoke, Mass., suffered for over a year from Dyspepsia, so that she could not eat stf bstantial food, became very weak, and was unable to care for her family. Neither the medicines prescribed by physicians, nor any of the remedies advertised for the cure of Dyspepsia, •belped her, until she commenced the use of Ayer's Sarsaparilla. Three bottles of this medicine," she writes, "cared rue." Ayer's Sarsaparilla, pant:tamers av Dr. J. C. Ayer & Ocs, Lowell, Mass Priee el; els bottles, $5, Worth $5 a bottle. THE EXETER TIMES. publiened every Thareday rnorning,zit t e TIMES STEAM PRINTING HOUSE muin-street,nearlyol posite Fittozes Jewelery -Store,Rxeter, Ont.,by John White & Son, Pro- prietors. RATES OF ADvEnsneING First insertion, per line.,„„...... .. . ... .10 cents. Each subsequec t in sortion ,per ... cents. To insure insertion, advertisements should be sent in not later tha.0 Wednesday morning OurJOB PRINTING DEP ARTMENT is one the largest and. best equipped in the County f Huron. 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ETINeolT & Oo .Pormand Maine ELL" Unapproached for Tone and Quality CATALOGUES FREE. BELL &CO. Guelph, Ont C. 86 S. CaDLEY, UNDERTAKERS! Furniture Manufacurers —A FULL STOOK OF— "Furniture', Coffins, Caskets, Md eteeything in the above line, to meet immediate wante, We have one of the very beat Hearses in the County, And Funerals furnished and conducted a eittretnely low prioma AtiolbwisO .0.a, run Dirrusantio SOoriottz* CAUGHT II! CRASHING ICE, A.Wild Night. 'Amid tlie Toe 04.1geof the t. lAwience. "11 there ire any person living who has cane tartieular (weals ttf , hie life fixed viv. din ix bie menterf,"' igielsGeoege Penn, a reaident of Gananoque, " that person is my. Self, and the event le my experience in orosa. hag the St. Lawrence River from Gauancque to Clayton, )4y the way of Griudetone Island, one night ie ebiruary, eight years ago., I • had been wentitag to make the trip ecroas the ice to the island for several dare but I was alreid the frczen river was too Match- eroua at the time, but when eleven men front the island croe.sed over to Gantsnoque with a load of grist, and reported everything an right, I lost all fear, mud joined them on thole return trip. Among the party from the Wand were Willard Robinson end George Cummings. • "The party got ready to start on their return trip ebout 3 oil:gook, and were glad to have me join thetn, Everything went well until a e were within a mile or so of Grindstone Island. By that time it was growing dark, and the wind, which had been gradually rising, soddenly began blow- ing a gale, and any one who has ever been in a Si. Lawrence River gale knows what that means. While we were doing our best to proteot ourselves against the gale, and urging the team to the top of its speed, to our horror the ice began to crack and bend beneath us, To lessen the danger of break ing through the ice, we stopped the horses, took them from the sleigh, and while one of the party led one of them and another the other, George Cummings, Willard Robinson, and myself pushed the sleigh along, the rest ot the party scattering about on the threat- ening ice, to concentrate as little weight as possible on one spot. fhe darkness fell about us rapidly, and the gale increased. It was not long before the different groups of our straggling party beoame separated and lost to sight of one another in the grow- ing darkness. " One of the horses watt being led by a man named David Harwood, and he was the only one of the others that waii near us. We could just see him aa he went along, and suddeely we saw the horse he was lead- ing break through the ice. Harwood was still on solid ice, but the struggles of the lime to get out broke the ice beuea,th Har- wood, ami we could see him struggling in the water with the .horse. He finally man- aged to draw himself up on a, large cake of ice, and he leaped from it to another, and we lost eight of him. The horse hadby this time disappeared beneath the ice, and we supposed that Harwood had shared the same fate. None of the rest of the party was within sight or hearing. " Cummings, Robinson, and myself stuck to the sleigh. We had been forced out of the direct course to the island, but we struggled on, thinking we might soon be able to veer around and strike it again. This hope was suddenly destroyed by the sleigh breaking through, and we were forced to desert it to sa,vt ourselvea. The gale was now so strong that we could not stand up against it. We crept on our hands and knees in the darkness. We could not aee fitty feet ahead of us. We had not crawled far before the ice gave way beneath us, and we were struggling in the water among floating cakee ot ice. "Then for the first time the full horror of our position became apparent to me. The ise was not ouly weak; it was actually breaking up in the river, and we were fight- ing for life in the midst of an immense held of floating ice cakes which Were grinding each other into powder on every side. Our • only salvation lay in each securing as large a floe as possible, and, taking refuge upon it, trusting to chance for its running suc- cessfully the gauntlet of the grinding, crash- ing fragments that hedged us about. In that ease we might be able to withstand the cold and exposure until 'succor reached no, for we felt that some of our comrades would surely reach the island in safety, and at once mend rescuing parties in boats to pick up those who were less fortunate. "The cake of ice that I secured was not la-ge enough for me to stand erect upon, even if I could have done so in the gale, but I thought it might be less apt to go to pieces with me than a larger one. It was just large enough for me to keep upon it in a kneeling position. Robinson and Cummings drew themselves upon large blocks, and they rocked in the water like boats. It was bitter cold, and the wind howled down upon us with unabated fury. We had been in the tossing floes but a short time when Robinson shouted from his floating block of ice: " 'Boy,•I intend to'neake a strike for shore. III freeze to death here in an hour, and I might better die in trying to save my - elf than to stand still and die. Will you risk it with me "1 looked ahead over the crowding, orashing, swaying mass of ice, the white border of which could be traced in the dark- ness for several rods. It looked so wild and treacherous that I couldn't summon up courage to trust myself upon it, and told Robinson so. Cummings said he couldn't, either. "'You'd better not try it, Will,' said Cumming*. 'We'll be rescued sure.' "But Robinson was determined, and took off his coat and boots. " eep up your oourage, boys," he said. ' have a boat back for you before two hours or you'll never see me again. Good - '"He plunged into the river among the oraehing tee cakes. We could see him fight- ing his way, and cheered him up with words of encouragement until he was lost in the darkness. Finally, after a silence of a qtarter of an hour, which we interpreted to mean that the brave fellow had been ground to pieces in the ice, we heard him shout back to us. • He had fought his way sweetie - fully across the wide strip of broken ioe that lay between as and a strip of unbroken ice, and had drawn himself upon the latter. After a few minutes he shouted again, and we could hear his voice above the wind, as the gale bore the words to us, saying that he was about to make the attempt to weath- er his way through the broken ice that lay beyond. It was then probably 7 o'clock in the even- ing. Camminge and I were encrusted with ice. Robinson had beengone but a short timewhen my pleas of ice began to go to pieces. A moment later I was struggling in the Water among its fragments. At that moment the moon Mlle out behind a cloud, 13y its light I SAW that the block of ico on width Cummings wee floating WWI a roomy one and formed a thick, solid White ice. I mate my way to it with a great effort, my legs were so cramped by long kneeling. I reached Cummings s perch an succeeded in pulling myself upon it. When I had recovered Myself et fficiently to notice any- thing ehe I was horrified to diecover that Cummings was atirely perishing. The moon shone brightly upon us, And I saw that Cummings's face was deadly pale. There with a strange look in his eyes, and he did nob sem to notice my presence, 1 ettepped sits high pay. off my overcoat and Wrapped it amend bitta and stood between him and the howling tempest, so as to protect him as numb as pesaibla "Just then, to my infinite joy, lights' ap- peared on the shore. I eltouted, although the ohancee were ull against any voice being heard. I tried to meke Cummings see the lights, but he had apparently lost all mime ef the eituation. I knew that he had a wife and Ave children at home, to whom he was devotedly attache& One little daughter especially was his pride and delight. Think- ing to armee him, to some effort that would keep him up until the help I pow thought wail surely on the way could arrive, I said to him : " 'Think of Ettie, George, aria cheer so, if you want to eete her again, "He looked at me in surprise. 'Why,' he he said, looking out over the ice, with his hand moving nervously about his chin. 'I see her now. Yonder she cornea 1 Don't you see her ? Don't you see her? But what makes her came out when it ia so cold, I wonder 7" "Then I saw that the end of poor Cum. sunup was near, Once more 1 called his at- tention to the lights on the shore. 'See, George,' I said, 'The men are coining out to save us.' "He kept gazing.wildly out over the ico, vrith his hand moving about his ohin in the same strange manner. It was heartbreak- ing to nee him. I wept like oh child at the sight of him. "For two mortal hours I fought for the life that he himself had no longer the power nor inclination to save. The lights, mean- time, had been moving up and down the shore In a meaningless way, but none of them approached any nearer to us. Finally onehy one they disappeared. Then all hope deserted me. I had kept up by the moat strenuous exertions, buoyed by the hope of keeping Cummings alive until the expected reimuers reaohed us. I felt, new, that all was boat, and that, do what I might, over- taxed nature meet sooner or latter succumb. It was now ten o'clock. Cummings had gradually been growing weaker and weaker, and had sunk down on the ice, where I was rubbing his hands and face, in what I knew was a aselese effort to keep up the circula- tion. .Suddenly he sprang to his feet. He stretched his hand out, and a ith a wall such as I never want to hear again, he cried : " Ettie's going back I I am going to her l' "The next second he had flung himself into the water. He disappeared at once. I lay ilat on the ice, peering down into the black depths, in hope that he would come up, and that I might drag his body back on the ice, and at least save that for his friends. But be never appeared again. "It is impossible for me to describe the feeling that possessed me for the next two hours and a half, alone in that field of ice, with one of my companions dead beyond doubt, and the other having probably met a fate equally as terrible as his. The rook kg of the ice cake on the waves created a deadly nausea within me. I found, how- ever, that the floe on which I stood had lodged against a portion of the field which had not yet broken up, and I was saved the additional horror of drifting, I knew not whither, among the floes that were con- stantly crashing to pieces around me. I could nob feel the beginning of the fatal inertia that presages the doom of the freezing person, and I tramped up and down the ice floe and rested not is second. I could not shalt'e off the thought that I would be rescued. The wind had ceased blowing, but the cold was keen and intense. "At midnight I saw a light on the shore. So weak was I that this welcome vision al- most overceme me. I called all my energy together, and gave a shoub that I could not give to -day in my soundest health if I was to receive a fortune for doing it. I repeated the shout at intervals, for I saw that the light was moving toward me. It came steadily, bat oh! so slowly! After what seemed an age, and it was really an hour, E0 blocked was the water with floating ice, I could hear the sound of the boat against the ice and the confused murmur of yokes. When the boat was within hailing distance I shouted again, and I remembered nothing after that until I came to consciousness at a house on Grindstone Island. "Days elapsed before I was able to be told what had been the fate of the party. Poor Willard Robinson, who defied the peril that lay before him in a daring attempt almost accuses the brilliantly polished to reach the shere and send rescuers to Cum- floor of having opened and swallowed her mings and me, was never heard of again, up, or one of the Indian prayer rugs of hay - The othets, after hsurs of struggle with the ing concealed beneath it a treacherous trap. broken ice, had reached the island, all of door. When, how, where did she vanish? them frozen and exhausted. Harwood had And now the eager, hasty glanoe round a terrible journey over that waste of wild for her has • betrayed the fact that Captein waters and crashing ice. For a mile he Melville is also missing. Why, he, too, made his way from 'cake to cake; sometimes was here only a little while ago and now, floating for an hour at a time on is floe before by some le gercleinain of hers—no doubt a he could manage to get to another one. batteryfromthose demure, usuallyfclown-oast Several times the cake upon which he clung eyes—he, too, has been spirited away into went to pieces and loft him straggling in the the land of flowers, so dangerously close at icy channel. By alternate swimming and leaping from floe to floe, constantly in dan- ger of being ground to a pulp among them, Harwood, atter a struggle of six hours, reached the Likud. He was so badly frozen that he was nearer dead than alive for days." TWO KINDS 01' FLIRTS. ey "THE DINDESS." •There is generally suoh an air of bks etre about the ffirt genuine, such an open desire to please—to be agreeable— that because of it one forgives her her besetting sin. She beams on all around her.; the pulls her dainty skirts to one side with:the most de., licate little air of obligingness in the world when a man strolls in her direction, and with her fan showa him where it seat may be found, Few and far between are the men who refuse theta pretty invitation. Of oourse, she is always very good to look at, and her gowns et her.. She iseparkling, bright, epiritaelle, and as a rule, her eyes are dark. We all know her. Very few din. ner parties and no balls are of any account whatsoever unless she is preaent. There is always it little bevy of met. around her, and quite the third portion of it will be seen. to consist of men who have said good-bye to their fortieth birthday. She is as charm- ing to them as she is to the younger mem. bers of her court, and, indeed, ib le to one of thein—.of these middle-aged adorers— that she finally gives the coveted bit of ',Icor- get-me-notin her bouquetbefore slippieg in- to the garden to "see how the stars look" with the very young man on her right. This is the open the ingenuous flirt. Like Sb. Paul, she is allthings to all men. And though she so plainly betritys her prefer- ence for She society of the sex that is not her own, it must not be, therefore, thought that women are abhorred by her. Quite the contrary Few women have so manyfriende as she has, and all of the gentler order; but then few women are so kindly, 80 ten- derhearted, so ready to help, so glad to hear of the sucoesses of others as she is. THE VIET FLIRT. The quiet flirt I Do you know her, too? She is never so much en evidenee as the other, but her work 1 how much more etre° tive, how far more deadly! With scarcely a word, with barely a glance or two she ac- complishes her heart's desire See how calm she is, and how demure ; speechless almost, except for a gentle "yea" or "no" to her hostess, as that genial arson moves from one guest to the other through the long re- oeption rooms, where toeholds sway and the dying lights of the fast deepening twilight make all things mellow. Apparently she is the most hexmless, the moat silent creature possible. Buther eyes. Have you ever noticed them ? What won- drous tales they nold, conceal, give forth when the right time ariseth. All are there, ready to be called out at a moment's warn- ing. She seems to be the very quietest girl in the world, sitting there in that charming toilet that suits her so wonderfully and with only a delicate monosyllable for the women who go by her, and not one of whom would dream of disarranging those dainty skirts to sit beside the wearer and chat pleasantly of all things under the sun, as women will. Instinctively they know Ihat the half of thab low lounge is being held in reserve for a member of the stronger sex. Of all the wo- men she knows, acquaintances there are ' many, but friends there are none. THE SPIDER A,YD THE FLY. And now the lounge holds two 1 A tall man, between 30 and 40 (your quiet fikt never wastes her powder on boys), hand- some, distinguished -looking and evidently at peace with the enemy called poverty, has ensconced hinseelf beside those pearl gray draperies and is apparently reeking himaelf agreeable to the wearer of them. And even yet the calm face is as calm as ever, no sense of triumph marks it. • She is still, you will remember, before the bar of public opinion. She is content to be amused. She will not be amusing until that bar is somewhere out of sight. There is always a good deal of curiosity abeut the quiet flirt. Wonder is rife as to what she mean% or will mean. They are all anxious to know how she will treat Cap- tain Melvdle, who is now beside her, and are quite determined to watch this inter- view at all events to its close. • And yet, even aa they 'so determine, somehow or other she has gone from them, has actually disappeezed. Bent as they were on keeping her in view at all costs, she had slipped AIMIB IN CENTRAL AMIGA. A white thin Among the Nryetageti *be Warts/ Me Dark 044/4out. Two yeeraego thiarnonth Mr. F, 13, Arnot, a young Scotch mimionary who had already slaowo remarkable capacity for African travel, reached the large Gareuganze tribe, almost exactly midvvay between the Alen- tio and Take Oceania in about 12 south latitude. He decided to settle there, end Ina lived alone in the heart ef Africa itniong thia intereating and hitherto unknowu peo- ple, For sozne yeare the name of thiscoeetry has appeared, on the maps as q aranganjas Reichard and Bohm approached within a short distance of the tribe on the north and the route of Capello and, Ivens skirted their territory on the south, but Arnot is the first to describe the country and people. He is living near the Luttra River, one of the head streams of the Congo, two months, journey from the nearest white station on Lake Nyman. It ie the country of the pow- erful Chief Moshide, who cordially vseicamed the white etranger when be came to him tier0813 the continent with is few native at- tendants` and asked leave to settle. Mr. Arnot has built a house at Nakuru, the large and etraggling town of the chief. All the country is thickly populaMd, and in a two -hours' tramp Arnot counted forty-three villages. • For a long time none of the common peo- ple deigned to speak to the white stranger unless he first addressed them. They refer to the white man's eountry as the hell of the blacks. Stories of the cruel days of the export slave trade have reached their far inland home. They say that the white man's land offers nothing but lathery and slavery to the negro. Mr. Arnot gradually gained their sympathy and affeotion by car- ing for their sick. The potency of his medical skill won him fame and friends, and he now name through the large country at will, and no one, dinputai his right to do as he plessies It is a country of grain fields, where, strange to say, the men themselves till the soil. All the land is cultivated. The mar- ried men tell Mr. Arnot that it would be dangerous to go hoine after their day's toil without a large bundle of wood to feed the fire during the night. • Woman in Garen - game, it appears, is not a down -trodden menial, as in many cther parts of Africa. She believes she has rights, dares to assert them, and the missonsry credits her with great talent and fluency as a scold. One would suppose from the immenee quantity of grain that there would always he an abundance of food. A large part of the grain, however, is used in brewing beer, which is stored in receptacles made of bark and holding thirty or forty gallons. Every- body as free to drink everytexly else's beer as long as it laets, and in a few days the fruits of many weeks of toil are consumed. chiefly eomnolent. The. beer does not excite quarrels, as it is • Post Office Box 450 098-17 41 Ann Street, New Took. In October the land is spaded for the next crop. The chief himself often goes to the fields in his litter, accompanied by his musi- cians, and watches the long files of his sub- jeots at their labors. He inspires great fear among his people, for his government is se- vere, although e does not employ tortnre as means of punishment. The death penalty is inflicted for grave crimes, but not for acne of sorcery, as in most parts of sa.vage Africa. Here and there one sees groups of ten or twelve men fastened together with an iron chain while working in the fields. Tbey are thus punished for minor offences. Unlike many important African rulers, Moshide has no body of counsellors, but governs un- aided, listens to all who come to him, and, in the naiesionary's opinion, hie decisions are usually just and good. Cases are submitted to him wherever he may be, and at all hours of the day. In transacting business with his people he has around him none of the notables or sub -chiefs of his country, but only his pages and women, and he will not tolerate the presence of persoas who attend simply to lieten to the proceedings Unless they have business with hint he sends them quickly on their way. The calm and peace which reign in the country, Mr. Arnot bays, are quite remark- able. It is only, however, because Mciehide's people are far stronger than their neighbors who lead anything but a peaceful existence. Don't Wait Until your bair becomes dry, thin, and gray before giving the attention needed te preserve its beauty and vitality. Keep on your toilet -table a bottle of Ayer's Hair Vigor—the only dressing eou require for the hair -amid use a littla daily, to preserve the natural color and proveut baldness. Tinneas afunday, Sharon Grove, Ky., writes : "Several months ago me hair commenced falling out, and in a few weeks my head was almost belch, need many reinedies, but they did toe good. lunatic bought a, bottle of Ayer's . Hair Vigor, and, after using only a Pert of the contents, my head was, covered with a beave growth of hair. I reeons- mend year preparation as the best hairs restorer in thaworld." • "My hair was faded and dry,"OStos Mabel 0; Hardy, of Delavan, " 'but after nsing is bottle of Ayer's Heir Vigor it became black and glossy." ' Ayer's Hair Vigor, Sole by Druggists and Perfumers. Pimples and Blotches, • So disfiguring to the face, forehead, and • neck, may be. entirely removed. by the use ofAyer's Sarsaparilla, the best and, safest Alterative and Blood -Purifier ever discovered. Dr. J. 'C. Ayer & Co., Lowell, Mass. 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Detroit. Dick. • The Wildcat Came. A Maabletown, Ulster county, farmer, not long eines found that he was losing his fowls so fast that his roost would soon be depopulated unless a stop was put to it. W hether the stealing was done by a man or an animal he could not tell. He decided to lie in wait, and whatever it was, " MEM or devil," to attack. Ono cold night he ban- died up in horse blankets, robes and over- coats, and bid himself near the hennery. It was a long, tedious watch, and several times he almost) decided to trudge to the house and go to bed. He never before realized what it wag to stand pioket guard. He had heard old veterans talk about it, but had no idea there was any great hard- ship other than being shot at. Just se he was about to give up and leaves he heard a soft -footed step, and CAW an min mal of some kind moving over the snow to- ward the place where the fowls were roosting. It alippeor through a hole and disappeared in the building. Then, by the suppressed squeaks of the hens the farraer was convince ed that the depredator he had been waiting for was at work. Grasping his club with a firm grip, he went to the door, threw it • and. sprang inside. He heard a wick - e grovvt, it stealthy catlike movement, taw two belle of fire in the dark, and then he struck with all bit might, The blow Wen well aimed, for it struck the wildo-tt be- tween the eyes and, no doubt, killed it at the limb Mow, though the man continued to rain down blovvii for a minute or more. He dragged the memos to the home, and the next morning, for the first time, knew what is dangerotui animal he had killed. 4...1041411 Worthy of' Hie Hire. Steanger(to boy)—Boy, can you direct me to the nearest bank? • Boy—I kin for twenty-fi cents, Stranger—Twenty-five Cental Itin't that higb ;.1-h-Ves sir, but its bank directors what hand. And then, when one has been wondering for an hour or so, lo 1 elle appears spin, coming in through the orthodox doorway and looking as self-possessed as though en- tirely unaware that sp.eculation e.bout her has been fertile ever smoe her mysterious departure. And behind her comes the at- tendant swain, elated or sorry in aspects as and the fates have chosen, walking on stilts within that seventh heaven which is a fool's paradise, or else following her (they always follow her whatever happens) with lowered crest and dejected mien and eyes that tell of sodded thought. MU of Things, it takes a great deal of grace to be able to bear praise. To will what God wills is the only science that gives us rest. One may live it conqueror, it king, a magis- trate, but he must die as a man. The innocence of the intention abates nothing of the mischief of the example. The great high road of human welfare lies along the old highway of steadfast well - doing. Aristotle, being asked what a:man could gain by telling &falsehood, replied "Not to be credited when he tells the Math." Nothing is more beautiful than a serene, virtuous, happy old age. Such an old age belongs to every bidiviclualei life if he only knows how to build it. Clonfession Good tor the Soul. Re (holding a skeirt of worsted while she winds)—" Do you notice how my hand trembles, Miss Julia She (shyler)—" Yes, Mr. Sampaon." He—" And cannot yeti divine the came ?" She (shyness increasing)—" N noi •Mr. Sampson.' He—." Miss Julia, I have it confeindon to make. you hear it ?" She (shyness becomes painful as she anti - °leaks a proposal)—" If you like, Mr. Sampson." He—" I was out with aome of tho boys last night and it was two o'clock when I reached home' their ivory is seized. Mrs. Here recently For sale by J. W. Browning, C. Leta wrote from Lake Tanganyika that the evils Exeter, and all druggis' to. of the slave trade, as the world sees them along the coasts, are trifling compared with the misery inflicted upon scores of unfortu- nate tribes by the internal slave trade. Mos- Mother and Children. hide's sieve caravans are sent hundreds of The thother who wisbes het children to miles west to Bihe. Arabs who have reach- grow up with healthy minds must endeavour d t 1. • h fhisto deal aright with their minds, just as she' strives to treat rightly the bodies whioh are equelly her care. In the case of some child- ren, little need be done for either. In other oases, both require most careful handling; and no one , ean underbtaad mental needs without sympathy. Sympathy does not. mean fussy questioning, still less encourage- ment. to seleanelyais, which is even more injurious than neglect. Ie doen mean it watchfulneas which will at once perceive if a child is depressed, and try to discover and remove the cause by natural and healthy methods, and it means it readiness at all times to enter into a child's interests and annulments, mid to aid and encourage eery innocent Mete, knowing that the more boecouprestions a eland can create for itselt the tte captives. As all his litunan captives ere WO - men a.nd claldren, the females of Garengenze largely outnumber the male population, and polygamy is extensively practised. Mr. Arnot has a high opinion of the salu- brity of this country around the chief head sources of the Congo. He is apparently one of the exceptional white men who can live and thrive in equatorial Africa. Two mis- sionaries left the coast months ago to join him, and before this, it is probable, that the most isolated among the white sojourners in Africa has had the pleature of again greet- ing men of his own race. Why Twelve Hours, Why are the dials divided into 12 divi. sions of five minutes each? Hear Mr. S. Grant Oliphant: "We have 60 divisions on the dials of our docks isnd watches beeauee the old Greek astronomer, Hipparchus, tvho lives in the second century before Christ accepted the Babylonian system of reckoning time --that system beingsexageeimal. The Babylonians were acquainted with the de. alma system, but for common or practical purposes they counted by 80881: and eari, the 80,9808 representing sixty and the soros sixty times six—three hundred and sixty. From Hipparchus that mode of reckoning found its way into the works of Ptolemy about 150 A. D., and hence was carried down the stream of science mad civilization, and found its way to the dial plates of our olooks and watches." One Glass of Wine too Much, A glass of wine'for instance, changed the history of FtiUMOfor nearly e0 years, Louis Philippe, King of the French, had a son, the Duke of Orleans, and heir to the throne Who alwaye drank only a certain number of glasses of wine, because even one More made him tipsy. On a memorable Morning he forgot to count the number of his glasses and took one more than usual. When enter- ing his carriage he stumbled, frightening the horses and causing them to run. In attempt- ing to leap from the carriage his head struck the pavement and he soon died. That glass of wine overthrew the Orleans rule, conffs- cated their property of £20,000,000, and sent the whole family into exile. Necklaees Of colored stones as the sap. phire alternating with the ruby of the Whin'. AM with the turquoise, have lately driven out the diemiond in Paris. The Use of Pain. Our very, existeoce depends upon our sensibility to suffering. N't ithout the warn- ing of pain we might lose one limb after anothet until we hed none left; we might work till we dropped dead from sheer phps- kat exhaustion. Without pain it "burnt child " would not dread the fire, and might be contemned by it. Without pain we might all become dyspepties and be hope - len invalids before we were aware of it. Pain is the sentinel that watchee perpetual- , ly over our safety, and gives notice) of the first approach of the diseases which are our o first enetniea. Remove the sentinel, and ° the foo would surprise us before we were aware that he was near, and would be in full and fatal posession of the very citadel of our etistence before we could Rieke the least attempt to resist him. This warder on the walls of our human habitation may often annoy us by awaking us from our comfortable sleep and pleasant dreams ; but he iti a loyal servant and a, faithful friend in rousing us to defend ourselves against the insidious ills that flesh is heir to. She Was Superstitious. She (just in from an afternoon's thoppkg and running to her hueband)—" I've had Mich a lovely time. l've jttst come from Blank% and I saw two such lovely jackets, one at $1.13 and another at $225." • "Wsll, and which one did you finally buy?" "You know, dear, how superstitious I am about the No. 13, to I elmply hed to bay. the $05 one." • 4