The Exeter Times, 1889-4-11, Page 3HOUSEHOLD.
The Dearest Ties of Home.
4i The Bend that rooks the oredle,d e. power
eat rules the world,
The voice Wet eings ne a weeteet songs in
lovipg lulialey,
The benner, leearine child -love, in flowing
folds u af u rind —
A band, 4 velem, a banner, whew memo-
ries never die.
The heart that beats in unison with child-
like faith and fear
The eye that marks coilcimomiug, and
grows brightdr when they come,
The eon thab opes to childhood charms and
holds them ever dear—
The neitre, the eye, the eer that know
the Dearest Ties of donee.
Cheeeing a Husband.
Doine be afraid to marry a poor man ; but
be eure that he has something besirlee pover•
ty to .00mmend him. Be sure that he has
two Wong fiends, not only skilful, but ready
for hard work. Be hure thee he has an cep
oupation, or a poeitiop, which may reason -
Ably be depended on to yield awood corn,
anfertable living. Be sure that lie is industre
ous, and nodeelaindulgent ; be euro then he
is steadyworking six days in the week, ane
about 52 weeks in the year, A good, true,
falthiulyoung woman ought to have no
for answer to a preposal of marriage from a
lazy man, or a man who has no fixed occu-
pation, or a man who has lived half bis life
off the hard earnings of his mother or sister,
going about the streets meanwhile with his
cane and his oigarette and his fine clothes,
playing the gentleman.
Choice Recipes,
CIDER ViNEGAR.--Pnt the barrel on its
side and fill it with good cider to the bungs
that the pomace may be thrown out as the
eider fetments. nu up the barrel twiciaa
day while fermentation is in program. At
the close a fermentation the cider should
be racked off carefully and put into another
clean barrel, or the same one after le has
been well wattled out. If there are enough
hermits, it is batter to fill them only half full
after ferment stion is finished, as thus ex-
poses a greater surface to the air. The
more air the better the vinegar will make.
Hence, a darkened, airy outhouse is better
than a close cellar for the etorage of the
barrels. The cider will be converted into
vinegar in abont 12 months, and will stead.
ily increase in strength.
SUET PUDErtm,—Chop finely seven ounces
of good kidney omen Put this into a basin,
and mix with ib half a teaspoonful of ealt,
two tablespoonfuls of sugar, half a nutmeg
grated, half a teaspoonful o f thin lemon rind
denttetnall, four ounces of flour, and three
ounces": bread crumbs. Mix the dry in.
gredients thoroughly. Whisk two fresh
eggs till they are lighb and frothy, add
gradually a quarter of a pint of milk and
stir this into the pudding. Let ib stand
half an hour. Pat ib in one lamp into a
welefioured cloth, plange it into boiling
water, and boil qiiiokly to) three hours.
Sero sweet sauce with it.
Mr Ara govp Vieirerovo MT..Fry an
oni , iiiic
.sliced, in a tablespoonful of nice
d iiming idthe soup pot. When they are
of a reddish -brown, add a gnat of tomatoes
and stir all up until very hot, when pub in
one quart of boiling water and a tablespoon-
ful of chopped parsley when obtainable.
Stew half an hour, and strain through a
colander. Return to the pot, season with
pepper and salt and a teaspoonful of sugar,
stir in two tableepoonfuls of butter rolled in
flour, and when this has been emootbly
mixed. add a small teacupful of hot boiled
rice. Simmer ten minuten and serve.
• GATEAU OP APPLEs —Stew fiVe Or six ap-
ples peeled and cored, with e. lb of sugar,
grated rind of a lemon and its Juice. When
they °anemones to get soft, keep on stirring
them until they form a thick, dry manna.
lade, then turn it into a mound and leave till
cold. Serve with whipped cream or a well
made boiled =stead. The gateau will keep
good for some days.
A QUAINT Orn SwEET, —Make some good
custard flavoured with vanilla and stiffened
with a little gelatine, and when properly
thiokened over the fire pour this into a glass
dish (an old, or for that matter a new, J apan-
ese punchbowl looks best), and let it set.
When eat firm, whip the whites of two eggs
to a stiff froth with two ounces finely -grated
chocolate a. la. vanities and pile it up in the
centre of the bowl. If liked, jelly can be
used instead of the custard, and the whip of
egg can be coloured and flavoured to taste.
It makes an exceedingly pretty supper dish,
as does also Ben lane a Manx version of
curds and whey, served in large bowls. In
fact, for suppers, these large bowls seem to
be coming in greatly.
OMELETTE FOR OE,—Oae egg, one table-
spoon of milk, one teaspoon of sugar end a
pinch of salt; beat all together and fry in
hot butter; roll it up as it sets and do not
burn.
The Opitun Habit in Washington.
One of the leading physicians of the
American capital remarked the other day
that if a brand was on the forehead of
every woman who used opium in some
form, society here would go to pitmen
He attributes this frightful condition of
affaire to the dissipated life led here by
the women of the upper tendom. The
endless round of bells and receptions is
such a strain upon them that they west
seek relief in some way. They begin by
• taking a soothing syrup, as a rule, to put
them to sleep, this after a while faile to
act, then paregoric is resorted to. From
this it is only a seep to pure opium and
absolute ruin. Sometimes people buy the
crude gum and eat it regularly every day,
while others buy laudanum and drink ib
in quarter -ounce, lialf. ounce and even ounce
potions. And •then there are Dover's
powdera andetorphine pills, both of which
acti rapidly, , nd especially the latter.
Ttie habit seeing more of a dieessee than a
vice, for the whole it ature of the victim
undergoes a complete revolution, moral,
mental and physioal. After a ohort time
the viotim will avsorifice honour, friends
and family for the fatal drug. There is
no cure, for even the asylums fail to effect
permanett cute exoept in rare instances.
President Harrison has ohoaen a strong
team to repreeenb the TJnited Stateinahe
Berlin conference for tho settlement cf the
Samoan troubles, Mr. Keston was Minister
to Ahstrie. in 1877 and to Germany in
1884; Mr. Phelps is a politiolen of some
note, and, as an exchatage says, a robust
exponent of the " Amerioat idea " ; mad Mr,
Bates ite an astute lawyer *bo wait one of the
oommissioners previoualy tient to invaitigate
ato &Wiest, affeiro. Diplometim political,
and legal okill are thus happily combined,
The two eecretatien also, are well fitted fee
their position, one of than lakviog been at
one time CoteuleGeneral in artioa, and the
other having taken part in the negotiation
of the exiaing treaty,
1-'11E LONE 8NAKE HDNTE.a.
A queer old Wan in the Candriine Wylie
Cateues Live mattiesualees.
In a little but ote the eed'e of the great
Storm Ring Mountale, in the Madsen High.
lends, far above the river, and abate an
equal chotance below the loftiest puanaole of
the towering hill, lives old Zinhary. Archer,
who eupports his wife and himself, the only
inhabitants of ,tho cabin, by catching
snakes. e The cottage is not visible from
alcove or below in Summer time. The think
foliage of the tines, and the dense under-
growth which arises almost to the level of
its low roof, effectually conceal it; and as
the old man has an insurmountable objec-
tion to a tire in the kitchen in the warm
weather, and makes hie wife walk two miles
every day to a small cave to cook their food,
which is always eaten cold, po floating smoke
betray e the presence of their dweliing. But
at this season, when the mountain trees have
partly withdrawn the ourtaina that coverech
tee while the goreana bruahwood are cow-
ering close to the ground as if for warmth,
the desolate little building is very complex-
ous. No other bowie is near ib, and it is a
pioture of loneliness.
Tao venerable enake catcher dose not
like it in the Whiter menthe, and pawns as
hitch time as he can away from it, leevieg
his wife apd the snakes to keep eaoh other
oompanv. They hibernate together, the
eerpente sleeping in the oold back room and
the old woman &zing before the wood fire,
which burns night and day when the /MOW
Is on the ground. Old Zack, Me he id usual-
ly called, ts generally puratupg his eleppery
trade or doing his share of 01unit:tering be -
tore a barroom stove in one of the numeroue
small villages or settlements at the foot of
the mountain. He was engaged in the lat-
ter avocation a few days ago, when the re-
porter aroused him and asked him how he
felt. He said he was well,but rheumatic, and
added that the reptile business was brisk.
"It's always a sight safer in Winter then
in Summer," he said, when he had taken
something to , wash down his sleepinees,
"and though I don'b gat as many snakes I
like ib better. In Summer the rattler° and
the copperheads stand a chance of catohin'
you instead of your, trappinl them. You
me, they're always wide awake, and keepin'
their eyes peeled for danger. I can dad
them readyenough, but to get them into
bhe leather' bag I carry is a horse of another
color. I have all sorts of ways of oatchin'
them. Sometimes I set traps for them, and
that's a heap the eafen way. The trap is
only an open intake% with a lot of red
flannel inside. Snakes, unless they're dis-
turbed, will always go back to their old
eleepin' ground when the run is high.
When I find a snake track 1 follow it until
I come either to the serpent or hie bed. If
ibes the serpent, I try to pin his neok to the
ground with a forked stick that 1 carry.
That's mighty dangerous work if he's a
rattler, for I must go very close to him, and
if I Min him at the first jab I'll be apt to be
closer in- a second. However, I never
missed yet, and I don't,suppoee I ever will,
now I'm that experienced. When I have
him down I take him with my -'hand, close
behind the fork, so that he wain turn his
head to bite me and drop him into the bag,
But if the snake haen't gone to bed and 1
don't find him I go back about fifty yards
along the traok and lay the basket down
with the lid open. Then I hunt more
• serpentie When r dome to the basket again,
in two hours or so, I creep up from behind
and slam the cover shut. The Snake is
generally inside, mixed up with the fiennel.
lie% found the place too. ooreforbable to get
out of it in a hurry. The seepent may be
the wisese beast of the field, but he's a
uourious ones, and he don't value his life
nowhere as (tampered with his comfort.
"When I find a hole with snake marks
about ite mouth I juin hang a running noose
of cat gut over it and fatten the single end
in a stink like a &hinted. Then I pub a
lump of soft bread soaked in milk before the
hole ,and goin' baok I hold the rod in my
hand. Nearly all snakes are dead set on
milk and the smell of the bale is pretty sure
to draw the one I'm after out of the hole.
'le must pass his head through the loop to
reach the bread, and when he does that I
ierk the rod, tighten the noose, and I have
him. It's just like fishin.'
"Then there's my dog Viper. Be catch-
es a lot of snake e and helps me to catch
more. In the Summer, when he finds a
anake, he'll walk around him until he makes
him dizzy Dying to keep his ugly eyes pinb-
ed at -the danger. At last hell either drop
his head or make a turn the other way to
take the kinks out of his body. Tien Viper
is on him as Quick as a wink. He grabs him
by the back of the neck, oub of reach of his
fangs, and brings him to me without Imre-
ing him. In the winter he can't catch the
snakes hitneelf, but he leads me to holes in
the trees and other snug places where they
lie. Just to be on the safe side, I pueli a
stick into their bedrooms first; but they're
always as good as dead, they're so sound
asleep, and I can pull them out with my
hand, covered with a thick cloth glove. I
have to use a good deal of ether to stupefy
my snakes when I'm movin' them from one
box or bag to another. .•
"Who buy my serpents? Well, I'll tell
you. Cheeses and smell museums, au well
as old fossils of naturalists, are always
wa.ntin' curiosities, and when I eatoh a
snake with two heads, or two tails, which I
do about three times a year. I get a good
price—often as much tes $100 —for him.
The donut* reptiles are worth only a few
dollars each, Hello, here's Viper. Where
have you been, alt? There's no snakes down
here, you know."
^An ill -looking dog, with only one eye,
trotted up to the stove and lay down before
hia master. His worbh as a serpent ohm er
may have been above estimate, but his mar
ket vales Was eleerly below par.
A Goad One on Dr. llioCosh,
They tell a good story on Dr. McClosh, the
venerable ex•President of Princeton College.
Horace Pater, who graduated et that college
some years ago, says that he Wee lying in
his room one day when there was a knock at
his door. "Who's there ? he shouted. It's
me—Dr. McCoah," was the anewer, in a
hard Scotch brogue, "V oe're a lien" re-
torted Porter, who really thought it was e
elate mete. "If it were Dr. McCosh, he
would say 'It is L ' There wasino Delmer
to this, but the sound of feet shuffling down
the corkidor. Young Porter ran to the
door, catitiously opened it., looked down the
hall and saw the back and tall stooped form
of Dr. MoCosh dieappearing. The Presi-
dent of Princeton never spoke of the inci-
dent, nor did Porter until ho had his sheep.,
skin.
Ettermesiginn Kane Indlletrye
Fond Mobbet—"Doctor, what *seems to bo
the oeuse of Willithe trouble?"
Doctor—,"Soine foreign ailistance in the
etemaeh, I Wittnild eay.
Thud eriether—"Oh gee; those dreadful
Iriah potatoed I Will tell ottr 4rooer to -mor'
row that he porlitheilyuriust bring us some of
VIE FATE OF AN AFRIOAN KING,
The Downfall ofliewatiga the Woody.
The fate of King liewangta teeeutlY the
bloodthirsty tyrant of Ugentlin "Innelleti thet
speedy retrilcution on overtaice cruelty and
inpiethae even in the heart of peen
Almoet the only portion in the world
to hive him now a helping hand is the
miainonary Mackay, whom Msvanga often
threateued with death and kept a prisoner
for many months %tier he had slaughtered
his Christian subjects and neuelered Bisbee
Hentaingten. •
This fallen king, who, a fevv menthe ago,
numbered hill army by many thew:made anci
his sing erste by millione, was, at last ace
counts, 300' miles from his country, Virte-
ally is priooner ia the hands of- Aral -s. He
feared the Arabs would send him back to,
Uganda to he murdered, and an tient a mes-
sage to Meekeye imploring himto come to
11(fagu and taitahim awey. "Jake me any•
where yotelikeel he Enid "or silay nee if emu
like," He added thet he would go to Ea -
rope if Mackay weld take him there, for
he had heard that a big king in great
trouble (meanialig Napoleon III) ha a once
been welcomed to England when driven out
of hie tenantry.
Mr. Mackay, when he wrote, was about
to inert for Mague in the hope of getting
the fallen king away from the Arabe and
removing him to a place of safety, " If
the English eend an expedition here,' 3/1 wan-
ga used to say to Mackay. "1 will kill
you." " It tieoomes me,' writes Mackay
now, " to do all in my power to return good
ov evil," What a remarkable opportunity
to show forth the teachings of hes Master,
and how nobly this humble miosionary. is
improving it 1
A True Ilom,e Life.
What is the central point oI.hlhe true home
lite? Is not this the questiot which we
should each, as home -builders, asle our-
selves,? What are the things of all that we
do, daily, weekly, or returning in their
appointed time, which are not only not
necessary, bub are harmful to the true home
life? It may be that the only reason for
doing certain things is because the preoed-
ing generation has done the same things,
and that, too, in very mechanical ways. A
mother holds her first child while lb Weeps
upon her lap; ib becomes accustomed to it.
When she grows stronger she must lay it
down to do necessary work; it frets' and
cries and reruns to take its naps. The
mother is worn out in her effort to do the
work and quiet the cries ; so she carries the
child about) in her man It is slow to walk.
She becomes nervous and irritable, toward
her baby, even. Her second ohild is cross
and restless. She bears and rears several
children. All through these years the
mietake pursues and wears her out. The
children are not taught to depend upon
themselves and to be helpful.
This mother does non-essential things and
leaves the essential undone. Her mental
growth stopped long ago; alas for the time
when the little children find thab mother
cannot help them in their little studies and
alas for the mother who has let the know-
ledge of her girlhood slip from her, and has
not added to both for herself and family !
What is more beantiful to see than great
sons and daughters asking mdther's opinion
of some point which they are in doubb about,
which they bring to her to have settled be-
fore they return to sehool ? To have them
hasten eagerly to tell her upon their return
that their work was right?
Sometimes it ie through suffering only
that a woman learns that there are many
things which need not ba done. It is often
in these times of forced enlist thee she sees
most clearly that real living is not a pare of
her home life. After her experience is ga in -
ed and she has but little strength, she con
then think what she should do with the
strength which still is left to her.
Temporal wants and pleasures must be
considered, and indeed planned for, but
Chore are many things done in the way of
cooking food unwholesome through its rich-
nees, which should be made rarely, if Mall.
Sacrifices which take away rest and sleep
to, keep up pride in dress or some adorn-
ment, should never be made.
Let children be taught that they may
have fussy clothes when they can iron, and
keep them in order. In a home where the
work is done by the mother and daughters,
this plan is pursued. She found tha when
her daughters were old enoughto iron much-.
ruffled white dresses they preferred plain
ones.
Nothing eau take the place of neatness
and order. These depend muck upon good
management, for one can always be cleaning
yet never clean, always arranging, yet nev-
er in order. Sometimes one's own spirit is'
reseless which the secreb ceuse of the
lack in the divine part of a true home life.
Gas and Ventilation.
Where gas is used, the Ellett of health
simply depends on securing full, free, and
perfect ventilation. The neceesity for this
precaution is highly apparent, when we
think of the impurities which gas sends
forth into the atmosphere, and when we re.
ilea on the evil which is wrought to health
when these impurities are inhaled. If we
can be assured of the ventilation of houses
irt which gas ie employed, their, need be no,
hesitation in employing this medium for any
domestio purpose. In appartmente where
gas forme the illuminating medium, there is
often a deoided lack of procautione in secur-
ing the free and perfect removal ot the de.
lenerions products of gas combustion.—(The
Family Denton
Chicago has recently given another illue-
tratiott of the ease with whicla glib tongued
villains who promise great things, can make
a way in the world, where many honest men
fell by the roOdside and perish miserably.
A " young financier," duped some of the
leading merchants of that eity of shteved
men, to the extenat of several hundred thee -
Eland dollars by aiving out, and getting them
to believe that he had special advatitages
for making money. Hie net was meanly
spread, and not in vain, in the sight of birds
whose greed for money made them blind to
the trap. They entrusted their dollen to
the plausible adventtrer, and in a *Mort
time were enquiring of one another, of the
wind and stays and the deteetiven whither
their walking Eldorado had fled, the glory
and the dreams of sadden weelth, which
he had conjured up before them, It seems
to be in vain that men are warned againet
the ativenturer who Minn with golden prom.
bee of gold, and women against the tempter.
Again and again the 004110 Okt bait le die
played, and spit and again it le gobbled
down in the same reckless tatihicin by victim
who are not long in discovering that fel
tempting lustre emit:male a deadly hook.
Tito Baldevit pony that has been coming
dbwie from the top of a Loinion term tone
every night, apparently by memo of
a parachute, le:atty. fell steritlenly
when the clement) be Old begun and Was
',idly injured. The wires by whieh the
lowering had really been m000mplished had
betaken, The act is no omitted front the
1.1••••••
home prolucotion." v programme.
MON HUN TINGX ALGERIA.
In Quest ot the Ripe ot heists in ais
• Native Haunts.
The kin of beasts in hie 'fineat develop -
meet is still to ee found in North Atrioa.
Among the mimosa, buthes of yonder windy
glebe ne rears his ensjestio crest. Thoue
rooky heights know hie presence. From
boulder to bouider he leaps with mighty
bound, and at night his twinl voice re -
collets, rollivg like thunder along the
ground, and cowing all nature into pilaw.
No other North African country contains
so many lions as Aigerio. ; but even there
they are growing ricarcer from year to year.
Gerrard, the flrat famous Algerian lion
killer, upward of thia ty years ago estimeted
them as oply 120 in number, and they have
certainly not increased abler, A suecessful
lion hunt bas thus become one of the rarest
of rare events, We have known many
fathionable cheaseneu-lion to be orgisized.
Nu stranger of note who visits the counteY
can well leave it without indulging in one
or more of them. They are a pioturet que
bub costly kiud of pageantry, always shown
off in broad daylight, and forsooth on horse-
back. Small matter to these amateur ;molts;
men that lions habitually ,skep. • by day in
their almost inecceeseble mountain fastnesses,
and that the proximity of a large posse of
meta and horses intimielatee them. Tne no..
Vivo guide e lenow well what they are about,
Anon hunt hanbeen orlered regardless of
expense, and'vast preparationa are set on
foot fOrthwith: • •
Andawn of the appointed day' a glittering
oavalearie beteg from the gates. It is hailed
by the acclamation of :`a motley crowd of
natives eager for hackshieeli, whose expect.
tations are abundantly gratified, owing to
the best of humors engendered by the pros-
pect of such noble oleo& A truly magnifi-
cent display is made of horses, harness, and
picturesque' costumes.
IIPZEOH LOAIMTEIraFLES, REVORvERS, SPEARS,
and yataghans reflect; the bright rays of the
morning sun; and thus, with much shout -
Lug, chinking, and jingling, the grand hunt
proceeds. Much show, bub litble wool, for
nothing ever comes of it All day long,
through field, sandy plain, and forest, the
king of beasts is *sought and never found.
Some splay little bit of extateraeub or other
has been prearranged by the guides, who
feel that something muse be done for the
money. A turbaned Arab suddenly appears
on the outskirts of a thicket, vowing that a
lion is there. With much show of oourage
the thicket is entered by the guides, leading
what seems a forlorn hope, and the unin-
itiated follow boldly. Every bush is
searched, but no 1 his royal malady is
not at home. Hie lair is indeed pointed
nub and declared to be still warm with
unmistakable signs of recent occupancy,
but that is about all, unless some one in
the fever of his enthusiasm should fancy
that he has got sight ot the lion, of his
tawny mane, his tufted tail, or glittering
eyes. In that case a rifle, perhaps
several, are discharged ; and though no
oaroass is ever found, the readywitted
netives are at no loss to account for that
it has tumbled into some inaccessible
ravine, and there ib lien Lies, indeed 1
And so the grand hunt comes to an end
before nightfall. A triumphal return and
sumptuous feast crown the • glorioua
achievements of the day. To fact, the
thing is a sham from beginning to end.
Real lion hunts present widely different
features. Free from all ostentatious display,
they lire spiced with muoh difficulty, 'mar -
bleu, and danger, and only on rare occasions
unqualified encoess is reaped. Perhaps she
most impressive of them is when a whole
tribe of Arabs in sheer self-defense issue
forth to a man, determined to put an end to
the ravagers of their flocks and herds or clie
in the attempt. It is indeed a question of
life or death for the Arab, The amount of
damage done to the herds of a tribe by
single family of lions in a month hao been
estimated at 10 per cent, and, remember,
his herd is the Axab's all.
We were on a visit to one ef the hill tribes hosts
d offer
is
when such an emergency arose. Oar
were poor, but to the best they coul
we were made heartily wetcome. Ti
no laok of hoepitality among the much
maligned Ishmaelites. Many an eat of genu-
shouldsed to
A lion
a cave
se by.
ine kindness was shown ns, and we
have been cravens indeed had we refu
aid our dutky friends in their need.
family had taken up their abode in
difficult of access among the hills ole
Night after night dire havoc: was wrought
ae had
by these fierce marauders, and the bit
come when a determined stand must be made
While
fieient
to avert utter and irrevocable ruin,
the mountain Arab is by no means de
in courage, peraeverance, or physical
primi-
strength, his memo= are of a most
tive kind.
THE LONG, LIMIT MINT Loos. GUN
he handles bears no comparison with our
modern arms of precision. Deprived of that
comfortable sense of safety and self-assur-
ance which the poesession of a trusty breech-
loader affords, the Arab endeavors to make
up for it by an accumulation of numbers. It
can scarcely be said, however, that the old
proverb holds good on such occasions. Face
to face with an angry North African
lion, there is no safety in numbers; he
has been known to rusk upon hundreds of
Mon.
Aglorious morning it was among the hills;
the sky all aglow with purple tints, and
through the veil of misb which hung round
the shoulder of the great granite heights(
far off the enmities were glistening like so
many black diamonds bathed in sunbeams.
Nature in its mooti rugged form lay before
and around us. In the pure azure above,
moon and stars were paling before the sun's
return. We weye surrounded by a motley
crowd of Araks in their piathreeque cos-
eume. Young and ole, all indeed capable of
bearing emus, had turned out; some few
were handling their long, slender, smooth-
bore guns* but by far the greater number
had only spears and yatagleans. The ven-
erable °him beside us gave his order e brief.
ly but distinctly. The exact location of
the Henn cave Wee Well known. At inn
mined peril of their levee the *moues had
found it, traeking its mighty denizens to
their very lair. A large circle of spearmen
wee now formed, and the men received in.
etructior a to converge gradually toward a
rooky lodge in front of the wen whom
entrance was faintly viable from the ele-
vated position of our trysting plaice. Pres-
ently the " battue " commenced. Amid
much shouting and °lath of inane the lineo
were drawn closer and closer, while all of
es who had firearine matte As etreight ao
poseible for the °eve. Before we had got
within range an enormous male lion showed
himself for an instant, shook his mane, and
vatished, to appear again when we had
arrived at a distance of about* 1,000 yet do.
A brit& but hetalless futiilede was opened.
'upon him by our Arab friend% end math a
rent of defiance he withdrew once more into
hie strong -hold ; nor did he *Mow himself
again at we drew neater and nearer imtil
came to a halt Ablaut 200 yards from the
°wee. The sietroW ledge leading up to it
Was separated froni the hillside on *Moll we
ttood by a deep gorge mere than forty feet
wide. Miens the ledge towered a preoipitoue
height; and every cleft or gully in the
rooky well around bristled with the arms of
our epearamen, barring map in every di,
reatip,a, a
,
conowsog MULE OB. °MOOING ETEELk
• We loeked eefefelly to our weayeae, and,
when all was ready for giving out royal foes
a bet reception; loud shouts and clamor
weeieeeiged to draw them forth, but all in
vain: No lion showed as much es the tip ef
his' nese. After ' brief. consultation, one
dem:Attest youth volunteerea to *weep Along
the lodge, close to the cave, collect a Jump
of dry brushwood and fire it, ee as to smoke
the lions out. Thespearmon re loithled
their glamor, end we held our rifles in
readinese for inetant use, ,while anxiotiely
Wateleinh the bad' e progress. He pursued
hisyerilous taek with greatcourage. Creep-
ing warily along' the ledhe, he never paused
tile he hied grined the entrance. oF the cave.
Quickly gathering together the 'dry brush.
Wood near at band he soon teased a pile
large enough to fill the entrance, and alter
'fiting it .ho made his way back in safety,
protiti of his daring achievement end warmly
greeted by us alle. A few momeate ancl the
fire Mazza up, paneling a column of smoke
• into the ca.ve, The effeet upon the inraates
was instantatemes and etartling. Two
mighty roarsmingled in one 'aud. iton ate
limos bounded forth one after the other.
Oar doiege lied goaded them into fury, and
they were ready to do battle against all
°tide in defenee of their young once and
their home. At first Oilmen of them my
companion and I 'fired, bub the movements
of the mighty Innate 'Welt 'so rapid and
immune that bdtli �f tie Wised. Oar
Arab friends woe peppering away with
their firelooks, bab also to little or no pur-
pose.
Suddenly, while the lionises charged down
upon us along, the ledge', her °cinema
with one mighty. bound; -clawed the guIrg,
alighting in the water midair of the Arabs
at its brink, and, for the moment, aiming
all before, him. We aimed carefully this
time as the Herons sprang upon us, and
both our bullets took effect; lane ib need-
ed a second dose of lead out of our
breech -loaders to stretch her lifeless at
our feet. We then hastenea to the assist-
ance of our allies. What a scene mat
our eyes 1 Bleeding profusely from many
wounds, but as yet far from disabled, the
furious male was making sad havoc among
the crowd. Cracking a skull there with
one mighty swoon ot his paw, and araashing
a shoulder with another, he had already
atresvn the ground with slain and wounded,
as we drew nigh to finish him with our
rifles. At that very moment the spearmen
were also upon him. While he. was scatter-
ing hie assailants in front,more and more
men had drawn near from behind, and half
a dozen lancet were now plunged into him
simultaneously, bearing him to the ground
at last. The abort but fierce struggle was
over, our terrible antagonist lay breathing
his last, wibh his victims around lain. He
had killed five Arabs outright, and wounded,
fourteen more, among whom, to our great
regret, was the young hero of the day, the
same brave lad waose perilous exploie we
had admired so much: A great broad gash
from nook to shoulder will henceforth bear
witnessto his prewoes in the eyes of the
vvhole tribe. We were.
-sticLY THANKED BY IRE CHIEF
for our modest share in the glory of the day,
and he informsed us later that he deemed
viotory cheap at the price, considering that
thirty or forty victims often fall in such en-
counters. Two young cubs, areircay 6
menthe old, were found inside the cave half
smothered by the smoke. We afterward
learned that they had been sent to ,Algiers
for sale, and, for all we know, they may be
inmates of some zoological garden or men-
agerie. Oar work was acoomplished. Pro-
'bably for many years to come the tribe
would be exempt from similar infliction.
With high hearts we held our triumphal
entry into the village, amid shouts of victory,
blended with lamentations over the many
wounded. Oar young hero of the fire met
with Ms reward. They carried hien along
in triumph, and, as he lay on his roughly
Improvised couch, faint from loss of blood,
bee elated with the consciousness, of his
achievement no mortal could have been
happier' than he. The whole tribe, young
and old, paid grateful homage to him as ho
lay there, for 'honor to whom honor is due"
remains the rule with these uneophieteated
gods of the wilderness, and long may ib
continue so,
• Saab, then, has been our experience of lion
hunting in North Africa. Furnished wtth
the best arms of precision, and well support-
ed by the indomitable pluck and ripe exper-
ience of our dusky alike, we had found our-
selves face to face with the king of beasts,
and, after all; had but little right to boast
of our encounter with him.
How the Romans Enioyed Life.
The lavish expenditure of the Romans on
the acne, the great meal of the day, was
often fabulous. Vitellius is actually re-
ported to have squandered 400 sestertia,
about £3,228, on his daily supper, though
surely this must be a monstrous exagger-
ation 1 The celebrated least to which he
invned biro brother Lucille cob 3,000 ses-
tinas, at n40,350. Suetonius relates that
it consisted of 2,000 different diehes of fish
and 7,000 of fowls, and this did not ex-
haust the bill of fare. His daily food was
luxurious and varied beyond precedent.
The deserts of Lydia, Uri shores of Spain,
and the waters of the Carpathian seas were
diligently searched to furnish lab
table with dainties, while the savage
wilds of Britain had to bear their pare in
replenishing his larder. Ha 1 he reigned
long fjosephus says that he would have ex -
heeded the wealth of the Roman Empire
itself. Allius Vitus, another of these
veorthies, was equally profuse in the ex-
travagance of his *suppers. It is said thee
a single entertainment, to which only a
dozen guests were invited, oosb 6,000,000
seduces— 6,000 seotertia, that is—or nearly
£48,500. History relates that his whole
life Was passed eating and dried:sing in the
voluptuous retreats of Daphne or at the
luxurious banquets of Antioch. So profuse,
indeed, was the extravagance of time times
that to entertain an Emperor was to face al-
most certain ruin ; one dish alone at the
table of Holiogabalus le said to have omit
about e4,000 of our money. No wonder
them imperial feasts were lengthened out
for hours, and that every artifice, often re-
volting in the extretne, was used to prolong
the pleasure of eating, or that Philoccenus
*Mould have wiehed that he had the throat
of a crane with a delicate palate all tho way
down, One deed not like to astoolate the
name of Julius Caesar with habits of low
gluttony that would diegrace a prize fighter,
and yet, if our aleatory doeti not play to
fele°, even he did hob disdain to take mediae
to return to hie banquets with tkeen
appetite—[hit National Review,
A good many of tin 'gold seekere who
• ruehea so impottiOnsly to tho "now Made
in Southern Celle:onto, ere already blowing
on their fingete to co61 them, The thing
epitomes to liege been a " fake " el the Worst
desoriptiOn,
Mr, 1310gfilas 19FareiVaigi With flee:v.
Mr. Bl)ggins has of late been growing:
sway. lie did nus beeome EWAN of ta4
fact, however., until he noticed that leis vest
and trouser e Were beginning to At him witls
the eloeeness of a glove. Even this pheuo,,
um:tnioluthoeoweaesairoincieitgiofhhuist adoptrinsigngteticatmoat
meteor of argyle' eufforing to nun. eayrit.
cal examination then developed the fact that
a very large elle) of embonpoint had made
its appearance under that portion of hie ene,
tomy lying in the neighborhood of his Melt
vest button. Friends tried to oonvinoe him
than he was simply growing fan but he
woulann believe. 'There was something.
weeng.
Oa morning Mrs. Bloggitio area* to look
after the breakfast, bowing her "hubby"
thinking over his "too weighty" flesh.
on Bloggins arose, and pushing the bed
away from the Wallelippeal through the rear
of the curtains, where he prooeeded to
anotber "examination." Meanwhile the
better half walked in, and not seeing her
William pushed the bed nearer the wall and,.
returned to the breakfast prepreationse
Mr. Bloggins soon low, inoed himself that
he was ramiciiy growing wore() and esee.yed
to return to his elotees, bub--eoasternationi
—he eould not get through; He tried again„
• but no—the passage through which he Wed
just pessed so easily a minute betore waa
now too narrow.
"Wile, wife!" he yelled, almost perigee&
wi"'hOnfe.War. Mem, what is it?" cried the lady•
running iato the r000a.
"Send for 0, dootor at once." feebly moan-
ed the suffiring meta ; "bat no—it's too late..
I'm gone, I feel it—I'm—"
Bloggins, tell me at once what
is the matter. Where does it hurt 5ton. 1'
"There's nothing hurting me, dear. My -
death will be palatine. Oh, I knew ie was
coming ; I felt ib all along, and now--"
"Oh, William, tell me—tell your Miry all
about ib."
"I'm Bevelling up, Mary," replied Mr..,
Bloggine solemnly; "swelling up—swelling.
up. Good•by, Mary, I—I---"
"You're doing nothing of the kind, Mr.
Bloggins. You're nob a bit larger then
uaual.'
"Oh, but I must be. A short time ago L
passed between the bed and wall easily, tate
whenj tried to return the apace was tom
nerrow. Oh, I'm doomed—I told you. longago—my—"
He was interrupted by a wild burst of
laughter. Mrs. Blo mins was in convalsione
of hilarity and seemed to see a powerfully
good joke somewhere.
"alley I ask," remarked Bloggits freen-
lupin "why you laugh ab a time when your
husband is dying ?"
" Dying 1 You're not doing. Oh. Wil-
liam—" and Mrs. Bloggins Was again pasts
the power see speech.
"There's nothing the matter with yen, I
tell you—ha, ha, ha! While you were behind
that curtain, I—ha, ha, ha 1—came in and -
pushed the bed nearer to the wall, so that—
oh, Mr Bloggins, what a dunes you are V`
William is perfectly recovered now.—
[Cincinnati Times -Star.
How to "Manage Things" at Home..
There was a *tenons question under dis-
cussion by a group of men iu the cats
oczy hotel.
" I've gob it down fine," was the remark",
• which drifted over to the clerk who WWI Welt
ing on the counter. 1 take off ray shoes in
the hall and skip the sixth and eleventh
steps. I've counted them', and they're the -
ones that squeak."
"I wouldn't have equeaky stairsteps,"
said another voice. "1 keep a pair of
overshoes under the stoop and never havo
any trouble."
I'm at work on a little invention thatI
think will save lobs of trouble in this direc-
tion," said another. "There is a fortune in
it We a combination of a steel night key-
hole of magnetized iron. It will be effective
without exciting suspicion."
"That's all well enough," said a quiet
man, "bat I've got a better scheme than
any of you.'
'What is it ?" aaked one of the group.
"When I get home from a trip, ' was the
reply, I spent every evening at home, and
I ain't bothered with any beating 'rowed,
the bath. When I go anywhere I take my
wife with me and enjoy myself."
The Music Ours.
In these days of mind -cure, rest -curer,
electricity cure, ovariotomy, and other tome,
of faith-cure,
why does no one start a music -
0000? The influence of music on disease is.
as undoubted as that of opium on pain. La
many forms of nervous affections, in mental
perturbations, the art which soothes the
savage has proved a distinctly curative ele-
meat in the treatraente In chorea, the feel
.
finance of gymnastic exercises, aided by
memo, us of benefit. In the delirium of fever
we have known the tender strains ch Saha-
berb's serenade, evoked from the piano by
the hands of a master, 000the the patient -
until he dropped into a quiet sleep. The
" Lewin* " says "By acting as a refresh-
ing mental stimulant and restorative in.
braces the depressed nervous tone, and in-
directly that of the other tissues. Thee
there is something to be said for the obi
custom of exoreising pestilences by the
sounds of music. Calmed and inspired by
harmony, the tonic energies of will and nerve
combined to oppose a wholesome bodily tone
to the invading scourge, and to preventthat
tissue laxity Isthioli has often provided the
nidus of disease. A similer process is renal
on by those who turn to music, among other
diversions, for some relief from the pain of
atonic neuralgia. In melancholia and allied
states of depreseion its value is generally
admibted in our own day.
A Wondrous Flower.
A maiden from the oity tripped lightly
mid the trees and sniffed the pungent odor
that floated on the breeze, , 'Oh, tell me,
ancient farmer, with arms so brown an
bare, whab is that wondrous flower that
scents the tnorning air ?" Loud. laughed the
ancient farmer, till the tears rolled down his
cheek. "Why, .131.0st you, that's a polecat,
and I've emelt bean for a week 1"
If Canadian ladies wish to follow the
latest Pariaian fashion they will have to
form the habit of early rising. A number
of fathionable Parisiennenwho recognise
id.
the bondage they were n to fashionable
hours; and the consequent ruinouti results
on their complexions and their constitutieme
generally, have formed a 010, balled tho
.Daybreak Club, the members of whioh pledge
thetneelves to be in bed by eleven o'cluck or
twelve on ball nights, and to rite by seven
in the rnbrning, to take a cold bath, and
then a brisk 'walk or a canter on horseback.
This eertainly is a praiseworthy namtemetin
in ita eesential features, though the cold
bath atti verek before breakfatt parts of it
Will not be found to etitee With all cienseitti.
dente Bat to be in boa by eleVen, and up
again by seven are rates worthy o unt.
tosal