The Exeter Times, 1889-7-25, Page 60
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. it any amoditoatiore • wr, ue alanti for the
iutuee, wsgoorisote ? .em tae .young girl as
elle WiPed 'tea tPeata°1091'realtreed theaufwith
t"',r.. ,,o,igokod-theougb them In a regretful,
syropetiaz ng, elinoet teriaers Meitner at the
a . . .t., . h , . ,. . , ,, ,, , ,
tacao°te .a."Out, • ., , , ,
0 My plane I he replied, deearily. "What
are .1 ee to me ? Wt. ' • a ' a ' tf• - ' f
. P " • - tes po ye °me o me o
P at 9 answer Yen 'have lost given me
r.eateees..to irre.mediebie :chew every ;nascent
leoleoettye aesign,projected heath° stoop.
s;°.° Of ,P043,Got ParPose On the eereen of mein
tat r ca &iv ' . ' • . '
.. , e P . an r • • - e • , ,
0,/...,,shadow of pante fitted wanes att. 0. brow
'name') -young wenten. Front where she stood
on the IOW§ of A g tte in the rear of one of
B.c.m6°4)8 u°131est mansions, she looked. oat
eter the taimada, where light•heertea but
mande ishildatainaere nlayitra in the-creek:mom
thotightftil, cultured. Manner peoiliat to the
Boston 'child, and'a feeling Of Pity.. for the
yeuvg luau who stooti on the other , side of
tale gete Med leaned. 'despondently on the
Post atiraed her soul.
ure y, geocteon, B e mai , b ere are
"$ 1 0 " h 'a d, h
others—i'at i in i.a. '.j. . • . .
a OA a le 6 James 1" he exo lahnea
impetuoitsly, " to the men who has eherished
in hie boom for years the, image of one who
ie to him the ideal and embodiment of all
congenial and inetaphy.
sitihotiaa °au:I:pi:tiny:41's. it were, 'the oeteeeleg
his hope• ot being ee'gerded re-
folrevotrunutby the lining, breathing- reality of
hie olaerished" eidolon 'shatters' his 'mental
perspective and obliterates every sembianoe
of the horizon that since -bounded his specula.
nee ormenemen, .. , . ' ' •
"While that May be iedisputable,. On
t ,, • . . • a
gooason, rejoined rine young woman, there
are other 'aoperits it whioh we should view
the subject. The Stations. in life we both
occup.y are humble, in the sciolistio and
4-11-1temus judgment of the world, but there
is no reason why the outcome of this min
guided preference of oars should lea ou
y a y.
reoklessly to abandon your oallin . It is
, • .• . . . . g
true that I shall still remain in this family
•
the faithful f " f th dutiesS
in per °unwise o . e
that .devolve upon me but you will beoome
.' .
accuetoined in num, I trust, to the darly
sight ot one whom you mistakenly looked
upon as the arbiterbra
,_ of your happineria, and
tranquility will come to you." .
‘, , . . . - • , . ,, ,
L mmunaerstood. you,. Waldonia, said
ee, - . . . . ..
"ae young man. ,'When you aszea, me it
this d,ecision . of yours would, make any
change in my plans for the fubuee I imagined
alluded to tny entertaining a preference
. , . .
for any other young lady.' I shall. make no
change in my °trouped= . Waldonia " he
added d • t di li 1 d ' " I
ejec e y, 88 e 'turtle to go.
to drive this milk wagon all Summer,
jusethe same,"—Chicago Mail.
' - Mau
, ' 4 Jamming, mis Tiede
, ,
When. a Yenag man eitarto out to learn hie
trade 4.0 g°e0 iota a ehop totalla nasehooled
in the Mental performance 'cif hie donee i
h . n a, .. .. . . n
tee n.ew en , of life on .ennea he n eeemegs
iia impOrtent that he stotild bear iu mind'
this fact viz . Th t la' ' ti • f
. p , ... a is pose on, so ar as
it relat t ' hi a lia- . "
ea o - in 0 b 1E4 '14t4insioally an eau -
*tonal one, res• in. aoh ses air in ' the sohool or
aellege freen which' he May. hate, areoently
graduated. The allnple; petfonterece of ao
man hours' work per da w '
Y. , P .3', inle it has a
/Sartain ifiletuatel meat.ure. of value no the
elninoYer, has a value to himeelk .when
properly coasidered-that is "gieater then can
be measured he cutrenea. '' As his Progreas
and standing in the school depended on the
thorough mental understandingtof ems, pee.
greisetve step he took, ea, only in a ,anore
Material sense, his adVence in meeht4oal
skill and knowledge is dependent oil his
,
thoroughly understanding not ' only. the
routine details of lila Work, but the why and
Wherefore of each Opetatiot..
There aleveyia has been, and Probably
always' be two Olasse f
. will, , , r3 la ea attics--
those • who atand at staeir bench end go
through the manual Motions of their work
like automatic machines, with little more
conception ofwhy the. results are as they are,
end the other that Mese of men who Make
no moves Without knowing why and how re.
suite are obtained, and the relative inane'.
anee of eadi 'stela This ire the meohanica.1
ecluoittion that ociante, the education that
schools the mind to a (steer comprehension of
prinoiplea equally With ' &veils, and I d"
unfailingly to that higleer field whaere an a
al. . .• . • • _ , 11,
1 wenn and marked ability find their
natural level. • .The young man, who, on be
ginning hie meohaniciel education, realiz a
end acts upon these truths, will develep that
a.biliby which is not gaugedby mere Manual
dekterity, but rather that whicih, when in
leter ears he a b
, y m y . e called to deign, lay
out and superintend the w
, . . work of others, will
enable lam to oreditabl ' fill theposition.
9
h " ' i
ue pont /me. canine to these who being
thought and bating as well
. , , . as manual der -
teeny, to aesieb them in their work. To matt
.
men we cave the improvements of the age in
' ' ,, • .
every. branch of mechanics. .
., It is a fact that too Many mechanics work
„ .
along day af ter day accempltehing .their
. . „ ..
work by maul strength and foolishness,"
which is the direct and legitimate result of
a lack of •properand thorough application in
their earlier mechanical life The point
. . . . .. . . . em.
pnainzed is that the mind that is • able,
through careful training and •application,t
bringt ' 0
o bear a lenoveledge'of principles in.
volved; as well. as execution of detail in the
work, is one thataapproachee thet standard
of . ability which ihould be the aim of every
young man who babeg•inning his mechanical
educationahis work id the:Shop.. • When he
hes attained this, no questio' . n of wages will
trouble him '
never. . Sutra men ,are always
w • ,
anted. The au 1 is n • ' d
pp y not equel to the e.
mend. ' ' •
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All BaeST INDIAN GROS r.
FOltEIGN NEWS,
The world's coinage fer 1.$$$ wet4a,a,OPi-
529, egeinse 56,729,000 in 1887'. ''. . ,1
The drat ta. nitarlan Iniesienart luee appeen
ed in Janata ana hes 'begull a to/3°1°109a;
controversy -in the) press. . ,
Th exhibitien of Baryen world tie Perin,
does not wear. to 184104a/4e. Hardy
,
twenty francs e day are taken in for eanna-
sione, . . .,
pneee negeae of, aweciere encl the Prin.
ease ntelakaui of ttre Sendwien Isittods ere
said to he ongeged. The Prince lives at
Paris, where he studies painting.
.
Mme. de Grouchy, the widow a the
Marshal who loet the battle of Waterloo
for Napoleon, by not coreiug in time to it,
died at Pau on June 18. She WaB 86.
Grouchy died in 1845. ,, '
preparations have been made at
Oberammergau forthe Pas icrPia text
at laoo turae ha beenn aroYeured.
T. ;el% oroh. aewstre 8a,nn 9a. udiX3rium hale, been
incroaeed, at an expense of £7,Q00, .
In Vitarasdin, .Creatia, a mcither of 117
yeara gave away her maiden daughter of. 83
to a tramway concluotor of 46.. The elder
leap of the two wait in ananstaoY of delight
at haviag lived to B99 her ohild Married. • ,
.
Since the . phylloxera ham so ravaged
weimen Turkey is looming up me 8 wine -pro-
duohag sountry. Some of the southern pro.
viDeeii are said to he excellent ata wine-
growing -districts, both for climate and soil,
The a Wow of Emperee Feederion receiy.
ed. £40,000 a year from the.Gernian.Govern-
meat. The fortune left to her by the, Ducal-
ess el Galliere. brings her in, g1,000 8 year ;
and elm }ms a life interest in the truett estate
of her 'husband. in all she has about £70,.
000 a• year. • , ,
,
The collection. of Dante's !works in the
library of Florence has 'mit reOeived a •S wed-
ish edition of the seve3n first cantos of the
infentri and a Bohemian version of the en..
tire.poem. There are 420 editions of , the
.
Maine, Comedia ; 323 in Itatiatt, 33 •1n
French, 31 ia German, 10 in 'Eu 11 h' 9. in
g s ,,
Latin, 5 in Dutch, and 9 in other tongues'.
Before the Isthmus of Suez was pierced by
the canal there were almost no sharks in the.
Mediterranean, the passege through the
Straits of Gibraltar not bung to their liking.
Now, however, they come in by Way of the
ce.nal, and inatich numbers that in more than
one entering place, and especially on the
Adriatic the eign has gone up "Beware of
sharks."
A case of attempted bribery in order to
obtain re gold medal has been revealed in the
Paris. Exposition. A chemist offered the
jurors of his class of exhibits 3,000 francs,
each for an award of one. His • letters were
turned over to the higherauthorities and he
was expelled from the Exposition, with the.
liability, of course, of being Prosecuted by
the oivilpovi en ,
The site of the Palace of the Tuileries was
thrown open two weeks age an a' public
garden. There is no longer a vestige of the
old building visible. All the enclosure, both
on the sides of .the Piece du Carousel and
toward the Champs Etyma, . have been
taken down, so that, standing where the
Tuileries once fronted; one men look through
to the interior facade of the Louvre.
The mother of Frasouelo, one of the 104 -
ing espadas of Spain, was buried with.great
pomp. She had pained a life of extreme
auxiety about her son, and she died during
one o is appearances n e ring. e
f h" 1 the " Th
co n, which was °aerate . wit golden or-
ffi cl d • h
naments, was carried to the hearse by four
areat matadors,and behind it were Freon:tele
and all the other famous bull fighters Of the
town, followed b 160 • '
y carriages.
ni d
1 Coast erablo sensation . was pro uced. in
Paris a week or two ago by the arrest of
three weil-know, bankers on the suspicion
that they were conoeited with the disk).
pearance of a Swine maned Candrian. 'The
latter had been a • seivent of a Mine. Fes.
earn and at her deathreceived her fortune
of 200,000 francs. His Holum drove him
'
demented, and Mime he disappeared the
bankers with, whom he deposited his
money have been arrested. ' . ' •
, nee of the most interesting g of recent
events in Paris was the meeting between
President Carnet and Marshal MaoMehon.
They met in the hell of the Society. of Help
to the Wounded, of which the Marshal is
Preaident, and accoated each other with e
friendliness highly' satisfactory to Fret&
Republicans. IslacMahozt is still- as agile
and active, as a, , young fellow oa 40. ' He
goes to, the Expesitlon nearly every day with
hi wife and takes a turn on horseback.
. . , .
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An ordet has. jget been pablished, by the
" ffi i 1 Ities-
Russian Govern:nett in the.0, on
aenger, ordering all the torpedo beets in the
Russian navy, 150 in all, to be kept in cons-
tant readiness in case of hostilities. The
Yes - icertain districts have also
naval reser n , _ . .
received • orders ' to be mobilized.' not: liter
than Nov, 15 in order, to take part in the
naval manceuvres win& will then be held at
Sebastopol. This is the first instance on
which the Russian naval. reserve has been,
mobilized. '
. Ole 'Mean& navy comes into . reneied
prominence atria disapaointment like that
of other notions. At a sitting cia the Chem-
.seemed
ber devoted to the naval estimates, 'Vice-
Admiral Dompierre d'Hornoymade a rather
alarinist speech. The French navy should
be equal to the united navies of Germany
and Italy This was no longer the ease.
11,4 ' f *F ' h 1antiquated,'
any o the renc yeses s were
and the fleet which -costs £32,000,000 was
i dZ10 000 000. . The Ad ' • 1
va ue at only , , . mma
advocatecl the reconstraolnott of the navy .
and a' thorough reform in the Admiralty.
a ,. . , • . , .
The Aroboluohess Stephanie, the widow
of the Ciown Prince Rudslph, has been re-
leased from - the • ,gue.siamprisonment ' to
whioh, according to the law , of the home
of Hapsburg, the widow of any prince who
is In the line' of ' auccession Must 'submit. •
Shale attended night -and day by a couple
of duennasaand during" that time she ;may
not leave the' couittry. • The Emperor. has
reeeived the formal notification, with a
oertfioate from the court acooucheurs, that
"no posthumous ohild of the Crown Prince
Rudolph will be born." '
Ortnated Bete.
Getriep. '' '
.
woi , J,00i 444 got low, ,ilyi4vgaret
And little latehy 00111
. .$-,),,.y(iv, *eat a" OW, demote, .,,,,
Thea lieten while 1 ten
Atioatthe tiro° of eatll' War -
, she (Iowa i T , .
W n ' n enneseee '
There iited,a, Inge eneehaane girl
Whotie•n. atne w., eintesale Lee. ' s
A mother's love she never knew,
, • a • da -
xet happy cia 'dhoti aye;
Her father was worthleas man
, .. nehiey, arenaen ways, .,
' Who often thrusther from the door.
When .ri er grea , 1stress
The neighbors kindly took her in,—
They called leer crooked Base.
' . '
Through much abuse she clung to him.
. As all she leed to love,
cheerful faith end patience sweet
' That °meth from above,
"Po' white ttaah." the negroes called
And Scorned her fine' trust; ,
. .
Her friends. said, Bess, don't live with
. him," .
'
She answered them " I must."
• For yearseshe Parried thie her cross,
And well elle bore her 'part,
While all hie sins and follies were
, Deep hidden in her heart,
The one great abject of her life
: To win him -from his sin,
That he at laet at Heaven's gate
With • her might eater. in.
' •
She shrank from ohildren's noisy env'
eta wandered off alone,
To rnuse or con her lessons o'er,
Seated upon a stone
Beside a merry little'brook,
Beneath a noble tree
And often wept about her shape,—
Poor orookedlnessieLee. •
.. One morning in the early i
spr ng
Of eighteen eixtynne, . ' .
' The nation shuddered, sprang to arum,
At Round of reb 1. •
e gut.
p n e wee
From Mississip i i th • is
To Massachusetts Bay, ..
No son nor brother stayed behind,
Nor woman bade them t '
em B ay.
, , . , •
e and soute oause
Both no tie' ' h believed the
Was juin and pure ,and right,
• And Bees was southern to the core.
But one disgraceful night '
. ,
Her father 'sold himself for gold
. To shoot his neighbors down,
Enlisting with the union troops . •
That' °coupled the town.
Not many months had peened away s
Before his name was seen, • '
.In Het of raen in hospital .
Over at Bowling Green.
• Without q eeetion then she started '
., To findlaer .way by stealth, „
To where he lay so weak and 111
And nurse him back to health.
.
Poor °Midi the rebel forces soon
That foolish 'dream dispelled,
She weal arrested as a erm , .
And for her trial held: . •
But the Colonel heard her story toid
With quiet, simple grape, . .
While goodness, truth and honesty
Were written in her face.
He sent her safely,on- her way
latotected from.alarm, , . ''
With passports and a trusty guide,
So withoub further harm ' .
Sheh d h '
quickly reac e her journey s en d
And sought her, father's bed,
He knew her, said "forgive" and then
•
They told her he was dead.
With rudest haste they buried him,
In war it must be so, . —
—
And then to her the question same,—
.Would she stay here or go?
GO where? it this world full of homes
y a e re me alone,
That da h t d' '
Her home destroyed; her father dead,
• And friends or kindred none. . '
And solehe atayed by bode of pain
With tender watchful care,
And many a wounded soldier blessed
' Theday that brought her there.
.And once I, little drummer- boy, '
Who looked into her eyes;
Said, ," 0.• are .you not an.angel ?'''
In beautiful eurpeise. ,
And just before the war was o'er •
Into, her Ward. they brought
The colonetwho had helped her on ,
When she her lathersought.
With grateful hearb she nursed him
Till no face he hived to see
Like that of little Crooked Bess ,
. •
Of Eastern Tennessee. • ,. . . -
Her lonely. dans were ended,
For new love's purple light
Had fallen on her shadowed path,
' 'And hi 1 it all seemed bright. • '
No more the weary, 'aching heart /
No more the thee 'set,
.For' to be loved ant. living,
Had made her life ooinDlete.
. , '
you iMena stately mansion
I sew one summer day,the
And a happy, mother watching.
,
Her children at their play,
Or the father of the children, .
I'm sure you'd never guess . .
That the honored wife and mother onoe
Was little Crooked ,Bess, '
VINORNT DE F.A.OlaS OAR .EII,.
.
The axempittry titne. eortoa. Sixteentn Century,
,
In.1070, in a, village Within tae ohadow ei
the Pyreen Peelle, •Viiieent de Paulaliese aorta
Aa a laity he was clistiliguished for,hieepiety
and geperosity. Returting from Wee mill he
woula dietribate lunad, ink Of norn•nmong the
' WhOni he ;net and once having ad-
/Annulated some eilv.er coins he gave theta all
to 4 emeediema ,
, Early evincing , a' dasianfoi knowledge aee
father took 'him from sheep -tending - io, a
*mime' M Dc. :At 16 he begette a an tutor
29'9111.4a134erel'avewcilt,isogel:erattrecialrneat,4°;clea,aoldilte'
men la .pOsiteriaelon of it fled, to Marseille')
to event - payment. Vint:rent followed but
ee, e y , , e e
me '1 11 exacted only a portion f th
slept, . a ..
art returning he took ship to Marbonne,
and in the Gulf of Lamm they were attached
by Barbary corsairs.. . Surrendering only
efter the fierceet resistanoei they were oar-
ried to Tunis, and sold, as slaves by their
captors, at whose hands they endured the
moat excruciating torture. ' •
Winoent, having been transferred eciveral
, .
treise ,17: tfiennaelglyadelileir Na tisocel, aXor:liakheenhttil
•
reclaimed. .
heHrotso slieflewismcrilefieoael:tAlcullhiesxpernompselessolofnanowbelree,
given bo the poor and hevteut abouteinstruot-
..
inglnanRdomnnetniefeGrytilleligted the cella of the Con -
oiergerie, had the inmaters lodged in clean,
wholesome apartment o and samight them to
Pray. He instructed the a -eating prisons,
compered. withwhioh. the Conciergerie . am.
petered a Palace, PaSSing between the oham•
ea ranks his tender heart bled at sight
of the despair of. some and stokiern of
other's.. One in particular drew his at.
tention. Upon inquiry he discovered that
this man had left a wife and Ave little
children. to die of want during his im' prison.
ment. Vincent deliberated and then propos-
ed that the prisoner go free, offering him-
self to fill the ve.oanoy Chid , occasioned.
Finally the officer consented, °ladies were
exahauged, and while the liberated prisoner
sought his •lovedones Vincent, bound with
/ '
lling 1 tt e plied his oaron board the
ga e er ,
dismal ship. ,' .
There e remit ne un s release was
h I cl ' tin his
obtained by. a friend who diecovered' his,
whereabouts. He now ereoted a hospital for
sick and dying 'galley Slalreii. Soon .after
was et3you
tablished a refuge for homelese child.
ren. • ' •
He picked up little waifs in tie street;
and, nestled 'under his long cloak, they were
carried to that comfortable home. In war,expect
famine, pestilence and slavery •his heroism
never deserted him and during the great
inundation ,of the 'Seine he ancl his band
'water amid
rowed out over the treataterous w
terrible currents, taking food to those in
.
half aubmerged houses. His heart. was
filled with love for God and man, and when,
in hie • 80bh year • the eumnaons ,eanee,. he
died es he had live'cla-a true hero.
Weaved to lie a roa aoneerfeter Twenty
Yeet en imeatin
Alutost, every , 'tow a or village, , has its
suntel nauee Mea the little,' village Wynn
. , „ ,
.enteof Wanda, ha Imlia, was ne exoeptiou,
i,ere a t umber of English officers and their
iluilies live duting thew/060' months, ere
trabeg to their reepective commands later
in 'The . ranter thee „Cheat. Beattolutinpa
oase was 'heauttal was. eiroulated by a son
ant ---e, supereatiouri . old Beall/Liman who
ad followed the emplane en over the world,
ad Was,' ell things considered, a faithful
srvitor, Thoma e bad for some daye heard
arieua imunda about the house, At lirsthe
naiad there .were rate menace In the wall.
Fe wee awakened Mee tight by a moat . ex.
raordinery noise, The doorbell was ring.
ig violeutly, and a • straggliug, writhing
.ottie in the wall ot the house —not lo 'meWith
lectabut in several. at ones,. ' This was area
awed by a comalete eilenoe, end as Thomas
Dit up in bed, his hair threetening to stead
n end, he was positive be hentd, a long-
rawn sigh. This was the, last feather.. So,
saping from. the couch, he rushed toallis
naployer's room and moused hitt, avowing
hat the Place Was haapted, eta a few' mo
cients. later the entire household wao in the
oom. '
ale notorietyeo oheaply earned became ex
eedingla ditiagreeable. Fire a came strangers,
;eaves, and others, wile stood in front of
he house day and night and looked at ib
'liala wondering curiosity. Malden stood
a thie ehape for some Elva, When. onninoWn-
ag
A PAUTY OE neillnEaS
lassed through the town. and finally reached
he haunted. house. As there -were a num-
ler. of children in the family the performera
.
rere invited into the grounds and gave an
abertainment. Filially as re winding up
lid ot Omit took out a small oval beaket,
raving an orifice he the top, and seating
kneelf near in began to play a quaint air
Tun a flute. .
After industriously pleying for a few ma-
nents, up through the hole in the beaket
Irate , the head of the cobra .— one of
he most poisonous of snakes—up Oanie
he hideous head with its hood that
lave a malignant) apaearance to the reptile,
knd when twelve or lifteen inches above the
tasked it began to wave to and fro as in
amdienoe to the measure of the musks.
After the snake dance—or the snake
'ohm -mine as Europeane are wont to call
t—the Indiansnake-oharmer welked around
;he hOU.88 and among the bushes pointed out
I halewhioh • might have been made by a
iabbite To rine of the native attendants he
laid that for a man sans extra he would
take out a cobra which was in the hole.
rhe English officers did not believe it, but
erilliagly submitted to the, experiment,and
seating himselfbefore the hole the magician
began his mournful plaint.
-
For fifteen minutes they kept up the
noise, and then from the opening ' there ap.
peered the- ugly, hooded 'heed of a, cobra.
Another hole was soon found, this being
directly at the base of the wall of the lipuse,
Ihu man exSmined it a few moments care"
fully, then began to env upon the flute.
Hardly had the group gathered about the
performer before a most remarkeble noise
came from the house. First, there was
is sound fie et escaping steam; then a sound
of • - .
SOME GR -EAT 330DY
drilling the wall and rubleing.against the
timbers, Dust in clouds oame from the hole
it , ..
and the ',harmer" started back in terror,•
.
overturning the man. behind him. Remy-
erring himself he darted at the hole and
thrustinghis arm in drew out, not a cobra.
but the tail of a much larger snake. As-
tonishment was depicted on the native's
face . and ' horror in. these of. many of tha
spectators, as he stood holding the tip of
the tail, and five feet Of the body was
visible.
For a second . the 'man hesitated, then
regaising his aourage he shouted in Erin-
doosbanee for the lookers-on to step back,
t
and taking a amid Op upOnthe ail be pul-
led gradually. backward. Out it came, foot
by foot, inch by itch, 5, 10, 15, 16, feet -18,
was there no end ?-18 feet of quivering
snakeflesh as large as a man's thigh.
•A quick jerk now etd the entire monster
was clear—at least twenty feet in length—
big enough to swallow, a 'deer,and. yet held
by a single mat. The native was, however,
not in the least discouraged. • He clung to
the tails, and as the huge reptile burned to.
ward hie- with an angry.. hies- he pan . it e
,
swingeig motion byturraag elowlv. ' Grad-
ually he increased his speed, naming fester
andlaster, until • he seemed the denter • Ot a
wheel, the spokes of which were thebody
of the python. , So rapid was the motion
that the snake's body was perfectly straight,
and it was evident that as long as the me-
Hon could be keen up the.man was safe but
if the monster could reachhimite would in
a moment be crushed in the horrible folds
of the reptile; . .
The lookereon long since fled, the na.
does had gone •
stentanincs DP THE STREET,
lone stinding by b
the EnglIsitinan a , ut.even
he did not know what to. do, as it war; int -Had
passible to shoot the animal as it was flying
around; so he stored for a few minutes
aghast at the curfew position of the..man.
It soon became apparent thattae charmerfl
knew what he was about., Not fiat from the
house stood a stout flag -staff, a foot and a
half through, Of 'oolid teakwood, and toward
he a
this he was gradually moving, w r ing the
rinake faster and faster. Now he was with.We
in twenty-five feet of it, and suddenly itforeman
dawned upon the few specintors. whea he
was about to do. This was to etrike the
reptile against the pole. • Nearer he (mine,
vvhirling faster and faster, until the reptile
snood out like a •whip.lash'eapd then, with:a'
quick step forstard, he broughtathe head of
the reptile against the wood with a crushing
sound. He released hishold and the great
reptile doubled , up in convulsive folds,
digging up the earth .and senifiug oloude of
.
dust into the air, fitally dropping limp and
Melees to the ground. - • . ' .
A wondering oroted aeon surrounded the
dead boa, the now brave natives expressing
their opinions as to its size. One thing was
evident—that here was the "ghost." The
big, ortake had intend way obtained entrance
to the house, probably throttgle the hole in
tha , foundation, and , had, produced the
mystetious out& heard by the men The
anake-charraers hwe. ad, as is their general o
torn, platted a harmleoe cobra ia the hole and
beline they had time to call it old it had
encountered the big boa, with the above
teethe • en '
•
. .
She Wasn't .Built that Way.
A youthful married oonple when house hes
recently been glorified by the addition of a
facsimile of the beautiful little mother, de.
aided to . have the christening service at
home. A venerable missionary. was called
to offinate. He took the babe in his , arms
and addressed a few words of advice to the
young . parents. . "See that you train up,
this child In the mai t hat heshould fere . that
. . 3
you surround lum vnth the best influence,
d th I 1' d 1 If
an at yong ve ' um a goo . examp e.
von do so who knows but he may become a
' .
ohn Wesley or a George.Whitefield ? What
.
is his mane ? ' "Nellie, sir," replied the
mother. -4011 ChBlizzard.
'by •
-----
• •Found a 'Refuge.
, :" I don t know," -said St. Peter, shaking
his head dubiously, "I„don't know. / ou
look as if you had been dissipating—all the
buttons 'off your shirt, your coat all frayed
at the wrists, your collar un-ironed—no, I'm
a e p you on e
fraid I'll bay to pub tbelevatorE
vrhen it is going 'clown." •
"But, St. Peter—"
"Well ?"
' '
" I nearried a woman with a mission.'
"You did?" '
"Yes, sir." • ' ,
"Excuse me, my dear sir. Come right
in. The gate's wide open for such as you."
So he went right in to have his buttons
sewed on an so or . os on ouner.
d el f th —03 t C '
Where' the Lightning Struck.
• Throu h ' -
o aut all ages and countries hao
bee e - a ,
- n xpresee the sense and presence Of a
higher power in the dramatic and t 'bl
t e • ern e
ury o great storme. ' "The Lora hath Hie
way in the whirlwind and in
• .. the storm, and
the clouds are the dust of his f t "
ee . In the
great pagan world we find co a • t
to h • "ant reser.
enoe t e manse of awe and terror that was
.
with lightning. Its victims were
reckoned the acouried of Heave, buried
alone and apart lest the ashes of . others
,
should be pollutesnay their. preeence.. Even
a spot of geom.- . struck by lightning
("Bidenthal") was hedged in, , and no rear
allowed to enter it. Laurel is now regarded
as the emblemaof victory and triumph
and Suetonius . informs that • '
us at the
Tib i '
Emperor er us wet% is chaplet. oi
laurel becameg he believed that li htn •
ing would ,• not touch this kind of leaf.
In China the mulberry and the peach are
regarded as preservative -s against lighten.
Mg. The Romans co.naidered.. '''
sealskins a
protection, and as a tradition. hahded
down from ancient times it is ouriout to
note that the shepherds who 'inhabit the
neighborhood of Mount Cevennes ' L
d h ' ' ' ' 'In• an.
gue oc, w ere some Roma • •
. Boman colonies existed,
, , ,
their hats as a eharrnagainat storms
with the skins of 'stakes. • Among the
more distant races of the 'world lightning
and thunder . were regarded with abject
terror. The Emperor's of Japan retired
into a deep grotto and had . a reservoir of
t uk i In ' • '
wa er su n e centre in the fatueus be.
lief that it could extinguish the lightnin .
The Tartars, as. soon as the fi t
e rot rumble
of thunder is heard, expel all strangers from
n an
their te t d it ' 1 ' d im- '
s, , a g um . an movable
immersed hi woolen reloa a„k 1
. • Th e contrast
is :somewhat minding. between these pot,
entatei in • abject , terror and an old
couple. who Were • forced in the ' real
storm of .1703 into a cellar' b the 4
y e
of a chimney. They were—I use the quaint
language of an old tracb-a-"digged.np about
8 o'clock thettexattiornipg ; it was well won
thy of observation that the first question
that the man asked, was where were his
'
breeches, in whichwere 50s. in money, . and
the woman clemencies' what was become 'of
her trunk, in which we e
- r some pieces el
gold, being not at all terrified,•and minding
heir worldly
e ,, concerns more than the dan•
ger.' This quaint and auptirlativel m
y atter.
- f ' .
of. aot view of events that paver of the pre.
tern.atural . is, I believe, rate, ,for, to, con.
elude my peper in • the Words of an old
broadside, "the comma impression of ter.
' e t ' - ' .
nble t mpeitts WaB hat they are instruments
which God oftener 0850 10 an extraordinary
manner than any others, and which in their
first designment seem. peculiarly leveled at
those m ' '
, en end them bold thoughts who
would first only , droll the world out of eon.
,eeit of His power, that they May,. as the
think the I tl huff H' f
. , . e mere p man yim out o
His throne, '
,
' •
White Women in Africa.
It is not a little surprising that eo many
n.h. . - • .
white women are now venturing Into the
-
very heart of Africa half way across the
• '
big . continent.. It was recenly reported
thatseveral female •missionarieti hadleft Eng.
gland to settle among the dwart and cannibal
tribes of the Balolo country on Congo tri -associated
butaries, nearly a thousand ranee from the
• •
sea, Three other are .now following
Mr. Arnot and his wife to the Garenganza
.
country, a little northwest of LakeRang-
creole. They will have to be carried in
hammocks for hundreds of miles before they
reach their future home, which has thus
far.been visited only by Reichard, Ivens;
ArnOt • a h' t • • t t . ,
, an le wo asias an a,
Bub while his only recently . that white
women have begun to go to Central Africa
with a view to living there, quite a, number
of ladies braved its fevers . and jungles
'
while explorers were unfoldingthe water,
uss of the Dark Continent, Ledy Baker was
with her husband when he discovered Al.
beet Nyeaza. .Miss Tinian mother died in
her arms among the swamps of theBehr el
Ghazal, and heapoor Dutoh maid • h d
pens e
there also,exciaming, almostcover with her last
breath. "Oh, why did I leave our own Hol.
land?" Mrs. Pringle and several other la-
dies have travelled in canoes for hundreds of
miles up the Zanibesi and Shire Rivers to
the Alpine district of take Nyman Mrs.
Here who lived for some years on an island
, 0
. •
naLake Tanganyika, is the only white we"
men who • has yet seen that remarkable
.
sheet of water. Mrs. Holub bas seen the.
thorniest side of Aflioen traveL for she was
with her husband when he was robbed of
all his belongings, ,and together they wan-
'
dered for weeks, almost dead from hunger
and fatigue, before they. reached is place of
safety. Mrs.. Livingetione died while tray-
tilling .. with. her husband on hie, . second
great Journey. White women have certain-
ly had their full share of the haraehips and
sufferings of pioneer work in Africa. • '
•
.
Poew i an Far Between,
d
. . . . •
After Mr. Tooter Bareatone had sung "The
Harp' That Tears . Through Overshot' Mr.
Celluloid Dickey asked of the irterlooutor ;
es y enge m
" William, n you tell me why 1 '
visits are like Chicago sewers'?"
"I don't know, Richard " replied the in•
•
terloeutor in hia ricrit titles -voice ; "why are
angels' visite like Chicago sewers?" ' ' •
- "Because sir " said the comedian with a
• i i
mighby effort, " they ere --phew I and far be.
tweens" , e
. Then, while a solemn hush fell upon the
audience, the interlocutor announced that
Mr. Lasing Geetia would sing "Down Where
the Sandwich Blooms. --(America. . ' .
'
, ---.
' a. emy
How the Literary Editor roiled an x -,n. ,
- . ;
' "That poem you published this morning
witerather olever," remarked a caller to the
literary' editor of the Doedleville Yelper
a •cr 1' i h '
though to orin a reader it m g t have,
a trifle incoherent and disconnected."
. • '
" That. poem," replied the editor fishing
- . f le" t t " t ib
a: y out o 'apes e•po , was a con r u•
tion. After we had the. forms made up we
direariered lt was an acrostic conveying the
intimation that • The editor was a chump.'
ea. fi,„/ ,.,0 em t .
1 e ,.. a a
- " — a o wetland hadn't an thin
tane the place. of that poem, so I told the
ta ohm e the order of the verses
• g . . .
and mix up the lines so . that the first letter.
Wouldn't s ell anythingand o to ress It
— - p.g . . ,, P „..
aliened the thing for an acrostic, continued
Mr. Clugston with a heavy sigh iniketive,
of the bidden that oppresaes the mind of a
.
Man charged with the •;deetimes . of -a great
Somata', "but it didn't morello hurt it =oh
as epeeist.
Suicide On a. Steamer.'
Quiraeo, attly 23.--A painful feeling was
created among the worsen f the steam- gees o
ship Lake Huron on her resent homeward
passage. to Liverpool by the suicide of a, steer-
age emigrant. ,The unfortunate man was
named Harry Reach, and during luncheon
time, when the vessel was within sight of
the coast of Ireland, h t d lib '
e was seen o e er.
ately jamp into' the• sea. ' Boats Were instant-
ly lowered and the engines ev re. d d
r e e an
life•buoya were also thrown over, but the
passengers say he made no effort to save hie
' own life t and even neglected the means of
° /
witbin, his reach. Before a boat'a.
aa pull to the spot he had . thrown
crew oo .
ails hands and sunk
uP a ' '
_____
. •
. Hour By Hour.
'
Jesus, help me live torThee .
. • Hour by hour,
.
Let Thy love be felt in me .. 'safety
. , Hoax by hour
Guide me ever with 'Thine eye.
Let tot riiin'within me lie •, .
.. .
Others trust Thee., why not 11
• Hour by hoar.,
.
May my prayer second to Thee
Hour by hour.
Asking strength my way to see
' - , Itour by hour.
Give me fella and clearer sight
- - /
Show nee that Thy way im right
'Ever lead me in Thy eight
Hour by hour
'
In Thy goodness I will trust
. v • Hour by hour
' . •
Ever toe Tkiee faithful, put,
' Hour by hour
, _
'Let Thy pleasure me fulfil
.. 1
Po whatever is Thy will i
Truating Thee I'll go On titili
Hour by hour, ,
,
t i AXE 3.1Acnitznon.. ,
•
The Notices of Bodnomi.,,
•
Mr. Wickwire--" Well, my dear, how bo
the new girl getting along ? Does she seem
to be any more economical than the ether
One ?" Mrs Wickwire—"Juet about the
same; She doeen't seem to taionomize ote
anything eiroe.pt the broom."
____
The widow who wee Mouthing the loso of
- . ., . .
her husband excateinted : " Tb.ere is nothing
left for me now, bat to eider a convent, for
all is yenity," "‘ Let uti hope pot," remo4-
i - • - ' •
striated a friend. ' You are dill beautiful,
and a widow of thirty years--" n T webby.
lane, if you please, air, ' interrupted the un.
coneolled.--(Boetort 'Journal.
The ;amend littetneaionel shorthe.nd con
. ,
grew will be held in Paris from Aug. 11 to
. . _ , . .
17 • and will deal With these inbjeets •
.. , . . . . •
Higbee f eh 'ethanol parliamentary short.
, ., y o cr 1 , ,
hand writing; extra pari amentary shorthand
.., .
Syrian hi' '0 ' hi- • hi e •phy 1 ' 0 y
., , g, , en grap c reeo te , ' a ol g .
and hygiene of shenthand Writing . theory Of
ta ab.' ' d ' '
tesoeitia shorthand, orthan writors of
all eyritetna evishing to become membere of the
- -
tongress ohould make application, with au •
Ooriation (ten frill*, to M. EmiloGroetailln,
' a Wee ' 1 ' 126 . WI Rua p A.,
.n,
rue du Paint du Jout, /16 ; or at, J. Depoit,
rue BOnaperte, 6a, Paris, '
.
'
Encouraging Science,
The 'Vermont MiCroseopioal Aosociation
has just ' d that . i '
, santnaote , et a pr ze of $250,
y the Went & Riehardson Co., the
griinD
' vre nOwn chemistsa• will be paid liti the
first aiscioverer of anew dieease.gerni. ' The
wonelerful: discovery by Prof& Reck of the
cholera , germ, , as ' the : cause of cholera,
ritimulated. great reeearch throughout the
. .. , , „ ,, , . .. _ .
world and it le, believed this liberal • prize,
offered by a house.t of ouch, ,standing, will
greatly itssiet in he deteotion of micro,
Or animas that are thedi o i
g .. , , , re t evade of d seam
arta death. All OMare iaterestea in the
,
loaned end tha &Indigene of tine pent),
should write to 0, Smith iloynten, M. P.,
Sea'y of the Aesociatiort Burliagton Vt •
3 . 3 •
—
' Hieropliant Olcott is said after a a to be
creating a vetitable furore on his ,Bncielhist
tour thtough Japan. . At first oome of the
Buddhist priests gave aim the coldsliouldera
Then he began tee:mite ,popular. interest
. I
wield was intensified ; ae he went through
, -
the larger provincial towns. At Nagoya,
a commero a own , e , en o to
large " ilt bilWe ' TIC
and Mote, he had audieneeo aneatb leeture
of abeaf, emplane:an, and it fa Ned thee ten
•
wildest applantie etetylvhere. greets hiti de-
-. • - , •
olaratione titiat the donna reletionship' make
betstaben the bagel° arogtese of the rietion
and the maintenaide of true Buddhism, (rho
.
Buddhiets Who control his tour, treeing the
' . a • '' him
effect he is Wowing, are hurrying .
.
about, rio that he , is delaterhag oretiono and
,
leoturee in three or four different places in
.
the same' day. He deep not Speak a Word of
.. s _
Japanese, and WS iodides are therefore
siereered in English and traidiated on the
. i . , :_. t•
pletform ' by an interpieter, sentence els
h • ' 1 it ' Y t h towie
tientence, es .0 goes tto g. , e e re a
great enthusiaslia Nob Only the common
It ' ft. • I
peep e ear In, u a so e ig o eze a..
fo Many Of the large toned throtigh which
h h. ed. ecial ineetinge Were hela et
e pa s . tip
fa, a r t af a, they
timos tentelale to o ohe ta a w
alone were. peeeent. n ''
.
.
A'Ortiel Robbery,
' .
Mnesearears, Mitt., Ally 15..e -A bold
highway .robbery has 'jest oome to light.
•
Henry ' Hage came here to ,ba maenad. On
TueedaY moaning last Haan left the house
to ,get a shave. A stranger told him he yetie
a barber and would take him to hie house
. , _
and. shave him, ,Fartge arecompareied theinan
_
a .,short distance, when , the latter :dashed
vitriol in Rage's face, Rage was then taken
mit in the Woods by the ettiailant and his
• •
accomplices. After robbing liege of ehout
020,000 the brutes hound .hiin hand and famt
tied him to a tineHage reniained in
and , . - .,
ilho woods. unompielous and helpless for three
a ' nd - y he freedoel end
day . On Pri a . him f , ,
werideired knee; ne tias tot et te . vaned
his reason, and may a , edorne ermanentlY g ,y
p
detattged. The $W,060 was in the form of.
two n.egotiable drafts, one on a 'Milwaukee
. and the othet a NOW YOrk nis.nit.,
a
A century ago only 300 species of min&
were known, and these vera imperfectly.
New the lateanatithority gives • the extreme
number of known species ' at 10,000. This
May be an exceeeive madman), but it skims
the helmet:tee advarmee whioli have•been made
in our knowledge Of these interestit g pIeuts,
,
' t th
for which colleoteito now tansealt e most
retaote qtteatere of the Oahe. It is eaid
that the modern passion for the cultdation
of orchids sprattg from the exhiaition of home
' ' kable archnens at the early 'menage
remar _ ,
ef the bailie ' nortioilltUral Society,.
, .
forthe number• • I
' Tnerecord of rune made n
a hreaciass caravel) match has beaa raised
to 1.295 by the coateet between Yorkshire
and. gidclieliek• Yorkeltire made 269 and
itAiddlettex re ended h a ' '
— sp . wit 68, trite former
oeuaty then got 389 in their solond haling
M'ddl sex th ii, had 1 than f h ' '
1.. e eless ,atrr _ours ;4
whittle to soote 280 but the did it tar T
. . . p , . ,
C, Plirien brimeing bat oitt for 100, tilt bit
14 thoelaet heat 'Mid a half. under the
old Weil of fon' balls to an ever thio Would
h ' • • OA ' '
avebeen impose 0.
, .
Me Baleen why,
S h In B 11 "M D II r k 1 h
cres o 0 e— r o , a mar so arm.
i rig, I esaure you, as well as enormously
n ee , in qu e n .
ti ii 1 I d d P it. i 1- 'th hi-
- 0 one w; - m
aitead .
y.,,, Lady Celler—"Nonsenee, Clain ;
tvhts he IS feat tlineti Your re e-" Seashote
,,, „ ‘,.,„ ,,, ,„. „ ,., g ;._ .„.,„, , ,:
at- foie— alactita and tam a wilY III tams
. n lto when e proposes. '
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