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The Brussels Post, 1891-4-3, Page 71 APRIL 3, 1S01. THE BRUSSELS POST, 7 EXILES IN HEAVY CHA.INS. Setting Out From Rostoff for the Tramp to Siberia. NO POSSIBLE WAY 01' ESOAPE. alleerles of the Prisoners on Tiede Bun% Trowel, stessia—Pompetts Cleeers ln Faultless iltutform Watch the Precession —Coy Seenes to Town Atter 11 erir— Belles and Beaus. Russiae provincial cities aro n11 very 10 0311 alike. When the traveller has spent a few days in one uf them he has become ac- quainted with the chief features of all. There are rows of shops, badly paved and badly lighted streets ; churalmes of ovee- mhadowing size and splendor; the (Myer- nor's mansion, 11 the city is the eapital ; a hoopital 11 big white stone prison • an open epee° with rude wooden stalls, where pea- sants congregate with won -loads of pro- duce that they have driven in to sell, twirl cheap goods are sold by petty dealers. There are one or more hotels, which may or may not he worthy of the natne, and a public garden w harem military band dispenses mud° on Summer evenings, and the elite of the city congregate to listen, gossip, smoke eigarettea and drink tea. In the capital cities there is also pretty sure to be a tri- umphal arch or two in itnitation of those at St. Petersburg mid 'Moscow. One of the finest cities in Southern Russia is Rostoff, at the mouth of the Don. It con- tains about one huedred thousand inhabi- tants and has the reputation of being one of the pleasantest cities in Russia to live in. The Grand Hotel there is exceptionally good for a Russian provincial city, and the public garden adjoiniug was an additional recommendation. W itri in ward satisfaction et having tumbled into quarters so pleasant end so unexpected, I was seated in my room, froin which a balcony overlooked the mein street, about two boars after my ar- rival, when my attention was aroused by a crania' JINOLTEG OF OnAlEs withont. Four years before, I had henrd a similar sound in Tiflis, capital of the Cala cases, but it had long. passed from memory, save as a casual reminiscence of that city. Friar years, annemied m•ith incident, hail passed since I had heard the same ream& yet " Tillie " and " shackled convicts "were the first and Mimed late plan re that presen L- ed itself. I stepped upon the balcony. Filing slowly past, the hotel Wha a convoy of about two hundred prisoners, merching between two rows of policemen with drawn swords. Hastening dove and ont I mingled with the little crowd of curiOUS spectators who were keeping pace with the convoy, which I jedged was on 110 way to the rail- way station, half a mile distant. The paee of the shackled convicts was a amend one. It took twenty minutes, and then another half hour loading them into the prison -vans of the train. It \vas the first regularly organized convoy of exiles bound for Siberia that I had Imp - polled upon during my journeying in Russia ; hence as may be imagined, every face in the mouniful company was scaeued with the keenest interest, and everything Connected with its embarkation minutely ohserved. 1 had followed thc convicts to the station. Three-fourths of theni were clad in the reg - elution suit issued to exiles on their depart- nre for Siberia; the rest wore the Esc* Arlo 3)01 00 Tna LOWER STIIATEM of Russian life. Those in the prison dress wore their big, course gray overcoats, though it was the middle Of a hot August day, in which respect, however, they were following one of those customs of the country that are a puzzle to the foreigner. The overcoats were ornamented, though hardly beautified, by diamonds of yellow cloth en their backs. The men's heads were shaved on one side, and uovered by little, round, pcakless caps of the same material as the overcoats. Most of them had leg -chains which were riveted to heavy iron fetters around the ankles. The weight of the ankle -rings was relieved by means of subporting traps or garters above the calves, and a leather belt around the waist supported the weight of the chains; Ivlueh attention had been given by the convicts to the subjeet of pro- tecting their ankles ft•om the iron fetters. In addition to the leg bandages provided for this purpose by the authoritiea many had prooured old boot -tops which they had drawn on over them before submitting them to the delicate attention of the prison black- smith, Several, who were evidently better off than the majority and had been permitted to indulge their ' pride of purse" wore elegant top -hoots that seemed worldly out of joint in the disreputable company of chains and fetter's. Some few men were without leg-fetters'but wore handcuffed two together. A few feeble•looking old men slouched along without either ohms or bracelets. Following behind 'were SEVERAL WoMEIT OEILDREE, wives anct families who were voluntarily accompanying husbands and batters into exile. Last of allwere several wagons con- taining sacks of baggage, sick prisoners and more women and children, The company seemed to have been collect- ed from the four quarters of European Rus- sia, and presented a rare study of types and faces. It was a strange company that had been thrown together there on the streets of Rostra by the inscrutable workings of the Russian administration, It 'roomed to Inc that I could easily have gone among them, and by merely glanOing at their faces sorted out those who deemed Siberia and those who didn't. Here were old jail -birds plain- ly bearing the mark ef Cain, and young peasants who looked so unsophisticated and innocent that one felt sure their crime, whatever it might be, wee the OtiteOme of ig,noranee rather than guilt, or, worse still, that they were innocent victims of the mon, etroutily inktlitous criminal system of the eountry. There were breken-spirited eon.. viets, palette gliosts from long confinement, and bronzed ineujike seemingly just dragged from the harvest fields. Thore Was u pale - faced, miseraelalooking young fellow, whom took to be a etuclent, handcuffed to a man old enough to be his grandfather ; and beside them strode a splendid Cossack, the most striking figure in the Convey. This Coesitolt was lamb's wool hat attempted vainly to cenceal; he might have mingled with the onlookers on the sidewalk, a wellete.do Cosmic gentle - Dien, I felt more sympathy for this Inan than for Itny uf the others. Among the unehaekled few was a poor old man, who, probably from a long term of solititey confinement, negleeted for yews In saute provinciel prison, had lam= an idiot. Owing to his conditition he tieetned to be re- gerded us a sort of privileged chnivieter, ' trusty," from whom no thoughts of escape were to be apprehended, He wore the mi. son cap, but ripened a rusty end dilapidated velvet coat, wnlked barefooted, and had a bundle of something as big as a pillow tack- ed under his canvas shin, He seemed to tn keno notice whatever of his surroundings, but walked mechanioally along like one in a dream er with n, mind altogether vacant. Soule of the oonviets lookocl concerned and downcast, but the majority appeared to be in very good opine. Those whose pele faces betrayed the faet that they had spent some time 111 prison looked the most unhappy. I wondered at tide for it seemed to me that the change from a prison to the road and Siberia would have been appreciated. Pro- bable it was, There miserable expression was doubtless due to long confinement. THEY DAD NOROOTTI If HOW TO SMILE, end theie faces, grown acoustemed to a look of hopeless melancholy, were no longer equal to the exaltation of heart or mind, be it never Be little. Each 01 3110 convicts carried -some sort of vessel for drinking -water, and a molt or bundle oontaining their small be- longings. Some carried hunks of black rye bread under their arms. 03110 SIX MIT mALI,., rtd] was evidently not a cornmon criminal, His bearing was enconetiously proud, but not defiant Had he been otherwise than humbly eubmissive in clotneanor, he would probably have been %veering the eons im. lovely gray garb as the man at his elbow. As it was, for masonic better known to him. self and the priaon offleiels than to me, he was permitted to rektin his pietureeque Oessael cogent -nit Me Wee evidently a man not *Rhea means, His &wit was oven rich, though without °Mamma, and but for the theekles on his brand new boots and the barbarottely balf.ohaven head diet hie Their escort appeared to me to take super - throes percautions against ;neaps Seeing that all the able-bodied convicts were either hendoulfed two together or rescued from hurried movement by the heavy leg -shackles, the chances of escape were altogether nil. Policemen went ahead to clear the street and to warn everybody to keep et a respect- ful distance. Part of the 5500rb watched he convicts and the others watched the spectia tors, who, keeping the sidewalks, followed them along. Each waggon had its special ,guards, mid other policemen brought U the rear. Every policeman carried a drawn sword, besides being ARMED W19! REVOLVERS. The convict Oslo are orclimtry, third-class carriages, with iron bars over the windows. Five of these were in readiness at the sta. tiou, Here the vigilance of the escort seem. ed to be doubled, end there appeardd on the scone other policemen and an officer who weighed about three hundred pounds. This gentlemen's girth, large 111 it was, but feebly represented the size of his own Importance as indicated by the usual well-known de- portment and bearing. Assuming the poor wretch in the rusty velvet 001 10 persontfy human inSiEntheatiee, this officer who deign. ed to drive down to the station at the lest moment and, appear on the scene, would re- present the extreme 11)1111 01 human grandeur and official importance. Not a speck could have been discovered, even with e (0)0005- 0 1) the immaculate white .gloves and white cap of this map, nor on les uew look- ing -uniform and patent leather boots. sure- ly he was driven to the station in 0 band -box and earefnlly deposited on the platform for the spectators to admire and to dezzle end inspire with awe the departing convicts. He did nothing but slyly examine the specie tors from beneath the drawn down peak of his cap, but whether it was the scrutiny of detective m- of a human peacock feeding his vanity, who could tell? The convicts were put into the cars, and bockets of water were brought for them to fill their drinking -pots. The train pulled slowly out, and as one oar after another filed past A rifTERE LONG TO 00 REMEMBERED was the faces of the convicts peering through the iron gratings and the armed guard stand- ing erect inside the doors at either end. ale demetmorof the spectators was a reflection or that of the convicts. Some eppearad con- cerned, but the majority indifferent. Now and then some symptithetie person would attempt to hand a convict a coin, but they were always warned away by the guards. One woman, who was evidently a relative or friend of one of the exiles, persevered to the end in her effort to give money to him; but the guards would neither permit it nor would any of them accept it and pass it to the con- vict: A few hours after the departure of the convict train with its load of human woe, misery and degradation, of hopeless hearts and despairing human souls, found me a spectator and a participator in Rostoff's happier side. It was 10 o'clock in the evening; ttvo military bands disconrsed sweet musk from bandstands at either end of a pretty avenne, down which streamed a dense throng of people. Well nigh all Rostoff must have been gathered in the public garden and well-nigh roll Rostolrs Sunday clothes. Though so much alike, towns in Russia, as in other countries, have their local peculiarities, time-honored customs of tile people. And a, peculiarity that arrested my attention in the public garden of Rostotf was two counter files of humans along one of the cross avenuee, one filo composed of males the othor of females. The files were of young people, two together, who usually linked arms. The streams passed at close quarters, and the young men examined critically the counterstream ot young women craning their necks and peering in their faces most impertinently by the balflight of the petroleum lamps. The chief glory of the Itostoft ladies was their heir. Two.thirds were bare -headed, a sensible and pretty custom on summer even- ings, and nearly all possessed luxuriant tresses. But they were 13i£40 in submitting their faces of scrutiny in the kindly half. light of the lamps. Then they looked really Imautiful. 13y daylight a casual gathering of Russian ladies will average about one-third 35 110011 bueaty as would be found among the same number of Canadian ladies. Certainly no more. Themes STRVESS, Balla.sting ft Waiter. In these days of popular cynicism as to the reliability of human nature en incident that occurred at a hotel a few days ago can. not be too widely disseminated. A gentleman in the breakfast -room who had just flniehed the extended perneal'of all the morning papers, 1308 startled by the unexpected reoppearence of the welter with his meal. Warmly grasping the hashthendler's die. engaged hand he seed in 030100 choked by emotion : "1 knew you would return. They skirted rumor 0 couple of hours ago that you had eloped with the took or something, but ?mid ; " No ; give Min time, gentlemen ; give him e chance.It will all come outright in the end." I knew yout would turn u)1 again, if only to bring me an oil met with a fly in And the excited guests vete the light- nieg waiter an enthuziastic send.off 00 lie Mit tvgafn imi belled for an invoice of buektelioat eakoli. WONVEHOE MAILS, r08101 84143I00 111 MP 01118110 AVM 111111100 has ite reet The most weleome of all in the mining campit for up the Rocky Mountain peaks are the Mail nurime. Brave, hardy fellows they are thet rabid; the peaks on snowehoes, delivering the mail And many precious packages that always 1111 the police), De. Tiveringthe mails ie the inotudains in mid- winter is A diffieult and dangerous work. Sometimes the carrier is swept away by a snewelide, and months roll away before the bravo fellow and his pouch ere found. About fifty of these mountain mail carriers lose their lives yeerly on the dangerous trails in Colorado carrying the micils 00 snot,- shom to the frontier mining camps. In Utah, Idaho, and other parte of the Went in the same manner they force their way over the lofty ranges. rtome mountaineers are snowed infer the winter, and it is impossible to reach them ; but as for as possible the remotest settle- ments in time valleys and on the peaks of the Rocky Mountains have the mail sent to them. The carrier in the frontier of the Rooky Monntains strapa the mail sack, usually a No. 4, on his back, puts on his Norwegian the w shoes, and, with a long guiding pole, starts on his weary climb over the range. Usually there is a crowd at the little frontier Post Office to wish him good luck. Only men of known strength and courage cen do this work, for twenty-five pounds of letters, papers, and packages be- come very heavy and burdensome in climb- ing the mountains. These carriers knowthe peaks, passes, and trails 05 13011 asthe city carriers clothe streets mut numbers of their districts. But some- times the storms are so severe that even the old menntaineer grows weak with his heavy burden told sinks almost exhausted in the obscure trail. With a compass in his hand, he carefully feels his way along the pre- cipices and dangerous places„ and often the storm is so severe aud blinding that he is compelled to find shelter under some friend- ly cleft or (lig for himself a bed in the snow banks, If no fuel be handy he must keep awake all night, for sleep woald mean it rest Iran whin) he worildnot awaken. Although their great overcoats and clothing may look rough, yet their underwear would please the fancy of the [esthetic. The most of them havesillt ender wear, costing front 320 to $40 a suit Under the rough -looking gloves are handsome silk ones. The silk keeps the cold out and retains the heat, and, if hard up, a mountain mail carrier will buy cheap outer clothing to save money for a handsome and warm suit of silk underwear and gloves, On reaching the summit of the monntains the carrier shoulders the pole, and, placing bus snowshoes close together, begIns his deeent. The old .timers on the trails will go down the mountain with the swiftness of the wine, a mile a minute. But woe to the one tvhe is inexperienced, for out slips the guiding pole, up come snow shoes, and the unfortun- ate carrier, mail sack all, goes rolling down the mountain. Sometimes the ice and snow areas hard and smooth as glass. The car- riers of the Rocky Mountains areas expert and agile as the chamois hunters of the Alps, and the man who cannot keep his equilibrium, rushing with lightning speed down the inountain side, is hardly worth a position under 'Miele Sam for this work in mid-eon- tinent. The perilous trip brings him to some little mining camp nestled in the mountains. What a joyful greeting he receives 1 There are people there from the East, far away New England, and the sunny South. Some- times he is delayed by the storm on the range, and already the 111511 01 the camp have been searching Ter him, fearing that he had been lost or swept away by the terrible snow slide. Where is the Post Office? In the cor- ner of tiie little store or rude hotel, The villagers collect, and all are eager to learn thelatest news and read their letters. Per- chance the carrier has other points to reach. The pouch is opened and the mail poured out on the floor. The frontier Postmaster picks out what belongs to his office, and the rest is put into the poueh, to be carried still further to its destination. Swan Nilson, the Swede mail carrier of the San Jim, was lost in a snow slide Deo, 23, 1363, and was not found for nearly two years. His route was from Silverton to Ophir. Only the branet would attempt the trip through a storm. Nilson was warned against making the attempt. A terrible storm wes raging between Silverton and Ophir, and those who had been longest in the Rocky Mountains told him he could not reach Ophir in that mountain tempest. But Nilson would not listen to their warn- ings, and even 11 11 were norilous he must go It Was two days before Christmas, and his 011311 pouch WaA larger and fuller than usual. He spoke of the old Christmas time in far off Sweden and how people of every clime loved to celebrate it. He knew his mail pouch contained Christmas presents from the East, and the people of Ophir wonhl eagerly look for his coming. "It will not be Christmas at Ophir," said the carrier, "unless I gat there with this pewee" At Ophir the miners of the camp -were -waiting and longing for the appearance of the faithful letter carrier. Christmas eve came, but still Swan Nilson had not been espied on the mountain trails, where many an anxious eye had been turned. And thus, while those at Silvertrat ware anxious, tlie miners at Ophir were becoming apprehensive at the delay. Christmas 0111110 and went, and still nothing of the mail ear- rier. Searching parties tvent out on the trails, but there was nothing to be seen or heard of the lost carrier. During the summer the search was continued by one or two friends, but atill there Wat3 nothing learned of the fate of Swan. Another year rolled round, and dur- ing the sinnmer another aearch was made, and on Aug 13, 1885, at the bottom of asnow- bank the pteks and shovels of the marching pert): uncovered the body Of SWUM Eileen, and still strapped to his bock was the old pouch with Ophir Christmas mail. The look was rusty and tlle pouch had to be cut open. The WaX on the curreney package hail rotted it hole through the greenbacks. Some of the mei' was mouldy, but a pert of it could be read quite easily, Recently I was looking over the old mail ptmehes that have been seowed Rainy M the inspeepors department of the Denver Post Offiae, " Here it is," said the inspector, polling out from neer the bottom of the pile the old men pouch of Swan Nilson. A. eard had been tied on the pouch, near the old rusty lock, on which wail written the following 1 " This pouch 370.0 111 a snow•slide on the dead earner's back for twenty months, near Ophir." PUNISRING N.A GET Z BOYS, The Method Prezscertil..tijigh, e English Bente The eareful ettulent of our police 0010 1' 01101 111)11) noticed the Moms ing hohlnee s not 10 0)13' the inereasieg depatvii y, of what is called the ju \Tulle :Mender, lo: 11 Male and female, Hays the London Stattibwri. When these interetaing earleta of the criminal brigade take to bunting clown housee, pro. moth% explosions of gas, breaking street lamps, stealing steam litunehee, and coinmit- ting " robbery endow ones " on the Queen's highway, they become something more than O nuirtance, Even if they step short of dropping bricks on the roofs of railway ear. Hugo, 00 3800115155 with a revolver of heavy =Mire 111 the batik garden, they require to he suppressed with some severity. At, the sante time there is 00 kind of penisineent which needs to be more cerefully graduated than that intended for the young. A useful little bill width has just beet; introduced by the hem secretary is skilfully devised, as well for the benefit of the youthful offenders as for that of the society which they infest. It should be premised that the expression, " youthful of -feeder " in the bill means a boy or girl under sixteen years of age. The measure, so far as it affects boy offenders, is based on a KEOWLEDDE 00 3)11) GREAT LAW which a famous schoolmaster threw into the aphorism that the conscience of a lad is lodged in the cuticle of his ekin. Mr. Mat- thews proposes to approach the young of- fender's better feelings that way. In other words, he -will allow magistrates to inflict the penalty of whipping where "1003' youth - fu , l male otrander —or, to use the language of ordinary life, any very naughty boy— " shall have committed any offense punish- able by the court." There aie due safe. guards against excessive use of the rod, since the boy is not to have More than a dozen strokes if he is under twelve, or more than eighteen strokes if be ie over that age ; and the governor of the prison, or some other person having authority, is to be present to see that the warder or other minister of justice who wields the birch does not " ley it on" with superfluous energy. Also, the boy's parent may be present if he pleases. No doubt, he will usually desire to assist at the ceremony. Apart altogether from any parental emotions which may agitate Ms breast he will have a strong personal inter. est, into the affair, for the bill enacts that the court may fine him any sum nob00000'I ing and may also order hire to compen- sate the person or persons injured by the " juvenile offender," whether boy or girl, to the extent of 41, always provided the court is satisfied that there has-been " negleet or default on the part of the parent." in relation to that offender. This is 110.0INEIND AT TIM 0111113 END, both with the child and the father. The latter will have an additional inducement to look after his child himself, and his objection to that kind of youthful exttheranee which culminates in damaging other people's pro. 115013' and putting other people's lives and limbs in clanger will be intent ified when he recollects that he may be asked to contri- bute towards the expense of the frolic. Boys will be boys, but they need not be young ruffians or savages. If they show auy tend:- eney to develop that way, a dozen strokes with a tough and wiry birch rod, applied with science, are likely to act 05 1311 excellent corrective. English public school men who have been brought up in those great semin- aries from which the -birch and the cane are not yet banished know this well enough. They know that a (leggin; has a very im- pressive moral end physical effect on any high-spirited youngster, while leaving him none the worse for it permanently. And there can be no queetion that to give a sound whipping to any lad not hopelessly corrupt - d or depraved is verymuch better than to infect hun with the prison taint by sending him to gaol or to breek his spirit by keeping him for years in a reformatory. IMproVement On Railway Sandwiohee, Scene, Central Africe.—(Arrival of the eeprees train at the chief town.) Train.eispatehor to the engineer—" What demi this moan '11 don't 00013113' conductor," Engineet--"No, the first-elass pasaengera have eaten him up slime we titatted.” When you Want a hard master, work for o beggar who hail juet become rioh, TBLEGLAPHIO TICKS, -- Montana had an eerthqualte shock on Friday., Numerous buraries are reported from the The census shoWs a population in Great Britain end Ireland of 39,000,000. The jury in the case of the Utopin wreck rendered a verdict of "accidental death." The striking union sheepshearers in Queensland are resorting to desperate meas- ures. Hon. Levi C. Wade, 'president of the Mexican Central Railway Company, died at Boston on Saturday morning. The Swedish ship Senator Weber founder- ed in the recent gale off the English coast and went down with fourteen men. General Manager Seargertnt of the Grand Trunk, in an interview, points out that Sir Charles Tupper's recent statements were not correct. Near London, on Saturday evening, Wes. ly R. Warner, a London 'Township farmer, and his two daughters were killed by a Cana. dian Paelflo train. Wm. Muldoon, who was amused of smug gling Chinamen into the States, was convict ed at Utica and senteneed 001 six months imprisonmen t. western pare of Onbnrio, Shipment of Cattle. MONTREAL. MaTOII, 31—The Board of Marino Underwriters expects soon to be called to Ottawa to consult with the Gov- ernment in connection with a bill ebout to be introduced regulating the shipment of cattle front Canada. It is generally under. stood that the underwriters will recommend as a neeessary [qualification for an inspector of vessels for carrying cattle that he shall have been engaged as master for some years in transporting Cattle successfully, and that he shall have commanded in 0 line running to an American, not a Canadian, port, so that his decisioni s may be themore mpartial and he will be less likely to be influeuced by agents of any of the steamship lines trading to Montreal. Necessity Makes tui good, Friencl—" To be frank with you, I ean't me hew Mrs. Hardeash happened to consent to your marriage with hor daughter." 1VIr. Slimpurse—" She mid I was the only young man who showed my consideration for a mother's feelings. You see, when the other fellowe took hor daughter out riding they seldom gat het back until after dark, bat when I took her I always brought hor home promptly in MI 110110.'1 rriend—" Nuinph I How was thee?" Mr. Slimpurso—" The other 'fellows had their own rigs. I hired (01550. Hygienie Item, Toaeher—" So yen cannot remember the mimes of the great lakes. Can't you keep them in your head?" Johnity—"No, mtnn, if / was to keep them lakes 30 (03' head 1 nitht get water on the brain," " CoMpany is Online Bend your knees at worry's ehrine Is Intense devotion Bet the house, Iron; Feller 10 .0.1.11c, in counnotton. Caure the engine, ge1 up steam, Set lie 13111010 (3 Mourning. Mince them whirl, and wpir, and whiz' "Company le coining Raise a dud 110 53017 100111. Set the attune llylsi•, 800111 the children, rout tho eat 31 1110 Corner lying. nap those re,tlese baby bends On the window 11rt1m11111113 ; Beery window must bo clean ; " (Annually Is cOmIng Leave 110 object In the hetaai 00)1)00„nurnial, Make the very cradle look Prlie, and etite 55(1 801111111. At the oven Reorcli your DAM', Oleve the stove Jug. "looming. "Fix 00” something " Rod to eat ;" " Company is Coining. cram tite engine, keep ap steam, -Reim the whoels ; Se.rub and 83011,, and help a31156033 ; ' 00;0u503' 10 80111513. Lobar 3111 a "nervoes" pulse In your head is drumming, Tin you ache from head to Peot ; "Company 15 coming." \Viten your gueets arrive, it will Make their yr double To perceive you ve pot 301i00011 'fo a world of trouble. Then, although you feel you've done More than you wore Able, Fail not to apologize gor yOUT home and fable. This Is hoepitality,— Tnat the wheels be humming Rest and comfort banished.when " Company is coming.' Some Beeeipte. Co'rrecuiSotir.—One p111.1,01 uf good beef or mutton, two onione, tWO carrots, two ounces uf nee, one pint of whole peas, pep - pee and salt and two (plans of water; cut the meat into slices ; put one or two at the bottom of an earthen jai. or deep dish ; lay in the onions sliced ; then pat in more meat and the carrots sliced ; the peas must be well soaked, and added with the water, end salt and pepper to snit the taste ; cover the dish and put it into a hot oven for two or three hours. PoTTED FOWL AND 11A31.—Citt all the nieat from a cold fowl, and remove the bones and skin ; cut it very line; take one-quarter of a pound of lean ham and two tablespoon- fuls of butter, pepper, salt, nutmeg and a pine)) of cayenne; melt the butter, and mix all thoroughly to a smooth mass ; set aside to become thoroughly cord ; serve for tea or lintel), garnished. with slices of lemon and celery leaves. BAKED SMELTS.—WOSII ea0h one careful. ly ; whip dry end then mil well in cracker crumbs, seasoned with salt, pepper, and a little nutmeg ; place a sheet of paper in a drippleg pen ; butter it well and lay the flsh carefully upon it ; place a pice of butter upon each one, and place: the pan in a quick oven, and let the smelts become a delicate brown in color; use care that none burn ; place them in a hot dish and serve at once; garnished lemon with and parsley. RISSOLES OF COOKED FISIL—Any cooked fish will do ; remove all bones from the meat, and then pick well to pieces ; mix it well with an equal quantity of bread crumbs and a little butter ; season it with an onion chopped very fine, a little chopped parsley, sage, pepper and salt ; add to this enough beaten egg to hold it well, and make it tip into small flat cakes ; fry in hot butter f when they are done, add a, little water to the fat in the pan ; add a little flour thick. ening and a few chopped capers, pour the gravy round the rissoles and serve them very hot. ONIONS A LA Caser.e.—Boil fear or five Spanish onions in two or throe waters to re- move the strong taste, theu drain them well in a colander ; put them into a stewpan again, with two tablespoonfuls of butter, a little flour dissolved in milk ; pepper, salt and a half a cupful of cream; place all over O slow fire and stir them frequently until dons; serve with the sauce poured on them. WRITE PUDDING.—Two eggs, one pint of cream, a little ealt, thin slices of breed., one. quarter ole unlit( of raisins; beat the eggs very light ; add them to the cream, with the salt ; butter a pudding dish ; cut the bread in slices an inch thiek ; prepare the raisins carefully; out the slices of bread into small pieces, and place the bread and raisins in the dish ; mix well together, and pour the cream over the whole; bake about three- quarters of an hour ; ter ve with 33180 00000. SIR WATKINS PUDDING.—Mix one pound of bread crumbs, one pound of marrow, one pound of sugar well together ; add the grated peel of four lemons and the juice strained ; beat the whites and yolks of eight eggs separately, and add them to the other ingredients, and boil the pudding in a pail or mould eight hours ; half thequantity can be used and boiled two hours ; servo with whipped mem, flavored with wine. WINDSOR PUDDINO.—One-half pound of apples, half a pound of currants, half a pound of raisins, five eggs, half a pound of suet, half a pound of French roll, peel of one lemon, one glassful of raisin wine, hell a teaspoonful of nutmeg and a pinch of salt grata the roll Fuld add the Inlet, finely chop- ped, the nutmeg and lemon peel; stone and chop the raisins, and chop the apples also ; mix with the crumbs, adding the ourrants, wine and eggs, well beaten ; add a little salt last ;mix all the ingredients well together, and boil in a well buttered basin ; slit fine ugar ovar the pudding when it is done and urnerl out, and aerve with wine sauce. Arriec Taureee IN PASTE.—Ten or twelve large apples pool of half a lemon, whites of four eggs, ;twee entices of sugar, half a pound of puff paste; well butter the outside of a pie tin ; cover it with good puff paste; bake it a Mee brown ; when done carefully remove the dish mid fill tho crust with the apples, stewed with the lemon peel and sugar ; sift sugar over the top; beat the whites of the eggs very stiff' with auger; brown it delicately, and aerve at once. LONDOE SYLLARED.—SWOOten i pints of eharry with three ounces of loaf sugar; add mitmeg and two quarte of milk directly frorn the eow ; seri ve n glassee with frothed egg 011 top. In Clover. She—"So you are engaged to one of the Musgrave twine? How ean you distinguish one from the other 1" 11-e--" I don't try to." Whenever you meet a worthless inan you have found some one who knows a sure mire or warte. There wouldn't. be to many tired people in the world if men would stop climbing hills before they get to them. Mr, Walbridge argued for four hours be. lore the inaster itt chambers en Saturday on behalf of the motion to unseat Mayor Clarke en the ground of hie alleged interest in the eity printing contract, THE IAN WHO LED THE MR Porkers= Describes His Fart in Ore Lynohing. It Was a Painful 10114' 0111 1111 Thrust 11)0)0 tam wad 81e rOr. formed It :11' ECOIX �c 0*0 Per:Cei ly The intereat which venters 111 William 1l-3, Parkerson, the brilliant young lawyer Int% led the eitisens of New Orleans, Saturday when they took Muth a terrible vengennet (mon the Sicilian Mafia bo lynehieg 11 -Mt them, warrants a more than than ordinargy detailed description of him. Ho ia 14 3marat of age, six feet high, heavily built, has se, mapificent head, enapping black eyes on a vome as mild and gentle as a W011111G100. 10 without swagger but has a very impasse eive Manner And great natunti magustieme. He is 1011101130 of Lafayette, Louisiana. RiT, first experience in a riot was st Si. Stopliese College on the Hudsen, near Barrytowne Sea 1879, when he wits thi yeare ob1, ile rehm-- ed to sign certain college resolutions de. nouncing Wino of the Studente and enother student acted as tale -bearer. Pal:km-sow and his friends took the fellow outside awl gave him a, dumping into icesciold water. Por- t:de Parkerson and- efi others were expelled. At one time he walked from Cetskill tics Rochester, to demonstrate hie ability us se pedestrian. Sometime afterwards be gained 001110 ;re- nown as a volunteer to nurse the y entErSr fever patients in New Orleans, His power ae a leader was shown in ISM when he led the young .Democrata to ides overthrow of the ring winch bad previously held centred of affairs. Me refused to ac- cept any office. 1110 oN) N 000113 0.1.' THE LyNCHING. "1.111(1 not take the intiative " s.tici he taa an interviewer, " Mit atter IMO verdict -a des legation of respectable citizens mine to Sege me, talked about the eutrageoue veediet, and aseed me to do sotnethine T1 at ev.aving, 131) of us held a meeting anti ...iv 111101.10 ma chairman. We signed a call, which was published in the morning papers, tusking tbe. citizens to meet us at the Clay monument and we would be prepared to carry out their instructions. At the meeting Friday night. some of them wanted me to go tothe jail then, but I refused to do anything in the night. Saturday morning there MIAS A 01033(1 when I reaelied tbe monument and '1 made them a little appeoh, and from there lee started for the prison, I leading. The women were crying, the men elleerilis.: There was no disorder; the quiet determan- Rti011 of the crowd WaS TUE FlOsT TERRIBLY. Tem: I eivme same "We Stepped On the way and procured,: :theta 150 W inchesters and shot guns. had a revolver and a Winchester. Lem DaVIS - refused to give up the.jail keys, and 1 sent for some gunpowder to blow up the door, but before it arrived the side door had been forced. I placed guards at this door to - admit only certain persons and told the crowd to be orderly, the crowd was 10111)105-. el of lawyers, doctors, bankers and prom. 1110111 citizens generally. They obeyed me .. like a military officer. "1 only saw six men shot. The others: were killed 1105 distant part of the prison,.. The prisoners didn't make any noise except Polite, who had to be handcuffed before they could tale him out and hang hint I clidin't fire a shot. Of course it is not a courageous thing to attauk a men evho is not armeil,,, but we looked upon these men as So MANY 0.1IPTTLEs. " Why, after the verdict was rendered Friday the Italian fruit and oyster schoone ers along the wharves raised the Sicilia'r. flag over the Stars and Stripes and the pris- oners themselves held a champagne suppers. " After the execution the crowd cheered and carried me away on their shoulders. Z. was not filled with exultation. I regretted that so painful a duty bad been forced upon me. The whole thing didn't lasymore than 25 minutes. Ido not regret wbet I have done, except that the necessity erese anti the duty was forced upon..me. This we:snob O violation of the law. It was all emergeney„ greater than ever come to New York, Cine einnnati or Chicago. I recognize. SO POWER ABOVE 3118 0000010. Under our constitution the people are the sovereign authority, and when the courts, their agents, fail to carry out the law, the authority is relegated back to the people in this ease I kink upon it. who gave it. that we represented the people—not the people of the whole United States, perhaps, but the people of Louisiana. " No, I don't think my example will err. courage mob law. The emergency was ant extraordinary one. We eouldn t wait to have the laws against jury -packing revised.. If a man spits in your face, or slaps yonr- face, do you sit down aud wait for the law to redress your grievence? It is not in, human nature to clo it. It isn't 10 103' nature„, or yours, or in that of any good eitizen. The,. theory ebout turning the ootIll,u ierbeltiewehkehih whene one is smitten is all very w cheek is mitten the blood boils. "3 am not taking any measures to quell. 1 fresh dieorder. There will be eo Everything is quiet. The good people tain behind us. I don't consider that 1 ain con. trolling the town. Mayor Shakespeare is in control, and is well able to administer the law. I don't apprehend any trouble myself, except from the Federal authorities, It is true, they say, these men were the sub. jecte of foreign potentates. But I ender - stood that they were just dmnped here, anal that their own governments wore glad enongli, to get rid of them." The Swiftest Birds. There seems to be no :doubt that the Frigate -bird, an inhabitant of the tropical seas, is the swiftest bird that flies. It halt been found impossible to calculate its rate of flight, because of the difficulty Of con- fining the flight within fixed limits. The, peotoral muscles are immensely developelt and weigh nearly one.fourith as much as th0 whole body of the bird. Its flight is re. markably silent, and the whirr of its wings is scarcely ever heard. As an instance ofi its wondrous powers of flight when it hie forced a fishing,bird to yield up its prey, 18 the fish °hence to be awkwardly caught me its beak, it will fearlessly fling it into the, and darting after, grasp it again and egain until it gets the mouthful in a eon. venient position for being gulped down tba OW11 throat Another rapid flyer is tho Common Black Swift, It has been computed that dm greatest speed it attains is about 276 rei1es1 an hour. The American Canvas.back Duck 30come monly supposed to be eapable of ,flyieg 200 miles within the hour. The flight of the common swallow is ribeat 00 miles an hour, and 10 carrier•pigeon Last been known to travel 23 Irish miles:in eleven,. minutes, or at the rete of 125e 801100 01) how. The flight of an eagle has been ascertainedi to bo hale abort oI130 Miles 111 110110',