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The Brussels Post, 1891-6-26, Page 7;NNE 20, 1891. THE BRUSSELS POST. 7 BETWEEN TWO FIRES, An Alb/entire on the .Pleine, 7.1atIlling Slots of the ftvrplan trseite " 'The spring's choked up with st clues, Cap, and itS11 take a goal hone to (dem it ont," 'Tom (tread/nen, as he came book to the wegons with Ine empty thickets, Tont made this reinaset in a careless kind of way, ati if the matter wee of on sonsequence, be- yond entailing a little ex tre labor ; bet the words were hard/y ont of hie fnouth when the leader of the expeditiou, faulfftle over- land guide, know» rtS " Captain " Bill Somers, sprang to his feet, and, by a signte. cant gesture, eignalled all the MUD to close in around him, Then he quietly said ; " Boys, this is the thirteenth trip I've made long Obi trail and it's the fust tfine I ever seen Itilythite wrong with the epring. Corral the wagons quick as you kin and put tal tho critters inside ; but don't le' go yer rifltss fee a mink. Thar's 'Jiffies 'bout, sure they'ee Fot a trap to ketch us while we're molariffi out the rub- bish to git at the water. Tbar's 3101V UV 'eni hid eoniewhars on the side no the pass 110W 11, watching nv us, an' we'll hey ter be nil lay keerfur ter save oer Im'a It's a, new dot ge ter me, but I know who tInne it, an what they done it fur, just's well's if I'd seen 'atm" t watt a terribly hot day in the middle o July. NVe had already travelled fifteen milea that 'morning, and now, e bout noon, were preparing to rest for a few hours in a sort of amphitheatre in the Apache Pass, a deep gorge which cnts throngh the Clarice. letn Mountains, and at that time the only enlist between the Rio Grande and Fort eurna. Oar p trey consisted of twenty-five yelldwinett men, with en outfit of six wagons and a full complement of horses ant mules. When we remelted the campin-g grounds In e vieinity of a lit tle epring, w111011 trickiest tut from a tiny opening in the rocks, and tienally shed ite weters into s, smell Mealier basin, the overflow irom wills!' 01, (Mee dis- appeneed in a subterranean ereviee, tnen and cattle were alike suffering from thh.st ; tunl, while the latter were being unhitched, Tom Grayburn had run off with a couple of buckets to get an immediate supply of water for the former ; bet had found piled into ant' high above the basin a huge eaien of stones, through which the prertioue fluid oozed in such a way as to be for the moment unarail. able. Whether the hmking savages, if such there were, might he armed wi:h rifles, or merely with bows and arrows, we did not as yet know ; bet tve did keen, that water Must be epeedily obtained at whatever seek, and the Captain made his mrangernents' accord- ingly. Leaving five Men inside the hollow square formed by the wagons, with strict ("Mere to fire upon " any show of a Injun," the re• maimug twenty, of whom he was one, divided thereseives into two squads of ten Mel], one Irdf cerryieg buffitets and their owe and comp:miens' rifles, am] the other one teibboard aod ene sidtapiece from each of the wagOns the outer fa Ce th'e defences being left undieturbed. The whole party 1 hen moved off v; the sprieg, it; e narrower part of the ones ebont '200 ytoels way, and the heavy boards were set edgewise on the ground and propped up by Ftonee. Behind this barrier, quite strong enough to stop arrows, tool faeiug that side of the pass whem looee boulder* and broken rook appeared likely to afford good cover to an enemy, fifteen of us lay dawn, while the other five won to work on the stones. On the opposite side of the ecelivity in rear of the flfteen men, but immediately above those working at the spriug, the sue. face for some distance eaell way looked per. feetly smooth and free from any available hiding places ; hence it sem pot thought necessazy to watch this part of the gorge at all. The mass of rough etones built up over the spring's basin, and weighing 10 the am.' gregate many tons, were by the united ex• ertions of the five men being raritlly pi thhed off into the form of a rude wall behind the' recumbent gnords and in front of themselves, 1 and finally- hail all beer, removed except one heavy half -round boulder tyllich fitted closely into the basin itself, so closely thet whet), our fellowe stooped around it for a simulteneous lift they found Benet room for the insertion cd their fingers eking its edge. Capt. Somers was one of rear quintet, anti when etch man lad got a good hold he called out cheerily in ohl•thee barn•raising fashion ; "Now, boys, all together ; heave, 0, hol"--and the great stone slowly rose almoet high enough to be toppled over the brim. But suddenly ell hands let go, and it slipped back with e. loud splash ; for et this critical moment when the eager toilers could almost feel the water ot their parched hps, a flight of fully fifty arrows hurtled through the air froth the en -watched ehle, and fell thiatly among both parties. Neatly every man had his clothi»g pierced, and one or two were slightly ocratehed, bet Ilene seriously bort, antl the missles had barely elighted when the Cap- tain yelled out: " lstyer, boys: leaver ' In. 1 stantly the fifteen nien behind the boaaele noted about and rolled over and over until close ender the lee of the opportunely formed wall, and the five serambled over it ' to the sense side in deoidedly Undignified haste, !Then all peered cautiously through the (thinks of its jegged top, expecting to sees bend of Warri0111 on the slopee above. But not it, foe WM visible. 'late lace of tho mountein looked as smooth and devoid of life as before, and even the veteran guide WaS pnweled, though only for a space sun. dent to enable him to take One long, search. ing scrutiny. Then he chuottled enftly, end seed "Boys, jest look keeefully at that black streets, 'bout eighty yards up. Ther'a mob tercharge on es, I rookie, tt'e'll jot, till the empty beekete agin' an' the same live on well tote the hull tea ter the fellers at the wegins, then give the dumb oritturs a, stip all round, en' cum back fut. more ; but don't pin let nary e red git :salience to draw a error." " Never you foist Cep," replied Abe Wil. Hams, one ef the best shots ill the orowil ; " if one of the alt units ehowe a half inch of Iiis hide I 1 "—and gelds 08 lightning hs threw his rifle up and fired ; for met then a, warrior, mom mime than wise, lied thrust hie painted visage oat, beyond is comer of rock, on the rongli side of the gulch, and on the report of Abel; gun he fell forwmd into plain sight stone dead. " Wall, Abe, this 's gittiffi kind ey interestine" epprovingly observed Capt. Bill, " hut wo must begot') ; them boys in canffill be 'bout dried up. Look sharp an' you'll gip 'nuttier red (la -eel -s- ly, for they'll try ter pull that dead Imes inter kiver agin.". The reader will appreciate the gravity of our situation by bearing in mind that, al. though we had a fairly good breastavork against our enemy's fire from any ono side of the pass, yet, when both sides at once wore occupied by hoetiles, We were pectic. deefencelees, as, whether we crouched be- hind tho north shelter or the south, or both, We Wore thlways exposed in the rear. Hence our ouly ;safety lay in e vigilance so mimes- ing that theperfectly concealed Indians dare not break cover in order to shoot. We kneW noW that at least one hundred A,paches were ambushed against LIR, but as each one oi ue erteried a sixteen-ehooter, with any quantity of cartridges in referee, tee could easily !seep even five times thet emnber, so situated, from firing a shot clueing daylight, unless, indeed, they should prove itiore reek. loss of life than Indians generally are. One anxiety was not so much in regard to itn• mediate peril as to what might Iteppen when We moved on, for the momeut we ceased to cover the lurking rascals and resettled our journey they would emerge frorn their hid. mg places, end, by ;wive known only to themselves, get agnin in tolvance and prob- ably make a betel' planned attack at some point where seccessful defence would be impossible, It seemed, therefore, absolute- ly necessary that sve should end the fight where we than were, But how ? We were too well acquainted with Indian teethes to hope that they wOuld eharge upon tts in the open fleld, and thereby lose, perhaps, one- half their number, and for us to divide our form and charge upon them, entrenched es they were, would heve been certain death to every men of us. Meantime eeven of no lay with rifles bearing on one sicle of the pass and eight on the other. The Cap. tain and his four men had safely made no less than five trips to and from the spring : all the stook had been sup- plied almealently with water, every vessel in camp left, full, and the Captan directed us to move down to the wagons, gee dinner, and then he would decide upon our further action. But the enemy had not yet erhausted all his resources, for, even as we talked, a number of arrows fell among us from sky• ward, one of which stuck into the left shoulder of John Burrows, and remained there, ahr.ost upright, quivering 01 the wound. Instantly we realized that the astute redskins were shooting into the air front their safe cover with the intent that their stoats should drop upon es ! This new danger, deadly as unforseen, was one from whit; h we multi escape only by immediate flight. No one dared to look up, and we made a daeli for tho °oriel, and were quick. ly nut of bowshot. We believed there was no fear of the Indians attacking us here at present, and, while dinner WaS making reedy, Capt. Bill, who was quite a sergeon in Ins way, out the barbed arrow head from the shoulder of Burrows, leaving a painful. but not at all dangerous wound, Although we were now thirty beyond the renal) of meows from either of the Apaches' hiding places, both of these were still (mite within the effective powers of our longmange rifles, and we took especial care that not a man shonld show himself tvith impunity so long ae we meld see to shoot. 'Twice SOM0 of the band on the north side of the pass ventured out of covee, but each time ono of their warrior); fell to our flee, mid they did not thy the experiment again. Wo ate, turn and turn about, in parties of five—twenty men being always on guard—and dinner was therefore some time in progress The last squad wore just Outshine' when WO heard at some distance along Om pass the molar, rapid hoofbeats of a horse evi- deetly ridden at full speed. " Glory hellelujah Boys, wffiee saved !" shouted the Captain. "Theta( the pony ex- press 1" and he darted out to the sale of the trail, 0.11, around the big bomb and into ftill view cerne the rider, e weezeneddooking little fellow, who sat his steaming bronco as if rt, part of the aubmil itself ; and. even while, meteor -like, lie Dashed by, the guide yelled : t• Send word along tee first post that Bill aomer s outfit s stuck up here by a hundred Amtches 1" `The horseman, whether man or boy 'twas herd to say, never drew rein, but waved his hand in instant, com- prehension, end, with a whoop and hurrah, was ought of sight Mutest berme we could believe that WO 1100 once more seen that es - markable product of old-time American on. uprise, the lightning meal ommee of the great plains. " Now, boys, resumed Bill, 'Maze poet's but, fifty miles offan' of I know onythin' Cap Clark and his cavalry 11 be long Isere lame fur breakfast in the inornine an' LI1011 We'll see a °haus, I reckin. ' So the long afternoon wore away ; not an enemy Wes to be seen ; end, looking epee the apparently bare slopes, it seemed itn• possible that within 300 yards lay a host of cruel sevages, thirsting for blood and booty. The moonless night came down at last, calm and clear, yet, beneath the mountate ehadows, intensely dark, and every possible precaution was taken to gutted against ewe wise ; for the Apaches form an exeeplatin to he almost invarimble Indies) rule of not att- acking in the night, and if these fellows— our to our olio in number—could menage to 1 a cross OrOVICS3 runnin"heig thar suro's you t live, all' them sarpi»to is in it, a•laughin' at t ts. Bnt we must hey water, boye, an' we must git sum Ler tho wa.gies. lam t ninth while reskild no lives tatryild ter rent oue the red devils, seenird as hoe, they've got the bulge On OS ; an' they 31185001lb sbow one of theie heeds now. You jest kiver the spot with your rifles, el topnot bobs up prtt a ball through it ; an' me nal' four more'll nit out thet stun," The brave fellotv, with sneak up mit once get among us wieh their tonuthawks and knives WO WOlild orteinly fare bedly. The whole night, hnwever, passed Wiljnntt an alitem of esty kind, and the first faille eta/al:sot coining Were rising in tho Eastern sky when the old guide gently arousecl the division then sleeping, and fits former comrades, now again erossed the el low wall, and, bonding over the boulder, I jerked it out at ono Motiore but even as it t rolled over, muother half hundred (terms p whistled through our kneeling ranitH—and 1 this time, ltom the , sick; whence we luol first expected them, on which wo y lately kept no watch. The savages had out. t Witted us aim enoegh, 11,11,1 110W had 118 be.• twain two fires ; but the (Esteem was too a groat for motnette bow practice, and neither g this volley was any one hurt. The Clasp. foin's party, though taken oompletely by A. suepriee, coolly filled their tin betokens and a broeght thom in, awl we drank, ono by ono, while tho others stettetted both sides of the a pass. Then tho old guide enively said 4, " TM) rods haa got ns in a, rattier comical fix 8 dile thigh boys, bet, they mune, hurt us a I; mite, 's thoy classiest show theireelvets s tor shoot, en' they treow a blamed sight ton ft sul 1 a on want ter be all altve now, mys. 'Them mules have been peickird up her ottn fur tho lest helf hoer, tsn' the Getty rod varmints ain't ler off, yon bet 1 'his ero's the limo tiles/meet 0,11.00 pitch in, it' wo beta be ready fur a rush," '1110 aWning 111011 elilnbed out of the Wegerte and Oak their planee on guard, but hod lewdly ot wide awake W11011 a perfect, ;storm of !TOWS flew over our head, and up from the round, in olio still deep gloom, rose a werni of lediatie, nem, with the hideous paohe warwhoop, charged. upon us from 11 sides et onee, As tho howling demone rushed tonoted same or more of each OtiC of tho four sides tho square, the Captain, now full of a trangely joyous lifo and energy, gavo his matoned orders as cooly as if engaged in 1 onto pleasant pestune, "It'e too dark yit tr good ehootine boys," he said " don't, v fire till you kin eme thee ugly mugs, an' then ehoot only onet all '1 ound, likely cheek up a little en' move oft' with their killed nalr wounded, an' come oh anin (Freckly, while they think we're loaclite up ef they do—wall, we'll 'sprits* 'ern fame ! But jest take notice, ef they met git beside none no ne'll ever Bee Californy." All hands were 11014 steady tts rocks ; a reaseuring murmur ran amend the ;square end when the leaping red devile were with. in ten yards six shots rang out front exell one of three sides end Revell from its fourth, the jots of vivid flame illuminating for a memo t the horrible painted visages with a lurid light, Had it not been still quite dark ess the bottom of this deep 011,11011 every bullet would doubtless have told, notwithstanding the wild contortions of the enemy, retitle purposely to distract our abet ; but, as it was, only eight fell in ail, and these, es Semen hest predieted, were instantly snatched away by their companions, the whole body retreatin , behind the bend to L ID weet. As we loo ud (us a speedily re- newed charge not a man of ne inoved from Ins post ; but minute tater minute passed without further hostile demonstratim, and when the teeing sun hest tipped the moun- tain top with gold the Captain Inueingly sald : " boys, thists mrione. Them reds is too quiet ter be hulleum. They're aluttchin' eem neW deviltry sure guess Wo 11,011't git brekfust jest tot," A fell half hour more went by in obsolete silence, mid but for tile seggestiye erimsou plahses on the ground about us and a few arrows stieking in the waggon tops one might well have fancied the lath assault but the phantasm.. goria of a troubled dream. It was now broad daylight, and most of us were inclined to think that the Apaches had gone °tear off to form, perhaps, another am. buscade Nether along 1 IL the pass. 801110 one 11 ed just proposed taking breakfast when one of the inen touched our leader, and, pointing tvith his finger to a lofty pinnacle of rock abont 500 yard.s distant, said ; "Cap, what's that up there ? It looks reirthty like a live Indian.' The Captain drew a smell field glass from his pocket and gazed long end earnestly at the motionless figure outlined against the sky. Then he replied : " Yer right, it ein't nuthin' else. The varmints hasdnispicionecl that the pony expressmight gin a alarm, en' thev've steck that getoot up Oar ter watch the trail. He kin see off ter the east fur good six miles. We mnst gib hint out mv that." And without mother word Bill laid himself clown on the ground, rested his rifle's muzzle on one of the spokes of a wagon wheel, raised the back sight for the esti- mated distance, and, ts-hile We all gazed in breathless suspense fired. It witS fearfully long uffiffill shot, at what looked more like a nureow fragment of rock than a man, but the old plainsman's nerves were of steel, his ealculetion of space correct, and his aim tree. It seemed to us nearly a minute (it really was about remand a quarter seconds) after the rifie cracked when the solitary sentinel sprang high in the air and pitched headlong down the mountain side, shot, as we afteeward found, sgeerely through the eentreof hisbody, Butother eyes than ones heal seen hiln end our ire& pressible shout of triumph Wes answered by yells of demoniacal fury, as clown aronnd the bend swept ninety or a hundred werrioris all now mounted 011 their previously conceal- ed ponies, who, changing their ragIng cry to the regular war whoop, clashed toward us until within '200 yards, when they broke up into sniall squads and circled swiftly around the corral at es great a distance as the ffirotonseribed area would permit. While the well•trained ponies, with meny an creates: leap and bound, skurried around the little plain, their riders threw themselves along their off sides, and there clung, leaving only part of a leg and erm of each exposed, and yet even in thispositeon, they managed to perform the seenungly Lepossible feat of keeping up a constant discharge of arrows. Captain 13111 Somers aothally looked ten years younger, am the battledight rose to his thee, end he gaily shouted : " Now's yer time, boys 1 Bore right through the cayu- ses, an' you'll get a red, too, icasionally." So far, ill the present flight, none of our men hest been hurt, while, despite their ceaseless motion, several of the ponies had Men ; and not always had the riders es- caped. Those who clid so made bulwarks of them horses' bodies, and still kept up a desultory fire. Seeing that we were suffering no damage, the Indians now agt.tin resorted to vertical shooting, end speedily drove es, its they intended to do, under the Nvngons for she]. ter ; but a nemler of the horses and mules wore ttuickly wounded by the falling meows, and began to "lunge and kick in a perfect panic of pain and fright: ; so thet, between watching them and keeping up our repelling lire, one attentioe 'MIS fully occupied. " This'll lever do, C'ap, ' said Abe Will- iams ; " we might es well go under ourselves es to lose the stook. IVe ve got to charge out mid drive the murdering villaine clear off." , "Nary charge, Abe," calmly replied Sem ors : " that jest what they re a tiedn' te 000,X. es inter. . We kin niford to lose half the meth better's; one 18011 ; an' of we war fools 'buff ter charge on 'ma 1101y they'dwipe °tie every mother's son of tie, You may Degia ter petits) teed in dead. earnest now, boys, an' I reckon fifteen minits'll finisb the fight" I may thy that up to this thne our mode of firing bad been such ae to give the enemy no idee that WO serried repeating rifles. We had not fired more than fifty eliots all, and each co Man 17 apt his magazine oonstanOti fell of 1 el cartridges, and his belt revolvers always in st, reserve, Now we prepaned to deliver a ontineous, rapid fusillade, bet, had dis- charged only ono volley, when, to our amasemerne thweflying wisp of arrows rat. tied in among the wagon wheels, and two men heal each a leg pierced, learctunvented, by thunder l'' cried the Captain, at last excited, "Up to yet, feet, boys I Look thar I" and Ile pointed to the West end of the enclosure. Thongh hardly believing rem eyes, we then SOW that a hitherto unknown reserve of thirty or more "miffing, taking estventage of one preoceepe. tion, 11,111 actually crawled along the surfaee ofthe nal; v,1 ground, from the merest uover, (St aed 'Were nOW no more than sixty yards ar away. If they had not rashly fired just ss when they did 110 alto 01 our number would have lived to tell (hotel°, .1m soon ;as they hnsl thus betrayed themselves, all sprang up, end with uplifted tomahawks end brandished searelubs resit tel furiously upon °or defences. But sharp, sharp mid clear, ratio out the Captain's mommatel " Ten men wipe out them a nomm' makee, atd the balance piteh sto ham Votherlot 1" The enemy, horse and foot na alike, believing thatat thie moniontourgens TI wore empty, dashed forward 00 fdl DidOS and eVen in the midst of our deadly peril v we ahnosit 'mother' Mood to note their heti. eet mous surprise as volley eller volley WM er MIMI int° their ranks as fast ae we could 1;1(1, hinulle the let erfl of (ler gnus, Many had fellen before they got within sh twenty yartle, and yet, aSt0111.9110d RS they ri.; wore, they teemed to think OM our lite oe nest quickly give ant, and they atilt came do on, drunken with rage und thirsting for re. th th mate Now they were close, cloee up, not more than Wen ty•fi ve feot away I We eould not, tio preponderating were their numbers, kill them fast enough, and 14 begen to look as if they would swarm over and under the wag- gons, and yet, three cm lone to one, get our scalps awl capture the whole outfit. The sometime 'tweeted party had turned their pollee loose, veil all the sevagee were now on foot, as, pushing und joetling one another, each strove to remelt the rich prize first. A dark canopy of sulphnrous smoke Ining low overhead, end the fiercer tongues of flame, erushieg rifle shots, and fiendlike yells, which rent its mombre depths, lent to the scene a horror hicleons as that of a demoe battlefield. All this, which has taken so Jong to tell, ocenpied lint, it minute or two in the doing 1 and 110W the maiming redskins had actually reached the beerier, and in another moment would have been naming us 1 but suddenly every arm was arrested, every tonathawit stayed In midair, and, with howle of bellied rage, the themes Wetted to flee. loo late ! For, thundering ep from the mist, the fifty fonstacovered horses and wildly•elieerieg troopers of Clarles cavalry were upon therm trampieg, slashing, and cutting down their paint...Is:grimed fortes like to) many nox• sous weeds, and from that charge, re-enforeed by our tire, not more than forty out of the nearly one hundred still surviving warrior) eseeped into the inoentatit fastness, leaving all their ponies. Four of the troopers were elightly wound. ed in the melee, but eot in the least dis. abler] ; erel their Ceptain told tie that he had first heard our fit -Me when three miles away, and lied oome thense at fall gallop, aerie. ing just in the nick of dine to save us from almost certain death, and also in time to partake with us and his bravo men of the best breakfast our abundant, stores could supply, We resumed one journey thet same day, but so complete and crushing had been the defeat of the Apaches that in due time we reached Fort Yuma, without further melee. tation. Rassia and the Jews. 111.18810's cruel treatment of the Jews still continues and waxes fiercer 1th the weeks and months ran by and the remonstrances of righteously indignant Christian societies and communities flli the air. Hardly a day passes that some new atrocity and barbar- ous cruelty is not reported as having been perpetrated ripen these helpless children of Abraluta, robbing them of their earthly goods, driving them with whips from then dwellings, dragging them out of their beds at night, loading them svith chains, plying ing them from comfort. into the deepest tnisery, sebjeating WOmen, young girls and children to the most hordble outrages that it is possible to conceive, Among the latest barbarities reported is the praettee of kid. napping Jewish babies and telling them for bait to Egyptian crocodile limiters. One, who has lately travelled through son them Russia testifies thet hundtteds of babies are thin from their mothers for this purpose. The baby is placed on the hank of the river and when the urocodile, attracted by the tempting morsel, apprortohes he is fired upon by the hunter, generelly with fatal results. Not unfrequently however the first ball fails to kill and before the ferocious beast can be prevented the babe is actually seized and devoured. In this manner many babies lose their liyee. It is safe to say that history falls to furnish anything more exquisitely cruel and heartless. To account for these terrible persecutions various explanations are given. One is that the Czar, heving become convinced that the Jews are inveterate fomenters of insurrec. tion, bei»g as he declares mixed ep with every Nihilist. plot Mutt has yet been un- earthed, he is determined to rid his empire of their hittefal and dangerous presence. Another attributes them to religioes zeal. Says the London correspondent of the New York 'Pribitne "It 18 110W admitted or as- serted to be religious persecution. The Jews are banished because they are not Greeks. Whoever in Russia, be a jew or Gentile, is not of the Orthodox faith is anathema. He may be tolerated, but only. tolerated, An American in Russia has no rights whim Rus• ffia feels bound to respect. The Government of Russia is a hiethrohy more intolerant than the Papacy itself, perhap.s because it has inore power. The grand inquisitor of Russia is M. Pobieclontstzelf, Procnrator of the Holy Synod. He hes just drawn up an ordinance forbidding Jews to observe the Hebrew Sabbath, forbidding them to close their shops on Saturday, commmoling them to case on Sunday, end coffipelling nal J to work on Saturdays in violation of their faith mul conscionee." This correspondent does not think that any practical good would result from f ol lowing Mr. Gladstone's advice, that evidence he collected and laid before the world in an ituthentio form, that thus a body of public opinion might be created end brought to bear on Russia, " The public opinion," he says, " already exists, and Russien incliffeeence to it is displayed with ostentation. Bessie, in truth, inmates her Lereeention of the Jews with the 'nest pee- d contempt for the opinion of the civilized world. She is an Oriental powet, not a, European power, and her barberities to 5,000,000 of hee subjeats are worthy of the inost ferocious and fanatical class In Cell. teal Asia," Leat 0 Se of Oxen as Beasts of Burden in England: The employment of oxen in lenglemil as draeglit beasts in publio veldt:Its seas dies Minima during the latter half of the ghteenth century, Arthur Young in I 7173 tv many oxen in use between lark and Beverley ; every weggon loul two oxen and two horses ; the people said that oxen wore much the best, except for tillage, In 700 there WU not perhaps a single ox elm ployed in tillage, but upon the road, in farm mitring°, they were still la an, tho timber carriers preferring them to horses, 'Before this date, however, many people of quality . were often drown about, in their emelt by six oxen from sheer necessity, the roads often being impassable for horses. Oxen are 0011 used as beasts of burden on mealy of the farms, stod 011 tho Continent slim ore so, One of the most popular pictures Rom Barnette, the offiebreted French tha, is a. load of oharoortl dawn by two en. • European despatches state that the . tide of onforeed Jewish migration from Ruesie is flowing in the directiou of America. The exilempaas theetigh Germaay, but the Berlin pollee will not allow thew to enter the emptied, With few exceptions t hey are (hoot money, and wherever they go the lebotete looks ettspiciouely mem them. lie is the ease in :England 11.4 well ns Ger. tny. II, cannot fell to be the same iit New nris and other labor mai•kets of the United Mos, Ie ii; ono of the peculiar features of nutty their expulsion from Reseal. that ese poor people, owe beyond the Pelagian rder, seems to lasts umeh of the symp Ithy twered upon them oval- tho head of the ot They are poor, very poor, and neonlic miestions when brought) unmet. Or0 are generally found !Imre interesting OM Sent 11110111AI ones. Sontimeet is good leg et long range, IlEALTII. Home Treatmect for Ooniroon Aohnen tronbled with keadaehe, try the shell applieation of hot teeter to the le end bad( the nook. ARthille, May be greatly relieved by Foe ing blotting Or flexile paper in strong itel ipitriti water ; dry it, then blirll IL at eight i chilblaine : One mince of etimphor glue, fo 11aai atuseeemf ediee ail. Diaaalcc togc1 11 by a gentle heat, and apply to the aliliete the eleepineeroom. The following is a, splendid linimene f For smut, take powdered reein, pound very fine, and spreed or eift it over the cat weep a pleee of at,ft hrica artapal it, on prevent, inflammation and 00111,3101. W0t it, (add water, quite Often. MR WI If a 11010011 hat. been aveidentally swellot et , teetentey drink a pltit, Of 01.drIll Water i Which hoe been Stirred a tempeonful of ha anti oue or two of mustard. A half gthers sweet oil wilf render malty peisone ltarrnies There are many simple ,ind effective dash lecterns, muong whiela are : coffee /mends and burned on en iron plere, moat- berne on hot coals, vinegar boiled with myrrh 11,11, Sprinkled 011 the floor Mel Ituniture of slek•room. For severe hemorrhage hate the nose, te holding the arms of the pattern ep over bead for five minutes at a time. A 0nial piece of ice wrapped in muslin mid lai directly over the top of the nose, will tweet! give relief A very geed shampoo is made of salts 0 tartar, Winte CaStile soap, 1st -rum find lake warm water. The ealts will remove tl dandruff, the 001111 will seften and cleat; 1 1; hair thoroughly, \riffle the bay rtini will prevent taking eOld. A simple remedy for neeralgia is to apply grated horse -radish to the temple, when the face or bead Is affected, or to the wren, when the pale is in the arm or shoulder, Prepare the horsedadish in the enane 111/(11. nOr aS for tattle use. Foe soft corns, dip a piece of lizten cloth in turpentine, and wrap it around thetoe on whieh the corn is si .uateil, every night and teething. It will prove an immediate relief to the pain or soreness, and the 0011i will disappeer after e few days. An excellent cough mixture is composed of the following ; One pound of figil tchopp eil fine), one pound of loaf sugar, (me pint of Jamaica rum poured over the tigs and sugar. Let it mond twelve hems, than strain and bottle. A teaspoonful evert hour or ewe. to 1 - et k - t. or ur er it 11 Latest From Europe Russian Perseoutfon the e.cvs--The Omnibus Strike in Loildon at au End , —The Heroic Mrs. Grimwooci, Some eresb light appears on the Russian pereecution of the Jews, The Emperor's real aim is 110W said to be to drive them all batik within the pale ; that ie, those die- triets where Icing since Itlitadall delve were ordered to eoneentratb. Thom outside are outside by permission. NOW the permission is cancelled, 'The dietriete whither they are teetered will not support therm If million re-enter, another half million meet find their way abroad. There is howevert 1038 fear of a general exodus :tie. Arnold White, Baron Ifirsch's agent, telegraphs to ; Lord Rothschild, that there us no tegn Y' f emigration in a body to Eegland, Perhaps not ; but neither ts there any sign of any re- laxation of Russian intolerance tont cruelty. of 0. London has discevered with Setonialtinceit that it gets on fairly well without tramibuses. :Doctors assure the public that their absence is a. positive boon to the population. More men walk, and walking does them good. The 11018e of London has sensibly ithatede and there has beet, what physiologists call a period of nerve rest extremely beneficial to Y 1 overetrained systems. The roar wffich filled 1 the air is seen to be due (thirdly to the thue. tiering of thounanits of these huge vehicles over the macadamized streets. Even the 'When you ieel the pricking pain on the eyelid, that announces the coming of a sty, (tee as an application very strong Meek tea, or simply the tea leavee, moistened with a. little water, put in a small bag of muslin and laid over the eyelid Moisten email aS it dries. This, if teed before the sty gets well under way, will generally chive it aWay. A tee, made by peering boiline water over sweet flag•root will relieve worm sick- en:1130,in children, and is also good for Dr. Edward Clarke states that he hashed good results in persiseent dandruff from the following treatment; The scalp should first be thoroughly washed with soap and hot water, and then thoroughly deed with a warin and soft cloth. 'I here should then be rubbed ieto the scalp a glycerine of tanoin, of the strength of ten to thirty grains to the ounce. Very obstinate cases will require the higher strength of tannin. This process shoald be repeated twice a week at first, once it week afterward. If tannin fails, as it, will hi some cases, then resort is had to resorcin. After the for• motion of dandruff has ceased the hem 1 shoeld be rubbed daily with olive oil containing to the ounce ten gains of carbolic: acid and a dram of oil of cinnamon. NerVOus headaehe is perhaps, the met difficult of all to describe or to treat, bine- 11111111 as it is not a. disease but a symptotn, the cause of which may be in some remote pert of the systeill. One for111 of nervous headache, whieh is numistakehle, though not always understood as such, consists of a (lull, grinding pain at the back of the head near the Mee of the bathe where the nerves f the spinal chord enlarge and rantify for tole formation of the Main. Pain in this locality, frequently extending dew» the neck, Is n, sure indicatioe of impaired nery- oes action, end should be treated mecord• ingly. lu another direction, nervous trouble produces a N'iolent headache—that is from the medium of the stoinavh. With many people any deep or sudden emotion, such as grief, fear or even joy, mity partially os entirely ffitsalyze the action of the stow:tell •, there is an utter absence of appetite, and the serious headache whith reelllts is SiMply the indication or the trouble. When it is removed, and the stomach resumes its am onstomed action, the head will disappear. In the springtime of the year OBIT is great omission for care in the matter of food. In cold tveather the Monte system can essimi• late materiels that tyould clog and derange it in the spying. There is no need of drugs to make people feel well, when the thinge which have remained dormant in the ground begin to show signs of life. A judieions change of cliet is required •, that is ttll. It it better to take the materials for heeeth from the grouse than feom the druggist. Begin the morning meal with an extra allowance of fruit. Take two sound oranges or apples if you have been eating only one, or three if yea have been eating two. Ile sure there is no ;luny in the fruit employed in this 111 1111101% Eat good bread and butter. If you are a, coffee or tea drinker, mederate the us. 'nal allowance, If you are hot water drink. or, take as much ateyou like, if you aro a flesh eater tette heti as much as you ao in the wititee. Eat less butter and greese of all kinds in spring. 'There is the utmost tieed fee the exercise of thation in the use of vegetables cf every kind. Unless they have been well peosomed and have a wholesome flavor the part of wisdom is to avoid them. In spAng it is important that the heaviest meal should be eaten in the middle of the atty. The warm nuns pi -ornate an manes. pheric condition which causes drowsiness, Eating a heerty meet in the malet of this preseure adds to the tveight upon the sp. tem. In tleylight the dentaels of basiness ()le duty will enable you to ;tope with it. In t evening there ie 110 such etimulue, and the result is injury to health. The evening 1;eal shoilla 110 light and eetily digested. on't eat buteswheat cakes or donglinuts, ttnfeat has ham broiled ,,r roe:steel. Don't you aro *meat eater, be Snre that the eat Mee food or any kilt.1, ia not degirable to feel that you have eaten onoegla Melee alien is the beet ;bettor. Dicin't Know When to Stop, " Pet, were yens in the ever ?" " laule an' Oi Wag, tort" tt 1)1,1 you light 011 the Itst armed expired?"' " 01 did that mem 011' a long wholly ether intil the bargan."—Y, .11:1e107/. foo FShopkeepers of the 1S est End, who thought, Oust they were going to be ruined, are not ruined, The great majority of their custom- ers used to be tirought to them by the omi- t buses. The ronnibusea bring them no long- er but the shops of Oxford tet„ Regent St. an'd the rest are as crowded es ever. The effort of the offioial mind to express its muse of Mrs, Grirnwood's heroic devo- tion in Manipur has thund two expressions. She has been awarded the Royal Red Cross, a badge deeigned for good muses, and the Queen has commanded Lady Cross, the wife of the Secretary of State for India, to call on Mrs. Grimwood and ask her how she is. Such are the honors deemed sufficient for the admirable courage, condom, fortitude and teal good sense shown in an awfulerisis by a, woman, whose fine qualitiee have hard- ly been se/messed milltary annals. It is all well meant, awl it is ludicrouely inade- quate, The fact that it is deemed inadequate seems to have penetrated even the official breast ; for, after some days' clelay,a fresh statement is given to the public. The great Lord Cross himself Nvill—should official diss patches emilirm the press amounts from. elanipur, the truth of which is beyond a doubt--edvise :Majesty to bestow on Mrs. Grimwood the Victoria, Cress. A number of Englishmen have gone to Lisbon peepared to give large sums for laud and mineral concessions in new territories assured to Portugal by the convention with England, which the Cortes has at length wisely ratified. The Minister of Finance is hugely delighted to find that Portugal actu- ally possesses a marketable commodity not yet mortgaged to its full value, and has plea- sant dreitnis of financial equilibrium and, even an actual surplus in the course of time. DON'T DESPISE LITTLE THINGS. Tho Boinellest Task Perforniell Noble Achievement. There are times when one wants to get off alone by oneself and think how tired thia poor body is, and how nice it is going to be s me day to lay it down under the grasser the 5110W, while the soul goes flying away like tt etroug bird to the stars. We are very, very tired, SOnle of us, of the long grind of earning our bread or helping the old folks along, and we feel almost ready to die right 1101V, and give up the unequal struggle. It is all very steal to call life a garden, and all the girls, both yonng and old, queens ; but to some of us the garden is sun -baked, and every green thing dying or dead, writes Amber. Now, just Wait a minute while we telk th e matter over. Don't you know there never yet waS a street parade or a grand prooession that was not made np greab measure of stragglers or onlookers? So in life, with its pagetnits and its honors, there ate comparatively few who carry limners or weer mid Noe And eametimee we, who follow pleasure ethr off and stand on the dusty road tt•hile the parade goes by, grow diseourag el and are abOnt ready to eall oar Iife a faille e lecause it holds no gala time for us—nething lint drab ants and soundless and persistent duties. Everything is iso different from what we planned when Wo were young. Then We were eager for some grand destiny, and Mildly imagined a career that should letve our name like a sweet fiegimitte in the wart Can yoll 1101 tako comfort in the thonght thet the homeliest task well performed is grand achievement? Nobody can do better thee his best, and if you ot• 1 sweep a, room, or tidy top a kitchen. or patch a pair of regged teousers, or write chattel, or finger a type -writing insertunont, with an enthusi- asm and apurpose to do the work well and allOW nobody tO do it better, we are as surely doing grand work and fulfilling a noble destiny as though we wore the ermine of a judge or wielded the scepter of a king. Do what you have to do, then, with the determination to make it toll ; put the zest of enthusiasm and eager ambition to excel into ovary stupid routine of the clay and before you km (wit the mean est work shall /Math) the dignity of a eerviee to the king of heaven. Lemons and Eggs. Simple things ere often ol much benefit andlemone andcommontable salt have much that is useful about them. Lemon juice and, water without eugar, will oftentimes volley° one of a sick headache in it short time, and a hell gill of lemon juiee three times m day in a little water is said to be good for then. enatiswa Nothing is so fteceptable to a feverish person as lemonade, and foe cough that echoes to bo quieted, I have tried the following proparetion with suceees 1 Take the white of an egg, beaten stiff ; then Add the juice of a lemon in whiult two or three lumps of sager have been diesolved end keep it neat! ne, lutnel take a tableseooeful of it at a time until relieved. A very good way of preparing lemons when they two plenty is te put them in cold water; lotting them boil until they aro mite then squeeze the ;ham front them, gettims more than in any other way, and adding the sugar 10 the taste, or to every halfffint of juice pm one pound of loef septa and bottle, Anuther comfortable 'Use fey lemon itt to bind a 1 eliee upon a. awn that is trenblesome, at night and re. peat ones or twice. tvill greetly roliovt iho 14oronoo, 'rum t'io 11:110,3 aro 01o.inod from invdieino or any other calm rubbing them withlemon after the jute e is extraoted will reetore them. Table linen or any stseh articles that become stained can be re. stored by the appliestion td lemon *Ida and table scat, then M the stun, end ethine rellloVed by 11.1bbing dry starell in al, 01100 f. repenting it,--elMod Ziolto epieg.