The Brussels Post, 1891-8-21, Page 2LYNDON OF
HIGH
CLIFFE,
Ali OLD SOLDIER'S LOVE STORY.
C, DESPARD, Author of " When tne Tide Waa High," " The Artist and the Man,
" Into a Larger Room," bite., Ete.
CHAPTER XX.
outs oe usuoks tie 'rue WAR.
In a large darkened room, with mattiog
on the floor and books and Is dies' work lying
on there:tattered tables, sits a faitabai vet? girl,
with three pale-skinued eltildreu about. her.
The youugest had just fallen asleep on her
Igloos ; the two elder ones are sittmg at her
feet, and looking up eagerly into her face,
for she has been telling them story, and,
as part of it is true, they are very 1nuch
nterested in it.
" What's his name, Lefty 1" asks the
eldest.
" I don't know, dear ; but we shell soon
hear,"
" Is he coming 10 11(14'?"
"This evening, I expest. He will stay
here until he van go on hoard ship. I hope
you will be very good,. darlings, and make
no noise. You must Gunk of NOME told you
—that ha.got himself hurt in striving for
England.
"I'll be as quiet as a mouse," said the
eldest little girl. "I'm English, and I'm
going to England some day. Are you Eng-
lish, Letty 1"
" Yes, I am English," anSWOred. LeLty,
aamiling.
At this rnmeent the curtain of matting
that took the place of door was pushed
aside, and a tall, slender lady, with an har-
assed expression on her face, peeped in.
"01) tatty," she said, have been
looking for you. Leave the children with
the ayah. Baby asleep? So much the bet-
ter 1 she was fretting all night, poor little
thing 1 Come you to My room, dear, I want to
speak to you. '
The ayah took Letty's place, and she
followed the children's mother to another
darkened room,
"Yon are doing too much, dear Mrs.
Stanhope," she said. "Hall you not better
lie down? I will call the men and have the
punkah set going; then, perhaps, you nuty
sleep for a little."
" I really think I will try to take a nap„
said the distracted lady, "My head is in a
whirl. If I let myself get excited like this
I shall have fever again. We really must
start for the hills at once. You are looking
pale too, you poor child 1 And you had such
O lovely color when you came away. I feel
sometimes as if I had done very wrong in
taking you to thio dreadful place. '
"But 11, 18 not dreadful in the winter, and
you say we are goirg to the hills soon, and
everybody gets pale here," said Letty
brightly. "1 hope you are not really sorry
you took pity on me that terrible Melia"
"Sorry 1" cried Mrs.Stanhope. " !never
was so glad of anything in my life. Dear
ne 1 my eyes are nearly closing. I can't
eep awake, and that brave young fellow -1
wanted to receive him myself."
"I will look after him gladly," answered
!atty. "1 ron sure you need to rest."
lt was the spring of the year 1870, when
1he second Afghan war was near its close,
and England and British India had been
stirred to their centre by the fine achieve-
ment of Sir Frederick Roberts and his gal-
lant little army.
The Stanhopes, who lived for the greater
part of the year in Bombay—Mr. Stanhope
being a Civil official of some standing there
—had, during the past weeks, been thinkiug
and talking of scarcely anything else but
the war, and our little Letty, who had been
with them ever since the night she became
lost to her friends, and who- WM now Mrs.
Stanhope's companion and trusted friend,
had heard with the deepest interest of its
progress. She not did kuow that Percy was
with Sir Frederick Roberts. Eager for any
new s whatever about him and his friends,
she had avotched the papers to see if his
regiment would be sent out 1 but he had
?been given, as we know, a stuilappointinent,
and had consequently left his regiment for a
time.
It had been a fine opportunity for the
young soldier to show what mettle he was
of, and he heal amply justified the trust
reposed in him. Throughout the brief and
brilliant campaion he had, by his courage
,and end:armee, 'his happy temperament,
which gave him an extraordinary influence
ever those he commanded, and his readiness
to face danger, Wen golden opinions from
ueal excitement, the arrival of one of the
heroes of the war,
" Most likely they will carry him here
first," she said to heraell, looking round on
the comfortable sitting -room, wall its cool
matting and davk window*, and light Cane
101111eg.01111111 mid conches.
This room opened on to the verandah, and
the verandah W11.8 only, separated by a
ourtain from 1,1(0 11005100 that led up to the
house.
Letty set everything in order, drew the
most comfortabie of the couches into a cool
corner, affil ordered up cooling drinks, a pail
of ice, and a light little meal, which she
arranged herself., 00 that it might look its
tempting SS possible, on a table olose by the
couch.
Her thoughts were with her own young sol-
dier as she moved about the room. She
waled him hers, though most likely, by this
time, he belonged to another, For Letty
had recovered from the burning sense of
humiliation thot had weighed her almost to
the ground when she ran away from her
friends. She had been saved from what
Lady Glenavertl had called "0 serious mis-
take,' and she was hot, ashamed now of hay-
ing loved the man who, in her young eyes,
was worthier than any other she had ever
seen of a woman's devotion. She hadloyed him
because she could not help it, because it was
natural. There WaS no shame, no wrong in
that. If she had imagined, for ono moment,
that he loved her—well our little Lefty
had said to herself, with a sigh, thet perhaps
was natural too. For this she thanked God
that her fancy, 1(011 1101 betrayed her into
doing anythiug that could have narrowed
his life,
Tatty was not unhappy in those days.
From the very first she had set herself to
live her suffering down. " What am I?" she
had said to herself, "10 make the lives of
others miserable, because 1801 not given the
very best that nature offers to her children?
I will not. With the help of my, God, I
will love the good things He has given me,
and help others to love them Me." So she
schooled herself to patience, and the fruit
of her effort could be seen in the calm seren-
ity of her gentle Ince, and the quiet
cheerfulness of her manner.
She had scarcely finished her preparations
when she heard the sound of wheels in the
avenue. Presently the curtain was set aside,
and Mr. Stanhope, who looked pale and
haggard, came in. " Where is my wife?
They are just bringing him in," he said.
Mrs. Stanhope was very tired this after-
noon. She in resting," said Letty. " Can I
not take her place ?"
" There does not seem anything much to
do. He is very bed—nearly oft', I am afraid.
Try and get him to take something, while I
go and hurry up the doctor."
While Mr, Stanhope spoke, two of the
servauts were Itelf leading, half carrying the
mvalid in. " On this sofa," said Letty.
She was not frightened, for she had lately
nursed Mrs. Stanhope through an attack of
fever, but she was awed. To come so for
on his way home, and then to fail How
pitiful it was 1 So far she had not looked
into his face. She was sending for ice -bags
to apply to his head, and was pouring out
the mixture that had been of most use to
Mrs. Stanhope. When Olean were ready
she turned to the dark corner of the room
where he was lying.
Mr. Stanhope had gone out. There were
only two dark servants in the room, and
they were busy carrying out her directions.
She saw him clearly and a cry broke from
her lips. He had Le' en lying like one in a,
troubled sleep. At the sound his eyelids
lifted, and be looked at her. Strange so
strange 1 there was no surpise in his face.
They might have parted the day before.
"So 11 18 you, Letty ?" he said.
" Yes, dear, it is I." She sank on her
knees, for she could not stand, and tried to
make him driuk from the glass she had
mixed. for him.
To her awe and distress he seemed to be
looking, not at her, but beyond her. "
had been dreaming of you, my dealing," he
said, in a low voice ; "1 thought you would
come to me, if you ocruld."
" Look at me, look me, Percy," she
said •, " I am here, close beside you,"
" You axe &maim above me, darling. I
TH..E, BRUSSELS POST.
very weak ambit, he WAS 1111/1SOU 01100 more, ABOUT THE OEEILIAN SOLDIER.
In a feeble voice hit milted her how he _
found her there, and Lolly, believing that'
11 410)11)1 "else him ,,,,,, in ho kepi in anat. Illi. PessesaeslYung14,rro Endurance,
ness than to he told the truth, gave 111111 11, NOW 111111 1110 Chili 10 Mal. lerS foam a
brief history' of what had haPPeneil 10 her ' portion of the news served up at breakfast
81000 they' partial. 11 1)001 her something to table le the shape of daily' papers, it is 111'
toll why she bad left airs, alorton, and way tartan ing to note the formation of the army,
the had made up ber mind that, if she eould which is lighting against the present Gov.
help it, her friends ehould not find hev ernment *If lliia 80Idll Ameri van Beimblie,
again ; hot his questions, and the dark eyes which is the only tenuity), in the world Gat
full of e joy that no one eould mistake, fixed unites a regular volunteer eerviee with an
even her race, pee ;lee emu Age to 1,,;0 en, obligatory military Service. All membera
and Itt last Vevey, knew everything. of the regular army twelve liberal lay,
ii Fero., me, 8110 said, when 81,, cern, after, the syntein prevalent in Great Britale.
to the end of the story', *6 I did not think Once enlisted, however, the soldier is not
that—that—you would have felt it so." held so strietly to the duties of the service
" And I did not think so either, darling," as With us. By the persoluil inauence of
he said, taking possession of her hold. ii a friends, by petty bribery, and io a hundred
lave been too confident all along. I have other ways be nay secure his release with -
thought too much of myself." out incanneng arrest for desertion, The drill
'''100 much 1" cried Lotty ; and then she fa conciliated on the most antiquated
interrupted herself, and broke into a little Imes. The onvelry, for instance, foi.
laugh, that was very near tears, ii Is 1 low the Spanish regulation of 1107.
were to tell you all num been thinking of The weapons of the troops, on the other
you 1" she said, Inold, are modern, The artillery naVe
" Some day I will make you, Letty," he Krupp guile, and the infantry Mannlicher
said 1 and then, with a joyful smile, rifles. 1:110 arsenals and repair 0h0p8 are
6' Lotty 1 Letty 1 Letty 1 What a lovely under the sepervision of German °them.
name ii. is ! I should like to go on $(1y1„g it The Celli= militia hes a nominal strength
all day. Letty, where are you ?" of 48,002 priveles end 2,1111 officere. Lust
only 1,051 officers and
Ly. ITaaltneit°,liPigerf e°y' ,31.101,1,1:Leggn:.;aiLlis,00ntgor Year, b °waver,
e 27,000 men could he found for duty. All
" I will take nothing. I will lie here and the rest had " disappeared," the technioal
starve, unless you make me a promise." expression in Chili for desertion, A source
" But drink this fit," of weakness of the reeruiting service in
" Then make haste with your question., volunteer fireman shell he exempt from
Chili is the law that whoever serves as a
"No, no."
" You will never leave me again Letty? military obligations. Hence it Is that
You will be married to me here ? There are Chili has the largest and most willing. force
such things as special licences, you know; of volunteer firemen of all countries in the
WO might be married to -morrow." weeld. Despite all. the deficionces of
" But your mother, Percy ?'' the organization, and the wide gaps
11 My darling, I had gained her consent. in every division of the army., the
You ran tl,Way 1/1 011011 a hurry that you did Chi'llm army 18 far from 1)(31" as
not hoar what had been happemeg. 'rather completely inefficient as the armies of most
wieh you had nothing; hut I believe yo„ of the neighbouring States, The Chillan
"Percy, wilt s•ou take your medioine 1
- soldier has two inherent qualities which
are a woman of property, and—"
You will get exhausted presently, and then render him superior to all other South
—eh 1 dear Mrs. Stanhope, I am so glad Americans, 08 )1011 as 10 1180)))' Europeans en
you have oome. HO LS giving me trouble. the battlefield. He has wonderful endurance
" Why, Letty 1" cried that lady, looking
e and few needs. With a little water and a
with bewilderment at the girl's radiant face few bites of bread he is able to preserve his
strength throughout forced marches of
" Captain Winstanley is better," she said,
' whieh the European soldier hardly dreams.
During the last war with Peru be showed
"what has happened?"
"So much better," said the patient, " that this quality of endurance to a remarkable
turning her blushing face away.
if you, dear madam, will give him your degree. Considerable bodies of Chilian
assistance, Ile means to be married to- infantry marched frequently thirty miles a
day. Chiba') cavalry, moreover, often
" Married ! To -morrow ! Are the chit- covered—marching day and night—sixty
morrow."
dren mad?" ovied Mrs, Stanhope. "Letty miles at a stretch. The explanation of this
tell me instomtly, what is the meaning exceptional physical energy of the cavalry
this ?" of is to be found in the fact that every Chilian
Letty told her, and, before the story was is at home ou horseback, and. that the
over, the good, kind woman was weeping homes have staying. powers when on the
profusely. " Of course you shall be married, gallop (the only, gait the cavalry knows)
my darling," she said, embracing Letty which European horses never attain to.
tenderly. ''1 will see Mr. Stanhope about The common conclusion however, that
,
it at once." Then she began to sob hysteri-
cally. " I always knew you would leave me
suddenly, Letty," she said ; "0)1(1 how am
10001 to do withoat you 1 But 10)1)81 not
be selfish."
And she bustled away to indulge in a
good cry, leaving to Letty the difficult task
of persuading Percy ro rest.
T)1 130 CONTINCH13).
men whose good opinion, as emy know, hear your voice. Orli 1 it has been dreary,
was more priceless than the richest (Immure, 1 dreary, without )'ou. But I think 1 am
When he was passing through Condalar coming to you, Letty,"
By this time the doctor and Mr. Stanhope
were in the room, and Letty, trembhug and
weeping, withdrew into the background.
She heard them say that his mind was
wandering, and then some remedy was given
to him, awl he was carried into the bed-
room that had been prepared for him, and
Letty, whose heart, WaS beating wildly, was
left alone to try and realize what it 0)118 that
had happened.
Percy here 1 Percy epettking to her
—
calling her—what Waii it that he had caned
hall Her heart spoke the words that her
lips refused to utter. Would he havespoken
so, oven in the delirium of fever, if he had
not been thifficiug of her, longing for her ?
And if so, then—her heart almost stood
still, and every pertiele of colour left her
face—if so, she had been mistaken, mistaken
from the beginning, For the first time slime
her troubles began, Letty lost her self-con-
trol. She covered her Mee with her hands,
and burst Into a mission of tears.
A touch on her shoulder arouse(' her,
and she jumped up. '18 anything wanted ?"
she faltered—" I—I—am aft right."
"I hope you are all right, Miss Morrison "
said Mr, Stanhope gravely. " Yon were
such a, good muse to my wife, and she has
only just recovered, so that I cannot let her
be over -fatigued, and I was just going to
ask yoti to look after our guest a little, to
see that the doctor's orders are obeyed, and
his wound, and the ceaseless excitements that the servants do their duty'. I would do
and harhships of the campaign had weaken- it myself, only —"
ed him. By the time they reached the " Oh 1 ideate) day no more I am quite
—he formed part of the advance guard—he
was struck. A bullet, fired from an upper
window, bit his right arm. He grasped his
sword with his left hand, and, though the
pain made him net his teeth tolether, kept
his place in the lino of march.
There were other soldiers and officers
wounded that day, and their names were
een in the papers anct sent home to their
riends. Percy had his artn dressed, refused
o go to hospital, and bugged that he should
not be reported as wounded. With his left
hand he wrote a, few lines to his mother,
telling her that he bad received a slight
wound, which prevented him from
using his right hand, but that she need no
be the least anxious about him.
in the ineantime it Was thOlight adVisable
to send away some of the invalids under
armed 000011 10 the coast, whence they could
embark for England. To Percy, as an
unattached officer, who had shown conrage,
coolness, and resource, the tonuncoul of the
convoy was given, and in the month of May,
shortly after Yakut) Khan had entered the
British camp as a supplicant for peace, he
and the men under his orders started for
Bombay.
It, was not yet fttll summer, and, for a
great p.att 01 1110 way, they were able to
travel in boats ; but it NM 10119 and weari-
some journey. Captain Winstanley had
not completely recovered from the elleots of
The Sabbath Chimes,
Thou, 01,)' .100)10 then didst me
Gpon the evosa =brave ;
For 100 most berw the nails and epee'',
And manifold disgrace ;
And griefe and torments numberless,
And sweat 01 800(13'.
Yea, death itself ; and all for ono
That Was thine enemy.
Then, whv, 0 blessed 108110 Christ,
Should 1 not love Thee well t
Nor for the hope of winning heaven,
Nor of escaping hell :
Not with tho hope of gaining aught,
Nor seeking a reward;
But as Thyself hast loved me,
-0 over loving Len!.
E'en so I love Theo, and will love,
And iu thy praise will sing
Solely because thou art my God,
And my eternal Ki ng.
ROW T,LBWIN,
A LeSNO 11 From a Minh ler 1 11 OW 411,
'And I have loved these, th•cali! and me .10V
01 y0111 Mei ,..vort,, wee on 111,v Maento be
Borne, like thy nutehis, (1)1)110)1 ; 00111 18 boy
WM110110(1 WI111 thy breakerthm
. t ee to e
Were a delight.
There Mao reason why every healthy man,
women an(1 child who lives in it latitude
where sea and river lathing may be comfort,
ably praetieed in the weenier montha should
not be able to Mare in the foregoing senti-
ments of Lord Byron. The consciousness of
posseseing the power and skill eompel the
water to render such service is 0110 of the
few sources of unelloyed enjoyment and
enthusiasm 1 while swimming as a gymnastic)
exercise is unearpasad, Boys mid girls who
have not enjoyed such famiharity with the
mastery of thio element have been cheated
out of a large share of their heritage of
innocent Lind improving pleasure. Many
children are deterred and hindered from
attempting to learn swimming by their own
and their parents' impression that its acquisi.
Lion is necesserily involved in danger and
difficulty.
Swimming is essentially a science with a
few very simple rules, which may readily
be taught, even by those who are not. swim-
mers. 11 18 also an art which may be ola•
borated to an extent only limited by the
physical laws involved and the ingenuity
and pereietence of the student, The main
prinumle of this science in its best form is
the synchronons retraction and extension of
the arms and legs. This Is apperently
simple requirement, but in Mat the attain-
ment of the necessary, skill in this respect
is the only obstacle to the learner in his
efforts to support and propel himself. To
do this in dm water requires confidence that
the switninev will not sulk while the limbs
are drawn up preparatory for the stroke.
This confidence beginners nearly. always
lack lid consequently resemble in thier
struggles the antics of a buoking mule. Oc-
casionally persons learn to sustain them-
selves by instinctively using the limbs of
each side alternately m a matter similar to
that in which lower animals employ their
legs in swimming, but this result is estab-
lishing a very awkward style which may
only, be improved with great difficulty. A
learner should be taught to strike out and
kick before being placed in the water in
order that he may begin in good form.
When learned in this manner progress is
made with ease and grace.
The pupil should first learn to strike out
with his hands while standing on the floor.
The first tinsition of this feature is to p'100
the open hand with their innev edges close
together, with patms down, thumbs under
the forefinger, pointing directly forward,
about six Inches below the chin with the
waists touching the chest,. The erst motion
is to extend the arms with vigor directly
forward at fall length, keemee the bands
the Chiltern are weak on their foot because horizontal and close together. The second
strong on hotseback is entirely false. Not I motion is to bring the hands, keeping them
only is the average Chilien horseman an 1 still on 11(0 81(100 level, with the palms down,
exceptionally persevering pedestrian, but aud the arms full length, around to the
often the fastest foot courier the world.
The regular military couriers are frequently
able to cover between fifty and sixty, miles
a day, and a Chinon private of only slightly
extraordinary running ability has been
known to make, often touter a load of forty
pounds, forty or fortyffive miles a day.
Golden Thoughts for Every Day.
Mouday—By Christianity a moral motive
pewee is supplied, whieh is far better than
any fact or eneetment in keeping society to-
gether ; and that is the charity that is not
easily provoked, the love that works no ill
to his neighbor. To the motives which tend
to insure well being in this world it adds
the loftier hopes, the eobler aspirations, the
bettev put,poses that bind the Christian 111011
to an endless future. It helps him to be a
better citizen of this world iu teaching him
1-1011 110 has a citizenship in heaven,—{Bishop
Harris.
Tuesday -
111)1(3' not always know the way
\ Vherein God lends my feet ;
But this 1 know, thnt round my path
His love and wisdom meet.
And so 18051 content to knolv
Re guides my feet where,' I go.
Sometimes above the path I tread,
Thu clouds hang dark and low ;
But Um' the gloom, or thro' the night,
My heart no fear can kneW,
For close 1(001140me walke a Friend
Who whisperslow, " Until the out,"
1100)' not always understand
Just why He sends to me
Some hitter grief, some heavy loss,
But though I cannot see—
I kneel and WM:Ter thro' my Mats
A prayer for help, and know He hears.
Wedeesday—As the rays come from the
sun, and yet are not the sun, even 80 our
love 0.11(1 1)11)', though they 01)0 1)01 God, but
merely a poor, weak image and relict:dee of
Min, yet from Him alone they' come. If
The Mardi of Civilization.
"11 you woul11 form any' just conceptiou
of the Japan of the centuries you must not
delay your visit to the Sunrise Kingdom"
for old Japan is being so speedily replaced
by young Japan thet even now 8 true idea
of the former state of things is difficult to
obtain." Such is the unvarying testimony
of foreigners who have been on the grounds
during the last fifteen or twenty' years and
have been eye -witnesses of the mighty,
changes that have meantime taken place. A
similar remark might be made concerning the
continent of Africa, Where changes are being
effected with a rapidity that seems well
nigh impossible. What was only a few years
ago a continent given up to savages and so
far as civilized nations were concerned a
vast region unexplored is rapidly being
chetwn within the influence of Europium
civilization and commercial intercourse. No
considerable portion 110W100101115 unvisited,
nor is 111010 01))' large region the nature of
whose soil and climate have not been aseer-
Mined. With boundless faith in the f Mere
and with on exalted estimate of the
limitless resources naffi possibilities of
this hitherto 1.181E1101011 lane, European na•
tion are entering in and- are introdecing
those mighty agents of uommerce, the rail-
way and telegraphy with such zeal that be•
fore ninny years the uttermost jungles of
Africa wiLl have heerd the $nort of the iron
horse. At the present moment a line is be-
ing coustrueted from Biskra to Lake Chad
through the 8011810 and when completed
will he more than 1400 miles in length.
Another is being built from the diamond
fields of Kimberley to Zantbesia, Here
3,000 people are plyiug pick and shovel in a
region that bat a few yam's ago had EO'Or
been penetrated save by the hunter and the
missionery. Hundreds of wegons Eaten with
tools, blasting materials, and everything
nemsary to construction, rcoompany the
working parties. Besides this line from Kiln.
borley there is another running southward
to Cepa Town, a third is to be laid eastwerd
through the Orange Free State and soon to
be opened to Pretoria, the capital. Contracts
have nAready been entered into with Dutch
Capitalist e for a. line to conned Pretovia
with the Portuguese lino from Delogoa Bay
there is mercy in our 111)011,0, it comes from to the east coast, and on its completion
love in us, it is a ray, front the full sue of His Kimberley will have direct railroad commun.
iceortatsitou airu:ithlel ihacilerala :i0v1en1 INa ast‘avli theti:prestoouttilt1
the fountain of mercy, If there is light of
railway lino which runs trent Banda to
Bombay—the real difficulties of the journey
were over then --the Indien fever Mel him
in its grasp, and he was compelled to give
up his command to the officer 0001 1)1)1) i n
rank,
Thiovas the first convoy of wounded that
had come down, and the exeitement in the
51011000 11,100911 whieh itpaseed was intense.
Mr. Stanhope, who, with several t titer gen.
tlemen, had travelled its far as Small to See
11 1110)' could be of any use, was told at the
station of Captain Winstanloy's illness,
and (Percy being then unoonscious) took Mtn
in charge, and telegraphed to his wife to be
ready to receive 0 wonncled officer in the
afternoon of that day.
We nOW return to the quiet and roomy
bungalow, whore pod Mae. Stanhope, who
lied been exhausting herself iu her effort to
think of everything that eould 10 pleasant
or necessary for an invalid, WaS snatching a
fee- minutes' rest, and where the young
,11101, girl, who had so atrangely taken
101 1)98 with her, 1080 expecting, with a tat -
ready to help," antwercd Lefty.
Percy had been restless and unonsy,
half conscious, as it. evened, and
looking from ono servant 10 smother,
es though he expected to see a face
that was not there, But when Lotty
went into his room, tho look of distress left
hie face, In loss than an hour he wets asleep.
The doetor gave some directions to the
young nurse, and went out.
Ile returned late at night, and fonnd the
invalid sleeping still. "Tho best thing that
eould happen 10 1)110," ho said in 1 whisper
to Letty.,
Once in the course of the evaly morning
Pertly opened his eyes. Letty WU at his
aide 01 01)00 with the refreshment that had
been ordered for him. She spoke to him in
her natural voice, and it WAS like v spell
over him. Ile asked for her hand, and Oeld
it until sleep relaxed his latiaciaff, That,
second sleep, in which the worst of tho
fever pasted &way, lasted until late in the
follnwing afternoon. When he awoke,
Letty saw 10 her rapture that, although still
sides until these are nearly on a line with
the shoulders. Ellen bring the hands back
in the easiest way to Oust position, to be ,
ready for another stroke. This exereise 1
811011111 be proceeded with very, deliberately 1
at first, but when the learner elm do it with
facility' it should be pritetitied with speed and
eneway. When the arm stroke can be read-
ily, Made the pupil should be balanced upon
the stomach on a piano stool or ether suit-
able support, and re mired to make the arm
stroke and to kick at the same time. The
kick should be made as follows: lo t motion.
Keep legs close together and draw them up
as far as possible without discomfort. 214
motion. Kick them out energetically as
far apart as poseible. 24.1 motion. Bring
them alose together quickly while extended,
and when in contact draw them up into first
position to be ready for another kick.
The pupil after learning to execute these
movements with ease is ready 101 11 practical
lesson in the e ater. Water 110 81011)1)' smooth
NS practicable should be selected. I have
found that about shoulder deep is on the
average the best depth in which to teach,
as the pupil ecquires ocinficlence in tile
teaaher more rapidly when the depth of
weber is such as to permit standing on the
bottom during intervals of rest. The sim-
plest applianee for sustaining the pupil in
the water during the lesson 15 1), towel tied
around the body under the ernmits, to
which it piece of sufficientl' strong cord of
suitable length may he tied or attachedby a
snap hook. The other end of the rope may
be attached to a pole. In my extarience I
have found an old ash hoe hendle 111)0111 the
most suitable apparatus of that kind.
When placed in the water the papil should
be requirea to make the first few strokes
very slowly and to increase the pace gradm
ally until the limit of speed is reached.
After a few such attempts these efforts will
support and propel the pupil, who may
then left itt liberty to improve at leisure.
The next thing to lattrn in order is the
management of the breath, The pupil soon,
learns by experience) that the inspirations
should oorrespond with the retraction of the
limbs and the expirations with the strokes
The reason for this is that tho filling of the
lungs while the limbs are being clraAvn in
conduces to the support of the body during
the subsequent temporary inaction. rho
novice will also lawn that greater swiftness
may be obtolned by gradually. bringing the
hands to a vertionl position in the latter
part of the stroke, and by many other
devices which emergencies will require and
ingenuity suggest, Coneiderable additional
progression results from bringiug the lege
together before drawing them up, for the
reason that avhile they ere separated by the
kick the motion of the water between them
is in the form of a wedge and the closing of
these limbs squeezes to the rem' to a certain
extent the water between them, with the
effect of -propelling the body ahead.
Ib maY he added that it goodly store of
patentee and an unstinted use of encourage-
ment as neer to flattevy as enescience will
permit on the pert nf the teacher will go far
to mama the speediest and best result.
I have taught persons, who have faith.
fully pmetinoil the preliminary movements,
to swim in a few moments after they
were first in the water. In my judgment it
is a Waste of Gm to put them into water
unti1 they have letbrned bee, to uso their
limbs. Of course, learners should be watelt,
ed until tlioy have seamed enough sltill and
confidence to be safely, trusted alone. I
have known many institnees of boys who
knew jest enough to carry them into deep
weter and 08010 obliged to hove assistance
to keep from drowning, mainly because of
want of the presence of mind which nomes
with thorough eartriclonee in one's skill.
—
Autan4T t?,1, 1891,
ood's
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Hood's
Hood's
Hood's
Sarsaparilla
Sold le' oll d ronctats, l ; ,lx for SS. PrOpred only
bo V.I. 11L1011 0 (70., Apothecaries, Lewo)l, Alai&
100 Doses One Dollar
A B.SCOED SONAH 0 ORE TO PORT.
The al ar eel le 05 Ira 171-71- 11 SallOr'S ESpert.
0 11 e
The 1,01.11 (ley C. Goss, with 08190 01
$100,000 watth of tett has erri% ed. at Tacoma
Wash., forty-four days from Yokohama,
long overdue, When fifteen days out,
"Tom" Hiskiaski, a Japanese sailor, mount.
ed to the topsail to reef it during a gale.
A larch of the vessel threw him headlong
into the see, and he was seen suddenly to
disappear. The lifeboat WU put out, but
no trece of the missing sffilor was found.
When returning to the vessel, a whale rose
to the surface. The crew then suspected
what had. become of Hiskittski. The whale
seemed to be in great distress. Suddenly,
deer a violent convulsion, Hiskiaski was
thrown from the whale's mouth on to the
crest of a 1804'0 and upon the deo): of the
Goss. He was unconscious and badly in-
jured. Careful nursing broaght him around,
andhe is now i18 his normal health. Captain
Mallette vouches for the truth (1 11118 story,
and the sailor was pointed out.
love.—[Charles Kingsley.
Thursday—
Sweet on faith fa lneqs to rest,
'Whose love van never end ;
Sweet on I I Is covenant grace
1001 )011 things to depend,
Sweet In the confidence of faith
Te trust lits tirm decrees ;
Sweet to lie passive in Ills hands,
And 111)010 1)0 will bot 1
Barbituld.
114'iday—IIer0, then, you see the value o
what I have sometimes called comparative
not to lied something bettor than Christian- Bitten In a Dozen mares.
—
theol?gy or comparative religion, We study ,,,
the N edam and the old Potshot doctrines, Le aterrible race tir a Tennessee la O—
af truth that we do hero, This 90510)01101)NASMIL1,1,1, Aug. 17.—The body of Miss
Christian -113) but because we find there the riallle germs
has been amazed, in getting at the old Lulu Bowling was found yestercley morning
heethen filth, to 111114 that they were neith• in the woods near Bradyvillo, in 'Cannon
01' 1110 0701(1 of devils, nor of beings at ,,t1 county. The young Woman 1(011 left her
unlike Moses and jeans, We have found home the day 110101)0 to go to a neighbor's
that as soon as you get rid of the superna- and had been absent during the night,
She had boon bitten in a dozen places by
stem "iwywher, you got at ocrt&i, 00,1110011 a rattlesnake, as was shoavn by as many dia.
truths of eatere, Mae has always beou man- wthred plums on her body, whioh was badly
flicel has elwa s been God; man means ati swollen.
G'oilect up beside the young avonian's body
Was one of the largest rattlesnakes evet soon
in the county. Ili Was killed by the parties
wh0 found the body. It measured five foot
and had 18 rattles and a button.
20 A steamer which arrived in London frotn
'Auckland 1(1059111 a cargo consisting of 40,-
000 sheep and 2,000 beeves, all dre, ,cal and
frozen, -This ie the leageet single eargo of
dressed meat thati has over been brought to
England,
"August
9!
Flower
Mr. Lorenzo F. Sleeper is very
well known to the citizens of Apple-
ton, Me., and neighborhood. He
says: "Eight years ago I was taken
"sick, and suffered as no one but a
"dyspeptic can. I then began takr
" ing August Flower. At that time
"1 was a great sufferer. very -
thing I ate distressed me so that
"bad. to throw it up. Then in a
" few moments that horrid distress
"would come on and I would have
"to eat and suffer
"again. Itook a
"little of your med-
" icine, and felt much
"better, and after
"taking a little more
" August Flower my
Dyspepsia disap-
" peered, and since that time I
"have never had the first sign of it.
"I can eat anything without the
"least fear of distress. I wish all
"that are afflicted with that terrible
"disease or the troubles caused by
"it would try August Flower, as I
" amesatisfied there is no medicine
"equal to it." 0
approaches completion, and 111 a few yeats
a railrond system teal be perfected, extend-
ing over a region with mean times the area
of France. Verily he who would keep his
knowledge of Africa revised up to ante must
be making corrections tuul affilitiens that
will soon leave nothing of his former know.
ledge of the Dark Continent flitch:null:oil ex-
cept the here outline of its (masts, if 01'011
tins is allowed to tand,
BITTEN BY A RATTLER.
For that
Horrid
Stomach
Feeling.
inspirational ming, (.4ocl means an hummer ;
tnan can't well help himself, and Gott unlit%
God is the sayer, the voice or word of eter-
nity ; man is the ear. --1E. O. Powell, '
801111141)'—
('0)110 10 the Savior now 1
Ire who NINO Wandered for,
Renew your solemn vow,
POr DU by right you are,
Come like poor wandering sheep,
tteturnieg to Iffis fOld,
lIlo arm will safety keep,
Rio lore win 1)0 01 1mM sold,
AN EARTHLY PARADISE,
Are These the Fabled Isles of the Blest.
Professor George al, Grant, writing of
New Zealand in the August number of Har-
Fr's Illtlycw.ine, says :
" One is tempted to ask, for what other
spot has the Almighty done so (1100(1? For
nowhere is there a fairer land. Nowhere is
labor more sweet, or recreation more shared
in by all classes. Every township has its
park, race -course, and play-grotua ; the
cities have these and everything else that
caul be imagined. Picnics are univeratl.
The long 5010111515 0)1(1 bracing 1011)1015 1)101(0
open-air mnusements (lellgbltlLol. Sports are
taken up eagerly, from ooursing matches
over rough ground and pimstalking, to
cricket, foot -ball, and volunteering. From
the beginning generous provision WaS made
for schools tout colleges, the people—in the
South Island especielly—havreg the spirit
of the mon who colonized New England.
No one with 0008 1(1 his head can fail to see
that the New -Zealander of to•clay is laying
the foundations of a mighty stete, though
he may not be able to believe that one of
his descendents is likely to sit on a broken
arah of London Bridge and sketch the ruins
of St. Paul's."
The Barriers.
The inembere of the welt known Renelagh
Barriers' Club of Lendell, Eng, know what
is best whim one wriles lilto the following.
Mr. W, ,Tofferries, member of the Club',
says ) "I find St. Jacobs Oil the best.
remedy .1 have ever need for sprains, stiffneas
and brumes, It quickly removes pains and
swellings, and if rubbed, Into the musoles, it
will be found of 17081. 1)0110110 to all athletes,
I may also add that several friends of mine
Imre found the Oil a ouro far rheumatism
and neuralgia,"
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