The Brussels Post, 1891-9-4, Page 6TIE 13RUSSEIL, POST,
THE .B1:3ELAR'S GHOST,
am tot an iumginittive nem, and no
1/013 W111/ knowe me tan say that 1 1111T0 ever
indulged in sentunoutal ideas upon any
;subject. I tun rather predisposed, itt fact, to
look et eyeeythieg from a purely pramical
eeand poi it 1, and this quality lute been further
develeped in me by the fact thet for tweecy
years I have been tut active member of the
detective police form at Westford, a largo
town in one of our moet importaut manu-
facturing dtstricts, A policeman as most
people will readily believe, has to deal with
so moth preetical life that he has small op.
portunity for developing other than practie.
al quail ttnd he is more apt to believe
ia tangible things than in ideas of a 101310'
figh like a tiger if you don't draw Ida teeth
firm."
" Now, look here, man," said I, " T1 IS is all
very well: but it's vor,r irregulats You must
just tell nte W310 you are, and how you
0011111 to be in Light -toed 3 1111'8 seams, anti
I'll put it down in black and white."
I wined away front him to got iny wrIt•
ing materials. 1. TITS 1101 a Italf•unnate
trith my book to him, but when I turned
round be was gone ! The door was shut, but
I had heard no sound from it either opening
or shutting. Quick as thought I darted to
it, tore it wide open, and looked down the
narrow staircase. There was no one there.
I ran hastily down -stairs into the passage,
v ""Pemtnle", Hnwevef, 1 wm and found my landlady, Ilys. Marelner,
o.bee under t he tirm conviction that I had standing at the open door with a female
Peen lisegely helped up the holder of life mend. "Mo, Mattiner," I said, breaking
by the ghost of a well•known burglar. I in upon their rioneersation, " 10111e11 way did
have told the story to netny, and have beard that man go who came down•stairs just
it commented upon 111 varions fashions. now
Whether the comment:, were satirboal or Airs. Marriner looked t»e sthingely,
premien', it made no diffineuee to me ; I
' 1 here ean't 1,een no man mune down -steles,
a 111111 faith at that time 111 the truth of
lily tale,
. ,
Ignteen yeni a ago 1 WAS a plammlothes end Miens Higgins ere, as aye come out to condemn 110t, 111111 3'11 shallnot be condemned;
caner at 'Westford, 1 was then twenty- take an airing, lier having been ironing all forgive, and ye shall be foegiven give, and
three arof age, 111113 very anxious =oat
t
two 111,1)1008. Filet and fotemost, his blessed day, 'as been standin' here all it shall he given unto you ; good measure,
P1010011111second, I wished to be married. ''I cle3i"d the time and ain't never seen a soul." pressed down, end shaken together, and
Of e r • • 1. • b t I 1 Nonaense 1' I said. A meet eame clown running over, shall men give unto your
b°\\''T.011 nobody any longer judges or con-
demns hie neighbor, and when everybody
gires and forgives, ehon .ve will be iiving 111
the beginning of the millennium, It needs
no =gement, in this world of busy tongues,
to show the advantage of such a state as
that. A.11 that we want to lcnow is how to
bring that stete of things about. Christ tells
us that it iepossible to drive all unkind speoth
out 01 (118 world, and to put generosity and
forgiveness in the place o335. The millen-
nium is possible. But how?
We took into the books whiell glom us
pictures ot the twentieth ceutury, and offer
to guide us into the promised land. Aud
the land is fairenough and attractive enough,
and a good deal of an improvement upon the
Dominion of Canada in this year of grace,
1 SOI. But the way °meth it is not se plain.
We will somehow get there, the ...prophets
tell us ; there will be a sound revolution,
there will be a. conquest of the classes by the
masses, there willbe this and tha t and theother
crisis, catastrophe, blooming out of the new
life from the old; and then Ivo will all love
one another, and the brotherhood of man
will be a blessed universal reality. 'The
truth is that while we all want the millen-
Mum badly enough, nobody is quite sure of
the way to it, The blind are leading the
blind, and the end of such leading is pretty
certain to be a sudden fall into an =expect-
ed [Wail.
I 1111.00 110 faith in any dramatic beginning
of the millennium. I do not believe that
the curtain of cloud will roll up at the tinkle
of any reformer's boll, and behold, a new
heaven and a new earth. The millennium is
coming, but it is coming elowly, gradually.
That is how God works. The millennium is
coming, but it is coming in very homely,
simple ways ; not by any oratorial revolu-
tion passed in the parliament or man not
by any vaccination of the human heart'with
the biteeilets of brotherly love, not by might
of mobs nor strength 111 011118.
Christ tells us how the millennium will
begin. But eve listen to hint as the Syrian
nobleinan listened to the Hebrew prophet.
The nobleman, you remember, wanted to be
cured of his leprosy, and he came NV1111 his
retinue of servants, a gorgeous procession,
with trumpets and banners, he himself rid-
ing in the midst hi his golden clutrioe ; and
they stopped before the plain house where
the prophet lived, and the prophet sent out
word that tile best way to get rid of that
leprosy was to go downand take a good bath
in the river Jordan, and the nobleman was
grievously offended.
He had espected that Elishet would come
out and bow clown before him, and pray to
heaven, and strike his hand over the place
and make 11 1111 whole. Instead of that, lie
was just to wash himself in a muddy river.
And then his servants oat= to him and
001(1, " Master, if the prophet had command-
ed thee to do some great thing, would'st
thou not have doue it ? How much mor
then when he bids thee stash and be clean 1
And so the nobleman came 10 1)35 right mind
and obeyed and WEIS (amused.
How true that is to human nature 1Iere
we are, praying' that the Kingdom of Gocl
may come, and laying pleats to convert all
men to brotherly love, and wondering what
is ;just the best Way tO 1112 that, and studying
political mouotey to fled out, and imagining
some wonderful new legielation, or some fine
new method of taxation, or some sublime
rtwolutiou, end not; lititening to what Christ
says et all.
Christ says that if we want to put e stop
to unkind and unjust judging WO must
simply stop that sort of judge% our own
selves. If we would not have others con-
demn us, we met not condemn them. If
we want to bring in a revival of the spirit of
forgiveness, we must ourselves be forgiving.
And if we desire a better dietribution .of the
good things of life, and want other people
to give us better measure, NVO must begin
111Eld our own selves ; we must otieselves set
the standard of good measure. That, is, as
we do, so will others do 10 00. If we do
well, others will do well. The whole world
will became Christian, if wo aro Christians.
The inillenniurn begins at home.
That is very plain and slow and homely.
It is not taken account, of in " Looking
Backward" or in "News from Nowhere,'
or in any other of the popular propheeies of
the millennium that have read, But it is
the simple truth about the matter, 11 18
the Christian way, and the divine 'way, and
the natrow way, and the only way into the
p winged land. There eon be no regeneration
of the sookity without first a regeneration
of the individual, There can be no human
brotherhood except among a company of
brothers, And yon cannot get brotherly love
by passing lows.
Already there is beginning a reaction
egteinst socialism, The labor unions aro
malting enemies. Pla.in thinking and clear-
headed men are doubeing whether the
millennium 'is any more likely 10 001110 along
the path of the tyranny of labor than along
the path of the tyranny of capital. It was
found, a good while ago, when experiments
were being tried in melesittatieed govern-
ment, that " ley lords, the brethren," were
even harder masters than " tity lords, the
bishops," Aud it is being found to-tlay, to
1110 workingman's sorrow, that rodent expet-
imetztain the regulation of labor are resulting
in that same sort of discovery.
Tho laborer has lost his libody, Hon,
long ce" hew short shall ha his day, how
Mueller how littleahali be his weges,whether
he ahall work at allot' not, is being absolutely
decided for him as if he Wore a, Child, And
13 110 attempts to assort his ihdopenclonee,
and to follow his own honest wil1. as a, man
should, his lords, the beethren will make
life =aerobia for him, they will ;toot at him
in the street and etono him,
It it not that socialism is tit fault, for and Sputa, tei width is the statue of Pompey,
Mr. Parker," said she—" leastways,not this
good three-quarters of 011 11001', 1011 1011 me "Judge not, and ye :ball not be jud ed
fin Anetralian Eynni, le an melte:vie' 10 10') the condition of h In n
When Tv reany'A miring flood, life 1131011 3 11 18111101 1). 111'181 11111 113818. It 18
11,11 WW1 the stain of kindred blond an attempt to bring in the
Sane, fair Above the teal ON s1.01111 bOieV44 111103 Llirthighly that when Christ
A net Whit pITIL01101.1 the " Kingdom of fled, " lin was
she ).1 ood, and teem her fearlea.) eves thinking not for a moment of the (introit es
Ibexes redhinee eltone /tepees the •ficles, an melesiastleal organization, bue of the
eene eitithea the teeei,41 :11,411,,111,1111,01 te aye,: ; sonalietio gate, of the establishment of s
cloy tt ton (lo sure foundatione 1,3 brother
And Ain. Thy latest gift, she steak, love, 311t, 1 believe with equal omphas
And etretehes wide her stain 10-a hands thitt there is only one way to bring in t
To ail the peen of etrieken
Anatolia I merialiatie state, and that is not the way
tyranny, but the way which Cbriat Mug
You mina whip men into hrotherhood—yett
can't stone men into fraternal love. Brother-
hood, 3'05 ;all good men standing toeether
for the best intonate of all, yes ; but man-
hood first, Personal liberty, first The
ideal brotherhood is not a labor union of
machines, but labor union of independent
meInisocialiem means tyranny, then let all
lovers of libeety tight it. If the union ot
labor Illaa/1S the stealing of the rights of
man, then let all friends of humanity do
their best to break it, No ; true socialism
means honest and genuine and loving
beetherhood, and has no use for brickbats.
And the union of labor, if it is to go on,
must proceed along the linos which Christ
lays down, 111 1181 persuade and net compel,
must bo II willing union, with no lined worde
and no hard hands, encouraging the libert
of all men and paying no mien to tyranny,
" (five, end it shall be giveu mite you,,,
must be the formula of its faith and its hope,
And " good 10easure, pressed C1011111, dad
Shaken together, and running over " will be
its sure reward.
The kingdom of God has no place in geo-
graphies, The kingdom of God is 10 1110
-hearts of men. Yon know how they used
to ask Christ 01 tho old day's, over and over,
when the kingdom of (Sod should come. 13=
he set 110 date. f or the kingdom of God,
the millennium, the reign of righteousness,
begins whenever and wherever tiny man or
woman stops tittering unkind judgments and
unmated -for condemnations, and begins with
a new earnestness to give and formye.
And the kingdom of God will fully come
and earth will he given another name and
be christened heaven on the very day
when all the men and all the women who
live upon it shall have learned that lesson
of eternal love,
And so you see it depends, as I said, not
upon princes, not upon parliaments, not
upon saints, not upo» socialists, but just
upon our OW11 individual selves when the
millennium shall come. Not from without,
bat from within, is reformation to be looked
for. Not by now law, but by new love, is
society to be uplifted, and converted, and
set right. And you and I must make the
beginning.
Don't wain Don't look for leaders. Be-
gin yourself. Judge not, anti see how soon
you will stop hearing unkind continents.
Condemn not, and notice what a new toter.
ance and charity will come into the speech
of all who talk -with you. Forgive, and ye
hull be forgiven, and your example will
awaken, thotzgh you may not know it, a new
ense of the possibility of forgiveness. Give,
and it shall be given unto you. Everybod
you know will begin giving.
Sweet with tho emile of unehed teare,
Bright with the joy of yansatee Nora
Splendid with 01e01114 of eon) ing years 1
Auer sal hi !
To Thou alone sho betide her knee,
She ask. one ;Me—alone from Thee,—
Thy loweelng minor unity :
Auetralla I
-No more be - Palmer discard rim»
Her 80118 for Thoo and her have striven 1
0.- guard the 01 that Thou Inset gieen ;
• —Australia t
A. Nuo11:11.11013B110310N,
The True Millennium.
nY EoRGE HoDads,
an the first. limauee niy sweetheart Alice from my room just note—the man you sent
th
up twenty minutes since."
Meoore, was 01111 ol the prettiest and cleverest .Mrs. Marriner looked 113me with an ex-
DrIs in the tow u ; but I put 'promotion first 'yeomen betokening the most profound
for the simple reason that with me promotion
must come before marriage. Knowing this,
I was always on the lookout for a thence of
tlistiugaishing myself, and I paid suth at-
tention to my duties that my superiors began
te nothre me, and foretold a successfel career
for rue in the future.
One evening 111 the last week of September
1871, I was sitting in my lodgings wonder-
ing what I could do to earn the promotion
which I so earnestly wished for. Thines
astouishment. tire, Higgins sighed deeply.
" Mr. Parker," said Mrs. Marriner,
"0010)' am I to say it, 010, 1)111 you're a•
sickening for brain levet, sir. There ain't
no pollen entered this door, in or out, for
nigh on to an hnur, as me and Missie
Higgins 'ere will take our Bible oaths on,"
I went up -stairs and looked in the rooms
on either aide of mine. The man was not
there. I looked under my bed, and of coarse
he was not there. He must have gone down -
were quiet just then In 'Westford, and I am
stairs. But then the weenen must 1111.05880n
afraid I half-wishecl that something dreadful
him. There was only one door to the house.
extight occur if only I could have ehare in
I gays It rip In clespelr, and beg= to smoke
it. I was pursuing this train of thoueht
"when I suddenly beard a 00100 003': "Good my pipe. B the tune I had &awn the last
I turned sharply round. It Wad almost
dusk, and my lamp was riot lighted. For
all that, I could see clearly enotoh & man
who was sitting by a chest of drawers that
stood between the door and the window. supernatural about.
His chair stood between the drawers and J. had no duty that night* and 00 11(8
he door, aud I concluded that he had hours wore ou I found n13,self stem in my
quietly entered my room and seated himself resolve to go up to efiss Singleton's house
and see what I could make out of my infor-
mant s story. It was my opinion that my
late visitor was a whilom " pal ' of Light -
toed Jitio's and that haying become aware of
the latter's plot, ho nad, for some reason of
his own, decided to split on his old chum.
Thieves' disagreement is an honest man's
opportunity-, and I determined to solve the
truth of the story told me, Lest it should
come to nothing, I decided not to report the
matter to my chief. If I could really cap.
tore Light-toetl Jim, my success would be
all the more brilliant by being suddenly
sprung upon the authorities,
(To nis me:el:them)
whiff had c ended that if any oneness " in.
toxieated," it was probably Mrs. Ilaminer
and Mrs. Higgins, and that my strange
visitor had departed by the door. I was
not going to believe that he had anything
foie addressing me,
"Good evening," I replied. "I didn't
hear you come in,"
He laughed when I said that—a low,
chuckling, rather sly laugh. "No," he
said; "1 dessay not officer. I'm a yery
quiet sett of person. You might say, in
fact—noiseless. Just so."
I Melted at him narrowly, feeling con-
siderably surprised and astonished. at his
presence. He was a thickly -built man, with
a square face and heavy chin. His nose
was small but aggressive Ids eyes were
little and overshadowed by heavy eyebrowa ;
I could see them twinkle when he spoke.
As for his dress it was in keeping with his
face. He wore a rough snit of woolen or
frieze; a thick, gailymoloured Belcher
neekerehief encircled his bull -like throat ;
and in his big bands he continually twirled
and twisted a fur cap, made apparently out
of the skin of some favourite dog. As he
sat there smiling at ine and saying nothing,
it made me feel uncomfortable.
" hat do you want with me?" I asked
"Just a little matter o' business," he
answered.
" You shonlcl ham gone to the office," I
said. We're not supposed to do business
at home."
Right you are, &leveler," lie replied.
"But J. wanted (0 000 you. 3)110 30011 that's
got to do my job. If rd ha' seen the super.
intendent, he might Im' put somebody else
on to it. That wouldn't ha' suited me.
You see, officer, you're young, and nathally
eager -like for promotion. Eh ?"
What is it you want ?" I inquired
again,
" Ain't you eager to be promoted ? " be
reiterated. "Ain't you now, officer ?"
I saw no reason why I should conceal the
fact, *yea frum the strange visitor. I ad-
mitted that Inns eager for promotion.
" Ah I" he said with a satisfied smile ;
"I'm glad n' that. It'll make you all the
keener.—Now, officer, yoa listen tome. I'm
a-goin' to pot you on to it nice little job.
Ail 1 I dessey you'll be a sergeant before
long, you will. You'll be complimented and
praised for yeas clevee cancluek in this 'ere
affair. Mark my words if yea
"Out with it, ' I said, fancying I saw
'through the man's meaning. " You're go-
ing to split on some of your pals, I suppme,
-and you'll want a reward '
He shook hie head. " A reward," he said
5' wovildua 1)8 110 use to 00 01 all—no, not
if it was a, thousand pound. No ; it ain't
nothing to do with reward. —But vow,
officer, did you over hear of Light•teed
Jim?"
Light -toed Jim I I should have been a
poor detective if I had not. Why, the num
known under that sobriquet WM ono of the
cleverest burglars and thieves in England,
and had enjoyed such a famous career that
his name WaS a household word. At that
moment there was all additienal interest
attached to him. He had been convicted of
burglary at the Northminster Assizesin1871,
and sentenced to ten years' penal servitude,
After serving nearly two years of his time,
he had escoped from Portland, getting away
in such clever fashion that he had never been
heard of since. Where he was no one could
say ; but lately there had been a strong am-
ple= amongst the police that light -toed
Jim was at Ins old tricks amen.
"Light -toed Jim I"I repeated. "I should
think so, Why, what do you know about
him ?"
He smiled and nodded his head. " Light -
.teed Jim," raid he, "18 in Westford (13 11110
'ere hidentical moment. —Listen to me,
officer. Lighttoed Jim is aegoin' to auk
a crib tomeght Said crib is the mansion in
Miss Singleton, that 'ere rich old lacly as
lives out. on the Meplaton Road. 'You know
her—awfully rich, with nought but women -
servants and &tuna's about the plem,
There's some very valyoble plate there,
That's what Light -toed JIM'S after, He'll
get in through the soldiery window about
0110 A. ; then he'll pass through the baolt
and front kitchens and into the butler's
pantry --only it's a lontleress, 'cos theta
ain't no men at all—and there he'll set to
'Work on the safe. Some of his late pals in
Foreland give him the tip about this 'ere
"How did you come to hear of it?" I mit.
ed,
"Never gevMor. You evouldn't
tinderstand. Now, I Wanta yoe to be up
there to -night, end to nab Light -toed .Jim
red-handed, so to speak. 1111 moan promo.
tion for you, and it'll suit me clown to the
ground. You wants to about Mid to
1,001011 him enter, Then follow him, and
dog hint, And ho armed, officer, for Jiall
How to Cook Green Corn,
Of usual and unusual waya of cooking
this delicious vegetable the following re-
ceipts will be found reliable and. the best of
their kind :
Housekeepers who must depend upon the
markets in large cities for their sweet corn
seldom taste it at its best. Whea you cen
go out and select from among your Stowell's
Evergreen, or your Early Minnesota, such
ears as are just ripe for the table, picking
them in the early morning when the dee,
lies thick upon them, and half 00 1,5100 after
can serve them 00 30001' breakfast table, you
have a luxurrthat the wealth of a Vander-
bilt on Fifth avenue cannot purchase.
The neatest way to boil corn is to remove
11 the husks except the inner row, lay back
the strip of 411k from the ear and with a
bit of string tee the husks in place, Have
ready a generous pot tilled with salted both
ing water, lay in the corn and allow from 15
to 20 minutes, according to the size of the
ears, 110111 the time boiling recoznmences.
Before sending to table strip off the husks
very quiekly and envelop in a corn napkin
to keep in the heat, Sometimes hot melted
butter seasoned with salt and pepper is
served in the hottest of g;rayy boats, but if
you eat your corn from the ear in the good
old•fashioned way, you had. better butter
and 1;000011 it yourself.
Roasted corn is delightful 11 300 have a
very hot oven or an open pate stove before
which they 0011 be cooked. Husk the ears
aod rub them Menu ; rub with Imam and
reason with mit and pepper, Place before
the fire or in the oven, aml turn the eara oc-
casionally so that they may cook evenly.
When all aro browned serve very hot
Miss Corson's green corn pudding cells
for six large ears of corn grated, six eggs
beaten, three half pints of milk and a sea -
!toning of salt, pepper and nutmeg, to be
baked. for half an hour in a moderate oven.
That of an equally celebrated cook, whioh
produces a sotnewhat different but equally
palatable result and has the added merit of
cheapness, requires you to split the grains
of them large eat's of corn, pushing the pulp
out with a knife. Mix with three pints of
milk, two beeten eggs and a seasoning of
salt pepper and if it Is wanted for a desert,
hada teacup(ul. of sugar.
GREEN CORN FRITTERS )1),—Miss COM011
gives this receipt : One phot of groted
green corn, ono gill of milk, the yelks of two
eggs dropped in without beating, salt, pep-
per, and about half a cup of flour or enough
to make a moderately stiff bather, Lastly,
stir in the whites whipped to a stiff froth.
leake as fritters in plenty of boiling fat, or
as griddle cakes with just enough fat to
keep them from burning,
Cons Isturrees (2).—Grate six oars or
split the. grains and serape the pulp out
with the back of a knife, add one beaten
egg, one tablespoonfnl of Hour and half a
teaspoonful of salt. Cook as before.
000:r FRITTBBIS 01. —The cateror of I. NOW
York club makes his fritters as follows
Put two raw egge in a, lerge bowl, stir in
three tablespoonfuls of flour, salt, pepper,
ttnil a gill of milk and mix smooth ; add tt
pint of grated 00 331133,0(1 corn and mix nab.
Fry in boiling fat.
STEWED Coner.—Cut through the centre
of each row of corn, aerapo the grains from
the skin of about a dozen ears of corn and
pot into a sancepan tvith enough water to
just mver, steam fey twenty minutest z odd a
tablespoonful of butter and as Intooll flour,
smoothly mix with milk season with salt
and pepper, and after a minute's boil add a
half pint at milk or cream.
The remaine of a dish of stowed oorn may
bo bashed with cold potatoes and cream,
letting all got thoroughly hot. Flqual
quantities of eolil cooked cern and tomatoes
heated together and served on toast makes
o nice lunch efish,—SAlice Chittenden, in
Albany anleinutor.
Virettre aed lasinosa may live together
but they are not usually on the best terms
MAN ACtAINST TIOSB.
"4%4141 iTtrit 14114grgaro 31 No 14,1110;11. r"
IL W118 111 the State of Mande°, New
Veneetwia. It was in the morning, and I
was with Manuel, the tiosordianter, on the
uountain.
ly I do not knew how long t1011 1101 end the
is tiger faced each other there In 1110 IlittTOW
he path like gladiator:4. It menial a long thne.
f. This was the test. The tiger tvaited in•
ht stinetitely sec the strange thing before
him then and run away as everything else
In the Millet invariably dal, but greatly t
hie surprise the thing steed ite ground likt
an immovable Pock, The tiger was king 0
the forest, and he knew it, and when he hat
made up his =ad diet this thing 1104S not
going to run, 110 001110 leeward slowly to in
Ivestigate, This WEIS coinage, even in a,
wild brute, and I reepeoted lam for It.
doubt if the lion 00 the tigoe of India lies
this unshakable nerve.
I looked at illenuel as the tiger came
slowly and cautiously along the path. Ho
atood like a bronze statue, with his spear
held oyer his right shoulder. Notes 111)1011
as an eyelid. moved, I confess chat during
this trying time I was a bit nervous. T1110
10013 d 1101V 1101.3: of hunting to ;Ile, and. a de -
(bled novelly In the actions of wild beast
which had not been attacked. I should
expeut an attack from it grizzly bear after
it had been woutitled, but assuredly, the
bear would not take the aggressive, as this
litho and beauttful boast was doing. I
vill acknowledge that my heart thumped
against my blue ilannel shirt so hard that
I was afraid. the noise would attract the at-
te»tion of the -tiger.
Slowly 011010 the tiger, like a, rock stood
Manuel, It looked as though the ease had
been reversed, and that the tiger instead of
the halfbreed was the hunter.
11(3 length the tiger was within touching
distance of tho nein. He lo)ked the bronze
flgure over from head to foot and then thrust
forwerd his head and sniffed at the mon's
feet. Back the groat beast eprang like a
steel spring. The figure nets flesh and
tiger's tail twitched back and forth
like a flail The great jaws opened in a,
snarl. Quickly the beast matured his clis•
tance and crouched with quiverieg sinews
for a spring, Stith calm courage nes grand
beyond all description, It was matched
only by the sterulfust nerve of the man.
Now come the crisia. I could see the
huge muscles heaving =dm the striped skin.
In another Se100/11.1 the tiger would leep upon
his 3)1e3,. In that instant the hunter mede
R MOIA011 81.111 Ma loft arm as quick as light
itself. He tore a handkerchief from his
neck and thrust it full in the tiger's face.
Up went the tiger's head in ti quiver of elec.
trice' amazement. Then the banter's poised
eight arm shot forward with incredible
force, and the spear buriecl itself half way
to the handle in the tiger's neck.
Ali, it WaS nobly done, and throughout it
all, from the beginning until the wonderful
ending, the hunter's nerve never faltered so
much RS Imir's breadth. Before I could
3, ()atoll my breath and swallow the lumps of
apprehension that had risen unbidden in
my throat, the fierce beast was dead in the
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l'elnle leadelley, or eattes1 shame of
elimitte, mason or bee The 4[10)14(1j 1, cid of
order, the head aches or de, uot feel right,
The Nerves
seem strained to Men' outwit, the 11/11a1 1.1
confused and irritable, This venetian ands
au exeelletit eorrective 111 1100311 SIITS111111.
rilht, which, by Its regulating 11101 1001110
1/011003, athal
Restores Harmony
to the system, and gives that streneth01 MM.
1 nerves, and whioli 111111303 0110 feel Wen.
ood's
Lost a River,
According to the Los Angeles Ikrairl, the
Southern Pastille Railroad Company has boat
O river, and in oonsequence has a Midge
whose occupation is eeone. The Whicewitter
River luta flowed from the Siena eltelre
Mountains across the sends of the region
just this aide of the Seven Palms as long as
any one can remember. The station of
Whitewater was located wheee the river
crosses the reilterty, and 1008 supplied with
water from its eurrent. During tho last
heavy rains the IThitewater rose in its might
and devastated. the whole country round
about, washing out the bridge and the road-
bed and playing the mischief generally.
Soon the rains and river stopped simultane•
ously, and the river has not becm found
since. It appeared to become. ashamed of
itself for doing so much harm, and has as>
parently slunk away in disgust and sorrow.
It is entirely gone. At no point does it
cross the railroad, as it woad have to d0
W010 11 still in existence in some new course.
The railroad company, in order to secure
water for its station at Whitewater, has
been obliged to build a pipe line way up to
the mountains, at considerable expense. Alt
last stammer, during the hottest, dryest
weathee, the river ran placidly along—in
act, it has never failed until after its " jog "
of this winter. Now it forms one of the
mysteries of that mysterious region, the
Colorado River desert, and perhaps is flow-
ing by the Pegleg Nino and possibly rippling
oeaitle the treasure laden Spanish galleon
which lies somewhere in that region buried
in sand.
English as She 10 Spelt I
It WAS 111 ono of our schools the other day
where I picked up the following thrilling
composition written by a twelve -year-old
girl, which is one of the best pieces of F,ng-
glish as she is " epelt " that nave 701seen:
A right suite little buoy, the son of a ker-
nel, with a rough around hie molt, fine up
the road as quick as a dear. After a thyme
he stopped at a house and wrung the bell.
His tow hurt hymn and he kneaded wrest.
Ho was two tired (0 18000 hi$ fare, pail face,
and a feint mown of pane rose from his lips,
The made who herd the belle was about
to pair a pare, but she through it clown and
ran with all her lithe, for fear her guessed
would not weight. But when tithe saw the
little won tiers stood in her ayes at the site.
Eive poor dear 1 Why do you lye hoar ?
Ate yew dyeing ?" Know,' he said, ' I am
feint.' She boar him inn her arms, as she
aught, to a room where he mite be quiet,
gays Iffin bred ancl meet, held a cent, bothle
under his knolvs, untide his choler, rapped
him up warmly, gave him a suite drachm
from a viol, till at; last ho wont fourth dB
hail as a, young hoarse."
The City of Palaces.
• St, Petersburg, which ia known as the
"City of Pekoes," is stekl to equal the
united magnificence of all irlie cities of
Europe. Thoth le =thing little oe me= to
offend the eye ell is grand, extensive, large,
end open, and the streets seem to consisi
cottirely of palmos. The publio sbructures,
whioh are very numerous, are all aomposed
of masses of solid granite In 703, 11/11011
Pater the Great chose this apo( for the site
of the Russian capital, it was little better
time a low matshy island, covered in summer
with »Ind, and in winter presenting the ap-
pearance of a frozen pool. Rome has also
been called the city of 'palaces, though it is
tot to bo compared to St. Petersburg, There
are 300 palitoes in Rome, of which aixey•
five only aro worth seeing, and these are
defined to be houses ividelx have arched
gateways into whith =ringers on drive.
Some of them polacee content pictures and
etttettee worth 3180,000 or 4100,000, but
with aottece evindow whose panes ore oll
Whole, or a clean staircase. Among the
fines1 pelaeoe are the Albani, Barbertni,
Colonna, Berle-P=1111i, Fathom, Farnmina,
8'3cialim issioujdy efillied 01I1'fe1lenib5', , at the foot of which "greet Camer
patll
I scrambled down from the rock and stood
beside the dead forest king, Manuel picked
up his handkerehief anti pulled out his
spear. Then was a faint suggestion of a
smile abont his impassive face.
" Dees the Senor America= believe ?" he
asked.
"Deo does," I answered, and I r C h Di I
the my hand in that universal brotherhood
of man which civilization can neva. efface.
1330 the side of that dead tiger the sevage
and the son.of clvilization were on the ono
common level of ninn. There could be eo
difference,
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fleeing From Iris Majesty,
A Chinese furterati never goes atraight to
the cemetery, but, in a trot, hurries up the
atroet end then makes a short turn into a
side street, trots up that and then turns
again, eays a Chinaman. Half a dozen times
n the mune of the march to the grave the
bearers of the body make these short turns
dud, occasionally, after Leaning, will suiden-
ly halt and wait for several minutes. The
purpose of them sudden turns and =expect -
e4 halts is to deceive Satan. The Chinese
prince of evil is a very great fool, and
can always be outwitted if you know how
to go about it, He Is always waiting at the
door of a hooso where one has died, but is
not allowed to stancl directly in front and
watch, 103 1(11101 take up a poeition a little
to one side. Ile is shortmighted, very
lame encl has no joints in his legs to citable
him to turn a owner quickly, When he
wants to go round a corner= must stop,
back in a half circle 1113 1)0 gets his face In
the proper dtrection, when he cen go ahead.
All those facts aro well known to the pall-
bearer, so when they oomo uut (11 0. house of
mourning they 00100 in &rim, 00 00 to get a
good start of the wicked ono, While they
are =king tho start bunches of fire•oraekers
ate set oil, in artier to distract the devil's
attention, and the nommon impression is
3h01 if enough crackers and powder aro
used eight at the stave the bearers can get
away with tho body before the demon can
clear the smoke out of his eyes and see
which way they have gone. But, lest he
should have pursued them without their
knowtng It, they run awhile, then turn, and
as if his majesty has been following thetn,
he shoots on by, mid before ho oen turn
bath they hove gone round the next corner.
The great p01:1110 to throw him off the teaek
so firecrackers are set off whenever a turn is
mode, in the hope of scoring him away or
putting him on the wrong road.
The Speed of a Horse.
While the public is still marveling over
Salyator's Nvoncierful perfoonance) M run-
ning a mile in I.351, there are few who have
though companion and analysis, sougth to
realize what a terrible burst of speed Weis.
Ws nearly forty 1111108 110 hoar—a rate
&Yemeni by very few of our fastest rail-
way trains, Theta are 5,280 feat in a nffie
so that for every one of these ninety -live
seconds—for every beat of amen's pulse—
this wonderful horse covered fifty•hye and
three -tenths feet of ground. Tho shortest
speoe of time noted by the turfman's wetah
is a (platter of a moond—an interval so
brief that the eye oan hardly observe, the
milldam hardly appteciato it. Yet in every
one of those 382 quarters of a mond that
onageilieent ()venture leaped sixteen and
throe -tenths feet, Such are the ramming
remits of careful breeding as exhibited in
the race horse.
Quartermaster -General,
Tho familiar proverb, " what is good 401'
111011 is good for his boast" is fully under
stood by all horsemen front the turf to the
farm, from, the stable to the saddle. Very
high authotities on the sttbject of horse and
cattle ailments, concur in the opinion of
General Rufus Ingalls, late Quartermaster.
General, U.S. Army, who says "St, Jacobs
Oil is the best paimenee We over used,
3)1 oonquers pain," This department has
the ousioily and treatment of minty horse
and mules, and thousands aro troated.
Sarsaparilla
deld by all druggists, 51; six ring*, Prepared only
by limn it. Apothecaries, Liecoll,
100 Doses One Dollar
Douglas Jerrold and the Duertera
A story connected with Jerrold's short
period of natal 001e100=3' well Mel n place
here. 011 one ocessien as midshipman,
haying gone ashore with 1110 capedn, .1 erteld
was left for a, time in ehaege of the boat,
While the 1111313111 1) \vas away two ef the men
asked for periniseion to go end buy some-
thing. Permission was g,yen by their
youthful and too good-natured officer, who
added :
By the way, you may cm well hay me
some apples and a few peeve."
" All right, sir," seiti the men, and off
they went.
The captain returned, but not the men ;
search was made for them, 1)111 1310)' were
not to be found ; they had deserted, and
Midshipman jerrold Wad 111 sad disgrace.
The event made a lasting impression upon
lihn, so deep a one that he declared he
could recognize the deserters at any time,
as indeed Ile did. Some thirty yews after-
ward, UR 110 was passieg along the Strand,
the ex -midshipman Was sfruck by the
pearence of a baker's man who was looking
into a shop window. He walked up to Iiim,
and rapping 11101 sharpiy on the back, said :
10030, my friend, don't you think you've
been rather a long time about that fruit ?"
The deserter was 1100110,SL 0110k LNG being
discovered, and mould 0,11)' WIN) 0131., '‘ Lot'.
sir, is that you ?" when Jerrold 01011 011 his
way langhing.—[St. Nicholas.
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Here is something from Mr. Frank
IL Hale, proprietor of the De 'Witt
House, Lewiston, and the 'Imatine
Hotel, Brunswick, Me. Hotel naen
meet the world as it comes and goes,
and are not slow in sizing people
and things up for what they are
worth. He says that he has lost a
father and several brothers and sis-
ters froin Pulmonary Consumption,
and is himself frequently troubled
vrith colds, and he
Hereditary ) often coughs enough
to malt him sick at
Co nsum ptionhds stomach. When-
ever he has taken a
cohl of this kind he uses Boschees
German Syrup, and it cures hhn
every time. Here is a nasal who
lalaws the full danger of lung trou-
bles, and would therefore be most
particular as to the medicine he used.
What is his opinion? Liston 1 03)
use nothing but Boschees German
Syrup, and have advised, I presume,
mora than a hundred different per-
soneto take it They agree with
me that it is the best cough syrup
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The Frond Fleet.
King Oscar, as everybody knows, is the
royal poot of the North. He came of Galli::
stock, and has sung in glowing verse the
praises of the French navy. Considering
these things it is not to be =steeled at that
the peesencre of a French fleet In Swedish
waters intule an epoch in the ordinarily
ciffiet metal life of the capital. The French
offieers were feasting at Drottninghoim
after a fashion that fairly took their breath
away. The insidious Swedish halloo, a.
punch that is as treacherous as it is sweet,
flowed like =ter and ran away with the
senses of some of the yeenger of the party.
The King toasted President Carnet mid the
navy, and the Admiral of the fleet resp en-
ded, elohningthe Swedish ruler as a want ry-
man and a friend of the trimolor, emicl the
enthusiastic applause of the 001113180 y.
Similar scenes ena ited at St. Petersburg
suggest ourious reflections. Sweden an d
Russia ere arch -enemies, implacable an d
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