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The Brussels Post, 1891-10-30, Page 3yyl 1 OCT, 30, 7.P011., THE BRUSSELS POST. 3 OABLid FORTD'NE, 111' 1':11"111. Curl, It poor little hnmpb1Ol:, and his widowed looting' lived in it cottage. 011 the shorn of a )ru'go river, :\l1hough they were not pool', the widow am) low son w011 oblig ed to work fur their1 vtn'r, and could 4(e ulli,rrlto 8pom11.)44.11'(ieu.'i411,11eno1s. (til w114 au llal nisi rams lad, and Londe wu•ing for 11,' garden, he naught fish:end sold ;hell for a good price in the ilei-,hbnring unvm, ', na1' 1110 widow's cottage stood it largo ('404)41 where lived Cont Cur:11 sod his only child, the beautiful ill nano' F 4 ,l 1, 'flit. Count WW1 l4 great lravele.r, (1(11) was seldom at home, Huts his daugh'.er led a very lonely life, One clay as Carl, with lite basket of fish, W11s on hie way to market he passed by the castle and the Count's daughter, who 0too11 at the gate, cried ; " Coale here, boy, and lot m0 see what 31012 1111140 1n your basket," Carl at once obeyed, and taking off the 41014014 showed the beautiful, fresh 111y11 which had been caught that morning. " If I had any money," 8+1111 Eleanor, "I would buy 11hem, for I ant very fond of fish, and w1, Beldon have them on our table." "You are welcome to them," said Carl, who was so charmed by the girl's beauty that he forgot his mother needed the money he was to tante hone. Tho little girl gladly took the basket and ran into the house. As Carl walked slowly homeward, wondering what excuse he should offer for returning without: either moneyy or basket, he heard a light knocking sound, which seemed to 001110 fro0 among the bushes. Pushing aside the branches he SAW, sitting on a toad stool, each snrro2arlerl by a curious crowd of squirrels, bnuter1lie0 and beetles, a little anon only about at foot high, with a yollon', wrinkled face 11(1,1 sones. 4•ilite hair and heard, busily )(unsling h`s shoes. Carl at once know that this !nu,t be one of the dwarfs, a'ltnittesaid to possess creat wealth, and ho determined to seize hint. Taking hint by the shoulder, Carl said : " Good day, little 111011 ; fine weather for yea' work." "Yes, it is 6 beautiful day," replied. the dwarf, who, though s'roatly frightened, smiled 011,1 wont nn 1~111)4 his work. " 1 8011 you are quite a shoemaker," said Carl." "Yes," answered the dwarf," I have learned the trade, but who is that crossing the river?" Carl was not so stupid as to look toward rho river, for he renew the moment ho turned his eyes away the little fellow would vanish. "Yon know, you rascal, that no 000 is crossing the rive'," said the boy, " and if yon do not tell 1110 where Ican find a chest of gold I shall pierce you with my knife." With nese words Carl drew his knife from his peokot, and, opening the sharpest blade placed it close to the little man's breast, " Oh, for Heaven's sake take away that; horrid thing," cried the dwarf, " and I shall tell you where you can find more gold than you can use,!" Carl drew back the Icnifo, ant the dwarf 0001 1(1 awl : "Ort the voy top of yonder 111011016111, which you can see in the distance, grows a solitary pine tree. If you will dig &boot its toots you wi11 find more gold than you can carry away. And now I must go honk." ' You shall not get away so cosily," said Card. "Pott must tell of gold that i811811rer, for I have no wish to climb that steep (14 111 ahll." And again lie placed his 1(0118 1)0(41' the dwarf. " Go not hurt me," begged the little 11111, " and I shall tell you where there is yet other gold. But w0 meat run, for there comes a raging lion, w11ie11 will devour ns )40111." '('('here?" asked Carl, as he turned to look in the dire0tiol in which the old man pointed. At that moment a low, mocking laugh sounded, and the little 1111111 cheap• pommel, and Cart know that he had been deceived. 1W'hon he remelted home he talk. ed so much about his adventure with the dwarf that his lnothot' forgot to ask him about his money and basket. She told him that the next time he mot with the Dwarf he must threaten to (till him it he did not show him the treasure before ho could count 20. Carl determined to follow his mother's advice, and the next cloy on 1110 WThy to and from market .he watched eager- ly for the Dwarf. But the little follow did not allow himself to bo seen for two clays. On the third day, however, Carl regain 10111111 Minn mending shoos, and seizing hint by the aril, ire eriod "Now I have you." " Is that you, Carl ?" said the dwarf inhis usual smiling manner. "It has 1)0011 s0111e time since 11100'0 seen you." You cannot get away fro) me this time," Bahl Carl " I am let s0 stupid 08 I calls the other clay." " I suppose yon want gold," said the dwarf. ' Why don't you ash me to straight. en your back ?" " Because I don't believe that you could do that," was the reply, " and I know that you have gold at your command, and I mean to have some, or your blood shall flow." 14. You are very wiokerl to -clay," said the dwarf," and look e0 savage that I am Aimee; afraid of you." For some time the little 10011 paid no heed to Card'a request, until at Iasi; losing all patiene0, the boy said ; " I shall haste no more time with you. If you do not show me the izoltl before I count 20,1 shall run lay knife right through your heart." And Oar! drew out his knife and placed the bright, sharp blade near the little man's breast. " Yon surely would not be so cruel as to kill ills," cried the dwarf, But Carl paid 110 attention to him and began to 0011144, " 1 2, 3." 1]'e ootlntec115, before the dwarf stirred, and Alan said " Stop, Carl, you area clover boy. You have conquered me, ancl you shall have all the gold you desire." The dwarf then stomped of the ground, and instantly the earth opened, disclosing to C,trl's eyes an im114811014 oaken o,e0t filled With gold and silver coins. " Is it Peal gold ?" asked Carl, " or will it veni01 ate I turn away," " It is genuine gold," ens the reply "which will remain hero until you carry it away. I give you my word for that, and when anelf oleo gives his word be always keeps it,y With a quick movement, the dwerf sprang upon a pine tree near by,and oriod : Yon shall be happy, arl, andhandsome, too." Hu then gave the boy 011011 a blow in the fano with a pine brauoh that for a moment Carl Was almost blinded, When 110 looked around again, 11e dwarf had <liseppearecl : but the ellest of gold was sell there. After filling all his p0eket0 with the precious gold, the boy fastened down the lid and covered the altos; with earth, Ho then hastened 110Mo and 0010(11 "Seo, mother, wheel have brought you, I caught the 'dwarf, and ho 1160 gluon Ino more gold than we 0141 ever be able to use." But 1netea1 of replying to her son's eager v14ard0 the mother gave a ury of astonish. linen; and said : "Is it yen, my clear Carl? The, vof0o and Mee are the slum, but When you went away tide morning you were 11 empbaclkoel, stoop• ed and small. Now you are su'aig111, tall - and handsome. What has hi -night about this change? 1 n life excitement over the gold (11111 had net 4(1,11.',',) tint 110 bock ruin boonmo oLrahoht, and that 110 could run without bo. 1118 1)1'011, Ile now knew what the dwarf 11,0,4,1)1 when he said " Yon shall be hand.. some, too," and he was sure that the little elf Ila,) by 001110 of ilia 111410 arts given 11110 n straight back, and he 1,011 back to the pine tree in hoz 0 of seeing the dwarf and thank. ing 111(41 for this great kindness, but the little fellow could not be found, and he was never again 00011 i11 0104 country. The widow and her son were now so rich that they did not 1(100\14 what to do with their money, and they spent many hours planning wheat use they would melte of their great wealth. Carl, who had seen many poor children in 11e oity whore he tarried his fish, wished to build comfortable homes for all those who were in need, and. his moth, 01', who was a good woman, favored the plan. Before the winter came scores of beautiful homes were built, and in the whole of that great pity not a poor family was to be found. Carl then had a most magnificent palace built, whin] was muo11 grander than Count 0,4,11'x, and a few years later he merried the betanif1i1Eleanor, an a lived a long happy life. Although Carl used groat 10an11it100 of gold, the chest never became empty, incl always seemed to contain as much as when the dwarf first gave it, Mon -of -War on the Lakes, In 1 81 7 an arrangement was entered into i>etweel t1 react Britain and the United Sthutes as to the naval force to bo respectively main- tained by each en the Anlerioan lakes. It wag not a n1L4tteL' of formal treaty, but the result of It correspondence between rho then British minister, Charles Begot, and the acting Secretary of State, Richard Rust. In terms, the agreement was that each govern. %omit might moth tain on fake Ontario one vessel not exceeding 1110 tons bnrthen, and veined with one eighteen -pound o6nn0n 1 on the upper lakes two ve00110 not exceeding like bnrtllen, each armed witih like force ; and on the water's of Lake Channplain one vessol not exceeding like bnrtllen and tlrma- ment. This agreement to he abrogated at six months' notice. From that clay to this, now something like threo•quttrte's of a cen- tury, a few small tubs, like the famous war vessel Miohigen, have prowled abont Uni ted States coasts, not pretending to dofond them, but, like bantam roosters, putting on much style and ever ready to vindicate their right to belong to tee United Status navy. This of itself was sufficient to contribute to the gayety of nations, but now comes James G. Blaine, Secretary of State, and gives notice that the Washington government will no longer hold to the agreement, but will at the proper time proceed to set afloat on the lakes a navalhlrnlament commensurate with the protection of the groat cities that lie along their shores, Thio Is a most propos. terous and absurd piece of jingoism, for why should the United Stator fear anything that this country or oven Great Britain, with her magnificent fleet, alight do on the lakes ? No English ironclad could ever roach the lakes from the sea, and even if there were clanger of it the Welland Conal Gould be blown into smithereens before any vessel could got through it. It looks as if lir. Blaine, by at ex0000ive, drought harmless, piece of jingoism, were trying to overawe us to annexation, Some of the World's Fair. There are seine very interesting women 00 the hoard of Lady managers of the world's fair. Itis rather remarkable that a large proportion of them are unmarried. Tho youngest of them all is 1\1100 Laurette Lowell, aprotty little brunette from Arizona. The two representatives from Louisiana are spinsters, and one of them, Miss Kate Minor, the fourth vine -president of the board, is a snceo00fu1 sugar planter, assisting her brother in the management of a plantation embracing 5,000 001'00. She expects to exhibit at the fair a creole kitchen and an Arcadian settlement. The member from Oklahoma, Mrs, Beeson, is a dainty little blonde•hairod creature, who makes tip in enthusiasm whet she lacks in stature. She says that Oklahoma is a paradise for pro- gressiva femininity, for there woolen are engaged in every occupation from raising cern and cobbling shoes to 0tlieing 1)0100• .papers. The undies aro ate eviden fly working hard for the success of the fair, and their exhibit is 111(01y, from appuarancee, to sur- prise the country. Blue Monday In Scotland, A pretty description of " blue Ixlonday' occurrences in Scotland is given by an Eng' list paper : As we neared the little croft some women were washing in the stream. They had brought their tubs and 01011110» to the river's hank to wash. They were bronz- ed, ileaithy-lookingScotch lassies, and wore pretty red or pink bodioos, the sleeeee of which were well tucked op. They filled their tube with water, and in w•one the clothes ; but the women did not kneel down to wash them; they first made a good lather of soap, ancl, gathering up tteirs1ore skirts between their legs, they stepped into the tubs,' In the usual Highland fashion, they were shoeless, and there they stood in the tubs and danced on the clothe,' until they were clean. It was a quaint 000110—the pretty ooloring� of the women, the rooky and green background, with the doop blue Suthorlandohire hills beyond. Living Upon Leonetti, A correspondent of the London Daily Graphic, writing upon the looil0t plague in north Africa, says : '" In reference to the diet of St. John the Baptist, who lived on locusts and wild honey in the wilderness, there aroSenlay-school teaohors who oar not believe that any ono would voluntarily live 011 such food, and, therefore, say that rho'1000041,05(1,' tho fruilof the 0arab tree, is meant by the writers of tho new testa - monk I can only reply Hutt the locust cricket, the 60rid0ln, polerinum, melee Or- thoptera, variety Saltatoria—the flying emit. .'retie of Afrioa—i1, sold at 1101f penny per pound in the market place of Biskra. (which is rho e00on1 oasis from the north in the Sahara), and that Hero itis cooked by boilhl with tale and water, as shrimps aro boiled 1>oro, 1 myself Have little doubt that; it 10 morenetritoht0than the latter) bemuse in March, when the insoct is gathered and dried, 1). 15 118 full of albumen as tat egg," Opportunity, is un respect to time 111 800041 001100, 110 time 18 111 respect to eternity 1 it is the small moment, the exact point, the 0ritd0al nllnuto, o1 w1(1011 every .good WorkWor so nttlell (10pel1le. T1±R017G11 ALBERT (JAB YON. F1'o111 1110 801k10101 lo the 'l'1leeupselr Valley --The Routs to II11n11o1>110. i11t0\1 a CO("U(SPONDIcsv,1 Nerern 131:Nn, 13. (1., Sept. 2e, 1801,--•1.110 elgh>f Objection diet the t'10ellel'1 lied to tills country is the difficulty they experionee in kuuw•ing whittle n'elork, 11, i0 all very 1ve11 up to noon, 1,4(' when it, valises that 110111' he Limo passed in mathematical elm. potation to fink out what time you are due no, any given point, the teal time when din- not- is to 10 served, and, above all, at what hour you must go to bed, 111 order to bo con- sidered perfectly reputable, until you have tried 11, you have no Idea what a drain it is 011 the mental faoultie0. And what le the 13e080 111 it. It Is muo11 0140101• to arrive at North Bend, for instance, ai 7 :45 (11 the evening than to got thereat the ontland1ah hour of 10:45. You take your dinner with more mental satisfaction at 3:110 than you d0 at 18:30, while as for going to bed at 22:27 is a state of affairs too humble to con- template. If British Columbia calls Gus tam• poring with tune reformation, she had much bettor go back to the old state of things and stay unreformed, if she doesn't wish to drive all the strangers within her gates perfectly mad in that 01111oet futile ltttempt to keep up with the Limes. The party began on this now method at 'Winnipeg. and 6hont a week of 111hat; &dean nearly every member to the verge of idiocy, If it wasn't for this, one would almost wish the journey might lever bo done, so full of grandeur and beauty and onjoymeet has every lutist of it been. It was wall real re- gret that good byes wore raid to the glacier and the waterfalls, and the pretty station nestling under the shadow of Donald : brit the Pacific: was luring us on, and there must bo speedy parting. Bat before the start was made, the conductor of the tram pointed out the series of loops over which the train was to pass on ins way down the valley of the Thompson River, and the brakeman fixed safeguards on the platform, so that those who lilted might ride outside over this wonderful piece of railroad en- gineering. And just here re word must be stud about the pleasure which was maim to the travellers by the officials of the train. Conductors and 1ralte00100 all seemed to vie with each other to point out the places of interest and to see that every one was nolifiod of all the remarkable points. Such attention and courtesy is rarely seen, anc1 it (1110 most thoroughly appreciated. And so, when this "drop 10140 to bo made from the mountains to the valley, it was no mat- ter of surprise to any of the travellers to find everything prepa•ed for them, so that they might have the full benefit of the view. It was a lovely morning ; the rain. had ceased, but bits of mist clung to the cedes of Donald and the glacier. Somewhere the sun was shining for the tops of the hills were touched with rosy light, while the sides lay in shadow. .From behind the veil of mist the waterfalls come leaping, and the great glacier lay, cold and white, under the blue of the morning shy. Tho train backed from the siding on to the main Creek, then, with a shrill whistle, started on its series of wind- ings, First the groups in the platforms looked clown to see where they were going ; a sudden tarn, and they lookecl up to see where Choy lad been ; there wore throe of these double loops before the mountain des- cent was made and then Albert canyon was reached. And then whet a turmoil of rush- ing waters : the whole of the 'Kicking Horse river, which afterward, and very soon, too, Widened out into a lake nearly GO miles long, was imprisoned between two walls of root but a few feet across. The gorge 1~00 more than 200 foot deep, and the maddened waters roared and plunged and beat with vain fury against the solid mass of rock which held thorn in. Such .t roaring as that w08 ; the river fairly thfnulwed in its rage, and shook the little wnocden platform which was built out over the gorge, and onto which the visitors bravely ventured, only to give one look into tho seething, boiling mass of water, and to torn back with a shudder. This canyon, although not so long as some of tho others, is altogether the grandest, and it makes a fitting close to the Selkirk 800017, which has been one uninterrupted stretch of magnificence from the very entrance to the final exit into the Thompson river valley. No one h(4cl thought of breakfast until the train had moved away from the Albert gorge, anti even then it was found a diffi- cult matter to think of eating with the magnifhoent scene through which the train was moving. If the 84411) 11 of the Bow hal seemed steep and the roadbed na'row, what was it hero, whore you looped straight down from the track into the rushing water, 100 feet below, You almost wondered what held you; tllore seemed no reason why you did name entailing clown though spans into the river, And yet, in spite of all the terror, we could but regret \vhen,the canyon widened and the train glided out from its shadow into the valley flooded with sun. light. And now the 11oiny river was wideniug into et quiet, placid lake, and on ire borders were set snug frame houses, not the log online of the pioneer, but• farm houses, looking not unlike the New England farm house with barns and outbuildings, generous in proportion, and telling of fine crops and abundant harvests to come. Anti all these houses were set in groves of trees; a narked contrast to the general lan1soepe in which trees were almost as few as they had been on the prairie. It is quite evident that the first thing that, the settler here diel when ho made his home, w08 to plant trees to give shelter, and make the home -like Bottled loop that nothing gives as trees do. They somehow take away from the "new," look, and give the sense of comfort that 0061>1ng else dons. 3.11 along the way morose the continent, ex. oopt among the Rockies and the Selkirks the travellers have been followed by fright red flower that strongly resembled 11e gar. den phlox, both in color and in 'manner of growth. 1t covered all the places that bad boon desolated by forest or prairie fires, and sometimes for mike the ground would be fairly crimson with its native blossom. The shores of Superior were made bright and: beautiful by its presence 1 it grow all along tho prairie, bording time roadway like a ribbon of decoration ; it crept along rho foot 111110 of the Rookies, and only stayed its blossoming when nature became too stinted in her resources to give it tho nourishment it needed. And More it was again smiling and nodding its cheery Welcome as though W0 worn old friends whoa it wits glad to greet, as we Came from the canyon into the valley. How everybody oxelantod, when its rosy glean first 0011910 the eye, 011111; ing up from the becalm of the burnt August glass. We had the thought it was lost, but, starting with 118 in the groom valley of the Ottawa, it was evtdoity boat eh att0o(lfng 01114 way t1I1 eve reach- ed time once of the journey,' and said good -by to the train while w0 gave greeting to 1110 boat; that was to tanto 00 norms rept 8om(1. It was a 011000y, sturdy friend, and stood for the symbol of Loyalty. 1Vo lied grown to love it, and to lave 6 01rt of feeling of personal tend0101080 to it, In no way 4180 11)410 so 0111111111 than h tin caro with which every ono 1403,1inu from puking it. When the train steppe" et any point the young men would Pimp mitt, um, 8(101' a few anilines, would 101(11, Link bringing handfuls of gay posies to those who ata elt 011 rho train, but no one picked the phlox 1 it had too much the re lutiok of a friend to Inane kt unhappy by separating it frcln 1)s kindred. Gurill4 the rice through the valley the decorative maze tank p000ussion of the yomng people, and they tied garlands to the platfol'nl of the cars, 011 11,1004 butches of flowers and gl'110008 into every available spot. Jost a workWWI .1011[ a train rail into ivas h 'when tl L the funny town of 1{aIl0nps, and slopped, greatly to alto edilleation of the populace, who were gathered to see the "extra 0001' fn. It is a great thing to bo +"1 "extra" on a tran0o0utu10ntel road. The only exolte. anent of the clay 10 the arrival of the milder train, and when to that is added the frost cocone1410111 of an "extra" train then fueling rims high and enthusiasm is unrestrained, If one has been a 01111d in a country 10W0 W1040 the one excitement of the whole country side was the annual visit of the oir- cue, one 01111 gain something of an idea of the interest whioh attaches to an extra train in one of these villages. And when that "extra" conies in docked liken May queen with posy garlands and nodding plumes of grasses, it is small wonder the oomments of the community are diotinetly audible, and that the whole party is made to feel as though it were a sectio] 0f Barnum & Bailey's " grand aggregation." At least that Is the way some of the party confessed to feeling as they entered Kamloops. But if the travellers delighted the dwel- lers in the faeming divisional railroad town, how much more did Kamloops itself delight and manse the travellers. It was a busy, busting,assertive plaoe, and evidently con. Minna. " ail sorts and onndhtion0 of lieu." There wore the sante phases of humanity that have been seen at all the other towns, developed in all moll ways, and added to that a largo Chinese c0ntmgent. It had quite the air of a metropolis,had Kamloops, and ono finds one's self speaking of it with a certain respect. Al! the houses seemed open,witb the people living on sidewalks or balconies e1Oept one; that was the residence of the member' of Parliament, and it was fenced about in a fa8hion quite proper, giv- ing the air of exch1siveuess,mld withdrawal that should oharacterizo so 1ug11 a1 official, As in all those towns along its lines—with the one 0x00pt1On of Benin, the railroad ran through the main street, and really there seamed to be no other. It was one of the largest towns along the way, certainly the very largest since Calgary, and it must have extended quite a mile, the houses being set very closely together. The upper end was given Ove: to the Chinese, and here was the joss house and the restaurants on a smaller scale, as they exist in the larger cities. Kamloops is at the western side of the largo lake, and it is but a little below this point where it enters the F1'azer river. At North Bend the train was again stop- ped for a night. This is a mining town at the entrance of true celebrated Frazer canyon a queer little place, with no roadway, but with pony trails in every direction. When some of the travellers commented on this peunliarityto the Scotch lassie, who is the efficient manager of the hotel et this point, sho said : "And why would one be wasting words? There's no where to go except where ponies are better and safer than carriages. The travellers found out a good bit about this youthful landlady before they want away in the morning. '.Clhe college president was mooaing around, looking to see what there was thin W(4a worth while, and presently he came along with a handsome book in his hand and auothor under his arm. Ile open- ed to the fly loaf of the one he Ilelcl in his hand, and here was what the persene to whom he showed it real: " Inverness College, to Miss Jeanie --for excellence in oylato composition, first prize." Tho next one was also a prize from the sante college to " Miss Jeanie--" That was enough to interest the women, and they began making acquaintance 1vit11 the prize girl, who, from winning books for excellence in composition writing, had 0om0 to bo managing a hotel out on the Canadian t'aoifio road. She told her story simply enough. There were four sisters in a well to do family in Scotland, reverses cane, and the father started for the new world to re. trieve his fortune, and the daughters and the mother mole too. "I) wasn't altogether what w0 would have 01100011," 0a1d the young Iranian, "but we were good business manager0. We got an opportunity to work for the react, and we were speedily promoted, Do you remember the hotel at Stephens?" Everybody remembered the quaint little place, that 40140 so picturesque in situation, and so exquisitely dainty and heat. " Well, two of us girls are there, and two are hare. We stay the year round, for this is the place where the people front the regular house dine, and w0 are busy all the time, and see a good (teal of the world as it 000108. tO ns. In the summer people often atop off and stay a week or two, for the smeltery is find about here, and there is good hunting and fishing, I melte good friends, who do not forget me, and many a book and magazine and paper finds its way loco un the woods, The people about here are kind, and oven the rough moi among the, miners are good t0 us, and never molost ns. But it is mince when ladies come, anti I oan talk to them about things that are going on in the world, and feel that I ant not falling behind everybody." The claim of that little hotel at North Bend will not soon be forgotten. Even the office was a feminine work, its Davenport desk, Me draped table with papers and books, its easel with pictures, its flowers and birds. Tho boxes that held the mason- ]fno oigar0 wore hidden by flowers, and (Ip against the wall hung a shade hat and a jau1ty reefer jacket. It's no wonder people often "stop off." How can they resist tho temptation of North Bend, its shooting, its'. fishing, its noted scenery and—its hotel keeper? d D VARFS AND DWARF WOl1,SHTP, 1' l queer 070104/1 or 1doIoiry7:I' rarlloed by 1 } the .l300ro. In the Lnndml %101,1 of a recent date 111r. i R. 11. Ifeliberten, who lately read a 401y ' interceding paper on the dw&rfs of 3loro,vo before the (Meows of Orfontaleas, hu; a letter upon the snhj1at, in width he dm 0111,0 in detail the "entero of this race j whom he knew 1e, :Morocco, 1,1 the Benno number of the filo..~ there 10 a letter from ;mother Orientalist, 2,1r. Walter 13. 1Ia'rie, ,111 strongly supports Mr. IIaliblu'tntis statements as to 110 exietence of (hie race, bl a far : Matt/ n It dill l0 nu hint in life evpl u,utl m f 11e serreey 10111011 the Moore have always � preserved about them, 16 is, 10deed, a 0inguler thing that the Moors should have 91.0000410,1 for 3,1100 years fn malting a 0ecret of the existence of a moo of dwarfs f,ntr feet high in the Atlas Mountains but a few hundred miles from the Mediterranean. This 000rot, however appears to have been 01100010fully kept till two or three years ago, Mr, Hallburton's expl4aatiou of the secrecy of the Moors Is that the dwarfs have been regarded by the Moors as holy mon. A dwarf is called " our blessed Lord," and is looked upon as a great suint. One Moor said to Mr. Haliburton 1 " It is a sin to speak about them to you. I shall any nothing." Another said : " God has sent thele to us, \Ve most not talk about them." They are believed to bring good leek, and ora the guardians andprotectors, like the Palladium of the Trojans, of the towns in which they lire. Mr, Harris's inquiries, however, led him to believe that the dwarfs were not worshipped by rho 3foors, but that the 'Moorish reticence regarding Brom (0100 the remains of a superstition far older than any Hutt would exist in Mohammedan tinges. He differs also with Mr. Haliburton as to the religion of the Ilwalfs, ho1,1141g 011001 10 ho 'Mohammedans, and believing that they could not Iot(0 existed 110 infidels, surround. ed as they hese been by tho most fanatical I! 3iollameieden tribes, air. Haliburton describes the dwarf I.e know in Tangier its very brosd•sl,"ublered, with a peculiar reddish complexi,), —a com- plexioir, we beldel•e, mach like that of an Anlerioan Indian. This dwarf had good features and almond -shaped eyes, slightly olanlhng up at the side like a Chinese oyo. His oxpreooiol was honest, intelligent, and good•huniorell. I3e let 4jr. Haliburton mark his height on the wall, although in a tremor, fearing the "evil eye." He 100,1111 not remove his fez, and raised This heels Some two inches from the floor, allowing for wlrioh his height was about four feet six inches. The dwarf described by 3Ir. Harris world not allow himself to bephotograpled of mea- sured, There is nothing remarkable in this, however. Savages, and even the lower orders among civilized nations, show an un- willingness to be drawn or photographed ; artists tall us that the same unwillingness is 0)10('10 by the animals. The reason, upper. ently, is not so much an unwillingness to be " taken" as a dislike of being looked at. These dwarfs were, however, rattler com- municative as to the peculiarities of their race. They describe the dwarfs as very brave and so active as to be able to jump over three calneleplaced side by side. They are great hunters of ostriches, and have small, swift horses, palled by a name signi- fying "those that clrink the wind "—this expression, no doubt., referring to their abi- lity to go long without water. Tho horses are fed on (laths and camel's milk, and are very lean. It is curious that both in com- plexion and activity of body these Moorish dwarfs should resemble the dwarf Akkas near the Albert Nyanza, who are also about our feet high, but are savages. Upon the subject of the worship of the dwarfs in .Morocco, a young Jew, now living in Manchester, but a native of Morocco, says that he has often seen a dwarf who lived in his native village, 611') who was looked on as a groat saint and kissed on the shoulders by the Moors as he passed through the streets, a salutation which is an net of reverence. It would appear that the dwarfs are not only regarded as saints but as devils also. The chief of a company of dwarf ttorobats tools his troupe to par. form in a 011100e near Timbnctoo. The per. fornlanoe wa0 not 6 profitable one. No- body came to it, and not only was this the ease, but the performers discovered that the entire village had run away, believing the acrobats to be imps at play. But what- ever may be the fact as to the existence of dwarf worship at the present time, there is no doubt that the superstition has ox. fated from the most remote ages, Their pictures are found upon Egyptian monu- ments of a date loltg antecedent toany civil. teethe in Greece. It is the belief of Mr, Haliburton that these dwarfs brought with L110/11 into Oreese the origin of much of Greek mythology. Ho found 111011y Greek super- stitions among them, such 08 the stories of the Styx and of Cadmus. The dwarfs have always been famous its smiths End arti- fiuers, Their occupation has also to a con- siderable extent boon subterranean. They have been devoted to the sinking of wells, and they aro, no doubt, the builders of 1.18 cave dwellings found in the Atlas Moen Mine, which from their height must have been inhabited by a race low in stature. A Valuable Oow'n Butter Yield, The test of Bisson's Bello 3114, who pro- duced in the year ending July 15, 1801, 8,412 pounds and 7 0111(0es of milk, from which was made 1,082 lbs. in azo. of butter, whioh is published in full in tho Jersey ]3u1- leein of last week, is an intereeting study. In the s000nd wooh of her test, sho gave 257 lbs. 12 ozs, of milk, from which w69 11311(10 38 lbs, 10 000. of butter, • showing 0 porloltago of 11.10 of butte', while for 0 similar period ht Slay of this year she gave only 132 lbs. 10 ors. of mills which peon u1,. ed 181)10, 4 ons. 0014.23 per cent, of butter, I3or food was of 000180 leber61, and while it must have cost up,verd0 of 5100 during tie year, the 11/1110/0 produced, at 25e. per pouted, foots up to ; about 3,257, Besides this, elle dropped a 11110 b1111 calf that, will be worth fully as much more keying a not profit of not less that 3300. A herd of such cows would Boot malt0 their 0W1101' as rich to pooleot as tlhoy wore in butter, If .Horses Oeuld Talk, Don't hitch me to an iron post or railing when the mercury is below freezing. Don't compel>ne to eat more salt than I want by mixing it in my oats. I know bettor than any Ott or animal how much I need, Don't think because I go free under the whip thlut I don't got tired. ]Don't think because I am a horse, that iron weeds and briars won't hurt my flay. Don't wrap ale when I get frightened along the road or I will expect it next tine and maybe make trouble, Don't trot me up hill, for I have to carry you and tho buggy and myself too. Don't keep my stable very dark, for when I go out into the light my eyes are injured, especiO I3 of there is snow on the ground. Dort'; say " Whoa" unless you moan it. Teach 1110 to stop at that word. Don't make me drink foe oold watt. nor put a frosty bit, in my mouth, Warm tho lift by holding it a half a minute against mybody. Don't forgot to file my teeth when they getjagged and 100111011 ellen my food, When ii get loan it is a sign my teeth want filng, . Don't ask mo to " belt" with blinds on ; I mil afraid to, Don't runt me down a steep hill, for if any. thing 01on)ct give way I might break. your neck, Don't put et the blind bridle to that it irritates my eye, or so leave my forelock that it will he in my .eyes. . Don't bozo careless of 4(;y harness 118 ,7(4 lied a groat 0or0 on me before you attend to 11, Dont leave me to soneeblockitiatl ti(0.)) has less sons0 than I have. al1 "Alt," said a kind.lroarted ole; lady who Was -passing an asylum for the blind, "If all the world were blind, what a mela11- elholy sight it would be 1" A WONDERFUL DIAMOND Ito Owner the Here in a Brilliant 11oyel, $2,080,000 ASKED FOR 'ewe 1'Itli(110E8 MONS. A lawsuit is now pending in Calcutta be. 0w0a41 two 1000018 1 0,1i11.11 etlara1tat's, 41110 0110 10 11 ;1 ( l11l1elt 10 t:1i of Hyderabad, and the other great diamond, the merchant; Alexander 31 Myelin Geary Subo'tjeo, hotter known :s Alexander Malcolm Jambe, he being the hero of Mariou Crawford.); navel, ,r M. r Mattes," is 111 serious trouble, Mt: Jacobs orale al agreement with the Nizam to sell 11in1 11e Imperial diamond, the large est in the world, for a trifle over $2,000,000. He asked however, for lug'Avarice of $1,000,- 000, and the demand VMS conceded. Mr, Jacobs knight the (tame from some London dealers, agreeing to pay 41750,000 for it, and to forfeit te10,04,0 if the sale was not eono17id- ed. He would have made a clear profit of a million dollars. The diamond eves a right royal stone. It weighs 180 wu'ate, while the famed Kollinoor, the " Moalitain of Light," which the English took from Dhuloep Singh, weighs only 100 carats, The latteris in the possession of the Queen of England, and the was some talk el presenting her with the Imperial dianlold on 1110 occasion of her jubilee. But the Nizanm was not satisfied with the Impe1iel. He is supposed to have t1Oughl it but a shabby kind of thing, not at all good enough for his Nizaniship. Perhaps a fit of persitnouy may have seiz- ed him, and no wonder even for a man of his vast wealth, who ,peudsunheard of sums. en Guillotines, miserable daubs of pictures and such useless brie -a -brae. He flatly refused to have anything to do with the. bauble, and cunoeled his negotiations like an arbitrary ltospot as 1e is. 1110. JACOB IN A 1>A11 PIX. This placed 31r. Jacobs in an awful fix. He could not chancel his agreement with the Loudon dealer as somtinarily as did the fickle Indian potentate. So he had to pay up the 510,001) forfeit money as per agreement. And to make /its position worse tho royal bargainer asked nim to ' divvy up " the 15.1 ,o",000 " 10'h,is ". Mr, I8aa00" could not do, as, relying on the Nizam's word, he bad invest- ed a large pert ert of the money in jewels. So he refused point blank to be made a fool of, and, as the .Nizam had broken his agree- ment, " lilt'. Jacobs" wouldn't return the cash, And there the matter stands, pend- ing the decision of the High Court at Oat. gutta. A S"{ET01I OF 510. I0,41CS. The following sketch of the life of " Mr. Isaacs" is taken from the ;'all Mall Bsrlget: " Mr. Isaacs" was the son of an Italian resi- dent in Constantinople, who made a compe- tency by menufacluriug soap for the Ilse of the " true believer" out of the refuse of olive oil, and who, in consequence, was known by the name of " Saboonlee." When scarcely in his teens yotmg Barre—for that is " Mr. Isaac a" real cognomen—entered the service of an engineer employed in laying the tele- graph lino frotn Scutari via Diarbokr to the Persian (.ill f : thence, after many wanderings in Armenia and Persia he shipped 014 an Arab bug;alow for Bombay, and worked his way to 24 j•dorabad in company with a hoer -- chant who (0410 convoying a shipment or ladies for the Nizanl's'/'.mann. Young 13arre, who was an 6clep11 at Oriental languages, re- eeivad employment with the lata Nizam, passing under the name Of Suliman Roomani and, outwardly at any rate, profesecells10m. On the death of his master, palace intrigues arose, SUMO of the elder members of the family refuseing to recognise the legi_ tlulaey of the child now reigning over the ten millions who people 111e Setat of Hyclerebad. In truth, those who remem- ber the stalwart proportions of the giants: who have heretofore ruled in the Doreen am scarcely credit the fact that the dlminu tivo specimen of humanity now sitting one the Musnud can be a child of the Turki warrior who conquered Southern India for the Great :Mogul. HS FLED FOR 1719 LIFE. There are princes in Hyderabad still liv- ing who openly boast their claim to the throne, and one of these intrusted young Stillman Roomani with a letter to the 33rd- tish Resident, contesting the legitimacy o3 the boy Nizaln. Barre learned the contents, of the letter, and, feelingthat, wilt:me :won, in tho promised strugglhis life at any rate would bo forfeited (for in the year 1870 hn. man life was not estimated at any high value in Hyderabad), he determined to try fresh woods and pastures naw. In disguise he escaped to Poona, thence to Madras, where for some time he posed as an Armenian, alelcone, Hagopian, and then he entered the service of the Maharajah of Ulwar. here again he became involved in palace intrigues, and {vas deported from the State by the political agent, Col. Cadet'. From Ulwar Mr. Isaacs " passed into the so•vieo of the Maharajah of Dholopore ; and, after a few years, having amassed some capital andl leased more about precious stones than most living experts, he proceeded to Simnla, and commenced business on his own aoeonnt. For more than tel years his shop has been the resort of all curiosity hunters in Indiry his 0011eetiens of oofns, jade and oldhiohein- medan books being alnlo0t' unique. Mindfnl of his Hyderabad experience, " Mr. Isaacs"' religiously kept away from Deccan, but at last his anxiety to share in the immense 01110 which the Nizam was squandering in. jewelry led him in 181)0 to put his hood within the lion's jaws, He need have no fear• 000E A LITTLE SLAVE 001. Few would recognize in the wealthy Simla jeweler her. Jacobs, the little slave boy, Soliman Romani. After several interviews with theNizan, onlyeneompassed after the payment of large sums 111 baoksheesh to palace underlings, "14Ir, Isaaos" deter- mined to avow his former connection with Efydorabad, thinking it might aid ilim in his business, and, availing himself of an opportunity when he was alone with Hie Highness, he related 121e ~~hole story of his • life in the late Nizanl's household. That is an incident quite in the style of the "Thous- and and Ono Nights"—of which, indeed, the chequered career of our hero 1s in other ways rein1)11500116. Two Men. Two mel tolled side by Dido from son tOestm, e And oth tvere poor; Both sat with children when the tiny was done! About their door. Ono saw tae$ en 4(t fultant 1eri1110041 cloud Tho other, with ht011ead in sadnos8 bowed, Mule night of noon. Ono loved each. ;roe, .and flower, and ;Angina 1>It'd On 100110t or plain: No music 111 rho soul of one ~vas stirred rte leaf of rain, Ono sale Ilio g10,11 ever 10110w 1110.11, And horsed the best; The other marvelled aphis ahestor•s'lilan d.itd'doubt conf(0001. Ono, 1avin�gheaven above and heaven boloty, Was satisfied. 'rho other, d1ise011tontecl, lived in woo, A.nd hopeless died.