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The Brussels Post, 1892-7-8, Page 71 JULY 8, 1892, THE 1311USSELS POST. HOUSEHOLD. -- A Knot of Hair, She has a knot of Russet hair ; It seems a simple thing to wear Through years, despite of feshionat check, The sante doop ooll about the nook; 13ut there It twined When first I knew her, And leattnee with passion Ito pursue hoe, And, if she changed h. to my mind She wore a orenture of now kind. On others [the nay Ibleb the wlso, Strong 1)1111 01 apprehending 0)MS. And make who fronts her bet -cute groat With hopes that awe and stimulate. 'Me happy lot Bo mine to follow These thermal, hem gh lovely curve and hol, low, And mu80 a lifetime how that -got Into that wild, mysterious knot, 0, first of women who heat laid Magnetic glory 05 418 br id In others' tresses we may mark If they be silken, blond, (archaic; But thine we peels°, And dare mat feel them; Not Hartnett god ot theft, dare steal theta ; 11 18 onough for aye to gee° Upon theft vivifying maze, -iallohnel Field. How to Combine liemnanta. Clever shoppers get elegant cleesses at small expense by buying two remuants of here Mous °Mora. One remnant is a skirt pattern of the fine double width woolens, etich as Russian velours, plisse veiling, or honey.comb °moon, the width serving for the lengt a cf the skirt, and onlythree yards and a third or a half being requieed, The part sloped away in the seam at the back of the skirt will make a corselet, or a deep- er peasant waist, or else a small Figaro jacket, or a 'Mikado that opens up the back. A second remnant of clutnaeuble thrall will make a shirt waist or gunnpe with large sleeves, and should repeat the colors of the skirt, or else 1)8 (0 eon (rut with it. Thus a bell shirt of black Russian velours with turquoise blue cords has a Swiss belt of the same with a bloese of black and blue dots, while a akirt of blue crepon In lines like 13e 'ford cord 11818 11 aquare-cornered Mikado jacket over a blouse, and sleeves of green and blue ahot, surrth speckled with gold. Black satin ribbon is -used as a belt and collar, also to bind the jaeket broadly, and in three uarrow reales on the skirt. An effective end new way of combining two fabrics in a dress has the slightly deep. ed skirt. Thus a Paris drew of gray crepon With cross stripes of pale blue has a lower skirt, vest, and half sleeves of gray -blue twilled ailk. The lower skirt, is in bell ahape, slightly long, and the back seam is left open. On this is hung a orepon bell skirt, with the selvage of the lower edge left ittact-not curved with the pattern -and carried op eaoh stde from the foot of the front to the top of the back, thente dropping double in a fold half the length of the skirt. A half -breadth of the wide ere• pon lined with stiff lawn is then let tn the whole leugth of the open baok seam of the silk skirt, and made to fall in a graduated Watteau fold, the efleet of breadth and fulness at the top being completed by the half,ffing folds of crepon ou each side of it. The round creptn waist has a oft putted vest of the silk crossed with bands of embroider. 1 colonies there. We reached Georgetown ed galloon. The sleeves have a large puff of I in due time, and discharged& part of our orepon at the top, with long close sleeves of , eargo, and just as we were ready to sail we silk below. A band of galloon edges the i were notified that ten convicts from the puff and the wrists. ',French penal settlement of Cayenue had got away to sea in the yawl of a French meta 1 __ though the preserves are muoh handsomer LI, appearance if this is done, Strawberry preseeves abould be kept in a octal, davit plum or they will be liable to ferment in Ote heat of the summer, lie safest way is to paok the jam in boxes of fiend and set theM 181 art (00I a plum es yeti have, remenffiering that dampness ie as objectionable tre heat. Some Cleaning Hints. Savo your cold tea; it is excellent for cleaning .grained wood, Applying kerosene with a rag when you are about to put you stoyee away for the summer will prevent them from rusting. 1)00 00100018 soda for cleaning your tin- ware. Dampen a eloth Fled dip In soda and rub the ware briskly after whiclt wipe dry. A great convenience when oleauing houtte is a stick with a noteh in the end that will lift the plater° cords off from the hooks without so much stepping up and down. Papered wells are cleaned by being wiped clown with a flannel cloth tied over a broom or bruah. Then cut off a thiek meth of stale bread and rub down with this. Begin at the the top and go straight down. Hob alum water is the best insectade. stroyer known. Put the alum into hot water and let it boll till it has all dissolved; then apply the solution hot to all cracks, closets, bedsteads and other Oleos, where any insects are found. Ants, bedbuga, cockroaches and creeping things aro killocl by it ; while there 18 00 danger of poisoning the family or injuring the property. To clean oilcloth it must be wiped per- fectly dry, 00 le is washed. -Use little soap and this in tepid water ; change often. A good brush and a piece of clry flannel will make oilcloth look like new, especially if linseed oil or skim milk is well rubbed in after washing. 11111 addition to these pre- cautiont, the cloth is varnished annually it is almost indestruotable. CAPTURED BY CON VIOTS. -- Desperate Fateoullter at Sea, --a Brig ill the Minds or Escaped Prisoners. The brig in which I shipped to make a voyage from Jamaica, to Pernambuco and return, calling at Georgetown en route, was called The Little Queen. She was a trim, new craft, just out from England, and was commanded by one ot the oldest mariners I ever saw in active service. His name waa Rothsay, and he was hale and hearty at 79, years of age. .11 may ire re- corded as a curious thing that he was the only Englishman aboard of an English craft. Both mates, cook, and all foremast hands were Americans, and three of the men were Cape Clothiers. The explanation was that wo had been wrecked in a sugar vessel in the Caribbean Sea and pieked up and carried to Jamaica by a. British stetunship. There were nine of us all told as the brig left the island. Georgetown as you will see by the map, Ls on tht north coast of Brazil, in the State or province of Guiana. A strip of territory SOO miles long by 500 broad is divided up among the British, Dutch, and French, and the two latter have established penal chantman. Little atteaition was paid to How Dust Gets In. this notice, as such escapes were by no When the air around us becomescontlens- meaus rave, and when we began our run ed-shrinka into a smaller volume -it be- comes heavier, puts greater pressure on the surface of tbetnercury, and makes it ascend in the tube ; then tho mercury is said to rise. When the air exponds-swells into a larger volume -it become lighter, the pres- sure on the mercury is less, the mercury sinks in the tube, and the barometer is said to fall. Therefore, 08 ery change of height of the quicksilver which we observe is a sign and mestere of a abuse hi the volume of the air eround us. Further, this change in volume tells no less upon the Me inside our oases and clipboards. Whet) the barometer falls, the air around expands into a larger vol- ume, end the air inside the cupboard also expands and forces itself outat every min- uto crevice. When the barometer rises again, the air inside the cupboard, as well as outside, condenses and shrinks, and air is forced back into the cupboard to equal - Loo the pressure; and along with the air, in goes the dust. The smaller the crevice, the stronger the jet of air, the farther goee the dirt. Witness the dirt -tracks so often seen in imperfectly framed engravings or photographa. Remember, ladies and gentle- men, whenever you see the barometer rising, that an additional charge of dust is enter- ing your cupboards and drawers. down the coast THE INCIDENT Emmett out of our minds. One day at noon, when we were to the south of Cayenne ancl about forty miles oft the coast, a num aloft disoovered a ship's boat about, two miles away and heading down across our course. As slur was standing in from seaward our first impression woe that she earned a shipwreked orew. I had just come on watch When the boat was reported. Al soon as I levelled the glass at her I detected the elothing of French convicts, and counted 00 oven ten men, The emit was under sail, but the breeze 8)105 11181)1 aud the sea smooth. She was on our port quarter, 081(1 11 we held on she would intercept us. A.0 soon as the Captain was notified of the discovery he ordered the brig kept; off four, or fivo points, and then called the orew aft and notified them that if the convicts got aboard they would not hesitate at mur- der. Half a dozen muskets would have given us a powerful advantage, but there Wee not even a single -barrelled pistol in the brig. 1( 11 came to a figlib we could only arm oerselvas with cepstan bars and belay- ing pins. 'We had hopes, however, of get- ting off without coming to close quarters. While the wind was light, we had nal sail on the brig, and there was no question that we could outsail the yawl. de soon as we shifted our helm the yawl raiaed a drink, and we ask yolt in the name of hu. WOULD-BE BICYCLISTS, tnenity to snpply us." -- The elapthin conoulted with 105 10 regard S01110 TWA 11 WO Sagge,tiODS Learniag to it. They must wine alongside at order How le 80,14.. 10 1,800110 supplies, mei when they had once He wes an eethesiatitie whealmen, He hooked oil who could may what they might would got ut at daybreak for 0. spin through attempt'? licaitles, we had little or aunt. the country rud hero, home front Imo- ing LO spare. They had been afloat five or 0018 01 night for a brief run on hie Safete, six days, and none of their faces exhibited He foiled some sort of a contrivance with -di evidence of suffering. he clammed ou the front part of his machine, " 1 havo nothing tospare, and I warn you and into it he alarmed his chubby, twa. to keep off I" Rimmed the Captain in emswer yeataold daughter, 'There she rode like a Lo the request. bird on a benne!), springing up and down AS \Are had seen no Unita among them, and they rolled, along over tile einooth roads, had supposed them to be without weapons a II) man uoxt door looked with envy of say sort. To our great surpriee five upon the wheelinaii. He thought hia ileigh muskets, taken from the guard when they hoe wee having altogether too math fun, escaped, were muddenly, lifted into viow, "Look ben," he said a few eveninge ago while four oare dropped into the water, and as tho man with the wheel lifted his little the yawl made for our bows. There Wee a one down from her porch, "11 seems to me fierce yell from every ronvict, and thee° I'd like to ride one of thaws blatned things. with muskets opened fire. Coma Rothaay I'd get one Hit didn't take oolong to learn." was killed, and the second mate wounded "But it doesn't take so long to learn." even before they had hooked on. I "How long do you think it would take me?" WE SCALDED THEN "Web), you look like a mom with an or - with boiling water, and fought them with (Unary amount of gray matter, in the up - whatever we could lay hold of, but within per part of your head. I guess you could five minutes the brig was captured. We teem to ride in about un hour. had a foremast hand killed in the fight on " hour Go on ; your joking. Why, it deck, and none of us escaped injury. As would take me a week," an offset, we killed two af the convicts while "13ot you I can teach yon to ride inside they were trying to board. They had bay- of an hour." onets to their muskets, and it was either "Go you a box of cigars," surrender or be killed. It is but justioe to "Done. Of course you'll do your best the fellows to say that they wore not par- and follow mv instruoticns?" ticularly bloodthirsty, and thet es soon es "Sure. Plf order a wheel to -morrow and they were in posseselou of the btig their at- we'll taokle it early the following morn- tittule became almost friendly, As chief hig." officer I Was asked about our 00.1`.,0 and des- "I've got a 'cinch' on those cigars." said tination and on the other hancAlie leader the man with the wheel after his neighbor informell me Mutt they were surry inter- had gone away. "I've taught fifty men to rupt our voyage, but intended to use the tide, and I uever yet found one who, if he brig to make treed their escape. followed instructions, wasn't riding inside The first thing was to got rid of the dead of an hour from the Ulna we started. It's bodies. They allowed us to sew them in all rn getting a few little pointe." eanvas Were they went overboard, and " Any patent on your scheme ?" inquired then our wettuded man was made comfort. the man to whom the man with the wheel addressed himself. able. I fully expected that the lot of us would be tune(' adrift in their boat, but "Not any. Come along and see how it they had other plans. There lame not a is done. Then yoa 0011 tell others how to sailor among them, and they were compel. do it and when they find out how simple it Lod to keep us to navigate the brig. After is they'll get wheela math° army of cyclers the burial the leader said to us : will receive thoussauls of recruits." 081 the appointed morning the invited " We mean you no harm. VVe are des- 081 was on hand bright and early. The peyote men, and mean to make our escape. 1-19.11 with the wheel, with dusty kniok. After we have been landed in some safe erbockers and wrinkled coat, had just place you may sail away with your brig. If returned from a little spin of ten miles. you thy to deceive ns we will show you no The man next door appeared in a spick and moray. span unitorm and a wheel that was a thing I was further informed that I must act as Captain and navigate the brig, and I was " eau Y. Y f b t The walked uptto a nice piece allowed to choose a mate frotn among my of ,',01,Tado.w, this is the Kind of a place you men. After that a council was held anion want," said " the professor," as be was the eight as to what place should be steere dubbed by his companions, and. he led the for. I et -ought thern the charts from the way to the east drive, which sloped gently cabin, and after a long debate it was decided away to the south. "Any place where you to run for the Amazon River. Tho brig grade is all right. Now, first had only week's supply of water and pro, get gentle fo MI, take ott your saddle and saddle post visions for so many men, or they would perhaps 'awe decided on the American so they won't bother you. " But where'll I sit if they're gone ?" coast. At 4 o'clock, just as they had reach- " You're not going to sib for a few min- ed a decision, the wind breezed up, the utes. Just listen to what I tell you and yawl was taken aboard and I set the course try to remetnber it. Without going into for the big river, about 500 miles away. the science of the thing it is enough to say From the very first I had hoped that we that to maintain your equilibrium it is neces- might retake the brig but the convicts sary to turn your steering wheel in the dir- would only trust In so far. The watches ectaon toward whieh you are falling. Don't were so divided by order of Moran that out forget that. Turn your wheel in the men were divided, and two of the convicts direction teward which you are falling. were kept under arms to act as sentries. Don't turn it too much ; a little will do a Moran and the second mato and quarters great deal, and just the moment that the aft with me, while all others berthed for. tendency to fall has been checked, straight - ward. All of us were en the wheel. Preserving Strawberries. The season of strawberries is about at its height and housekeepers should be remind- ed that there 18 00 better preserve than one of stromberrass. Preservemakers in this country have not been as auccessful with this fruit as the foreigners. The Imported Ger- man preserves seem to retain the flavor and almost the firmness of the freah berry. The sweet of their .process Is said to consiee in simple care. They cook but a few berries at once, Strawberries are not an acid fruit, they do not require more than three-quar- ters of a pound of anger to o. pound of fruit. They ore very much better, however, pre. served than mimed. The very best way of preserving straw. berries is in their own jitioe. To six quarts of ripe, firm berriea allow four and a half pounds of sugar. Put three pints of the berries in a porcelain -lined kettle with three- quarters of a pound of sugar. Pjace them at the book of the stove whete they will eimmer and whore they will on no account get bayonet blood -heat. In an hour the juice will have drawn out of them. Mash them with a potato -Masher and strain all the juice out of the berries through a fine strainer, Add this juioe to the remainder of the sugar aud beat up the whites of two eggs with their egg shell:, in tho syrup. Let the syrup oome to the boiling point rather olowly and boil steadily for about five !Me- ntes. Then strain it, putting a cloth inside the oolander and setting thecolaader on the mouth of an open jar. Return the syrup to the preserving kettle width should have been first thoroughly wasbed, Have the cans ready and set in boiling water in a tin pen. As soon as the ayrop boilo, add a few of the berries, juat enough to cover the top. When these In118.0 cookiid for five minutea put them in one of the cans and put more berries in the syrup to cook, As soon as you have a oanful. of berries, covet them with ityrup and fill an- other can, When all tho berries are tined there may still be some syrup loft. Cam this by itself mit is nicely flavored Nrith the StraWherry and Me it for flavoring desserts in the winter. If you wish to make a straw. berry cordial add equal quantities of white booking brandy to oval rproaditioe of this syrup, It ie not strictly necessary to Clarify and ettlian 1110 syrup for drawberry preservea, imam the pressure. Don't lift your feet from the pedalo." The student atarted out bravely, but the moment lie raised his feet to fool for the pedalo be forgot ebout hie steering and made a wild plunge into the turf of the oide of the road. Three more trials made a great 110. pro veinent,and on the fourth ettemptherode hundred yarda. Then the professor raised the :addle until it was high enough to allow the rider to reaoh the pedal at the low point with 0400, and aborted hirn out for the final whir:. He kept his balance beautifully, rode 200 yards, turned around, and came baok wettring a smile of triumph. " Time !" said the professor. " Seven.fifty-forty rninutes, professor." " Well, 1 win those cigars," You do. thought,you'd lose." "11 Is simple enough, ' observed the pro- fessor. " If one will try to ride on the step and Can master the blanoing there 110 0021, ride in the saddle. Let him try it and see for himself." And now the man with the wheel and the other man with the wheel ride together, forgetting bueiness ce,res in the exhilaration of the exercise, They have already planned several tours together, and are talking seri- ously of a club, to be composed of neighbors who will be roped in aumetime in the near future. Two of them are in it now, both tieing taught by the professor's pupil -one in tiarty.five minutes and the other in forty•five. SIGNAL 08' DISTRESS and the convicts shouted in ohorus: We paid no attention, of course, and she swting into our wake about a quarter of a mile tastern. They must have realized that we had establithed their identity, for a half dozen of them sprang up and ehook their fists at us and roared like wild boasts. I got a plain view of the visages of three or four of the lot under the glass, and more villainous countenances I never BEM. We were rapidly leaving them behind and eon. gratulating ours ,Ives on the fact, when the breeze began to puff and die, and in the course of a quarter of an herr it fell fiat, Whim this occurred we heard a faint cheer from the convieta, and they shortly doused their sail and put over two pairs of oars. "11 seems that we have got to fight for it after all," observed the Captain after look through the glen. " Mx. Lenox, you will arm the crew and hold them sip to their work. The boat can only board tis at the bows. See that the nook has a supply of hot water eeady. Give every man to under- stand that he must fight for his life," A quarter of an hour later the yard lay odour port quarter within speaking distance. Every man of the tou looked the villain, Only desperate teen could have attacked and overpowered the guard and escaped as they did. There was neither a young nor ea old faoe among them, but all were midille.aged nion. Some were in fell convict uniform, while othera had thrown away their jacitets. Their leader was a short, stout math 00 dark C0111p1OXi0110d that he seemed to be a Span. iard, and as the boat drew near he stood . p in the stern sheets, and called out 1 . "Hello, Captain 1 Why you run away from shipwrecked sailormen 1 Our ship go down off hero (to the east) yestetday after. 110011." "1 know you ?" 811801110(1Capt.. Rethsay in reply. " 'Yen are (soaped oetturicsts from Cayenne. If you attempt to board us you will find us well prepared 1" They could not know bow well or how poorly armed we Wore, end we Wore 11110 10 their 1011. " Yes, Captain, you spook truly," sada the leader rater a, bricf consultotion, with his teem " We aro conviets atom Cayenne, bet wo art 111180000)1 111085, We do not wish 10 board you, Wo have neither futd 'UNDER CONSTANT SURVEILLANCE, "Now for your position. Stand astride the rear wheel grasping a handle in each though decently treated, and no two of us hand. Yon will notice a little step on the were e -ver left alone together. HI had plan - left side of the rear were. Put the ball of ned 10r1111 the brig into the p.rt of Par. your left foot on the step, give a slight nahyla, down the coast, or headed up for P1) with your right foot, and stand right Cayenne, they would have been too sheep on the step. Of mums you keep hold for mo. While none of them could take tee 01) of the handles and lean vvell forward. If wheel, they kept constant watch on the you lose your balance completely you are compass. They knew the oollese Watt SOlith o. nly a few inches from the ground and oan by 8%, est, and if the brig broke off a point jump o ff without trouble. they were quick to deteet it. " Now give us the time." The winds were light and tenable, and " P01001 011 it was the sixth day after our capbure be- " All right, Now make nut start, don't fore we drew in with the coast. Maratee be afraid, and don't forget about that front orders Were to avoid Para by entering the wheel turn it the way you are falling." "eh nieueh' eh 1 when we we' faielY in 'the student put his left foot upon the thn river he told me their rlans. 18)10.0 to step as directed, grasped the bandies, and take them in the brig up as far as the mouth essayed to push elf. It WW1 a, dismal fail - of the Xingu River, and they would then ae. He couldn't get the right foot off the m pull up the streain the yawl and make for ground. Tile machine flopped over side - the dianiond district, We were not above thirty miles into the river when we were wise to the left. "Ji'.st incline the machine slightly to obliged to come to anchor for the want of a the right," said the professor, "00 that breeze. I knew nothing whatever of the when you throw your weight on the lef t navigation of the stream, and had no chart side the center of gravity will be (Brea') of it, but Moran insisted that we should not over the point where the lower pare of the take a pilot. About the time we anchored, wheel touches the groUnd." the demeanor of the convicts seemed to The student followed directions and this change for the worse. They were vory time got up on the step all right, but forgot lordly in giving orders, and swaggered about his steering wheel. He made no ef- around in a fashion entirely new to them. fort to turn it as the machine fell over to It appeared also as if three or four of them the right, and down it came with a crash. were anxious to pick a quarrel with our The rider made a &aid leap and landed on men. That eyennia, the second mate found his feet all right. He picked cuphis ma. " Depend upon it, Mr. Lenox, they never hine, headed it down hill, and tried again. opportunity to say to me : meart to stand to the bargain. I shouldn't "Work that front wheel. Feel for the to .t center point. You will find it and can tell be surprised if they wet e planning when you are on the center. Work the our throats and scuttle the brig." 1 strangelyauspected them of some evil in- handles front side to side. No matter if you 100111081, but nothing mune of it that night, do wobble around wildly. It's all right. Next morniug we had wind and tide in our You can't hurt yourself." favour, and at noon when we anchored Illalf a dozen tunes or more the student, again, we had made twenty-five miles. b this .tane perspiring violently, Anothee twenty-fi e would take us to the who wdtaosy make 1111181at start mid get into a Xingu. Right away after dinner the yawl standing. position on the step. Finally 110e was lowered, and Mbow 10 boto outfit her, made it and the machine rolled six feet His trimmer to me was very brusque and before11far enough to make him quarrelsome, and I avoided him as teeth as d It' possible. Whatever they thought could be six it came easier by degrees. He rolled made useful was placed in the boat, and they 1 ten, a dozen, twenty, wobbling w re rummaging about tha whole afternoon, tsvnicld103,0,11ii,ut sticking to the stepand inanag- At about six o'clock Moran ordered all the ing to eep going, Finally dt, rolled .the old drew of tile brig into the cebin. Every full length ouf tho lull without ismountutg.- " Brava I shouted the professor. "Now man of us at once realized that 17? AS NOT KILLED. nut a Bed 11 11 81 11180grC011 indinn Jost About to Dispatch 111111, The first white person. who made a per- manent settlement in the coenty of Onon. daga, New I ork, was Ephraim Webster, He traded with the Italians, became famil- iar with their language and custonia, and WAS for many years Indian agent and inter- pretee for the Onondagas. It sometimes happened that the Dictums on aecount of fancied or real wrongs, became offended with him. More than once they threatened his life. At one time the Indians tied him to a tree, and amused themselves by throwing tomahawks, to see how near they could come to his head and not hit it. Sometimes the whistling missile grazed his hair. The sport was kept up for more than an hour, during which time Webster did not flinch. His coolness excited the admiration of his tor- ment ors. On smother oocasion the Indians seemed so determined to kill him that he almoet gave up hope. A grave was dug, and his executioners, four in number, with glitter- ing tomahawks in band, werechosen. Web- ster stood with his arms outstretched, oath hand firmly held by a sturdy brave. lie was &eked 11 115 had any request to make before he die.i. "No,' replied W easter, "only I should like a driuk of water." no, no I" cried several voices at once. The venerable war chief, Oungliataga, was inclined to grant the request. "Hold he said to the Indians, whose ready weapons were poised. "Stay your hands, offend not the Great Spirit, Let him drink a cup of water for the last time." The cup was given him, and one hand was released. Virebster, with perfect composure and apparent good feeling, drank the health of the chiefs and brave warriors of the "Onondaga nation," This exbibition of good nature and brav- ery produced a marked effect npon the In- dians. From all sides eatne cries: " He 10 (1,00 I" "Let the white man go I" " He is good Indian, ono of as 1" Mr. Webster was released, and the In- dians led him to their wigwams and smoked with him the pipe ot peace. He had won , he Indians' respect by his fortite le. we are ready tor the saddle." TOE CLIMAX WAS AT ItAND, He put it in place and set it as low as it and, tutting irt concert, we made a sudden would go. "Now," said he, "start just as two of the muskets and were making a you clroll and feel moderately before, and after yoe have begun to steady slide gently and furious attack, We got p000000100 of good fight of it, though bound to be beaten forward into the seat. Let your legs hang in the end, when a Brazilian gunboat straight down. Pay no attention to the whioh was on het' way up the river sheered pedal's. The lowering of the center of alongside of us and had grappled on before gravity will make a slight ola nee in the some of us saw her. Her presence put an manipulation of the handles, and that will men wounded, while We had killed one Tho stude be all yon can attend to for a moment." et followed directions, but the end to the fight, of course, We had two convict and wounded a Emend. first time did not get into the seat at all, Orr captors were neati-Y trapped, betthey the whole thing going over just as he woe no SOOner realized it them they 01010)8(1 10 about to slide into the saddle. be the real crew of the vessel, and denoting -I. " Don't be in a hurry," said the probes - ed us NS eOnVieta. They 1)101,0 50 earnest and sor, 11 Take it essay; you have plenty of emphatic in their declarations that the time." commander of the gunboat was almost oon• Again he tried ; this time with better vinced, I destroyed their case, however, luck. He went fifteen feet before losing when I asked 1118111 for tho Captain's name, control of his machine, and the next time our port of hail, the (10,1000 081 tho different he went further still. "You're all right," ropes and sails &c. They were ironed and said the professor, opprovingly, o.s the bathe Monad the gunbeet, to be conveyed student rolled the machine uphill and mou- th Cayenne, while the brig wag towed down ped his brow. "You're (801001' without ally to Para, to be put through the legal forms question. You have mastered it. Now, nedessary in such cases, The loot time I this time after you have got welt started SaW Meru he said to me ; draw up your legs and drop ypur feet on '1 Do you think we would have been suoh the pedals he they owe up. Don'ttry to fools es to let you Bail away with the brigt work them,,but just let your feet follow 111500411 to leek all of you In tho cabin, and them around. Then if you feel steady be - then eut away her mods and scuttle her el gin pedaling easily cold acridity, making the pterwure col the pedal void from the 1184 111111 ever attaina 11 010.11011 so exalted time it passes the perpendicular until i ..--.----..--....,* does not expect Mtn taaabaa edaa 1081 10581. 10%101 ittargaintlia "01,1(5thatGod to help those boaeath hin, your fet tip unti11tb.e008;50t0 1 A GREAT RAILWAY. EIINlilleNTrarla-Siber-11-111 1•111 1101/15 Pug*. 011 With Vigor, TIleatatement that Ramis, had concluded to atop work upon her TraataSiberian way, from Vladivostoolc to the Ilral 1Vfount tains, has gained general oreaeoce through- out the western world, but such is not the case, Russia has no intentions whatever of galling a halt in the ormatruction of this all-important railroad, and so long no she le unfettered by. a war in Europe her sue. plea energy and talent and all the money the own climb into this LiSe Will he employ ad oarrying on the work already so extenaively begun. The knowledge that the Chinese Govern- ment has eoutraoted for and commenced the construotion of a aounter line of railwayt running along the northern Chinese fron- tier, connecting the larger cities and impel!. hurt military strongholds, has tended to urge forward rather than detract from the anxiety shown by the Russian otheials in hastening the completion of the Trans-Si- berian line. Thu! railway, when completed, will insure Ruasian supremacy in the far East, It will put Vladtvostook, the naval. station of the Czar's empire on the Pacific, within fourteen days of St. Petersburg and within ten daysof Odeon and Sebastopol, and thus leave the Russian fleet, in case of war, to trot offensively against the commerCe and other interests of the enemy without fear as to the safety of Viadivorstoek. The troops from the Siberiau interior pests oan be hurried to any threatened point along the coast, and the railway will guarantee their arriving to garrison any port days in advance of the arrival of a hostile squadron. Along the Chinese border the advantoges of this strategic line of railway are very - greet. Running as it does trios° along the frontier, it affords a eoady means of landing fled massing any available ima her of Rus- sian troops at any point from which it may :3E37 d to make an invasion of the Chin- bef ose: tdp,e. rovinces 01, 011 attack upon any desired. Progress in Menus. In meny out-of.tho.way places it ha been found necessary to manufacture nitro- glycerine on the spot in order to avoid the very high rates charged by transportation companies. Such has been the advance in methods, of making this explosive that, with ordinary preeaution, through washing, and ea-eful watching of the various changes of color, it oan be made without fear of serious itoeident. Dr, Dareste has demonstrated that -mon. stars and monstrosities during at mai de- velopment are not the result of pathological ohanges in the embryo, as hitherto supposed, but modifications of the procesees of organic evolution, suah bring about the differ- ences between individuals and races in mankind. Sir Benjamin Baker has recently shown that a creek or nick on the surface or edge of a bar of steel does not always indicate its liability to fail by the gradual spreadieg of the nick and a probable breaking under a very mirth stnaller load than a sound bar. An improved traction engine has lately appeared in Missouri. It is run with a rale,. tively emelt amount of fuel, carries a heavy load, and is provided with meitne for °hang. ing its speed without altering the stroke of the engine. Blaudyte 10 the name given to the now material mode of Trinidad asphelt and waste rubber. It resists the heat of high pressure steam and latits well in the presence of oil end grease. According to Dr, Hamm the -red in flow - era is &single pigment soluble in water and deooloiized by alcohol, but capable of being restored by the addition of scads. The new science of experimental psytehol. ogy aims at measuring the mental capaci- ties of 8000 00 the anthropconetrist measurea their physical capacities. Oyeus Thomas oleims to have discovered the key which will unlock the mystery of the Mat a codices and, probably, of the Central American inscriptions. Prof, Rogers says that every pound of coal contains a dynamic force equal to the amount of work a man will do in a day. CHINA SET TO WOP.H. As slow aa the Chinete Government haa been to take note of the inroads made by foreign countries against the peace and wel- fare of their ancient empire, it has realized the importance of this 11101'0 of Russia and does not propose to be caught napping. To thia end foreign engineers have been em- ployed and railways planned and mutes survet-ad along almost the whole of the northern provinces of the em - pita. In addition telegraph lines to all the principal cities and fortresses are being pushed forward as rapidly ea the materials can be obtained from the foreign firms con- tracting for their delivery in China. The. material is supplied wholly by English and other European firms and is brought to China by sea. The vessels unload their cargoes at Hankow and from there it is car- ried overland to the points at which the construction has been begun. The money necessary for building these lines has been appropriated, or at least such O sum is made payable annually as will cover the expenses incurred in the construc- tion up to date of payment. The work is largely done by soldiers and convicts, and. by this means the heavy coat of the under- taking ia greatly reduced. No time has been fixed for the completion of these rail- ways, but judging by the eagerness with. which work is being pushed forward it is safe to predict that they will surely be in, operation before the Trans-Siberian line is completed. It ts most remarkable that, coincident with the terrible famine in European Russia, the Uauri Volley, through which the Treats -Siberian Railway runs, has pro- duced this year a prodigious cereal crop, insomuch that the authorities have beeit compelled to come to the agriculturists' re. lief by purchasing at one time a yeaes, supply of rye for the entire Beni= army. The llama Vallee, is one of the most prolific valleys in the world, but at present only a small part of it has been brought under cultivation. )‚at this small section has produced during the past year such an enormous crop that were there a means of transporting it to EttropeanRussia it would go far toward checking the horrors of the present famine. tVhat an incentive for expediting the work of the railway ! Motherly bndalgenoe. There are those who deprecate motherly Indulgence as if it were toe greatest evil. Doubtless it will become a great evil (1 11 be not properly subordinated to the wisdom whieh appreciates the divinity of order, or if it i$ alternated with capricious aeverities; in short, if ale indulgenee proceeds from indelenee or 5011 -1010 instead of love of the child. The indulgence that really alines front the last Is a recornition (turonscions, 11 11807 he) of the cliv tie poetibilities of the child -it spark of the divine eroativeness 1 Of the two evil) extreme Indulgence is not so deadly a mietake ma extreme severity. Tho ono fatal thing is Lo wanted the child% heart. It is better to give up the point of controlling its will to righteottsnees for the moment then to do diet ; and a permit is the leest likely of all persons tO wetted the child's Matra -tapas allizeboth P. Panhady, LENGTH AND COST. Strategic considerations have been hereto- fore mainly urged for the speedy comple- tion of this railway, but now Et new induee- ment has arisen -that of atriving to avert tbe recurrence of abnornel abundance in one part of the empire and a wasting famine in another. It is a problem whiols urgently calls for a prompt solution of how - the work COM be most readily prosecuted. The railway as now surveyed and being built will present no serious engineering difficulties, and it is of supreine imporMnee to the entire world in its commercial and politica a,speets. It will oomprise a total length ot 4,786 miles, and will cost roughly. 5200,000,000. 'The construction of the line is divided into six divisions, and these divisions are subdivided intoseotions of 100, 200, or 300 miles, according to the nature of the country. The contract for the building of the line is let by the motion, thus enabling many contraotors to oome in for small portions, and consequently greatly expediting the completion of the wirnietadition to the large number of famine. sufferers employed in the construction of this work and of others previously engaged. in it, 11 10 now suggested to use Chinese and Japanese laborers. Convict labor, upon. which much reliance was at first placed, has, been found to be very dilatory and expen- sive, and free labor is not sufficiently, avail- able in Siberia to meet the demand. FOC reasons which at first seemed cogent and satiefootory it was decreed. that only the Russian proletariat should be employed on the construction of the railway, but now it is quite evident that without the aid of an army of Chinese coolies the uonsummation of the undertaking must be delayed to a period 11101 80001 be dbtrimental to the in., terests of Russia. In view of this fact negotiations have been opened with a Vancouver syndicate for transport from Canton of several thousand laborers, who had been previously engaged upon the Canadian Pacific 'Railroad, 10 beria for work upon the Russian line. The agents of this syndicate have made an ex- amination 01 11)0 route of the railway and O e now engaged in making estimates of the contraet for fiddling it. A hoarding.school lad wrote to Mt. Lowelt in this style ; "I would be very much oblag. ed for your autograph." Mr. Lowell, made answer "If you would be oblige& be obliged and be done with it. Soy, ehottld be obliged,' and oblige yottra troly, Sautes 'Russell Lowell." Ella Wheeler Wilcox says that while she realizes her literary shortcomings she dooa not see that the 00111d 11(48-0 (101(0. dlirereatly, With oereful traioing &admire atteetion 10 art, she thinks that she might have been better poet, but um 0 bettor woman nor 00 useful to those near her. Every man expoets to get hie 'roma in the hereafter, but none his deified& -.ails- diatutpolis Joutnal.