The Brussels Post, 1892-7-8, Page 71
JULY 8, 1892,
THE 1311USSELS POST.
HOUSEHOLD.
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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
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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.
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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
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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.