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The Brussels Post, 1892-8-12, Page 3Gus12, 1892 THE BRUSSELS POST, YOUNG FOLK% The 4' Bladee 0' Graffe" Fairies. It Was happy life that the " Barba o' Grass" led down iu the cool damp earth. Them Mee recollection was of pushing up throtigh tho ground arid reeeiviug a dazzling flood of sunshine full their little feces Then they felt soft breezes 'Men with all kinds of sweet odors fan their brows. Merninge they proudly counted the glisten- ing dewdrops whith sparkle like brilliants upon their garments, and et night they fell Weep in the silvery moonbeams. Then there were the evenings, when they hoard the frogs over in the pool calling in their hoarse voices, and the plaintive notes of the robin and the thrush from the great trees, and when they watched with deliglit the nightly Lamle of the fireflies as they danced back and forth above their heads in wild and fantastio fashion, Oh yes 1 the fairiee, "Blades o' Grass" were very happy, very proud of their new summer frocks of a delicate green hue, and very glad they were alive, The mother used often to talk to her children and tell them of all the wonderful things they would me and hear before summer would die and they would creep back into the earth, ,and wait for the winter to spread her warm white mantle over them. "If you enjoy life now, my dears," she said, one day, " how much more happiness will you pessess when later you have risen higher in the world and can look out abroad over the land. You will see so many things You will see boats going up and down the river yonder, filled with peo. pia who sing and bring music out of strange instruments. You will see a wilderness of flowers in the gardene over there across the way—roses, honeysuckles, nasturtiums and sweet peas. Y on will see most beautiful butterfilea and dragon flies and great moths fluttering about. Then up at the cottage on the hill above us you will see peopie lounging about reading,talking and writing. They swing in gayly colored hammoclui and the ladies wear beautifelgo wets, though none are a.s beautiful as your own. And most wonderful sight of all you will see a huge bridge over the river and a great mons. ter rush across it with an angry snort and marl. And at night this terrific monster has an eye of fire which you may see gleam- ing 0 long, long way off. Make haste and grow my children, so thee you may see all these remareable and beuutiful sights." And the little green fairies nodded their beads and drank in the dew eagerly and holdup their faces to be kissed anew by the sure that they might grow the faster. (Inc day they were conscious that they had neighbors. Theme neighbors had mine silentlyand mysteriously. They also had pusbec up from the sod, and were growing very fast, much faster than the "Blades o' Grass." The mother fairly tried to hold her own ground for herself and her cluldretl against these new comers, but they elbowed their way in a most violent and impuaent fashion. " Make way for us," they cried rough- ly. "You needn't give yourself such Ban and act as if you owned the earti„ We're just as gee 1 as you are. We may t be quite so slim or wear quite such (lain by clothing, but we're here to stay, and don't you forget it either," and like many human came their smaller and weaker neighbors. beings they nudged and poked and jostled and grew taller and ranker and gait° over. The "Nettles," for so were the new comers called, were a very course end musty lot, and boldly declared that they proposed to "run out " the "Blades o Grass." "We'll show you that we're just as good as you," they continually cried, and flaunted their heads over the poor little delicate fairies, who grew more feeble and eickly. "011, what shall 1 do ?" moaned the poor mother fairy as she saw her children slowly wasting away. "How can I save the lives of my darlings?" But the "Net. ties" only laughed derisively and pushed their roots deeper in the soil and held up their heads more defiantly than ever. But one day a lerk alighted on a branch of the birch tree under whose shade the "Nettles" and the "Bladee 'o Grass" were struggling for mastery. He sang of hope and faitb, and as be pour- ed forth his message, the fait and weary, heat -sick mother felt new life. She 'Wen. ed. eagerly «e the lark sang in jubilant sthaM. The "Neetles" cried "01, how we wish that bird woald stop its tiresome noise 1" but the " Bledes o' Gress" whim. pored "01,, if he would but sine for ever 1" But at last the lark finished his song with these words "Hope on I Help is nigh, help is nigh." Then he flew tuateventvard. The mother fairy watched him disappear and for a moment felt very lonely, but, re. membering his pareing words, erribraced her liege ones and mid ; Bo brave, my dare ings, help is nigh." Early the nexb morning, ere the dew had ceased to sparkle, there came a sorted of footsteps oe the stone walk, Then a shadow bent over the grass, The "Blades o' GrOSS" looked up and eaw two faces, ono the face of a litele child, laughing, crowned with soft, yellow hair and with eyes as blue as the sky. The other face was older, with gentle oyea and an expression of pity. "01, papa," they heard a aweet, little voice say, see the nasty weede spoiling the poor grass. What a shame 1" " That'a so, my boy," mid the other, "thee won't do. We can't have our lawn overrun by those !coarse, villainous nettles, I'll have them out of thee in a hurry." The little green fairies nearly fainted from joy. They tried to speak to express their gratitude, but could only sway and bend towards the speaker. Then they saw it strong white band grasp the haughty "Net. ties "wed give them a sharp tug. The weeds rotated and tried to sting the enemy, but the friend of the " Blades o' Grass was determined and akilful, ana presently the °brag:Muff " Nettles "were flung epon the atone flagging to epeedily wither and die in the hot nue Then this unknown friend dropped some fine 008(1 11110 tlie hole left by the removal of tee "-Nettles," gently patted the earth over 11 1111(1 " There, little gramme you will soon have pleasanter neighbore and I'll see that you are not plagued by any more weeds." And as the Bladee o' Grass" rustled with delight and happinese and smiled up into the Mee of that preserver, the lark, who had come bank from heaven, lifted hie little head and rippled foeth a molody—a hyhm of thankgivitig, •which the little greonfairies eoitred With till tho Yoh:Moss many of their bruised bit] heppy Miele /Werke Wing' It 00011y. Mho ship of an Admital, Who Woo the Delo of •Wellingtoe'e neer coneeetion, was tvrecked. WSS planed in oommand of a mond ship, which wes %leo loot and Memel 001 CIPSWESd4 Letid Charles rettnenicated the disaster to his father, who merely ex. claimed, with Spartan ooldnees and brevity, "That's the mond ship he hoe lost." The twin amodote, so to cell it, had reference to Lord Charles himself, Being ordered o ith his regiment abroad le telt much eon. cern at, bidiling farewell to hie aged fatner, 111 00 he might never see again, On Ms reeking the announcement, the Duke, who heel been reeding damped hie emotion by saying shortly, " Coed -bye, Charlie, good. bye !" and taking a. Met look before leaving the room, the son was inoreified to see that the father seemed to be as intent on his reading OS ever.--rl'heFortnigh tly Re view. The Song of the Exiles, " If I forget thee, 0 Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. If I do not reinernber thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth ; if I prefer net Jerusalem above my chief joy."—Psalm cxxxvii. The only wan who can fully appreciate the power and pathos of this psalm, le the man who is an exile from the land of his fathers, from the home of his sunny youth. The exiles in Babylon knew better far than their brethren in the home land what Zion wee worth, They had loved the courts of Zion in their earlier dame and now exiles hi a foreign lend, all the eplendore of Babylon failed to charm, so by the rivers of Babyloe they sat down and wept when they remem- bered Zion. Nor were theee unmanly tears; they were crystal tributes of a love that grow stronger as the dam passed on. Whet these Jewish exiles felt Babylon more than three thousand years ago many are feeling in Canada to -day. All over this land, so loved of God, there are those whose 'emery holds no more sacred treasures than the remembrance of Chrietian fellowships and church associations that the eundering hands of time and space have only made more dear. And often by the rivers and lakes of Canada they sit down, and by the St, Lawrence and the Red river, by Super- ior, Huron or Ontario, they weep when they rernember the Zion of wine Soottiah city or some peaceful English plain. And those are gracious tears. They bear testimony to the worth of those curly religioue homes, to the tendernesa and constaney of those friendships width, first lit at God's altar, burn with a deathlees flame. To such " exiles from home," this little psalm is worth uncounted gold. It provides for the anguish which only exiles feel, the only sufficiene solacie. It presents to their lips a vow, the very uttering (if which mama them brave and strong. " If I forget thee, 0, Jerusalem 3" And their thoughts fly hack to the elluroh with ivmmantled tower, or to the unadorned meetinghouse on the lone hillside. "11 I forget thee Let my right hand forget her cunning." Forget those sacred days Those happy Sabbaths I The faces of those who lived in a light thet WOE above the brightness of the sun," with whom we took sweet counsel Forget those with whom we walked to the house of God, by whose side we sung of a land Where congregations miser break up And Sabbaths never encl. Forget these ! Never They are graven on the palms of our hands. They are written on the fleshy tender tablets of the home. But there 31 211020 comfort for exiles in Can. ada from this psalm. The JOWS in Behylon were in a etrange land, amid strange gods and abounding idolatry. But this is not a strange land ; this is God's lend as surely as Palestine was, or England is. We are engem the same songs, reading the same Biblelereathing the same prayers. And if we would drew all the strength and com- fort from this psalm 11 a% it offers the exile we shall rojoioo that we 020 00 rich in bless- ed memories of other days, and so rich in the great hope that yet a little while, ana the scattered fomily from all lands, trent the north and from the south, from the east and from the west, shall be gather- ed loam, and we shall sit down with Abra- ham, and Isaac, and Jacob, with John and Peter and Paul, with Luther and Wesley, and with the great Master himself, and so shall we ever be with the Lord. What fifotheu Shou'd do, Aa the boys grow up, make companions of them ; then they will not seek compan. ionship elsewhere. Let the children make a noise sometimes ; their happiness is as important as your nerves. Respect their little secrets ; if they have concernment, worrying them will never make them tell and patience will probably do its "Alto, w them, as they grow older, to have opinions of their own ; make them individ. tale and not mere echoes. Remember that without physical heelth mental ettainment is worthless ; let them leed free, happy lives, which will strength- en both mind and body. Pear in mind that you aro largely respone- ible for your child's inherited character and have patience with faults and failings. Telk hopefully to your children of life and its possibilities; you heve no right to depress them because you have suffered. Teach boys and girls the actual facts of life is soon as they are old enciegh to under- stand them, and give them the sense of re.. sponsibility withont saddening them Find out what tilde special tastes are and develop them instead of spending time, money and mitience in forcing them into studies that aro repugnant to them. As your daughters grow up teneh them at least the true merits of housekeeping and Irokrry ; they will ehank you for it in later life great deal !non than for accomplish. mente. Try and syMpathise with girlish flights le! fancy,. even if they mom absurd to you ; y so doing you will retain your influence over your daughters and not teach them to seek sympathy elsewhere. Dutieft Of Daily Life, Lifo is nob entirely made up of greite evils or heavy trials 3)11112 the perpotnelrecurrenee of petty evils and small trials is tho ordinary and appointed enrolee of the Christian graces. To bear with the fallings of those 181)0111 us—with their infirmities, their bad jadgment, their illebreedieg, their perveree tempers—to endure neglect when Ivo feel we'deeerve attentim, and ingratitude where we expeoted thanks ; to bear with tho oom- pany of disagreeable people whom Provid. mice him plaeocl in our way, mid whom He has provided on ;impose for the trial of our Aram, these aro tho beat exorcises of pa: - theme and seledeniel, and the better be. CSIISO not chosen by ourselves. To bear with vexetion in butfiness, with disampoiet. ment in our expeetations, with interrup- tions of our retirement, with folly, Meru. glom diseerbanco—in there, with whatever opposes our will or contradicts our !minor —this habitual itequiescenee appears to be more of the essenee of solf•doeuti then any little rigors 00 affliehions of oer own impos- ing, Those 00»stant, inevitable, but Infer. lot evils, properly impeoved, furnish a gooe moral diseipline, and might in the days of ignoromee, have euporsoded pilgrimage and penance, OIT TEE ORINOCO. causer Tram* that ham bit the xtegion. Twelve hundred miles from the um of the Orinoco River was as far as I extea ed Jim exploiations toward the (=roes that groat, atream," said Ensign Rog Welles, who has juse returned from the r gion mentioned, He is the only white ni thee hes penetrated these wilds, :Mall even fence the days of the early Spaniards. The Orinico is one of the biggest rive in the world, as you may see by glaneing a map of South America, It 10 dotted a along its course with numerous email Wan; and 110 upper waters are obstructed hy man cataracts. During my long journey tower its sources my canoe had often been ()ethic over lancl around impassable falls, By 11 time one roaches the Rio Meta, which is tl largest tributaryof the Orinoco, navigation further interferedwith by the wild and ea age Indians whom° polsoned arrows, au the. trader who buy and. sell goods along th etream anchor the sailing BCOWS out in th middle of it at night, keeping guard wit rifles against poseibie surprise In thee part of the country and bayou toward the interior, whither I penetrate nakedness is the rule among the natives neither men nor women wearing anythin besides a loin cloth of the most restricte dimoneions. Here is one of the loin cloths which represents the heighe of Mahlon t dregs among those people, You see it is bu a rectangular scrap of beadvvork, fasten° by a string. The beadwork, however, i very beantiful, being done in an exquisit pattern. Two hundred miles beyond th mouth (if the Rio Meta the Infricla Rive entere the Orinoco. I started up tha stream with my canoe heeded with ttinket for exchange with the natives, who live in a condition of extreme eavagery, although they are amiably disposed and usually harmless. They go entirely nude, save fo the loin cloths, as I have described, and eet their subsisteneeby hunting and fishing, Chieliy the latter. "1 was tench interested in their method of taking fish hy the use of the bow and arrow. For this purpose they employ arrows six feet. M length, made of reeds tipped with iron. While a canoe is paddling gently along in the shallowa a marksman stands ready with his arrow on the string of the bow. As soon as a 'large fish is seen, if tho approach can be made within range, the arrow is let fly, and rarely fails to strike the prey: These Indians hunt with blowguus medeout of the young stalks of eertain kind of palm, from which the pitch is removed. The arrows employed as p .ojectiles are simply splinters of reed, sharpened at one end, the other end wrapped with enough silk cotton being obtained from another kind of palm to fill up the bore of the blowgun. The arrows are about tau inches long and very light. They are tipped with the famous and deed- ly wowed' poison. Used by one of these ne.kod savages, the blowgun is a weapon of greetaccuracy and effectiveness,even a small bird on a tree being brought down by the skilled sharpshooter with reasonable cer- tainty at the first try. " these pritnitive aborigines dwell in huts built of palm leaves mostly. Each family has its little garden patoh, which is chiefly devoted to raising the root from' which cassava is made. They depend upon this root almost entirely for food, apart from what they get by hunting and fishing. 11 10 prepared by grating to begin with. The grater employed is of the mom primieve possible description. Being simply a plank with perforations, small, sharp pieces of Mut being inserted in the holes. Being reduced to asort of meal by rubbing on this grater, the cassava is pressed to get the wither out of it, becmuse the root 18 00 watery as the potato. Then it is sifted and formed for cooking into what looks like an enormous griddle mike, two or three feet in diameter. The cake is baked on a flat piece of earthen. 118115 of corresponding size. "An Indian will go off for a. week's hunt- ing with no other food than a quantity of cassava prepared in this fasbson. I myself was obliged to live upon it almost wholly for months. At first I did not 6nd it palatable hut after a while I, acquired the taste, and booame quite fond of it. The chief trouble was that it was cooked on the bare ground, and always contained considerable percent- age of dirt. However, ono must not be too particular about one's diet when travelling in the wilds. These savages are quite clean. ly, so far as bathing is concerned, but their habits of living, otherwise, are not suoh 08 to promote the virtue which is next to god. linen. So far as the virtue of the women is ooncerned, I should say thet it was of a high order. Some of them are fairly good looking and have excellent figures, but their Comeliness is nearly always spoiled by bad- ly decayed teeth, "I assisted unintentionally in quite a ro- ammo on one 000SMOIL When my earioe was ou the point of leaving a native village, where we had boon sojourning, a young Indian girl seemed to be considerably agitated, and manifested an evident desire to accompany 1110. My pilot, against my wish, permitted hoe to get aboard, and the ortme with ea down the stream to our next hailing edam, Shortly Peter we made tem next landing the mother of the girl made 1100 appearance in oanoe, having followed us to get back her daughter, whom she took away with her. The pilot ITU very melaneholy after this occurrence, and aubsenuently confessed to me that he had brougEt the young lady away for the purpose of reeking her his we. Matrimoniel methods are exbromely aim pie among these natives, When a young man and woman wish to marry they go to house- keeping together, end that it all there is of it. Often it youtliof one village will woo and win a maiden of a village hun- dreds of miles diatant along the river. As a rule they seem bo enjoy ae uninterrupted felicity BM eivilimed couples cbtaiu. The Indians are gradually retiring toward the higher ammo of the Orinoco bemuse of the harsh and dishonest treatinene which they receive at the halide of the white mon and hall.castos of Veneznela. They ean never get, fair prices for the cassava which they produce and sell to the Venezuelans. W- eave is an importaue food of the pooret classes all through Venezuela, being ground by machines in fadeless. Among the oure osiehis which 101)10.1110(1 from these savages are a number of interesting musical instru- ments moll as reed flutes and drums nude mit Ss kind of eorkwood. I intended to speak of tlie remarkable pattern in whiehthe beadwork of the loin cloths hi alweees made. This pattern, 08 5011 Will observe, is in a goo- motrieforin;peculiarlyGreek and the mystery is where them people got %from. Not least etrange is the faet that the cassava graters aro alway,s made with the sharp pieces of flint arranged in precisely the same design, which doubtless had some original signifi- ammo long lost, eveo to tradition," The mints of Chicago, Just completed givoil total population 1,42%MS. They always talk who nevee think,— [Prior, God has never eased to be the ono true idin of all right human inspiration, --Wind,• 111 We had been in Cape Town four day of completing our load Mg for Liverpool, eft er having been up the African meet AS far e- 'eanzibar mid return, when an I rishwoma an came aboard and asked for passage a hom to Our craft was the English bark Fanny Le carrying a grew of f011Vl0011 MU, an re a woman comfortable, hadwe picked her off at wreok in m1docean, the hark carried n 11 passengers and had no eccommodations fo is them, Tee woman gave her nom y as Molly MeDavis, She was a singl d woman 24 years old, and had made th d voyage to the Cape in an emigrant ship t le join and marry a lover. Like many anoth le female she wee diaappointed. Pat ha is skipped the country when she arrived. Sh v- had been at work for several months, be pou/d not pay her way home, Indeed, she O did not propme to She was what might e be called "a strapping young woman,' being RS tall any sailor aboard and weighing about 150 pounds, She offered t d go as cook, but as there was no vaoancy aim cl asked to be taken me a common sailor and , allowed to work her passage home. g We felt a bit sorry for Miss MeDavis d but we couldn't take her in any positions,' , She was disappointed, but she had no tear o to shed. On the contrary, she went away with a very determined look on her face, d and an Irishman among the erew offered to • bet his aou'wester against a plug of tobacco e that she'd see Liverpool as soon as we did. e It vi as ten daye trom the time she came r aboard before we left the Cape. I saw her t aboard three or four times lit the week, and s once or twice she had other confabs with the Captain. As we weighed anchor end stood out for our offing Molly lieDavis was the last perste, in Cape Town to be suspect - ✓ ed of bringing ill leek to our bark. We had fine weather and favorable winds and were well up with Cape Frio when the men 001110 BO 200 111 a body during TUE MORNING WATCW THE SINGING GHOST. ^ Crew or jo Yeosel Desert Morouge tho Mysterious Musk, 3 was pretty sure, however, that they cameKILLED BY A .1tOBEEE. from the forehold, and one af tern000 I told — the whole etory to the captain and euggeet. A lrolleemon et menden, ,IO, R. IV kosc eI that, the forwatn rd beech be reoved aud an inveetigatien made, Tie flow mad at rIneft cost aim Ms Life. A eleeeeee, N. 13. despatch says ree.Thet s, onco and iegan berating me for an old wotn. er an and a graveyard sailor, and then he went town Was "" tled tomight by the in urdet 4/1 e as forward atnong the men and told teem 116'd I Vewtelt & eleo emateam. was rabbati an policeman by a. robber, The titer I) run the bark ashore and be hanged to her I termay e, before he'd pull off a hatch cover, He 'te te,eet, and made ep me mew WiaS h nicht. A Memnon inan read abot.le e, thoughe thee eettese it, o d e but he W" ml"ak. had seen suttee:nom (hammers in a leMeetort O by the mound mate—from midnight to 4 04earun8ineuQuf ietttaieWitHhe the mpaorleielfaarnnidatit°1410° a It was the Captain's wateh—always held ✓ o'olock next morein . It had become almost latter surrounded the houee, Officer Stead.' e map of the mond rnete's watch was up be. lame, rester, a eirf i the house woo entered in front by the mare /man being stationed at the back door, When e 4 dead calm when 1 oft the (look. Every e fore him, and I noticed thee none of ' mine i gave the alarm arid two o went below. What happened hell an hour I men rushed out. Steadman beaded them off er after I had turned in gave the Captain d mg onnAvzsx. suRrniss e of his life. Mr. Groat, the sem:animate, was t peeing the quarter when he was suddenly 803E0 , gagge , and bound, and a mine, and also had a bullet in his thigh. The which he recognized as the earpenter's„Iman captured refuees to give his name aud cautioned him to be quiet or he'd go OM,' i8 not known iti the town, The other man board. All sailors are light sleepers, but lescuped. Steadman le the oldest, police officers especially BO, and why it was that officer on the force aud Wall at one time neither the Captain nor I woke up during marshal of the town. the events occurring on deck has always been The burglar arrested was shot in the O matter of surprise. The mon brought the leg, supposed to have been done by Stead.. bark to the wind, got tackles aloft, and 1111111 in self defence. The; prisoner has been identified as one of the gang stealing fe ride on a special mein between Ceinpbelltose and Chatham on Thursdey last. The mon who escaped is described as middle-aged, dressed in black clothes, dark shirt, black p otted mak tie whiskers three weeks or a, month's growth'. mad caught one. Both commenced firing, but Steadman held Ids man until amither offioer got eine then he fell back flaying, " My Cod, I'm murdered." It woe found that he was atally shot in the left brease to makea, complaint. They wee° headed by the carpenter, who declared that for the paels two nights the watches below had been disturbed by strange noises and could not aleep. The bark had the old-fashioned fo'castle instead of the deck house, and the noises had seemed to come from behind the bulkhead dividing the fo'oastle from the hold. While any sailing craft carrying a miscellaneous cargo is always full of strange, queer noises, caused by friction and strain- ing, there is always at least one MOW in the crew ready to shake his head and make mythery over something easily explained away. I listened to the complaint, prom. ised to look into it, and then dropped the matter out of my mind. On the night of that day I came 022 watoh at midnight. I found my 2000 022 dock, end the sowed mates watch met relieved, hung about the scuttle instead of turning in. De- manding to k.now the reason of this singular motion, I was told that the (peer noises referred to had been heard again and again, and the crew were as good as upset over them. Had the " old man" been on (leek. he would lutve seized a. belaying pin and driven the watch below and cracked three or four heads, He had no patience with sailore' wealcuesses. / was tempted to give them a bit of my mind, bub all were so serious and earnest beet it seemed only reasonable to investigate. I went into the foeastle and spent fifteen minutes listening for sounds. The bark had all plain sail on and was heeled to port, and for the first ten minutes I heard only the SOMICiB of boxes and bales rubbing together. Then, of a sudden, I heard a yoke singing. It; was a faint, far -away voice, and I bad to listen eldeelV, but it certainly was o human voice. IB WAS impossible to locate it. It seemed to come from above as much as in any other direction, and I went on deok thinking some of the hands might be playing a joke. "It will be anything but a joke for the man who's playing this if I can catch him at it," I said as I pined the deck and found both watches grouped around the hatch and waiting for me. " Mr. Met -win, did you hoe aught down below ?" asked the carpenter, speaking for all. "Not down there, but I heard someone singing up here.' "N'o, szrl I pledge you my word and that of every man here that not a man of us tittered a whisper. It was singing you heard, sir ?" "Anil that's what the men complain of, C 6 . sir—singing most of the time, but now end then something like praying and calling out." " Well, singing and .praying won't hurt any of you, even if it's that. It's in the cargo., bowever. We've got three or four old pianos aboard going to England to be fixed and it's the boxes rulibing together whieh makes the singing sound. It s free music, and you ought to be glad of it. Go below the watch, and let's hear no more of men hung ba.ok for (8 moment and then followed one another down into their tamping quarters. I was honest in what I had said. As soon to I remembered the pianos 1 WAS sure that 0112 01110I50 xeren mine from them. 11 no doubt looked rem. aonable to the melon, as nothing more was heard from them that niehe I was off et 4 and on again at 8 next morning, The breeze had died out and we woro on au even keel end not waking over two miles an hour. It had come fi o'clock. The Captain wee over- hauling some papers in the cabin, the men were all at work on jobs, and I was pacing the quarter and keeping an eye on a bit d ail showing to windward of us when a shout of terror rang through the ship. A hand mined Thomas Burns had been into the forepeak after aomothing wanted on dock, and it WIW ho who called out as he tumbled im find seemed for 01502051112 to con. template going overboned. The yell brought the Ciapteln on deck, and then the story of the serene noises eame out. He was fur. es. Burns:teetered thab a human voice ad called to himi while he was belotv, and bile test of the orew stood by him with re- gard to the singing and praying but the "old nem" was mad enough to kill some one. Ile drove them forward and then fol- lowed them up and cursed and berated them in Bristol fashion, and ended up by threatening to put any man in irons for the reat of the voyage who let 11 be known that he heard the singing again. As the doys mid nigh te tressed andour Cap. bait hoard nothingfurther from the men be began to boast el how lie harl dissolved the inystery and put Jack's euporatitione to flight, The second mate and I know bot - tor; however, The queer noises continued, and the mon had b000me so rattled that the watch below smoked their pipes and kept very wide awake, The discipline of the ship was being upset by a mystery, and I mu free to confess 1110.1 )1 was a mystery which also bothered me. On two other toe. OBB/011S 5 had 'entered the fe'eastle and plain. ly heard t111112121011115 sounds, but was not able 10 looato them 00 iny satisfaction. I ove out t te longboat, and we elept right along without hearing a sound. They filled two hreakera of water, took such provisions as the cook, who was in with them, oould lay hands on, and by 1 o'clock they were away, The steward was the only one left behind with the officers. After the men left, Mr. Croat made efforts to free himself, but without evail. He could not even roll A Modern Idea. Aleng the deck, as he had been lashed lo a I see that, The Labor party in the United ring bolt. At half past 3 o'clock the Cap- States propose to arm and drill a few thou, / tam awoke and went on deck, and when sand men who hall always be ready to re, the whole affair became plain to him he fest the Pinkerton staff, I do not bhime nearly fell down in a fit. them, thougli. What a ViSta of trouble and Our position was off St. Paul de Leondo bloodshed 10 0502)0 up ! The Melted Staten fairly in the pathway of traffic, but we under its proseet laws has nothing for tho realized that we might knock about for a "nigger' or the workingmen. IVe all Mos, month withoue sighting a sail. Nothing ougEly well understand that the "nigget" when daylight came, and the first thing we we may aide what right has the working. eettla be see° of 113 J°ngb°at from aloft and the workingmen will ultimately rebel, did was to reduce sail, eo that we ;night men to refase to quit his employment in the possibly manage the eerie in euee of heavy mills of a rich company, or what right lum weather. The breeze freshened egth the he to resist the employment in his stead of sun, and as it was fair for the coast, which supposed, of course, the Captain would at- not money enough to own a inill or factory au inferior aborer ? It seems to be the was about 5e0 miles away, Mr. Groat and I tempt to work her in. He had clifferene flimashnthourtigohctQutosilidte(relbTatakteheChmaarines7Rheldhe: ideae, however. Ife was very quiet and motto, "Put yourself 101 hie place," A man. humble over the first shook. Then he let works in a nitll and has worked there for years; he is a mill worker by force and mine cation and experience. He belongs nowhere else. He may have been born in Germany and is a reeident of the United States, 18120* tumlized citizen, a believer in the institu- still swearing, when a strange figure emerg- it,iician:ino f the couutry. Arbitrarily and with, the inain-mast. It l VOA the figure of a wont: out regard to the market or anything etcoope an, but her face was so white and pinched , iEn 8,,(emr ye n o thhaeyre ial:tilisi:n 0, ployer's strength, he is (bemused, 1scon;neei. oar lseysoste: ed from the fo'castle and came all as far as her eyes so large and gluey, and she reeled the same position. Knowing this, the work. nearest to her, was tan scconde in making does it mean to this man ? His ouly point el by 110 moans strong° to employers them - about in each a manner that I, who was sure she was even a human being. The selvee. A. luck -out ora strike occurs I What minute I caught sight of HER PARCTIED LIPS ' , loose and did swearing enough to last ten shipmasters on ten long voyages. He de- clared he'd navigate the hark to Liverpool m if it took five years to ake the voyage and if he never got au hour's (deep. We had 58150 got her on her course, and the old man himself was at the wheel and attachment on earth is the place where he mune a living. Artist be necessarily accept, O slave's wages or be driven out like a tramp?: 1 nal to the scuttle butt and got her a pane, she had swallowed fully two quarts befcre kin of water. It was only a drop to her, and a right to ive as a human being and a free-- Is it wron for hen to believe that he him you, steward, who was now acting ELS cook, an I choked her off. Then I signaled the no place to go, if be violates theneceseary- man ? It lie is driven from that town he haft e011510 of biscuit. She ate like a wolf, and him, sease There are only two courses open ter uicide or resistance. Can thane laws of his co-workers he must be an out, • be brought ear a big hunk of meat and da witowr da .8 a Theng0d s iasto saymm itawlfhourbefore the spoke a. • blame him for resisting ? The man who. would not resist under these eireustan "All 1 me bye, but Molly McDavis beginse is not posseseed of the ',Inlay of a IIIRM. to feel like her old self once more !" How he may fight it out, what may be th It wan the Irish woman we had refused er thirst and hunger had been satisfied she to take aboard at Cape Town, and after me the greatest sin of the age is that W1)result I don 0 know, and between yon end, aboard the men were at mapper and the don't, care half as much as we oughttold to. Re - 118 her story. The last time she came cargo nearly stowed. She had her plane all cease to have a right, to live. He may be cause a man is not a capitaliat he does note without being seen. She made her way made, and she slipped down the afterhatth has some right to say what he shall be paid, poor, but a$ long as he is Willing to vrork he for 1110 work. If he has no right to inter, over the cargo to the fo'casele bulkhead, ere in the price of his labor he ie e alavee and there took up quertere mom; the bales of dried eowskine we had stored there. She had brought with her four quarts of water and two loaves of bread, intending to let her presence be known before ole suf. lered from hunger and thirst. She was dreadful Ore- when we got to sea and her groans and prayers and laments were heard in the fo'eastle. When she gob better elle sang to keep herself compaey. She nettle the bread and weter last her a week. Then she tried to attract attention by rapping on Ole bulkhead, but the frightened sailors paid no attention. She had- a pocketknife with her, and on the afternoon of the night they abandoned the ship she out the band of four bales of skine end moved them away, and then attacked the bulkhead. She was all night ontting through the stout planks, and when she appeared on deck she had been forty hours without food or water. I expeoted the Captain would give the stowaway woman a. blessing. After she had finished her story, he did start in to, but she could utter five words to his one, and she soon tired him out, He sent her M the galley to aet as eitek, and I don't, think lie was as much put out as he pretended to be, Thus Mr, as you have seen, three VERY means CIRCUMSTANCES had othurred—the discovery of a spook in the foeastle, the flight of the mew, and the appearance of Miss alcDavis. There was to be a fourth curious cireumstanee. On the second day of mu, shorthandednees we lied half a gale and it tumbling sea all day and far into nigb t, We were under very short sail, but the bark sailed along at a good rate of speed, The captain meant( to keep our coarse and speak the first sail we met and ask for two or three men and touch at Sierre Leone, At sunrise of the third clay I went aloft to sweep the sea, and the very firsb objeot to catch my eye WAS our longboat. She wits to the eastward and windward of us and bearing down across our course. She wasn't over three miles away, and with 1115 glass I could identifly every man. Upon reporting the boat to the Captain he swore by the big iron spoon that he'd not take a inan ithroed, but when the boat had come withiu hail he changed 110mind, and her orew were soon tumbling over the rail and glad to get aboard. They lied gone off intending to make the oast, but had for- gotten to take ft compass, and been sailing almost et tandem. The "ghost" NVOM there to weloome them 011 board, and when they got her 8(017 and realized how idiotic had boen their action, to set of men were over more disgusted with themselves or more anxious to atone for their doings, Molly MeDavis was landed in Liverpool, and when we made up a perso for her that she might have gine to turn around I believe the Captaio put in as much as all thereat of tui, though he waved her mime and called after her that he'd have the law on her if she wasn't out of Liverpool in an hour. Emperor William has footnoted Chan- cellor von Caprivi to ignore the Bismarck oontroversy, but it is understood the %nee is to be prosecuted 13 110 carries mit his idea of ineking 122 10111 of the prineipal Uormati A Mistake. The writer recently attended a county" monthly stock fate and WU impressed with' Ole carelessness shown by many farmers ilk preparing their stook for market. Home: were offered and found few bidden that could have been tnade much more attractive in appearance by eproper use of thebrueb. does not pay to be indifferent to the ap•peare ance of stook when wishing to sell, and thia truth is so self-evident that it seems idle to ineution it, bub some will not place a. true estimate on the influence of surface appeeme anew, especially at apublie sale, where 0015+ thing attractive receives a general murmur of approval from the moment it appears. All other thinge being emelt, the sleek, well, groomed °aerial will sell 10 per cent. higher than the neglected one. Another fact wee. apparent. The amount of inferior stock ic. the country is large, and Mayers of the heat grades OSU nut im ail their orders, Thor- oughbred glades ere numerous,but thebrood mares and cows in most seetions ere below the mark. We cannot accomplish all WO wish ab once, buti there is every nducement to the progressive fanner to cull out oisly the very best for breeding purposes. 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