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The Brussels Post, 1893-10-27, Page 22 [N THE MIDST OF ALAR THE BRUSSELS' POST °cTu;sn 27, 1g93 Rl>BT. 13AI11 , II\ '' LI PP INOOrral MAll.;1.ZIiNE," } rtxt nv,) when it wee calm and Loo Branch when CHAPTER it was rough. No, sir. The woods, the " Oh,i doesn't matter. Shave it woods, and the woods, I have hired a tent well, t and a lot of cooking -things, 1' nn going to somewhere. He returned too the prep,.id I take that tent over to Canada tomorrow, 1pvelope and reminded me that United and then I propose we engage a man with a grates stamps were of no use in Canada, team to cart it somewhere oto the woods, which of course I should have remembered, fifteen or twenty miles away. We shall But he didn't pay the postage on his own have to be near a fano house, so that we letter, so that 1 had to fork out double. I can get fresh butter, milk, and eggs. This, Still, I don't mind that, only as an iudiea- of course, is a disadvantage; but I shall try tion of his meauoss. He want on to say t to get near some one who has never even that of all the mentors of our class you— Beard of New York." a ou I—were the only one who had reflected I n You may fin:{ that somewhat dills• credit ou it. That was the insult. The , cult," idea of his making enols a statement, when,"Oh, 1 dou`t know. I have groat hopes of I told him 1 wee on the New York Argus! the lack of intelligence in the Canadians." Credit to the Blase, indeed I I wonder if he ever heard of Brown, carer ho was ex - palled, You huow, of course. No? Well, Brown by his own exertions became Presi- dent of the Alum Bauk in New Yotk, clear half -million. Yea, sir. I saw hon in I I've laid in about half a ton, more or less, Quebec not six months ago. Keeps the , of tobacco, and have brought an empty finest span and carriage in the arty, and i jug." lives in a palace. Could buy old Scragmoro I tr An empty one ?" a thousand times and never feel it. Most tr yea. Among the few things worth liberal contril'utor to the cause of caeca,haviu that the Canadians possess, is ood tion that there is in Commie. He says educe-whiskey.k Bsides, the empty jun will save tion made him, and he's not a man to go,trouble ea the oustom-hause. I don't sup• bark an education. And yet Scragnmore pose Canadian rye is as good as the Ken. has the cheek to say that you wore the oil}' tucky article, bub you and S will have to man in the Mass who reflects credit on it 1'scrub along on it for a while. And talk - The professor smiled quietly, as the ex- I ing of, jugs, just press the button once cited journalist toot a 000ling sip of the cobbler. ga sin." The professor did so, saying,— "" Yon see, Yates, people's opinions differ. I "The doctor made no remark, I suppose, A man like Brown may not be Principal about drinking lees or amokiu, less, did Scagmore's ideal. The Principal maybe he?'' I local in his ideals of a successful man or of In my case ? Well, canis to think of it, h'one who reflects credit on his teaching." I there was some conversation in that dire°. ' " Local ? You bet he's local, Too , tion. Don't remember at the moment just darned local for toe. It would do that what it amounted to ; but all physicians man good to live in New York for a year. 1 have their little fads, you know. It doesn't 'But I'm going to get even with flim. I'm do to humor then too muoh.—Ah, boy, going to write him np. I'll give him a' there you are aaeaiu, Well, the professor column and a half, see it I don't. 1'11 get ; wants another c rinlc. Make it a gin fiz his photograph and publish a newspaper , this time, and put plenty of ioe in it bat portrait of him. If that doesn't make hfnm n don't neglect the gun ou that amount. quake he's o eastarun man. Ray, you Certainly : charge ft to room 518." CHAPTER III. " Often the narrowest," said the profes- sor, slowly, are those who think themselves the most cosmopolitan." " Right you are 1" cried Yates, shim- ming lightly over the remark and seeing wrecked it, and got off to anisette antis a , nothing appliaablo to his core in it. "Wag, haven't a photograph of old Scrag that you can lend me, have you?" " I have, but I won't lend it for awls a purpose. However, never mind the Prin. cipal. Tell me your plans. I am at your dispoeai for a couple of weeks, or longer if necessary." What's all this tackle ?" asked the burly and somewhat red-faced customs. officer at Tort Erie. " This," said Yates, "is a tent, with the poles and pegs appertaining thereto. These "Good boy 1 Well, 1'11 tell you how it are a number of packages of tobacco, on is. I want rest and quiet and the woods which I shall doubtless have to pay some - for a week or two. This is how it hap- thing into the exchequer of Her Majesty. pened, I have been steadily at the grind- : This is a jar used for the holding of fluids, stone, except for a while in the hospital, ' I beg to call your attention to the fact that and that, you trill admit, is not much of a it is at present empty, which unfortunately vacation.. The mvorli interest= me, end I prevents me making me a libation to the am alweys in the thick el it, low, it's rite., ntgosd-fclloveh)p, What my friend press. He could got news when no other !like this In ;he nawepaper bueineaa; your has in that valise I don't knew, bat I sus -man could. Flippant and shallow as 110 ,chief is never the person to suggest that pr eta gambling-outfit,and would advi:o you undoubtedly was, he somehow got into the ;you take a vacation. Ho is usually shortafto search him." inner confidence of all sorts of mien in a men and long.:n things to do, so if you dont, " 31y valise contains books principally, way that made them give hint au inkling of carry Lfn into felon• you off he wout with some articles of wearing•apparel, anything that was going on for the mere Nick himself, hero he ie.—I say, Mr, Bart- lett, this gentleman was wondering if you euildn't -tote eat some of hie belongings, IIa'sgoing oat your way," Bartlett wan a somewhat un0011111 and wily specimen of the Canadian farmer, who evidently paid little attention to the sub• joot of dress. lIe said nothing, but looked In a lowering way at Yates with something of contempt and suepieion in ifs glance, Yates had ono receipt for making the aa- quainbanco of all mankind, "Couto in, Air. Bartlett," he Bahl, cheerily, "and try one of my friend's excellentcoohtttils." "I Was mine straight," growled Bart. lett, gruffly, although he stepped inside the open door. "I don't want n0 Yankee mix. tures iu mine. Plain wltiskey'sgood enough for any man, if he is a man. I don't talce no water, neither. I've got trouble enough," The bartender winked ab Yates as lie shoved the decanter aver to the now-oomer. "(tight you are," assented Yates,00rdial- ly'Phe farmer did not thaw out in the least because of this prompt agreement with him, but sipped his whiskey gloomily, as if it were a most disagreeable medicine. "What did you want me to take out?" he said at feet. "A friend and a tent, a jug of whiskey, and a lot of jolly good tobacco." "Bow mncli are you willing to pay?" "01, I don't know. I'm always willing to do what's right. How would live dollars strike you?" The farmer scowled and shook his head. "Too muoh," he said, as Yates was about to offer more. t"'Tain't worth 1.1. Two-and•a-half would be about the right figure. Don'no but that's toonmol. I'll think on 11 going Immo and charge yon what it's worth, I'll be ready to leave in about an hour, if that suite. That's my team on the other side of the roa'l. If it's gone when you mane back I'm gone, an' you'll have to get somebody else. With this Bartlett draw his coat -sleeve across his mouth and departed. "That's hint exactly," said the bar -keep- er. "He's the most cantankerous Drank in the township. And say, let ma give you a pointer: If the subject of 181.2 tames up,— the war, you know,—you'd better admit that we got thrashed out of our boots; that is, if you want to get along with Hiram, He hates Yankees like poison." " And did we got thrashed in 1513?" asked Yates, who was more familiar with current topics titan with the history of the past. "Blest if I know. Hiram says we did. I told him once that we got what we want- ed from old England, and he nearly haul- ed me over rho bar. So 1 give you the warning, it you wont to get along with tint." " Thank you. 011 remember it. So long." This friendly hint from the man in the tavern offers a key to•the solution of the problem of Yates's success on the New York lose any sleep over it. He's content to let I said the professor, opening bis grip. well enough alone army time, Then there The customs -officer looked with suspicion %always stvr-teone who wants to get away on the whole outfit, and evidently dal not em ressinghneiness,—grandfather afuneral, like the tone of the American. He seemed ,tn '. - d that sort of titin , so if a fellow is con- I to be treating the customs department in a tent to wart; right along his chief is quite I light and airy manner, and the officer was ontent to let him. That's the way affairstoo mach impressed by the dignity of his 'Ytavegere for years with me. The other day I position not to resent flippancy. Besides, I went over to Washington to interview a there were rumors of Fenianmvaslon in the Senator on the politbcal prospects. I to you n•1•at it is Stilly, without bragging, there are some big men iu the States whom no one but me can interview. And yet old Scrag sr yo 1',n no credit to hie class 1 Why, last year my political predictions were tele- graphed all over this country, and have Nine appeared 11, the European press. No oredit : By Jove, I would lilte to have cid Scrag in a twenty-four•fnnt ring with thin sloven on for about ten minutes. " f doubt if he would shine under those circumstances. But never mind him. He spoke, for once, without due reflection, and -with perhaps an exaggerated remembrance of your soltool•dayoffences. What happened when you. went to Washington ?" ".A strange thing happened. When I was admitted to the Senator's library I saw another fellow, whom I thought I knew, sitting there. I said to the Senator, ' 1 Will come when you are alone.' The Sena• for boo' ed up in surprise, and said, " I am alone.' I didn't say anything, but went on with my intetivew, and the other fellow took notes all the time. I didn't like this, but said nothing, for the Senator is not a mar to offend, and it is by not offending these fellows that I can get the information `I do. Well, the other fallow came out with me, and as I looked at him I saw that he was myself. This did air, and the officer resolved that no Fenian should get into the country without paying duty. Where are you raping with this tent?' "1'm sure I don't know, Perhaps you can tell us. I don't know the country about here. Say, Stilly, l'nt off up -town to attend to this jug. I've been empty ton often myself not to sympathize with its condition. You wrestle this matte' out about the tent. You know the ways of the country, whereas I don't." It was perhaps as well that Yates left negotiations fn the hands of his friend. He was quick enough to see that he made no headway with the officer butrather the op. poeite. Ile slung the jug ostentatiously over his shoulder, to the evident discom- fort of the professor, and marched up the hill to the nearest tavern, whistling one of the lately popular war -tunes. "Now," he said to the barkeeper, plac- ing the jug tenderly on the bar, "511 that up to the nozzle with the best rye you have. Fill it with the old familiar juice, as the late poet Omar saith." The bar -tender diel as he was requested. "Can you disguise a lttble of that fluid in any way so that it may be taken internally without a man suspecting what he is swal- lowing?" The bar.keeper smiled. "How would a not, strike me as strange at rho time, but cocktail fill the vacancy?" I arggued with hire all the way to New a I can suggest nothing better," replied York and tried to show him that he wasn't Yates. " If you are sure you know how treating me fairly. I wrote up the inter- to make it." view with the other follow interfering all The man did not resent this imputation the while, so I compromised, and half the . aiguoranoe. He merely said, with tamale time put in what he suggested and half the of one who gives an incontrovertible answer, Units what I wanted in myself. taDam, the political editor went over thr :buff he look- ed alarmed, I told b0s"• :rankly just bow I had been ,.f .merfered with, end he looked 'mune the less alarm- ed wher 1 hall 5nisbed. He sent at ,oucator a doctor, The doctor metaphor ieallytook me apart,and then said to my chief, 'This clan is simply worked to death. Re must have a vacation, and a real one, with absolutely nothing to think of, or he is going to go to pieces, and that with a suddenness that will surprise everybody.' The akiot, to my astonishment, consented without a murmur, and oven upbraided me for not going away sooner, Then the dose for oairi to me, 'Yon get soma companion, —some man with no brains, if possible, who " I am a Kentucky man, myself." "Shake," cried Yetes,briefly,as he reach. ed his hand across the bar. "How is it you happen to be Here ?" Well, I got into a little trouble in Louisville, and here I ant where I can at least look at God's oouut.ry," "Bold on," protested Yates. " You're making only one cocktail." " Didn't yon say one ?" asked the man, pausing in the compounding. "Bless you, 1 never saw ono 000klail made in my life. You are with me on this." " Just as you say," replied the other, as he prepared enough for two. ' Now, I'll toll you my fix," sand Yates, Will not discuss politics, who has no opinion confidentially, tl1 I've got a taut and some on anything that any sono man won d caro I camp things down below at the custom• to talk about, and who wouldn't say a I house shautyand 1 want to get them taken bright thing if he tried for a year. Get into the woods where I can camp out with such aman to go off to the woods some. a friend, I want a place where we can where. Up in Maine or in Canada, As have absolute rest and quiet. Do you know far away from post -offices and telegraph .wfiteesas possible. And, by the way, don't leave your address at the Argus office,' 'hue it happened, Stilly, when ho described this Man so graphically, 1 at onus thought of you:" "I am deeply gratified, I am sure," said the professor, with the ghost of a smile, "to be so promptly remembered in such a 'connection, and if I can be of service to you 1 shall be very glad. I take it, then, the country round here? Perhaps you coal') reootnmend a spot" "Well, for all the time I've been here I know precious little about the back country. I've been down the road to the Falls, but never back in the woods, I suppose you want some place by the lake or the river?" "No, I don't. 1 want to got °tear book into the forest,—if there is a forest." "Nell, there's a man in to -day from sonowhero near Ridgeway, I think. He's that you have no intention of stopping fn , got a hayrack with hint, and that would Buffalo?" be just the thing to take your tent and " You bet I haven't. I'm in for the forest 1 poles. Wouldn't be very comfortable primeval, the murmuring pines and the travelling for you, bnt it would bo all right hemlooit, bearded with moss and green in i for the tent, if it's is big one."' r the something oeother—I forget the rest. This will snit UR exactly IC o clon't I want to quit lying on paper and lie on my caro is pent about the comfort. Roughing back imitated, on the sward or in a hammock, it is what wo name for, Whore will 1 find I'm going to avoid all boarding-houeos or delightful. summer resorts and go in for the quiet of the forest," " There ought to bo some nice places aide th lake eh re " him? "Oh, held bo along here soon. That's his teats tied there on the side -street, If he happens to be In good humor he'll take gg�� e your Gamma and as like as not give you a N0, eir, NO lake shore for mo. It place to,oamp in hie woods. Hiram Bart. "Aro you going to otfort hat girl aside?" Tottid remind me of the Lake Shore Railway I IGLU's hie name. And, talking of the old ho said to Bartlett, "Nn, 011110ot,' "1 that is rather uncivil," he added, forgetting the warning he had had, "You do, oh? Well you offer her aside, You (tired the team," "By love, 1 wilt," said fates, placing his bend on the outside of the reels and springing lightly to the around, "Likely Ghfug," growled Bartlett to the professor, " that she's going to ride with the litre of hint," The professor looked for a moment a Yatoa politely taking off his hat to th apparently astonished young woman, bu Ile said nothing. " law two canto," continued Bartlett, gathering up the reins, "I'd whip up the horses and let hitn walk the rest of the way." "From what I know of my friend," answered the profooeor, slowly, "I think ho would not objeot in the slightest." Bartlett muttered something to himself, and seemed to change his mind about gal. loping his horses. Meanwhile, Yates, as has been said, tools off his hat with great politeness to the fair pedestrian, and as be dill so he noticed with a thrill of admiration that she was very handsome. Yates always had au eye for the beautiful. (TO an c.moTIxURA.) love of him, and Yates often got valuable aasistaneo frotn his acquaintances which other reporters could not get for money. The New -Yorker found the professor sit• ting of a bench by the cestom-h0cee, chat- ting with the officer, and gazing at time rapidly -flowing broad blue river in front of them. "I have got a man," nil Yates, "who will take us into the wilderness in about an hour's time. Suppose we explore the town. I expect nobody will run away with the tent till we come back," "I'll look after that," said the officer; and, thanking hinm,tlte two friends strolled up the street. They were n trifle late in getting back, and when they reached the tavern they found Bartlett Past on the point of driving home. He gruffly consented to take them if they did nut keep hips more than five minutee loading up. The tent and appurtenances were speedily loaded on the hay-rack,and then Bartlett drove up to the tavern and waited,saytng nothiug,although he had been in snch a hurry a few moments before. Yates did not like to ask the cause of the delay: so the three sat there silently. After a while Yates said, as mildly as he Dould,— Are you waiting for any one, Mr. Bart. lett?" "Yes," answered the driver, in a surly tone. "I'm waiting for you to go in fur that jug. I don't suppose you filled it to leave on the counter,' "By Jove 1" cried Yates, springing off, "I had forgotten all about it, which shows the extraordinary e0'eot this country has on me already." The professor frowned, but fates sante out merrily with the jug in his hand, and Bartlett started his team, They drove out of the village and up a slight hill, going for a mile or two along a straight and somewhat sandy road. Then they turned to what Bartlett staid in answer to a ques'iou by the professor was the Ridge Road, and there was no need to asst why it was so termed. It was a good high. way, but rather stony, the road being, in places, on the bare rock. it paid not the slightest attention to Euclid's definition of a straight line, and in this respect was rather a welcome change from the average American road, Sometimes they passed along avenues of overbranchingg trees, which were evidently relics of the forest that once covered all the district, The road followed the ridge, and on smolt side were frequently to be soon wide vistas of lower -lying country. All along the road were comfortable farmhouses; end it was evident that a prosperous commnuity flourished along Lhe ridge. Bartlett spoke only once, and then to the professor, who sat next to him. "You a Canadian 7" " Yes," " Where's he from ?" " My friend is from New York," answer- ed the innocent professor. "Humph l" grounted Bartlett, scowling deeper than over, after which lie became silent again, The team.w'as not going very fast, although neither the load nor the roads wore heavy. Bartlett was muttering a good deal to himself, and now and Hien brought down his whip savagely on one or the other of the horses, bot the moment the unfortunate animals quickened their pace he hauled them in roughly. Nevertheless they were going quickly enough to bo over. taking a young woman who was walking 011 alone, Although she mast have board them owning over the rocky road, also did not burn her head, but walked along with the free and springy step of one wbo is not only aotu s'toa't to walking, but who likes it. Bartlett paid no attoltion to the girl; the professor was endeavoring to read his thin book as well as a man might who is being jolted frequently ; but Yates, as coon as ho reoognived that the pedestrian was young, pulled lip lois collar, adjusted his neoktio with care, aedplaced hie that in somewhat more jaunty and fetching position. Saved From Drowning - A physician owning It country -seat in 1'Inskoka where his family were accustom. ed to spend the summer months, taught his boys to swim as soon es they were out of the nursery. His farm bordered upon a lake, where the greater part of the boys' time was taken up with boating, fishine, and swimming. One was nine and the other six years old, and they wore expect- ed to take Dare of themselves. One day the younger child was seized by a cramp while he was in 11110 water, and after screaming for help sank out of sight. The brother swam out boldly and got an arm under him before the third downward plunge. Tho youngster was uuconsoions and help- less, but the older one contrived to keep him afloat with one awn while striking out with the other for the shore. He drew the little fellow out of the water, white, mo - toeless and apparently dead. The rescuer had heard his father describe the treatment for resuscitating persons tak- en from the water when nearly drowned. He could not remember it in detail, but ho was impressed with the necessity of prompt action. He did not attempt to summon help from the horse, which was a long way off. Plan- ing the boy on his face with his wrist under the forehead he paused a moment and then toured the body on the side. The crude attempt to restore respiration was repeated several times, until he was delighted to find the lips moving and the oyes opening. The young physician had not made et strictly ecfentihc application of the rules for artificial respiration, but the little fellow's breath was restored. 1( • Then two additional rules mentioned by the father were remembered. The body was briskly rubbed, and then handled up with the jackets and dry clothes which were on the bank. With these measures for restoring dram latiou recovery was well•nigh complete. Then taking the child on his beck the res- cuer started for the house, whore the moth- er reoeived them with open arms and anx- ious face. The patient was put to bed and rho fath- er summoned from town, but precautionary measures were hardly necessary. The nine-year-old physician had clone his work so successfully thin scarcely more that a sleeping draught was required for the 'tight, The father was proud of the bay, and he had a right to be. "I could not have done better myself," he said to the led, " You must be a doctor when you grow up, Indeed you are one already." Every manly boy who has the opportuni- ty learns to swim as a matter of course. But there are few men or boys who have their wits about them, and know what to do in an emergency when a drowning per- son is to be resuscitated. Sometimes n brave rescuer, after rishino his life, is bathed on shore by his helpless burden. It is an art that fs readily an. (mired. - MEORANISM OF THE WATCH. BESIEGE() BY WOLVES. A 'Woman's Adventure in the Rooky Mountains, Shp isenv4.1y wreuds her Genie sol Chip duce—A mini or angry orates Itepl. ,tt tens Tilt Bele Ar,'ived. There resides in a certahn Canadian city a lady who years ago wee the heroine of a night among wolves in the Rooky Moun- tains where she had accompanied her hues band, with three small children, in it min- ing venture, Sho was hardly 25 years old, and though in excellent physical condition, did not weigh lintels more than 100 pounds. She was all plonk, a fact that she was not aware of until she was told. Affluently reared, and knowing nothing about "roughing it," elle fell at once into a life the reverse of this. Her husband hay- ing located on what appeared—and in time proved—to be a productive mining section, she determined to go and share life with flim. It was miles and miles away from habita- tion and civilization—far on the mountable. It was a huge task to resets the spot, and when she did winter was coming on. To make her and the small children as comfort- able as possible the husband had erected a log•honso of two or three rooms,insertod on one side of the mountain, and in every re- spect as good and complete as such houses are ever made to bo.. Though when he be• gnu it the house was only on tine outskirts of the mining camp, yet changes that were made loft it between four and five miles away. It was thought better to occupy it for the winter, whiclt would shortly sot in, thau build another. In this log hut the little wife and the young children wore made comfortable in all the ways possible under the oiremnstanoes. Nearly every. thing that was attainable to this end was procured, and the husband was away from his family not longer than three days at a limo On.e day while ho was thus absent a furious snowstorm—a regular blizzard of the mountains—main up as night approached. For several days snow had been falling,a id it already lay on the ground at an unusual depth. On the day du question it came down in a short time to an unparalleled depth, and the wind blew with extraordin- ary fury. This was the state of things who' tate day ol'sod. Of firewood the house was well supplied, and of food there was plenty, if the serge did not last too long. There wa0 only one email window to the house,and the door was strong and capable of being barricaded on the inside.. The little woman es the blizzard began to hotel and the snow threatened to bury the hut, took a survey and rather brought herself to comprehend tho situation of her- self and her family, cut off as they were for a time at least from human aid, She conn• prohended it might be days before auy on" could oottno to her, though she felt sure her husband would do till he could. Site was not greatly alarmed yet, but soon was by the shrieking and ether nauifestations that told her teat wolves its considerable num- bers were around, and on the house. I3nilt as it was so that rho roof one side mvar al- most even with the surface of the grctnd, it was not difficult, but a perfectly natural thing, for the animals under the circum- stances to 'swarm upon the roof, attracted as they were by the light that came front the chimney. They swarmed around the house, also, attracted by the light that shone through chinks and otevices where the bat- tening between the loge was not complete, and on the roof and around the lrwise on all sides the wolves howled and shrieked fiercely, made savage by the intensity of the cold, the fierceness of the bluets anti tho blitdiag snow. Before going. into the mining district this little woman was not wholly unused to fire- arms, After she wont there she had prat• tiered with theta, eo as to render her fairly equal to the emergency. Of these arms there were in the cabin two rifles and two pietels, all of the most o6'octual description. She early collected all these, loaded the rifles and pistols, and with something like ongiueering skill. a military man would summon, prepared to defend herself and her three small children, who were too young to understand the dangers with which they were menaced, Its Manufacture Requires the Exercise. of the Greatest Sttitt. Open your watch and look at the little wheels, springs and screws, each an indis- pensable part of ebe whole wonderful ma. chine, Notice the busy little balance wheel as it flies to and tro unoeasingly,day and night, year in and year out. This wonderful little machine is the result of hundreds of years of study and experiment. The watoh carried by the average man is composed of 08 pieces, and its menufaotttre embraces more than 2,000 distinct and sem, urate operations. Some of the smallest screws are so min- ute that the unaided eye. cannobdistingeish then' from steel hlings or specks of dirt. Tinders powerful maguifying glass a por- ted screw is revealed. The slit in the head is 2-1,000 of an inch wide. It makes 008,000 of these screws to weigh a pound, and ono pound is worth $1,585. The hair spring is a strip of the finest steel, about 0 1-2 inches long, and 1-100 inch wide and 27-10,000' inch thick, It is coiled up in spiral form and finely tempered, The value of these springs when finished and placed in watohes is enormous in pro. portion to the motorial from which they are made. A oonparison will give a good idea. A ton of stool made up into tlafr springs when in watches is worth more than 111 times the value of th same weight in gold. Hairspring wire weighs one. twentieth of a grain to the incl,. One anile of wire weighs less than half a pound. The balauco gives five vibrations every Becloud, 300 every minute, 18,000 every hour, 432,000 every day and 157,680,000 a year. At each vibration it rotates about one and one-fourth times, which makes 107,100,000 every year. In order that we may better understand the •stupendous amount of tabor performed by Diose tiny works, let its make a few comparisons. Take, for 10,114110e, a locomotive with six- foot driving wheels. Let its wheels be run until they have given the same number of revolutions that a watch does hi ono year, and they will have covered a distend aqua) to twetyeight complete circuits the oarth. All this a watch does withou other attention than winding ottoo ever tventyfonr hours. On the roof time wolves snarled and scratched in their endeavors to find an open- ing. On onnside of the but was a spot where Use battening was torn off, awl through which the light from the inside shone as it did from no other place, Around this spot or crank the wolves congregated and howl. ed in great numbers. Ocoasionally one would insert his nose through the opening. The heroic little woman had scarcely the strength to handle a rifle to use it effectu- ally. She placed one so that the muzzle would point directly to the opening, and stationed herself so as to pull the trigger at the right moment. Watching her opportun- ity she slugged away. The report was responded to on the outside by howls and shrieks fiercer than over, and then for some time there was silence, followed by attacks on the roof and in different quarters, speci- ally at the door, against which the animals threw themselves as with human instinct. The fire on the great hearth was kept blaring. The little woman rose, equal to the occasion, and not for a moment lost her head, Hours time passed. Tho children were put to bed, after a hasty repast, the 000king of which seemed to manse the wolves to be more fierce, As if by concert the assualt on the opening where the shot had been feed was renewed and one animal actually inserted through it a paw, so it was not a difficult matter for the woman to chop it on the inside by the expert use of an ax. A shriek fieroor than any before told her how well she had used the instrument, Then followed other noses through the Bolo which fared no bettor than those that at first tried it, followed as before by howls and shrieks that told the shot which our heroine let fly ileal done lima intended wort, As tint° went on the number of the wolves seemed to increase, and every time they matte an attack it was with greater fierce• toss and determination than before. Those that swarmed of tho root were more numer- ono than ever, mai the little woman hardly stopperl to blminio what would bo her fate and that of bar children in ease the mad, denod animals effaoted an enbranoe, All night this wont on, Toward morning there was an abatement of the storm and of the wolves, but the sold grow in intensity. The latter, however, gave her no alaringas n 0 1 thingsho through The theaereeks of land {ng with Delis to show g , of came faint sounds of human voices—howls t iu the distance. One peculiar shout or pail Y she recognised as from her husband, She responded with s 5110011 of triumph, and re. /seated it a dozen times, but it wont not be. ' yowl the cabin barrioaies. But What trdumph ; what relief? Again and again the shouts Were repeated in the distano, I responded to every time by the wife, wile as knew a relief party, led by her husband Was near, The wolves retired—those to whom the shots of the defender renderedswill a thing 1,nsebhle, As tin morning advanced this re. liar plrty was heard nearing the hoses. The wife enured the lateen,'sent the blsez nearly out of the chimney top, She be - Betted it would be interpreted as meaning bowel boel the shouts and that ail MAR well inside. And so they did; for it was not long before the beleaguered but was sur• rounded by friends. She removed the fastenings that hold the door, which she threw open at the iust,utt her husband was about to enter. "I leave you, m friende, to imagine the rest, It was my first and last night,atnong wolves," she said, in. tolling her story. SHIP 0ANALS• The Struggles 01 the Manchester Chard Co.—.1a Enterprise 111101h Dwarfs A11 P1.0101111 °ilea. Tile ohairmat of the Manoheeter ehip coal has written to Lord Rosebery,foreign secretary, asking hint to make known to British consuls and agents abroad that a new port will shortly Dome into existence. The canal has been opened to Weston Point for two years ; it is now complete to the London & Northern railway crossing at Acton. The railroads got 5500,000 alleged damages; they claimed $2,750,000. The award rooms to Manchester n large sum to be mulcted in for the privilege or making ship navigation, for which the corporation of Manchester has put up $22,570,000 in addition to the $50,000,000 furnished by private capital. The enterprise, says the New York Sun, has had a tough struggle for existence against the combined opposition of Liver- pool and the railroads reaching that port. But that struggle is now won, and the struggle for trate will shortly begin. Dar- ing the last half year 708,160 tons of mer- chandise have been carried over the opened portio[ of the ship canal,as against 123,570 tope so parried during the corresponding period of the year before. Recently a ves- sel laden with 4,000 tons and drawing twenty-one feet of water sailed from the canal for Calcutta, Amsterdam has had an experience not wholly dissimilar from that of Manchester.At last, (titer twenty years of struggle araivat the jealousy of neighboring cities, she hes established bettor communication by the 1Ierwede canal with the Rhenish provinces of Germany. Even now she has had to put up with a less satisfactory route than that contended for; the canal has only a minimum width on the bottom of 05a: feet and a minimum depth of 101 feet. Transit that formerly needed from sixteen to eigh- teen boors is now clone in seem, The canal is free of toile. The opening of the Corinth canal was noted not long Ritmo. This is not strictly a selfhelp canal, having been constructed by a private company which got most of its capital in France, This canal does not cross the isthmus at the narrowest spot or even the lowest. The question of surface drain- age was mainly considered in choosing the line. It transpired that tamer,the identi- cal conrso chosen by Noro's Roman engineers had been followed, for at a distance one from another of 151 feet two parallel lines of shafts were fsnnd, forming part of an exeavatton 220 feet wide between then. A similar system to Neto's was followed ou the modern n work. French political enterprise in Siam has been quickly followed by engineering proj- ects, The canal which the English 'lecliued undertaking is now likely to bo built across the Maley peninsula. The selected point is on the +,unsam provinces, whero the canal could be connected with the inland sea, which csuhl easily be rendered navigable. The Frenoh wish, it is said, to secure thirty miles of territory on either side of the waterway. Thos scheme, if carried ant, world allow ships to take a short out to Saigon without passing through bite straits of Mal - acevfetya and would be important from a politi- cal as well as from a oommoroial point of . All of those projects, except that of Man - chasten are dwarfed by the m;ew seaway be- tween the North sea and the Deltic now ander construction by (dornlany. Time total length of this noble work is about sixty-one English miles,tho width at rho water line is 107 feet, and at the bottom, at the toe of the slopes, seventy-two feet ; the. total depth is nearly twenty-eigit feet. It is shown that not only will two of rho largest Bettie mer. ottani, vessels pass one another without diffi- culty, but also that there is room for a vessel of this type to give way to ons of the finest ironolads of the German navy, such as the Koenig Wilhelm,with a displacement of 9,757 tons. Special passing stations have, however, also been arranged at intervals, similar to those on the Suez canal. The oost of tho work was originally estimated'at $39,000,000. lb promises to be completed within the estimate. First little girl—"Your folks is sort o exclusive, isn't yon? Second little girl Awfully. Mamma Wolo t lot me sooiato with little girls who isn't exclusive, and don't like it, 'cause they is alwtiye just pokey as I am," The Wealth of the World. Few people even among professed polibi• Mans, have much idea of the wealth of the world,or of the manner in which that wealth is growing. Still fewer have any 'lotion of the potentiality of wealth to increase. M. Janne' quotes the elaborate calculation of an ingenious author to show that 100f., ao- oumulabing at 5 per cent. compound interest for seven oenturies, would bo aufiioiont to buy the whole surface pf the globe,bobh land and watsr,atthe rats of 1,000,0001. (140,000) the heotare. The actual growth of riches has not hibherbn assumed mush inconvenient proportions. M. Janneb altos various authorities to show that tate wealth of the United King. ado m exceeds 110, 000,000,000; that of France, 18,010,000,000; that of all Europe, 140,- 000,000,000 ; that of the Ugited States, 114,000,000,000. If wo place the wealth of the rust of the world at 120,000,000,000, we shall arrive ab an aggregate of 180,000,000,• 000. We should have, we may add, to mut, btply this vast aunt 30,000 times before we reached the total to whiolt according to 141, Janoeb's ingenious authority, 1001.,aecumu. lacing at 5 per cent, compound interest for 700 years would grow. The figures wo have given aro so vast that they convey no appreciable idea to the or. dinary reader. 11 may assist the approhen• cion if ib he added that France, on an averagepossessesMoro than ;6200, the United Kingdom more than ;0250 for each member of the population 'lust 200 years ego Sir 1V. Petty estimated rho entire wealth of England at only ;0250,000,000. Two beaus rtes, therefore, levo moroased it fortyfold. But 010 chiof additions to it have been mule in the last fifty years, and wo believe that we aro not far wrong in saying that the sum which is annually added to the capital of the ltnited Kingdom amounts to 1200,000,• 000, or, in outer words, is nearly equal to its entire wealth at the tins of the revolts Lion of 1888, --•['lie Edinburgh Review. Tramps think they aro rudely treated in Tacoma, Washington. They have to submit to two baths a day. Ono rough folloW obs looted, last week, and he Was scoured with sand until his skin shone like satin,.