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The Brussels Post, 1888-9-7, Page 6f9, aletaaateroNlerer eetsywtt THE L RUSSELS PO3T. eleelleetea:`aa9lVitIFIyatr3'ere)ttteY''"'"':tNikhyillte3iXee"e@aralgr4Mt"r9 t' nViteel'7ir-S'eidlprllaSltilalel' seem Yar4t3-941ze.!teemlfffitioPlRS6veltneiree eePtla9t?]reeilte'lt.....leteetital]a weseseta esse esestemseati could descend with all Its terrors o Road or a beteg eo lost to all sense of o hood me a husband tnuut bo who would Ms wife so flthumenly, Tho Now Yor eommeuting uu the ones °Jahns that a tnan would got no more then hie drier YOUNG FOLKS. NATRALIB, I saw her first care Mg a great fat baby, apparently heavier tutu+ herself --a thin, omen fecal girl, looklrg Rhnut ten years old, but, as I afterwards found out, utterly thir- teen, I shall always think Nathalie was atnnted by a perpetual baby burden, for her aunt, with whom abs lived, h:,1 a frequent addition to her family, and Nathalie had "nursed babies since she wan amen years old. About that time her mother died, and the little orphan was thrown upon the tender meeoies of her aunt. Madame Poiron was stout, red-faced, Ioud i'oieed, end with one ruling pasaie n that all around her should earn their salt by con atant work, She would have liked to rise at midnight, and set hor household their tasks, but as that was imposeible, she oonlented hcrsolf with beginning at dawn, and grinding and driving as no slave driver in the ante bel - lam days over ventured to do. Her husband was a farmer and miller near the little town of Mapleton ; her two eldest 1300a worked in the fields with the other laborers, and woe to any of them who did not obey the imperious dame, She did not spare heraelf, for constant employment was her religion ; but she had a frame liI e iron, and the strength of a etrong man. As for Nathalie, had it not been for the babies she watt required to keep out of the way, graves by he teaks ould imdrivenve been possible forher puny frame to perform. As it was, she ate hor hurried meals with the everlasting baby on her lap, whom she was expected to feed at intervals, and at- tend to the wants of the twins, about two years old, who set beside her. She was then driven out, with the three ehildern, to be kept out t f the way until dinner -time, "Ha, Itreat the little one well l" Madame Poiron would thy to her gossips. "She is my poor sister's child, and I have pity for her, I work myself, 1 work my children; but for Nathalie, all she has to do all day long is to play in the woods with tho little ones. It is play, play all the time for her, and ea`• and drink of the best." Madame Poiron believed faithfully what She said, It was during one of these "play" times that I first made the acquaintance of Nathe. lie. 1 had been walking through the pretty little woodland which surrounded the town of Mopleton, where I wait spending the summer with a friend. Suddenly I came upon two stout, stolid -looking children, looking more like Dutch delle than anything else. Their laps were full of flowers, and in front of them was lying the baby, crow- ing and kicking up its heels. Nathalie was going through a kind of ..crebatio periormanee for the amusement of her charges, while the twins gravely stat ed at her with their big expressionless blue eyee. I have seldom seen any one so active sad daring as Nathalie was, at' she sprang -from one grapevine to another, and danced et kind of pas seui on them. I was hidden behind a olump of bushes, where the ohildren did not see use ; but I noticed the Iittle girl's face was pale, and big drops stood on her forehead from fatigue. Whenever she stopped to rest, the Datch dolls set up a howl. " Oh, hush, Manette, hush, Marie, or Tante Poiron will come after us t Then she will not let us come here any more. I =going to play again for you. Now look, look, and see me fly I" She made a spring to a high vine, whioh hung far above the one on which the, was sitting. She missed it, and fell to the ground. In a moment I was beside her, and lifting her up. "Are you hurt?" I asked. "I don't know," she said, rubbing her head. "My head hurts, but it has hurt nae all day. 0 Bebe, don't cry 1" The baby was yelling at the top of its voice, and the chorus was Swelled by the Dutch della, who were frightened by my sadden appeara0oe. " Don't cry, my darling I Thalie is coming M yon," Sbe rose to her feet, and sank down again -with a sharp cry. "Ah, my foot ie broken 1 I cannot walk! 'What will Tante Poiron say? What shall do ? Oh, whab shall I do ?" ` You will do nothing but lie here till I After that, 1 heard of the gradual reoovery come back," I said. " It is a short walk to of the other patients and that Nathalie did your aunt's, and I will go and tell her, so not take the disease. Nearly a month elapo that she can send for you. Perhaps these ed, and I was preparing to leave Mapleton children will let me take them home." Bu: when, in one of my walks, I came suddenly as I approached the twine, they throw them- upon Nathalie, leading her aunt by the hand. selves flat on their backs, and yelled as if I " Oh, I am so glad to see you, madame 1" had been the Giant Blunderbore, ready to she cried. " We aro taking a little walk, eat them op. Tante Poiron and I. She is getting quite ",They don't like strangers 1" Nathalie strong again," gasped. " ()madame, I must try: to walk 1" "I am glad to see you out," I said. "1 But as she raised herself, she Bank back al- heard how ill you wore.' most fainting with agony. I walked rapid- "Is it the kind city lady, 'Thalia 1" she iy to the house, and, as I neared it, saw naked. "I am blind, madame. I live, Madame Poiron in the front yard, wasbing yeti ; but never to see age.in 1 Helpless, some clothes, I knew her well by sight, useless, ah 1" With a groan she threw up end as I called be name, she raised her her gaunt arms, and her face, torn and monetrous, dripping arms from the suds, ploughed by the dread disease, full of des - and turned to me. pair, " What does madam want?" she asked, "Ob hush, Tante I" Nathalie cried. curtly. "Am I not here to help you, and do all Your little niece has burt herself yonder you want 7" in the wood. She has either epee Med or "Yes, it is so," the woman uttered broken het ankle. She cannot walk." quietly. "The one to whom I was cruel " Oh, the mioerahle creature 1" cried the and unkind, God hae given me my sole woman. " Forever and forever doing some- stay. I tell her to go and be happy. She thing wrong 1 And nothing to do but amuse eha11 have money to live where the chooses herself all day 1 Has she hurt my children?" but elle says, 'No I No 1' " turning upon mo fiercely, " Leave you and Bebe 1" Nathalie Dried ! No, but she is badly hurt, 1" Never 1 With you is my home as long as " Sainte be praised it ie not my ongele? you want me." Nathalie is a stubborn, ungrateful girl. The woman, atilt weals and nervous, beret And now to lay herself up, and leave me all into tears, and her little niece led her away, to do I Pity she hadn't broken her neck at My problem was solved, If Nathalie was once e' (happy in loving and serving a little ohild, You aught to be ashamed of yourself,, what will be her degree of felicity to find Madam Poiron I" I cried, indignantly, "If herself necessary to a whole family—leer coud, Inotli Bet nd, sending help to the poor and manifold,for bu s fetened by the love e "And where deer madame think I clan get hungered, r aithful little heart s hoop? Call the men out of the field at this' end lose no much time? No; if any one Not Quite Sure ofBimself, goat, I must I" 1 M0 ietrata witness)—You m • Sheathe off, and I followed her, for tome g (to witness — ou do solemnly how the idea of a dove in a vultures °laws swear., Uncle 'Rastas, that the evidence you `t persued me when I thought of poor, trombl- are about to give stall be the truth, the w int( little Nathalie borne In the arms of the whole truth, and nothing but the truth? s unfeeling giantess, When I reached them, I Witness—Fo'us, yo' Flonah ; but ouddent fo elm had the girl by the arm, and had lifted y° Swa' me on a smaller Bible ; Do size ob her to her feet, dam book, soh, make de ole matt nervous "None of your airs I" she cried. "If you 'deed it do. ' voioe, the tears rolling down her white fa "I would with to he demi, and with Mantras, if it was +ot for the ehlilreu, but I 1 them, and they love nae." "Lave you 1 Just listen °r her 1 T little vempirte that such her life hlo The tyrauts that get hor inert' beatings tit 1 MI a urtr 1 And, nue:erne, you hear Bey she torts threat" "Yes, tnoy do love me," she sigh "Monsieur Pierre, shy ere all 1 hero the world. 'Pante Poiron Is not alwa cross, She has good .lays, you know, and kind, but then, you see, she ]tea eo ma ohildren, the has no love to spare for mc," "That'seertain and sure," Pierre m tared in hie heavy beard, but we had reach the farm house, and he lifted Nathalie o tenderly. " Farewell, madame, and thank you," s maid, as he bore her into the house. I thought often of Nathalie during tl next few weeks. I heard her ankle w spreined, but that she was doing well, did not venture to Dail, for it was evide that Madame i'oirou had taken an invetrra dislike to me. But 1 was glad to see 11 little girl walking oat one morning with 11 baby to her arms. I hurried forward an intercepted them, Nathalie was thine than ever, but her eyes—lovely eyes the were—brightened at eight of me. " Are you quite well, Nathalie 7" I asks " My foot hurts me a little, madame, Mt I can walk. It is the first time I mut carry Bebe—sweet Bcbe?" kissing enthu iastieally the pasty faced iufsnt, " We ar going to have a fete in the woods, Bebe an I," showing me a little package she held 1 one hand. " There is a slice of pie and piece of cake, and 0 madame, will you no come to our fele 7" I said I would, but I must run home fire for something,That eomothing was a addition to the tea-party in the shape o some fruit I had just received. It was goo to see the delight in Nathalie'e eyes, whe I laid my oontribation before her. " 0 Bebe 1 Bebe 7" she screamed, clap ping her hands, "bananas, Bebe 1 Oranges and lovely white grapes 1 Oh, they are too beautiful to oat 1" When the repent was over, Nathalie wrapped what remained in her apron for Bebe and the twins. " You look quite happy, Nathalie," I said, "Happy ? ah yea, madame, there is no one happier than I am to -day. Only think, I can wally again and nurse Bebe. I love all the ohildren, but Bebe is a real angel of heaven 1" I eat there wondering over that starved young life whose only modicum of sunlight was putty -faced Bebe, What was happiness after all? A poor ill-treated waif, whose daily bread was flavored by harsh words, set there under God's blessed sunlight and called herself happy, I gave up the prob- lem. Several weeke passed, and although I was often on the watch, I eaw nothing of Nall - elle. The house where my friend and I boarded commandeds full view of the Poiron farm; for some days none of the men had been working in the Beide, and the ]loud voice of Madame Poiron was Went. " What is the matter over at Poiron's I" I asked our landlady, Mrs. Blake. Mrs. Blake turned very red and looked confused, " Well, the truth is, I didn't like to tell you, ladies, for I thought you might get scared, and there ain't a bit of danger, for there's n0 oommanioation between the farm and any house in town. They've got small- pox there bad. Nearly all the family are down with it. 0.1(1 Poiron naught it from a tramp. Two of the ohildren will die to- night, and they say the old madame can't live. There is no oneito attend them but one of the boys andlittle Nathalie." " She is not eiok, then 7" I said relieved. "Nathalie 7 no, Old Dorgan who has been there—he's had small•pox himself—told Mr. Blake, the child goes from one to the other with Bebe in her arms. Bebe has small -pox, too, and she never puts it down." I cannot express all I felt when the next day I saw the funerals leave the cottage— one of the eons and one of the smaller ohil- dren, Mre. Blake did not know which. Then a few days afterward the hearse stopped again, and two small white coffins were brought out. They hold the poor little batch dolls os. MISCBLLANBQU$, ave There is ono thing about which all alt most reputable Ihtorery organisms of the ho United States appear to be of substantially ad. 000 mind, and that le their hostility to an " Trusts," Thoma modern trade phenconem I n the Hutu• treat itis said of one f°ellion:dee yrnng mutt k Stott that ho never' pail anything but a oampli. 1101 a went, is by ' r' \That ' AUG, 31, 1888, sossassaworsessisassommusisessonny SUMML1R SA(Ii,ES, 1 The Healing Touch. a being sentenced to lm riaonment for life, We iuolino to agree with the San in this, The Montreal oorrespondenao of a daily crntemporary made mention a few days ago t of the ettemptedsuioide of a girl of fourteen for the extraordinary reason that hor father would not lot her keep the oontpa,y of mem young follow whose sec oaiubatem she had made. Bemuse of this life bat lostlts light, and the darkness of death seemed the only resource that wart left. Thee(' aoiaidee and attempted sashimi of children, which appear to be so lamentably common n0w'.a (lays, are among the moot interesting in a ntolan oboly and peiuful way, of all the sad and p'xinful studies of moral pathology. How a young creature, just entering on life, oatolr ing glimpses through the half revealing our. taco, of long vistas of hope ontpurpled years, and full of every impulse to °ling passion- ately to existenoo, how such a ono can nevertheless deliberately ohooae the dark- ness and joyleeoness of death, is a mystery which looks in vain for an explanation which can satisfy the mind. No other young animal over dons such a thing, To be sure those infantile suicides are exoep• Hons. So aro adult ni0fdes, That does not lesson the mystery, however, of those oases which do happen. Most of us are only too glad to live as long as over we eon, and if we are not too religioue, wo are too cowardly to take such librrties with the are regarded on all hands with suspicion and in teeny quarters with strong, aversion ed. They have been driven to make plausible In c•ffurte at self•defenoe and jttatifioatioa, boo 70 they cannot root out the growing conviction IS that they are evil things, and apt to become ny inbolereble among free people. The Duke of Marlborough, to make aenu et• 0000° euro, has got himself eatuly married on 0gnin aceordin i,, to the Ecglish formula. On et either side of the Atlantic, therefore, is there any reason why the new Duchess should ho ever feel ashamed of her'relations to the 00 British aristooraoy, so far as legal grounds are eonoernad 2 And of therm, every the IT. will hope bloat elle will continuo porsonally I eo attractive that on no other grounds will tat she ever rue the day that placed her among to the peeresses of liugland, le So Brother Jonathan means to show kis d molars on this Fishery business, does he, by or sending sumo of his war ships to protect the "rights" of his fishing boats in our waters, y Well, as long as he doesn't grind then teeth d too ferooiouely we don't need to mind. No use of getting rattled over it, That is about d all his war vessels are good for, anyway, and a_ we must not complain if he finds some auoh police work for them to do. Hurry up your d mnoteurs, Brother, and for t]isir protection a it might bo well to send along a dynamite a gun or two if you have them handy. b The political Ababa in the American Con - gross seem determined by force or freed to t get possession of the Comedian Naboth's o vineyard. They begin to talk retaliation f very freely even to an extent which may (1 provoke war. The average Yankee politi. n Dian has ever been a bully, with strong re. lianco on total -wrath cheek and bluff. Their . claims on our fishing grounds are quite un• 1 reasonable and they virtually threaten war if we venture to defend our rights. Bub we are of British blood, and Dome of a race not used to being frightened into surrender. The terrible accident that happened at a comparatively recent date, on the Bootee and Providence R. R, is said to have Dost the road already about a million dollars, on account of " damages " alone, to say nothing of the losses In the deetruotion of their own property. A million dollars would have built a good few sound iron bridges. That is something that will boar reflecting on by menogere of other rexds which cling to their old rotten wooden structures, that have stood the wear and tear of a quarter of a century perchance, or even more. Penny wise is sometimes pound foolish, as the Bos- ton and Providence has found aut. The city of Washington has reeentiy taken a step whioh might very properly be imitated by every city on the continent, and we trust that Toronto will not bo the last to do so. This step was" the appointment of three women to serve as matrons in the police stations of that city. The landableness of such a measure needs no words to make it plain. This evidence of advanced humanity has been due in large measure to the efforts of the women in the District of Columbia. Hereie room for some humble, self-denying work on the part of Toronto ladies whioh we hope will be taken possession of to good pur- pose. Police matrons ought to be regarded as essentially necessary adjuncts of the ma. °binary of the law in every well regulated city. Itis the genial but plain spoken Auto- crat of the Breakfast Table who ('aye that "pride in the Renee of contemning others less gifted than berself deserves the two lowest circles of a vulgar woman's Inferno, where the punishments are smallpox and bankruptcy. She who nips off the end of brittle courtesy, as one breaks the tip of an ioiole, to bestow upon those whom she ought cordially and kindly to recognize, proolaims the teat that the comes not merely of low blood, but of bad blood." Women of this kind are neither so few nor so far between as could be wished. Their affectations of gentility only serve to show their essential vulgarity in a stronger light. And in no way does their "low" blood reveal itself more clearly than in their bearing towards those whom they are pleated to consider their social inferiors, Cable cars get out of order sometimes, as all terrestrial things are apt to ao. This happened in Chicago the other day. A oar got " stuck " and the implied contract on the part of the company to carry the pasaen. germ as far on their journey as its line could do, was not carried out, Chicago people, however, aro not easily baulked. That particular oar load at anyrete was not, for they went in a body to the Company's office and eeverely demanded back their niokles for infringement of contract. Tho officials, however, were from Philadelphia and could not bo blufred. The doors were locked, and the angry petitioners had event- ually to walk home or pay another nichie. Suoh occurrences are unpleasant at any time and on a broiling summer day test one philosophy pretty severely, but as a rule itis beet to submit to the inevitable, with as good a grace at' possible. Bonlangiem a0 a thing to conjure with has evidently loab its power 10 France. NI. Piquet's sword -thrust proved too muoh for the bit of by -ploy whioh has been for months past verging on the aerie-cotnia. M. Bou- langer's ignominious defeat in the Depart. mento of Dordogne and Ardoohe, where he had thrown himself into the contests in a spirit of bravado, makes, in all probability, the end of the noisy but inglorious career from which so much was expected by the ex• citable crowd whioh is ever ready to follow at the heels of a demagogue. And now to cap the olimax of his humiliation the eon. val000ent General's reappearance on the ublio street, though carefully heralded and tudiodly demonebrated, fails to great° more then the aligbteet ripple in the streets of xoitable Parte. Here the curtain drops, robably forever, unless some unforeseen oident should bring him another tumor - unity. But yeeterday and half Ririe ould have rushed to do hie bidding, now onroely a paltry three hundred tam bo, mid bo do him reverence, It ie an interesting question whether the law ougbb not to proceed against brutal of Wife tormentors, merely because the wife re. Apr fuses to make complaint. A ease in point Cum occurred ab a town in an Eastern State the and other day. A brute of o follow, in a drunken mot Re, assaulted hlsunfortunate wife wad gouged Mill her eye out, Her other eye he had gouged mad out under similar oironmebanoea about a and year before. No etopo wore taken mania bar. him on thaboo0aoion, however, because the any woman refuted to lodge a complaint, Now, did f What ought to ho done in the 0000 of a men woe° like that 7 Can it be seriously thought that aper the law given a man the presoriptivo right ane to commit %Wee hies like that on a woman aced merely because oho i0 hie wife? Surely he not a le an offender against the majesty of the poma itle lf vs fie (should not depend for the Lfeu ngemout of its sacred oharaeter, so rush- of th sly insulted, m8ely me the will of the 1888, urian an the sae°. By a deed of that was tad, Hat the direot sufferer only is injured, of G MI the whole oomnrunity, and the law by C try to walk you can. You are pretending, Stud u r'I File It Away for Future Use, Iso pp"' " (eaglet the child as the tell back, and at Papa," said a beautiful girl, " young that moment I maw a man whom I knew well Mr, Thioate has written me a note in whioh coming down the rand in his cart. heasksme to bo hie wife." Ah, here is Pierre Lagrange 1 I or ted, Written you a note ? Whyin thunder joyfully, "I know he will take the child didn't he come himself 7" home," j " It would have been plensu tter than way, Pierre was a good, humane follow, more no doubt, papa, but I eupp's° he feels a lits than wiilin to do a kind not and lifted timid and besides,le g t , pspa, think hove muob Nathalro into hie oath at once. Madame more binding a nolo ie." Poiron, growling like a bear, had taken her. j tell off with the baby in her armor, and the "Remember, Bridget " said Mies Clara I)utoh do11e toddling. after, ,"that I am out to everybody but Mr S "But then this is a bad buefnese for you, son," A little later Bridget answered a ring law Nath lie,"e old Pierre said, co he jogged along, at the door. ,,Who was it,.Brfdgot 1" asked ave fire.cat is going to give you hard Mlee Clara. "Young Misthor Beaunooamp, les timers. 1 mum. And did you Day that/l wee out?" Indere,"7uo40r have they timet Monaiehr "Yio110edyet were out to ivetybedy bub, j o the answered, with iter patient, Miather &repeon, b future es may be involved in a too vio recoil from the evils of the present. Though first expectations may in 00 oases have been disappointed there is never- theless, a theless, in the present state of rho crop pro. apache as a whole, throughout Ontario, abundant reason for the livalieet gratitude to the Giver of all good. There is every likelihood that there will be abundauoe for man and beast, and that when we celebrate our annual day of Thanksgiving we shall be able with full hearts tosay tbatin 1888 also the Lord has been very good to us, Prospers• ty in thogoneral, however, should notbe allow- ed to blunt our sensibilities to failure in the partioulur. Unfortunately for many farm - era in different parts of the country who will find it hard, It may be, to join in the general thanksgiving. Things have not gond well with them during the 000400, The showers of heaven have been withheld from their fields or have oomo when they would tend to do harm rather than good. Consequently there will be greater straining than perhaps ever before to make ends meet in an honest way, The mortgage will be a heavier burden. There will bo additional de- privations, more rigid 0oonomy, life will per- haps lose a little more of that light of which it has all too little at the bort of times. There will be some cases at leaet of this kind, for in not a few districts the harvests has been poor, and sorely disappointed and discouraged hearts have been the result. Towards all such it hi everyone's Christian duty to extend cordial and, where possible, active sym- pathy, In the North-West matters look especially rosy and hearts are beating loudly there with hopeful anticipation. The hearts of tie who live in Ontario can rejoice with them, not less in friendly sympathy than from considerations of self interest, for we know that one part of the country cannot bo exceptionally prosperous without every other part of it sharing in that prosperity. to your Uuaiu040Y" " A glass• worker." ' A glesablower, eh Y Nutt ; well, Yee, I do blow the foam oil' a glass before I think it." Tramp No. 1--"I hay, Jem, I've got a dandy new 114000 far too old oboes. Cal. 'our corporatinr a now."" Tramp No, '11 " Fer why, are boy 1' 'f'ratttp No, 1—,- " -Cacao they've got no sofas," " Say, Mietet'," Laid a tramp to au artist, " gimme a dollar and I'll let ye paint me picture. Yo eau put a dandy frame ou it and wall it A Summer Idyl,"' 13nebend (contemplatively)—" flow true it is, my de'tr, that the good time men do is oft interred with their hones." Wife (not contemplatively) "Yes, I o'posethere0 so HMIs of it that it isn'b considered worth awing," ,Elderly Belle ',languishingly)—" How a shower of rain improves the a tpearaeoe of the face of nature I" Youthful Rival (with a meaning glance)," Yea. indeed 1 And that is where the difference ie between nee tura and art." Magistrate "You are charged with stealing ohiokens, Uuolo Joe." Uncle Joe— "Yes, sae, eo I understan's." Magistrate —"Ban you ever been arroatod before 7" Uncle Joe — "Only 143508 befo', you' honan; Fee always beau bery lucky," " Bobby," said young Fea'.herly, as the lad opened the door, "1 chink I left my um• lout brella here last evening. Will you ask your sister Clara if elle has seen anything of it?" me " zee all right," replied Bobby. " Sister's ver- out walking with Mr Sampson, and as it ooks like ram they cools at with them." Real humour is a delightful thing and to be real 11 must be natural. Forced humour ie not really humour but merely a coarse imitation. Pure and healthy humourous writing is a good thing to read, both for body and soul, if kept to due moderation. Most people like a good laugh now and then. It oils the wheels of life. Humour being so popular, and real, born fun ea sers being well nigh as mama, one might almost say, as born poet0, there is a great temptation for Ambitious scribes with some talent at writ- ing to try their hands at humourous comma - anion. At times they auoeeecl fairly well; generally, however, their attempts are fail. urea. This oan wally be forgiven if their straining after effeot has not led them foto sheer vulparitm, whioh is too often the case, There 10 a coarse sort of pleasantry too current in the press just now whioh is very offensive to cultured, refined men and women. It injuroe their eolf•re- 0peot to read it. Of course it is is easy to say that they should laevo it alone then. Yee, but if it COM a in their daily paper, whioh aims at being thought a model of decorum. There was a case of this quite reoantly. There is no need to particularize very closely. The writer was describing a country ball at a time when Canada was twenty or thirty years younger than it is now, The sketch was interesting enough, but a coarsely realistic description of the "hugging -matches" that seem to have been common enough features of ouch gatherings, vulgarized the whole thing to refined minds, The true humorist would have mingled the warp of pleasing ideality with the woof o his realism, and would not have descended to such coarse literalism in detail. One by one the great motors in the bloody reol•life drama of twentsefive years ago, are passing away to meet the old comrade° and the former foes whose Soule fled thud- dering out, of life amid the demoniac noises of the battle fields of the South, General Sheridan, the " Little Phil" of affectionate familiarity, is tho most recent removal, This brilliant oavairy commander was one of the many Ohio men to whom the Amori• can War aff'ordod the requisite test of the motel that was iu them, and opportunities to rise to highpoeitiouo. He was born inPerry County in 1851, and graduated from Woab Point Academy in 1863, The greater part of hie military life from that time until the outbreak of thewar, was spent on the western plains, in police duty against the Indiana, At the commencement of the war, he was appointed Quarter -Master of the Wootern Division, and in May, 1862, he became Colon. el of the Second Michigan Cavalry. So well did he improve the opportunities afforded him, that his rime in rank woe rapid. In July, 1832, for a Cavalry 'melee ab Boones- ville he was made a Brigadier -General of •Volunteertl, and by December of the same year he had attained the dignity Major-General of the.•Pohmtoero. In 11 of 1864 he was appointed Cavalry mender of the Army 1'f the Potomac, by August of the same year was pro. ed to the Command of the "Middle tory Division." In September he was e Brlgadier,Goneral of the regular army Major•Gemeral in the following Novem- 1b 10 unneoee8ary to partioularizo to extent the brilliant 00rviee whioh he or the North. Sallee it to say that ho 1 groat assistance to General Grantin the atione around Richmond, and that the rgetio and effective way in whish he pur. Leo on hie retreat from Richmond had little to do with the surrender ab Ap. btox, In March, 1869, he was made tonant.Generad and then Commander, e army on SJhormam's robireMent in Not long before his last illness he honoured by having the lapsed dignity ('neral of the Army conferred 00 him b015re00, The flannel shirt hi an excellent thing To weer on a stammer day, And we don't object to the style at all— But what we wore going to say Is that A man who will wear a flannel shirt And hold up his panto with a sash As red as a town that is painted right, Is a man that we want to smash. "And so yon have brought my beautiful Alphonso home, have you, like an honest man, instead of keeping him yourself, as you might easily have done?" said the delighted lady, as she fondled the poodle. "IVore you not strongly tempted to keep aha darling oroature w" " No, mum," replied the inaor• ruptiblo man, es ho pooketod the t'5 reward. " It weren't no temptation. I couldn't have sold his hide for two bite at this reason of the year, mum, ' She Got to Thinking How Funny it Would Be. They were sitting together in the warm parlor, saying little but thiulcing much, Bub lovers do not need to say touch to be companionable. The little clock on the mantel for a eon. siderable time had been the only speaker. Its tick, tick, tisk, tick, seemed to the youth to say, Kiss her, kine hor, kiss her. To the maiden it said, leap year, leap year, leap year, and its reiteration of this phrase forced the maid to break the silence "How funny some people are I" ehe said. "Penny 7" "Yes, some people who ere going to be married?" Oh I" "Yee; some want to be married in a bal- loon, oomo on the n,G:dle arch of a bridge, some in a boat, some ie a railroad train, some on horseback, some on the edge of a preoipioe, some down in a coal mine—" " Yes I have noticed it." "What is their object, I wonder 7" " Marriage, of course." "But I mean their object in getting married out of the usual way." " Well, 1'11 tell you what I think, They get married in this way so that they can tell their ohildren and their grandchildren they were married under peculiar eiroum- stencoe, as, for instance, ' Your mother and Erre, children, were married in a coal wino,' or ' Your grandmother and me, ohildren, were married in a balloon,' " "I'll bet that's just the reason," said the. maiden. ' Of oourae ft fa the reason.' There was a pause. Then the maiden with a glowing cheek said : "I've been thinking, John—" " Yes 7" he said, interrogatively. "I've been thinking how funny it would be—" (a pause and a deeper blush): " Well, Bella, you've been thinking what ?" "I've been thinking how funny if would be if—" Yes." " If when the subject of marriage comes up thirty or forty years hence you could point to me and say : ' Why, children, your grandmother proposed to mo in leap year and we were married a few weeks after,' " John is very buoy these days furnishing a nice little cottage, and Balla is superintend. ing the making of her wedding dresses Baron Reuter. Baron Julius Re.uter is seventy years old, and hal' been hard at work for fifty-five years, He hi still bright and active. He has keen gray eyes which pierce you from be- hind grizzled brows, and thin, promiuoub none, and a Moo "fluid with expression," IIo ie a fluent and pleasant talker, and not book - ward in telling of his early hardships when he was a poor and unknown foreigner in Loudon with a tiny offxao and one email boy to look after it. de ao overworked himself in those days, he will toll you, that Sir James (then Mr.) Paget, whom he consulted for breakdown of his general health, told him he would die if he did not get sleep. On replying that he was compelled to bane all night the great Burgeon replied; "Well, if you have no other choice coil yourself up on a doorstep and go to sleep 1" He anted on the spirit if not the letter of thfaadvioe, and now is able to boast thab he is wen and healthy, and that each day le fully occupied with hard work, including a oonatatutiounZ walls five nmileo, whioh he ie careful to explain Li no loss of time since "it is ne0080ary for mq health." --(8x, Within .Hastings Toon of London ad Neutered in seventy English papers for a olark at salary of 9450 a year, To ppliem:Us he returned a circular saying that he muob have five shillings as a guarantee of good faith before considering rho matter, The police arrested bin after ho had received Wally thousand applications and a goodly number of shillings end in oourt 11 came out that the whole buoineso was the rooult of e. Wager of 9600 Toon had made with a friend that within it mouth he could of fdvs thou. mind aleplfoations for a eftoatlon toe a clerk and that two thousand of them would be 0o0ompaniee by five olti111ng e. The jury found hen guilty of fraud, but the Judge released him tinder bonde with a warning and 0ti0pontion of tenteho& llur teat era may sera ober reed that amnia. essi('tit aP ('1110 for ail Lurnau thir- tieths has lately prndnoed an exoitmnrnt in some pato of tat, von try. Certain pere0110 arc, adtpposeri to be endue col at birth with Muting prwere--magnetl.m, the quality ie soutetinres walled, The Dick, lame, deaf and blind aro. b.ougitt to t hem ; they lay their Wade upon theta, and 11 ID asserted that health, the use of their 'lathe, oe their im. paired meths, es she 0111,0 may be, are instant - 1,' renterrd, Tale is but the revival of an old belief, From time to time, wince the days of tate Apostles, persons in both the Catholle and Protesbaut churches have been alleged to possess miraculous gilts of healing, Not only were many of the holy women and mon of the first ages belie ad to have power to cure all diecasoo by their touch while living, but rafter their death crowds repair to their tombs, to r.btain health from the vital power which was possessed by their bones, In our own dayt maltitudeo followed Bernadotte 8 noberons, a little girl ; in Franco, and also a young woman in Scot- land, a member of Edward lrving' s eongro- gation, both of whom were held to be widowed with a miraculous power of euro. Among the Hindus and dome of the African tribes certain persona aro believed to to be filled with a mysterious fluid, whioh they comntunioate by touch to others, The Chinese believe that each person is sue. rounded by a nimbus, or atmosphere, which affects for goad or evil every living body that acmes within fru limit, giving to it health or disease. Wo leave our readers to decide how much truth or falsehood there is in theme claims that the body of man can impart vital power by touch to other bodies; but there can be no doubt that the e' ul of man has such power. Within every man who reads these lines, dwolla an invisible living creature, perpetu- ally at work, atrotthiug out its ie (Mouths through his words, his neatest nets, even hie looks,infusing disease or health into the people with whom ho comae in contact, The man whose body is the cage of this living power may scarcely remember its preeenoe and may ire ignorant of the influence whioh it incessantly gives out and receives. He takes oars that hie body shall nob come in contact with bodies that throw off the germs of typhus or diphtheria or other disease. But he does not remember that liner creature within, whioh is more easily poisoned, or otrengthenod. The reader of thie may only be a aahool- boy of small importance in hie little world. But let him remember that he has the power in his soul to belp every living creature whom he meets. If ooly by a smile, a kind word, a cheerful, cordial greeting, he may make life easier and brighter for them. Thera aro two rule" of tbo now system of cure for bodily diseases which he mast obey. Ile must touch the porsou whom ho wishes to help, --not stand apart and vi.°iv him with lofty superiority, but meet him as a brother, face to face, Hemuee, too, have faith in God, to give strength and life to his own soul, and through him to others. There are men and women who seem to be them cent7 into the world aa healers of ell hurts and sorrows. Who would not be one of Deaf Mutes And Marriage. Ib is evident that the lose of the oonoo of hearing has en effeob on character, moral and intellectual. Whatever may be the education of the deaf mute, he will remain, in some essential and nob may to be char- acterized respects, different fromothorpeople It ie exceedingly hard to cultivate is them a epirit of self dependent's or eradicate the notion that society owes them perpetual care and support. The education of deaf mutes and the teaching of them trades, so that they become intelligent and productive members of society, of comae, ihduoeo marri- ages among them. la not this calculated to increase the number of deaf mace 7 Dr. Gillette thinks not. The vital statistics how that coneangninoue marriages are a large factor in deaf.mutisnt; about 19 per cent., it is estimated, of the deaf mutes are the off spring of parents related by blood. Ancestral defects are not always propetuat- ed in kind ; they mayd000end in pbysical,de fortuity, in deafnoae, in imbecility. Deaf. nese is more apt to descend in collateral branches than in a straight lino. It is a striking fact in a table of relationship pre- pared by Dr. Gillette that while the 460 deaf mutes enumerated had 770 relationships to other deaf mutes, making a toter of 1,220, only twelve of tbem had deaf mute parents, and only two of them one deaf mute parent', the mother of these having been able to hear and that in no Daae was rho mother alone a deaf mute. Of the,pupi'.ewhohaveleft thisin- stitution 251 have married deaf mutes and 19 hearing persona. These marriages have been as fruitful as the average, and among them all only 16 have deaf mute children in some of the families having a deaf child there are other children who hear. These Mats, nye the report, clearly indicate drab the probability of deaf offspring from deaf parentage is remote, while other foots may clearly indicate that a deaf person probably has or will have a deaf relation other than a child,—[Harper's Magazine. Waited 60 Years for Her, A rich old fanner, who lives a dozen miles or so up the country from Norwich, came to that city a few dlyo ago with hie young bride, upon hie wedding tour, The old man ie 85, while his wife is just 70 years hie junior. He had purchased an orgauotte for a Main street music -dealer a few months before and wanted some muaio for it, The old man ooggeeted 00 a sample. " Whore is My Boy 10 -Night," Ho led his bride up. to the counter, and, after paying for the muaio, said, addressing the clerk "My son, she's my wife. Ahab she a likely one 7" He teemed to remember some. thing, and straightening up, said t "Young man, I've waited for sigh blood as flows in them vefno fur nigh mato 00 years ngw, 1 knowed her grandmsm and wanted her, but she wouldn't eco to it. Sha married my bibtereat enemy and had a daugghter, I courted that daughber when hor follte wasn't round, but somehow they got wind of it and I was dialed again. She went and got married and had a daughter. Says I 'Jona. than, you'll marry this'n,' and I settlee down glum like to wait fur the youngster to grow up. Martha's fele watohod her oloee and I begun to seeped I'd have bo waib fur the next family, when they died -- all of them died, and Martha was loft with. out no relatives—so I popped the question and we were married." And picking tap the motto Jonathan placed it under one of hie arme, while one of Martha's stole under the other, and the two lovingly walked cub of the Ettore, oomplotely ignorant of the fact that they were furnishing amnsomenb for the crowd. An Aeoommedating Young Mau. Her rather --I oan'b give her an rlowr I am verypoor, Mr, Browne, .My little all won't foot up to mere than 826,000, Mr, Browne—Oh, $26,000 le enough for us to begin on, Mn Jemyth,