The Brussels Post, 1890-2-28, Page 7."1
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FEB. 28, T890 TIIE 13RUSSELS POST.
YOUNGr' FOLKS.
'KY DEBUT AS A WHALEION,
ItY .1011,1 1,. thr.
11'e 1111,1 all ;.!tathereil armlet! he iireplale,
11011 With :1 1.1.11114g of great inntentinent
were listening le the noise ef the Si ilia as it
. 01110,0,1 the 1,111,2 limbs of t he tr,.(.. W11114111
11/12120 111,0 the of so many gaunt
speetres !deed ins for inerey, menet hue, eear.
lug like an angry giant, again isiripipg and
f ' • I l• .41 •
tlf,"„Pmflowt sigh or,...), te,e ,,pith.
eete, eyet ill his nook in the eorner
whieh he always mempleil, was cheery, old.
dack " Unele Jitek" the 1,03,„, 8„ii,82,18,8„
called him, or wallet .110312"
Who 11(.1-00 tirmi o.f telling us yams of his
adventures on land and sea, end we were
always ready you may bo NUM to 101111 111111
11113 hest of at tout I, et,
/Ill Nat 1111112 Mr 00100 time, ;to om
movieg, till seemiug ti. -a 1511 to drink in tin
enjeyment of the hems Meet saddentv. lird
the yeungster of the party, the "Lath
li id,'" the live•year sang out I P10110(
1,3 1th Dlle1( 1114 'they " A story A
story !" wo shouted. This combine(
at Melt Well 100 11111011 for him itiel he sorrel)
dered.
" Well How shall begin 1 Once upoi
e time? All right. Onee upon tt, time I
foluel myself, :et a whaler in: the capacity
• eabin 110y 10111 13011101, begin to toll yot
what a ,lette little halms, I W08, 1.1111 tilt(
(10,3111't Metter 1011011 anyway.
" We were bound. for the land of the AIM
night Sun and to mu it 8001110f1 that th0
barque would novel. 'write itt the lace
12110re ' goy and festive polar bears mice
around the polo in pairs. 1 fowever, after
passing the Aleutian Islands the atmosphere
began to make 1102 think 112112 the Arctic was
not very far away.
" About this time it became necessary to
drill tho 012011, ill 110 het Of boatmanship, as
many of the men forward were, 1111c myself
Wry green al that sort of thing. Now I 3101
uot supposed to have anytlung to do witl
that branch of the betiiness but I was ell
flowed with the usual amount of boyish im
pulsiveness and naturally wanted to have. t
hand in everything that was going on, am
the eaptain kindhearted old barnacle
intelc that, he was) lutnun•ecl me in this
case, by appointing me to the dignified slit
lion of 7,11001(0 ofirsiliall in the tlind officer'
boat.
"Now, I am not a gambling mail, but I wil
bet you ton dolliti•s that the man was no
matte who could have followed with any
degree f success the frantic and artistic
movements I •went through during lay first
. experience with it sixteen foot oar,in a manner
most beautiful to behold, for the third mate
nsed frequeutly to light 111y powers of,
understanding with a hempen candle, and t
rope's end is always a good thing to enable a
boy to catch 011 to 110W ideas,
"Besides kis ability in this line of forcing
knowledge upon us, he had alWay0 at hand
ohoice seleet lin) of Si uotat eels '—not
strietly seriptnral, fear —with wh'ich he
used frequently to illkpith 011r sluggish dis-
positions.
"However. laying all jokes aside, he soon
luul us drilled as well as the crew of a man-
of.wftr'a gig, fuel 110W that WO 0011111 11011)110
the beat to his satisfaction he sighed for
whales to conquer.
"The whale -boat, whichwe need, was thh•ty•
IWO feet long and altent eight feet extreme
breadth:of She everted a very large
lug sale, the mast being rigged to ship into
a large hinge arritaged to ono ef tho forward
thwarts, thus saving the trouble °flawing to
lift it bodily in order to step it or vice -versa.
‘"Plien there Weill siX oats, and the same
numbee of paddlea ; two line tubs ermtaining
eighteen hundred feet of line ; half a dozen
harpoons and lanees ; lantern keg and a
bucket and boat -bailer.
"Now cotnes her :Toy, six men in all. Oh
no I 1 forgot that was, not 0 man, but
we'll suppose that 1 Wila jilat for
sake, you know.
"Besides Tem Cooper, the third mate, there
was the harpooner, and the four oarsmen were
named accerding to the position they 0m:e-
pic:I in 2110 boat , ri8„ hOW, WI), two midslllp
and 1111, after or stroke oar.
" One tino day while we were cruising
through a large field of broken ice, we were
aroused by a ery ef, "Photo she blows 1' teem.
aloft, MA the order was soon given to lower
away and start in Inwsuit. There was very
little wind, but still enough to warrant our
luting the sail. You see, 01,y yeung friends,
the bow -head whale is not so heave as most
giyo him the credit of being, and is often
frightened by 01'1111 80 1. l'iVial 24 5ouna 08 010
1411111011. of oars.
" After we had been out about an hoar we
W01.0 suddenly astonished by the capsizing
of an iceberg the size ef a two-story house,
and that intetenfertably near us, and n, few
seconds I • • a large whale appeared and
began to , 1. l wits the heaviest breath.
ing I eve • and reminded me of the
slow exile of a mighty steam engine.
" He sot eee us, but for emu° unktu»vn
reason headed directly for us. 1 was sitting
on the forward gunwhale of the boat, 1101d-
ing the sheet of the sail hi 111y hand, though
the wind had left US 011(1. 010 b001 ley per-
fectly motionless.
"I have nol the language to describe the
emotions which filled 111y h090111 as marked
the approach of the marine monster. I do
;remember that my heart seemed to come tip
iin my throat, while each hair ott my head
:emitted. to be trying to outdo ite neighbor in
imitating piece of wire.
"How I longed for my sunny home in
Outario, and the protecting wing of the
maternal better -half of the good old home
%here. Vain Nighing. The harpooner stood
up jiist es coolly as a snowslitle ; planteil one
'foot firtnly in the hubbers chock. and raised.
the iron which he held poised till the order
to strike should be given Ho had not long
to ,for that whale teas veil. close --too
much 00 tO MIA my fancy.
"Next thing I knew, Tom roared out : 'Give
it tohim, Joe I" and there was a flash end a
thud as the bright harpoon flew through the
ale mil found its destination in the lri08(4 of
blubber not ten foot from the bows of our
;boats,
"Thoresultwas asstitrilingas 11 W110
Janeous, ,Too yelled out, All fast, air,' and
dhoti mune a volley of orders such " Ott
Lhat mast and sail stowed!' Out oars, yvhat,
Jiro y011 staring at, you bulkhead ?' foul others
too numerous to mention. •
',What was his wholoship doing all this
time Well, to tell you the truth, he Watl
just making Rome howl,' and us thief:
that all hands luta boon celled. Ho gave a
few playful flourishes with his flukes end
then made 0, bee-iine for the ice paelt mid at
rate that would have put to shame the
locomotive of a cannomball train, Ituleed,
he went so fest that omi boat sent the water
seething and figuring at least a. foot higher
than the gunwale, though that is nothing
untkual, for 'mow that the -whales in the
Houth Pacific often 10W 110019 HD rapidly that
the crow are all sepplied with halinners to
drive beck the nails which are /darted by
this lightning tranaits
was on the wrong side of the boat and
SolnelloW couldn't rake up enough courage
1
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1 to 020M (11,'1,1'. '111,10 wits lt, Woe smoke 11,011
1 11110 111111 id' the boat 1.1, the tither ,22202<ell by
the frietion of the Hee as it 1,,,,,,ed around
fiwougl, 11,„ ,1„„..s.„ 1 ws, paral yi, ea with
the leaver leeelatt ate! then,. forward
1 fear, lie 1 1, 11411 Tout ,,h2Viiteil I /to (00g tiller
Iever my head and threatened to t.tit(...,8 me
with it 1 SIM nt olive that. Om sootier 1 ol,e. -
ell the 1.014 chi atter 111.11,' >1.1114 101 of 11111
t itpuiling that lii,,i, oal; 11111,a, au 1 illa(18 8
I 11.001 1,2 1,111,1't 21101 nu( 11814,1 tt; Icaop laaq.
":31t,111)W11118 1 lo, 31 115 le 1131s draggiug 114
inward 11,,. 1,1. at tiOittlilig epeed 011,1
the( 111/ 511001,1 he ,12 224212,1 111),Ive 1 1 ,n, 4.1,;(1
famished to ;Tinder, seemed inevitable, 1,01,
by holdmg wt. ter with the oar,: itml allowing
' the repe tO 11111 001 Withollt 112/41112111t, We
I 0111•11,2,1 the lee VelL, (1e111.1y.
I ",1 ust then Tem told me meet 111/11 11 1111,311
pleve of 1.111111101 ItHOW11 0. a nipper and used
' to lead on to the line. 1 got 11,1Wil 1111 my
I klite.ot and was groping fer one when,
. to my horror, I saw the line 10.1 it
, 1,01110 100111 1110 after tub neatly throw a
I marlinepilm Iiitt.11 iiround my ankle, 1 W11.8
: . 11011,1(34(1 10 010114 it Wily, 10111 1 bellowed. 10
! TOM, ftlIdgomilleSS ollly 121101VS 110 lt. 110 1111111.
) lige11, Ma he eleared il ilAray' 101,1 110y011,1 it
' , 110111,1 saved n'y life.
t ! ' 'Num the seem': I Mate arrived on 1 lie scene
i with his boat and was going to bend his line
' on to ours, but there wassonmeli exeitement
' 2 that the scheme failed and though outward-
' ly I appeared moerowful enough I witnessed
' I with a glad heart the end of the line vs it
f ' dist'rptsured with a swish and a snap OYU
I the :ow.
1 I '"rotit was rambler than a wet lion, and
l' 1115 ordered us to pull to the ship. We
went aboard and after replaeing our empty
•
line tubs with fell ones, again started out.
The whale had loft the ice and was now
in rho opeo water with all of our boats (loin°
thole best to overiniul him. .A breeze 81/13.111,11
up and We were 1101V 01/10 to make good
time, $0011 WO 0/111, 1110 sail of the second
mate's boat taken in and we Imew that lie
had succeeded in overhauling tho monster
who was 11010 tired out with lending eight-
' con-handred foot of line through the water
„t, all afternoon.
' "The other tteo boats •were H0011 up with
I him and all 15111, 121) eager leund in finishing
. the whale, The sight was ono not easily
I. forgotten. The clear sky overhead ; the
b lofty anti many -shaped icebergs an around
1 us ; the bright blue sea 110W rippled by a
fine breeze ; the ship approaohing antler a,
oloud of canvas, and the great. whale in the
.
centre 'dashing and churning the water suds
8 With 1118 flakes and 11 118, 110W rearing his
, great body one half out, of the water ; now
' rolling in agonized frenzy and continually
t spouling blood, while 01 the three boats
kept at respectful distances, their peaked
OM'S shining like silver in the sunlight ;
their officers trying their skill at long darts
with the lances ; and the brawny 0110340
looking on and enjoying it all now that 1110
animal was comparatively harmless,
"Ton minutes after we arrived the great
brute gave up the ghost and lay still. All
hands immediately gave three rousing
cheers for the third mato, for in whaling,
the spoil belongs to the first man to strike
the whale. Fifty boats may come and holp
him finish oft' his game, but they can claim
no honor for so doing.
"Soon the ship. came up and •we Wellt
aboard. I was just a, trifle hungrier than a
half-starved wolf and the way I got outside
of refreshments was a mullion,
"Now I havefinished the description of my
first day's whaling and I hope that I have
made it intet•esting to you, and when you
think of it remember your Mil friend 'Old
Jaelc.' " ,
She Wanted to 1.10 a Bird, and He Said She
Was.
"What ! are ,s-ou going outagain to -night,
Mr 3 idtwitter ?" said Mrs. Jirkwater, as her
husband reached for his overcoat.
" Yes, I am going to meet a friend at the
club 011 a matter of business,
" Mr. irkwater, had I known before wo
wore miteried that y011 W011111 make apractice
of rounding every eight of your lifa you can
rest assured that 17 811011111 11012.04 have marri.
cd you. Last night you atm -Made social ses-
sion of the Erks and canto rolling in this
morning at tha uncanny hour of four o'elock,
with a breath en you that woeld give you
away anywhere, and now you are gning to
meet a 11.10101 at the eleb. Well, I shall bid
you good -by till miwiting and, to tell the
truth shall not feel Very 110,11 If you Bever
come hack again,"
" Yes, Mrs. Jirkwater, that is your con-
stant cry. You want to get rid of me, and
nothing would give morepleasure than to
gratify your wieh hut really can't see how
the thing can be 2.1one."
" All, me 1 I would T Were 0 bird that 1:
could fly," mid ;Mrs. irkwater, gazed. in-
tently into the 111e. Softly MT. Jirkwater
turned the door knob, and after making
preparations for hurried flight turned to Ins
loved one and Raid :
" Alrs,Jirkwater, you are a bird,"
The poor naglecteilwife's heart gave a leap
for joy, and a. warm blush sullitscul her
cheek her lamed quickly rose and fell and
trembling in every fibre she turned a loving
&nee upon her husband. "Harold, am—tun
1 a bird ?" Making sure that the coast 11018
clear for flight Mr. .Tiekwater turned slowly
to the partner of his joys and sortiows and
eaid:
" Yes, Mrs. Jirkwater, you ere a bird,
but you cannot fly. You are, in fact, •011
old hen,"
Mr. Jirkwater was not a Moment too soon
in getting through the door for a out -
glass rose bowl struck the door easing right
beak of whore Ile stood and was shattered in
a thousand fragments.
A 33aby that Can Talk.
A Hopkinsville (Ny.) special says
"This city has a prodigy that is attracting
great attention, It is a colonel infant named
Louellit Cleaves, a daughter of Rev. J.
Graves, that is only :3 months old, but emit
talk distinctly. Tho child. eolOil pronounce
many words ore if; was 3 weeks old, allet
110W, ag0 of S months, it, can talk
plainly. Great crowds have visited the
minister's home to behold this infant
prodigy,"
Ilemedy for Poison. --A dessertspoonful of
made mustard mixed in a tumbler of warm
water, if ;trunk immediately, is a simple but
efficient remedy for poison,
"It is bettor for young ladies to spend
the time in the saddle than to waste it in
trashy novels," says a Imminent horee
writer. "He or she who learns how to 001122
trol horse has all the more nerve to 1110011
the serious affairs of life,"
Profeesor—" Mr, Fresh, why do we al-
waye speak of the earth as of' the feminine
gender ?" Mr, Flesh...." Because Ws :tole-
oviclent, eupposo. I.f the earth had been.
masculine it would nob have Laken two
young women more than a 300012 tO get
a,round it."
itlxperimental religion is like a secret in
arithinotie—infieltely baril tuttil it lm found
lint by a right operittion„ 004 then it is so
plain we aro amazed we did not understand
ti sooner,
MR,.B01/SL'D GETS BliBAKEAST, 1 her, awl he !sou 1, even reels, ,1 10
1 Ito 31111:1122,1 0130'0. Det ion Free 1 ti es 1.
The Itepitof ertny er fols 1111171111111/10
:911 SA10111411 1411111.
At the mewl. (able the other (21,11i114,
W112.1) :11 1 1015 2.1212 ,21.114110111,31 01 I 11,, 12,12/.21.4
1111,1 1210, 112.4, 104,1 1011,31 111 1 401/01) 1,i tho
geueral ef dilapnlet inn 111,11 1 11,, table
pre,. hied, I felt esti.) ellen ill 1,1)41
I N•111, RS )141 1,111/W, 1 have loan feeling
I very litt •:r t oar daN.1 ali.I
I hi, 11011,e Dill 22142015 to 1212 the )00,,rest one
I 1 e‘er lee: no ..1118). 012 2,02/1,201,
l' ' II ' I 1 I 1 ' •
111/11111. 4,21. gel around."
"11 this is her style, 111 go out 1111,1 111:,
viiitl'2,D2 hey. -
it. sle: te ;low you' hayt
y2/11,2 11W11 110,11,i.”
"Teat woulde't 10111 1111, any, I'll go 011
Mei ask her what silo 111,3111S Ily such 20111111e
1411ylif(W," •
I (02,1k you wouldn't. She 1115
flare up and lcaye 11.( in Ow inceit.-
wh,.„
that, wo can't bo.c 'nu 01111 11011:44 We'll 10111
it 1"
"1Ir. Bowser, plea,,e 101 the girl alon
for 2110 to deal with," 1 entreated.
opil,jast speak a few W01318 to ber, yot
know,' be replird, and as I went int. th
sitting room he to tit inte the kitelien.
In Idiom twe Ili leauril a el'11.411 o
crockery and the bang ef a door, followts
by the aound of the girl's feet on the boo
stain4, fuel live initio108 litter SILO 0114110 110 VA
with her bundle and :flapped ,ed without t
word to me Bowser (111110 So011 1140
tilat, coat tilkw10.01 rolled up and a mina
towel tied around. him, and he explained ,•
" I simply asked her if oho thought thi
house was v. sawmill, atel she 'called me 1
inastmlon 111111 110W for hor bundle, Is she t
fair specimen of the help you have had to ilea
with 1"
" Yes."
" Well, you and all other housekeeper
have my deepest aympathy. I used to thin]
it WaS )(MO:hut:It that so 010,ny girls eallle am
went, but I want te apologize and take it
all back.
" But what shell we do ?"
" Do ? I'll run the kitchen tun,
after breakfast and then got a girl.
After he had been at work for a few min
(nes I crawled out to see how things wer
going. He WWI We/Shill...0' dishes. He had th
teapot, milk. pitcher, butter dish, nap1211
rings, two pie tans and the crockery all Miami(
together in a dishpan, and while he was wash
ing them with dish towel he WILS wipin
them on one of baby's old skirts taken iron
the hamper in the stairway.
There were etreaks of dishwater clear doWn
to his heels, and a dozen 11019 grease spot
had appeared on the floor and table, but he
insisted that, I go right back apd leave him
alone, and luta no instruutions to giv
He had everything done up in half an hour
mull /.27/11111 Ile came m to sit down he said.:
" Everything out there is as slick as a pin,
and breakfast is all planned for. That girl
would have been slashing around until 10
o'elook hefore she had her dishes done. I'd
like to be in your place about a month. I'd
make some of '001 wonder why they wet:
ever born !"
" But every house has just such trouble."
"Then you women ought to league togethei
to protect youeselves."
" 1VItat aro you going to have for break•
fast
" Never you miud, Ales. Bowser. If I
don tget you the best breakfast you have
seen m 0, year I'll give ttp that I don't know
nothing about a house."
About midnight I heard him inuttering.in
his sleep :
" Talte two elgo—saleratus—live minutes
—greased rag—one tablespoonful to eaeli
person."
It, usually takes me all of twenty minutes
to get 141r. Bowser out of bed in the morning
and the task is never accomplished without
resort to fiction as,to the lateness Of the hour,
On this part ionlar morning he slipped out be.
fore I W148 awake, and he had been working
in the kitchen a, full hour before I got down.
No them cam be made to believe that there is
a right and a wrong to shouts or tablecloth:4,
Mr. Bowser had, set the table 3081 as any
other man would. The cloth was wrongpsliatito
to, the teaspoons in the celery dish the
sugar bowl ranniug 0011 the meat)
tees and bread. plates had chaliged duties.
Gateltina and its History,
f lostie of hitehina. wid.h has heeonie
1 he ,,o.orite t;„• „,„,1
„1, 1„, to 1 10;
palaao, st, lieler.deirg, last
-1.",y until after the evilnyvi, 21111,11,
sbnri dist:owe of S11.1111111,1' pati, es of
l'?.ark,,/, Sell, aps1 li.resnee-Sel o. 11, \V:, 3
built by Peter the I free 1, 2 lel( tie. in,ccia
1(0.1,1. 11121,1i1.1111}. 11,,!1,';11i1,11,4 Orb,11, die
fovorite el the Empress 'atheriee,whe added
che 041'01.8 atilt 11.10w4, 43.21 who oallaa,1 the
interior to be mania weisly atieorded
W1/11‘011.11 from Italy, teeter the sitte.rin.
tendenee Itiealdi, (.8181.1,;(to(1 itrollitad
(if 11041. period. After the death ef title))
f he pitlitee by le, lra let I hike
Fain, t he 111.111 vet father of ;11,, ;emperors
Nieholas and illetatuder,
The 10.21se, whieh is an itinnems, ;armour°,
is built in throe stories, the fir,:t supported
,
1,y 001 unnis •:f 1011110101 Marble, awl the prin•
0111,1 roo11114 11110 11110g with pietures remelt ly
„ brought from the 1 f,,rinitage end 111liter
Palauett at St. Petersburg. l'Itere ere beitut i •
ful Italb02 tgardens, ut ith terracee, teniplee,
„ foillitailia, alai a Vast anti riohly-Wii0(128 1
park, With 111k08 011,1 Nralmefulls, through
f broad mid rapid stream flows. l'here
1 is it forest which :swarms With gamic( beyond
k the park, antl the whele denutin is summit,
tel by a high wall, and beyond is reidly 1611
2 intro:wiled. oalop. ThOr0 18 74 011(4111 (4 lien-
, tries all rotted the wall, which extends for
2, many miles, and they are chauged every
110111'. All the roads for miles 000111111 ere
„ patrolled ineeiteantly, and there 18 a gnaed
2 the rallivity station, (nearly an hour's j 02.011-
2 ney from St. l'etersburg,) where only persons
1 going to the ellateau and having passeS ettn
leave or enter a train. When the Emperor
residitig at Clatchina. the interior of the
chateau is thoroughly inspected by experts
belonging to the secret pollee at least twice
every day
Cambling in Canada.
B. It is with the greatest regret we notice
that all forms of gambling are inereashig
eamula. Like mitey other evils, gmnbling
„ is a canker tinut cannot be thoroughly
8 eradicated, but it can be checked, and
, its prc»nters punished when practi-
1 cod 111 the full glare of publicity, It
• k our desire, therefore, to call
the notice of. the authorities to the fact
, that numbers of iotttery tickets are sold
tluougliont this muntry, that the daily pm-
pors openly advertise the fact, and by re.
cording the alleged winnings of enmity in"
dividunds, who stand to t he (tapes in the ratio
of a drop of raM to a. cloud-Imrst, aid and
diet thetie nefarious and swindling schemes.
Sevetul halthetteted attempts have been
made in the United States to suppress lot-
teries, but certthl States hating proved
their independence by licensing viue, the
Federal authorities are nonplussed. Our
laws are morc far-reaching and more easily
workable, and our people more law-abiding,
e no province or territory being willing for
the sake of tievenue to rummage pollution
and social demoralization of the masses, and,
therefore, it slmold only be necessary to
direct attention to this evil to secure its
eradleation. One thing is oertain that if
allowed to go on, it will aap the best life of
the people, and lead to a state of things
even worse than now prevails in Louisiana,
Missouri, and North Dakota, where lotteries
are 110(21180cl, and gamble's] and thieves pay
tribute to municipal officials
Terrible Story From Queensland.
Some of his slices of bread were two inches
thick 111111 S01110 almost as thin as paper, and
two of them bore.indispuptable proofs that
bo had cut his tinger while eating his broad
He requested me to sit down while he
brought in the meal. He had His Out finger in
tag,b111014 00 1110 nose, flour 011 0111.3, I411(1 1110
face had that color peculiar to red paint, Ile
also went lame in Ins left leg, caused, as I
afterward ascertained, by the rolling pin hull-
ing on his foot. When he had everything
on the table Ito looked around him with a
self satisfied air and proceeded to do the
honors. Poor Air. Ihrwser He had put the
steak into a, spider wit:limit butter oe grease,
and it was as black as cord ;tad rather more
tasteless.
When ha poni.ed the coffee the grounds in-
sisted on tilling half the cup, and the
eggs ho had Meet in some rancid lited
the girl had set away mul could not be
approached nearer than two feet. Ile had
attempted tO 1 ofte mine potatoes, but they
wore hardly witeined through, In Ms good-
ness of heart he hail toasted me a 'piece of
bread, and when it fell hito the 081108 110 111111
wiped off 0:4 much foreign substance as ho
could with it brush broom used about the
ttove. I tried hard to keep my face straight,
ta my feelings finally got away with me,
and Me, Bowser looked m»vith an injured
air and said :
"You never cooked a better meal in all
yom• life—you nor any of your relations for
a thousand years back I"
Just then I. that he had. used pi.o tin
for the butter dish, and I had to laugh again.
"Look here, Mrs. Bowser 1" ho 81101110d,
as ho bobbed up and almost oveeturned the
table, "this thing has gone too far—.too far 1
I see 11011'10104e 410 real trouble lios. I sue
now why no girl will stay with yom"
"But this knit ono was willing to stay."
"Yes, and what did you do 1" Degraded
hor iu her OW11 estimation until self respect
obligati her to quit,"
"You wont, ont and blew her up."
"I did 1 wout out and blew I Ala who
asked mo to do it?'
::"Nriola0t11sOttles it, Mrs. Bowser—settles it
right hero and now 1 the last Ineal
over cook for you, 011(1 We 11000 1104 0114 last;
girl 1 I see what's the nutttter with you and
the other 3V0111011. who employ help, mid I
won't bo party to it."
"1 asked you to let the girl alone,"
" You did I Never 1 Yea bogged of wto
fo out and throw her over the alloy
once, anil her brindle after her, and what
must that poor girl's feelings be at this ino.
mont, I I now go. I may return or T may not.
Tf not, yott Iowa the consolation of kuowing
what deove me front my own domicile."
lhtt he returned. All husbands return.
1.111ey begin to feel ashamed. of themselves
before they are clear of the gate, and tho next
hour is Alma in fishing for an excuse to
return nquarter of an hour earlier than usual.
A girl happened along just after Ito loft and
That is a terrible story coming from
North Queensland about a man who was
lost in the bush, He used up all his water
and then dropped his " billy' in the agony
of his thirst. By and by, fortunately, he
came to a, waterhale, where be slacked his
thirst end found the road again HO bad
still some thirty miles to go, however, and
Ile had nothhig whatever to carry water in.
Of course, it would have been madness to
attempt to travel thirty miles tm foot un-
der a North Queensland sun without any
-maw., so his ready invention ovine to his
aid. He had been horrified a short dis-
lance baek by the skeleton of a 101111 who
had evidently been dead several years. He
went bad: and got the skull, plugged up
the oye-holes with clay and filled it with
water. Ho then tramped that thirty
miles 011 the 1171104 contained in the skull !
Oan any novelist imagine a more ghastly
and frightful idea then this, for Whieh We
01111 V(lltell ?
A Quaker City Girl's Interesting Birthmark.
1 read in the " Times " of Philadelphia of
a young num of Louisville having a, black.
berry birthmark, and was very much sur-
prised, as have the same thing only that in
my case 111y 11101110V Call 11,00011111 ha' it
th0 1101.1'y 80118011 11 11p, alai IS a
111091 1101100; berry. Then, after that goes
to seed, Whiell fall off, leaving it quite ten.
der and like a lump of &eh pitted, My
friends -think it a great ouribsity, and have
lots of sport over it, I never have heard of
a similar caeo, and it 0001118 remarkable.
I have 110 31.10 consulted physician about
it, as it does not bother me in the least ex-
ept in the summer for a few weeks, but it
strikes me so strange that felt like letting;
yott kni»v that we need not go as far as
Louisville to find any such ouriosities. Very
espeetfully,
Q11.1.14.14112 C440 YOUND. LAOY.
How Young You Look.
"How young you look 1" oh, cruel phrase
That stubs you in the guise of praise !
What tho the years have lightly rolled,
What Om' mid gleaming locks of gold
No tell talc tress Timc'e touch. betrays.
You know that now the evil days
Drew ei*h. Fee, oh, emelt fond friend says,
With smiles that make.your blood run cold,
"How young you look I"
Whet though the world is still ague,
Bedazzled with 'your beauty's blaze ;
Alas 1 alai; 1 You're growing old.
You 12110'W '118 till°, 'Brat time you've tolel—
Admiring In'eoll with more amaze—
How young you look 1
Editorial Etiquette.
When the editor is writing, do not bother
him with talk ;
If yott haven't time to take aseat, go out and
take a walk •
Do not Palely lean l'nthind him, of his subjeet
making note,
Nor stand mud. view your visage in the shoul-
ders ef his coat.
Our desires always increase with our pos.
sessions, knowledge that something re.
maim yet unenjoyed impairs our enjoy-
ment of the good before us.—LJohnson.
ems, .sse.e..............eseeeseessee
rylonius begins great works:; only laror
finishes them.-0oubert.
aallada•
211trorit 1111' eVe 1 hero 010(.8 110W
.3 80;401 ry 0101 fair
h,titts are high, her ritt,08 hro(01
.2 int 1.1111Vast 111,1i 11 Mil 11014,
Tho Beaver in hie glerieue flop
ef antic
A101 tle- fair maple. bt u•tting red.
Quem, el' all 1111.
'11011 1.20,t ie mesh's 1,, 1.'104,1
1..1 IchilM 11,111 11.0. 1 o
l'oll empira of 110. 41. 10,1.1
11,.i. (led hie 101111W.
11er river. of fresh ter llove -
(011)11! lieln .111 a 1,o11
11sh 1.011 itr,, fat!)
f.trge.t penes ar° reeed.
tleids14.114" f,,rf t,11,11.11(16,10,tf W110111.
Ilt oil.
111a. 1/11,1 14, 1.110111. -
The 1,101111•1 1.1' I t1,-
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EN:1.411311'11
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The eating 1 re, are teen.
(/11 0 e0111111V, el tly 1,4102.1 it+ tiot
I ler .0111-111111 r
Iler flute ate; aot 1, m1,1 to thilt
.A very nxigiet. levee.
Ili T nem neve ate, 12,11011 121,4 22,./Ores
(If 20111,,S1 elreey 10011
A11,1 hell 1.41re exporla, the world -Wide
:Ire greatly 111 41111.11/11.
1.71441111T 111,10., 0,1 river.: fair
Wf. 4,4014(1 ninny -4111.1,
Thal 1 ell 115 of imlilluerelol strong/1
tymet, eeeretthere prevails,
'Whim inattstry afleante,
With 1111111 1111e1.1.11114. tread, -
1,1fIlleali011 fon° 4 CiOS1` 1,01111111.
Allfl 140011 117111 Ile ;Mead.
Freedom of wiirshit, e'er itrevalls
Iletwt.eti (uneaten Shores.
Wliedi 0(1,8 oath lean the right to act
tite eenseiene,. iimseess,
'Fleet elialt ,.'ergive up our land
ss, fereign friend. or foe 1
With (Me aceoril let 118 join hands
Anil to tlie 111,21, Hey 112/ 3
The rights for wIliel) our fathere died
auveiur to Dart 12,21111, never
We'll join our hearts mid minds
A tut onward, mareli forever,
F.bwix G. Bumf,
The Maid and the Bachelor.
I had sworn to be a bachelor, she had sworn
to be a maid,
For we both agreed in doubting whether
matrimony paid ;
I3eside, 1 had my higher aims, for 80(01140
tilled my heart,
And. she Keel her young affectione were all
wound up in art.
So we laughed at those WiS0 1/1eT1 who say
that friendship cannot live
'Ttvixt man and woman, unless eaoh has
something else to give,
We would be Mewls, and friencla as true na
e'er were man 011(1 10311,
I'd be a, iiecond David, and she Miss Jona.
We'd Itikbenneaull other, that was all, and quite
enough to say,
So WO just shook hands upon it in a business
sort of way,
We shared our SOrrOWS and our joys, together
hoped and feared,
With common purpnee sought the goal which
young ambition reared ;
We dreamed together of the days, the dream
bright days to 00100,
We were strictly confidential, and called
tied other " chum ;"
And many a day we wandered together &et
the hole—
I seeking ants and butterflies, and she the
ruined mills
.And rustic bridges and the like, which
p.ietureonakers prize,
To run in with their waterfalls, and groves,
ancl sunny skies.
111(1211y a quiet evening, in hours of full
release,
11Th floated clown the river, or sat beneath
the trees,
And talked in long gradation, from the poets
to tho weather,
While the Summer skies and inycigar burned
slowly out together.
But through it all no whispered word or tell-
tale look or sigh
Told aught of wanner sentiment than tender
sympathy,
Wo talked of love (1,0 001aly as we talked of
nebula',
And thought no more of being one than we
did of being three.
" Well, goodsbye, old fellow,"—I took her
hand, for the time had come to go,
going meant our parting, Wh011 to meet
we did not know.
I had lingered long and said farewell with a
very heavy heart,
For though we were but friends, you know,
'tis hard fer friends to part ;
" WM1, good-bye, cad fellow, don't forgot
smar frieuils normis tho sea,
.And some day, when you've lots of time, just
drop a line to me."
The words eame lightly, gayly, but a great
sob just behind
11000 1101010,1 With a story of quite a different
kind.
And then she reised her eyes to mine, great
liquid eyes of blue,
Full to the brim and (mulling o'er, like vinlet
0111)8 With (leW
One long, long look end thou I did what
never did. beiore,
Perhaps tho tear meant friendship, but I
think the kiss meant more.
My Gun.
With perfect lines from butt to sight,
Damascus barrels, twelve in gauge,
That shine within like mirrors bright,
A triumph of this latter ego
(Marled walnut wood the mond stook
And smoother than your finger nail,
Extension rib, rebomeling look,
And balanced like it truthful scale.
No fine engraving tracery 51101011
On locks or barrels for 1.110 V0111 ;
13 weapon for its worth alone,
st. beauty, yot severely plain ;
Top snap the action, as you. see,
Aml corengated buckhorn tip
As finished as an n,r111 should bo
Prom 11010010 through to pistol grip,
A lresty comrade, thin old gun,
And eertaiii, if you hold it right,
To drop the jacksnipe one by one,
Or stop a mallard in his flight
To bring to earth the woodcoulc where
In swampy eovert trp he springs,
Or send far up in erispy air
The death hail, where the wild goose wings.
Lot votaries f111 her train,
And chirping peets feebly rhyme ;
In dingy hetes, for worldly gain,
Lot stooping gray beards weep their prime ;
Lot hermits prose in doleftd moods,
Ana boolcworms in dry volnmes delve ;
Give me the rivers, lakos and woods,
My freedom and the ',number twelve."
Tho Finance Committee of Hamilton lute
decided. to recommend the submission of a
by.law to the eitisens granting a bonus to
the Toronto, Hamilton, and 'Buffalo railway
of $127:5,000, Shoula the by-law bo carried
the work of construction will be commeneed
at once, and it is expected that the now hue
from Hamilton to Toronto will bo completed
in eighteen' months,
•
DOM PEDRO S UBANDSON.
11t, 111,4.14 sentl.,,t18.44). Putnam, 116111110
Troithles and sor1,11,, tre taltiog thiek on
the utmerahle t2 hit, 1,,,Irs of poor 11.111 rear0
11t111/1, sa3.: 0 11.1•1111 14:11.1%r. rgnirely, CVO
1111/111 h.. lial Vq1'1` LW 11.1 1111,403
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111 i 111'111{6 1(04
1114 /hal fr,1111". :11111 1121$ 111,211 11.11,1,1,0t1
4111/1.111/1111 111,011 till' 11111110.., Of 111i, 1'0,0.1008 j
he. has 1,et ;.1 fa:110,11 ,be wife,
witleed 1'4,9.111.1V:1W ..1111M114.11.,11 lam%
pre,m1 al live (11,111i 1 .2 hiti Ma. 1111a1 fare.
tt ; awl uou. 1,, has 1os1 tvilrhe 110111 1014
faVorill• 141,11111,om Prime. A tignetue,
I '111.1.111'111: 0:/f (i4':/.14'1'::'1hi,41 .11'41'4 ni, (1;11h al
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consiocreo the IWO' 141 111e t11114141.
.1.11g41411.4 31',1, Ilai101,414110 young
'1,11,,u, who, WS list ,41i11•1• 1/4:111P 11111.411041
1111‘.' '14"ni '4"."3."1 "(:4-12$ "4 Now ork
tiirce tie.. The shoelt caused by his
siet1,4111,;eO aap 1111,1 eircum.
1 Maws ,ioniteete,1 dierewith, togethm• with
an Hines., brengItt ia, by his being forceil
embark with 110111111,14> elothing when he
ital. Brazil with the elilper0r, have 1.01111/M0d
ehmter his mile]. Ile te entiering front tui
'melte forill of 1112, "10,450,11 11011 111011(02”
t21120 1 lie peeple atenuel 010
ferever trying to Testesinete or kidnap Min.
seriotie has hie condition beemite that
within 11 ft.jV after the iterival of Dom
Pedro al C011111,4 it 108_0411W 110(1088110), to place
him meter restraint, He has, accordingly,
been ,ionveyed to the famens insane asylum
of Oratz, in Styria, Austria, among the re-
cent ininatee whieh 111410 been the duchess
Aleueon and the dueliess Augustenburg,
mother of the rei,guing emprees of Germany.
Cruel Arab Blare &dem
The Aral, system of raiding im unique.
About fifty years 11440 they subdued the ex.
teneive illanyema (toiletry, of whieh Nyan-
gwe and liatsmongo are well.knowneentres.-
97lie Menyemas, after being thus disbanded,
gradually allied thems,.1vm with the Arabs,
and eventually have spiTed their operations
throughout the country to an enormous
extent. The Arabs, 100 their ex.pedi-
Cons in search of slaves and ivory,
generally eurreund the native villages early
in the morning. At a given signal they rush
in from all points, tiring right and left atul.
capturing all the women. If the men offer
roistance they are shot, otherwise they are
allowed to escape. The marauders then
pillege all the huts in the village, which
they afterward tire.
11., however, the place happeus to be ex-
• tensive, the Arabi., adopt ,fiffereut tactics.
They form a st ne101,10 or samba. Thus for-
tified they establish themselves, maintain-
ing a strict wateli at night, During the
whole of their stay they keep this attitude
of defense. Atter the lapse of several days
they release two or three of the WOM011
prisoners, who are instructed to deliver a
message to the 111011—in hitting far away in
the forest—to tIn; ;street that if they want
t heir a 1011011 18101t1 hey 1111174 come and redeem
them with tusks of ivory --each woman
being malted at the rate of one large tusk.
Then several days pass, until perhaps
one meriting early a gruff voice is heard
in the distance hailing the encamp-
ment. He enquiree as to the truth
of the statement brought by the: women,
and then follows a parley. During the
subsequent days the persecuted 1 natives
come with ivory to redeem their mothers,
eistere, or Wi008. Eventually they make
friends with their conquerors, who then
use them as guides to the next eneamp-
ment, where the Sa1110 testament is repeated
upon the neighbore of those reeently kluu-
lered. Part of the reW(11,1 that the guides
receive from the Arabs is the flesh of the
-*epic who are shot in the next attack.—
Herbert Ward, in Scribner's.
A NEW INDUSTRY PH, CATLDREN.
iThe ItInaltaghato Company that litres
Them to Make Toys.
_A. novel industry fm; chiliiren'a tiny Iittle
lingers lute sontewhat recently been intro -
;bleed into England. mul kip -lite as fascinat-
ing to the lit tie workers ais it it; remunerative.
A -company has been fornted for the 111111111.
factue of toys, which were formerly imported
into the country at the almost incredibly .
1140,81, 81101 Of $2,000,000. Whoa it WaS learned
tliat meet of the work ef manufacturing the
toys was accomplished by little children,
who enjoyed their employment se much that
tillW Ill'efor00(1 it to play, this tennpany es.
talaisheil their manufactory in the midst, of a
crowded dist riet of Birmingham, and wirer.
tised to ee.411 ehildren the work free of cost.
As soon as the people leamed of this
reler, women and. children besieged
the place • in enelt nundiee5 that the
soled was literally piteltea with applicants,
011,1 the police hed great difficulty to force
their way through the throng. The children, .
after lemming how to do the work are allowed
to take it to their homes, and, surrounded
1WW (0/111fitrla and luxuries ptirehasecl
tho proceed., of their fascinating employment,
mind t he relining i efineneesof home,thundrecls
ef bilsy little lianas are employed in de.
light ful werh. To call out the nmstintelligent
w,,rkers in the itatle the company hinted a
liet of prizes to the eompeted for by the
children under 1'2 years ot am and awaraeel
to the child Arho shall contStruct. the best
onfit for tin• company's paper doll, The
hu:gitst, prise is 135, the smallest, S313, antl other
prize lists aro to follow presently.
A Canadian Lad Musioian,
the course of an artiel&t.upon feminine
song writers the Now YorkilWorld has the
following reference to a talented young
Canadian lady : "ITnlike other women
composers, Helen Greg,ory stands almost
alone in her profession, She is a writer of
the ultra-classtcal, end enjoys the distinction
of having been the first woman to have
conferred upon her the dual degrees of
musical bachelor mid baehelor of arts. Few
imagine the necessitry capabilities rerptired
for such honors. In tho Trinity University
of Toronto, Canaan, from width oho graduate;
ea for the degree of inusited bechelor, four
successful examinatious were necessary, eacili
embracing a course le harmony counterpart,
001111011, fugue, form, history of music rind
instrumentation.
"At the last examination the student ' is
required to write musical composition With
full orchestral accompaniment, onc or, two
choruses of at least four or six parts, a fugal
ohorus and solos, order to keep the
stadard as high as possible the papers aro
sent to U41111111 awl examined by throe
noted professors of the University of Otim.
bridge, All this Miss Oregoey wont through ,
successfully, claiming the credit of opening
Trinity University to women, which hail
previously issued oilly certificates instead of
degrees Sibe then, at the same college, by
dint of poeseveranee succeeded ht persuad-
ing the senate of it en also grant her admia,
sum to a full collegiate course, and' but a
few months ago, after a three years' course
of study she graduated with honors and 1116
degeoes:namod.