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The Brussels Post, 1890-9-26, Page 66 {JAN A. MOLLER roivairi- In one of the p1orget end most oVererovetd. tul puts of rear total say ererewaleal Lea:abet steads a little 12 hitewashed Manse, alitlerieg from the squalid lives mead it only in ite peefect 0e:waffle:es gate on entering nothing but the plitiaest and meet necessary ftwnish. jugs are to be eaund. One bitter night early in February there set, in the hardly-furnQuel sitting toem, a young prima. He was ,,vidently x pe,t someone, tual stune one he Laved; for then time to time he stirred the tire and !make,' with sonaelldng like at sigh at the meagre meal whieh was prepared on tlw de, "I must not put on male," be Will to himself, -"for if the fire is really bright when he comes in, he will grudge himself the warmth. I dare not make mealy a( eemffirtable med, for he will grudge himself the foutl, It ea !Limeys so, for he 1. ;links that he alone eau .do without rest, warmth, and comfort; for oh I how tender anal thoughtful he is silken every one else I" As he sat down again, the drew opened to admit a tall, powerful man, looking weary "beyond avords, laud wet to the ekin. It needed not hie elerieel alrees to assure any who saw him what his ceiling; was: for in. tete:sting as his face meet here been, under any oircumetances, it was rendered 'wand - fill by the beauty of holineee, and the strength end sweetness mingled in it made it like the fete of an angel. " Dear brother," he said., as he cam in. "I can go out no more this night, for my body is se weary anal toy heart so eore that I feel helpless and diepirited ae I ltit% rarely felt before. The sin anal the Int -Mein'', the wretchedness anal poverty, above all', the cry of the children, are breadth% my heart. And if mine -0 Thou having Shepherd -what must the suffering be to Thee, in Thy perfect purity and. unequalled tenalerness How long, 0 Loral, hew leng ?" lie sank down atn. a abair and lauried face in his hands for a few moments>. while the younger privet looked at him sadly and anxiously. It wae so unusual for Father Warrenit face to be cleudeal anal so rare foe his spirit to be despenaleut that he felt sue, something W110 wrong, anal that overwork and constant exposure were at last begin- ning to tell even on his magnificent health and frame. " :cow, alear father," Ile said beseechingly, " do put on dry ado -thee sand rest this evening and take a hang quiet sleep, for if you persist in this constant self -forget. fulness, you will haye to give up work alto. gether, and I think no greater trouble could befall you and us than that." " Weil, truly," replied Father Warren, "I am resolved to go out no more this night, for, thongh the spirit is willing, the flesh is weak.- He had hardly finished speaking when a ring was heard. at the door, anal the servant entering, said, "Father, a lacty desires to see you, andlogs -you will not refuse her." " Let me go," said the young priest, jumping up. "It is too hard, this perpetual importunity. I will speak to her, aud tell her how unfit you Etre to do anything more or see any one this eveniug," "Do so, my son," said Father Warren, "but let it be courteously and gently said, las befits those who speak in the name of EL gentle and never.weary Master." The young man (tressed himself and left the room; he returned, however, aftee a few . minutes, with a disappointed and somewhat mortified air, "She will here none of me, dear faller bladeeires to see you and you, only; and in -very truth I feel myself asking for her; her e -pleading is so touching and her longing so earnest that I have gone over to her side and can resist her wish no longer." l'atIrer Warren rose briskly and said. " Do not let her wait a momentlonger. I feel ee blame that sho bas waited 50 lelli :already Bring her in at once, I pray you., - and. while the priest hastened to obey he pLecerl a chair near the fire, and muttering to himself, "Neither turneth a deaf ear to any poor man," he put the teapot on the table and prepared to receive cordially the unexpected visitor. The door was gently opened by a toll lady, dressed in black. She was exceedingly fair to see, beautifol in feature and carriage beyond most women ; but there Was an inex- pressible charm far beyond even that—a eflignity and perfection of manner and ap- pearaoce such as Father Warren had never seen before. Advancing toward him, she said In a low, clear, ancl most melodious voice " Forgive me, dear father, for disturbing you so late, and on such a night ; bet no other could fulfill so web the mission which I ask you to undertake. Will you come with me to bring comfort and happiness to a departing land erring soul ? and will you bring the Holy Secrament with you, that, having confessed and been absolved, he may go hence in pme?" " Dear lady," answered Father Warren, -"I have not eaten since the morning. My 'clothes are wet through, and I am very weary. Another priest of God more worthy than I shall go with you. ' "Nay," she said looking wistfully at him, "I pray yon, go with me yourself, for to you was I sent, and the time is very slum,. I beseech you to come with me and make no delay. By the love of the Blessed Mother for her Son, by the love of that Son for all his erring children, I eraplore you come with me, and come quickly." She pleaded so earnestly and tenderly, and yet with something of authority in her tone, that the father yielded; and forgetting all but her anxiety and that some one had need of hini, he hastily put on a cloak and loft the house with. her. A stronglaiting wind and sharp sleety rain made walking difficult and conversation al. moat impossible, so Ile followed the lady sil- ently as they sped quickly along the narrow street's. Father Warren weld not but mar- vel exceedingly that the lady clid not :seem to be aware of wind nor rain nor anything round her, but with firm tread and head erect she walked calmly and quietly thoogh very rapidly on, She moved as one with a set purpose, while a smile of hope brightened her grave hem .A.1 last after walking thus for a oonsider. able distance, they °erne to 0110 of those quiet, old-fashioned squares, once the chow' en reeidence of the wealthiest Londoners, but now deserted for places further from the crowded centre of the huge city. She stopped at one of the housee, and, Jo:looking firmly and decidedly at, the door, she turned round to the priest and easid : "I lave shown you the plate and told yott of the aore need of one who lives there. I clan do no wore, and must go now. May tho bleesing of God. the Father, the love of God the Son, and the help of God the Spirit go 'with you now." She turned rapidly away and was quieltly •ont of sight, leaving the priest& little bewild- ered at receiving se solemn able:arcing from a lady and a stranger,. and yet with thefeeling that there was nothing uncmitable nor turbo - corning in her giving it. Beforo, however, he had time to coiled Iiis thottghts or explain 10 hiMSelf what he teally felt about hell, the door %vas opened by a stOnt, comfortable, respectable serval* 'who treemed rather aetemished athis appear- ann. a haVe been etimMened to tr. dying TEE BRUSSELS ),,,d," he said ; "pray take me rat om,e to the I refleet Nether ttione, then go hate toy libree ry anal take there the rem yell so Intielt need room." The usetten 1- eattaal perplexedomal answer. for a few hems, while I reinain here anal : .1 Thert, dying beds here, nor I think of all yea haye said." te,„„e ee„„ lege 1,„, Lime, Te1g,e, he to I To 1 his Fa thee Warren aseent stud passed into t he adjoining atom, hosing the pan% man abate. Ile lamiceal aromel him before entitle' down, anal found in the books, tiagazinee ettle wttelcsi of art, anal Melrose, turt her " here s no lady got no raglat tofeteh arse evidence. of tbe refinement anal intent me here. stud mietuice there surely is," sahl env,' whieh land been 00 Marked in every - lite woman, rather estily ; 1.11 1 1, ',Aim; at thing lea had seen in tlea hewn. But what the mien and reeragnizing Itie holy eliaraelee, ;greeted hie attention most, tool eve:Matted she went ota •' But yon had better come in while it etartleal lihn, was the piet nth 01 a anal explain it to the yonug toast, r for sure beautiful hely in full evening alrese which am I he woubliel like a beggar turned from hong over an ehl bureau, and beneath midair the door on a entel night like One, let Ethane iealy tient like .,•011, as is well known te the peer' and medy, SO saying, she led the priest intat a most emnfortable room Where wasseated abet° a young man evidently Wait - Mg for his dinner, preparations for which were on the table before lam, "•This revevend gentleman halve been led astray, Sir, by. some visiting lady, and brought out ef 'came, where better he would have been on a night like this, RS rampaging the streets to come to a 'ouse where tlying beds there ie name, and math- ing but health and conifert, the Lord be praised. But I knew as you would not wish him Nein away, Site for the sake of her as is gone, anal pethaps you van put him in the way to final the right '01200" The young matt smiled, evidently well ae- enecomed to the way. of ltk faithful old servant, and, rising courteondy, led leather Warren to a seat h`y the Mitring the. "Why, you are wet through and threugh I" la, sttid. "At haat let me take off mo cloak, and rest a little, while you tell me how I emne to the honer of this visit." The father could not withstand the genial greeting, anal, sitting down, told the young man how he esttne there. Ae trite! to de Otis, twever, he fonnd himself splice at a leet ic: explain the inthres,i,e, the hely had made , an him, anal hew lowerlese lie f51 to 1,,ist her opportunity, or even to que,tion r 0, 10 WIp.ro 11115 10:111illg 111111, Hi9 11 1 41 W 1, '01.01Well '11101 concerned at the ttigue and exposure 11.2 Intal gone thretigh, 01101 :Mid 1 "1 feer you heve, in your really self-eacrifice, given way too (teeny to some elemitable lady, more zettlons 0 hall jUlliei1018, 11-110, ill her desire to do muele has, tat -night at least, done too 11111011a and (treacle mistake in an address whieh we eau neither Id 00 rectify." Father Warren eleaolt Ids head sadly, for he felt how completely he had failed to re. preeent truly his calm and dignified vieitor, aml he aighed as he thought liOw, after all, her missien had failed. "I shall mat let you go out again till you are thoreughly warm and fed," said the young man ; "and you must just console your- eelf lay the thought of the kinalnese yen are doing sharing my lonely dinner, anal in giv- ing mu the: pleasure of your company on such a diem/alright as this." The wormout, hungry man yielded to the cordiality anal heartffiess of the bright youth's manner, anal Boon they wet e togethce sas though they were old friends. They seemed drawn toward earth other in some mysterious way, and their heitrts wereopen- ed, and they spoke Eie neither had done for years. "I once belonged to yoor church," said tbe lad in rather sad, regretful tones ; "but I belong to no church now. Since my dear mother died, nothing seems of real interest, mia feel that if she were, indeed, living, in any state she would find some way to cum. municate with me, for heaven itself could bring no jey to her if I were shut outside. And, indeed, it is much the same with me, for I have tried every kind of life to forget my loneliness, bet everything beeenies deettriness without her, and hare found no orre 10 1111 her Piece," "Nay, not so, dear boy," Said Father Warren very gently, "you have not tried everything—not faith and patience and per- fect subimasioin with forggtfulness of self, the only.things that can bring you peace and content." "I do not want peace," replied the boy -- for be was little more in his impetuous, lov. ing heart—"I want happiness, I want nty mother, I want my old full life book again. It cannot be true that she is living any- where, in any condition, and has forgotten her only child, her boy, her companion and her friend. aly father died suddenly of heart disease before I was born, and my mother and I were all hi all to each other ; we hall not a, thought apart. No she is dead indeed ! gone forever ! Dust and ashes I and the sooner I am the same, the sooner will the aching of my heart be stopped, and a useless life be over I" Father Warren was deeply moved by the passionale outcry and evident sincerity of the lad's grief. His mother had been dead for three years, and he had not allowed any. thing to be toached or altered in the old house. He could not beer any change in her arrangements, and her books and work lay about as if she were still a living presence there. A.5 they talked together it became evident that the young man had drifted into Ells. belief of alt kinds, and 2100,01 tossed about on that dreary ewe_ forlorn and hopeless. It would not become me to try and repeat the powerful arguments and loving.plead- ings used by the faithful servant of has Alas. ter to win beck thie lost soul. The life of the priest was well known to the lad, and he remembered in what terms his mother had always apoken of him, how she had told caf rank and wealth put aside by him that he might the better bring coin. fort and hope to the poor neglected people among whoin he lived, and Ins heart burned within hitn as the holy 111E111 pleaded with him more and more strongly to return to the fold he had left, but where his place was always kept ready for him. "Come back, come back," ho said, "to tho and the Church which made your mother what she was—what she is. It is you who, by unbelief and waywardness, have raised the barrier between you, It is you who have closed the door so that her holy angel cannot come to you. Return to the Church of Gott Confess your sins and receive absolution, rememberIng that there is more joy in heaven over one sumer that repenteth than ogre ninety and nine just mon that need no repentance. Open your ears and your heart now so that, through my poor lips, you may hear your angel mother pleading with pea for your soffi's 'salvation—for another triumph for the Mama Saviour's arose," I know tot what further words he need, nor dere I venture to describe the feelings of the youth as he listened ; but, • after a while, his better nature oongnered entirely, and kneeling before the priest be cried t "Reooive me back again, I pray you, and bless me, even nte also, 0 my Father I" Father Warren, however repliedthoughts fully: "I think it wiser anil better, my son, that you should take this solemn Map when you are calmer and have fully considered it with prayer, for stately a :mond backsliding would be far more grevious than a fleet, I wirowll.teave you now and return again to.mor. "Now, I beeeech you, dear, father, do not leave me eog uottbsolved; but Mel your wiedomyou think it well thatI thou d Ileaven. all Well 111 11114 11011N0 S11 . " l'here meet 110 P01110` 1114410.14 0," replied Father \ Varren, " for I was conducted. here by a lady who fetched. me lwrself to the very door, arid was in touch anxiety and W2101 1'1101 Of Willte flowers, evidently placed there lay eome having hand. "Whore It ta e I seen that facie before ?" he thought. " tt soma fresh in my memory, anal e es. I have eeen none euch for umuy 3 eass." He took up a book and sat down be- fore the tire, trying to reet, Tired as he was, eould not sleep, for the picture seemed. to 111111111 and disturb him. Again and again he rose 111 look ne it, '' 'maidenly ie flashed aoross him, "The 3,, Se that brought me here teenight. 1 They lone and yet how differ. ent While lie Wit% still shoultog looking, his new friend entered and said quidely, " Vot are looking at the portrait of my mother.! It is very like her. Is she not beautiful? Can you not feel now 110W 1111151 111105 1110' 8111.01 company every lit all' 1,1 tip, atty 't it not strange that I feel .1 tomight than at any time elle, . and left 1101 alone Indeed, I f.. 1401 if she 11101.0 1101 1.131.11y dead -.1.121 2. we mum rueet 114,01.111. Will yon receive my confession now, father, end give me absolution before elasep, aud. then think I shall feel 119 if the black wall between us had been broken down for ever." "Willingly, my son," answered. the good priest. .1 11 10 11101'401011111 int erview foul subeeguen eonVersation it is nnt fee us to intrude. but it was very bate before they lamed for the night, anal it 11104 arritnged. that hey shoulal meet again ttt the 7 clock service in tlte meet -len -room elutpel the following morning. Imagine then the alieappeintment of Father Warren when the RW01(0 began and. ended anal hie young friend did net appear. lie was \my sad, Accustomed as he was to alisapppintments of this kind, he had never felt one ee keenly as this hefere. lie had been 00 confident of the Istal's earnestness, of the strength of his resolve, that 111J would not give up hope. "I will go and see 111111," he thought, "before 1.1411111 111011e 010 break my fast. Holy Mother, go with me, I be- seech thee !" He hastened 0210y, and not without somo difficulty found the house again. He was not surprised to foul the blinds clown amino sign of life, for it was not yet 8 o'clock. "Ah ! here is the explanation," he exclaimed cheer- fully. "Unaccustomed to web early hours, both servants and master are still probably asleep," and he knocked loudly at tlie door. It WaS quickly .opened lay tile SEM() ser- vant as the evening before. But oh I how changed. in her appearance. Her eyes wore streaming with tears, and she looked ton years older. • In a voice broken by sobs she said " He is dead. He is gone. Messed (may he the night hi his sleep ; no sound, no eq. The best inaster that ever lived. He told my husband to call him very early, and when he went to do so he found him lying calm and quiet, like a marble image." Father Warren passed by her silently into the room, and there, indeed, he found him lying calm and quiet, and very peaceful, but with Boole a look of bright happiness on his beautiful young face as showed plainly that he had felt neither solitude nor fear when the Angel of Death came te fetish him Ways " Who can donbt that it was his mother who came to me last night ?" said the priest, to himself ; " for can a mother ever forget, even in heaven, the child of 1,,c love on earth?" POST. IN B A %TR N ArigoA. advent nee ettin Ithinameree. Fiona the day of desertieg my ehip tendon. there 11(1114 never a aley In the four 3, ear, of my etay in Ea ata•rn .Nfrica that 1 ',add not have seared p thineceree had I leen eao Meiling'. I don't me101 this in ft Elena so140, r(111 11011.1 11111'11 11) :War° llp :11111111l1 111 1,,a01 ern ,11viett; he 1,1 alwitye asely to ecare eonitaboaly else me I Inema hat 1 eould heve sighted a rhirenteroe wit Is- om eg big to Inuela treul tie. They were as mule tie in the NVortunlan distriet tea ewe aloe, eountry hamlet, and Low awl Dam they did great damage to the growing elope, The cuttivee had but one Wily of killing them, and thet WilS by digging pits. \elicit an animal lied falh•ta Inte anw of the pits he 111111.e.11 10 11191111 MIA hiti flesh and hide node use f 1/111 OM TuEst: co:eve:meth errs were meneee to hunting plunk's, anal as they W11.12 ii31/111 10 110 uncovered by other annuals, their use in WorumInt Land had been ithendoned Boum time before I made tny debut. As their hides amide excellent sandals, ropes, lactruese, and as the ani- mals had 110101110 130 1/0111 that they would chaege right through the village, I wondered greatly that that waives did esat 1110111 against them In n thou I learned that email.- st Rion WAS at the bottom of it. Three years previously u, rhinoceros had been captured III IL pit 1101 far from the village., and on the clay he W0.9 141110(1 atml cut up a lien had killed a, mother iuul her child in revenge, " I tow slo yen know it. Was in revenge 9' I asked. " Because he was the friend of the rhieoe. err's." How do yam knew that ?" " Beemuse eu dia nut drag the bodies eway 1.0 lo eeten." It was inthessible to argue with such people with ally &tow of 13110110$00 but cir- cumstances brought about the donge of heart I bored for. Wo hall some tine oxen in the village, broken to ride oe draw the rude ploughs mead hy the natives, and one day when ene of the head 1111111'S W1 VW, was serat,fiing the earth with 04 plongh drawn by hie finest ex, a, rhinos:crew alleged from thiaket and ripped the ox. open with one toes of hie ugly horn. Orders were issued to make war on the animals, and got full liberty to exereise my skill. wo had only two or three muskets and very little powder I had to resort to more primitive measures. ThaT toiletry \vas full of paths made by big genre, and I seta:meal epot about a mile frum the village where a path ran through a large thieket of thorns. With the help of the =inn here dug a pit twelve feet lanag, six feet wide, end nine cm ten feet deep, last we had not yet covered it over when game appeared, \ Ve could see along the path on side of the pit for a clistance of tInn feet, and it. was about AN 1110'10 BERME SUNDOWN, and some of the 111011 Were cutting poles and brush to cover the pit, when I sawn rhinoc- eros in the path below. 'Ile wind blew freeh toward him, and ho I ad our secant. AVe were ale° in Ins line of vision. An African rhinoceros has no more 8011E0 of fear them a rock. All other animals do more 01? less reasening. The elephant will run away when the odds Etre against him, and the buffalo will etalculate hae chances before an attack, unless come upon too sad. alenly. The rhinoceros, on the contrary, seems to have the idea that he owns the earth, and whenever anything moves ha makes a rush to destroy it. \ Ve Were 011 the far side of the pit, curd as soon as we 00:W the beast we sprang up and waved our arms to ettract him. He accepted the de - fiend°, lowered his head, and 05 he came for us he made the ground tremble. We pro. tended 10 ren away, and the old fellow was on the brink of the pit before he euspected the job we had put up on Man. He uttered a loud "Woof !" tried to put on the ado. brakes, ancl next moment landed agnate: on his head in the bottom of the pit, breaking his neck with a crack which could have been heard forty rods away, Ata later (late we caught: two more in Ude pit, and as we dog other pits in different localities, and secured other prizes the beasts finally got it into their heads that the neigh- borhood was dangerous, and therefore drew further away. There was an old banana grove about two miles from the village toad now and then the women and boys wotild go up and bring down a number of bunches. They had always brought them on their backs or slung on a pole, hut one day I made a, pad for one of the oxen and brought six largo bunches (10101 on his book to show whet could be done. After this ell the fruit W00 brought clown that way, and I generally went with the party. We had reached the grove one morning about 0 o'clock, and hacl already begun to load the ex, when A WILD BULL ArrI1ARE0 011 open space a few rods off, and issued a challenge to cote ox to fight him. Now and then some of the cattle go astray and adopt a wild life, and in such cases they are very fierce and dangerous. That this bull mune to (Moak us there could be oo doubt, and the women and children ran Etway at onee with 01109 of alarm. There waS only one Inau be- sides myself, and, as we had no weapons, his suggestion that we elimb a tree was aeted on. The Mal pawed, and bellowed, and tore up the earth, all the time coming ct, little nearer, and otre or:Was too frightened to even run away. He stood and trembled, and RP. pealed to us, aad liml determined to do. maul and. try to drive the bull away, when help came from an unexpected quarter. The open space 111 which the bull stood was about 1111 acre in extent, and sur. rounded on throe sides by. thorny thickets, Paths led through these thicketeat intervals and all of a sudden We caught sight of a nude rhinoceros debotichingfrom one of thee° paths into the open. He had heard the racket, and wanted to take a hend in the row. lie paused at moment to settff the air and got the lay of the ground, and then charged the bull. The latter stood broad- side maned did not eee him, but as the rhin- oceros made his charge his heavy tread be- trayed his presence, and the bull wheeled to nteet hint. They were now head on and in shoe line, anclwe held our breath as they closed. Tho bull might as well homestead for a locomotive. The rhinoceros had his jaw elm to the ground, and 08 they came together he flung. up his head mid the bull wont latekward a, heap, his head almost torn off by thesingle blow. As he lay there, bleeding and kicking, the Wash gored him again and again, and loft him only when life wee extinct. We expected him to serve our ox the same way, but he event away without coming nearer, Moral Impressions n Oonamo-i Life, In the T.7nion Signal a practleal writee speaks of the influence of surreandings on the young people, in such terms as the fol- lowing The child does not, as a general thing hear the same anxiety expressed with regard to tho truth of an idea as to the stylishness of an outfit, nor does it hettr the wonders of scientific discovery spoken of as enthusias- tically tts are the wonders of a display of millinery. In the common conversation it is likely to hear eager discussions over fash- ion plates; a great deal of gossip and of un- friendly criticism. It will see far greater leniency show to a neglect of the elolden Rule than to a neglect of the observances of society, far greater leniency shown to gossipy defamation of character than to the wearing of a dress or gloves different from what moiety prescribes for the occasion. Will observe that the thoughts of the family aro centered chiefly, perhaps wholly, upon their own interests. regard to out. ward distinctions the child will see that persons pieced by social position above its own family, are, on 000021215 of that posi- tion, held in respect ; that their example is copied ; their notice desired and courted and boasted of ; their opinions quoted. This would be particulerly noticettble in ease of relatives who had attained to such pgsition, while reletives correspoudingly inferior negation would be regarded with indiffer- ence. If its own family is 10 genteel air- munstanees, the child learns to look down mien " working people," and to consider labor as in Po measure disgraceful. Beginning at the top of the social settle and proceeding downward we see that a child is likely to learn, in the family, that appearing is more then being, that money - worth is more than character -worth, that wealth and social position aro tho objects chiefly to be striven for, Enid that success in life means StIC1000 in gaining these, The emphasis is put in the wrong place, in a great many wroeg places, as if in reading an important paragraph the small words were emphaeized—tho ofs, and ands, the thee, end tos. What, then, can wo expect other than that the child's mature life will be based on these unvvorthy ideas of values which are causing blight and rnin, and which aro imbrenthed, as we may say, from the home atmosphere. Thie home atmOsphere is what, the young and forming charaater feeds upon mill growe from. Every express sion of opinion, every chance reniark upon people, every subject talked about, every motive appealed to? refinement or its op. posito as expressed speech, and manner, every one of these as well as each word, look end tone, does (ta work on chareater. A Wigo Prinbesst Few princesses in the royal and somi-roya hooting of Europe ere so sensible as the Princess Maria Ann of Portugal, who is about to marry an untitled doctor of modi. eine, reply to an intimate friend who asked hor recently how she could marry a roan of stieh loy:' rank when 80 many princes ly suitors wore at her disposal, she said : "I prefer to marry a, man without's, name, nth, or than a name without, a man.'" SEPT. 10, 1890, .:-i,,z,,,au!,,r..aicao.s;,ra.rac,zs.o,z=papwaz.zutn3uoza,ns,cqoistaua,Fa,o,,u,,t,=s..mw4.rk A Oode of Morals, OANADA AND JAMAIOA. New Jones loot left id:new-wed bride to ketm 111A 10011, order, nal 11101 away 111 the 1 in rru et ifills, above the 011'Ylr111"!'11,:t \ 11111. 1110/1100.0011 1 but ere be 1 1 is w11,11.!1!1'1','• et the yea,. Ilia 0,1"1:4 he 11111e. 01 111001111, 101 1001. bad meste him very a:age, ae mature made her fair. 80 could and Apollo linked, pm, lienograph, the pair. at. dawn, nereee the Burnam he flashed her eoutisel wise ; Ai e'en, the dying sunset bore her intehandet Meanies. Ile warned her 'f.tainst sednetIve youths sear - let Mad and gold. A.1111101 11,1101114 tile 1/10111111911 0140440 paternal of the Bat kola. hi.: gravest warnings for thereby' the ditty bangle That snowy -hatred hotherlo, Lieutenant:Goner. "rwa:(I'lletnilf:1. Hangs, with aside and stair, that tIttupned on the WILY, \lien they beheld a heliograph tempestuously at play. They thought of border risings, and of stations sneked and burnt, So stopped to take the message down, and this is what they learnt "Dash dot dot, dot. dot daub, dash dot dot," twice. Tho (funeral swore "Was ever general ofileer athlrossed as 'dear' " 'Iklybic(1%(-)er',1 faith 'My!:luek,' Undzooks 3 `)Iy darling popsy woo "SPI'111110°11111.71 frELL'iallt 11041714' W°I'tlY• Wh° 021 1.1.141 rhe net Its.' Ilille•d0•CIUDII W110 1122110, Dal gilded stair ware still. As, (tomb with peineup mirth, they booked that message from the hill For, clear as snintucr'slight'ning flare, the Mts. band's warn] lig ran - "Don't dance or Ilan wlill General most. immoral man.' At dawn, 1102'0.8 the Hermon he flashed her eounsel wise— But howsoever love bo blind, the world at largo Some Interesting details of thd General's private With dm 0 nal ory dot and dash Ile hollographed ryos. his wife The artless eide.de.enure Wei mute, the shining statr W1,14) '4111, And red and even rudder grew the tieneral's shaven gill. Ana his is what ho said nt last Ibis feelings mat ter not)... "I think we've tapped a orl va1 e lino. Ill1Threeea about there ! Trot 1. All honer unto Bangs, for ne'er did Jones: there- at 1 er know, By word or net 0111e101, who read otr that hello! But the tale is en the frontier, and from Michel to Mooltnn 'Plow know the worthy 51000(111 a. "that mo$1: immoral man." —11VDYAI113 Wanted Things Brought to a °Max. Have you been reading the serial! The Scoot of the Sierras, that is running in my paper '1 Yee, sun very 11111011 intended in it, Who is the author I am the author You aro, eh? I want to tell you right now that unless the hard-hearted ad- venturess comes to grief the brave seont resenos and marries the captive maiden pretty soon, etop my paper. Since Our Souls Crossed, Sines our sonle crossed, sweet soul, my soul lamb dwelt In the eternal Now. No Might.have. been, No Was, no Will be, but the calm ser- ene It is—Life is—Light is—Lnve is—Truth ! I felt it the first moment at thy knee I knelt And when I arose and raised mine eyes— 'tem seen 1— God'e kingdom in this beauteous land stet.. rein, Not in one chosen spot, one narrow belt, But outspread o'er the universal face Of this grand earth of ours, that is not sed. That is not sinful, is not womprodoomed; But by the fire of love updrawn, consum- ed, Into Truth's sun, upleapeth end is glad, It is—Life is—Light is—Love is—Truth is—and even Now dwell we in the kingdom of His heaven. Ladies of Rai!. Not content with appointing the Queen, his grandmother, to the colonelcy of a crack draeoon regiment, and inducting her to have a portrait painted of herself arrayed in the light blue tunic and gold -embroidered shoul- der straps of the oorias, Emperor William has now issued a decree °rail% that all the female employes of the postal service shall in future wear a, uniform eomposed of dark blue tunic with yellow -cloth facings, collars and cuffs and adoened by a suitable number of silver-plated buttons. As yellow is 1111 exceedingly trying color to the complexion, the various postouistresses and clerks are re- ported to be on the verge of a mutiny, which would certainly paralyze the Imperial Mail Service in More senses than one, Like his brother monarch of Dahomey, whom: body. guard is entirely composed of amazons, die young sovereign of Germany seems to lac beet on endowing Venus with the attributea dears andnotonlyhisvenevablegrambnoth- er, but also his mother, his sisters ancl yeah ous other of his female relatives have been appointed to colonelcies and captaincies in his army, and appear at reviews dressed in the embroidered and laced twain of their respective regiments. How to Boil an Bgg, " Isn't it strange," said a short, foreign. looking man the other day to some com- panions while lunehing together at one of the restaurants, " 11 Mt not; one cook in fifty, nor housekeeper either, knows how to boil an egg And yob most; people think they know this simple rnatter. They will tell you to chop it into boillug water ancllet it remain three minutes, and to bo sure the water is boiling. kIere is where the mistake is meele. All ogg so prepared is indigestible and harelly tit for Et well person, let alone ono Who is sick to eat. The moment it is plunged into boiling water the white hardens and tough- ens. To boil an egg properly pat it in a ves. sol, cover with cold water place oyer the lire, and the second the waiter begius to boil your ogg is done. The white is as delicate as a. jelly and as easily digested, and nutritious as it should be. Try it." The information is worthyof consideration, sinoethe speaker has ocaupied the place of chief at several of the largest hotels in the country. 'Me 1,1a wires 'Preparing to Retail:kW Asaitt11 (Ito natieferee 1110, — Sept. 1 1 ,--- Adviees fr 011 .1a1.111. idea by 1 he st venter Alpha fallow that, the Jamaica:11e are discus,ting preferential arrangements with Canada if the Me - Kinky ari Irbil heronw., law. The eftessciate/ Hays al tolutiest buye nearly all he food etaire foam 11,, United !Statue maw, lint eilll get; them juet es cheaply and conveniently frann thatutda, rind that the Island eatt effectually retaliate upon the Amerierme if the latter increase the dutiee on Jamaica sugar. The unpreeedented alrouth 11104 pi:evened through portiam of the Island, which proved very destructive to the erops and caueed death to ft, great many cattle. .A. Discomfited Spouse. The citizen.. of Gilbertsville, Montgomery county, have been furnished with quite a eeneation. by the actious of a, married. temple of that place a few days ago. According to the Pottstown Daily ,Arors, the harmony of the family circle was broken by a rupture between man and wife, and the woman in a et of anger geve her liege lord to understand. that she would get even with hint even if she had to poisou hien, and warned him to look out,. Ife, believing she would 0trry out the threat, went to the stores through the village and notified them not to sell her any poison, Sure euough—so the story runs—she was on hand ct, short time and asked for a box of "rough 00 rats," and the merchaut to ac- commodate her, mixed up option, of which flour WILd the main ingredient, which she paid fey, and left the store. Thestorekeep- er In the meantime notified the !minuet of her amions, soul when lua went home for his meal 110 Wati prepared for the next act. The meal was eaten in silence, and upon its completion, he began to complain of paine, and went into the next room and laid down on the lounge and . pretended to be helplessly Hick. The vindictive W01110/1 quickly went. uptgatire nod getting a rope dropped it down through a pipeitole, fasten - ng. one end to Et bedpost, tlien coming down stairs again, mode IA 10031, 0110(4 it around the neek of the apparently Melt man, she then hurried upstairs and drew the rope tallt anal pulling on the same until she had, as she theught, her hueband :suspended. She then hurried out and informed the neigh- bors that Ile had hung hinieelf. They rush- ed hi, and behold, he 221103 sitting ant the lounge coolly suinking his pipe, while sus. melded from the rope was a small stove. The discomfited woman. ram upstairs to esempe the leughter of her noighbore, while he ex- plained that when she lutal 1.,rono, after hav- ing placed. the rope 011/111111 hiFI neck, he had. gnickly fastened it to the top of the more. Received the Lash, TottONTO, Sept, I I.—On Saturday William J. McLeod, the man who Wag sentenced, & few weeks ago to 23 months M the Central prison and 40 lashes for indecently aesault- ing Ellen Porter, a, child of seven years of ago, teceived his first instalment of twenty lashes, Tho punishment was adminis. :mod in the northern corridor of the prison in the presence of Denney Warclen Logan, Prison Surgeon W. le Itiketla and several members of the press. McLeod exhibited no sign of shrinking until he felt tho cat, when he bogged pitiously for mercy, and till the end of the operation he never ceased. lie cries and pleadings to be let off, His book was of course, inuoh marked, but the skin remained unbroken. The remaining lashes will be given three months before his sentence terminates. Merecod served a six month's term in the central before for being a participant ha the persecutions which drove a young railer on beard the Baltic to drown himself. Gambling on Atlantic Steamers. In the -Varth American Ih.ricio, Captain Kcianedy, late 1;0111111011101' et the White Star steamship Gotham -she contrilautee bie of hie personal experioucee on " (Iamb - ling on Atlantic Steamers." Ceptain Ken- nedy states that during the summer season— from May toNevember—thesesteainers are to resort of scores of professional gainblers who especially infest the smokiugroom, banishing quiet and decency therefrom, and polluting the whole atmosphere with their coarse language and objectionel ways. But it is not only by professional blacklegs that pedaling is carried on on ehipboard, A C0111111011 form of gambling among respectable passeng- ers ia to bet on the mileage the ship makes in 24 hours, and the excitement that steasen- panics it is intense. Upon being cotes tioned by passengers as to why lie permitted a a practice to which he 11118 1111011'01 tO be opposed, the only reply he could give WAS 1110.1 ho bad no authority from the company to interfere, In answer to the question, Why do the companies sanction it ? he gives a, simple answer, All Atlantic steamships are furnished with a supply of wines and liquors. Those who gamble generally drink —some of them hugely. To abolish gambling an board would, therefore, tend to redace the stir:duo very appreciably. Thus, for the sake of increasing their revenues, re- putable commercial companies enaction and encourage a practice which is demorlaising and immoral, the companion of other and worse evils, and all calculated to do infinite harm to society. The Solomon Islands. It ie more than three centuries since the Spaniards diecovered the Solomon Islands, one of the large Pacific groups. The most detailed account of that expedition has nay. et, been published. It is the journal of Gomez Catoita, the chief purser of the fleet, and a translation of the manuscript, WAS recently made for Mr. Woodford npon his third visit to the Solomon Islands. He has just return- ed to Englsted from his latest exnlorations, during which he followed the trick of the Spanish ships through the long chain of is- lands, and was able satisfactorily to identify almose every place visited by the Spaniardd He found the coasts so minutely deseribeg that he had difficulty in identif yin. mu the anchoring places of bpanisla fleet. It is an interesting revelation of the islands aa they Were SOO years ago. Some places. then described as having quite large popu- lation are now found to be without in- habitants, the people having been exter- minated by headeninting expeditions. It is very interesting, also, to find that on islands where 110W (11011101,9 IWO found every tell or fifteen miles, Woodford has been able idon. tify words recorded by the Spaniards at the places where they hoard them. If Coltunbus had kept; his records in a painstaking and methodical manner like old Gomez Catoira, the world would have been spared the long and still unsettled contro- versy as to where he first landed M the Weatern World, If his efficiency en a navi- gator had not greatly exceeded his descrip- tive talents the discovery of the Now World would probably have been left for some later explorer. His statements aro often obscure, parte of his journal cannot, be recoirciled with other portions, and he is very sparing of de- tails and makes statements that are irrecon- eilable with the preeent topography of the Brehatnas. It; seems most likely that Wat- ling Island was the first land he discovered bat the question will probably never hewn., elusively settled, To Those About to Marg. Young men, the first condition of happi- ness in wedlock is, that you should be able. to rule your vvife. If you are not at least twice ea stem% as your intended bride— don't marry her I If she hag a fortune, you ought to be fottr times the better of the two; and if she is beauty, marriage will only bo endurable if you aro tainee her snp- erior. To young weintin I have only ono word to say remain single as long as you can. If at Mvonty-six you meel; with a hneband, from ten to twelve runt your sentort industrious, brave, and sensible why take him, oven if heisnoitherrieh nor talented, and you will be as happy as a,ny reasonable, AvOman may expect to be,—./it, Prourlhom.