The Stanstead journal, 25 mars 1886, jeudi 25 mars 1886

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For lie lives to this day in the wood, Aud never was a red Iudian blither.To the home of Lis great white mother, With never a cent in his pocket To the laud of his sober hued brother, He can travel without having to walk it From Liverpool out to Japan, From the Mikado buck to the Queen, sir, This tourist in blanket and tom, Hereafter will often be seen, rir.But while Lie in travelling about, On journeys either longer ur shorter, He'll a dead head no doubt, To each gusriping newspaper reporter.F.Bacox.\u2014 For the JOURNAL.Multum In Parvo.I saw a man a chopping, A chopping by the door, And observed Lim often stopping To view the wood pile Ver.He was a man of sturdy mein, Of proportion round and fair, But oft did gaze upon the scene With a wieluncholy air, It grieved me much to see him thus, ud I called my child to mie, Go pretty one, to that lazy c\u2014» And ask what aileth hie, The cnild was gone with my wessage calm Aud quick returned to say, Go in sweet one and tell your ma'am, I'm working by the duy.Aud then he stnired à sad, end «mile, And flopped hus axe once more, Then looked agnin-upon his pile, Just.23 tie had done before.Wivow PioNE mu.\u2014 The £etrified Trees of Arizona.To the Editor of the Stanstead JOURNAL: Sir,\u2014TI noticed in your issue of 21st January last, an article touching the discovery of petrified forests in Arizona Territory, and making the statement that many very large trees had been discovered, spaning broad and deep canyons, retaining their natural size and shape, but had taken the nature of stone.The fact that these trees being petrified while lying above the ground, and exposed to the action of the elements, led me to question the truth of the statement, and having a relative living in Arizona my curiosity led me to send the paper to bim, marking the article tocall his gttention to it, thinking perhaps I might get from him either a confirmation or denial of the statements therein made.To my great satisfaction 1 received from him the following letter, fully confirming the statements and giving the geological reasons for the wonderful phenomenon, which may be as interesting to many of your readers as it was to me.The letter wag not intended for publication, but I take the responsibility with your consent.If the writer \u2018\u2018humps his back\u201d and asks redress I give him full liberty to come on to my premises and we will see who the best man is.Here follows the letter.L.Apnorr.Massawippi, March 15.TombstonE, A.T., Feb'y 11th, 1886.DEar CousiN,\u2014I received a copy of the Stanstead JourNAL of January 21st with your name on the corner, which contained an article in reference to the petrified forests of Arizona.I have never seen the forest, but the article is true nevertheless.There are several gpecimens of the solidified wood in the cabinets in this city.I have a friend by the name of Laird, who has à stock ranch in the immediate vicinity of the forest, and I have heard him describe its wonders.He says the logs are as perfect, with the exception that they are rock instead of wood, as they were when insects uttered their sleepy hum amid their luxuriant foliage, or the Mastadon or other prehistoric monsters wandered through the somber forests.Byron, speaking of the occan says : \u201cTime writer no wrinkles on thine aged brow, Such as creation\u2019 dawn beheld, thou rollest now.\u201d Not so with continents; old father \u2018lime channels their wasted faces as he does the faces of our fellow men.\u2014 Arizona, geologically speaking, is getting old.In fact all the region lying between the Rocky and Sierra Nevada mountains, from Salt Lake on the north to a point about 200 miles south of the U.S.line into Mexico, was worn out before the age of an.That accounts for those gigantic trees bridging deep ravines, The ravine has been worn beneath the log since it turned into rock.A great portion of this region 500 to 700 miles wide and nearly 2000 miles long, is a desert of thirsty sands: a treeless waste, with yawning chasms and dismal can- vons.Once on a time this was a verdant plain through which hundreds of streams flowed which made up the Colorado river.At intervals crystal lakes expanded in the valley, the elevated plain and mountain basin.The evaporation from lake and river, added to that from the ocean, produced sbundant mins and rovultei in abundant vegetation and extensive forests, some of which have been turned into stone by some freak of nature, but the ceaseless erosion of running streams for unnumbered thousands of years has sunken the watercourses thousands of feet below and drained every lake; the local supply of moisture is cut off, vegetation has retreated to the higher plains and mountain slopes.The giant cactus stands alone in the valleys with uplifted hands to God, mourning the departure of vegetable life.I do not know of but one stream in Arizona that has got two ends to it; even in this elevated region, 4500 feet above the-sea, we climb for water and dig for wood.Our mountain streams sink at the edge of the plain if they do notsink before they get there.There are thousands of streams in the mountain regions that only run a few miles and sink.Rivers, many of them as large as the Magog, run two or three hundred miles and finally appear to get tired; they run slower and slower and get smaller and smaller and finally they wholly disappear.There is plenty of timber in the mountains for fuel and in some places pine that makes good lumber, but on the broad plains the cattlemen dig thelr wood as you do potatoes in Can- adn, only they use a pick and shovel.There is a kind of brush here we call mesquite, it grows on little mounds from six to ten feet in diameter and elevated about one foot above the general level.This brush is about the size of a whipstock and covered with thorns; cut this brush away and dig open the mound and you will find from one-fourth to one cord of the best fuel you ever used.The roots are packed in close together and four inches to one foot in diameter.I mentioned the draining of the lakes by the wearing down of the Leds of of the streams.I want to describe to you the most dismal and lonely night of my life, that I spent in one of those gorges.I passed through a valley about twenty-five by sixty miles.\u2014 There was timber on the mountain slopes to the east and west, and plenty of water in the mountains on either side but none in the valley, which had once been the bottom of the lake, until I came to the lower end or outlet of the valley where numerous springs broke out and formed n small stream.The valley wag gurroynded by mountains from 1200 to 2000 fect high.and how that stream of water was to get out of there I could not understand ; but I was told to follow the stream and I would find an old Indian trail that would lead me through a canyon about ten miles in length.I thought by riding lively I could get through before dark, go I struck out at a lively pace.The valley had now dwindled down to one mile in width, then to half a mile, then one-fourth of a mile and finally to an average of about 250 fect.The walls of the canyon on each side were perpendicu- lur and kept getting higher and higher, and finally at dark were 1200 feet high.I had passed one place where the walls were only 16 feet apart.\u2014 The stream had now become a nice hrook 10 to twelve feet wide and one foot deep, but full of pools \u2018three or four feet deep and the trail crossed and recrossed every few rods, I was wet to my waist.The little belts of bottom land in the wider places of the canyon were covered with brush and briars.Finally I came to a clump of dry sycamore trees that had been killed by fire and stopped for the night.Talk about darkness; a pile of black cats would be nowhere; 1 could feel the darkness! The moon was nearly full and shone brightly along the northern border of the cliff hundreds of fect above my head, but it did not penetrate the pitchy darkness of my den.The giant cactus standing away up at the top in the moonlight like sentinels of the *\u201cBottomless Pit,\u201d said,\u2014good-by, Carl.The owls from the crevices in the rocks above my head said,\u2014who, who, who, and 1 thought, damnation.- Well, after a long tussel and scratching nearly every match, I struck a light and piled on the sycamore limbs that had falled from the trees, pulled off my clothes and warmed them, unsaddled my horse and spread a blanket over him and let him munch briars by the light of the fire.1 stood by it and spent the night in this way.The Apaches were on the raid\u2014or war path as they call it\u2014at the time, and they frequently passed through thia canyon, but it would save me 75 miles to go that way, and of course I went.\u2018There are times when men will go a long way for safety, but men who are poor and ambitious will take the shortest road.It does not take a great stretdh of imagination when a man is in that condition and nothing clse to do, to look back a few hundred thousand ycars, when the stream passed over the summit of the mountain region, aud drained a lake 25x60 miles, whose mirror face shined ns brightly as the Lenutiful Magog ev- ever did; and herb, shrub and forest trees rejoiced alternately in smiling sunlight and refreshing rain.Well, the night\u2014the longest [ ever experi- enced\u2014finally came to an end I resumed my journey after carefully examining my rifle, as 1 did not know what moment I might need it in my business.| did not intend to give you a lecture on Geology; 1 only in- tunded to write a page or two, and say how are you, and quit; however, 1 shall not charge you anything.I have lost but little during the last vear by Iudians.Fifteen horses driven off and three head of cattle killed and the hind quarters taken by a band of sixteen that passed through the ranch early in January last.Yours truly, C.S.AnsotT.SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANY.[lrepared for the Stanstead Jovrsar.| Locust Invasions.\u2014The records of locust-plagues in the warm countries of the East, in moderu as well as in ancient times, almost surpass belief, Kirby and Spence mention an army of locusts which ravaged the Mahratta country,extending in a column 500 miles long, and so compact that it oh- scured the sun like an eclipse.Near the close of last century, so many perished in the sea on part of the African coast that a bank three ou four feet high, and about fifty miles long, was formed on the shore by their dead bodies, and the stench of them was carried 150 miles by the wind.In another part of Africa carly in the Christian era, one plague of locusts is said to have cause the death of 800,000 persons ; and in 591 nearly as bud a plague occurred in Italy.Again, in 1478, more than 30,000 per- sous perished in Venetian territories from famine caused by locusts.A member of the Royal Horticultural Society of London has observed dahlias collect much dew on their leaves ; the peach, rose and evening primrose, very little : while the quince and mulberry are only very slightly wet, \u2018 The time required for the development of small-pox after exposure to it is very difficult to determine, but is usually supposed to be from twelve to fourteen days.Prof.H.Eichorst, of Zurich, has, howeves, at length succeeded in recording three cases in which the incubption period is clearly known, and finds it to be a few hours more than nine days in each case.An English experimenter finds that contrary to general opinion, a growth of ivy over a house renders the inter- jor entirely free from moisture.The Malays, who frequently find ancient stone axes in the soil, call them *\u2018thunderstones,\u201d believing that they proceed from thunderbolts.Tue KEEN EYE OF SCIENCE.\u2014A striking illustration of the value of the camera to astronomy is furnished by the recent discovery of a new nebula near the star Maia in the Pleiades.Until photographed at the Paris Observatory this nebula had never been seen with the best glasses, although it lias since been detected with the great telescope of the Pulkova Observatory.The Emperor of Brazil now announces his determination to cooperate, at the Rio de Janeiro Observatory, in the general project of photographing the entire heavens, already begun at Paris with such unexpected success.Dust Exrrostons.\u2014The investigations of the Prussian Firedamp Commission have shown that many mine explosions attributed to firedamp, or outbursts of gas, are really due to fine conl-dust, all kinds of dust appearing to be capable of exploding violently when ignited.The \u2018experiments relative to this inflammability of coal- dust were devised as nearly as possible in accordance with the conditions prevailing in practice, and more than two hundred tests were made, explosions occurring in every case when an clec- tric spark was produced in a dust- cloud.Maj.-Geu.E.F.Burton has de- gerihed certain large, yellow hornets of India which dispose themselves in regular circles upon their nest, with their heads to the centre.They thus appear like the spekes of a yellow wheel, and a nest of them is sometimes mistaken for a sunflower.Dr.I'.Andries finds that the danger of a house being struck by lightning has increased three to five fold in Germany within the last fifty years and supposes this to be due to the impurities from the ever-increasing num- her of chimneys.Birds, according to Mons, Desplates, evolve three times as much heat as oxygen and emitting thrice as much carbonic acid.PLANTS OF THE ZONES.\u2014In a recent lecture in London, Mr.J.G.Baker estimated the total number of characteristically tropical planta as from 40,000 to 50,000, The plants of the north temporate zone embrace about wammals, absorbing thrice as much 30,000 species.The Arctic sono bas | less than 1,000 species, while the higher mountain regions possibly furnish 2,000 imore\u2014a total of 3000 species of what gardeners call alpines, that is, plants specially adapted to a cold, damp climate with a short summer.Mr.Baker estimated that 46,- QU specios of plants are represented in the possessions of Great Britain.Tursper LIGHTNING AND Raix.\u2014 Meteorologists have found that there can be no thunder and lightning without rain.When thunder is heard beneath a clear sky, the reports must either come from distant clouds or be the result of some other cause than a discharge of electricity.Harvest or heat lightning is produced by a distant storm.\u2018Thunder seldom accompanies heat lightning, the sound reaching only about twelve miles, while lightning is often seen, by reflection upon nearer clouds, at a much greater distance.Tuicksess or Crovps.\u2014Capt.1.Toynbee, of the London Meteorological Society has arrived at the conclusion that clouds of less than 2000 feet in thickness are seldom accompanied by rain; and if they are it is very gentle, congisting of minute drops.With a thickness of between 2,000 and 4,000 feet the size of the drops is moderate.With increasing thickness comes increasing size of the drops, and at the same time their temperature becomes lower, until, when the thickness is greater than 6,000 feet, hail is produced.England has a new association in the Junior Engineering and Scientific Society, to which no person over twenty-six years old is admitted.Ed ad - THE ELDER\u2019S SERMON.\u201cI really wish, Deacon that you would tell me what your candid opinion of our minister is.\u201d Deacon Brown looked meditatively at the speaker, a small, wiry looking man, whose features were almost as sharp as the sharp black eyes fixed so intently upon him.«I don\u2019t know, Brother Quimby, as a candid opinion of our minister would do him any good.\u201d +I dare say not,\u201d responded Mr.Quimby, darkly; but then it would do me a great deal of good to hear it.\u201d +I don\u2019t know as to that either.\u201d \u2018There's na cue in the church whose opinion I think more of,\u201d continued Mr.Quimby.Not that I approve of giving it to every one.But you needn't be afraid of saying just what vou think to me, Deacon, for it won't go any further and it might serve to clear up some doubts that trouble me.\u201d +What doubts?\u201d Well, about some various things.But you haven't told me me what your opinion is, Deacon.\u201d 1 Lave only one opinion of Elder Wakeman, and that is that he is a man who tries to do his duty in all the relations of life.\u201d This was evidently something that Mr.Quimby had neither expected nor desired to hear, and he stared blankly at the speaker.But quickly recovering himself, he said: \u2019 \u2018Ha\u2019 1 think I understand you, Deacon.What you say is very well put indeed.1 have thought that he might have been a leetle more willing to take advice ; but there is no question in my mind but what he tries to do his duty, as you say.But is he sound ?\u201d \u201cPerhaps not.ail sound.\u201d The metry twinkle in the good Deacon's eves found no reflection in the solemu visage opposite him.It\u2019s no laughing matter, Deacon,\u201d responded Mr.Quimby with a rebuking shiake of his head, I am surprised that you shoukl.speak on so serious a subject with such unseeming levity.1 referred to heing sound in doctrines.1 have been a good deal exercised in my mind in regard to this ever since I heard his sepmon on \u2018Justification,\u2019 which is no justification at all, as I un- destand it, and as good as old Dr.Seaver used to lay it down.Dear old man! I wonder what he would say if he could come back and hear the newfangled idens that are taught from the pulpit where he preached such good, old fashioned doctrines nigh on to twenty years.\u201d \u201cIf he is where 1 think he is he doesn't want to come back.I only hope that some things he used to preach about are clearer to him now than he ever succeeded in making them to me.\u201d «There was no merit in believing where everything has been made clear.There are mysteries of faith, Deacon, that nobody has any right to try to une derstand.Now, Elder Wakefield is forever preaching about what we ought to do, as though such poor weak creatures as we can do anything toward affecting our ealvation.As for me, I am free to own that I don't con- aider anything I have done, or am dus ing of the least account whatever.\u201d SA man ought to know Letter than Some ministers are anyone else the quality of his own works, Brother Quimby, so I won't dispute you on that score.So far as I am concerned 1 feel tha the Lord has quite enough to do in effecting the work you allude to if I help him all | can.\u201d **Well, Deacon, I wish I could have my wind cleared up in regard to Elder Wakeman.What did you think of his sermon last Sabbath morning?\u201d **T'here is one thing I might say about it, if I thought it a prudent thing to du.We can\u2019t be too careful speaking, especially if it's anything that\u2019s likely to affect the character and usefulness of a man like Elder Wake- man.\u201d \u201cVery true, Deacon.But you needn't be afraid of my telling; I'm not one of the leaky sort.I knew, as well as I wanted to, that a man of vour eense couldn\u2019t approve of such doctrine as that.\u201d \u2018Oh, I've nothing to say against the sermon ; It was a very good dis- course\u2014you won't often find a better.But the fact is, every word it contain.ed\u2014TI really don\u2019t know; as 1 ought to mention it though ; if it should get about it might make trouble.\u201d \u201cI'll never lisp & word of it to any- living soul,\u201d was the eager response.**Well\u201d\u2014-here the Deacon lowered his voice to a very impressive whisper \u2014I1 have a book at home which haa every word of it in.\u201d Here the train for which Deacon Browu was waiting came rushing up to the depot.\u2018Is it possible?\u201d ejaculated Mr.Quimby, with uplifted eyes and hands.\u2018But you haven't told me\u2014\u201d Deacon Brown was already up the steps, smiling and waving his adieux from the platform of the rear car, which rapidly disappeared around a curve in the road, He was absent nearly a week.When he returned he found not only the church but the whole village in a state of excitement and commotion, He had not been home more than an hour when Elder Wakeman called on him, and in the course of the day he was waited upon by two deacons and several church members, to say nothing of being interviewed by various of his acquaintances and neighbors, all of whom were anxious to ascertain if there was any truth in the rumor of the grave charge made against his pastor.Deacon Brown, though evidently somewhat startled at first by a result so little anticipated, took all this with his usual calmness and serenity.He was very reticent on the subjact, as- serling that he had said nothing that he was not willing to prove when the proper time came to do so.His interview with Elder Wakeman was a private one, but it was noticeable at its close that the countenance of the latter had a serene, almost smiling aspect.But as the Elder took no measures to prevent the meeting of investigation that had been called, no particular importance was attached to this.He didn\u2019t seem disposed to talk much about it, merely saying that he thought the Deacon ought to have an opportunity to prove or explain what he had every reason to believe he had said about him.The meeting in question was held at the vestry, which was filled to its utmost capacity before the two chiefly interested.Elder Wakeman and Deacon Brown, entered, and who appeared the least excited ones present.Mr.Quimby was there, full of importance, and with an exultation of look and manner only thinly veiled by the gravity which averepread his countenance, He was standing hy the stove, the center of an interested and curious circle, when the two entered, but he avoided meeting the eye of either.At the motion of Elder Wakeman, one of the deacons called the meeting to order, briefly explained its object, the serious nature of the imputation under which their pastor rested, and appealing to Deacon Brown to put a stop to the talk it had occasioned by either denying or proving the assertion.Rising to his feet, Deacon Brown looked around upon the excited and curious faces that were directed toward hims*Behold, brethren, how much mischief the tongue can do! 1 said a few words to one of you, under a pledge of sccrecy.I think it was under a pledge of secrecy, Brother Quimby ?\u201d \u201cI considered it to be my duty to tell what you told me,\u201d said the individual addressed, turning red.\u2018You are to be commended for having performed your duty so thoroughly,\u201d continued the deacon; \u2018\u2018a very painful duty, as it is easy to sce! I understand you said that I told you Elder Wakeman stole his sermon from a book in my possession; are you sure that [ used the word \u2018stole,\u2019 Brother Quimby 7 \u201cYou said that you had & book that had every word of itin! Where's the difference, l'd like to know ?\u201d was Mr.| Quisatiy'# prompt und triumphens 1 joinder.\u2018There might be none at all, and again, there might be a great deal,\u201d responded the Deacon.+I did use the language ascribed to me by Mr.Quinaby,\u201d continued Deacon Brown, addressing the rest of the assemblage ; \u2018moved thereto by his evident desire that I should say some- taing to our pastor's discredit, and without a thought that it would lead to this trouble and excitement.I declare, furthermore, that I have seen a book containing every word of his sermon in Elder Wakermau's own library.[have taken the liberty of sending for it, and will offer it as evidence as to the truth of my statement.\u201d Taking a ponderous volume from the hands of his son, who had just entered, Deacon Brown laid it on the table before the presiding officer, who, carefully adjusting his spectacles, opened it.Giving one glance at its outspread pages, he raised his eyes to the serene and kindly face opposite.\u2018Why this is a\u2014a dictionary !\u201d \u2018Very true,\u201d responded Deacon Brown.\u2018But you'll find every word of Elder Wakeman\u2019s sermon in it\u2014if you look long enough.\u201d *\u20181 must confess, however,\u201d added the deacon, as soon as the general laughter and astonishment had subsided a little, glancing smilingly across the table at Elder Wakeman, \u2018\u2018that there are not many that can string them together so as to form such an interesting and instructive discourse.\u201d Here the Elder and Deacon shook hands, which was the signal for a general hand-shaking, congratulations and good feeling.No one was dissatisfied, with the exception of Mr.Quimby, who, mortified and confounded at the unexpected turn affairs had taken, had slunk from the room.\u2014e\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 Why He Disappeared.Some time ago, in a little town in western Texas, says a newspaper correspondent, I accidentally ran against Jim Dutton.There was no mistaking the man.Time had dealt gently with him, and he looked prosperous, I slapped him on the back with a hearty «*Hellow, Jim Dutton !\u201d Jim turned and fell all to pieces, so to speak.He recognized me and shook hands.After a long and pleasant convereation, Jim said : \u201cColonel, I reckon you would like to know why my wife and I left Blue Rock?\u201d .\u201cWell, you may explain if you feel like it,\u201d I replied.Later in my room at the hotel before a blazing fire and with a good cigar to stimulate him, Dutton unbosomed himself to me.\u201cColonel,\u201d said he, \u2018\u2018it makes me blush now to think what a greenhorn, what a miserable ignoramus I was at the beginning of the war.\u201d «Oh, no,\u201d I suggested deprecatingly.\u201cBut I was,\u201d continued Jim.\u201cI verily believe I was the biggest fool in Georgia, and yet I thought I was the smartest man in the State.You see, being Postmaster had puffed me up so that I felt as big as the Governor himself.Well, after the Confederacy organized I went ahead under my old Federal commission, attending to the postal business of the Confederate States.One night my wife, who was a great reader, hinted to me that may be I had laid myself liable for high treason.At first I laughed at the ides, and then I rummaged through some old histories and found that in every civilized country where there was a rebellion and a Government officer sided with the rebels he was held guilty of treason.Now, it struck me that our secession was in facta rebellion, and if we were whipped, as I feared we would be, I would be in a bad box.[told my wife about it, and she remiuded me that I hada copy of Blackstone, aud advised me to read up on the punishmeut of treason.\u201d : Dutton paused a moment, and then said : \u201cYou see I was 80 badly scared that I was afraid to consult anybody, and besides there was no lawyer at Blue Rock.I had heard a heap about Blackstone and supposed everything in it was the law of the land.So that night I got the book down and my wifc and I looked through it.1 give you my word that what we read made our hair stand on end.Why, sir, we learned from that infernal book that 1 was liable to be convicted of treason.drawn to the place of execution ou & hurdle.hanged, divided into four quarters, besides forfeiting my property and having my blood corrupted.my wife burst into a flood of tears and threw her arms around my neck.I blubbered a little, too.\u201cJust to think,\u201d eaid my wife, \u2018that my Jimmie must be cut into four quarters like beef, and be hanged, and all sorts of horrid things.\u201d \u2018Its durned bad,\u201d I said, \u201cand then I sde my blood is tu He corrupt- ei.\u201d \u2018How can that hurt you?\u201d asked my wife, \u2018after you are dead?\u201d \u201cDunno,\u201d I said, \u2018but I don\u2019t like the idea.\u201d \u201cWell, the long and short of it was, we decided to skip.I made my arrangements about the property as vou know, and we slid out one Saturday night.We never stopped till we got way out here.It was on the frontier then, and bless your soul, the war never bothered us.We never saw a soldier.\u201d \u201cBut,\u201d said I, \u201cdidn\u2019t you find out very soon that your fears without foundation #\u201d\u2019 \u201cNo, sir; it was years and years before 1 felt safe.In fact it was some time after the war ended.I had begun to accumulate property.My ranch was turning out well, and I had leisure to read books and newspapers.You bet I looked up that treason business, and found what a monumental fool I made of myself.\u201d \u201cI leaned back in my chair and laughed heartily.Oh, you may laugh,\u201d said Dutton \u201c\u2018hut my folly and ignorance were the making of me.\u201d \u201cYou would have done well if you had remained in Georgia,\u201d I replied.\u201cNo, 1 wouldu\u2019t.I'd have stuck to Blue Rock, and perhaps been Postmaster there vet on a salary of 875 a vear.Now I have a ranch worth $150,000.1 have knocked about in the world.I go every year to St.Louis and New Orleans, and I am beginning to enjoy life.Come home with me and see.I live ouly twenty miles from here.\u201d I had to decline the invitation, as I was going to leave the next day.\u201cYou can tell the boys, if you like,\u201d said Jim at parting.*\u2018Some of those Bine Rock fellows are as green yet as I used to he, and I don\u2019t care what they inay think about it.And, Colonel, tell that me aud the old woman are getting along just splendid, and that my two sons and two daughters are the finest lads and lasses in Texas.\u201d As] rode off I turned when I came to the first hill top, and a half mile below in the village street I could see the ex-Postmaster of Blue Rock waving his sombrero after me.\u2014Atlanta Ga.Constitution.The Lime-Kiln Club.When the meeting had been duly opened, the Secretary announced the death of Brother Gilmartin Cox, of Mississippi.Samuel Shin moved that a resolution of condolence be forwarded to his wife.Sunset Jackson moved that Paradise Hall be closed for the space of thirty days.Pickles Smith moved that some member be selected to deliver an eulogy on the dead brother's character.\u201cWhy all dis \"citement ober de death of a member?\u2019 asked Brudder Gardner, as he looked up and down the aisles.\u2018\u2018We knowed de dead brud- der as a poet an\u2019 a leckturer.We can\u2019t tell whether his wife am grieved or rejoiced.We doan\u2019 know whether he was strickly honest or a great rascal.He may hev had a tender heart, an\u2019 he may hev been a brute in his ways.He may hev bin sober an\u2019 lawabidin\u2019 an\u2019 he may hev been a hard drinker an\u2019 a law-breaker.*\u2018Befo\u2019 deliberin\u2019 an culogy on a dead man we ought to be posted as to what he was in life.\u2018\u2018Moas\u2019 grave-stuns am silent liars.*\u201cMoas\u2019 eulogies contaia four falsehoods to one troof.\u2018*Moas\u2019 of de tears shed fur de dead outside of our fam\u2019lies am worked up by a fo\u2019ce-puinp.\u201cIf à man am honest an\u2019 upright de fack needn\u2019t be placed on his grave- stun to make people remember it.\u201cIf a man has had charity\u2014if he has bin forgiven'\u2014if he has airned de reverence and respect of men an\u2019 women, you Kin leave Lis grave unmarked an\u2019 it will be huuted out an\u2019 remembered.\u201cDe usual emblem of sorrow will be tied to de doah-knob for de space of ten days, but beyand dat pint it will not be prudent to venture.\u201d\u2014De- troût Free Press.\u2014_\u2014 eee TRAVELING.\u2014**They tell me you've traveled, Mr.Crimsonbeak,\u201d said Miss Fussanfeather, during a lull in the couversation the other night.\u2018Yes, I've traveled considerable.\u2014 1 used to travel for a dry-goods house.[ wish I was traveling now.\u201d \u201c1 wish you were,\u201d innocently rejoined the young lady, noticing tat both hands of the clock were pointing upward.The town of Glenelg, Md., is remarkable for the fact that it's name spells the same backward or forward.That's what's the matter with Hannah.à tt A Brooklyn woman is keeping in .: book » list of things she ought to purchase, but cannot\u2019 afford to wear.She ualls the book Jer ought-to-buyr ography.+ 9 gE Bw en ! 20 œ en : Eh ai She Stanstead Journal.THURSDAY MARCH 25, Is86.Foreign dispatches intimate that the reletions between France and Germany are somewhat strained.The German government have been a good deal annoyed by the tune of the French press, in which the government and people of France are called upon to provoke a quarrel with Germany *\u2018for revenge\u201d and to re-capturv Alsace-Loraine.It is not pretended that there is any new cause upou which France could found an appeal to arms, but the ease with which German armies swept through France and took Paris in the Franco-German war, has rankled deeply in the hearts of the French people ever since.Emperor William, Von Moltke and Bismarck are still alive, and while they do not seek a quarrel, are not likely to decline the gage of battle if offered.\u2014 be a The debate on the Riel case was continued on Monday, when Mr.Thompson, Minister of Justice, made his maiden speech in the House.It was a careful and dispassionate review of the whole case, clear in reas.soning, logical in argument and incisive in the full grasp of the subject.He brought to his aid a dispassionate legal method, which was a surprise as well as a pleasure to the listeners.\u2014 In point of clearness and brevity.it was a charming relief to the tedious \u2018stump speeches\u2019 which have charae- terized the debate.If his example should be followed, it will do much to restore to Parliament its proper fune- tion of a deliberative assembly.He was listened to by a full house throughout, a high compliment.Sir John Macdonald is laid up with sciatica and lumbagu.induced by a severe cold.The Waterloo Adrertiser has been waging war upon the Council of Publie Instruction\u2014Protestant.for their manner of duing business, or.rather want of business faculty, except to draw their salaries.The Richmond Guardian also agrees in the main with | the complaints of the .ldcertiser, but thinks the latter uses unnecessarily strong language.The Guardian adds **We shrewdly suspect that Hon.Mr.Lyuch\u2019s retirement from the Council, preceded as it was by his repeated and almost unbroken absences from 1 #ure, and said to Douglass -she will | blow up sure,\u201d and then stepped into | auvther rouis to work with men named Pike, Tinker, Amsden and Newland, piling slabs, and aluost immediately the explosion took place.A man pawed Austin stepped into the other eud of the will when Le saw the cue tire north end of the building demolished, the air being tilled with timbers | pieces of the hoiler, steam und fire, he escaping unhurt.Douglass was standing at the end of the boiler which was forced out of the shell, and flew | taking Douglass with it twenty-four rods, dropping the dead body, fearfully mangled in a snow drift.The end of the boiler was two rods away from him.Amsden was found eight ; rods from the mill, dead.Tinker was Joux HB.ALveN, New York.LIBRARY MAGAZINE.aunounces that with the next issue radical changes will take place.It will thereafter be pubilishrd weekly instead of monthly.Without increase in price it will give an increased amount of valuable literature, and will be possible.The form of the page will be made somewhat smaller so that the numbers and the bound volumes, particularly, will be more convenient.À fact that is probably blown into à pile of sawdust, and \u2018 without precedent in the Listors of pe- probably instantly killed.Pike lived Fiodical literature is stated by the pub- till the next morning.Little was se- | lisher, viz: that it is necessary fre- verely hurt but will probably recover.| quently to reprint large editions of the Cate was badly hurt but may possibly back volumes, running as far back as recover.Noone else was seriously 1779.This is certainly a very extra hurt.Cate is said to be alone respon- ordinary certificate of the high char- sible for this terrible loss of life, and ACter of the Magazine.À most im- had ordered the boiler to be used after .Portant addition to the attractions of it was condemned the Magazine in its new form will be -\u2014\u2014 a literary review and news depart- NEW PUBLICATIONS.ment, which will supply information concerning all that is new and of interest in the world of literature.freed from the vast amount of trivial matter and mere publishers\u2019 uotices which commonly make up a large portion of the contents of literary journals :\u2014in a word, this department is meant to be conducted distinctly in ihe interest of the readers of books, instead of in the interests of the publishers of books Harver's MAGAZINE for April is as novel and fresh as the spring-time.Three new and important serial stories are begun, One of these, Their Pilgrimage.\u201d which opens the number, is a story of American life and character As seen at our surnmer resorts, written by Charles Dudley Warner.and brilliantly illustrated by Charles S.Rein- hart.*Springhaven\u201d is the title of a new novel by R.D.Blackmore.It is a picture of rural English life in the days of Adiniral Nelson, aml the stir- | parture in literary journalism.À new form will be sent free to any ap- ring events of those days Me CEE plicant.Joux B.Arves, 393 Pearl tain, in Blackmore's narrative, lo.St.New York City.P.O.Box 1227.develop interesting characters and to .reawaken in the author's countrymen the old English spirit manifested at Trafalgar.One of Mr.Parsons\u2019 drawings.**The fair Vale of Springhaven.\u201d ; is the frontispiece to the number.There is also the beginning of a new i Bess.novel by Mrs, Craik.the author of, Un Monday, there was a sharp pas- John Halifax.Gentlemen.\u201d It is Sage at arms between Mr.Blake and entitled King Arthur.Not a Love the new Minister of Justice.Mr.Parliamentary Notes, The Riel debate had during the past week to the exclusion of everything else except routine husi- precedence Au Cole the Government for permitting the } .i execution of Riel) should have pre- i cedence over all other business until Miss Woolson\u2019s novel, \u2014Eust gels,\u201d is continued.and will be cluded in the May number.the meetings of the Committee.is as- ceribable to his sympathy with the now | almost general feeling among the Protestant community that the usefui- ! ness of that body has gone.The fact, is nobody cares what the committee | does or leaves undone.and the sooner we return to the system prevailing in Mr.Chauveau's time, of having a responsible minister of Education the better.The present system is simply an expensive farce.\u201d \u2014 Under the head of \u2018A Nice Crew.\u201d the Richmond Guardian.in noticing the Drummond and Arthabaska nomination on Wednesday.says that Mr.Mercier.leader of the Quebec Liberals, made a speech which should go down to posterity in the annals of nineteenth century literature.He gave it to be understood that the province of Quebec belongs exclusive- Iy to the French Canadians, that they propose to govern it in their own way, that the Federal Government may do what they please with the suisse, **but keep your hands off when French Canadian interests and our nationality is concerned.\u201d This was the tone of his speech.Both the candidates signed a document in the hands of the hon.Mr.Beaubien, \u2018a crank of an unwriokled pattern on the Riel question.\u201d Every reference to the \u201csuisse,\u201d the hangmau's party.\u201d | *\u2018aliens,\u201d and s0 on, were loudly applauded, and the apparent object to | be served by the election and the incidents of the contest.is to make cape ital against the Dominion Government | on the one hand, and on the other to | divide the two races on the Riel question, so as to secure a strong enough ! vote in the Province of Quebec at the | general election to place the Liberals | in power in Quebec.; The Guardian, which has always | had a kind word for Messrs.Watts | and Whyte, the latter member for Megautic, says that both were present and apparently in sympathy with Mercier, and snubs them accordingly.and advises the English speaking voters of that constituency not to vote in the present contest.And yet a split on race lines would be a bad affair for the Province of Quebec.A terrible accident occurred at the steam mill of a Mr.Wilcox.near North Wolcott, Vt., on the morning of the 16th inst.\u2018The mill had heen leased to Wm.Cate of Wolcott.The boiler was old and unsafe at any pressure above 80 lbs.To increase the power the safety valve had been weighted to carry 115 lbs.Cgge had | ordered the weighting of the valve and the then engineer quit work on that account in January, a young man from Stowe named Douglass taking his place.Douglass himself had become frightened and had the hoiler inspected by 8 man who knew gome- thing about boilers.This man told Douglass not to fire up again, but the ! next morning he did, and attended to | { and of the best quailty.disposed of.i the motion, and as it could not be put Po ; .without the two days notice.required F.Sattertliwaite contribates au article entitled +Plebeian and Aristo- tic Pigeons,\u201d beautifully illustrated by William Hamilton Gibson.: \"Going down to the Sea in Ships.\u201d | Private bills to the | by Phil Robinson, isan interesting ; were then formally read a second time retrospect of navigation, efectively and referred to the committee.Sev- illustrated by A.R.Waud.eral questions were asked the Govern- Mary E.Vandyne contributes a ment and answered.and then the brief article entitled Neapolitan notices of motions were called.On i .Sketches,\u201d accompanied by some very i the reading of the first one, and as picturesque Illustrations.| the question was about to be put.Sir There isa strong.short storv by Hector rose with an amendment that the late Helen Hunt Jackson, entitled the House do the 35th \u201cLittle Bel's Supplement.\u201d order of the day.Mr.Landry's reso- E.I.Roe continues his instructive | lutions.Objections was raised hy series \u2018The Home Acre :* Mr.Frank Mr.Blake, but his objection was over- Wilkeson contributes a valuable and, Filed by the Speaker.He then made suggestive article concerning *-Cattle- | complaint of an answer made by My.raising on the Plains\u201d by no means a Thompson to a question earlier in the rose-colored view of the subject: and afternoon, made the usual complaint there is 2 contribution from the post.that the papers were not all brought master of one of our large cities, giv- 40wn and he could not make up his ing his experience of the operation of Mind.Mr.Thompson replied that À } the report of the medical Commission number of ten now pass to Civil Service Reform.Mr.George William Curtis.in the Was first recived in ciplier.and after- Easy Chair, discusses the vexed ques- ward a written report.He promptly tion of court dress for our ministers | denied aspersions made by Mr.Blake abroad : the stage: some trials of that the report had been *couked\u201d or authors : and Mr.Gilbert's recent let- changed, and said upon his responsi- ter to the Harpers.| hility as a Minister of the Crown, that Mr.W.D.Howells, in the Editor's D0 Papers had been suppressed or any Sty.notices Couut Tolstoï's recent ;, focument handed back to the medical work My Religion.\u201d and some recent Wen because they conflicted with the examples of Russsian and American written report presented to Parliament, fiction, illustrating the principle of - The reports brought down were identi- \u2018cal, he said, with those telegraphed the Government and represented to the house exactly what the commission had stated to the Government._ «Then Messrs.Mills and Casey weakly A UNIQUE CYCLOPEDIA.endeavoral to lessen the discomfiture An extremely valuable Cyclopedia, j of theirleader., Mr.Mitchell announced and of very great popular interest is | that he would vote against the Gov.Aldew's Cyelupedia of Universal Liter- | erument because he thought the busi- ature, Volume H.of which is just Hess of private members ought not to published.Novel in plan, and novel be postponed for the Riel debate and in form.at once beautiful and conven- | Mr.Laurier had the nerve to object lent.and at a price low even compar- to the proceeding with the Landry ed with Mr.Alden's always resolution until more papers were prices, this volume gives in its nearly brought down.This latter specch 500 pages biographical sketches of caused no little merriment.Mr.Lau- one hundred and eleven prominent rier\u2019s precipitate haste to denounce the literary truth.\u201d The Drawer, conducted hy Charles Dudley Warner.is generous in amount low least a specimen Part for examination.A NEW DEPARTURE IN THE! The April issue of the Library Magazine, containing its Usual variety of current literature of the highvst ord-r, | great gain in freshness and timeliness | \u2014which will certainly be a new des specimen copy of the Magazine in its | Story.\u201d Its interest is based upon Thompson.It came about in this maternal instinct, and it will reach: Say.Before the orders of the day every mother's heart in America and, ere called.Sir H.Langevin moved | England.that the Landry resolution (censuring Mr.Blake objected to\u2018 by the rules, it had to be witlelrawn.y lion, deaouneing tue ox ution proclaiming that be, too, would has shouldered a musket under Riel on the Saskatchewan.It isa pity that he rand a few others of the samme kidney | had not becn there: they would have bécu the tirst to \u2018take to the wonets On the 16th, interest in th - Riel de- \u2018 hate lagged somewhat today.the {house and galleries not being se | crowded when Mr.Rykert restined Mr.Be-hard followed in denournciation of the exceution of Riel.An interesting turn given the debate ata date hour this ; evening by Mr.Laurier taking the floor.Curiosity to hear him was keen because of his position as leader of the Rouges, because of bis inflammatory speeches ju Quebec province during the recess and because he is a most attractive speaker: and so the empty seats were quickly filled and the members became all ears and eyes.(The argument was the best yet pres sented against the execution, delivered with considerable force and fervor, and couched in those smooth flowing and well rounded periods of which he is so consummate a master.After careful preparation all the arts of the orator were brought into play with | ; ; ; the discussion.Wits suddenly sides of the House enjoying the mau- ner of the speech, even if the logic tion of the incidents of the rebellion, partisan and partial, and the ground of argument often inconsistent.One would recognize with difficulty in the parliamentarian the agitator thundered denounciations upon Government, and especially upon the French-Canadian ministers at the memorable Sunday meeting on the Champ de Mars, who called for the closing up of the French-Canadian people into who should have emblazoned on it venge,\u201d who accused Orange fanaticism of the death of Riel, and who proclaimed that he, too, would have been a rebel had he lived ou the banks of {the Saskatchewan.To-night loyalty to the British crown was the key note sounded by Mr.Laurier.He gloried ; that he was a British subject, depre- i attempt to stir up in any portion of : Canada enmities of race or creed and (repudiated the charge that in the movement against the Government for alowing the sentence of the court up- of the shield power.Belind the articles \"Mad Mr.Laurier sought to [ himself.but sought vainly.for until {men like him had inaugurated a crusade agains the Governmeut\u2014based [by their own confession.ves, em- { bodied in their very resolutions\u2014upon \u201cthe fact that Riel had French blood in bis veins, the Mail had not sounded a note of warning of the folly aud iu- evitable conclusion of the course upon which the agitators bad entered.Was i there no attempt to organize a race \u2018party by Mr.Laurier and his follow- cers?Let the implorings fur peace, harmony and good will of Father Dowd, of Archbishp Tache.let the \u201cresignations of Hon.Mr.Joly and t Mr.Watts, let the incidents in the ; city of Montreal in the week following ! November 16th, let the of \"every man in the province of Quebec attest.But if Mr.Laurier has tried {to hark back, if he has sought when | face to face with the representatives of the people of Canada and with a (large English Liberalparty about him , to smooth over and explain away the \u201crevolutionary sentiments, the hot, in- \u201ctemperate language.the threats uttered from many a platform in Quebec \"during November, he has not hesita- j ted to Justify the rebellion.memory On the 17th, there was another live- Iv time in the House, showing that tliere is a deep under current of feel- , in the debate now going on.The debate brought out the fact that Mr, Blake.the leader of the Opposition, [has wade up his mind how he will vote Jon the Landry resolution, and also {that he has \u2018changed his base\u201d since his London speech last fall, when he ; declared *that he would uot build up à political platform on the Regina scaffold,\u201d and cement party ties with {the blood of the rebel leaders.Now {he has decided to do that very thing.The question arises, will the English \u201cspeaking Liberals of the { follow in that direction.After routine.| there was an attempt to postpone the .t dramatic skill and no little effect.both | was lume and ambling, the presenta.\u2019 the one rank and under one banner.which | | HS t cated with ill-concealed hypoerisy the on the rebel leader to be carried out, national feelings were the inspiring |, Dominion\u2019 authors.with characteristic selections from their writings.The following authors, among others, appear in this volume: Audubon, St.Augustine.I\u2019 Auvergne, Balzac, Bancroft, Banim, Barbauld, Beaumont.Beecher (several of the name).Bentham, Bion, Bjôrn- son, Black (William).Blackstone.Blessington (Countess of}.and Boccaccio: thus representing nearly all ages and all nations even in this vol.ume\u2014 American.English, French, German, Italian, Greek.Latin.Sweed- ish, Portugese.Scotch.Dutch.Irish, Norwegian.and Danish authors from the period of 280 8, \u20ac.to A.D.I8RE.The literary and mechanical workmanship are both of a high order.The work is really one that ought to find a place in every hote library : it offers a fund pf entertaimuent and instruction that will prove well-nigh inexhaustible.The price.only 60 cents a volume, makes its poscession possible even to nearly every school-boy.The work is published also in parts of 160 some repairs and preparations while _ pages each (exchangeable at any time getting np sienm.Arthur Little for bound volumes), which are seat went into the engine room and noticed post-paid for 15 cents each, Every Government on the Champ de Mars aud his tour through Quebec in fiery | denounciation of the Government he.ported by Mr.Blake, but they were ing well remembered.He had, in overruled by the Speaker.Hon.Thos.fact, performed the acrobatic feat of i White, Minister of the Tuterior, then Then the | addressed the House for the first time debate made by Mr.Edgar and sup- sitting down on himself.order to call on the members was giv.his session, giving the most effective | utterances oi the Government side of the debate thus far, clearly showing (that all the papers asked for in the en and the first division of the session took place and the motion of Sir H.Langevin was carried by 105 to 61.Mr.Curran, then addressed the Ril ease had heen brought down, aud House, and made a capital speech that the ery of the Leader of the Op- against the Riel resolution, bringing | position that information out some new points and exposing the | inconsistency of those men who are demanding papers from the Government so that they can make up their minds, who immediatoly following the execution of Riel at the Champ de Mars meetings and at numerous other meetings, denounced the execution of Riel and got up a \u201cnational party\u201d Mr.Coursol fois denied them, was simply an attempt to cover himself in vascilating course où this question.The trenchant attack of the Minister of the Interior | brought Mr.Blake to his feet, and he acknowledged that the papers before the House were amply suiticient for | him to make up his mind to support.the Landry motion, The his debate was continued by tion as opposed to the Riel execution.| divided on Sir H.Langevin's amend.Mr.Wood followed giving an ad.ment, which was carried 116 to 75.mirable presentation of the legal as- The debate was continued by Sir ; Pect of the case, aud then Mr.Len- A.P.Caron, Minister of Militia.Re- © Eyes fresi perdez.was heing + | Western Dairy choice new.nad jhy Que ate ae sad Laas if the luffair was to +6 eated\u2014kaowi fvopotnsibilits us à meuber of the a wWoubl tax the Ie characterized the attempt of Ric the Indian population to of the most times that a nan could he guiley of.His letter lat he wanted to commence a war of Atermination at once, but would give Jit up if a certain sum of Woley wae the nature of the He, for one could not see how uy man could Riel ww he dither a martyr or a hero, as had been aimed by his friends.Un the 1sth, Sir A.P.Caron com- bleted his speech.Having carefully BULL cours.o induce \u201cvolt as one h.ious to Major Crozier statièe pitied hin, showed nati.believe prepared himself with documentary «vidence, his remarks were replete with information upon the subject.He scored Mr.Amyot especially, who went to the Northwest as a Colonel of ; of that gentleman.and stripping him of the last shred of political reputation.He also plainly stated the facts brought out in the Regina trial.corroborated by letters of bishops and Riel.mg vindication of the Goverument.Landry of Kent, against it.On the 19th, the debate was resum- ced by Mr.Mackintosh, who made a f forcible presentation of the case against the resolution.Mr.Blake then comiunenced à speech which he completed after recess, speaking for rsx hours, which was so tedious that is said to have nearly emptivd the - \u201cHouse.He gave three reasons for supporting the Landry resolution, viz: although a responsible being.because of the recommendation to mercy, and {because the offence was a political tone.The elaboration of these points | tool up most of the time, but he lai bored an hour to ! 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order The tirst column of figures is the regular.subscription price of the publication vane ed.The secoud columu ie the club price of the publication uswed aud the JounsalL tor one year., J .Rock (sland, Dec.1, 1888, South Barnoton, March 20, 1684.4 Rook [sland, Fob» 9, 1886.The Ceutury, 9400 44 60 St, Nichylus, su 5 bb Harper's Mugasioe, 400 4585 , Vuzar, 4 00 4 85 te Weekly, 40 43 ce Youny People, Z WW 278 Scientific Americau, saw 37% Cottage Heurth, 1 80 1% Rural New Yorker, 2360 240 American Agriculturist, 1 50 810 N.Ÿ.Weekly Tribune, 2 CO 3 10 Toronto We ty Mail, 100 1% Nontemporary Review, 4 50 6 10 Nineteenth Centmiy, 480 $19 Fortnighlty Review, 460 63 Brit.ah Quarterly, 300 37% Edinburg Review, 306 42% varterly Review, Res 870 eetminster Review, R00 370 Blackwood\u2019s Magagine, 300 370 The Independent, 200 300 Grip, 10 IN .2 =, ne au im tet pre JEST TO EARGIEST.By E.P.ROL, AUTHOR OP BARRIERS BURNED AWAY,\u201d \u2018\u201c OPENINQ A CHESTNUT BURR,\u201d ETC.* I was in search of yon,\u201d interrupted De Forrest, as they stood talking a moment near the stairs in the hall «We did uot know but that the sylph you escorted away, had made a sup, ov on Hemsteud, with you as a relish.Have you seen eunoagh of thie bear | \u201cNo, Tinleed,\u201d said Lottie; \u201cIam just beginning to enjoy myself\u201d =~ From openly starng at and criticising the party from Mra.Marchmont's, the young people began to grow aggressive, and from class prejudices, were inclined to be hostile.There wire whispered consultations, and finally, ono weil known habitue of the store and tavern thought he could cover himsclf with glory by a trick, and at the same timo secure a kiss from Lottie, the prettivst.The conspiracy was soon formed.A kissing game in ono of the upper rooms was suspended for a moment, aud one of the tall girls accormpanied him down as if they were a delegation, and on the principle that in designs against a woman a female confederate is always helpful in disarming feur and suspicion.He approached Lottie with the best manners be could assume, and said: * We are having some es upstairs.Perhaps you wouid like to joinus.We'd like to bave you.\u201d * Do come,\" added the tall girl,\u201c they are real nice.\u201d \u201cCertainly,\u201d said Lottie, who was now ready for another adventure.* Come ; let us all go.\u201d * The others noedn\u2019t come unless they want to,\u201d said the young wan, for he didn't relish the lawyer's presence, whom he knew by reputation, nor the searching look of the tallstranger whom he did not know.\u201cMr.Hemstead, you and Julian come,\u201d said Lottie, and as they ascended the stairs she studied this new specimen of Scrub Oaks, who was a loafer of the village as De Forrest was an idler of the town.They both belonged to the some genus, though the latter would have resented suchastate- ment as the foulest insult.The manners and the smart, loud finery of hier new acquaintance, amused Lottie very much.When they reached the zoom, they found it full of whispering, giggling young people.Te tall girl, 8 instructed, said, « Now let us form à ring with our hands on this rope.\u201d This having been done, she said, « Now Mr.Shabb, you must go inside first ;\u201d and then with & nudge to Lottie, \u201cHe'll try to hit our hands with lis, and if he hits your hands you will have to go insido the ring.\u201d hat else he would do she left to bo disclosed by action.Then he of the flaming necktie and bulging cheek took his place with a twinkling eye that meant mischief.De Forrest and Hemstead declined to play, but the latter slipped forward and stood near Lottie.He was not sure, but dimly remembered seeing this game before.when it was not played so innocently as the tall girl had described.The young rustic made extravagant but purposely vain efforts to strike the hands of others, and Lottic watched the scene with laughing curiosity.Suddenly he wheeled around and struck her hands sharply; and to her horrified rise, it seemed but a second later that his repulsive face was almost against her own.But something came between, and starting back, she saw the baffled youth imprint a fervent kiss on the back of Hernstead's hand.There was a loud laugh at him from those who expected to laugh with him.He swaggered up to Hemstead, aud said threateuing!y : \u201c What do you mean?\u201d * What do you mean 9\" asked Lottie, confronting him wit blazing eyes.\u201cIt is weil this gentleman interposed.If you had succeeded in your insult I should have Lad you punished in a way that you should not soon forget.\u201d \u201cIts only part of tbo game,\" muttered he, abashed by Ler manner.* Part of the game 2 * Yes,\u201d giggled the tall girl, faintly; it's a kissing game.\" \u201c Did you krow it was such ?asked Lottie, indignantly, of De Forrest and Hemstead.* Indeed I did not,\u201d said De Forrest, \u201cand if you say so.I'll give this fellow a flogging, any way.\u201d ** Come right out and do it now,\u201d was the pert response.\u201c All I can say is, Miss Marsden,\u201d explained Hemstead, * that I suspected something wrong and took means to pre- ventit.How tliese nice-looking girls can allow this fellow to kiss them is more than I can understand.\u201d * No lady would,\u201d said Lottie, as she swept disdainfully out; and under the withering influence of these remarks, kissing games languished the rest oftho evening; only young children and a few of the coarse natured ones participating.But soon the absurdity of the whole scene overcome Lottic, aud she laughed till the tears stood in her eyes.As they were slowly descending the stairs a faded little woman said : \u201cI'ma glad to seo yoa enjoying yourself, Miss Marchmont.It was very kind of you and your party to come so far.\u201d \u201cI'm not Miss Marchmont,\" said Lottie, \u201c though I carne with her.\u201d * Well, as the minister's wife I would like her and all her party to know of our grateful appreciation.\u201d \u201cYou thank us bevoud our deserts.But are you the min:-ter's wife?Iam glad to make your nequaintance; and she held out her haud which Mrs.Dlitam seemed glad to take.At this moment there came the c1y of an infant from one of the upper rooms.* Oh, there goes tux baby,\u201d said Mr-.Dlimm, \u201cI thought I lieard it before,\u201d snd she was about to hasten on.** May I not go with you und ace the ba\u2019 2\u201d said Lottie.Wat mother ever refused such a re.¢ they've eat up about ove.vl ro is downstairs, \u2018cept me.ut.eu three tables yet.1t's stichi is bn: \u2018i.and the sleighing's so cool tha: .+ more have come than we ex, i don't know how wich money (oy brought, but they haiwt brought provisions enough, \u201cWhat shall wo do?\u201d Dlimm nervously.\u201c If it takes the last penuy we havo in the world,\u201d said hiss wife with grave dignity, \u201c no one shall leave our house hungry.You must step over to tho store, Mr.Dlimm, and buy enough to satisfy every onc.\u201d \u201c1 feel just as you do, my dear,\u201d he said, with the air of one who sces duty clearly, though it is far from being agrec- able.\u201cJust give mo our poor little hoard from your burean drawer and I'll go at once.\u201d Lottie witnessed the scene with mingled amusement and indignation, asked dur, and then with her face aglow with a sudden purpose, sped away also.\u2018 CHAPTER X.HUMAN NATURE.The dismal tidings from the lower ions, that the larder had been strip- and that scarcely cven a pie remained, soou became an open secret, about which every one was whispering and commenting.The suppcriess wore à defrauded injured air.sé many who had not left so impurtant The eycs° a duty to the uucertaintics of the future, but, ike Auntie Lammer, had availed theruselves of the first opportunity, now twinkled shrewdly and cumplaceutly.| They had the comfortable couscivusness of taking care of themselves.But the | greater number were honestly indignant i and ashamed that nuch a thing should have happened.This fecling of worti- fication was increased wacu the committee reported but w small sum of money hauded in as yet.The majority were provoked at others, and a few at thewselves, for having brought so little, As the situation became clearer, all began to act characteristically, some preparing to slink away and escape a dis- aurecable state of things, and others putting their heads together iu the wish | to remedy matters.Some giggled, and others looked solemn.Some tried to appear resigned, au if it were a dispen- | sation of Providence, and others snarled about \u201cthem ean Joneses and Rhamms.\u201d | Lottie hastily summonued her party together, and told them of the dire emergency, as Mrs.Gubling had stated i \u201cNow,\u201d said she, \u201cif you gentlemen have got any wit worth the name, you : must hit on some way of helping the parson out of his scrape, for I have taken a great interest in him, or rather his wife.She is the queerest little woman I ever saw.I shouldn't wonder if she were an angel in disguise.\u201d ** As you ure undisguised,\u201d whispered De Forrest.+ Oh be still, Julian.That compliment is as delicate as Auutie Lammer's appetite.But sce, some of these mean \u2018locusts of Egypt,\u2019 after eating their minister out of house aud home, are pre- aring to go.We must get a collection Petore a soul leaves the house.Julian, you lock the back door, and Mr.Hers- stead, you stand by the front duor ; and now, Mr.Harcourt, you are a lawyer, and know Low to talk sharply to people : you give these cormorants to understand what we expect them to do, before they leave.\u201d .Hemstead obeyed with alacrity ; for the effort to help the overburdened pastor of Scrub Oaks meet the rigours of winter seemed about to end in disastrous failure.He had noticed, with satisfiuction, that many present shared his regret, and wished to do something, but through lack of leadership the gathering was about to break up, each one blaming some one else, and all sueretly mortified at the result.Harcourt thought a mement, and then stepping to a position where he could be seen throughopen doors and heard from the upper story, clapped his hands loudly to secure silence, and draw attention to himself, \u201c Do you know where your pastor has gone ?\u201d he asked.** Helis out now buying provisions with his own money to feed a crowd who came here under the fulse pretence to give a donation, but in truth, seemingly to cat him out of house ant home.\u201d Flushesof shameandanger flashed into nearly every face at these stinging words, but Harcourt continued remorselessly : * You kuow who I an, and [ thought © knew sowmcthing about you.I had heard that the people back in the country were large-handed, large.heart.ed.aud liberal, but we 1nust be mistaken.I think this the quintessence of mean.bess, and if vou break up to-night without a big collection, I will publish you throughout the land.I want you to understand that your minister has nothing to do with what I say.[speak only on my own responsibility.\u201d * Capita! whispered Lottie.\u201cThat was red-hot shot, aud they deserved it.If that don't drain their pockets, nothing will.\u201d jut she was not a little surprised and disgusted, when a stalwart young farmer stopped out, and with a face iuflamed with anger, said in arch emphasis : \u201cI was sorry and ashamed to have this affair end as it promised to, and was going to come down handsomely tuyself, ant try to get some otliers to, but since that sprig of the law has tried to buliv and whip us into doing something, I won't give oue cent.I want you to understand, Town Harcourt, that whatever may be true of the people back in the country, vou, nor no other mau, can drive us with a horsewhip.\u201d The voung man's words seemed to meet with general approval, and thero were many confirmatory nods and re- spouses.They were eager to find some oie to blame.and upon whom they could vent Uieir vexation : and thisarisiocratie voung lawyer, whose words had cut like Lunives, was like a spark in powder.Many could go awny and half persuade themselves that if it had not been for hint they might have done something handsome, und even the best-disposed present were indigneut, It would scem that thie party wo.ld break np, before the minister returned, ia a geveral tu.tilde quest?Ina moment Lottie wes in the one small room in which, on this portentous occasion, the three younger children were huddled, the otliers being old enough to take part in what, to them, was the greatest excitement of their lives, thus far, Lottie looked curiously around with tho quick appreciative cye'by which ladies seem to gather accurately at a glance the effect of a custome and the styleand character of an apartment and its occupants.But sho politely, and from a certain innate interest, gave such attention to the baby as to win the mother\u2019s heart, It was but an ordinary baby, although the fattest and sturdiest member of a rather pinched household, but Lottie wonderingly saw that to the faded mother it was a cherub just from heaven.Lottie could not understand it.A perfumed baby, in lace and muslin, might be a nice pet if the nurse were always within call, but the sole care of this chubby.checked Molcch, that would sacrifico its mother as unconsciously and complacently as the plant absorbs moisture, scemed almost as prosaic and dreadful as being devoured alive, * Does no ono help you to take care of that child 2*° asked she, \u201cWell, my husband and the elder children help a little.\u201d * Haven't you a nurse for all of these children 27 * No, indeed.It\u2019s as much as we can do to clothe and feed them,\u201d \u201cDon't you keep any servants ot all 2\u201d \u201cYes, we have a girl in the kitchen, but she is almost as much bother as she is worth.\u201d \u201c How do yon get along 9\" \u201c1 hardly know\u2014somewhas os tho birds do out of doors.\u201d \u201c* Are vou happy 2\" \u201cI've hardly time to think.I think I'am though: happy as most people.Some days bright, some davs cloudy, and now and then à storm.That's the way it is with all, I imagine.We all have our crosses, vou know, but by.and.by all will come right.\u201d ; #1 should bo cross cnough with all your crosses,\u201d * They might wake you patient.The crossest people I know are those who shun all crosses.\u201d \u201cNow 1 think of it, I'm inclined to believe that's true,\u201d said Lottie reflect.:vely.Then she whispered, as she walked slowly to the mother's side, \u201c Baby is roing to sleep, isn't it 7\" With different expressions they both peered into tho full-moon face, two features of which, the eyes, were becoming obliterated by the white droup- ing lids.Lecttic looked as if she wero oxamining a zoological specimen, Mrs.Diimm gnzed with a smile of dcop content and tenderness, \u2018The undisturbed rest of the child upon her boson was a type of her own mind at that moment.\u201d She was nature's ghiid, God's child, and the babe was \u201cCrs.To the true and simvle chiares =f n:.t .re.who, witiiout thought of se!f or th public eye, are quietly doing their duty is their own little niches, these moments ofj»uro with strange tirils ot joy ure cou-tautly coming.If th.worn nother could look down upon the child, and her plain, pale face grow Leaut.fui with rpiritual light, how must the God who mapires all love, who is the source of teuderucss, have regarded her ?\u2018The expression of this woman's face puzzled Lottie beyond weasure.It was #0 incongruous, irreconcilable, with the bardens, th weary cares, and ceaseless toil and anxiety of her lot.It was so out of Keeping with the noisy throng and confumed hustle that tilled the Louse, and it dimly suggested to the proud belle a condition of mind before undreamt of iu her philosophy.Soe new and curious thoughts stole into her heart as she watched the mother slowly rocking backward and forward, uttering a low crooning lullaby \u2014the gentlest sound that ever falls on morial cars.For nome reason there camo into her soul a sudden loathing of Ler own seltishuess and callousness.Atter the child had been laid in the cradle, she asked, * What did you mean when you said * It will all come right somme day ?\" « Well, [suppose I mcant that God's little children often get sorely perplexed | with their cures aud troubles iu this world, but when we get home and sit down to rest and think it all over, it will then scem right.\u201d * Home ?\"\" * Yes, lome in our Heaveuly Father's house.That's the only real home we have.We only \u2018 stop.\u2019 as the Trish say, Lere and there for a littls while in this world.\u201d * And do you think of heaven as a pleasant home and rest after what sceus to me your very hard life ?\u201d * Certaiuly, how do you think of it 2\u201d \u201cWell, to tell the truth, I have uot thought much about it.\u201d Before Mrs.Dlimm could reply there came anything but a heavenly interruption.1t wus as if Moses and Aaron were within the cool and shadowy tabernacle feasting on spiritual manna, and there came a delegation from the Hebrow camp, clamoring for the * leeks and oujons of Egypt.\u201d \u2018Though the congregation often said, \u201c [t'sa pity Mrs.Dlimm is such a meek and quiet little woman,\u201d and the self- appointed committee of ladies was so large, and the minister himself was downstairs, yet when the first real cuergency of the evening arose, the up- stair members of the committee were heipless, and the best thing Mrs.Gub- ling, the leading spirit downstairs, could do was to * slick up,\u201d as she said, and * go teil the parson\u2019s wife,\u201d But seeing Mr.Dlimm on the way she beckoned hin aside with a portentous nod.He, ior man, heard her tidings with dis.zany.He had fallen into the habit of i.iing all his difficulties to the Lord or lus wife, and in this caso he felt that boi must come to his aid.With Mrs.Gubling he at ounce hast.«il to the nursery, aud entered rather vaptiy.1h Diam raised her finger impres- \u201clv, then poiuted to the cradle.\u201cBut my dear \" began her haus.rather impatiently.= lush,\u201d said the wife in a low tone, whatever's the matter don't wake the +, lor then I can't do anything.\u201d © Mrs.Dlimm,\u201d said Mrs, Gublin;.The young farmer stalked to the front door, aud suid threateningly to Hem.stead : * Opeu that door.\u201d \u201cNo, don't you do it,\u201d whispered Lottio.He threw the door open wide, % Oh, for shame!\u201d one said aloud; \u201cI did not think that of you, Mr.Hem.stead.Without heeding her he confroated the young farmer and asked : \u201c Do you believe in fair play 2\" * Yes, and fair words, too.\u201d * All right, sir.I listened quietly and politely to you.Will vou now listen to me ?I have not spoken yet.\u201d \u201cOh, certainly,\u201d said the young farmer, squaring himscif and folding his arms on his ample chest.\u201cLet every doz have his day.\u201d Hemstead then raised his powerful voice, su that it could he heard all through the louse, and yet he spoke quietly and calmly.\u201cThe gentletan who last addressed you, now in the spirit of fair play offers to listen to me.I ask all present, with the samo spirit of candour and polite: ness, to hear me for a few moments.But the door is open wide, and if there are any who don't believe in fair play and a fuir hearing all around, they ure at liberty to depart at once.\u201d No oue moved, And the young farmer said, with the steruness of his square face greatly relaxing : \u201cYou may shut the door, sir.Wo wi'l listen when spoken to in that style.But we don't want to be driven like cattle.\u201d Then yielding farther to the influence of Hemstead's courtesy, he stepped forward and shut the door himself, \u201cThank you, sir,\u201d said Iemstead, heartily, and then continued : \u201cI am a stranger among you, and am licre to-night very unexpectedly.My home ix in the West, and like yourselves, I Lelong to that class who, when they give, give not from their abundance, bug out of their poverty.There has been a mistake here to-night.I think I understand you better than my friend, Mr, Harcourt.From the pleasantness of the evening more are present than you looked for.There are many young people here whom I suspect have come from a distance, unexpectedly, for the sake of a ride and a frolic, and were not as well prepared as if their households had known of it before.Long drives and the cold night have caused keen appetites.When the result became known a few moments ago, I sawthat many felt that it was too bad, and that something ought to be done, and no one was moro decided in the expression of this fecling than the gentleman who last spoke.All that was needed then, and all that is needed now, is it to consider the matter a moment, and then act unitediy.Iask you as Christian men and women, as humane, kind-hearted people, to dismiss from your minds all considerations, save one\u2014your pastor's need.I understand that he has six little children.A long cold winter is before him and his.Ho is dependent upon you for the comforts of life.In return, he is serving the deepest and most sacred needs of your natures, and in his poverty is leading you to a faith that will enrich you for ever.It is not charity that is asked, A church is a family, and you are only providing for your own.How could any of you be comfortable this winter if you knew your minister was pinched and Jacking?The Bible says that the labourer is worthy of his hire.You have only to follow tlic impulse of your consciences, your own better natures, end Lhave no fears.A few moments ago your pastor had a painful surprise.You van have a very agreeable ouc awaiting Lim by the time he returns, You can rake his heart glad for months to come, and so make your own glad.Though I am a stranger, as [ said, and a poor man, yet I am willing to give double what I proposed at first, and if some one will take up a collection, will hand in ten dollars.\u201d * Give me your hand on that,\u201d said the young farmer heartily, * and there's ten dollars more to keep it company.When a man talks like that, I am with Lim, shoulder to shoulder.Will somo one bring me the dominie\u2019s hat ?\"\" One was soon forthcoming.\u201cAnd now,\u201d said tho young man, sicpping up to Lottie, \u2018you scem to tike a sight of interest in this matter, wiss.I think you can look five dollars ont of most of the young chaps here, I'll ;0 around with you, aud ese that each one comes down ae be or sheought, di anybody ain't got what they'd like to give, I'l end it to \u2018em, and collect it t ++,\" Le added, raisins his:croug hearty voire, Thus through Hemetead's words and action, the aspect of the skis chiged, andl where a desolating storm bad thicatened there came a refreshing shower, What he had said commended itself to so many that the mean sud crotchety found iv politic to fall in with the prevailing spirit.Amid approving nods, whispered consultations, and the hauling out of all Burts of (queer receptacles of mouey, the rracefnl city belle and the blunt, broad.shonldered farmer» aried on an exe podition that, tothe Ix Little Dlimtas, would be ore img or an\u2019 than oue for the discovery of tie North Pole, «No coppers now i\u201d shouu À tie young an.Lottie, fairly bubbling over with fun end enjoyment of the whole thing, was all graciousness, and with siniles long remumbered by sone of the rustic youth, certainly didbeguiletheminto generosity at which they wonder d ever after.The result was marvellons, and the crown of the old hat was becoming a crown of joy indeed to the impoverished owner, who now had the promise of some royal good times, That fast lilling hat meant nourishing beet occasionally, a few books for the i minister's famishing mind, a new dress or two for the wife, and a warm-ouit fur the childien all around.No one was permiitted to escape, and in justice it could now be said that few wished to, for all began to enjoy the luxury of doing a good and generous deed, When, having been to nearly all, Lottie suid to hier now bearing companion : \u201cGo and get Mrs.Dlitum, and seat her in the large rocker in the parlour.\u201d The poor little woman having witnessed all the earlier scenes from the stairs with strong and varying feelings, had, during the last few moments, seen Lottie pass with such a profusion of greenbacks in her husband's hat.that in a bewildering sense of joy and gratitude she had fled to the little nursery sanctuary, and when found by some of the ladics was crying over the baby in the odd contradictoriness of feminine action.She was hardly given time to wipe her eyes, before she was escorted on the arm of the now gallant farmer, to the chair of state in the parlour, Then Lottio advanced to make & little speech, but could think of nothing but the old school-duy formula; and so the stately introduction ended abruptly but most effectively, as follows : \u201c As a token of our esteem and kindly feeling, and as anexpression of \u2014of\u2014I\u2014 we hereby present you with\u2014with the reward of werit 3 and she emptied the hat to the lady's lap.Tustead of graceful acknowledgment, and a neatly worded speech in reply, Mrs.Dlimm burst into tears, and springing up threw her arms around Lottic's neck and kissed her, while the pro:n.backs were scfttered round their foe like an emerald shower.Indeed, the grateful little woman, in her impale, had stepped forward aud upon tio money, The city belle, to her great surprise and vexation, found that some spring of her own nature had been touched, and that her eyes also were overflowing, As she looked around deprecatingly, and half-ashamed, she saw that there was a prospect of a general shower and thas many of the women were sniffling audibly, and the brusque young farmer stood near, laoking as if he eoulid more eaxily hold a span of runaway horses than he could hold in himself.At this moment Hemstead stepped forward and said : + My frienls, we can learn a lesson from this scene, for it is trne to our best nature, and very suggestive.Your pastor's wife standing there upon your gift that she aay kiss the giver tfor in this instance Miss Marsden but represents you and your feeling and action), is a beautiful proof that we value more and nre more blesseil by the spirit of kiu iness whiclhy prompts the gift, than by the gift itself.See, she puts her foot on the gift, but takes the giver to her heart.The needs of the heart\u2014the soul, are ever greater than those of the body, therefors she acknowledges your kindness first, because with that you have supplied her chief need.She does not undervalue your gift, but values your kindness more, Hereafter, as you supply the temporal need of your pastor, as I believe you ever will, let all be provided with the same honest kindness aud sympathy, Let us also all learn from this lady's action to think of the Divine Giver of all good, before his best carthly gifts.\u201d Mrs, Dlimm had recovered herself sufficiently by this time to turn to the people around her and say, with a geutle dignity that would scarcely have been expected from her : \u2019 * The gentleman has truly interpresed to you my very heart.I do value the kindness more than the money which we needed so sorely.Our Christian work among you would be more full of hope and faith because of this scene, and therefore more successful.\u201d Then, as from a sudden impulse, she turned and spoke to Hemstead with quaint carnestness : \u201cYou area stranger, sir, but I perceive from your noble courtesy and bearing\u2014your power tu appreciate and bring out the best there is in us, that vou belong to the roval family of the Great King, Your Master will reward vou.\u201d > Poor Hemstead, who thus far had forgotten himself in his thought for others, was now suddenly and painfully made conscious of his own existence, and ag once became the most helpless and awkward of mortals, as Le tound all eves turned toward him.Ile was trying to escape from tho room: without stepping on two or three people, to Lottic's iu.finite amusement, though the tears stood in her eyes as she Luighed, when Mrs, Gubling, ignorant of ail that had happened, appeared from the kitchen, and created n diversion in his favour.The good woman looked as if pickles were the only part of the donation supper in which she had indulged, and in a tone of ancient vinegar, said \u201cThem as hasn't caten, had better come and take what they cw git now,\u201d A roar of laughter greeted this rather forbidding invit«tion, But before anyone could reply.Mr.Dlitani, red and breathless from Lis exertions, also entered, and with a faint smile and | | with tlie best courte: v he could master winder the trying civeenstaneces, added * Tain sorry any our friends should Lave been kept waiting for supper, If they will now be so kind as to step down, we will do the best we can for them.\u201d The good 1m was as puzzlelas Mrs, Gubling hud been by a loud.r explosion of mirth.The stony former whispered so nething to Loi, and then he, with an extravie wt dons offered his arm to Mrs, Guiling, Go long whe von she said, giving Lim a push, bat he trox her along with hin, while Lottie browght the parson to wicre his wife stood surrounded by greenbacks like fallen eaves, which in the hry of events had not been posed up, The cool nan stared at his wife with her te riuleves and Mrs Gubling stared at the money, and the people lauched an clapped their hauds as only hearty country people eu Lottie cataht the contagion, and langhed with them till she Was asian of her-clf, while the rest of her party, except He:nstead, langhed at them and the * whole absurd tag\u201d as they styled it, though Har.cori hal a few butter thonglits of his avon, 1 1 i \"du, Mo XM dort CLL wy, ALLS CINE, Guida wan W PANUEACL kiko aso oBALEK D pars Man 10 14e ne se ANA IN Casnbio ae CUFFINS, Ur cu Sh With a ci aa sears Fags Pha dis ped Loere das wa For to bavirecersnowel Hime d wat su ie quace, fen ne found a singe wa Lo seil oll as large supp es, And thie fo make is bases pay, Now if vou que