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T/fK VOICES OF THE DEAD.
The voices of tlio (lend!
Mow striuifroly fa they jiursun wherever us,
On Uxhways, or byways, we art
TliouVh iod; accents
in soft and fi-endo
They always whisper (ribs.
TeH l ode.r than the living'are tho voices ot
the dead.
'i he voices of the dead, appealing,
To onr better selves forsake (he ovi!
Adn o iish ns, and urge us to
way; of and of us
Their thought us ear -
f-o tenderly revesting. to
Tba; often for their sake; alone we cease go
astray.
Mysteriously they quicken, come
Our uietn. rics to from
Whci. (ho pres-nt. wiwi d b guile us r.;
niembriinee of the past.
And underneath the smiles
'the tears begin to thicken.
At) the bright horizon with a cloud Is overcast.
Hone-times they come to woo
Our hearts away from sadness;
tTo 8|* (tk of brighter promises and hopes to be
fulfilled;
And over us Ihoie steals
A sense of pence and gladness, tormenting
And nil the tumult and tho fears us
are stilled.
The voices of the d -ad
K'prndch us, oh, how sadly prodigal t dis¬
J?or tdh-noss nnd folly, mid loo
play; careless of cud
When tho madly
And throwing Wo are ru-thing all our'gulden powmcl opi>ortuiilties
away.
Wo hear them in our dream;;
And (he hearts Ihul are new wholly
•Id bondage to the world, and all the
earth eke give,
Keel a oelesllal (hrill.
As If a rigid a, Umdiiig lowly, and to teach
Bad slooped to give them com fort
them tiow to live.
lint ah! they apeak In vain
Would To those who. dull and reckless daring.
never pause to listen even to what un
angel said,
tbit, HallHlh.d wilii self,
Tho (Jo on their way, tir>bo:*ling of
y,dent of th'-living nnd the voices the
dead.
—Joscitiinc f’oHurvt. in ti. V. Ledger.
1!» SHY’S FAIRY GODMOTHER.
Lillie Bessie befmved in fairies, al¬
though her heart her when mother smileii and “Did shook
she asked: you
ever sec :t fairy?”
At- the lime my story begins Bessy
sat ou Ihc window-sill with a great book
Open on her knee, straining her eyes
to catch the last words of (he most de¬
lightful story sho had ever lead. It
was nil about fairy godmothers, shoes
filled with gold, and oilier wonderful
things le. light he found (led in aueli hooks.
As I ho out. of the sky, and
a sofi juu*|4n mist settled down upon
"the lijll-lpps, she sighed and closed her
boo k, To r flic story was done.
from ■8WtfyVfnlher home, and an she I mother were alone away that
was
evening Tho sound of voices and the
rattling 7he of dishes came from (he kitcli
eu. crickets had begun their
evening dark and song; mysterious. the lanes Bessy wero could growing
im
nurine a fairy by head garden peeping from and every tho
tall flower the gate,
Ajuceii of them nil seemed to bow to
Jier from tho tall white lily ill tho pansy
bed.
Bessy thought if would over fairy bo appeared such
to mortal child, if on a
nigh! as (his. And now, to crown all.
dust at the end of tiie lano appeared a
jjlghl, OFi;it moving would backward lob down, and and forward. then
high, the bushes. up
. among I
And Toftde j,101 B essy ti^ eyiiltj ^enr to no sol puger, vo the
nor iniiiu
mystery. Hi Hie stepped out of tho
window on the porch, and then softly
ovoi 1 he grass, for she was afraid Ann
woo'd hear her unit call her back.
iShe said to hei'.eit “If it should be a
lairy g ow-worui fighting the fniriet to
then (lane no ground, Ann would
frighti-n them away, she. is o big anil
"heavy. ’ the until she tiptoe.
So down went on
Hardly daring io breathe, she pushed the
open the gato, and looked down
lano.
. Ittwsy thought tho light hnd di-np
gpeaieii. in But tho hy-aud-by strange it came aga n,
-inov ng same manner.
(Although she trembled a great deal, sho
■went Gravely on. It was only n short
lane lead ng to the inn n road, and shut
Hi in on one side foot by a large clump of tlu-so of trees.
was at tho of one trees
that the light seemed to ho standing
no tv
At (iraL.Bt’iiy llow crept softly had on, keeping grown!
It in sight, dark it
The tight shone frmn thy bushes V »
{fallen star. When Bossy was within a
few feet ot the light, sho was aston¬
ished to Sop a taco peering out of the
darkness, ils eyes fixed on her with
anything but a pleasant expros.-ion.
The t gb! went out, and Bessy, wish¬
ing 1 to was safe at homo, turned to
scamper back, when a heavy fia id was
laid on her shoulder, and tho 1 ght
Ilaslio ! in her face.
She now saw it was a lantern car¬
ried bv a very small and disagreea¬
ble old woman dressed in black, and
lu-r head covered with a rod handker¬
chief. In one hand she hold tho lan
tern. and under her arm was a crooked
sunk
Now, when Bossy saw godmother, tho stick, she
was sure it was alary for
thy old woman was exactly li so tho do
e'-fiption of the fairy in her new book.
The ugly black stick was her wand. So
eho whispered, timidly:
“Are v on a growled fairy godmother?” old
“A what?” the woman.
“A fairy godmother,” repeated Bessy.
“Oh, ves, 1 >es; to be sure I’m a
fairy. If vou tell any ono lion-e.” you saw mo.
I’ll bring bad luck on your
“Rloaac, please don’t,” sobbed Bos
#y. “ I’ll never, never tell any one.”
“Well, shut up. ihon,” said t ho sairy,
-“and dbn’t make such a noise.”
Bessy was not frightened now, for she
remembered that fairy godmothers wero
always cross, and said ha’e'ul things
lust 1 e'ore they granted three wishes.
i>o she said, softly:
“ Will you plevse give me throe wish
•t, madam?”
“I’ll give you three slaps if you don’t
miry. fet out rgkit off,” grumbled" tho old
Rlease, please," praved Bessv. ‘Til
«o an\ thing you toil me if you will give
*»e three wishes.”
“1 don't believe you. You ain’t got
•y>unk Gh enough.”
** yea, I have," said Bessy. “Try
* Where do vou Live?” asked the
flairy. “.Instdown
the Ians, elose by.”
“You do. do you? 1 didn’t see no
house,” said the fairy, in a startled
voice. and father
“That’s because mother
are out, and there's no fight in the front
room.” replied Bessy alone?” aske 1 tho
“Aro you all
fairy. No,” replied Bessy; “Ann and I
“ homo.” ucy
ere at
•*\Vh </9 tLcra?”
“Mamma’s t \<o servants.”
“Notnow," "Any men at the house?”
answered Bessy. “Moth¬
er took i'eter to drive. They ll bo buck
soon, 1 think.”
'I he old fa ry turned out the light and
*it down on tins ground; thou sfio
nulled Bessy down by her. and put ii*T
hand on the little girls shoulder. “Now
remernbe"," sho "began, “you promise
never to tell nobody.” and I
”1 promise true sure never
will, if you’ll give me three wishes try
night.” Bessy wondered all
But if fairies
smelled soof tobacco.
“ Will you do just what I tell you?”
asked the fairy.
“Yea,” said Bessy, nodding her head
very hard. “I will.”
“ Let's hear your three wishes, then”
growled the fairy. papa’s
“First, l want my shoes and
and mamma’s filled w th gold. Then <
want —’ an invisible cap for myself, and
then ’
“Now stop,” interrupted the old
fairy; “you’ve 1 had four a’ready.”
“No, ' answered Bessy, “that’s only
two. Rapa’s with and mamma's and my
shoes tilled gold is one wish, you
know.”
“ Well, go on.”
“ Lot me see,” pondered Bessy, “I
guess the rest you of may life, give and mu that’s happiness all." for
my
“ All right,” returned the fairy god¬
mother, three “you’ll find them waiting for
you at in the morning, if you do
what. 1 tell you to.”
"I’m ready,” said Bessy.
‘•You just run home, and bring me
the big key of tho frontdoor.”
“But papa said 1 must not touch that.
Besides, lie would miss it, for he always
locks the door himself, and hangs the
key up by tho hat stand.” tho fairy.
“I shan’t keep it, ’ said
“I'll give it right back. Yon see, if I
didn’t know tho size of the key-hole, I
mightn’t through.” send a fairy small enough to
get “Oh I" said Bessy.
“Is tho door lastenod any other
way?” asked said the Bessy; old fairy. big bolt the
“Yes,” “a at.
bottom, but it’s broken. Rapa said lie
must send a man to fix it, but ha
didn’t." Yon fast
"All right. run as as you
can, and don’t let any ono see you,
or the spell will lie broken. Remem¬
ber.”
“I know," replied Bossy; and sho
sprang up and flow down the lane,
through tho gate, and up t he steps. She
could hear Ami and Lucy still talking
anil laughing in the kitchen, but no ono
seemed to be thinking ot her; so she
drew the key out softly, and run back,
thinking how delighted her father and
mother would be in tho morning. Bossy
found tho old fairy waiting in the same
place. Sho snatched tho key, and said; “I’ll
be back in a moment.” and vanished
into the darkness Bessy was almost
wild with oxoitement, but she kept the its
quiet as appeared. she could, and presently
fairy re
Her first words astonished Bossy:
“Have you a d >g?"
“Yes," answered Bessy, “but he’s
tho best dog that over lived. Ho never
bites any hut bad people, and his name
is Watch."
"What do you do with him at
night? "Why, ” lot him around tho
we run
garden to keep away ttiovos."
“You do, do you? You That’s just'give right,"
said the old fairy. “
him this la'ry meat.; it will kee i h m
ltotn barking at the fairy I send, and
scar ng her away.” Fairy," returned
“Yes, Madam
Bessy; “I’ll remember, nnd I'll put my
shoes and papa’s and mamma's all in a
row by the door, and please tell yeui
lairy servant to fill them up to tho brim
with gold. Remember."
“Good-by,” said the old fairy, nnd
when Bossy looked arotin 1 she w.w
A one Fi> Stir scantp.Tod b.v'„, nnd,
meeting Watch by the gate, whispered
in his ear.
" Here is a piece of meat the fairy
sent don't yon. bark wh Now sho be u conies g>x> l to-night.” do^, and
n
Wat li took the meat, ate, and
growled Boss)' over the it. key back softly. Then
pul and exoited, sho
feeling very around lonely door
crept so ily to the kitchen
ior light and companionship. There
stood Lucy kneading bread for break¬
fast, while Ann sat by tho door knitting
a ong. cotton stocking.
Bessy came close up to her nnd stood
still, looking into the and kitchen. Willi
ever thing shilling clean, so cozy
and comfortable, it was <pi to d lightful
after the mysterious lane, and the old
lain who smelled of tobacco.
“Why, you daring,” look said Ann, “I
was Where just have coming b'ou? to Y'ou tor look you.
you ns
scare t as a cat. and ns wild as a witch.
\\ hat’s the matter?"
“Nothing," answered Bossy, What time “I
wish mot tier would come.
is it?”
“ Half-past eight,” said Lucy, look¬
ing at the dock. “She’ll bv; along
soon now. Don't fret, and I’ll give
you a big piece of caku."
Bessy was as fond of cake as other
little girls; *h> sh'* sat down on tho door¬
step to eat the cake, and listened for
the wheels of tho carriage.
down At last they her came, and Bessy flew
for she to meet lonesome parents and with delight,
.olt queer.
Mamma carted Ana to light the big
lamp ou t he round table tlieu sho looked
at her 1 tile girl, sat down, and took her
on her lap. saving:
“ Wei. what have you been doing,
little one? You look tired and cold.
Haw you had your tea?”
How Bessy longed to tell them of the
wonder ul good lu k in store for them!
But slut remembered her promise, and
ouiy answered;
“ Yes, mamma. I ora s eepy.” the
So i* minis took a candle irons
mantel piece, ami led Be—y to nsd. uu
dress,-d her, and lisicued to tier little
prow, and lucked m tho quiiU than
she said:
“I’ll be back for the light after I have
had my supper. Shut your eyes, like a
£ocki As girl, am) £*o mother to sleep. !cit the
^oor.:ts ii T room
f li<1 oft o: the bed ao 1 ir ° l - r '
,
next room, wh ch was her inotlici s to
liuiif for f wo pairs of shoes. Ai jorsome
turn hi ng, she found a pa. • n 8 ■
her mo her s and a largo i ’
her tar her and mother come out of the
diri’ng-room. Then she heard papa
say: “Why, whab’s the with the
matter
key? [ can't turn it.” 8ho heard the
key taken out. and papa say again:
“ What Ls this in the key? It looks like
wax. » I
After a little, sho heard her father
turn the key mid hang it up on tho
hook. Pretty-soon mamma came into
Bessy’s room. Bessy closed her eve. J
and pretended to be asleep. She felt
mamma kiss her, and heard her close
the door.
Mow long she slept she never knew;
but suddenly sho started up wide
awake, to tin I the stars sh n'ng down
on her through the window. Every¬
thing was as still a it could be. Bessy
wondered if the fairies had come yet-.
8he stepped out of tied and across t he
room, and put her hand into the big
Loots. They were empty: so were her
own little shoes and mamma's slippers.
“Well, they haveu’tcome yet,” she
whispered. •She about when her
was to return. at
lention was attracted by a flash of light
in the hall. Beisy peeped out, think¬
ing it might be the fairy; but- v>hat was
her surprise at seeing two large men,
in stocking feet, coming up the lower
stairs on tip’oo. The one beh'nd car¬
ried a lantern, and was making it flash
backward and forward, up and down,
as the o'd fu ry did in the lane.
What could they want 3 she won¬
dered,
The first man carried a sack over his
shoulder, and pointed toward, the elosot
where Bessy knew all the silver-ware lan¬
was kept. Then the man with the
tern began pushing what the looked lock nnd like tho an
enormous nail between
door, stopping every now and then to
listen.
In a few* moments tin; door flew open,
and both went in together. Then Bes
sy saw tiiem take (town the beautiful
silver pitchers, tea-pots, Iraq 8 and forks
and spoons and put them into tho bag.
They the did least it so little softly chink that from there them. was not
even
Tnougli Bessy was a very little girl.
and believed in fairies, she knew these
men hud no right to take papa’s silver.
So slie thought she must tell him. She
ran to the door between their rooms,
and “Rapa! pushed papal” it opeu she a little cried, wav. big
“two
men iv w In the house. They have taken
every! hiug in the silver closet. Take a
stick und drive them away.” pair of
Up pistols, jum]Ktd and papa, made seizing rush a for tho
great with Bessy behind a him.
stairs,
They hnd not reached the first step
when tho two men darted out of tho
room below.
But on seeing dropped papa with tho bag a pistol and in
each hand, they hall ran
toward the open door, and \ vere out
of sight in n moment.
Mamma, awakened by the noise, came
hurrying out to see what was the mat¬
ter, iimffound Bessy crying in thr cor¬
ner, and papa rushing through the
house with a pair of pistols. closely Bessy’s in her
mo her clasped her very
arms.
In a little while papa came hack,
looking very seriotn. The nn-n hnd dis¬
appeared, and Watch lay dead on tho
mat outside of the door.
By the time they had emptied place, tho it bag,
and put. daylight, everything and Bessy in its knew the fairy was
quite been frightened So she
had away.
climbed up in her mother’s lap and be¬
gan sobbing softly. Then, when her
mother coaxod her to tell what ailed
her, she pointed to the slices, and told
her about the old fairy in the lane and
the key. had tell that
Be-sy to store over so
many times that day iljd And for lesvo a long her
time her mamma nyt
Atone in tiie oven ngs; 76 that lle.-sy
Julia never saw K. llihlrcth, the fairy godmother Harper's again.—■ \oung
in
People. .
The Irrepressible London Fair.
Yesterday Ixmdon was visited by the
first real log of tho season; and consid¬
er ng ilint we hu e not yet reached No
venioer. it must be admitted that, from
♦ho fog’s point of v ow, its density was
creditable. Nor lmi the fog lost any
of its dirt, apparent I v; for its old dingy
yellow hue is as visible as over, and lit¬
tle or no change is to be observed in its
appearance. This is very disheartening.
But a short time ago wo were led to be¬
lieve that the fog was about to be, if
not abolished altogether, at least
thoroughly oi < leansed and deprived of
some its most obje tionable features,
fso much, indeed, was -aid and written
respecting int uded operations ag.Vtist
the fog by those who had taken it in
hand, that it was lookial upon by the
public generally as one of those “pre¬
ventable mi sauces ’’ the days numbered, o; whoso
existence are supposed tolerated to with bo patience
ami which are
pending the completion of contemplated
arrangements for their extinction. All
this tine talk about the London fog has
died away. The fog, as though it
wished to make a display of its indi er
eneo to the threats leveled against it,
has opened its autumnal session even
earlier than usual.—Mb James' Gazette.
—James Collins, of South Lawrence,
Mass., is in his ItOth year. Born in
lro’and. he woe left an or li&n at the
age of si \ months, and buried tho last
of his five brothers over sixty bn years farm ago.
After living ninety-five Erin, he eonelu years led a seek
in h s nat ve to
h s fortune in the land of the tree,
making the voyage with litt e disoom
ort. He buried his wi e forty y* ars
a o. and is eared or bv five of his chil¬
dren living in I.awrenoo. He talks,
hears and sees well, never took tnedi
c ue. and never was s ck. saws wood
and walks or exercise, aid has still on
his bead looks of his own hair, of
with h the genuine Irish auburn has
never been silvered by time.
Pyrami d Pro phecies,
Tradition and history agree in assign
ing the building of the (ireal Pvram d
(} j^ e that of the other pyramid* of
Chi eh) to a monarch or a dvna tv, not
m0 ved by any specially unselfish pur
. )OS( ^ on the contrary, ready to sac
r jfl ce i a ,-g e sums 0 f money raised by
gruel t» 5 a£©os ah4 the lives of muil v
tians, for what seemed to later times
most adequate nnd sufficient reasons.
Men could not, however, but admire
the wonderful masse; of masonry thus
ra’sed at the border of the Egyptian
d sort, so ina-sive as to resemble the
works of nature, so stable ihat they re¬
main after thousands of years scarce
touched, b -neath their surface layers,
by the storms of heaven or by the move¬
ments of the ear It, or by the destructive
work of man. Even now it mav be
questioned whether any amount of Tabor
which all the rulers of onr day could
imp’*e s for the work would suffice to
des’roy these without monuments the aid of of gunpowder, Egyptian
tyranny dynamite other methods of sci¬
or
entific destruction. It was never
held, however, even by the most
ignorant Bedouin, that the pyra
nitds con'ainid hidden knowledge of
any sort, still less .that they concealed
prophetic Taylor, intimations. taking tl.e Yet when Mr. of
J. best measures
the Great I’yramid known in his time,
found, or secure I to find, in that edifice,
the solution of the (to many) mystical
problem of given the s uaring tho doctrine, of the shortly circle,
birth was to
to develop into marvelous proportions, Pyramid
that the builders of the Great
concealed within its once goodly casing
profound mathematical and astronomi¬
cal knowledge—nay. aid su h knowledge could as
without Diviuo they never
have acquired. One by one all the
triumphs of science since the time of
Galileo revealed have been found to be anticipated the
and in the structure of
Great Pyramid. equally The science of the next
century lies in this mysterious
structure, conoeak-d now, but to be re¬
vealed there when—well, when it has
been otherwise discovered. I speak with
some knowledge of the subject, pyramid- though
not acquired acquired precisely theirs, as when the I that
alists say
tfiere is not a discovery effected dur ng
tho hist thousand years, or which
can by any possibility be effected during
tiie next thousand years, which may not
be shown by their methods to be em¬
bodied lu the structure of the Great
Pyramid—or Peter’s of any other St. pyramid, Paul’s or
hi Ht at Rome, or in
London. with' Any number you please may
bo found a little patience in any
one of relation theen buildings, be indicated and every by scien¬
tific may a num
b, r. Then, among numbers so found,
many will be repeated in different ways,
und so the apparent evidence from coin¬
cidence will seemingly be strengthened,
though such in double reality weakened, feeble coine-iden because
every or e
shows that pure coincidences can always
either bo recognized random among any numbers taken how¬
at or from any set
ever determined. Thus, among the
various distances, dimens ons, periods,
otc., within the solar system, or rather
among the numbers representing these,
there are multitudes of coincidences
purely accidental, though only the as¬
tronomer, perhaps, may bo able to dis¬
tinguish those which are accidental from
those which are real.— The Gentleman's
Magazine.
Laugh More.
“Why don’t you laugh, mother ?” said
a little three-year-old daughter, ns hei
mother, with rather clouded counte¬
nance, was dressing the little ones. The
earnest tone of the child provoked little heart the
wisliod-for laugh, and the
was happy. mothers, I fear do not laugh
And, housekeeping we
enough. The is so oner¬
ous, the children so often trying to
nerves and temper, the servants most ex¬
asperating, and even John, kind, good
husband as he is. cannot understand all
onr vexations and discouragements, and
so wearied nnd worried, we often feel
that it is too much for the household to
depend on us, in addition to all our cares,
for social sunshine as well. Yet the
household does, and it must. Father
mqy bright and cheery, his laugh ring
out, but it mother’s laugh fails, even the
father’s cheerfulness seems to lose much
of its infection. In the s-ul but forcible
lines of oilC of Joanna Baillie’s dramas—
llor little dul l li:it uffilt tlie trick ot cr.ef.
Ai d sicXtil ami l its i-tiytulug* —
wo may catch a glimpse of the stern re¬
pressed life at Bothwell Manse, where
“the repression of ail emotions, even the
gentlest, seems to hare been the constant
lesson.” I remember well hearing a lady
say: “When a child, I used to wish so
often that mv mtther would look cheer¬
ful. ” do
Then laugh, mother even if von
feel almost too weary to exert the facial
muscles, and you have to make a pitiful
effort, which oomes nigh bringing tears
instead of a laugh. You will feel iietter
for the effort, und so will the children.
The little ones, unconsciously to you and
to themselves, are catching the very
phases of countenance which will go far
to brighten or cloud some future home.
Then laugh, mother—parlor, effect nursery, of
smile nnd kitchen all feel the your
or frown. The cheery laugh of a
mother goes down through generations, when the
as well as her frown. And
mother eyes are closed, and lips and
hands are forever still, there is no sweeter
epitaph which children and friends can
give than, “ She was always bright and
cheerful at home ."—Christian Intelli¬
gencer. _____
—A few days ag > two San Francisco
boys, less than twelve years of age, pro¬
cured two knives, and played deadly •-cowboys
meeting on the plains for boy’s con¬
flict.” After a few passes, one
knife slinped and penetrated the other’s
ribs, inflicting a fatal wound. He fell
to the ground gasping, “Fred, you’ve
hint me." Two women who had seen
the affair from a window rushed
out and took the lad into the house,
where he died. Both boys were habit
nat readers of the dime-novel stories of
blood-curdling exploits performed Tribute. by
border despe i ~a d’>ps.— Chic'go
—Hoarseness and tickling In the
throat are best re! evod by the gargle
of the white of an egg beaten to a froth
in half a gla-s ot wanned, sweetened
water .—Tut HousduAa,
The March of Malaria.
The recent reports of commissions and
scientific bodies, like the Board of
Health, giving the results of care.’nl and
extended investigations, notably the
papers of Dr. UJjambf'rijrn, qL HP.i t , 'ord,
end Dr, Adams, of Pittsfield, though
Barked by the habitual caution which charac¬ in gen
eralization and inference
terizes the scientific mind, make it plain
to common sense that Jjlfi pt'%\ ’-j i ^
several special types. Whether dumb or
shaking, whatever may i.e its due patholo¬
gy, or nature, or origin, is as cn
existing evil here to decomposition morbific and or
exhalations and all the
malefic influence* engendered absuit
marshy or wet regions and impure
water beds. The best authorities are
not sure or agreed on the question
whether the d sease is indigenous why or
imported, or on tho quest on
it is brought into activity at one time
rather than another. They both generally sides of
concur lu the opinion, ou
the Atlantie.thatitgerin'natesor body sprouts minu'e
in the human from very
spores, measuring, perhaps three thou¬
sand to an inch. But how these seeds
arc transported about, or wfcat the con¬
ditions of receptivity and stis developed, eptibility
are ender which they are
nobody can \ efc tell. J here ia e. 'donee
that sporadic eases occur in dry marshes, upland
regions, hut the disorder loves
clings to artificial lakes or pend % riots and
by the banks of sunken streams
works ts burhjng and shivering dam¬
age mal mutual most mal'gnantly’ relations between where soil, the veg¬ nor¬
etable matter and stagnant or moving
water have been unsettled. Mention is
ma le of some compact rural popula¬ half
tions near foul mill ponds, where
the inhabitau‘8 have been down at
once. be Speculation expected, as has to been causes, bu->v. as
might of malaria exist which
What causes now
were non-existent, or in abeyance, so
long prior to this late day? Not only
is science shy of hasty conclusions, but
propertv, too, has its self-preserving in¬
stants, and the mill owners ami manu¬
facturers aro not unwilling to have a
part, at least, of the curse rest on other
siion'd e rs than their own. What then
are the new conditions?
Railroads and tobacco culture are two.
The railroads are apt to open the sur¬
face o i low ground, and if there were
enough of them itmight happen that an
unwholesome gas e taping would affect
the workmen, as it is said the upturning hits af¬
of acres of old sod on building in the
fects the health of tho people
npper part of the island of New York.
But there aro altogether too many ra l
wiivs where there aro do chills and too
many chills where there are no railways,
to allow much plausibility to th s theory.
It fa ls twice over. Much of the same
may be said of the tobacco fields. The
idea that the sickness comes of fertil¬
izers u ed lot* tobacco raising has even
loss support, for that nuisance is of but
a very brief annual continuanro, and is
far from being conterminous with the
malady. 8o nr as the great forces of
nature are concerned, not much can be
tlouo in the way of remedy. If, as there
is some reason to think, there is a con¬
stant shrinkage going on in ri-.ers,
fountains, brooks and lakes, with a
diminished rainfall throughout this
part of the country, all we can do about
that is to employ lorizetfie every personal stench-breed e ‘ortto
remove ordeo ng
and fever breeding matter along the
banks and to increase our forests by
planting or proto tlon, as many thought¬
ful land-owners aro now doing and as
the late fo.estrv convention in .Mon¬
treal leads us to hope may be done
more and more. There aro thousands
of citizens who, with onlv a moderate
ou lav, can stanch, on their own
premies at least, tho ofifensiv sources
of pain and death—for. though not re¬
garded as ord narily fatal, fever and
ague sometimes takes a congestive
form or otherwise overmasters the vital
power, in spite of the best treatment,
and the patient dies. Dwellers in bad
c imates s udy tho laws of sanitary
safety and heed them. Out of door
night air can. to a greet extent, be
avoided, hires can be built evening
and mo ning. The human system can
he kept free, vigorous and and protected flannels. by
right living, pin sio’osrists temperance think fine wire
S nw a
gauze at open windows may keep with out
the spores. A line of thick trees
underbrush has been supposed to proof ar¬
rest them. There is pleuty of this
that good drainage c ounteracts as
it does other kinds of sickness.— Boston
Herald
I>,»gs in Tariuersliijt.
A curious story of canine sagacity is
reported in tho Cologne jourua s. The
owner of a number of rabb ts near Bar¬
men foun l that for six sue ess ve nights
ono of his rabbits was stolen rom the
house which he bad made tor them out
ot a wooden ease which stood a few
inohes above the ground. At ti:e top of
it an opening had lwen made about the
width of two hands, which was elo ed
at night by a board ou which heavy
stones wore laid. I ho house ha ng
thus been secured, and as it \va found
each morning that onlv ono rabbit had
been stolen, and that all the rest were
quite uninjured, it was considered im¬
possible tor a weasel to have effected
the ;heft- It was, therefore, supposed work.
that human hands had been at
The owner consequently first made the
opening more secure by nailing down
one side of the l>oard, and covering it
with grass and stones, nnd then hid
himself in order to watch for the thief.
At one o'clock in the morning he heard
a noise at the rabbit-hou e. and was not
s It tie astonished to see two dogs in¬
stead of a man on the top of it. ( lie
was a large dog him, of the neighborhood, between
well known to a cross a
St Bernard and a large woolly coli e,
feared by all other dogs; the second
was a stranger, a small terrier, just
slender enough to get through the h< la
in the rabbit house. Tt-.o big dog, who,
o« other occas ous never noticed his
smaller comrades, had ev den ly come
to an understand ngwith hi-little iriend
about the nocturnal rendezvous. The
big dog scratched away ad the crass
atid the st< nes dragged up the boar l,
and let the terr.er uiup through the
hole. The la ter returned In a ew
minutes wi h a rabbit n bis mouth,
which he pre on tod to his great, rend,
an undisturhed. bo h proceeded to devoir* the.r sup¬
per
Stanley’s Latest Work.
Mr. Stanley arrived in Paris much
improved in health after his journey of
yearly forty days from St. Paul de Loan
do, and he leaves this afternoon for
Brussels, where he will make a report
upon his mission and his labors in Africa
J daring Secretary-General the last three years of the and Interna¬ a half
to the
tional African Colonization Association.
This body was torpid at the instance of
the enterprising Kfng of the Belgians, Exhi¬
shortly after the close of the Paris
bition in 1878; and the fir-t act of the
King after assuming the Presidency of
the society was to send for the young
explorer and to ask him if he would put
his experience and energy into the labor
of establishing stations along the tracts
OH the “Dark Continent’' where settle¬
ments were most available and likely to
bring forth good fruit for civilization.
After due reflection Stanley concluded
to aceept the kind offer, which was em¬
inently flattering ia its character; and
he understood from the first, as every
one else connected wi h the association
understood, that the object of the work
was not so much immediate e immercial
gain as the civilizing and education of
the savage or semi-savaga did raise population*. the flag; of
The company not
any particular nation, but adopted all Mr. a
banner of its own, under which
Stanley's marches have been made, and
all his efforts have been undertaken. In
connection with the centred and parent
society at Brussels, it was arranged that
national committees should do as much
as they saw fit, and contributions in
money and equipment were made to the
main expedition by various geographical Stanley had
and learned societies. Mr.
told the association that the Congo Riv
er was the main avenue of entrance to
Central Africa, and that, so soon as the
difficulties of getting around the great
cataracts were surmounted and steamers
were set afloat on the Upper Congo, the
results for both civilization and com
nieree would be colossal.
The young explorer therefore left for
Africa, for the third time, in January,
1878, and since that time has been
faithfully occupied in building roads
around the fails, which in organizing .solidly fortified, stations,
each one of is
supplied with rough but comfortable
dwellings, and kept stocked with pro¬
visions and elothes from Europe. Guns
and ammunition do not form any con¬
siderable part of the outfit; for Mr.
Stanley’s boast is that one can go any¬
where in the country which he has set¬
tled up armed w ith nothing more look for¬
midable than a cane. The natives
upon him discovered as a kind that of demigod; civilization, for they
have to
which they at first felt such a dislike,
means getting more food to eat, and.
getting it easier than in the old times.
Last evening the explorer gave mo a
picturesque description of a banquet
which he gave some time ago to the 600
blacks ana twenty-eight whites coloniza¬ directly
and indirect!) interested in the
tion scheme. The natives had never
seen such a baronial festival before;
Stanley had purposely determined to
give them a Gargantuan spread end which
they should remember to (he of
t heir lives. There were quarters of beef
roasted whole, vast wooden tubs filled
with rice; butter and cheese from Eu¬
rope; milk from the cows, which are
kept at each of the stations; game in
stacks heaps. and pyramids; The and fruit amazed, in co¬
lossal men were
and sat, until the order to begin eating
was given, with their fingers on their
lies, and in a dazed, rapturous mood.
When they had the signal to “fall to,”
those nearest the precious found food plunged
madly at it, bet speedily the men
in the second leaping rank orawling their between backs.
their legs or over
But there was no and quarreling; all every with one
had enough; went away
largelv-inereased impressions in favor of
the white man.
“ We have done wonders sinoe I last
wroto you,’’said Mr. Stanley; “and our
greatest accomplishment is the building well
and arranged roofing of a long, handsome, second
two-story nouse. The
story is looked upon neighboring by the primitive
populations in the villagas
as something mysterious and magical-—
almost as a proof of divinity. I have
been living in a tent for about two years,
and have found it usually very comfort¬
able ; but we wish to get solid buildings
put up as rapidly as possible. Well,”
ho added with a sigh, “the road is built,
and is as nearly perfect, as such a thing
in such a new country can be. The sta¬
tions aro established, and no one of
them is in the slightest danger of being
assailed. I have done my part to the
best of my ability, and my conscience is
ijlean; and now I turn to the associa¬
tion and say to it, ‘What will yon do
next?’ ”— Paris Cor. Boston Journal.
Population of the West.
At the beginning of the century the
population of the grant West, which is
now about 20,000,000, was a little more
than 60,000. The following interesting
table shows the growth of that popula¬
tion :
Per rent. of
Tear. Population, Ittcream,
17911.. .. 51,006
1890.. .. 473
1 Hi 0_____ .. 293,109 858^->7
1890. .. 193
183 V. .. 1,610,473 87
1840.. .. 3,581 542 120
law. .. 5,58c’,413 67
180 V. .. 9,7.5,692 74
1870.. . .13,971,621 43
issa. ..19,131,810 37
That table is a very interesting one.
It ia one of the most remarkable feat¬
ures in th is remarkable age.
—The hasty reproof, says the German¬
town Telegraph, given simply because
of some personal annoyance, the unjust
blame thoughtlessly visited on innocent
heads, the unkind sarcasm or tannt, the
bitter invective, the though exaggerated troublesome con¬
demnation of small
offenses, poison happiness and qnench the
affection without virtue adding one good iota conduct. to
general stock of or
.._frank,” said an affectionate raorti
er the o her day to a promising boy, “if
\ ou don’t stop ,-mok ng and reading so
Hindi, you will get so atver a wh le that
\ou won’t care anyth ng about work.
•*, other.” replied the hopefid.leisurely “I have got
removing a ' cr» long cigar.
8o now. — ,V. V. hr do r.
.. vou durfi to Ins* once.
She cried Wftb b aling eye* collapsed
At John, who let lrimeeil
To half hi* usual aUe.
u i won’t," ti* »aid, *• please pardon nit.
And I will be bo nice
She suited, and said. “ Dear John, I didn’t
Smj you iliouULi't kin bm twlo©.