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I-WFiL EDITION.' t TiINN 6gji &%rur 22 1886 . .ESTABLISHED1848
The Broken Chords.
1~tte asndr
40wna1 wonder;
Finding he no more could play,
Laughed and flung the wreck away.
Borrow eanght it as it fell,
olosely to her bosom pressed it;
Moaning o'er the broken strings,
ObA with tremblpg k aressed it;
So with sad oaress sa o g,
All the musid;i6 ito y d
Cold &ad.mtitehg~d 1 tU -
Borrow held it close and fast.
Hope in passing turned aside
Hopet and as her fair hands llngerei.
O'er the striugs sweet music swelled
From the chords so'softl bgred..
N oath her tender toucliie - e:aing, &'
h4 a o ol
Hope awoko new life again.
PA9 R'_ _FLIRTATION.
I was engaged to Angelina Melville,
nd't ho ivt myspf. thse luckleskman,
ving. A ielina was so hliidsolife that
)Mo strager even saw-..her without ex
1 1esig admira'tion "and one did not
l ary of thp face after years..of, famil
ity with it. "She vas well bred, ac
complished, and a great heiress. I had
reason to believe that she was very fond
of me.-. To4nan could be more entirely
douteitthadi-I wa'ai [leaned bWk in
rat-clas' carriage whicli took me
tGlas t nto the countty to the
fO .whe 1 was t preacih a
e SAbbat11 A.
The pulpit was vacant, and I was
going to try my wings. With my pe
cuniary prospects I scarcely thought
I should care to accept a call to the
%le of Cruix, but I had no objection
liigg its pulped eq a.few week e
allg) git ihs1hl~jIQone to! the.
est coast, and Glasgow was warm, and
uffy, and stupid.
Casual remembrances of elegant par
nages'built in Queen Arnie's style; of
study where the footfalls were soft
ened by Persian rugs, and the doors
drad. W th-portieres. of velvet:..hairs
and a desk carved richly as some old
confessional, fftted tir.oitgh -myt ihind.
nd I thought also of a table, spread
h silver and rare china, with a lady
who bed n
on the plat
as coming to
ng bag from the
hurrie4-..out of the
e porters had Just pullebd
or var tunks on the* pl)atform..
. 6 old wagons stood in the road one
diven by an old w6inn'ii a' sui:bon'
net, the other by a red-haired bqy, with
bae feet; and a''qnee in ock-kneed
h6rse,..attached;-tq ,a queerer .914 gig,
was standing at a little distance. A young
marimadlikht-;suinmer suit.-and.a city
family, bent. on rural happiness, were
my codWi'ii oi the'patfdin.'
.he former put his trunk into the
grstWig3n, kis'ed th -,old f'ortian in
the sun-bonnet, took the reins and drove
away. He was evidently the son of the
family come home to spend the vaca
'tion. -' le rest'bfirthe tt'ishke and the
Gity family, mother, father, little boy,
btiikmaid; anid baby; Mvre: put Tnto the
wagon driven by th~e. boy, When thie
train moved away I'va-f lbft: a1lN on
the platform-alorg.btf1or .theation
master, .who sat up~on a bench 'smok
ing-al clay -pipeg ,- ''' -
In a moment mnore tle oalcial, with
out lookihi a~ as 1 le ath femark:
"Deacon Stgvenson has co the
new mninister. ''s6ve'r'in the lob
.. he statation-magiter -took no notice
bR~i 'dlii nfinn'astool
and made some chandes in tme regis
ter on the wall of the statiqn,focked qpe
door, put the key in lhis .pitt and
sauntered away dow, is railroad.
4jo0% e ?.14 bench and
waited. In~ a few mixtutes .a primie
1eTtht ahrni a-jfloeri ~a $ah I
i91eW aWi ghkico 'ths't it' wat Stevenison.
y r6you311. astaggert?" '1I ini
gilg Rpillly; .as. he ftpprohiedj "I
oRA/I-hatt-.r4y expecta
tEf~ogbein Isst%5so io.g,. butW.yohsee
ate$4 W ge~folktoublq~o ?etoh
things over when I drive lng/l
.e6t4% iai this.'cani oXf parafflne ile on
behind. S~oeoligs dislike the smel
maybe you'~do. We jug@r-loaf,i tea and
cogfee gmn gd undoe! the. seat just qp well
ib. dId'you~.healthpsig- and
o4&r do yo~i ie'Mal SkCiui*Wn-e
.nthtIhad not;de:y.efjlen juh of'
ele of' Cruix. sai
"No, you hae', adthe old
ge leman. "Well, you'll drive through
.it n ." And he shook the reins; and
-the ol horse began to stumble .plong.
Anr tcettaiW ws of
'bri W~ei~1t~ liIbdach other,
and wit the same flowers in their fron)t
19Aj 0~ ggAssedythf
a alt ef o e t~
which he drew up. '.
A girl stood at the gate-a fair girl
- inua blue muslin dress and apron.
Tarke the sugar, Mary, before it gets
anset aid tha. Dsa4nm. 1.i .
Mggtagert, that's to preach for us. Mr.
Mac aggrt,'this is my dauighter Mary."
We boWed and she vanished with the
parcdls.
What a lovely, little creaturel.sid
I to myself. "Nothing. likeAigelina,
liit so pretty!" And I found, mYself
thinking of her as I washed my hands>
and combedmy hair in the blue-walled!
room on the second floor, with white-l
fringed counterpanes and two black,
silhouettes over' the mantel-piece, on
either side of the chiva vases of roses.
Tiere wvre ornly '.Iour of us at the
table-the- Deacon&his wife, a stout.
lady who never said more than she co*.
help, ana Mary. She had spent thQ
ist winter in Glasgow, and we talke
about all she had seen. She was 4el6.
p'ossesed without being forward,~atif
oli,"sa prettyI Now, Angelina was splen
did and queenly, so this was mild aise
that she could not object to, onlfI Iaid
it very often. I preached on the next
Sunday. It was settled tluit I' should
.pend'the summur there. I wrote this
to 'ilgelina:
"Since you cannot be with meIt does
hot reaitter wihe're I ani-thlastApid
placp as well as any other. AddiQss to
the ca' 6f'D6don Efevenson. I shall
remain with him while I preach here."
It was a pleasant' summer despite the
dullness of the place. How good the
quaint old Deacon: was when one really
knew himl How motherly was Mrs.
Stevenson! As for Mary, she grew
sweeter every day! I often wondered
what Angelina would have said could
she have .sen me- helpiiig her to pick
blik'berries, to find the run-aimy coW,
to carry home the milk-pail, driving her
over to the country grocery and return
ing with a freight of groceries-Ange
lina, who knew nothing of domestic de
tails,., and whose monogrammed and
perfum ed.otes weoie -often brought to
me from the office in c6mpany with the
paraffine can. I wrote .iny sermons at
one end of the round table while Mary
sat at the other sewing. Now and then
a big bug would fly into the window
and go humming about our heads, or a
moth would try to singe its wings over
the chimney, and I would drive it out
The old people would go to bed after a
while, and then Mary and I would find
ourselves.jmngpy,.and she would go into
the kitchen to find "something good.*
I alsiys held -the, ligit'for her. When
.somethi ;od. ?0 A dwo 4" r
.She was. so like a child, that littl
Mairyy that it seemed 1io hari to ask
her to kiss me goodnight, oi- to hold hed
hand in mine, as it rested on my arm;
il pur long walks home. rom, .hurch
on .8unday evenings.
The summer passed; October came.
Angelina returned to the city and wrote
to me. 1t was while we were'iing
peaches and crealn, in the back p9rch
that evening tha I said to' Maiy, "I
will tell you a secret, if you will keep it
for a while, Mary."
. "Oh, of course I will, Mr. Mactag
tert.".
"I am going to be married this au
tumn, Mary," I said. 'Those pretty
letters you always thought came from
my. sister are from. the lady whojs to
marry me. She is very beautiful, very~
rich, very stylish, but very kind. Yotu
m\1st come and see us, Mary, when we
are married. I shall tell Angelina how
good you have been to, me-what a
sweet little sister I found out hie in
Yale of Cruix.' -Why, Mary
For, as I spoke, I felt the little hand
I held grow cold and heavy in mine. I
saw ,,hter shrink' backward. Th big
dhin'a bowl of pedches aiid cream siipped
with a cragsh; -on fjhe - ground and shat
tered to pieces.
I caught the poor child ini my arms.
In a. piomnel$ shp . cajne to..bherself, .gnd
said she hdd' 'ov.ertiied 'herself, she
thought. They had been baking all
day and cit. ws *wqrm, And now she
bade me good' night.' YBuf 'did not se$
her next day, nor the next. She kept
'her r'ochi, and" A 'not well en'oigh to:
bid me goq-by.
Poor littld Mary! I'felt 'very miisera,
ble. However, Angelina met me in'
Glasgd~~:.g Slte whasimore beautiftf1
than ever---mnore elegant in contrast to
msjinple coutyfig-nvr
. I
as a
lJer .
~andl
Ioh,
Sher~
she
ick,
is.'?l..
MMMEMBERNR~fM~dd~idtat
bazaar for the benefit of the Church of
St. Matthewv.
After ve'' had roa? ahogt the bm
zaatK !ifkilougl % 'ti'f knick
kride "Tecoi'te Xhlnatt t seat
athgr (a1t dejy. yvaltivile one of
t t ig four Coffee
with their backs towvar 4,
"I am vory tired; are not you, Mrs.
Russell?" And the other answered):
"Yns I am tihed I An't thh*t nt
14; 10 o A t he
ig1e6 gow,
hist * le i~ o~ dt~enson's
iearost neii an id i'er and
apeofMd e6 yet did npt feel quite
ni.li i-o ngelina would like in in
baotionand'a)refrainedr(K look
LE~nni ad Makli~ ing i dn.
'L i h .*o .' l getteri A * said
tan'.Qfre 0, how is:ary nday
rhink of my never asking beforel'? :
k'QMr.poorly,' did Mts. Russell.
0 Mrs. pildn, h . a Vy i s that
tLg young minis iieai n. to
ple 4f 11pcI di hat
pourting faiy $lhe did, poor ch'ild*.
She loved.liidearly, and theooday, be
engag9 to: some girl in G in.''m
a'ri' ' it's broke her i/~:Sitohl
m'11about i't. '0. Aus Rus~el, . she
said, 'I know~ 1 ought to be ashamed,
but I can't help it. ie seemed to like
me so. I hope I shall die of this fever
for life is nothing to me.' Ashamned
Why, it's he that ought to be ashamed.
Of all things a minister to be a cold,
cruel flirt! And that is what figl
Mactaggert is!"
I listened, but L could not move oi
speak.' I felt as though my heart wat
also breaking: and 0 the shame I Luf
fered -The women drank their tea and
left, and then Angelina turned to im
with a cold, sarcastic smile.
"I see by your face that little story ii
perfectly trud," Mr. Mactaggert," he
said.
"Angelina," I faltered, "I liavi
done nothing that should give offens
to you.
"Nothidn but love another woman,'
she answerdd. "Love her and let hei
see it, meaning to marry me. Don't
think I am hurt indeed I am- relieved
I should have kept my word to you bul
for this, but not so gladly as I onc4
should. You are a very good-looking
man, but on the whole. you don't sui
me. I met Mr. S. at Millport, and he
does. Frankly, I have been thinkinj
what a pity It was that I must declini
his offer. As for this-Mary, is it'not?
wouldhi't'she make a very good minis
ter's wvife?'
It came tomy min -.that she would..
.gena -65~di
neter havepnade, iue happy-.;!.:
* "ButtI-only said, 'Miss.Melvillhe, i
y desire to have your freedom, I hav
-I dest greatly," sie answered..
It is yours, I with 'a bow.
After that I thinI e were both hlap
pier than we had been ' years, aii(
shook hands when we parted.
That night I went up to VYa,
Cruix, and I told Mary that my mar
riage was broken off, and. hiit she wx
the only'Wmai I lild' 'etr loved. Sh<
tried-o sumjoi 'u'p h'7pride and re
fusee, Iit filled -n'the attempt-au
let feaaleier'to'my heart. To-day I
a'mn ' tor6 tfie church at Vale oj
Gi I aff sy w ifej and Xvd ire a.
plain and quift Sa pair as you couk
fincy" I often ielp, ny wife ick cur
rants-for tea, and have taken a turn a:
the garden whenr help, was scarce, Blut
I do not envy Mr. 'S. his wife, nor pini
for the hixurious-possibilities that I los:
with Angelina.
gary and my. little .lemne content me,
But one thing Is on my cenisdience. I
have niever been able tio ask myself the
question: "Did I flirE 'with Mai-j~? If
lot', 'what- was it?"
* Carin'als.
According t'o ani ec'ha'uge, the pope0
appoints a ca'rdinal in a consistory, the
chief..eeregnony being ,the delivery of the
dialis, "B3e a cardinal,'' and the digni
taiy'so'ceated'is thereafter presumed to
be a brqther of the c~hief pontiff, At
first the cardinal's hat had three scarlet
knots, f$ines or tassels on eachi side;
thgse were.Iicreased.to five, while'aigli.
bisliops .liad four of puttple colok, andl
biphiops thriee, of green material. Dur
iik the lh'st two cenituries, howdyer,
biphiops have .worn..four green ones, and
prelates, abbots eand prothonotaries
thrd~e of purple or black. Their dress
Bolhsists of 1a red soutane,' or ca'ssock,
with a clnicture~with tassels of gold,
r'ed caps and stockings, a rochet And a
large, clgak, with ,n e'rmin'e cappa ini
witer. Every cardinal has his chap
ah); who wears a 'purple soutane and
3in'ctuare, a surlice an~d stole-lilI' scarf,
with which he supports his 'fhaster's
nitre when not actually worn, W~hch
he popeO officiates, or In a procession the
3ardhials wekr 'White klarniask"imitres,
:edl shoes, and if .bihoqps, a .cope; If
priests, , a chasuble; If deadcons, a dal
naic 'n tines of penance the color of
herrobes Is velvet; and on a fewv par
icndar clays, rose instead of red. " Their
Iress of -tate when not enigaged in sa
red functions consiets of a large purple
nantle called the credia; on less ltipor
ant occasions, of a niantelet, or 'short
sloak, .through which they put 'their
Irms, and worn ever the rochet while
ver. this is a mozzetta, dr tipppt,bhow-,
ng only the chain of a pectoral cross
Bones have been proven to quickly
Liesolve in sea-water. They are conse.
oizet elo obtained durmng ocean
regnlhghtth, w0hich. :e
'lst the action of the water indellaltely;
tre offan hrnnehf; up.
kajor BA3eetkiOvethdf%)lloW.
i g addoud lidin*githdo'Ctor,
and ti U , d 11 afl
W.(iA,gs r
betWeen tlih IdO Beveral iktly
prpnojndedu
tisg.Butt a
no.uiexe let M .Itcy-doc I
fro 34ie Sa he was de
voured by0', ind eptiles intef-.
na She int fqr. $hiw*tch
wes'' i i ( o-lo6klig ratute.
liffi 1 het' hehr, a.
fangled massi tdol,'with.
Oses' baddexa and the 'insides- of rep
tiles tied here arid'tire
This hg ltk -omnienced t6 "smell
'out'.i thd bg tnhiitter. This she
did ija vairi Of ways, craiyling round
the- ht hiWi.'nd -out, b.urning charms,
by .gesticulations and exorcisms of all
sorts.. But before doing this, she de
manded fen 10bad of cattle, Sve to be
paid atonce, aId -he' otiers:.when the
cure was effeated."' We were invited to.
witness the stratig6 roceedings, and see
her rethove the living things which she
said were in thq mau. First, the patient
had to be "ov eiyb4led"' by this fearful
specinn-of h14!04A iy. He was in great
pain, but she.was:nerciless; his arns
and legs were Pulled, his body pinched
'and squeezed,'.he howling in pain. At
last, she found 'the 'tenderest poliit-at
the extreiniy, of . his>. right slioulder
blade; then she began fantastic .gyra
tions; and declaed-that the reptids were
thee. Then phe .howled, and again
crawled roitnd te liut, and returned
With 'a corn cob,; !th which she ap
proached the sick.nan and rubbed his
shoulder-blade. She ,then applied ;her
mouth to the spot, and siicksd Ili a
stream of. blood followed. Shb'thep'ran
from the house to' a little rivuled close
by,. but soon retujapg and again applied
hei mouth- ' to the6peij -woiind, and
brought, foath a, n i9 d stream of
blood She nowi e ry one. to
r n;s * M~ look
nto lieri moith, and eveif into-her ears.
Sh'e then. re-applied her moith to the
sick mai's" wound, aid spat' out a
grasslioppert -.
"There," said. she "is the monster!
but heie are morel" .
And she again p;qcqded to iuck .the
wound, and this tIm6 ipat out a black
beetleI 'She again acted the "vampire,"
anid out camue a lizard, a long, narrow,
akivling reptilel -The sick man was ex
ScitAAd declared he felt better. Again
applyingMr mouth to the wound, she
spat out a mingtl clotof hair. This she
said w-the bewitdbAtmatter. Here
was.a mystery which weitamined to
unravel. We offered the hag-, five
pounds to tell us how the trick *t&
done. Slie refused. Theh we convert
ed it to silver, and again tempted her,
but to no avail. Neit we turned it to
copper, and thotigh this seemed like un
told wealth to her, she was still ob
du'rate.- But .wh~en we turned It to
beads, knickknacks, looking-glasses,
etc., it was too muoh. After making us
.pr'omise solemn secrecy, she told us.
She had collected the. reptiles In a
calabash.' Whn h ran dowvn to the
'water, shle gorged herself with fluid, and
then swallowed the' creatures we saw
jher produce; 'And she had the unusual
power, by-an effort of. nature, to bring
these -livIng creatur'es' back into her
mnouth. The' ZkaBi~ as cured by the
counter-irrption and by his imagin
atioui, and he'.and .liis. benighted breth
reun still belheve that',thelhiving creatures
weretaiken froni his body.
-MGRATION OP Simds.
nter a rla non i Subject
.MeuOh Thought A1AoiaC
*The comuiitteo apite by th4 Brit
ish' sgoclathgn .h~ve xeeoj thy Issued
thesi 'Inuarport on. he,"Mlgra-.
tion ofBirds inthe:Spring anid Autumn
of 18842'..The stations on the east coast
of'-Scotiatd fr unbiwhih rbports have
'been' recefyed' f oni the1h1 Jitkeepere, eg..
.tend froip f4orth Uu i, 8h19tjand, Iwhere
'the lighit'on therlighthouse is .280-i feet
above sea 16vel, to St4 rAbb's Head, Ber
wickshire, where the light is 224 feet a
bove sea level. Th~Ie (ftilobu on -the
east coast of En'gland incleip tlie 4ong-~
stone Ligthouse (onsth6~ -3areIslands,
Northumnbrian coast), atndall'alon . the
oust and sodtteast cdas9/ to'the6 F'Hnois
TLlglitho~uie, G$nergiey, Ono of tdizeChan
nel Islands. The statlobeon 'th~'west
coast of, Scotland.-. eteo-frqm Cape
~WrathI, Sutherlaridshire~w ere the light
is8460 fe-et,6o'~~ Tlbt1 Little Ross
Lighthousd,i irig ri he, 175
feet abcd 4pu ea ,The 1repo/s .from
tlie wvff coato t naglan4 #auWales
extend; fronr the Bahama; hank light
vess(ito StertPbinht Lightlouse, en the
Iris~doaent~fioh' e, Ounty
Cork, to Dursy- Island forty tstations I
all. Thoughqh )yiuteupg 184, was
coinpgratilyygIl4 tblrs We'l' very
~cotlan4 an4 gluad, eoo e chig
4out the middle ot October and aftet.
ward prooeeding steadily day and n1glit.
Briefly stated, the southernmovement
f migrants was well estiblished in July;
a6n14 from theti to. January thexe was
asteady low, a vast uiajority of birds
omiig -to the east coast of - Englahd
across the stormy North Sea. There was
h Ihrinense rush In the middle of Oc
, Wnd t41 illiln eid of the month. On
h 6 boast Sdptnd the heaviest
K ,Y,ere recorded in the middle'of
Nov0mbpr.'a :ipovenment in- opposl e
di io- #W& ierfed -ii the North
the 2&rth B~l'k
.a lnary'ntumbers in September ahd
Getober,1884. On the night of october
4,the -time of the- total eclipse of the
Moon, during the hours of greatest dark
.noss, goldorests were striking the lant
ern of the Isle of Man lighthouse. The
mabi body of woodcocks arrived in two
flights. They migrated during the
night. Supposing, therefore, that those
biils left'the coast of Denmark at 5 P.
M. and travelled across Heligoland, so
.as to arrive (as they did) at Nash at 3.30
-o'clock next morning, their rate of prog
ress would be about fifty-two miles an
hour. There was an unusually extensive
migration of gulls to the" Scottish coast
in 1884 in connection. with vast swarms
of garvies (culpea sprattus). This
marked aggroation of gulls on the above
coasts has been attributed to the vast
accumulation of ice west of Spitzbergen
in-the summer of 1881 and the conse
quent lowering of the temperature of
the sea, which had impelled the fish food
along the course of the milder Gulf
Stream. One of the most interesting
migratory features of the year was the
large arrival of pied flycatchers along
the whole of our east coast. There was
a great arrival of these rather rare birds
during the first week in May, 1885, at
stations betweenYarmouth anaPentland
Skerries. At Flamborough they arriv
ed in a northeast wind, accompanied by
male redstarts. The result of this unus
ual movemeit was that during the past
season paid flicatchers were found nest
ing in various localities in England and
Scotland where they had previously never
been seen at any period of the year.
The rare Arctic blue throat also oc
curred in some numbers between Sep-.
-tember.8. and, 18.. Eighty to 100 of these
lia'ideoine and coniparatively rare birds.
-fttti the *dr
folK coast on the 12th of the aboye
month. There was also a large arrival
of gold crested wrens on the east and
west coasts of-England. The migration
commenced on the 28th August, and
appeared to stop on the 16th of Novem
ber. It seems singular how these tiny,
feeble looking birds are able to brave
the dangers of the stormy North Sea.
Great numbers, however-as well as
other species, large and small-are often
drowned when contrary winds and fogs
set ift during their oversea flight. The
woodcocks usually arrive on our coasts
in two large and ranging flights, known
as the "first. flight" and tihe "great
flight." Owing to comparatively mild
,weather, the immigration of this species
in the autumn of 1884 was more pro
'1lrngrjthan in preceding years. The
"great ffightZlfrom October 10 to Nov
ember 13 extendealtta Q~jeNash East
Lighthouse, in tihe Bristol Claiamat
Pentland Skerries, in the north of Sdot
land. The migration of this species
continued over 142 clays.
Brave Sailors Rewarded.
On the morning of the 5th the Old
Dominion steamer Roanoke, Captain
Couch, while on her' wvay from this city
to Norfolk, sighted the schooner Emma
Aery ashore on tile shoals near Cobb's
Island, with signals of distress flying
and. the crew of seven men clinging to
the rigging. The sea was running very
high, the wind blowing a gale and the
cold was intense. Captain Couch
hauled up about three miles away-as
near as hie dared go-and.- prepared to
render assistance. First Officer Dole
and, five seamen volunteered forth
work and .gat'ou$ a boat.' The voyage
was a hayMrdous and hard one, but after1
thi'ee and a half hours they reached thei
schooner, which by this time was aig
uwider water except the bowsprit andl
deckhouse. The stranded crew were takeif
off, but sqveral in their party as well ad
among tihe rescuers, were severely frost
bitten when'thiey reached the steamer.
On the 20th on board the Roahoke,
thme Life-Saving Bene volent Association
presented Captain Couch and Mr. Dple
with a gold medal each, wybile every
seamnen who took part rieceived a silver
medal and $25. The Old Dominiori
Ooiipany supplemented this by. giving
Captain Couch,a handsomely engrossed
complimentary. letter from the presi
dent; and Mr. Dole a handsome gold
watch, while each of tihe boat's 'crow
got as uit of clothes.* -
*Ancient Dooumont.
Among the curiosities at the National
hiuseum in Washington are several
very old Spanish documents under- royp1l
seal, one of them dating 1684, but writ
ten so poorly that visitors cannot make.
oith even the signature. There 4* also
a deed of land signed by Lord Fairfax.'
Thosignature of Benjamin Franklin is
affixed to another deed, but afterward
crossed out at the expiration of the
Loan, It beai the date of 1747. Robert
Etulton's lame Is signed to a letter In
egrard to his anmbat natant ..
VOURISJP. IN LAPLAND.
Where Girls Rarely arry witheom -
Their Parents' Consent.
No crime In Lapland,' saving only:
that of murder, is punished more sever
ely or summarily than is the marrying
of young women against the express
wishes of their parents. The blood of
the people never boilg, save with that
anger which is inssharable from sense;
and warmth of spirit Is a thin'g called
'Into being by will, rather tlan an Invol.
untary passion malipng theyiole body
captivei
B3it*I meant chliefl' to speak of Lap
land courtship. It Is rather a pleasant
conception,. and one under which the
rights-of all are preserved. A girl is not
forced to look a suitor In the eye and
tell-him she does not love him; nor shall
she be forged to give her reasons for re
fusing. Nothing of the kind. The par
ents of the damsel, when her hand has
been asked in marriage by one whoin
they are willing to accept., cry to one
anoUier:
" Now, see if our daughter will have
this man, we will accept him for a son.
Let the. case be aecided when Lulea of
the glen turned in her flight and bowed
her head to Lapp-Alten. It shall be
done."
Accordingly information is given to
the daughter that a suitor has applied
for her hand. Perhaps she knows the
young man; while it may be she has
)iever seen him. However, on a day ap
pointed the damsel and her parents,
With their friends, together with the
suitor and his friends, come together
and sit at meat; the suitor and the ob
ject of his desires being placed opposite
to one another, so that they converse
freely, and each viewsg the other's face.
When the feast is concluded the com
pany repair to an open plot, where the
" Race for a wife "' is to be run.
The distance marked off is generally
about two English furlongs, or quarter
of a mile, and the girl is let out in ad
vance of the starting point about a third
of the whole distance, so that if she be
at all fleet of foot, and so desire she can
easily avoid the suitor; for if he does not
overtake her before she reaches the end
of the race she is free, and he may never
trouble her again. In this way, it will
byeen, a.. nodest maiden is spare all
r fility,aor possible s'hane of r-fuew
If she does not wish the young man for
a husband she has but to keep her back
to him and make for the goal, which
she is sure to reach if she wishes. While
on the other hand, if - the suitor has
pleased her, and she will have him, she
has only to waver in her flight and allow
him to overtake her; and if she be par
ticularly struck-if she would signify to
the lover that his love is returned-she
can run a short distance, then stop and
turn and invite him with. open arms.
The Lapps are not a moral people, nor
excessively honest, but their marriage
relations are, as a rule happy and
peaceful.
Stages of Architecture.
America is to-day in the second stage
of national architecture. In this stage
the general idea is mn the fineness9 .my
materials used. The natjetrsfln wants
aflM1 tl~ 'must be made of
the finest marbles and the most highly
polished woods. The third stage in
which fineness of material and .grand
eur of size are combined in harmonious
artistic beauty America has not yet
reached. All of our public buildings
are like the wvorks of a pauper who has
suddenly become a millionaire. Money
Is thrown around profusely and extrav
agantly, more for the sake of showing
that the man has money than for the ac
complishment of any beautiful end.
Look at our public buildings both here
and in other great cities! They are big
and costly, and the glitter of marble
and the gilt of varnish and veneer runs
through them all. There is little artis
.tic conception In them and their Inter
iors are as a rule comfortless, cheerless
and ill, adapted, to-. thes purposes for
which they are designed.
MZoving the Orange Crop.
- , The orange crop of. California is rap
idly pouring out of the State to sulpply
the great. demand at the: East. The
overland> roads are putting. the fruit
trains through to Chicago at the average
rate, itis reported, of from twenty to
twenty-five miles' per hour. A little
ever. four. days from- L'os Angeles to
Omaha via Ogden Is given as the time
which trains have made.- 'This fast time
insntres that fruit shall reach its dlestinma
tion in 'very good condition. It is rep
*resented that the East. requires 75 per
cent of our orange- crop. The statenmen I
is~thiat at least fifteen cars per (lay for
four moniths'iil'be required to .tnove
the oinhge crois but of Soitthsrn Califor
nia. Allowing the .usual twenty-six
workIg days to the month, a little ciph
ering will give a product of 1,500 cars,
and allowing an average of 200 boxes
to .the car, the result is .over 800,000
boxes, and,this only.a portion of 75 per
cent of the croll, 'which has been mov
ing Edist" fdt some time, The present
promises t6 lbe a great year 'for Califor
~ia frdit at .he East, and It certainly
will-be if th~e growers make,.that. united
leffort which the prospect seems tq war
irant.
IExcess of ceremony showi Want .of.
good brewdng.
A GREAT 3IATHEMATICAN,
Devoting HIs Energies to the Caro of
a Truelc Garden.
Thq Librarian of the United States
Coast and Geodetic Survey is an odd
sort of a person. The only name lie
personally cares anything about is
Artemus Martin, but he has a half a
dozen prefixes and suffixes, all given
him by learned societies. Mr. Martin
is one of the first mathematicans in the
world.. The problems of calculus are to
bdn more child's play. .Nothing short
4 agthematical sopistries of th6 most
gtbstruse and impractical sort have any
fascination for him. Oddly enough,
Mr. Mktrtiii was, until his appointment
in the United States Government serv
ice, a market gardener. le owned a
small piece of land on the south shore
of Lake Erie, within a lialf-dozen miles
of the city of Erie, which he tilled, rais
ing mostly kitchen truck for the city
market. Twice every weck lie was to
be found in his stall, as little known to
his customers or people of the city as
was the vender of poultry or the seller
of beads and buttons in the neighboring
stalls. One day it was announced in
the telegraphic news of the papers that
A. Martin of Erie, Pa., had been elec
ted an honorary ineniber of one of the
leading learned societies of Great Brit
ain, the Royal Mathematical, or some
thing of that sort---I have forgotten
just now what. Everybody said,
"Who's Martin?" "Jhave we any such
distinguished individual in our muidst?"
No one seemed to know. A few days
later the University of Michigan con
ferred the degree of A. M. upon A.
Martin of Erie, Pa. Here was a fresh
bit of news. Well, after a while, this
learned but mysterious man was dis
covered in the person of a gardener,
who tended a stall in the city market.
A man of perhaps 45, he was tall and
ungainly, dressed as became his calling,
looking as little like a Fellow of a
Royal British Society as British royalty
itself. But fame made no change in
the appearance or occupation of the
market gardener. le continued to tend
his stall and study, too, I suppose, as
before, dropping the former only when
appointed a few months ago to the gov
ernment position for which he is emi
nemitly qualified.
When Edwin Forrest was playing at
the old Eodwery Theater in New York
Dity his piece was: followed by an exhi
bition of lions by the'r trainer, Herr
Driesbach. During their stay there
Forest remarked one day that lie had
never experienced the emotion cauied
by fright-that he was never scared in
his life. Driesbach heard t.l3 remark
and one evening took Forrest home with
him. They entered a .house and after
passing through long and devious dark
passages Driesbach opened a door and
said:. "This way, Mr. Forrest." As
Forrest entered the door was slammed
behind hitn. Forrest -felt something
touch his leg inl the dark - al ITic
ing down his ? fouched what he
thougjjg/wi~ a cat's back, which he
Nmnify stroked. A rasping growl greetedl
the motion and he saw two fiery eye
balls glaring at him. "Are you afraid,
Mr. Forrest?" asked the lion trainer,
who was invisible in the (darkness. For
rest reptied, "'Not a bit," when the
lion tamer said something and the
growl deepened imd the back began to
arch. Forrest held out for a few nun
utes, wvhen lie exclaimed: "Now, let me
omut, you 'infernal ~scoundrel, or I'll
break every bone in your body.'' Tho
lion king kept him there and he did not
dare to move a finger, while the lhon
kept rubbing against his lcg. Forrest
finally promised a champagne suIper if
Driesbach woukt .take him out, which
was done andl the bet was .immediately
paid.
Prison of Cillonm.
Francois de Blonnivard, the pri.
of Chillop, ivas born. ihi Fra noe .lr
By-inheritance he camw into pos.
of a rich priory hear Geneva, anj
ferring his residence thither.h
espouse:1 the cause oft
against the claims of the
In 1530 he was seized b
Duke and imprisioned I
of the Castle of Chill
fell into the hands
1536 he was restore
turned to Geneva,
floW free, Th gj~oy
rewards which his
Fron) 1541 to 15521
writi'ng the chronicles
nivard was one of the
his time, and was ven
erature, theology and. I
a number of work,, ii
lyith the books in his II
ejueathed at his death, in
city of Geneva. This beca
tkmtlf of the present exten
Ilbrary of that city. Byro
" The Prisoner of Chillon, "w
ed~ by the story .of the long im
mont of Blonnivatrd In Chuillon Castle
Some remarkable and vegy uccess.
rul experiments have been .made at
l'ortsmouth, Eng~land, on the use of
crbosdie as a steaan generator in ships of
wvar. The Croqsote Is kept in a tank
anid kept at a uniform temperatule and
onsiatency by steata coile rqnning
through It, and steam injector0i force
the vapor int'o the furne.