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THE CAPTAIN [IF THE ANTELUPE. He was Benton in a Rare 0n the Gl'i‘fll Lulu-s and Be Killed Himself. Down at the lumber market. the other night, in front of a. roaring five, were eight. or ten old sailors. After 11 while the cum 5:- nation drifted on to the subject of rstenmâ€" boat racea. Martin Kelly asked h 5 com- anions if they romembvreti 01d Capt Jake mith of the propeller Antelope. Most of them had heard of Jake. “He was about the proudest; man that ever follOWGd the lakes.” Kel y will, “I was second mate under h?m. The time I’m telling you about we left Buffalo in the An- telope with 9. tremendous curgo of oil and salt, about half of it consigned to Milwaukee and the other half for Chicago. Before we cleared we leamed that the propeller On- tario was taking a load of salt for Milwau- kee and that it was conaigned to the same parties there :that ours was. When our load was about half on the Captain said 2 " He blew the whistle and signalled the engineer to start up, and I believe the old fellow intended to go off without the dorky, but the boys at the front gangway had ropes out, and when the man came up he grabbed one and was hauled in. The Captain didn’t see this, it was done so quick, and as he was tearing mad nobody wanted to speak to him about it. After that nearly everybody on the boat got scared, and when the old man came around he noticed that there was a and deal of handshaklng and whispering, he next day we sighted the Ontario right abreast of us. She was headed for Milwau- kee. the same as we were, and as it was now clear tailing we were bound to be in sight 0! each other for the rest of the way. The Captain took his observations and de- clared that we were a little in the lead. If we can keep up this gait,’ he said, ‘ and gain even a mile in the run, we’ll be all right.’ He went below and swore at the fireman. We went along under prodigious pressure all day and toward night, when the wind shifted, we put up our canvas. When we looked at the Ontario the last time before dark we could see that if we kept it up all night we would be in Milwaukee in the morning, two hours ahead of her. ‘She won’t be in sight,’ he said, ‘ when we round the point.’ It was a dark night, and there was such an infernal thumping and creaking on board that nobody slept much. Toward daybreak the Captain had five or six brooms lashed together and ran them up the mast, and as we rounded the point into Milwaukee Bay he ordered all our bunting out. I u - rr‘i‘ ‘ It'll make them feel meaaer’n sin,’ said the old man, ‘whan they get in and find us at the dock 8.11 rfiggefi put; {his way.’ _ “ ‘Aye aye, sir l’ the boys wert all yell- ing, when a splash was heard alt, 83nd there, a. bobbling around in the water, ‘ was the cabin maid’s straw hat. I was sit, and had just shouted ‘ All clear here I ’ when the girl fell off from the pile with a screech, and I ran forward to where the Captain was, and called ‘ Fanny’s overboard back here ; don’t start the engines.’ I was afraid that in swinging around the screws would strike her. I didn’t wait to hear the old man’s remarks but ran back, and with the help of several of the men got ropes and planks out. The girl grabbed a plank, and finally we hauled er in, scared half to death. Just as she was landed on the deck there was another splash, and the nigger deck hands set up a. yell of ‘ Man overboard !’ The old man was where he could see and hear all this, and looking over from the wheel house he asked in despair : “ 'Who is it now?’ “ ‘ One of the deck hands,’ said the first mate. v ‘7‘ We swept 1175 lake with on} glasses, and cou‘d see nothing of the Ontario. I said as mugh to the Captain.“ __ “ ‘Let him go, curse him ! ’ kissed the old man. ‘This boat; ain‘t going to wait for any 33013 of 14.136111.) .... . ~ us.- “ ‘ We've got to get out of here before the Ontario if we can, and get that (lock in Mil- waukee before she does, or she’ll keep us there a week waiting to unload. \Ve must hurry this load on and get away.’ fl“ ‘ Of course yo‘u can’t,’ he replied. ‘It’s just as I figured it. She‘s about two hours behind us. She never overhauled us_01}ge.’ “ As we steamed up the river the bridge tenders and dock wollopera all shouted at us, and the Captain thought they were con- gratulating him. But they were not. They were guying hlm. “ Just an we rounded the bend the pro- ,flwi, “ Well you never saw barrels fly like they did after that, and by dark we had every‘ thing aboard and were slipping out; of the harbor chuckling to ourselves on nur good luck in getting so good a start. The next morning away out on Lake Erie, we sight- ed apropeller right abreast of us, and with a. glass we made out easy enough that it was the Ontario. How the old man did swear ! “ Some of us got a little scared at that, becnuae they knew that the old men was desperate. He went down into the engine room and told the chief engineer what had to be done. The engineer called for help in the fire room, and the captain sent two deck hands aft to help fire. The wind was dead against us, and so our sails were of no use. But the way the smoke rolled out of the funnels and the thumping of that old oscillator engine made everybody aware that thereflwas business ahead. The On~ tario was steaming up, too, and we kept watch of her until the fog shut her out. “ We had to stop at the Foxes for wood and we knew that the Ontario would stop at the Manitous. \Ve lost eight 01 her than for about a day, but no crew ever hm: died a hundred cords of woods as quick as ours did that day. The Captain stood on the rail yelling all the time and the cabin maid, a mighty pretty girl, Who was as good a sailor as there was on the lakes, climbed up on a. big pile near the dock and sat there swinging her feet. When the load was nearly on the Captaingalled to her to get down and come aboard but as only laughed and mid he needn’t worry about her. She’d get aboard as quick as he could haul in, she said. J ust then the old man hollei-ed : ” ‘Be lively there, now I Haul in the plank, there 1 Cast of? mhere for'ard !” “ ‘ Now,’ he says, ‘ there has been some ahennnigin about this thing. The Antelope can beat that old tub, and she’s got to do it if she goes to the bottom in the attempt.’ “We saw nothing more of her until we got through the rivers and into Lake Huron and 1':th we sighted her about two miles in the rear. All the way up the lake we lead her easlly, butI dont ,bellave the Captain slept a wink the whole time. He was down in the boiler room a good deal, and when the firemen didn’t pass the wood fast enough to suit he would lay them off and call for fresh deck hands. Of late years there have been attempts on a. small scale to grow tobacco in Burmah ; but most of it is sent from Madras in mon- ster stacks of tobacco leaf. The climate is not cold enough for growing potatoes and other vegetables ; and the trade in ivory, &c., is so alight that the natives may be said to live almost entirely on their rice. The German speculators in Rangoon, who are always on the spot to relieve the Bur- mese when in need of money, are really their worst friends. The course of affairs is this : A flood destroys the rice crop, and the natives have no money to raise another. Then the German puts in an appearance, offering them so much for the next crop in advance. The rupees they get are nothing like an equivalent for the crop, but the na- tive is glad to take them. So far as I could learn, no respectable English merchant lent rupees to the Burmese on these prin- eiples. A story, for the truth of which we"do not in the least vouch, represents Queen Vic- toria. an laying dewn an excellent rule for table manners, but whether she was justifi- ed in exempting herself from its operation, we leave for others to any. The old maxim of the law is that the Sovereign can do no pellet Ontario, lying quietly at the dock that We wanted, loomed up on us. She look- nd as big to me as the (heat Eletern, and I had to spell her blasted old name out two or three times befum I wovld believe my eyes. I w.ll;ed furwayd and lnukcd up at the bridge we see the Capmisa. He was mand- ing rhvre looking Bl’l‘mght amad. I said nothiag, and walkvd aft. T e 11 x1: time wrong. It in told that Lord Tennyson and his family, including his little granddaughter, were dining at Osborne, by invitation of the queen. During the meal the bread-plate ran low, and the queen took the last piece. Thereupon the little Tennyson girl, who had been taught that it was bad manners to take the last piece on the plate, pointed her finger at the queen, and said scornfully,â€" “ Piggy, piggy, pig 1” The queen came 110ny to the rescue in this odd situation : “ You are quite right, my deur,”said she ; “ nobody but the queen should take the last piece on the plate.” At a. socialist picnic in Chicago more than $600 were spent on the grounds for cigars and beer, While on some of the banners car- ried was written ithe words, “Our children cry for bread.” The Burmese smoke to a man, to a. woman, I might almost say to a child. I was physi- cian~in-chief to those under me, and I soon learned to rely upon it that when a patient gave up smoking he or she was really ill. The Burmese ladies have a very peculiar cigar case. But there are two objections to its ever becoming popular here, of which the less important is that each cigar case only holds one cigar. And then the cigar case is the lady’s ear. Instead of wearing ordin- ary earrings, the Burmese women have a. large hole in their ears and wear a cheroot in it till wanted. The really great advan tage of this cigar case is that it is never left behind. lhe men would think it beneath their dignity to carry eheroots in this man- ner, but they do not mind helping them- selves from the wife’s case. When the King of Kings wants to keep his women folk to- gether or to punish them, he strings them, so to speak, by the ear. A long cane is passed through the holes made for cheroots, a dozenwvomen or even more going to one 0M6. I looked toward the U ptain I EE‘W that men were at work puli'mg down the brooms and lowering the bunting, énd just: as we made fast to the Ontario to wait for her to get out ofthe way the Oconto steamed by going further up the river. Her Captain yelled out: ‘Wc, gave you a lively brush, old man.’ Vlj‘lftswgéemed we had been racing with the Oconto from the Manitous down, and no- body knew “A hen the Ontario got past us. ,,__h.., “A 1 ,1 AL...” W‘ _, _,_,V.. V _ “ Well. *‘ ‘J old Captain fumed and Btorm~ ed arourr“ fur a day or two, and finally went over imu .-. beer saloon on W est \Vater street and btew his brain out. ’ “a disapfmint ment and chagrin? H°m§P9dy “Wat. n -u Yr 1: “I”, v51“ fiAQt'lythat,” replied Kelly, H but he thought also that he had drowned that nigger up there, which he didn't. “’hat a British Engineer Saw in Bun-mall. It: was my heavy task to do with the crap destroying Irrawaddy What Canute admitted his inability to do with the we. ; in other words, I was told off to construct an em- bankmtnt against a. river that destroyad on an swemge one crop in every three. ,AA_, r I had 16,000 Burmese working for me, men, women, and children. The embank- ment was seventy miles, the swollen water would have run over it had it been less than twenty feet high ; and would have whirled it Into the plain if its have had not been a hundred feet broad. Then we could only work by snatches even in the dry months, and not at all during the long and dreary Wet season. My work people returned to their homes for the wet months, but I stay- ed on to see that our foundation was not washed away. m. My best laborers were the women. The mass of them were not from British Burmah, but slaves of the King of Kings, the Bur- mese of the highlands. If there is to be fighting, it is from these that the King of Burmah will draw his army. Had they their own way, I am quite certain that there would be no war. They have not the pract~ ical experiences of the English possessed by the natives of British Burmah; but they know them by repute and by their works‘ In the heat of the day, when work was out of the question, Ihave listened with aston- ishment and pity to their talk over the ever- lasting cheroot. It was evident that such an idea as not carrying out to the letter the mandates of the King was inconceivable to them. I have said that my work people returned to their homes during the wet season. There was no option in the matter ; they had to do it. The King takes a fatherlv interest in them, and sees that they pay for it if they desert him. His favorite method is to keep hostages, and my laborers had to leave the1r families in his hands before they came to me. Had they failed to render an account of themselves by the stipuleted time, the hostages would have baa given over to the State, and, if the King desired it, trampled to death by the elephant which in Burmeh discharges the duties of ubllo executioner. Out of every rupee I pm my leborera “part had to be laid aside for the ng. Reproving the Queen. 7n “ Yes ; but you might come in an’ set an hour. Like enough I know folks in Ohio that you know. I was born an' raised there, 311’ I’ve got three sisters an’ three brothers an’ land knows how many other kin folks there. Most o’ my connexion is Buckeyes, as the sayln’ is, an’ so if”â€"â€"â€" y“. Butivvagfdo far 611 the [trail to the left to hear any more. “ Most of us is in the same fix, butI did- n’t know how it might be with you. They say tall, slim, dark complected fellers, like you, is apt to be consumpty. I reckon your Wife’s fair-complected ? Moat dark men pick on light wimmen, but me an’ mv hus- band is both adzzotly the same What’s your business ?” “ A writer fir the paper ‘2 Well, if I ever ! You must know a. heap. I’ve heard said that lots 0’ things was put in the paper wasn’t so. Do you ever write lies ‘2" 'I‘;:_IVâ€"WiÂ¥reall§, madam, I don’t exactly understand you. Did you say I went to the left from here '2” “ Oh, it aint more’n three o’clock. We think some 0’ gcin’ back to Ohio some day. This aint no fit place fer white folks to live. You a married man, with a fam’ly 1” “ I have a wife and a. little boy.” " You don't tell me ! I’d like to aee’em. But if I was you, I wouldn’t ever bring ’em here. Your baby pufiy qrpg‘rt 5n}: well ‘1” “ My youngins is healthyenough, but my land sakes ! they don’t git to go to school, nor nothin’ here. You here fer your health ‘2” “ Fâ€"o-r the health of my pocket-book,” I laughingly repllcd. “ I am a newspaper correspondent. But I really nlust _go,_3md "â€"â€" nmn vr‘r V’ie lived neer Cineinatty. Used to do all our tredin’ there. From What part do you he.“ 2" “ From Toledo." “ Been there many a time myself. I got aslster there now. Mebbee you knowed her. Her name’s Jones. Her husband‘s e railroad. engineer on the cars. Idon't hear from ’em often, but I guess they’re doin’well. They got five children, three girls 321’ two boys. No ; come to think, I guess it’s three boys an’ two girls. N o, it aim, either. If my men was here, he could tell, ’oause "â€"â€" “ 071, you got any amount 0’ time. It aint fur. How’s time: back in Ohio, any- way? Come in an’ git a bite o’ aomethin' to eat. Aint got much, but you’re welcome to it, such as ’tls.” “ No, thank you,” I said. “ I am not hungry, 39d _it is a. lltltle_ late. I will "â€"â€" m, M'T'He is ; very'héaltlfy little fellow,” I re pli‘gdf’ “ But flow: I ” I.‘ I, L,,L N! “ From Ohio." “ You don’t tell me ! Why, I used to live in Ohio myself. Awful purty State ! A light better place to live than Coloraydo. DELAYED BY A FBISKY 00141‘. “ Excuse me,” I said, “ but I am in a hur- ry to reach the next camp before nightfall. Do Irgo to the right, or to th_e leiftj” -r. Racing for Two Mlles Ahead of 8 Railroad Tram. and Coming toGrlef on a Trestle. “ 1 was a passenger on the Ve'mmt Cen- tral Riilway the 0 her day," said a gentle» man ta a. reporter, “ A shnrt time aftvr the trail: 1* ft Windsor, Va, :3. young h< rso that was feeding in a lot close by the side of the t aek kick d up hie heels when ths- train was wixhin a few rods of him, and, leaping the fence with a l'ound, jumped on the track, and galloped away ahead (If the train. The Inglneer sounded his whistle, and, although the train was almost up n the l-orse, the animal did not .leave the track The engineer lessened his speed, so that the horse could keep out of the reach of the train, thinking that the animal would so: I) be frightened 03 He kept straight ahead, however, and the cars chased him closely for two miles. At that point the railroad crosms a deep ravine by a trestle bridge ninety feet long. Some workmen were at the end of the trestle, and when they saw the horse tearing down the track to- wards them they shook their coats and hal- looed at him. The horse stopped at sight of the men, but, looking back and seeing the engine puffing and whistling 0behind him, started ahead again with a so rt, and gslloped upon the trestle, although he could easily have left the railroad on either side of the rails. The horse ran safely more than half way across the trestle, and then missed his footing. Both forefeet west down between the ties, and then the hind feet and legs went through, and the horse was suspended over the ravine, the bottom of which was nearly a. hundred feet below. The train was stopped before it ran on the trestle. The tralnmen took a number of boards from a. neighboring fence and placed them by the side of the horse. Then they tied his legs together and rolled him over on the boards on his side. James Amman, a passenger, was out on the trestling 10, k- ing at the men at work at the horse. He became dizzy and fell rhrough one of the spaces between the ties. He mechanically turned as he was passing through and flung both arms over one of the ties. He hung there in mid air over the charm, and before his hold could give Way he was seized by two other passengers who stood near, and rescued. He fainted a moment afterward, and was not fully conscious for an hour afterward. Women living in the mountain guiohes of the West, miles from their neighbors, have such limited opportunities for exercis- ing a women's special preoyative of talking, that the in‘ ld~natzured traveller who furnish- es the ir ' "'33 incident. rmdiiy psidone’ the : nude.” garruiity. he says: Ii. was near dark when I came to a tumble-down old cabin, half hidden among the pines near the trail. An untidy woman, with a child in her arms, was standing in the door;way. When the'horse was finally turned over on his side on the fence boards a rope was fastened to him and attached to the locomo- tive, which was backed dnwn the track, dragging the horse along the boards until he was drawn off the trestle. He was then dragged off to one side of the track, and his legs untied. He quickly sprang to his feet, and, without waiting for any one to examine his injuries, galloped back in the direction from which he had come. As soon as he had ran the length of the train he took to the raiircsd again, although the ground on both sides was smooth snd level. The train was delayed three-quarters of an hour by the atubborn freak oi the (risky horse. Not verv far. Where you from 2 71â€"33:); Er is If ti) the Eext camp 2’ I ask- Would Talk. 9n The introduction of the megaphone on shipboardâ€"a sort of telescope for the ear, or machine for magnifying soundâ€"is said to be a been in prospect for mariners. Its de- sign is to enable a person to hear or carry on a conversation with people at a distance, and it is constructed of two huge cone-shaped tubes, eight feet long and thrt e in diameter at the large end. which diminish to an apex in the form of rubber tubes small enough to place in the ear. Between these tubes are two smaller ones, constructed in the same manner, but not more than half the diameter By placing the rubber tubes in the ear and speaking through the smaller cones the per- son can hear and be heard at a great dis- tance, and it thus aids mariners in listening far the s mnd of breakers. or carrying on conversation with persons on shore or on other vessels at a distance. Among the young men of title and fortune who may be said to be coming on far the next London season is Sir Henry Alfred Doughty Tiohborne, who will in May next be of age. The youthful baronet is now in his 20th yeer, having been born in May, 1866. The necovity of defending his property against the celebrated Tichbome claimant has entailed upon his trustees the enormous expenditure of £120,000. His estates are in H \mpshire, Lincolnahire, Dorsetshire, and Bucklnghamshire, and represent between 11,000 and 12 000 acres. There are, in ad- dition, London properties, bringing up the gross rent roll to £28000 & year. . M. De Brazza’s magnificent discovery of a. waterway into the heart of the Congo coun- try, that, as a commercial route, for eclipsed the Congo itself, turns out to have been no discovery at all, as the river is not navigable. This reduces the French control of the Con- go to the possession of a probable railway route. It seems from the account given of the natives that France’s principal export to that country is similar to that of Germany to its colony next door, namely, strong drink. M. De Brozza has returned to France from his Eldorado, completely broken down in health. Leopold von Ranke, the greniest of living historians, and the creator of the modern historical method, is juat 90 years of age. He is busily e gaged on the crowning work of his life, the wonderful “Weltg' schichte," which has already come down from the esrli- est authentic records of ancient Egypt to the death of Charlemagne A sixth volume is about to appear, and the venerable student hopes to complete his vast undertaking in three more years. The Inquiry into the loss of the SS. “Brooklyn,” has, it is satisfactory to know, ended in the conclusion that all that seamen- ship could do to save her was done, and her loss in ascribed directly to lack of knowledge of the strength of the currents of the Gulf, an end which is now being as far as possible remedied, No opinion appears to have been expressed, however, as to whether the East coast of Anticosti is properly supplied with light and fog signals. A bill for the aboliniun of barmaids has '4 been Introduced in the Parliament of Vic- ‘i toria. A privatu company is about to lav a naph tha. pipe 530 Influx from Baku, Ruasla, to Batoum. London papers abound with complaints of colonists, who aver that they have been deâ€" luded to Queensland by fraudulent misrep- resentatlons. Among the callers at the White House, the other day, Win a bride with the third husband she had taken there on a wedding tour‘ The musical season at St. Pctersburg has been commenced by the reappearance nf the American singer, Miss Mary "Van Zandt She is still fihe fax'ctifii‘fiiva cf the fit. Peters. burg musical public, and it would seem, from the enthusiasm of the audience at her first concert, which was attended by several members of the imperial family, that her power of attraction has in no way abatcd. Iowa has a Scandinavian population of 61:753. At the court battua the other day in the forest ofSpinge, Hanover, the German Ern- peror, aw rdmg no the official slaughter but. brought down 17 various head of deer and 31 wild boars. A Chinese Banker, Han Qua, of Canton, in mid to be the wealthiest man in the world. He pays taxes upon an estate of $450000.- 000, and is estimated to be worth $1,400, 000,000. The total number of physicians in the world is estim tad at 190000 Lieut- Howard, the Gatling gun man, is: to receive $5,000 as a bonus from the Cans.- dlem Government, and is about to open a‘ cartridge factory in the Dominion, materials for which will be admitted free of customs duties. The death of the Duke of Abercom, whose ancestor, the first Earl, was one of the origin- al planters in Uistnr, has recalled What a. good thing these planta rs and their descen- dants made out of the Ulster plantation (temp James I.) The Marquise: of Donegal, Londondeny, and Couyngham, as Well as the Duke of Abercorn, all owe their fortunes: mainly to this source. The word “moonshiner” was originally “monsnshunner.” A few nights ago at a church festival in West Union; 0., a wooden chair was exhib- itvd belonging to George Bradford of that village, which has long been an heirloom 1n the Bradford family, and which was brought over from England in the Mayflower. The Palma Christa plant, now being ex- tensively planted in parts of South Carolina 55 a substhue for cotton, is an eaally culti- vated as corn, requires no particular care in handling the need, and yields a larga profi’. The climate of lower South Catalina is all that could be desired, and on the sea ialands the plant attains remarkable growth with- out labor or attention. In certain tnwnsin eastern Massachusetts stone is now so scarce that builders are re- sorting to the farmers‘ stone walls for build- ing material. In the Berkshire region, on the other hand, the farmers consider stone fences a. nuisance, and would pay to have them taken away. It In a. fact of which Great Britain, aooun- try eapacially jealous of its reputation for home life, may justly feel proud that no more devoted husbands could have been found In it than the last seven Prime Minâ€" isters. Peel, Russell, Derby, Palmerston, Banconsfield, Gladstone, and Salisbury all meet on common ground in this respect. A Boston man, who has apent about four- THE WORLD OVER. weathers I'll stick to an old speckled hen with feathers. Well, this will du, with mi se [‘11 get along The few days left. If I have spoke too strong, This mlghcy ageâ€"l1; must: be mighty kind, And leave room, too, {or the freein' of my mind. P.S.â€"The va'ry {ponght on l1; is exp-spe{atlg'_ _ cranes From city winha teaspeoniul of bmn for brains; Leave me a story-book ’forel iugin it, I know for sure that there‘s astory in it. Andiet me was at least a quarter throu h one Before the fella! comes out with a new one; And I'd enjuy, once more. a. poet‘s firitin'; Than wnrnt‘. nil zigzag, friskin‘. hxfaiutin'; Leave papers with somereadin’-ma.ttcrin Between the murders and patenn medicine; A room I dare set down ir it n ininnin’â€" Same dinnerâ€"plat.sz for puddin’â€"not for paintin‘; A doctor not w swamped in his M. D. Hi6 stuff sift wuth a pinch of rhmepberry her). And ht; me mention lean I he forgettin'; Leave me at least one good hen for aettin' ; Tnem hand made hens may hatch. bub for Ali They’re clambelin up, a-lreacoin' the sky ; Leave have with not all base-ball, or else afloat In toothpick of a college raciu‘ boatâ€" Some square-backed boys in hreeohea, not them But any ninny now can smno right here And holler business in a flindoo‘s ear with inginee. snapwgruphe, and howlenhonea A-muc‘cilin’ up the very ales and wheel Good Lord is this will A am‘s fallen race 83 cool annihilatln' time and space. A dllven' oi the coursers 0’ the air As saluted gran‘ther did his sorrel mere? But I would let old Mother Natur’ go If they would leave the folks I used to know. WhY; them raised right here in mv natiyo lax" HM! on 'cm Buzz: en's: I can't unnerstanu ; While them fresh criters from a inrrin shore. They’d were the geese at our old homestead door" Now take fer irst, them ruitlin almond-eyedâ€" I thought that sich lived clean on t'otherside ; Bites ya. there ain't no t’other side to-day, Jesse likely not TOIODN ’s sat on Botany bay. The times is thunderin wonderful, I knowâ€"- This ere 11-mile up creation so ; But, by my bones! I’d like once more to enjoy Them bleesin a I was riz to from a boy. I‘d like the reg'lar old religion back, Which said we jeet must walk the narrar track, And there an end on’t ; now, where we’re to go (Maybe some false are smarter) I don’t know. My Bible might BB well be on the shelf. They've found the wnrld jest up and made itself : And Christians, even, have fixed he good book over Until there's leetle left on ’1’. but the cover. No, faith. I 11 kee the track my fathers trod, For all their sheo s and their nothin.â€" God, Great times, it seems. is made of rush and doubt, But where the great comes in I hain't found out. If nature's done for. and reiiveon, too. Pray leave me suthih’ s-ruther won't slump thra'i Leave. say, amen will find spare time to sit Him down in his right mind, and chat A bit, Aplain. old-isahloned, homespun. mortal man, That allea s takes it easy when he can, Leave me a. woman ten lin’ her own child. A-lookin’ like they used to when they smiled, Not makin’ on it :leave a good cart-load Oi’ children which in children till they‘re growed ; Give me some gels, once m ore, can tell I kitchen, And tend to sutin’ else besides bewiiohiu'â€" Some women folks whose art ain’t quite so high teen years on the east and west coasts of Africa, says that the language of the natives o! the Congo country is difficult to acquire, and that he knows of only one European who has mastered it auffieiently to under« stand it, thnugh he can speak very little. It apnears to be composed of short warris, which, in thv mpld mariner uf speaking seem to [la run together, and each sentence to transit of a longer or shorter compound Word 3 is Caspaflfle of strong emphmis. and is quite expreaaive, but the natives are not given to gmticulation even, when talking ex~ citedly, excepting always fihe felichnra or fetich man when dealing out (lamna‘siqp. to transgreaeuvs. The trouble in acquiringthe language seemu to be the general unwilling- ness of the natives to teach it; to white men. It in said, however, that some of the Portu- guese who are born and raised there have ace quired the language, and speak it as fluent~ 1y as natives. We’re llvln' now in most trimendioua times. Too wondersome for plaln. straight-furri‘d rhymes» But I confess my r'ld fogy braini 11: wall! je'st llke to kehchn gllmnse strain 0! some things (they have whisked clean out of ken, Upaettln’ natur' and mv tellerâ€"men. The good old world, I s‘pose. is still a ball, And keeps n-rollin: 'pou my ward, that‘s 9.11 Remains 0’ mat; ml Once upon a Mme “ Twas suthln’ of a trip f-orn clime to clime; fl (rm ~ % m m rr Iâ€"tor L5rd’s sike savernc} iolié};akntl‘n'l Modern Progress. BY JOHN VANCE CHENEY.