PEIITION TO TIME, Touch us gently, Time! Let us glide adown thy stream Gently—as we sometimes glide Through a guiet dream. Humble voyagers are we, Husband, wife and children three One is lost—an angel, fled To the azure overhead. Touch us gently, Time! We've not proud nor soaring wings; Qur ambition, our content, Lies in simple things. Humble voyagers are we O’er life's dim, unsounded sea, Seeking only some calm clime; Touch us gently, gentle Time! RE SA API MY FOREIGN ANTAGONIST. “And yeu are going home?” “Yes, I am going home,” The happiness within me that found utterance in a laugh was reflected but dismally from the brown-bearded face opposite me, But then Gurney was down on his luck, and that was hardly to be wondered at, when a young ne’er- do-well like me could in brief years the wealth that he had toil- ed for patiently during half in vain. “And you'll settle down in the old realize a score country and be a steady, practical man for the future?”’ wistfully. “Yes, and I'll marry Janie, make her happy and proud of me; vou’ll visit us, Gurney, won't you, to se¢ how I have counsel my heart?” **Mavbe, he said, looking at me and and taken all your good 1 1 and own good luck to mavbe; I don’t smiling thoughtfully and stroking his silken beard ‘‘but you have had rare fortune, young one, and promise,’ as he spoke; you do well to sit down now and con- sider very best with- yourself. 1t is not every one who finds how to do the with a university educa- 1 | lized fortune, and a sweet, raiting for him at home. he way of things; chance 1at because you v bad while I, steady always as Rhadamanthus the 1 “nF YIP * of nuggets were begin with, who was as 8, have a remal trees to mark Hardly fair, grave under the wattle the end of my love story. is it, young one?" “*Horribly unfair,” I answered warm- out vo Yer 1¥ . r turn will come; it does to the deserving and patient. as to me, why my end is not seen yet. ‘Call no man happy till he is dead,’ you know." A faint smile broke over his face. “Do you think I envy you or grudge you anything? Oh [ am not such a bad fellow as that. I would not from you one gleam of your content- ment if I could. I am satisfied botl for you and Prosperity is the thri I while 1 114 no, take for myself. you be the same under any pabulum will ive on, should fortune.” We were on our way together down the main street of coming from been disposing of some gold-dust to agent who pad more for Tarrangower, he the store where he had an threepence an ounce it than the bank price, I from the New South Wales Bank, whence I had been drawing my fortune in the form of a bulky roll of one hundred pound British notes, “Jt isscarcely safe to carry all that around here,’’ ed warningly, money into the pocket of trousers, 3] take the nanmber of the notes by-and-by,’’ I answered careless- ly. “You know for England next week.” “And why have that transferred to the bank there for safety, and your own comfort in traveling, and a hundred reasons?’’ the man asked in surprise, “I like it this way; I like the feel of it about me, gether a matter of opinion.” Then 1 out whistling, not through dearth, but through abundance of thought. That bulky roll represent- an acquaintance ventur- my moleskin shall I sail nos and convenience is alto- went with the family at home, who feigned to despair of me once, “Oh, Janie, Janie, how fond and faithful have been!” I thought tumnituously. ‘‘Heaven helping me, my future will be worthier of you than my past has been.” And then I had encountered Gurney, and, linking my arm in his, we had walked down the street together, while I dilated to him on my prospects, “You go to Europe next week, and I start up the country to-morrow, and it may be we shall never meet again,’’ he said, regretfully. “Then let us drink a stirrup-cup at parting,”’ 1 said, drawing him toward the open door of the Kangaroo. “A stirrup-cup of water, will.” “Preaching again!” I said pettishly. *= «No, not preaching; only urging you, by our friendship, to make me hapiw.” “What is it to you?” “1 like you; I want to know you safe before vou leave me,”’ I twisted myself away from Rim im- patiently. “No man has ever called me a drunk- ard,” 1 said, “No, certainly not, and I want to make sure no man ever will.” I hesitated, looking at him doubtfully, “Surely it is in the hour of our had you if you greatest triumph that we should most really bring our sacrifice to the altar.” “AN right,” I said, flushing. *I promise,” “Promise what?” “To ‘abstain from intoxicating drinks as beverages’ Tor ever,” laughing un- comfortably. He stretched out his big hand and grasped mine. “1 am satistied about you, now young one; 1 never was before, Heaven bless you!” And then we sauntered into the saloon together, and drank a glass of ginger-beer, chatting in a desultory way. Groups of two and three were scatter- ed here and there about the bar, chatt- ing nolsly for the most part, though a few drank deeply in sullen silence; but, except the lounger by the door, who | stood with his hands plunged deeply in his pockets, and his slouch-hat drawn amicably low over his restiess eyes, each man had { some mate to reflact his humor or con- | tradict it. “That is the Italian fellow,” whispered, nodding toward him. “Yes; cleaned out s " or thereabouts, ; i Gurney answered, in a low tone, and then we turned to As i passed prompted leave together IBAYY LOSOLHCT, we out impulse soe me to turn towards the | stranger, and, extending a sovereign | on my open palm, I said, curtly: “Have it, mate?” “I did not beg,’ he answered, a di cold- ly, speaking with | cent. “Of you luck. stinct foreign ac- é course not, but it will bring Money from the pockets of a successful digger always does,” I saad lightly, “Tank you. from me, but band while he “That fell have said not! ciple of letting remarked. “Iti when ney 3 alwavs wall t off then Gurney and I stave another week” and and parted, with Some TY af invor VY EAR Eh meeting somewinere, meant to draw out Why had I n him come home with me? Why ha investmer day. iv told Gurney lat once Las ACLS my load and be ready for tack. To keep up my heart I fell to hum- ming while 1 strove centrate all my attention Janie's old songs, one of to con on the path before me. half I had proceed- way home, and my first terrors were fading when where the thinks thi At AWAY , just road- way dipped to a salyptus, a hand yalder and a vibrant usly: | was laid on my “Your money or your life!” “Ha, it is vou, helped!’ 1said, wheel scoundrel, whom 1 ng round sudden ] “Dog of an | IY On my unseen assailant, Italian, would you dare! It was turious indignation and scorn animated me at the moment. had not occured to me yet, “Yes, I the man panted forth.’ I am “You You are young, You have hope, I | have nothing—give it mel” “Yes, I shall give you—that,’ I | said, striking in the direction of the and then we closed with each would dare because | mad,” | you can gain more, | voice, other, After that neither of us spoke, but | we wrestled like giants, while { clutehed the other by the throat. | My money was safe still, secured by a cording to a fashion prevailing in the ————— life lay in the endurance of my thews and sinews, for I knew I was confront- ed by a desperate man, Round and round, backwards and forwards, circling recklessly, and grapvling each other furiously, we went, while the sense of strangulation due to his grip on my throat increased | as he strove to throw me. “Tan seconds more and I shall be | choked,” I thought; and then I loosen- ed one hand from its hold of him, and | struck out with my clenched fist towards the region of his heart. The blow told; he fell like a log, being apparently paralyzed for the moment; but in falling he dragged me | with him, and his grasp of my throat | never relaxed, | “I am dying,” I thought, striving | with all my remaining strength to { loosen his hold of me, and then my | thoughts wandered confusedly towards | my mother and Janie, and the home | | had meant to make for my darling; and remember no more 1 had How long I remained thus I cannot When I recovered consciousness the murdeious pressure had fallen off, consciousness, and in unison we rose Lo feet, 1 was trembling in every nerve; my aching eyeballs seemed For an instant we stood apart, glar- irg at each other through the darkness; ly, neither knowing why. the money than I had of defending it. There seemed nothing awake in us but mere animal fury; brute force opposed brute force, demanding victory at any cost. Again we wrestled and strove, white face face in th and again the contest was so equal that close to white have Known ou promise many minutes we wrestled silently and no spectator would which side to victory. For Wis undermost. And then ensued a struggle gti} of 1 as | had no idea men wera capable We rolled strained every other, over each Nerve eacii we dealt each other desperate ws at random, and then, when €X- istion forbade another movement, mechanically we desisted, and and reatus *hanically rose red, gasping | the contest Whether armed, I made no AW any As for me, I carried my useless pi atta nt p attempt to dr nn had it been HL €V¢ I would have NOUSNess, an " How I reach expianati at message ( expected hourly 1 then I turned slos reluctantly towards improve fought a hard battle the shadow of tl e eucalyplus; . which disease waged against my youth later, was as deadly and more pro- Tey db longed. a and I rose a youth triumphed at shadow of former s¢ be debarred from existence on my the old, glad. free, triumphant terms for many a year, It was years before the last momento of my encounter had after with that desperate ruffian passed out of my system, but lifetime, I can look back from my fair, happy English home on that incident of my career as contentedly aon any other of my colon- now, half a As to my enemy, his body had been point of death, but whether fallen there by accident or flung in through despair, Gurney’'s affairs brightened after 1 left him, and the last time I looked on his honest face, as he sat beside my Janie’s sister, with my youngest boy on his knee, I decided conclusively that a long way as he had imagined when sides, sisi A - Exports 1884, During the month of April 1884, were exported from the United States 2,756,640 bushels corn, 6,114,626 bushels of wheat, 728,362 barrels flour, 637,748 bushels other grain, and 648 083 pounds other meal, valued at $12,267,185, as against $12,465,079 for April last year, a slight decrease. For the ten months ending April 30, the exports were of corn 37.576.383 bushels, of wheat 59,- 511,362 bushels, of flour 7,330,003 barrels, of ‘other grain 5,802,300 bushels at £133,006,125, as against $179,739,004 for the corresponding ten months end- ing Apnl 80, 1883. A very serious falling off. Buddhist Bells, The sounds of Japan, are nearly all unmusical to the foreign ear, the ceptions being the laughter of the wo- men snd the sweet, almost indescriba- ble, melody of the Bu#dhist bells. OxX~ of the ordinary shape, weigh several tons, are wonderful specimens of bronze castings, and are suspended in strongly the country by begging priests. De- metal there is, at the first glance, little in the to the high value placed by the Japanese upon these but sooner is the touch applied to their rims rin indicate bowls, no slightest that, in the making of bells, asinmany other arts, the Japanese possess secrets Although empire as yet unsolved by science. every Buddhist temples in the contains one or more of few of those that religious use are ever offe HZIOUS Use are ever olie They ] destruction of some temple rin, won dedicated to for Sale, after the have red can bas secured Only by fire, oO1 by the poverty of the i prived of Governm patronage support, have, of late years, been their § Iv 11 VO ieiy | it from Corea, during by the Buddhist peacefully invaded Ys aon, succeaded in mass of These h are still preserved were simply l had been used for brass bowls, such as ANY centu Ww On - LAWALL -——-—— An Island of Salt, * a rial asd Ig App mer. as the governorof ’ Te Ihe preme court and lower courts, urk’ is called, island also have the little colony has all the t i i machinery we peopleshave no voice A The cost used to be about ¢ whatever in the government. of the governmei 1 $55,000 a year, within the islands, but now is about $35.000, to strong feeling among the people in favor annexation to the United States, The Iritish government does nothing for them except to contribute $1,500 a year toward carrying the mails, and to appoint the officials who receive the salaries raised by duties and by taxa- There is not a lawyer on the having been retrenched in deference popular demand. There is a of tion. dence lawyers should emigrate there they would probably be able to earn working at seventy-five centaa day, the ordinary pay for labor in the salt pens, There is not even a public prosecutor, the queen’s advocate having died some time ago. and nobody appointed in his The supreme court is almost a make trouble, the jails are usually empty, The islands are healthy, al- though the colonial paper is full of patent medicine advertisements, inclu- The islands have a | tedan goods, whether from the United ites, England or Jamaica, or any "other part of the world, Of course the most interesting feature about Turk's island is the salt manu- facturing industry. At Grand Turk, | where it is chiefly followed, the water | is led from the ocean by means of a canal about twelve feet wide and two and one-half feet deep to the govern. ment reservoir, which is from 600 800 feet long and twenty feet wide. From this reservoir the water is drawn by machinery into ponds or “pens’’ as they are called, and which are from 150 to 290 feet square, and about two feet deep, and separated from each other by rough stone. In the cases of a few proprietors of salt pens the water is drawn from the government reservoil into private reservoirs before being transmitted into the pond for evapora- ting. for ring the saline strength of the water, and when the salometer shows to ninety degrees of strength, the resul after evaporation is one and one-half to two inches of salt, evaporation varies amount of sunshine, There is a salometer eas. eighty ¢ The time taken ju according to the During the rains in May, and in October and November the salt is slow in forming. salt dried hard and firm, like a field of ice, and Evapora- tion leaves the white as of the 15 the varying co of the pickle—green, blue, red, pink, every variety colol except yellow or black, It is te cle BLOW, but a curions feature ponds during evaporation lor purple, indeed of well worth broken up in small i ana rakes dumped in the vicinity of the pond. ¢1 houses, but tl There are some salt 1e salt a8 a rule is piled in heaps varying from id bushels. The half bushel baskets ty carry it Out er ii sto 200 bush- rs it 18 damped Most of into the holes of » VEEREIS, the salt is as it about 25 or 30 1 for fish purposes. 1 . 10) per cent, or About yearly, the firm abo 1,500 000 exported B52,0 Vessels, cave The King Snake, great skill, Cire his deadly Coll O the circie at every en so fast that he seems to f i river Nng dazzled by the splendor. The und his adversary, Alf continues his lighten-like speed its chances, leaps suddenly, se 3} \ . enemy by the neck, and, with greal 1 vivsle tanl . 5 1 1s ¥ skill, winds itself around the latler, drawing its folds closer and closer, breaking its bones and « life of its foe, itself, but i if any sign of lif again of \ then slowly moves off to seek 1 its victim iL 18 satisfied or another serpent to siay. a A New Ocean Route to Furope. It is nearly 2,800 miles from Sandy Hook to Queenstown. In 600 miles from a point on the west shore of Hudson's Bay to Liverpool. It is only 700 miles from Winnipeg to Hud son's Bay, but it is nearly three times that distance frem Winnipeg to New York, and the Manitobans are inquiring whether they cannot secure an outlet for their surplus wheat by establishing a new ocean route, employing a fleet ot grain ships to run between Liverpool and a port on Hudson's Bay. The Dom- inion government has sent an expedition to ascertain wheather the project is feas- ible.and seven stations will be establish- ed in Hudson's Bay to make observa- tions, Navigation by the Yor + it 18s oniy =, ny is 1 ui proposed very few weeks In midsummer, but it is thought that the grain fleet would have time enough to take Manitoban wheat acrose the Atlantic, It is evident that the United States can obtain an important traffic by encouraging the con- struction of a canal to connect Winni- peg with the chain of Great Lakes, sc that a waterway to New York would be open to the Manitobans for the greater part of each year. ——— Examine your lives, weigh your mo- tives, watch over your conduct, and you will not take long to learn or dis. cover enough to make you entertain charitable opinions of others, FOOD FOR THOUGHT. Time once passed never returns; the moment which is lost is lo been for a To conceal a fault by a said to be substituting stain, Learned men are never anxious to seem learned to others, and to be called wise, Treat servants as you would like be treated yourself, were you in their place, to Iafe when juspired fricrids LA ANANA0 becomes useless and we have no longer ox enemies, " I'liose sentiments of from the heart adversity, h flow by " . ve whi ove Wi r be frou Cannot zn Ask thyself daily to | minded persons thou hast sl disposition, Let your inclination De advise rather than to tho your conduct, A wise man reflects before | a fool speaks, and then : what he has spoken. 1 bread of life works, the swes walter of life, life, the fai From breath Life is a battle, dawn to its latest gling with sor When is friendship fora 1 ista ¥¢« i he has made a Live can on Jess | generally ends boat on what do in shame It cannot be Loo deeply 4 | Po hat appucall or men New action and explanations noble can bear Lo oile for 4 14 8 Sell. auinan shallow ny and bravely bearing the ry, and of heartily ¥ y tha } uracing the o wel in due serves to make a fall happy life. If a man ti fixed and honorable purpose in life, and per- sistenlly attempt to carry it out (0 the best of his ability, undismayed by fail- ure or delay, the time may long coming, but it will come wh*n that pur- pose will be achieved. Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice, but an accident alone, here below. Judgment for an evil thing 1s many Limes delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is as sure as life, it is as sure as death, The rich and greedy will do well to bear in mind that coflins have no pock- ets, Everything they possess they must leave behind, and all of it is perishable except their good deeds, They will live and bloom over their graves and spring up beneath their feet in heaven, and perfume the atmosphere even in the Celestial 1egions, This is an age of slander. will only start » ¥ $4 wi in - Every In- the land, is exposed to its baneful effect, and as a consequence men of genius It is about time that slanderers should be punished. The public wel- fare demands it, When you do vour fellow-man a to all the world, nor do expect that the Buch action will demonstrate that you man, who wilfully fe low-creature. Such rudeness can not bear good fruit,
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