THE SWEET, SAD YEARS, The sweet, sad years, the sun, the rain, Alas! too quickly did they wane, For each some boon, some blessing bore; Of smiles and tears each had its store, Its checkerod lot of bliss and pain. Although it idle be and vain, Yet cannot I the wish restrain That I had held them evermore, The sweet, sad’ years! Like echo of an old refrain That long within the mind bas lain, 1 keep repeating o'er and o'er, “Nothing can e'er the past restore, Nothing bring back the years again, The sweet, sad years.” ~Rev. Charles D, Ball, DUALLA. STANLEY. BY HENRY M. HILE proceeding to Zanzibar in February, 1879, in the chartered steamer Alblon, we stopped at Aden to take in coal, Pres. sently a bright Somali youth, who had paddled his own canoe, swung himself aboard our ship, and, making fast his lit. tle craft with a lanyard, accosted me with, “Want a boy, sir” “No.” ‘‘Me good boy, sir. “No, thank you.” “I hear you go to Africa, and want men, I been to America, been "fore the mast, been coachman, been butler in Brooklyn, with Mr. Hines. I'd like to go with you, sir.” “Why, you are quite a prodigy! How old are yout” “Seventeen, sir I now examined him closely. He was a tall, shapely, comely, intelligent young man | ‘quite Do anything.” " ¥ ready for anything” “Well, what wages do you want?” ‘Anything you like to give, sir. D lar, two dollar, three dollar a You find out yourself by-m’'-by what I worth, If I'm no good, no money.” exir I'll n shillings a month, and we gee afterward. Eh?” ‘“‘Aw.right, sir.” And upon these terms Dualla, Somalia boy, entered my service. For several months I did not pay mu-h heed to him. There had been no occasion for any exhibition of superior ability or courage, 1 observed, however, that on Sunday Dualla attracted every eye by the splendor and varigated s of his dress. One time would resemble a young Genoese dandy, another day he would astonish us by a rich Mussulman attire, the text he would emerge from his cabin a la Zanzibar, in tarboosh and khaosu, but always exceedingly trim and clean. Still we had several smart young Zavozibaris, who, not exquisites as Dualla, were, nevertheless, favorites for their int about ordinary ; » you ten s ors of he though such and d Company No. to manipulate them disconnect their parts, was set up at a point blank range, an prize was offered to the in order to she the Zanzibaris good shooting was, five European officers were requested to step for ward and exhibit their skill. But, to shame, not one white man hit the tar Dualla was called upon. Straight a an arrow he 1 a second and fired plugging the target near the center. A few weeks later while engaged on the highway for the wagons, i to make an ‘‘indent” for provisions o the Main Depot below, and asked commissariat officer he he had distnbutad that took out his note leaves over | eften that at said; **Do you mean to say you best shot, and Ww what stood wishe W many mi and and roing. turned forward impatient hook kward last | member how many rations you are serving out?” “I'll tell you directly pen in hand for My time was Was precious, “‘Here, Dualla,” I at last cried. “Tel this gentieman how many rations he served out this morning.” never suspect. ing that he did know, but as an indirect chafl at the commissariat, “Ope hundred sod forty-eight, One hundred and forty-eight pounds rice, one hundred an] forty-eight pounds beans,” he replied. “How do you kvow,” I asked, aston ished. “I help weigh them, sir.” “That will do, thank you,” At Stanley Pool an officer requested the loan of our new steel barge that he might proceed up river and visit his friends at the next station, The steel boat pulled twelve oars and, completely equipped and launched on the Upper Congo, had cost us about $800. It was lent with an injunction that on his return he should draw her up carefully on the beach out of harm's way and padlock her chain, The Lieu- tenant faithfully promised, went up river, and on coming back reported him- self and assured me of the security of the boat, The next morning the boat was need. od for special service, But she was not on the beach, and no one knew what had become of her, The Lieutenant was questioned, and it was discovered thet be bad given the orders {or securing the boat, but had not waited to see his orders carried out, The crow, it then transpired, had simply rowed ber ashore, and each man had sprung out and gove to his own mess, It was then obvious to all of us that the surge from the Great Cataract, which was but two miles below, hal entered I waited minute sir." another five valuable; every sir after | with curly silk hair and a look of Np } the the cove, lifted the boat clear of the strand, and receding toward the terrible *vortex, had borue her away with all her equipment aboard. Though it appeared hopeless we should ever hear of the boat again, four several triplets of messengers were dis- patched in as many directions across country to warn the natives down river and offer rewards for her recovery; and [ set off with Dualls and another toward the Great Cataract of Kintamo, over the hill of Leopoldville. On reaching the summit overlooking the cataract, Stretch, one of the young attendants, with his sharp eyes, de- tected the boat about midstream, strandcd upon a reef, the lower part of which seamed to hang over the edge of the roaring cataract. With my glass 1 could see her like a tiny speck compared to the mile-wide river. Above the reef the puissant Congo was treacherously placid, but we, who had so often crossed it two miles above the station within view of the gulf, had often occasion to | dread its terrible welocity, and below the | reef it was all a scene of remorseless fury, a countless series of tossing waves | and spray crowned crests, and here and | there veritable towers which were no sooner formed than they scemed to be | swung bodily into the air, to be fol- | lowed by others. The aye was fascinated by the wild picture of tremendous strength and incessant rage which the Great Cataract furnished at this view of | it. One could gaze at it for hours, for | its suggestion of ceascless passion, | power and its awful engulphing- ness, while its hoarse roar 1s in fit volume accompaniment to the watery | horror. I sat down and studied the river above the reef. From our side the boat was | | quite seven hundred yards, and about one thousand yards from the opposite bank. The low rock ou which she lay was probably fifty yards in width, and | rose about a foot above the water, and | by one of those surges caused by the | vicinity of the cataract and shifting cur- he beat had doubtless been sw ayed eared to be daw } Ay | ti rents the channel. mouth, | At beach were 2 pad lle steamer and a canoe, We set | water li 2 mark by driving & peg at the and resolved to wait or fell. sad Lo whether the river rose nty hours later the river had sub. I went back to the The boat was f reel hill FRR A higher larger and extended fur was iver out the the r gray tongue of rock. bad sub f reci was y si le, still larger, t the rive neeived a plan | a ooking a ! which I audibly revealed, that, “If I were yl had not so man ilitie could save her. saying Yi i . : A job, Dut whom trusteq 3 gir?" asked alla, en addressing hin I was thinkiog of a dar r wlio 3 and A hat could you dot” “I could try, mr.” joubt you could see myself bh that I this or she is only boat. s cataract, and long bel srrent flows do y get there! Ke 5 Low wa think, g is emsy, provided I would take {f Manilla rope which is in and which is 300 yards a, end of it to ur steamer would then hoose the best canoe men in the « amp, of his crew, that new coil room and I would anchor, I our store long tie one bead h, strike out 1 of the river from our cove, and when | saw that the buat and reef straight toward an our canoe at the idly for the centre low me | would When about two hundred and fifty yards above the reef point I would then drop my an and pay out the hawser hall its rth, The other half, alter making [ast at the bow of the canoe, 1 would pay out along the length of the canoe, | make fast at the stern, and then the best | man should swim down to the boat with the other end of the rope and make ft | fast to the ring bolt at the boat's bow | Then the rest of the crew would float {down by the rope to the reef, and all hands, after putting an oar under her bow, would roll the boat up bit by bit over the reef until was afloat, All the crew, except the steersman, would | then haul themselves hand over hand to and when all were aboard would haul the boat abreast of the canoe. I'hen | would transfer all the crow, ex cept the steersman, into the hwat, and, pulling up boat and canoe until the an. | chor was near atrip, seat everybody in | his place with every oar out and ready; { then, at a word, lift the anchor into the | | boat, and away we would fly for this | shore, and we should fetch up well | above the Catarset. Do you see! What do you think of that, Duallal" “Oh, I can do that perfectly,” eried Dualla. & '*Nonseose, my lad; you would forget every word I said, and then | should lose you; for no boat can live in that cata. mot.” “No, sir; feel I can do it; and, if you leave it to me, it will be done.” “Very well, then; but take your time and thiok of it. Take all day and think of it. The river is falling steadily and the rainy season Is over, Now, 1 should were directly be them. seer chor lene she he ¢ noe, | kit. That was | and | M Ys | sionaries in the past, an | word sheikh became shah, like to hear first whether you can re- member what I said.” And Dualla, with his wonderful memory, repeated the operation word for word as had de- scribed jt. After that Dualla was left to himself for the day, and when I retired for the night I had heard no word. The next morning, while I was taking my bath, I beard a great shout in the station, and looking out of the window, I saw the Zanzibaris rushing frantically to the beach. They were shortly after seen marching in procession to my house with Dualla hoisted high, and seated like & hero on their shoulders. At the door I met them, and, gravely taking off my i cap, said, ‘Good morning, Mr. Dualla.’ | Dualla leaped smartly to the ground, and saluting, said, “The boat is at the beach, sir.” “Thank you, Dualla; there are three cheques for you, for £25 each. One is {rom Lieutenant ——, who was the cause of the great danger you have been put to; the second is on behalf of the Inter. national Association, for saving property; the third is from myself, for your bravery, Out of the jaws of death, Out of the mouth of hall, Thank God!" Duslla performed many other brilliant feats, but after six years’ service with me | on the Congo he had £400 pounds in Bank of England stock aod a complete He subsequently took Captain James in his through Somaliland, and employed by Mr. G 8. kenzie, of the 1. B. E. A. Company, in East Africa, at a salary of £15 per month. He is the same Dualla who is mentioned so often and so creditably with dition was expe- inter Mae. { in Captain Lugard’s dispatches as having assisted him so loyally and so cleverly the Mahomme in his negotiations with the Judget, dans of Uganda, —Pall Mall i, i S A Bird's Eye Yiew of Dahomey. reviously but little known has been brought Although | to outsiders, Dakomey Ie Ted i he #4 uy & 1 oh our | marsed OY rth lies the ! largest and kinglom on the slave has greatly reduced by lisastrous wars with neigh Its population is estimated The capital is Abe Wi werful } vecn in s And its seaport is C8 AW AY monarchy, founde ath Cent airy, Behanzin maintaining, idiery, the now famous HW) Amazons, or female disciplined aad The natives, who and of pure Afri. farmers , King be. ordinary so body guard of 6 who are well we. worshipers tron Ps, formidable warri are fetish i, are industrioys ’ pr be and exporting maize, catt R as | ¢} their extreme barbarism the by the French warfare, were {ound of modern istomed to practice sud mis. subjugs NNeYAns to possess Lhe arms been ad They have rue itrages travelers upon their tion by France, alter a most stubborr matter of congratulation 1. =Mail and Ex resistance, is a to the ¢ ivilized worl ———— Photographing Vowel Sounds. At the re siology at ent International Congress Liege, ng the sound of vowels, Edison’ phonographs. Immediately afterward they were repr wluced very slowly, and the vibrations recorded by a microphoue, The Istter was furnished with a murror, which reflected the light of an electric ismp upon a registering cylinder, covered with sensitized paper and protected by another cylinder with a small opening which gave passage to the rays of lignt from the reflector. By this means was btained very distinet photographic traces, and the constancy was remark. able for the diffsrent letters. New York Commercial Advertiser, were sung out before one of ————— — Tracing the Name “Chess.” he word ‘‘chess” is said to be a cor. ruption of the Arabic word ‘‘sheikh,” meaning chief or king. The game came westward by way of Persia, where the It was the gaae of the king. The term ‘‘check" is merely to give notice that the king is sttacked, and ‘‘checkmate” means ‘the king is dead ;” the verb mata being from the same root as the Spanish matador, the slayer of the bull, The word check, whether verb or noun, may be traced through several curious back to the Persian and Arable. Ewen | the word exchequer is curiously tangled up ia this verbal network. Churchman, -— — Marvels of Shoemaking. The Boston Globe says that in a pair ol fine shoes there are two sewed ploces, two inner soles, two stiffenings, two pieces of steel to give a spring to the ia. stop, two rands, twelve heel ploces, two sole linings, twenly upper pleces, thirty tacks, twelve oalls in the heels and twenty buttons, to say nothing of thread, both silk and flax, but the wonder is found in the rapidity with which these multitudinous pleces are combined ina single completed work, for, as an exper. iment, some shoe faciories have from the leather completed a pair of shoes in loss than an hour and & half, and, wm a test, pair of men’ hoen finished 1a twenty minutes. s their | | plant, but keeps service ramifications | f “a Fe LAND PLASTER POR STABLES, Professor Dean, of the Ontario Agri- cultural College, says on the subject of land plaster in stables: ‘We use con- stantly on our floors a liberal quantity of land plaster or gypsum, which has three effects: (1) It fixes the ammonia and makes the manure more valuable, (2) It sweetens the stable, absorbing odors, appearance and looks neat and tidy, In fact, an hour after our cows are turned out you would scare ely know that a cow had been in. liberal of Both are cheap.’ use plaster acd y 800T TEA YOR PLANTS, One of the best fertilizers for pot It not only nourishes the the soil sweet, destroy all worms and insects, and even rout the green fly. It is best used in a liquid form. One tablespoonful of soot 10 two quarts of 3 plants is soot, will way of making the tea, to make it If one desires in larger quantities, put into a vessel holding fifteen gallons of water al f i a hail peck of soot, and stir twice a day for a week s t y tie the Probably the better way is securely io a coarse bag, to let the le it. Throw nugn SOO ynamite yin esirabie [] 10} OF Buch H so safe as the but saler 8 of « Xperts, réons generally under To break up stumps | if, WUer procs is I0Ws IEAPEN feed bid s BOG such will con FEEDS, every winter, as long tremendous dema: to the | in thirty low west notch and bran Wes who vear years, Price dar. i every farmers 1o it had better car load and get it ground » custom mill, and feed the and middlings, se ling the flour for what they can realize If we were in Northern Dakota or Minnesota we would not sell wheat at fifty cents a bashel, if we had good cows to feed it to, and butter thirty-one cents a pound in Chicago there are four pounds of butter in a bushel of wheat fed to a good cow, with good roughage in addition. Bat whether in the Dakotas or New York, everywhere the dairy farmer is at the mercy of the feed vender, This would not be so if the majority set seriously to work to produce their own feed, 10 some form or other, The mischief is, the most of far those buy bran We believe no matter what the price of butter What a lot of education we all do high, is, need on this feed question. out by the dairy farmers by which chey can figure, price of feed stufl is for more farmers to RO at growing peas and silage corn. Not one man in a thousand kpows what he could do if he should try, —Hoard's Dairyman, TO KEEP DUTTER, To keep butter several months it is necessary that the butter be perfectly well made and be completely freed from all traces of the buttermilk, or this will quickly spoil it. Tt must then be pack »d without delay in air-prool ckages; a glazed crock or jar is n good package, or a new, clean white oak or spruce tub, with a tight-fitting cover, This is fist sonkad with water and a little soda to remove aay acid of the wood. It is then well scalded and soaked with salt brine. Thon it is rinsed with pure cold water and sprinkled with fine salt on the in- side. The butter is then packed la sol- idly, each layer of four inches being well packed, to leave no alr spaces, snd sprinkled with Soe salt. Thea another : bad | (3) It gives the stable a better | This is accomplished by whitewash, |? | selected, warm water is a simple | There is so | | little real figuring-—so little really studied layer is packed in the same way, and so on until the tub is full, A clean cover of cotton cloth is laid over the top of the butter; this is covered with fine dry salt, and the cover is fastened down. Care is to be taken to exclude air by covering and packing under the cover. The tub is then kept in a clean, dry, airy place where no disagreeable smells may affectit, Good butter thus packed may be kept for six or eight months without the least deterioration. The Jersey cows make good butter, which bas a high color, and some of them make good deal of it, but the best are too costly for common use, A pood, well. fod Ayrshire cow is as good for butter as 4 Jersey for a working dairy. Bome Durham or short-born cows are good butter makers, and a good judge of cows might get a dairy of the common stock that would be very good if well The best common cow is a | half-bred Jersey having a good common iam and a pure sire. Bome of these i: 4s Lhe pure brea. FARM AKD GARDEN Dead dogs kill no sheep ngs and a grain, id hens are vdvisable to LUey Dave mothers, ir certala should Go Lhe successfully have fitivation ced meal a per suceceding in fs willing to give at ‘east at he does attention 1 it, AD Are comfort ot his own comlort, should Heads be 1 frames t cool Cabbages ia eold aired freely and winter and spring us kep ¢ must now tected, but not covered too deeply, nor stored in too warm a piace Because occasionally a crowsbred fowl presents a fine appearance one is temple i to think it a good plan to breed them, hut this is a mistake The best results | are secured by keeping the breeds pure. In the management of fattening it is much better to have fowls eager and hungry for their food, so that they will hunt and scratch for something to eat, rather than to bave them lazy aod list. leas, mers stop feed when prices of feed go | In most cases, even when the poultry is given a good range, it will be found advisable to have a close yard where, at any time it may be considered advisable, more or less of the poultry can be con. | fined, The way to bring down the | It takes time to increase a cow's | capacity for milk when feeding for that | purpose, A cow giving 150 pounds of milk a year cannot be made to give 300 pounds immediately. The change is gradually made. Some of the larger breeds of poultry are best in small towns or villages where | it is desirable to allow them the range | of your own premises, but not to bother | the neighbors, The larger breeds are easier to restrale, A few oarrute given daily to the horses and cows will be considered a lugury by them, and the carrots will greatly benefit them, One of the best modes of pro viding a oatural butter color for the butter is to use carrots for the cows, To get milk—to get the most and the best milk.—the ily comfort of the cow must be considered and ministered to. The comfort, the the rest of the cow must be whe be expected to yield to the extent of ber powers. { environment, a The Aretie Highlanders. Fhe Arctic Highlanders are, from their nomadic race, They rarely have their summer abiding place where their winter settlements are, and the dwellings for the two seasons are of { entirely different character, Their winter | | | i | | | i | | | huts, or igloos, are of two kinds of con- struction, Those for temporary use while traveling are built of snow or ice, Those for permanent use are where the ficree porthwest winds are tempered by great chifs, and are built of stone; un entrance to each is had through a lcng, low tunnel, and both are covered by turf. The interiors MX feet square and lagh, lined with skins, with the fur outward. Ouve-half the interior is taken up by a platform on which the family f sit, and the other halt is used asa receptacle for all kinds of filth and refuse, In stricted quarters five, six and sometimes more Eskimos swelter a terrific heat from a small oil oy them - located are about and and rien these con- &inp, aud en) | selves during the long | : | enjoyn ent consists Il from the which lasts vember to the middle of in { and visiting. As soon as the spring thaws begin, the ’ } roofs of the stone taken off to ur | sallow the elements to cleanse the inter iors, and the occupants betake themss tents, set 0 perh 1 v akit Lo tupics, or skin t upg miles from their winter habitation These tupics are made of sealskin the fur all scraped off, exactly alike, and of pieces, The § and aii same n a of the nieriors are the same % and thy. Indeed, filth and Pp [ erle . as the iglo Are | vern ment of tt COSEATY accom par iP Le Water for washing purposes ti read Se —— - » Most Pieasant Way STATE OF UNIO, UTTY OF |=. that he is the } ney & 16G0, rer every by Lhe De ured Crexey. ”" my FRANK J A ER THE CRIP gain strengt : Mre. Emersou, kind - Yo glad 1 I" Hoo as Ho Mus. Isaian Got Hood" tw aT rey d’s ures Sp raat A A Hoods Pilla™ Erne Ares nr on Mar HOODS PILLS wr ty prepared from t wrt Ingredients N w 4 S Scrofula Mrs. E J Rowell, Medford, Mass. save hor mother has hoon cared of Serofula by the use of four bottles of after Saving had much other tre Shel BE Ament, and being reduced to qui ’ tea low condition of health, as it was thought she could not live. INHERITED SCROFULA. BoTuIa. whith meet hereditary bis face. For a sear! bad ven up sll hope of his recovery, when Analy foe induced to use A few bottles ha Slims of TL. 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