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THE THREAD OF LIFE; um I I“: III- nuuuuu. v-_vV,, , ‘ _ in on out. of me mud-flat- d Norfolk broods locomfnoniod by his trial: and chum Pout, thomu' eminentâ€"now lyinghigh And dry wiih the ebbin tide on some bI’OId bare hunk of ribbed can , just relieved by u bgt. tie-r0 d o! gulls and rook- irom the int ro- K of other monotony ; now working nd n the commit-felt pmontment of ; gmnâ€"gtown wreck, 811 pictumque with woving We: of wood sud m~wnck, tâ€" um.- .9.»de estuary of the Thomas , whose rise and (all would seem to suogest to a casual observer's mind the play. siolo lcal notion that its own included crabs and obsters had given it a prolonged and serious fit of marine indigestion. For a couple of months at a stretch the two young artists had toiled away ceaseless- ly at their labour of love, painting the sea itself and all that therein is, with the eyou, creeks, rivers, sands, olifl's, banks, and inlets adjacent, in every variety of mood or feature, from its glassieat calm to its angrieet hmpeet, with endless pa- tience, delight, and satisfaction. They en- joyed their work and it repaid them. It was almost ali the_pay want they ever got, indeed, A1,- nun“..- an "Inh. almost at we pay-um... "w, -- -- a , . for, like loyal eons of the Cheyne Row Club, the crew of the Mud Turtle were not auc- ceufnl. And now, as September was more than ball through, Warren Rolf began to be- thiuk himself at last of Hugh Musinger, whom he had left in rural ease on dry land at Whitcetrand under a general routine to return for him ‘ in the month of e decline of rates, some time between the 15th and the 20th. So, on a windy morning, about that precise period of the year, with a north easterly breeze setting strong across the North sea, and a falling barometer threatening squalla, according to the printed weather report. he made his way out of the mouth of the Yare, and turned southward before the flowing tide in the direction oi Whitestrand. 1 The sea was running high and splendid, and ? the two young ainters, innred to toil and accustomed to anger, thoroughly eujbyed its wild magnificence. A storm to them was a study in action. They could take notes calmly of its fiercest momenta. Al- moet every wave broke over the deck ; and the patient little Mud-Turtle, with her flat bottom and centreboard keel, tossed about likeawalnut shell on the surface of the watnr. m- drove her nose madly from time la. n u.- was a studyain action. They could (axe notes calmly of its fiercest moments. Al- most every wave broke over the deck ; and the patient little Mud-Turtle, with her flat bottom and centrerhoard keel, tossed about likeawalnut shell on the surface of the water, or drove her nose madly from time to time into the crest of a billow, to emerge triumphant one moment later, all shining and dripping with sticky brine, in the deep trough on the other side. Painting in such asea was of course simply impossible;but Warren Relf, who loved his art with supreme devotion, and never missed an opportunity of catching ahint from his ever- c anging model under the most nnpromis- in circumstances, took out pencil and paper 1’ Potts for the most part managed sheet and helm ; while Ralf, in the intervals of lufliug or tacking holding hard to the main-mast} with his left arm, and with his left hand; just grasping his drawing-pad on the other side of the mast, jotted hastily down with his right whatever peculiar form of spray or billow happened for the moment to catch and impress his artistic fancy. It was a glorious (lay for those who liked it; though a landlubher would no doubt have roundly called it a frightful voyaqe. CHAPTER 1X? mun-mun. "u Meanwhile. Wumn Roll, fiavi sun the mvuivo sud ubiquitous little ud- rile, Havv avaâ€"~.- . They had meant to make Whitestrand ' before evening; but half-way dowu. an in- cident of a sort that \V arren Relf could never bear to miss intervened to delay them. They fell in casually with a North Sea traw- ler, disabled and distressed by last night’s gale, now scudding under bare poles before the free breeze that churned and whitened the entire surface of the German Ocean. The men on board were in sore straits. though not as yet in immediate danger; and the yawl gallantly stood in close by her, to ick up the swimmers in case of seri~ one see dent. The shrill wind tore at her mainmast -, the waves charged her in vague ranks; the gafi‘ quivered and moaned at the shocks ; and ever and anon, with a bel- lowing rush, the resistless sea swept over her triumphantly from stern to stem. Meanwhile, Warren Relf, eager to fix this stray e isode on good white paper while it was sti before his eyes, made wild and rapid dashes on his pad with a sprawling hand, which conveyed to his mind, in strange shorthand hieroglyphics some faint idea of the scenery; it passed before him. LL2.‘ -__.._,.I, H [(183 01 one wvuv no u. l'“"'â€" _-, , “ She’s a terrible bad sitter, this smack,” he observed inn loud voice to Potts, with good~humored enthusiaaim, as they held on together with struggling hands on the deck of the Mal-Turtle. ‘: The moment you , d- 2__L OLA tuvn u u..- â€"-- “GD" ofstho Altai-Turtle. 3 The moment you think you've just caught her against the skyline on the crest of a wave, ehe lurches again, and over she goes, plump down into the trough, before you've had a chance to make a single mark upon your sheet of n - ‘ Andy“ 1.-.: .h, "Illa n anus-v nu...“ "1"" 1 paper. Ships are always precious bed sit. tern at the belt of times ; but when you and your model are both plunging and tossing together in dirty weather on a loppy chan- nel, I don’t believe even Turner himself could make much out of it in the way of a sketch from natureâ€"Hold hard, there, Frank ! Look out for your head! She's going to 311i}; 3 thundering big sea across her bows t in very minute.â€" By Jove! I wonder how the smack stood that last high wavelâ€"la she gone? Did it break over her. Can you see her ahead there? " “ She's nil right still," Potte shouted from‘ the flow, where he stood now in his oilakin suit, drenched from head to foot with the duhin aprny, but cheery as ever, in true sailor uhion. “I can see her must just showing above the crest. But it must have given her 3 jolly good wetting. Shall We signal the men to kncw if they'd like to come aboard here ‘2 " wvu.- â€"_ “ Signal away,” Warren Ralf answered good~humourcdly above the noise of the wind. “ No more sketching for me today, I tuke it. That last lot she ahippod wet my through and through with the misty Amp brine. I’d better at my thatch, .- for u it goes, dowu be ow in the locker. SUNSHINE AND SHADE. Wind’s imbening. We'll have enough to do to keep her nose straight in half a gale We’re going within four or tive points of the wind now. as it is. I wish we could run clear ahead at once for the poplar at White~ strand. I would too, it it weren't for the smack. This is getting every bit as hot as I like it. But we must keep an eye upon her, if we don’t want her crew to be all dead men. She can’t live six hours longer in a gale like to-day’s I'll bet you any money." The siqnalled the men, but found them unwil g still, with true seafaring devotion, to abandon their ship, which had yet some hours of life left in her. They'd stick to the smack. the skipper signalled back in route pantomime, as long as her timbers held out the water. There was nothing for it, therefore, but to lie hard by her, for humanity's sake, as close as possible, and to make as slowly as the strength of the wind would allow, by successive tacks, for the river-mouth at W hiteetrand. All day long, they held up bravely, lurch~ in and plunging on the angry waves; and on y towards evening did they part company with the toiling smack, as it was growing dusk along the low flat stretch of shore by Dnnwich. There, a fish-carrier from the North Sea, one of these fast long steamers that plough the German ocean on the look- out (or the fishing fleet ~whose catches they take up with all speed to the London mar- ket, tell in with them in the very nick of .3..- “a Mn-fnl'l‘infl the crew on board danger luau um». ...-... -.-_, ,7 As they neared the poplar a second time, { making straight for the mouth with nautical dexterity, a pale object on the port bow, rising and falling with each rise and fall of the waves on the bar, attracted \Varren Reli’a casual attention for a single moment by its strange weird likeness to a human figure. At first, he hardly regarded the thing seriously as anything more than a ‘atray bit of ll gating wreckage ; but preaently ‘the light from the maethead fell full upon it and with a sudden flash he felt convinced a, once it Was something stranger than a mere plank or fragment oi rigging. " ' '4 In...“ ” in: nailed out in ~__.I-_ 1 “ Look yonder, Frank," he called out In echoing tones to his mate ; that can't he a bucy upon the port how there I" The other man looked at it long and steadil . As he looked, the Mud~ Turtle lurche once more, and cast a reflected pen- cil ray of light from the masthead lamp over the surface of the sea, away in the direction of the suspicious object. Both men caught eight at once of some floating white drapery, swayed by the waves, and a pale face up- turned in ghastly silence to the uncertain starlight. . .n 1‘41 __:_j :â€" Btu- Ila-l“ “Port your helm hard !" Relf cried in haste. “It’s a man overboard. Washed off the smack perhaps. 110’: drowned by this time I expect, poor fellow.” His componion ported the helm at the word with a“ his might. The and answered well in apitep of ghe bllw VII-Iv - -..r-_,' Hie compnnion ported the helm at the word with all his might. The {ewl answered well in spite of the makers. With great dilficnlty, be- tween wind and tide, they lay up towards the myster one thing slowly in the very trough of the billowe that routed and danced with hoarse joy over the ehellow bar; and r: ‘Frlggfir’oile called out in his mate; thug can't. be a uwu, Ill“ I-o- .......--_ “VCUO ._ , , , was able on the deck, reached out with the other a etout boothook to draw the toe-in body alongside within hauling distance 0 the MudTurlle. As he did so, the body, eluding hie grasp. rose once more on the crest of the wave, and displayed to their view an open bosom and a long white dreee, with a floating ecu! or shawl of some thin materiel etill hanging loom around the neck end shoulders. The face itself they couldn't uyet diltinguieh; it fell back languid be- neeth the epray at the top, I0 that only the throat and chin were vuible; but by the dreee and the open bosom alone, it was clear at once that the object they saw wee not the corpeo of n sailor. Warren Reii almoet let drop t he boathook in horror Rolf. holdhlg tl ht to the that with one bud, and bdnno o_ng_ himu}! :- well uh. AWII AL- md surpriee. “ Great heavens l" he excleimed, turning round excitedly, “ it's e women-e lady-â€" deed-4n the water I” The billowo broke, and curled over mojeetieelly with resiltlese force into the tree h below them. It- undertow sucked the ud-Turllc after it fiercely towards the shore awn] from the body. With a violent effort, Wen-en Rolf, longing forward eagerly et the lurch. seized hold of the corpse b the floating could It turned of itself an the ooh ‘cegght it” end dAiapleyed ite feee in the - __--s -mn C-“ .nAt‘nnh “5"" no, Ill-\- ..._‘.-_',, rule starlight. A;greet awo fell andden~ y upon the astonished young painter-'3 mind. It was indeed a. woman that he held now by the dripping hairâ€"a beautiful oung girl, in in white dress: and the wen ace was one he bed seen before. Even in that dim belt-light he recognized her WNW-J _--L 2.. A .ann A: Frenli’!" he cried out in e voice of hushed and reverent eurprineâ€"“ never mind the ship. Come forwerd and help me. We must take her on board. I know her! I know her ! She's e friend of Messinger'e." The corpee was one of the two young girls he had seen that day two months be- fore sitting with their arms round one mother's waists, close to the very spot where they now lay up, on the gnarled and nuked roots of the famous old popler. The peaceful solution of the recent Hay- tian troubles shows that old President Salo- mon is an in enious diplomat. Having‘ found two of his Ministers concerned in a‘ plot to overthrow him, he hired them, as the story brought by the Yantic goes, at $5,000 each to consent to be.banished. So, banished they were, Secretary F. Manigat, of the Interior De artment and of Public Instruction, to Cu a, and Secretary Legi- time to Jamaica. A less original statecraft would perhaps have shot them off-hand; but they had zealous adherents who might have instantly sought to avenge them. A revolution in Hayti is always in order, and it is along time since an old-fashioned re~ lvolt has occurred._ Recognizing this fact, 9),..A VVIU All-t- V'v».-- ‘â€" the energetic anil grim?! old. president bafiled it by varying the ordinary rude method of dealing with walk-cutouts by that mL,2 _____ ulna-luvs. v- -'_-__° 7‘ , of voluntary and paid exile. Their com. patriots could hardly take umbrage at this liberal arrangement for foreign resi- dence. Still, it is admitted that the present peace is only temporary. President Salo- mon, who was chosen in 1879 for seven years, and again in 1886 for seven years more, has been extraordinarily successful in keeping himself in power ; but the burdens of taxation constantly prompt to revolt. Hm I! Thom Taken from Placesâ€"others Rom occupations and Personal Trans. Not only countries but counties and towns were a. fruixful source of surnames, writes Prof. N. H. E Ieston. John from Cornwall become John ornwall or Cornish. Richard who lived near a piece of woodland was BPUAUH v; 0â€"- -w-â€".-â€"__ __ V- , _ originating the surname Atwaod, or John living near a hill became John Hill. So with Underhill, Atwell, etc. John living near a clump of oaks was John attain oaks, abbreviated into Noakea ; or William who had pitched his tent or cabin near a notable ash tree was known as William at the ash or William atten asthhich easily d‘riited Ul VII-IQ-n-I ww-vâ€" #â€" into Nah. So, too,"ihbfiias who lived near a small atream (orjn 4nglo_SuoP a becket) - awn-n. â€"--‘â€"__ ‘__ 7,, we: Thomas at the beech“, and thus was! named the martyr Thomas a Becket. The most common terminations of English nur~ name: taken from laces are ford, ham, lea, and ton. Ford in mm the Saxon farm, to go, ei ying the place where a Itream oonld crossed. In the name of Shakespeare’s birthplace we have a memento of three different eras of English history, viz., the periods of the oc- cnpanoy by the old Britons, the Romans, and the Saxons. Strut ie_ an abhreviation of In“ uuv w â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€" strata (street), the name by which the great Roman roads were known. Ford tells us that one of these roads crossed a. stream, and Avon in the name which the old Britons or Celts (rave to the‘atream. _ ‘ ‘ < V‘!E#!__ A WI“! vn'c w Ill-v u-nwâ€"u The word lea, legh, or leigh, signifying a partially wooded field, served as the ending tor many surnames, such as Horsley, Cow- ley. Ashley, Oakley, Lindley, and Berkley, or Birchley. Hay or haw means a hedge, and this has iven us Hayes, Haynes, Haley, Haywood, awes, Haworth, Hawthorn, Haughton,_ or Houghton. L_.__ -lr__,l-.1 an anti. nillsuuvu, vs numb..- ._ Occupations, too, have afforded an end- less army of surnames. This method was used by the Romans in such names as F ab- rlcus (smith), Pictor (painter), A ricola (farmer). In England a skilful unter would adopt that as his surname, and equally so wiah the carpenter, joiner, saw- yer, baker‘, or hutch“. , __.l --....I.‘..:..n- bnn nave J , u-..-- -_ Personal traits and complexiona, too, gave rise to surnames. From the former we have the names Stout, Strong, Long, Longman, Longfellow; and from ‘the latter Brown, W __-I 1.--}... u lulu!" , an“ -â€"â€".-. -_- _., uu , _ Blac , etc. Some mental and moral traits were also used to d_eno_te guruamea. Richard I": L‘_,I WU!!! nlnv uuuu ‘v uuâ€"vâ€"v ___-__ I. of England was better knon'nea Richard of the Lion Heart. The next step would be to derive from this quality the surname Lyon. Dnmley (to widow)-â€"And so your hue- dand lost his life by falling out of 3 second. storey_ windqgv, Mrs. Robson 2 A--. \I_ ru.._.l-.. .nl‘ mn- ltUlc, uluuuw, u..." â€"-V~,“ _ Widowâ€"Ah, yes, Mr. Dumley, and was instantly killed. It was terrible Horrible ! Dumley (with genuine attempt ut con-oh- tion)â€"Yel, Mrs. Hobwn,bntâ€"erâ€"â€"ho might lknve fallen out of a four-storey window. you now. An Ingenious Deplomat. BEGIN 0F SURNAMES. Might lime Been Worse. (1-0 m; CONTINUED.) {ht w the glue! with ope A Eou or A Evsuwn. Not a day puss: but some naming incl- dont occur: on the street-cars that reflovoa tbs gonenl‘ monotony of a ride in one of ,_~ _...‘-- \'Anfiar(‘lv bl“! scum-s luvuvavu, v- .. -7... these modern conveniences. Yesterday ‘ afternoon as a Ridge road car was oorning up Lake avenue. the driver stopped on being signaled by a young men on a crossing not let from Driving Perk avenue. The young man was accompanied by a rather pretty young women who was dressed in a li ht. airy summer attire and carried a fancy co or- ed sun parasel. The one man jum aboard the car first and ru ed inside, so- curing the only seat vacant, leaving the young woman to follow as best she could. 0! course every one expected that he would give up his seat to bill lady. but he did not do so. and she. after standing awhile, hold- ing on to a strap. concluded to have a seat anyway. and, withouta word of warning. plumped down on the lap of her escort. say- ing as she did so, " I'm as tired~as you are. darling, and you will have to hold me until I can get a seat." He gave a grunt of the hog kind, and told her in plain English that she could stand or sit on the floor for all he cared, hut he wouldn’t hold her. -A,..__a_ A: 6‘.“ nae. WV“. I'D-v “v vâ€"--_ - At this several male occupants of the car ofiered their state to the young woman, but she declined their offer and mid :â€"“ He’s as nble to hold me now as he was before we were married, and I will sit where I am." The passengers were up to [this time silent- ly smothering their laughter, but the last was too much for them, and one of them remarked, “ the car will be thrown from the track unless we stop laughing no hard." Realisin the {not that he was making a target of imself the yt 'ing man rose hastily, nearly throwing his Carling wife on the liner, and made a rush in the door, saying as he did “7),“:an take mgisenti I'll walk A - ___-.. _.\L uu ur; Ulu u -v‘. -“_ Va 7 ~ .. . home," and left the car. The wife was not dismayed in the least, but eat there quietly enjoying the fun as well u did the other perineumâ€"[Rochester Democrat. No sooner are the girls large enough to posseas the requisite physical strength than they are set to the moat aervile work the land afl'ords. The child has a penier basket fitted to her ahoulders at the earliest possi- ble moment, and she drops it only when old age. premature but merciful, robs her of power to carry it longer. I have seen sweet little girls of twelve to fourteen staggering down a mountain side or along a rough poth- wey_ under the. weight of bundles of fegots n.-_\:-.. “dual. fknn nn "a, uuuv. “v "v- __ , as large as their bodies, which the ' no sooner dropped than they hurried bac fox othere. I have seen girls of fifteen or six~ teen years barefooted and.bareheaded, in the blistering rays of an Au gust sun, breaking up the ground by swinging mattocks heavy enough to tax the strength of an able-bodied ‘ man. And 1 have known a young miss no j older than these to be employed as a porter ‘ for carrying the baggage of travellers up and down the steepest mountain path in all the region round about. She admitted that it was sometimes Very hard to take another step, but yet she must. And she carried such an amount of baggage ! A stout-limbed guide is protected by the law, so that he cannot be compelled to carry above twenty five pounds, but the limit to the burdens often put upon girls is their inability to stand up under anything more. But the burden increases with the age and strength of the burden-bearers, till by the time the girls have come to womanhood there is no sort of menial toll in which they do not bear a handâ€"and quite commonly the chief ['08 AND ABOUT WDMEN. hand. Guests invited to one of the prettiest wed- dings of the week, writes a New York cor- respondent, were surprised to read on one corner of the dainty Wedding ‘cards, “ No â€" _. â€"-_-Il corner Ul uuu “ulna-J ....... gifts," engraved in a quaint arabezqne scroll, which perforce attracted attention. It re- quired some independence of character and some self-denial to go counter to established custom in such a matter, but the dimpled little bride, who looks more like a sweat, plump, pink and white grown up baby than ”W“ _._:_.a...l “mu-“union, nn. Plump, P“"‘ n“ " "" a' ' ' . _ a person of strong-minded proclivities, an- nounced to her friends when they question- ed her decision, “ I won’t make my mar- riage to Archie a Methodist donation party where all the parish bring in thls, that and the other to patch up the salary. We have a circle of three or four hundred friends, and everybody knows that a great many of them would buy presents for us not at all because they love us, but because it is the lgroper thing, and even if the can't ‘ ado the tax, they mustn’t be on one by rich Mrs. A. or Mr. B." Society people have indeed pushed the gift business herd within a few seasons, until there are dozens and scores of young married couples who pinch themselves during Lent and dread the coming June because of the draft the Easter and early summer weddings make on their incomes. If matters go on as they are do- ing now there may sometime be a spring exodus from New York into the country and to Europe, comparable to the (light of the hiay_tax:dodgers from Boston, to escape ,2 L- _-_ -Annm..lanul In um may b“-‘\|vubâ€"-â€" -_ -__ , paying the debts of honor eecuninlated in the shape 0! 200 or 300 wedding gifts, to be returned at the marriage of the givers. There amino old women in Terre del Fuego. Lest this should {cause an exodus from the civilized world it would perhapaghe beat to explain why. When a women gets to the right age, about forty-five, she is considere to have done her duty. With â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€" Join Mrnmnninfll therefore. She is L'Uunluclvu vv ......- ‘-___- ,, , ' appropriate ceremonies, therefore, she is either lanced or strangled, and the family larder ia_replenishod yith her roasted re- .L __- _-- okn‘bimn IBI'UISI' In lclluussuuvu u.-.- -_-_ mains. The women. when they see theltime of sacrifice approaching, never attempt to escape it. They regard it as about as settled a fact as that the wind should blow, and never trouble themselves about it. The Fugoaus are not cannibels further them uhis. They never eat children, young women or mewâ€"[San Francisco Examiner. wass GIRLS A5 Bms'rs or Bunnnx. Wife (counting over her change after mak‘ ing a purchase)â€"-“ I guess he’s given me the wrong change." Husband (savwely)--“ I thought so ; that’l the way my hard-earned money goes. Trust a women to get fooled. (:0 back to the counter and get it made right at once.” Wife retruna to the counter end bonds the clerk $82 bill. Husbmdâ€"~.“Why, what hoveyon been dying?" W ifeâ€""Moklng the change right. He gave me 32 too much. No PLACE FOR OLD Womax. Tucmsa A Wm: SENSE. A Snxsmmz Emma. flu-bud (more timely 'hm "OHâ€"“Welt by jury. ) on m a knot.” Mrs. Ltngtry in aid to be considering a rev'uion of her to!“ tho: Ihall do many with bustle. and tight local, and allow hu- form to resume the shape ch“ mimic intended it should have. Grace Greenwood ony- thnt all Pullinn women ere not frivolous, end more than ell Benton women ere profound. She does not belleve that Anglo Saxons enjo a monopol of home virtues end practice piety. on she doee belleve the!) the greet majority 01 French wives are loyel, French mother: tender. French grandmothers and elderly melden lediee devout. The Garden of Eden, it is now asserted, was located in Central Americx. Mme. Alice 1e Plougeon, wife of an eminent man of science, in the prophet of the new belief. and ehe claims to have found writing: which give the whole history of the human race, showing that America and Europe were then united by land which has since been submerged. The Nebraska Slate Journal as e: " In 3 lint of young lodiu who ottende on enter- tainment the other evening, a: reported by an exchnnge, there were four Mamiee. one Winnie, two Sodiea, two Lizziee, three Anniee, one Rosie, one Frankie, two J enniee, four Nellie: and one Letitia. All honor to the stately Letitio who refused to mutilate her nome. lied Charlotte Cordoy lived in theee times she would have gone into history as Lottie." The influence of the moon upon vegan- tiou is an interesting problem awaiting solu- tion. A recent writer upon the subject mention: hunt woodcutters in Cape Colony and in I ndin insist that timber in full of up and unfit to be out at full moon. The rumour that Stanley has been wound- ed in a fight with natives and has been aban-- doned b half of his men cannot be called absolute y incredible, since it is clear that some unexpected mishap must be assumed in order to account for the long lack of an- thentio tidings from him. As one of the charges brought against the gallant explor- er by his enemies is that he is very ready to fight the Africans, and as he has taken; route of which a large part has never been explored, it is quite possible that he may have Men engaged in battle. But it is difficult to imagine where his escort would go on abandoning him. They are wholly dependent on him, and ignor- , 2;... .LAL- w nun-J vvvvvvvv r -_ . ant as they must be after their 'long journey how they could reach their homes, they are more likely to be utterly anzl ab~ jectly dependent than disposed to explore on their own account. It was in February of last year that these people were engaged by Stanley, and accordingly they have been with him too long to make their reported defection very probable. Last November there was a story from Congo that “there had been fighting between natives and Stanley's force, and that the rear ouard of the latter had been cut all," so that the present rumcr may be a revival of the old one. Much less is known about the region our. rounding the South Pole than about that in the neighbourhood of the North Pole, for this reason, among others, that Polar ex- ploretion hunchiefiy been directed towards ,_.__A. ......_n..‘..‘ Anhrnfin Plulauvu “we: ......... the latter. The most successful Antarctic expeditions Were the American one under Lieutenant \Vilkes in 1838 42 and the Eng~ lish one under Sir James Ross in 1838-43 but even these accomplished very little in the way of discovery. The results of Antarctic exploration so far are thus summarized by the New York Tribune :â€"“ Nobody has got within seven or eight hundred miles of the South Pole; that icy barriers have been en- countered which eclipse anything known in the North frigi:l zme ; that mountains have been seen, one shooting forth volcanic limes, and loftier than any discovered by Northern explorers ; that all the land there is covered with snow at all seasons; that no human being has been met with beyond 55 d rees; that no vegetable growth, except lic ens, has been seen beyond 58 degrees, and that no land quadruped is known to exist beyond 66 degrees." It is with a view to the extension oi this meagre knowledge ‘ that some German scientists, with whom Mr. Henry Villard, of Northern Pacific fame, is cooperating, are about to send out another expedition to the South Pole. Their prospects of success are not encourag- ing, although it is expected that the use of steam vessels wsll enable the explorers to Emperor William's proc lamation issued esterday to his people is at least a little ass martial in tone than the pair of proclam- aions to the army and the navy that pre- ceded it. Therein in it, neverthelessmeither aspiration for eaee nor expectation of it. unless in the Indefinite phrase “ to guard the eaee." which is itself followed by a re. min er that both Prince and people musthe "equally ready to make sacrifices for the Fatherland." That militarism is “ in the saddle " now in Germany and is about to run a free course seems to be the opinion of the most competent cbservers. Had there been any doubt on the subject, the almost start- ling promptncss and exultation with which the young Emperor hurried out proolama~ tions to his larmy and his navy, letting the 1 one to the people follow later, would have removed it. The whole tone of his essay-like order to his army, with its expression of a desire to occupy first the attitude of “war lord," is ominous. Being thus forewarned, signs of willingness on the part of the new Emperor to refrain from pursuing projects of lory on the battle-field will belhailed wit the more pleasure. But it would be folly not to see that no such military note as this young monarch's has been struck on the accession of any European sovereign for many warmâ€"IN. Y. Times. Some Facts About. the Poles. The Grad jury ‘at Chicago recently brought in the followipg inQictmenc agnlut .! ._‘!A‘ A. the liquor traffic: “Our inventigntfim of the murder cases has impressed us to the degree that we deem it our officiel du to call the attention of the court to the fol ow- ing fact in the hope thet it may have some little efl'ect on future legislation regarding the liquor traffic: We find that in every case or murder or menelnn hwr (except one) the «use leading to the or me come direct from the nloon. The New Emperor. Stanley.