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s3 the two cautiously made their way to tho head of the box and debited what to do. Lwheo tho umo muflied voice was heard to remark: “Po‘iy wants a crnckrr !" ‘ Turn the mystery WM explained. Some {can at Denver had expressed a parrot to a Erie-ad in Karissa Ci'y. Its cage hzui been or {may and forgotten, and the bird had aiumiiy become hungry and thirsty. 8.» it aitcdan long an it could, and then made it- li heard in the manner that an horrified O express messenger. How long he slept he had no idea. but sud- denl , us it in a dream he heard a voice say: “ at me out i" The messenger. startled, lay half ewake for a moment, when in no uncertain tones came the words, apparently from within the head of the box on which he slept. “ Dâ€"n you, let me out." It is quite a distance from where the box lay to the other end of the car, but the mes. senger ll positive he cleared it in two jumps 'l‘remhlinq with fear, he shouted to his com anion, but before he had a chance to tell is story that self sune voice exclaimed: “ I want to get out of here." Neither of the men spone for a moment, and then the one who had first heard the voice said : “Jim, that corpse wants to g“. out." Jim thought for a moment, and than said : “Well, I reckon it wouldn't be right to keep him in there _if he wants to get out." [lea mad; from them, of the blue vlolot (V. sagmala) commonly known as the “ arrow-lowed" violet. If the bite be upon the log or arm, bind the leaves in a. circle around it above and just below the swelling. Moiaten with cold water as often as they get dry from the fever created by the poison, and renew two or three times a day. He was an express menacnger on the San- to Fe a few days ago. It was a night run, and there were two messengers in the car. J not as it began to grow dunk the train atop- ped at a small station and a dead body was taken aboard. Nothing in particular was thought of this, however, and'as there was nothing to do and the train would not stop again for a long distance. both messengers prepared to go to sleep. 00:: of them decide ed that the box containing the body would be a good plme to rent on, and so he arrnng ed himself comfortably there on and went to sleep. Apply to the wound a poultice one-h if each of common salt and indigo, mixed with cold water. and renew every two hours. \‘Eat frcgly of tho leaves, or drin1_(_often_of a This remedy has been known and need in this place and vicinity for over eighty years. It was first obtained by Joseph Gee: (John's father) from n half-breed Delaware Indian named John J ohnson, who used in 1800 to occupy a hut on the Pennsylvania side of the rivero posito bong Eddy. and who. {or a pint o whiskey. would let a. mttlewnke bite him and than cure himself with it. It is as follows: Ecuador, with about one million inhubl‘ ants. has only 47 post otiiees, but they are ) widely distributed that it requires a mail u‘rin o of 5,3stnniles to reach them allâ€"7'2 tiles y ounces and 5.3” by horses and mics. About. 600 miles of tho sosbomd is [so covered by foreign steamship mail serv- :o. Between Quito and Guaytquil there re two mails ouch wsy weekly by couriers- to usual time one way, trovellin day and ight, being six (in ‘s. Other stct cm of the mntry no less Avon-ed, tho nocip: and bpnturo of mulls ranging from onco- nook L onoo n month, u people happen to bo At. $119 end of 12 hours from tho t-imo he came to Mr. Geer'e, Davie started to walk home, though the "yelling had not entirely disappeared. Thinking he might. be kept for several days, he had eenb his horse homo. Gear gave him a. quantity of the remedy. cautioned him to WA": slowly, not to go to work, but use the medicine till the swelling woe entirelf gone, and assure d him he was as safe from a l evil (ffects of the snake bito as he could wish. It we: now late in the night, and, u the moon wu down. very dark. The read an a rough one, but by careful and as rapid driv- ing on possible the dwelling of John User. the famous rattlesnake catcher, was reached before dayli ht. By this time, in spite of the tightly town cord around his thumb, the poalon had made its way into the hand, wrist and arm, which were bnrlly am“ of Davis had taken but two ‘my‘iorbnde the the liquor. hung (gm efl'ect. would be to in 1 use of m““‘sfl'culalion of the blood, and crowféad the poison more rapidly. The: edicts cf the poison seemed not to be cntiro- ly confined to tho hand and arm, but in lame way was sfl‘ectingfithe stomach. He had several severe vomiting spells, after which help“: blood freely. _ Fertnnately Geer knew right where to get. the violet, a sovereign remedy for the bite of a rattlesnake, and, lighting a intern, in five minutes' time had Davie eating its leaves. He then applied salt and indigo to the wound, first taking off the tightly drawn cord, which. however, had probably dore good service in preventing the more rapid lpread of the poison. Devi: soon began to feel better. The pain, which was great when he firlt came, soon ceased. The stomach sickness also lei: him, and, lying down, he slept for an hour, when (leer awakened him to give him more of the violet and apply a fresh poultice. A Steeple Remedy tlet le let! to Ie the Beeleeee livery I‘ll-e. Alden Devil 0! Duneeene, in Wayne ooun- ty, l‘e.. wee bitten e lew eveninge since by e rettleeneke in the hello! hie thumb. A cord wee tutened tightly eround the thumb to etop the movement 0! the blood from the region of the wound to the other perteol the body. Youn Devin wee then teken “quick- I ee poeeible to the affine ol Dr. Kemp. et (gelliooon Depot. Having seen in e newrpeper e few eere einee e deacription of the remedy or rettleeneke bluee ee need by the (leer family et Lon Eddy, N. Y., Dr. Kemp mede cerelul inVeet getion of the metter, end beceme convluoed ol the truth of the etetno ment then in made, end thet the remedy wne indeed ell thet wee clelmed for it. He therelore ndvieed young Devil to drive to John Geer'e as quickly ee poeeible, hnt firet to perteke {reely‘of rye whiekey. A bottle of thle liquor wee obteined, end the hnree'e heed turned to the direction of Long Eddy, the tent eleven miles. CURB!) 0F BATLESNAKB BITE. Post 0mm: Scarcity. Wanted to Get out. \ The German who has been arrested lin lnndon for threatening to murder Mr. (lluietone turns outtn be an author. It stems that he sent the manuscript of a story to Mr. Gladstone with the request that he would read it. Some way the manuscript was mislaid, and then the German anther wrote the threatening letter. One of the penalties of being a great literary men is that literary men who are not meet are alwa str in to climb the ladder of fame overhis on dere. Mr. Gladstone is bom- barded with letters and postal cards from‘ all per-ts of the world, asking all sorts of uestiona and soliciting all sorts of opinions. a'he Wonder is that he gets time to enswar asmany of themes he does. That the German author s story was mislaid Is not to be won- dered at. It would be well {or the world if the stories of a ood men more anthers were to meet w th a simllar lute. Unlike Milton's “Paradise Lost." which. we were told. “ the world Would not milingly let die," the world would be very glad to see the last of many of the trashy “reductions thrown on the market by immature anthers. But the Germsn author who has been threatening to murder Mr. Gladstone will The monument to Leon Gambetta, the Great Tribune, consists of a pyramid about 80 feet high surmounted by niemaie figure re- present ing’l‘riumphantDemccracy. and wear- inq a l’hrygisn cap. In her hand Democracy holds the lholaration of the Rights of Man and she is supported by a winged lion, which advances with open month. In the centre of the pyramid is bamhetta, his head thrown back, his eye glancing along the vast artery from tthuileries to the Arc deTriomph his hand extended in a fine oratorical ge ture away toward the horizm where lurks the unseen but vi ilant enemy. It isreail (Sum- betta, just as 0 might have looked w en he made his famous balloon voyage over the Prussian lines and away to Tours or when he ascended the tribune of the Chamber to reply to some thrust from his opponents. Over the orator iea win ed figure holding a ti and representing tfie soul of France whic is stirred to its depths by the elo- quence of Gamhetta The awakening of the nation by the fervid accents of the fiery pa‘roit is finely represented by a soldier lean- ing on the breech of a big gun with a broken weapon in his hand, a workman in a blouse steeping to pick up a sword and another citizen shouldering arms and ready to march to battle. The group is called the “ National Defence. or the Marseillaise of l870." Un- derneath is a tablet of black marble, inscirh. ed with the word'. " 'l‘n Gambetta, the (Iouu‘ry, and the re ublic.” The menu ‘ ment is certainly striking and effective. but‘ the mixture of (.‘lassioism and Romanticism, ‘ and the blending of bronze, iron. stone, and ‘ marble make it rather incoherent. It also look too fragile and too modern in the sha- dow of the more magnificent and antique monument. the foundations of which were laid by Philip Augustus. Sheep stricken aiparently into instant and irrevocable deat by electricity, after a few minutes showed signs of life, and if they had not been despatched in the ordinary way by the knife would have been restorsd to consciousness. The same fact has been observed in attem he to kill dogs by the electric shock, and once published an instance in which a large dog, struck into perfect unconsciousness by the stroke ofa powerful battery, was submitted to a surgical operation while lying, to all appearances, dead, and was as yet so little sfl‘ected as to make an easy and sound recovery. It need not be inferred from such facts as these that the electric shock will not hill at one discharge-in most cases it will killâ€"but, exceptionally. instead of killing outright, it will simply stun, and may induce the semblance of death instead of the real death. electric shock would convey to minds of this stamp the same anticipation, but would not neceszarily produce the same certain result. In some researches on the application of the electric discharge for the einleee extinction of the lives of animals to Be used as food. the details of which I recorded in the Medical Times and Gazette {or the year1869, this mode of death was anything but certain in its effects. connootun; her oivilizmg powers with such degrading and i n ‘ . _ put a premium guiffluthf 15 “mp!!! to Since I set up a lethal chamber for the painless extinction of the lives of lowereni- male I have more than once met persons, not strictly insane but in morbid states of mind, who have looked on the lethal easy death an a prospect of release {tom life so invitingly pleasant that if euch mode of death were to be adopted an the national plan of cupital murder they would not hesitate in their worst moods to kill, that they might be killed, since the severeet fete that could happen would be a death brought to the painlessne‘sa pf pleaeure. Death hy‘ the then and since then. be: elweye bee the: death by atronguletion or by Iu~Â¥emion, in practically e peinleu mode 0 death. Persons who have recovered (rem the unconscionaneu produced by etnngulntion have testified completely on thin point, and that the old and legal method of death by Inn ion. nooording to the term: at the judicial sentence. should, st the instenec of they ignorant or common (nicer who may icerry out the lentence, have ever been changed for the long drop, or death by an ‘(xcruciati and cruel blow, is incredible. ‘Sorne me or of the House of Commons ought to pit to the Secretary of State for the Home Department, who is charged with the duty of directing that the law, be it \méii' btd, shall be ouried nus, the ‘mm .11 Why the gentle, though it may hangingmlonge‘l» extinction ot life by . “3 h ' ‘ death in the natione‘l fidnwigfifilout‘hg: murder, this nn'ionel mode of viudi " thalaw is elsothe moat rational. hffiiizg ahnnged. If tBe pmceu be considered brutal, it 1- ac: more [maul tn“ the a kit of the net inc". :1! attempts to refine w iah cannot ndd to in (fiiuoy u n debutant of crime. The process of hanging look- bruul without being notunlly :0. Since the age of Morgagux the question now under discussion has been ooniidored, nnd the opinion ‘ofjhe 1305!: informgd phygiologisna, While executions lull continue, there in upthing in thy wagons And lapse-“hushed nothin in the mount And Ion rutabllshed P!“ o fatally; them out w_ oh nogda be The Penalty of Groatnoss. AI it'll-I Doctor I'll-In It Will I“ DEATH BY ELECTRICITY. Gambctta’s Statue. Probably the most interesting railroad construction of recent years is the Russian road from the Gas ian Sea to Samarcand, a distance of 900 mi es across great deserts, which was begun in 1883 and completed a few months ag i. It was built for militarv uses, and for a time, at least, cannot pay commerciallv ; but it opens up the heart oi Persia to European commerce, and may develop something like modern enterprise in a country that was once a centre of opu- ‘ lence, ower and learning. The load passes} throng so much desert laml that Water has ‘ to be carried by trains to nearly all the st» Hons. In some sections there are no wells of water within 100 miles of each other. On account of the shifting sands hardv shrubs had to be planted along the way to protect the rails from being buried in sand and it is not yet sure that they will ‘ prove efl'eotive. One of the possible re- sults of the construction of the road is a reclamation of the deserts. gradually, from many centres and as a result of tree planting. For the present, however, the road is nterestimg because it opens up at its resent southern terminus a rich sountry to European commerce. In the event of war in lndia it will be of immense advantage to Russia. for it spans the section of country in which it is most diflicnlt to move troo , because of the want of water. Ex ress tn us will put Samareand within five ays of St. Petershnr . though, for the present, even with the a d of the railway, it takes about twelve days to make the journey. Inspiration by its own resultont notion may amount to revolution. Love has I way of conferring wisdom ; conscience, quickened and educated, reflects light upon judgment. But we should say that revels- tion is the increased seeing ahiiity cf mind which cames from purified and strengthened emotion, not a direct communication to the intellect. “ Use your guest voice of. home." Watch it day by day as a pearl of great price, for it will be worth to you in days to come more than the heel: pearl hid in the men. A kind voice in o lark'e song to a hearth and home. It in to the heart what light is to the eye. There is no power of love so hard to get and to keep as a kind voice. A kind hand is deaf and dumb. It may be rough in fle\h and blood, yet do the work of a soft heart, and do it with a soft touch. But there is no one thing that love so much needs as a [meet voice to tell what it means and feels, and it is hard to get and keep it in the right tone. One must start in youth and be on the watch night and day, at work, and at play, to get and keep a voice that shall Epeak at all times the thought of a kind heart. But this is the time when a sharp voice is most apt to be get. You often hear boys and girls say words at play with a quick sharp tone, as if it were the snap at a whip. \Vhen one of them gets vexed you will hear a voice that sounds as if it were made up of a snarl, a whine, and a bath. Such a voice often speaks worse than the heart feels. It shows more ill-will in the tone than in the words. It is often in mirth that one gets a voice er a tone that is sharp, and sticks to him through life, and stirs up ill~will and grief, and falls likea drop of gsil‘ on the sweet joys of home. Such as these gets sharp home voice for use, and keep their best voice for those they meet else-l where. I would say to all boys and ls: It "In vnnr cumi- vnim at ‘Inma " -‘A‘e 1 “The ahdience smiles now and then at this extravagant behaviour. The advocates seem to be in continual danger of dropping their wigs from their heads. and this some- times happens. There maybe some advo- cates who speak with more dignity, but thoceI new were all men of eminence in their profession " “At length in the fury of his argument, he descends from the pulpit, runs .bout, pleading, upon the floor, returns in a violent passion back again to the pulpit thwacks it with his hands more than at first, and continues in this rage. running up and down the pulpit until he has finished his lLarangup. “Then if he menu: to be verv emphmti 31. he strikes the pulpit with his hands five or six times together as quick he thought, stamping at the same time. so as to make the great roém resound with this species of orntgry._ - ...-~.-... .uuwv unu- "Hi3 Voice RM" n1- ckp. ‘ndi What ‘9 vely remarkable, the fizeglnning of most sentences. while he is under any agitation and seeming enthusiasm in pleading. is at a pitch above his natural voice. so as to 00- casion a wonderful discord. .Axl English surgeon, while travelling in . o s wamons “1° ”'81? a hund‘ffi}: €251.55 Jvnggcrated illus lmfifilg 3f 3%; old Italim school of oratory. “ Every advocate,” he wrote, “mounts into; small pulpit a little talented abovo the audience. where he opens his harms“ with some gentleness, but does {105 long coatg? himself within thgso lin'x‘i '~ “A“. a. 7 Suich were the sentences with which listeners greeéed each oLhfir, 011 [Min ing from the hall, where the orator had addressed them in idiomatic Engiish with a. slight flavour of Italian pronunciation which gave a piqugpcxfo his utterancok He bent his breast and the resonant sound was heard-throughout 1110M". Using MS monk'e robe u a mantle, he auuméd the stutude of some chute etutue. Speaking of the Emperor u "Napoleon the'i'tle,” he lowered himself until he seeux'd adwurf. for hie robe hid the auglsa 0f limbs and body. _“ Did you ever see such superb panto- “ Ivety gesture was: sentence." “ What a. combination of actor and orator ! ’ a cloud-hunt. Then the lpanr paused, And, by a look. or by a guru-o or attitude. spoken: cleuly and an elvquontly us by words. _ mime 2" Gavmi was ah orator of theIL‘Iâ€"tlisn 3(4le an! the 01‘0de which flocked to he, him were surprised nud thrilled. Hie mud" W“ both vehumnnt and dramatic. Wa‘ds "1’!" ed forth, hku Iomo mountain («TOM “"6! Faber Gwnzl. the “dim teacher and gutriot, 6m visited Canada u: the United tutu nboue thirty-five years ago, to collect funds (or the redemption of Italy Rune, the chief city of Itsly, was then or cupied by French troops, ordered there ’3' thg Franc}: Emperor. Lonoil‘ngqleon. , probobl find am to ”Halon . know on men's I o h 3 much more serious thlng thm to take the live. 0! at lent hulf-a-doun churwten in a work of anion. Irolgdgyy find mayo analog: u fellow on A Sweet Voice. Italian Oratory. The Ianio known as Chinese gmu- cloth In mnde from tho fibre of nettlss. Th9 cloth is ecullarly glossy and transparent, a nd B! be flng for mschinsry,‘ has double the trongth of leather. A Frenchmen claims to have invented . thermometer so sensitive that in index needle will deflect two inches upon the In- trance of a pereon into the room where it. helbegn pleeed. can ion them ill. There are 150,000 miles of railway in the United State“! 300,000 miles oi railsâ€" in length enough to make twelve steel girdles for the earths circumference. This enormous length of steel is wonderfulâ€"we do not really grasp its significance. But the rail itself, the little section of steel. is an engineering feat. The change of its form from the curious and clumsy iron pear head of thirty years ago to the present refined section of steel is n scientific development. It is nowa beam whose every dimension and curve and angle are exsctly suited to the tremendous work it has to do. The loads it carries are enormous. the blows it receives are heavy and constant, but it carries the loads and bears the blows and does its duty. The locomotive and the modern passenger and freight ears are great achievements ; and so is the little roll which A trip combining pleasure and study will take about thirt scientific men of Austria for toward the orth Pole this summer. They intend to take 3 look at the mounteine end horde of S itzbergen, to have a brief run in Greenlen and loelmd, and to spend 3 week or so on the interesting island of J on M ayen, near the edge oi Greenland pwk ice. A large Norwegian yacht will cerry them over the northern lace, and if the have good luck they hope to reach 80 ° nort latitude and look out over the Pale! ice cap from the north coast of Spitzbergon. The pleasures of grammar yachting in northern water: have been pictured in glowing colors by Dr. Hayes and Lord Dufl'erln. The thirty learned men will doubtless! have an iniigorating cruise, and as they represent many acinntific specialties, they hope to have something of interact to any in a book which will be written after their remrn. 3; "KM mecca a Bald Essie and an Inn dense Prairie Rattlesnake. 1),. .llen, in the Field, relates his experi- an n the ll. )chy Mountains:-â€"“ One at ng the stillness was suddenly broken .d bxhe shrill scream oi an eagle. High up ld -, the heavens 1 saw him preparing to de '0 cend, and down, dowu he came, with the r swiitness of a shooting star, until he had ' nearly reached the earth, when be spread his ’ powerful pinions and eased himself down until he had nearly reached terra firms, . when with a sudden swoop ho lighted upon l a great prairie rattler, about ‘ive ieet long, ' and a battle commenced such all had never ’ before witnessed. l rode slowly up to the ‘ combatants, as near as i could without dis- D tubing them. and eagerly watched the pro. . grus of the fight. The bird was one of the ' largest bald ea lee, and the snake was a monster of its ind, being three inches in ' diameter. The eagle. with its crest thrown ‘ backward, ran up to the snake and gave it ' a blow over the head with his wings that completely stunned itjust as it was in the ‘ act of striking at him with all its force. Quick as thought the the eagle then cmght It in his taloue, soared about ten feetin the air, gave it a furious shaking and let it fall to the earth, where it lay coded in a war- like atti‘ude, rattling and hissing in rest wrath. The eagle made asccend attac , in the same manner as before, but the snake watched its chance this time, and, when the eagle was clean enough, thrust its head between his head and wing, with a desperate etl'crt wound itself around the eagle's body, and it looked for a moment as though the powerful birdi must die. But with a violent llap of his wi ngs, he broke the deadly em- brace, caught the snake, gave it a number of jerk», and threw it down agaigm lid blood was ocziug from "33;" ”‘7 : ,e “w t5 make the rattlers bodyngtléd than ever. The antag~ $55513! row remained some feet apart and seemed to be resting, while the rattler kept up a deep buzzing, perhaps to intimidate the bird. The eagle next tried anorher p Ian 1 wheeling around his enemy in a circle, but the serpent was acquainted with this dodge and kept full in his face. Thus foiled, the I eagle began to whip the rattler with the ti ‘0! his wings, his head well thrown bac , ' but the snake dodged tho blows. The eagle then made a feint, jumped to one side and struck it a fearful blow; caught it up by the middle, and shook it until the snake was about to twine itself around his body, when he again threw it to the ground. Both showed signs of great fatigue but neither seemed inclined to give way. Theeagle ran around and around his victim in every con- ceivable way, but so far the snake managed to hold him all until he threw back his head and made a desperate dive. The snake struck with all its force as the wing of the eagle came in contact with its head, and while trying to coil around his body was caught and carried into the air. where it was almost jerked in tWain, and when it reached the ground again its entrails were hanging out, and it: writhed and twisted in great pain, finally expiring. The proud bird stood looking on with the victorious air of a pugilist who has won the World- renowued battle, his head erect and his wings resting on the ground." Having seen is stated that burdock leaves wrappeu around the stems of cabbage plants when transplanted would prevent the attacks of the cut worm, I determined to try the ex- periment, although I had previously used stiff brown paper with almost perfect success. Thirty cabbage plants were set, and their stems wrappe with burdock leaves accord- ing to directions. As I might have known beforehand the exposed part of the leaves soon withered and dried, so that no protect ion whatever was afforded, and forthwith the cut worms began their work, and in one night live out of the thirty plants were des- troycd. I immediately replaced them with new plants, and loosely wrapped the stems of all the plants with stiff brown paper. be- ing fully satisfied that the burdock leaf re- medy was of no value whatever to me. I have in rare instances known a cut worm to climb above the paper and eat ofl‘ the leaves or stem, but scarcely one plant in fifty has been destroyed in this way. Burdock Leaves and Cut Worms A Trip to Polar Regions. ‘ inERKTE nuns. A Marvel In Steel. The woman carried heated stones in fheir mufi's, and the men drew bags over their feet. No chronicler informs us how the boys and girls managed to keep warm during the service. At the conclusion of the morning service, the family hurried back to the warm room of the Sabbath house, where they took their dinner and drank cider from a .wter mug. Thanks wero then returned, an the review of the sermon began. I! the sermon felled to furnish sufficient matter to occupy the hour. a oheptor in the _Bibie woe read, or a In winter, on Sunday morning, baforo awning {or church, the mother of the fumily put up food for dinner, not forgetting a jug of cider. The fumily rode in I large two« horse aleigh, stopped at the Snbbath house kindled 3 fire. and then went into the 0011i muting house, where the minister reached in an overcoat, with a mr fller u out hi- neck, and mittens on his buds. few pagee from a religione book. Singing and prayer eent them to the after- noon eer'vlce in e devotionel freme of mind, et the oonoluelonlof which they returned to the Sahheth-dey hon-e, extinguished the fire, locked the door, end stated {or home. 'l‘heee houses, accordimr to a description published in Smionl's “ History of Connec- ticut." Were small log etructures, tw cnty~ five feet long, to.) broad, and one storey high. A chimney in the middle divided the whole space into twa rooms, for the use of the two families who united in building the house. The furniture consisted of u few chairs, a table, plates, dishes, and some utensils for warming cooked food. On a shelf were a lible and two or three religious books. Every one went to church in the colonial daya of New England. Funnies living of. n distance from the meeting-home came pre~ pared to spend the intermiuion between the morning and afternoon services in the “ Sibbath day houses}: oi the place where Mrs. Livingsmne 'liisd. Late in the afternoon we reached the spotâ€"- a low ruined hnta hundred yards from the river's bank with a broad x'erendah shading its crumbling walls. A grossgrown path stragglod to the doorway, and the fresh print ofn hippopotamus told how neglected the spot is now. Pushing the door open, we found ourselves in a long dark room. its mud floor ‘hroken into fragments. and the remains of native fires betraying its htest occupants. Turning to the right “a tutored a smaller chamber. the walls lure and stained, with two glasslesa windoos heir g the river. The Lvoaing sun, setting over the far-oil Morumbilla mountains, filled the room with its soft glow, and took our thoughts back to that Sunday evening twrnty yem 3 ago, when in this more bedroom, at this same hour, Livingstone knelt over his dying wife, and witnessed the great sunset at his life. Un- der a huge biobab treeâ€"m. miracle of vege~ tabzo vitality and luxuriaucoâ€"stands Mrs. Livingstone’s grave. The picture in Living- stone's book represents the place as Well kept and surrounded with neatly planted trees. But now it is an utter wilderness, matted with jungle grass and troddsn by the beasts of the forest ; and, as I looked at the forsaken mound and contrasted it with her husband’s tomb in Westminster Abbey. I thought perhaps the woman's love which brought her to a spot like this, might be not less worthy of immortality. We are fifty milts from the mouth of the Zimbcsi, the mile~wido Water aha low and brown, the low sandy banks fringed with alligators and wild birds. The great deltoiii plain, yellow with summoned nods, and sparsely cm cred with true. stretches on every side; the sun is blistering hot: the aky, as is will be for months, a monotonous dome of blueâ€"not n frank, bright. blue like the Canadian sky. but a veiled bluo, a wa- picious and malarious blue, parhy due to the perpetual heat hs’z ) and partly to the imagin- ation, for the Znnbesi is no friend to the European. and this whole region is heavy with depressing memories. This impression, perhaps, Was heightened by the fact. that we were to spend t‘lnt. night vzitbin a low y_a_rdu -k‘l._777 These are onl a few of the Syrian house wife's duties. or reward is not in this world, eurely. She osnnot apeek to her husband in public ; aha can receive no caress before his friend-J. She goes veiled and mintily clad. She has no time to meke her own hahilimenie, for her hands must weave and spin and embroider artistically and abundantly for the husband and male children. In winter her feet He prc tented only by wooden sandals, and drops of blood mark the way to the Syrian well. Of course this is among the low er and middle elasaea oi moiety in Syria, but those who belong to a higher aims are vuy few. She cares for her childrenâ€"usually a huge familyâ€"and doe: ell the too h work a intervals, while the husband cs mly smoke. his “urgelie” or site cross-legged upon his divan or house top. in convene with some equally hard-working member of Syrian New». The' house: are made of coarse atone, roughly her-m. The house-to 5 am of clay, cove red with coarse gravel. a hot weather the sun bakes this mud-formed roof, Ind large cracks appear. The rain comes, nud. naunnuml consequence. the rout leaks. This is something cf which :he {Jstic'ioun inhabitant of the Bible land does not up prowl. It does not add to his bodily comfort. Ila remedies the difficultyâ€"shalll tell you how? Not. by any etIe-nof his own; far from it; his wife comes, ascends to the hour top,and in the (tum-hing Mu propels a roller of 50le stun? u‘awud “1d tonif'a' mnnL .... nu use a uwwmower. o a.“ r s the tun~dried cracks together auipmvents tige entrance of water. She bring: all tho wnter {or family uoe from n distant wall. This in accomplluhod by filling lmunnso jun and bringing them upon herhnd. She rloufinrlyand gees lotho hoodlum of the village our 'iug corn, enough of which (or the 33’s brad oho grind: by a 51m, laborioul process. This she carries homo and cooks in an oven, which is made in the earth. It in n round hole, lined with oval and fltt Itonm, and in heated by a tire built in it. When the broad in mixed with water sad as little-n1: aha removoa the uheo Ind plasters pm of dough agoinlb are hot moms to cook. (huh! onylhioghe "1°”. crude! There no grand women in Arum; ; women of ubility. keen in In! in, ad of wonderful capabilities. The dul u o! the wife of_ 5.8) nu}? t_o~day. Are}- Iqllow}: Sabbathâ€"Day Houses. ;. Livingston’s Grave. Syrian Wives.