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ONLY "TEN MINUTES"

A touching story is told of the late
Prince Napoleon. He had joined the
English army, and was one day at the
head of squad riding horseback outside
OF the camp. 1t was dangerous situa-
ton. One OF the company said:
"We had better return. II we don't
hasten, we may fall into the hands of the
enemy"
"Oh," said the prince. "let us stay here
ten minutes and drink our coffee"
Before the ten minutes had passed a
company of Zulus came upon them and
in the skirmish the prince lost his life.
His mother when informed of the facts,
in her anguish said:
"That was his great mistake from his
babyhood. He never wanted to go to bed
at night IL time, nor to arise in the morn
ing. Hewas ever pleading for ten minutes
more. When too sleepy to speak, he
would lift up his two little hands and
spread out his ten fingers, indicating
that he wanted ten minutes more. On
this account I sometimes called him
Monsieur Ten Minutes "-Zion's AdUo-
cate.
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that there are no such things in Siberia
as quicksilver mines, and challenging any
one to bring proof that there ever have
been. AS an instance, however, of the
pertinacity with which false idea con
tinues to spread, and be believed, may
mention that after my return was speak
ing with the editor of aleading st. Peters
burg journal, who assured me that I was
quite mistaken in supposing there we're no
quicksilver mines in Siberia. Upon my
maintaining the contrary, he declared he
could bring me proof on the spot, which
he accordingly left the room to do, but
returned begging my pardon, and saying
that they were silver mines. Thimble-
fuls Of argentsl mercury have been found
no doubt, here and there in Siberia, as at
Kolyvan; and a released political exile
told me that he heard, many miles dis
tant, that there was small quicksilver
mine at Nertchinsk, but too poor to be
worth working. When, however, he was
deported to four places in succession
about Nertchinsk, he heard nothing more
Of the said Quicksilver mine, and
neither he nor another released exile who
had worked there in the silver mines,
and whom I questioned, perceived, they
said, any Objectionable "fumes."
Another point on which false informa-
ton has been spread relates to the man.
ner prisoners wear their chains, which
some, like the author of "Called Back"
would have us believe is under their
trousers. But this is purely hoax.
have in my possession pairs OF Russian
handouts and leg chains, and prison
suit which I obtained in Siberia, where
also Isaw scores, not to say hundreds, of
leg chains. The last consist each of two
rings, to be riveted round the ankles, and
attached by chain thirty inches long,
which, for convenience in walking, is sus-
pended in the middle by strip OF leather
from the waist. Between the rings and
the prisoners skin there is worn, first,
coarse wooden stocking, and over that a
piece Of thick linen cloth; then come the
trousers, over which is bound round the
shin leather gaiter. How, then, could
these chains be worn under the trousers?
The chains in my possession weigh five
and quarter pounds, the handouts two;
but of these latter 1 should observe that
in going across Siberia and through its
prisons saw only one man manacled,
and he desperate, who, to the crime for
which he was judged, added that of MUIR
der in the prisoD.-Dr. Henry LanSdel,
IN Harpers Magazine for May.
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REVOLVING STORMS,

By far the greater number of storms at
sea belong to the class known as revolving
storms, such hurricanes, typhoons, cy-
clones, etc., created by disturbed condi-
tons OF the atmosphere extending over
circular area, vary ing in diameter, accord
ing to the locality in which it occurs
from fifty to a thousand miles. A knowl-
edge of the laws of these storms indicates
to the seaman his readiest means of
escape from them. Their characteristic
is that they blow continually round and
round centre or vortex, the gyration in
variably taking place in one direction
and that direction contrary to the appar-
emit course of the sun; SO that in north
ATTITUDES these storms revolve from right
to left Tor in the opposite direction to the
hands of WATCH, and in south latitudes
from left to right Cor in the same direc-
ton as the hands Of q watch). The mar
iner who understands this knows the po-
sition of the vortex with respect to the
locality of his vessel, and is able to make
the necessary calculations as to the best
way to work themselves clear. These re-
volving storms are common to the three
great oceans, the Atlantic, Indian and Pa
cific, but seldom occur within less than 5
deg. or 6 deg. of the equator, and are never
found in very high latitudes. They pre-
vail mostly from July to October or No
vember, and are more severe in the West
Indies, Madagascar and China seas.
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ghe Hone Page.
ALL IN A LIFETIME
BY E. c. STEDMAN.

Thou shalt have sun and shower from heaven
above,
Thou shalt have flower and thorn from earth
below;
Thine shall be foe to hate, and friend to love,
Pleasures that others gain, the ill they know
And all in lifetime.
Hast thou a golden day, starlight night.
Mirtb and music, and love without alloy;
Leave no drop undrunken of thy delight,
Sorrow and shadow follow on thy joy
TITS all In lifetime.
What if the battle end and thou hast lost2
r Others have lost battles thou hast won:
Haste thee, bind thy wounds nor count the
cost;
Hover the fields will rise to-morrow's sun
TITS all in lifetime.
Laugh at the braggard sneer, the open scorn-
Ware of the secret stab, the slanderous lie
For seventy years of turmoil thou vast born,
Bitter and sweet are thine till these go by
IT'S all in lifetime.
Reckon thy voyage well, and spread the sail
Wind and calm and current shall warp the
way;
Commas shall set the false, and chart shall
fail:
Ever the waves will use you for their play
TITS all in lifetime.
Thousands of years agone we're change and
change,
Thousands of ages hence the same shall be;
Naught of thy Joy or grief is new or strange'
Gather apace the good that falls to thee
IT'S all in a lifetime.
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RANGING IN THE WILD WEST

RANCHING IN THE WILD WEST.
On the subject of ranching in the West
Theodore Roosevelt writes in the Ce'1tu-
ry: For bedding, each man has two or
or small wagon sheet. Usually two or
three sleep together. Even in June the
nights are generally cool and pleasant, and
it is chilly in the early morning, although
this is not always SO, and when the wealth
or stays hot and mosquitoes are plenty,
the hours of darkness, even in midsum-
mer, seem painfully long. In the Bad
Lands proper we are not often bothered
very seriously by these winged pests; but
in the low bottoms of the Big Missouri,
and beside many of the reedy ponds and
great sloughs out on the prairie, they are
perfect scourge. During the very hot
nights, when they are especially active,
the bedclothes make man feel absolute
ly smothered, and yet his only chance for
sleep is to wrap himself tightly up, head
and all; and even then some of the pests
force their way in. At sunset I have
seen the mosquitoes rise up from the land
like dense cloud, to make the hot, stiff
ing night one long torture; the horses
would neither lie down nor Craze, travel
ing restlessly to and fro till dsybreak,
their bodies streaked and bloody, and the
insects settling on them so as to make
thnr oil AM q rQu M hi a
the men after few hours tossing about
in the vain attempt to sleep, rose, built a
fire of damp sage brush, and thus endur-
ed the misery as best they could until it
was light enough to work. But if the
weather is fine man will never sleep
better nor more pleasantly than in the
open air after hard days work on the
round up, nor will an ordinary shower or
gust of wind disturb him in the least, for
he simply draws the tarpaulin over his
head and goes on sleeping. But now and
then we have a wind-storm that might
better be called whirlwind and has to
be met very differently; and two or three
days or nights of rain insure the wetting
of the blankets and, therefore, shivering
discomfort on the part of The would-be
sleeper. For two or three hours all goes
well, and it is rather soothing to listen to
the steady patter of the great rain-drops
on the canvas. But then it will be found
that corner has been left open through
which the water can get in, or else the tar
paulin will begin to leak somewhere; or
perhaps the water will have collected in
hollow underneath and have begun to
soak through. Soon little stream trick
les in, and every effort to remedy matters
merely results in change for the worse.
To move out of the way insures getting
wet in fresh spot; and the best course
is to lie still and accept the evils that
have come with what fortitude one can.
Even thus, the first night man can sleep
pretty we'll; but if the rain continues, a
second night, when the blankets are al
ready damp, and when the water comes
through more easily, is apt to be mo
unpleasant.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-05-12
PROVERBS OF CENTRAL AFRICA

PROVERBS OF CENTRAL AFRICA.
The Churchmaa has gathered the fol-
lowing specimens of the proverbial phil
osophy OF Central Africa.
He who injuries another INJURIES him.
SELF
He who forgives is victor in the dis
pute.
We should not treat others with con-
tempt.
A mischief maker will not do to tell
secrets to.
If the whole assembly of the town
convene, they find no sacrifice to make
against sorrow.
Though many guests be absent it is
the cheerful man we miss.
He who harnesses one teaches him
strength.
The pig has wallowed in the mire; he
is seeking clean person to rub against
said of disgraced persons who wish to
keep good company
A strong man without economy is the
father of laziness.
The thread follows the path of the
needle.
A stubborn man gets into trouble, 6
pliable man is imposed on.
A scorpion stings with his tail. A
saucy servant with his eye.
He fed from the sword and hid in the
scabbard.
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asarrr, atorte aud 6ardsu.
HOW SHALL WE SAY "ARBU-
TUS?"

Mary L. Owen, of Springfield, requests
me to mention here, that you'll oblige her
very much if, when speaking of that beau
tiful, earliest, spring wildhower, the trail
ing arbutus, you will put the accent on
the first syllable of the word, where it be-
longs, and not on the second where it
does not belong. She says this may
sound strange to you at first, because
you probably have become used to hear
ing the word pronounced arbutus, Just as
you may have heard clen,atis pronounced
clemdtis. But as soon as your ear be-
comes accustomed to the right accent,
she is sure you will think arbutus and
clenatis quite as pretty sounds as arbu-
tus and clematis. She admits, however,
that you will find this practice rather per-
picking when you meet with the word in
the rhymes of American writer's, though
all over England in prose and verse ar
butus holds its own. Further, she sends
two extracts from American and two from
English poets (Mrs. Browning and Will
liam Cowper), so that you may note for
yourselves the pronunciation of the dis
puted word:
Whisper on, glad girls and boys;
Sealed the fragrant rosy wells;
You and spring are safe alike
Never the arbutus tells THH
The wild arbutus, flushed with haste,
Trails Close to make appeal.
Lucy Ldrcom.
Over which you saw
The irregular line of elms by the deep lane,
Which stopped the grounds and damned the
overflow
OF arbutus and laurel. [E.B. Brountno
Glowing bright,
Beneath, the various foliage wildly spreads
The arbutus. and rears his scarlet fruit.
TCowper.
Miss Owen repeats that arbutus is
wrong, though thousand American ton
CUES soon will make the air resound with
it. In proof she quotes Virgil as CLASH
cal authority, and for the present day
the late DR.. Asa Gray, and DR.. Goodale
Of Cambridge.
Webster's Unabridged, the lady says
in effect, used to give the pronunciation
arbwtus, but it reformed in 1873, and has
insisted ever since upon throwing the &C.
cent on the first syllable. The Imperial
Dictionary gives only arbutus, though
Worcester's Dictionary ventures to stand
up for the old arbutus.-.St. Nicholas.
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THE RATTLEsNAKE's RATTLE.

lf1E MA ALE0NAhE = MA Lee
Prof. Samuel Aughey reached some in
teresting conclusions as the result Of his
obse rvations upon the use made of their
rattles by rattlesnakes. 1t is the vulgar
opinion that the reptile sounds his rattle
for the purpose of enticing birds, and
some Inaturalists even are disposed to
find here a mimlcry of the sound made
by the SO. called locust, or cicads. Prot.
Aughey does not undertake to explain all
the purposes served by the rattle, but he
fully agrees with Mr.. f. W. Putnam in
rejecting this mimetic theory. Does the
rattle, then, serve any useful purpose
In reply to this question Prof. Aughey
tells what he has himself observed. He
was in Wayne county, Nebraska, and, as
he was one day investigating the natural
history of that district he heard the famil-
lar rattle of the snake. The sound was
repeated at intervals, and proceeded from
rattlesnake that was calling it's mate
which soon came in answer to the sum-
mons. Prof. Aughey afterward had a
similar experience, and from these facts
he is disposed to think that the purpose
served by the rattle is to call the sexes
together.
Another purpose may be to paralyze its
victim with fright, and to inspire its nat
ursl enemies with terror. AS an illus
tration of the use of the rattle for the
former purpose, the professor says that,
as he followed through the woods Of Da-
kota county, Nebraska, Baltimore orr
ole, he heard rattle, and at once saw
the bird as it were paralyzed with fear,
and ready to fall prey to the serpent.
He shot the rattlesnake. He adds that
he once witnessed an attack of seven
hogs on q rattlesnake. Soon after the
battle opened, the snake ratified, and
three others came to his aid. But the
hogs were victorious in few minutes.
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BOSTON BAKED BEANS.

In order to produce the genuine arti-
Gle, it is first essential to have New
England bean-pot; wide, open dish will
not answer the purpose at all. Use one
pint OF beans to make quart when
cooked.
First soak the beans over night; then
par-boil till the skins break; drain
through colander; the beans are now
ready for the pot. Salt to taste, and put
in two tablespoonful of molasses, with
small pinch of soda; after Gaping off
with salt pork, cover with boiling water
and bake four or five hours, replenishing
the boiling water when needed to cover
beans, till the last hour, when they
should be allowed to brown nicely on
top. Serve hot.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-05-12

THE MUSIC OF THE ANCIENTS.
The Egyptian flute was only a calves
horn with three or four holes in it, and
their harp or Tyre had only three strings;
the Gre clan Tyre had only seven strings
and was very small, being held in one
hand; the Jewish trumpets that made the
walls of Jericho fall down were only rams
horns; their flute was the same as the
Egyptian; they had no other instrument
al music but by percussion, OF which
the greatest boast made was the psaltery
small triangular harp or Tyre with wire
strings, and struck with an iron needle
or stick; their sacbut was something like
a bagpipe; the timbrel was tambourine,
and the dulcimer was horizontal harp,
with wire strings, and struck with stick
like the psaltery. They had no written
music; had scarcely vowel in their Ian
guage; and yet, according to Josephus
had two hundred thousand musicians
playing at the dedication of the temple
OF Solomon. Mozart would have died in
snch concert in the greatest agony.
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ANOTHER GOOD RECIPE.

Look over the beans, removing any
imperfect ones or foreign substance; wash
them; put in pot and cover with cold
water; leave them TO soak over night; in
the morning, drain off the water, cover
again with cold water, in which dissolve
quarter Of teaspoonful of soda; mix
thoroughly; let them heat until they
reach boiling point; do not let them
boil; drain off the water again, pour on
fresh cold water; put from quarter of
pound to half a pound Of salt pork, &C.
cording to the richness desired, and the :
quantity of beans used, into the pot with
the beans; half boiling until the bean
cracks; then turn into the baking dish.
If there is not sufficient water for desired
moisture add more. Take one tablespoon
full of dry mustard, one teaspoonful of
sugar, and half teacup Of vinegar; mix
thoroughly and smoothly, dissolving the
sugar; then stir into the beans, placing the
pork in the center of the pan; add boiling
water when necessary. Bake from three
to four hours.
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HABITS OF THE PoRPoIsE.

Among pets, there is none more inter-
esting than the porpoise. He is an ami
NAL condemned TO the life of fish. His
movements are easy and rapid, though
his tail, with its fiat blade spread out
horizontally, is the only propelling in
strument he possesses. Even when the
creature is in rapid motion, the front fins
hang straight down from the sides, and
come into play only when it wishes to
change its course, or to rise to the surface
for the purpose of allowing" For the
latter object, both fins are raised toward
horizontal position, the action of the
tail is stopped, and with the impetus pre-
viously gained the porpoise scars gently
to the surface; there the valve Of the
blow-hole opens, the breath escapes with
a sound between deep sigh and quiet
puff, and without the slightest pause, the
animal descends again.
The porpoise at Brighton is four feet
six inches in length. The tank in which
it is kept is l02 feet long, so that the
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EXAGGERATIONS ABOUT RUS
SIAN CRUELTY.

/ had heard only few days previously
from an Englishman born in Russia that
the worst of Russian criminals were put
down in quicksilver mines in Siberia,
where they were speedily killed by un-
healthy fumes. Like many others, at
once believed the story, but little thought
i should one day have the satisfaction OF
kicking the bottom out Of it. by proclaim
ing, after crossing the country myself,
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OLD EPITAPHS.

In the graveyard at Melrose Abbey are
some quaint epitsphs. Here is one Of
them, which, however, exists in various
forms in English burying- grounds
1.-THE earth goeth on the earth,
Glist'rlng like gold;
The earth goes to the earth
Sooner than it void;
The earth builds on the earth
Castles and towers;
The earth says to the earth
All shall be ours"
Another is in memory Of a guide who
formerly showed the ruins Of the Alb
bey:-
1.-THE precious dust beneath this stone
Once showed this ancient pile,
And formed an IsraeEte indeed
In whom there was no guile"
Hugh Miller tells story Of Ross
shire mason, who took down an obelisk
which stood at Hilton. On one side of
this was carved some ancient and inter-
esting hieroglyphics, but the mason
erased these, and converted the monu-
ment into tombstone, engraving upon
it the lines:-
HE that lives well dyes we'll, says Solomon
the wise;
Heir lyes Alexander Duff, and his three
wives"
At Stirling there is a curious monu.
ment to the chief constable, bearing the
inscription
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-05-12

OBERLN College has lately come into
possession of about sll3OOO from dona-
tons.
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1850.
Alexr. MeRen,

Chief Constable, Stirlingshire.
Our life is but a winter day,
Some only breakfast and away,
Others TO dinner stay,
And are full fed.
The oldest man but sups,
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And goes to bed;
Large is his debt
That fingers out the day;
He that goes soonest
Has least TO pav.o


That fingers out the day;
He that goes soonest
Has least to pay
And in Boutwell, churchyard is the fol-
lowing epitaph:-
Erected by Margare Scott in memory of
her husband. Robert Stobo. late smith and
farrier, Goukthrapple, who died May, 1884, in
the roth year of his age:
"My sledge and hammer he's declined,
My bellows pipe has lost its wind
My forge extinct, my fires decayed,
And in the dust my vice is laid;
My coal is spent, my iron is gone,
My nails is drove, my work is DONE"
A man named Henry Prentice died in
Edinburgh in I78S. His coffin, for which
he paid two guineas, hung in his house
for nine years previous to his death; and
he caused his tombstone to be Temporal
rily set up in the Canongste churchyard
1t stood In conspicuous place and bore
the epitaph:-
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Henry Prentice
Died.

Died.
Be not curious to know how died;
But rather how yourself should die"
Prentice, however, was buried in the
ancient churchy ard of Restalrig, whittier
no doubt the tombstone was conveyed.
Still to be seen in the Oanongate church
yard is the epitaph of Burns on his friend
the poet Ferguson, which is too we'll
known to require quotation here. The fol-
lowing inscription is carved on plain slab
at the west end of Kilmarnock church,
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'Thomas Sampson
Died the 18th December, 1795,
Aged ~ years.
Tam SIMPSONS well-worn clay here lies:
Ye canting zealots spare him.
If honest worth in heaven rise.
Yell mend or We win near him. Burns
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1888-04-18
Blood Education.

Many Of our most fatal diseases are
now known to be due to the feeding
of bacteria upon the body. These
bacteria sometimes find nothing that
they can feed upon, and the proper
way of coping with them, says Pro-
lessor b. Ray Lancaster. is by educa,
ting the white blood corpuscles to 70.
sist their attacks. The corpuscles
can be gradually trained by weak or
small doses of poisonous matter, as of
arsenic, to offer a high degree of re-
sistance to doses that would have
been fatal if given at first. This is
the principle Of preventive inocula.
ton. which has proven remarkably
successful in diseases of cattle and
sheep, as we'll as in small pox in man.
1t is believed that the white corpus
cles can be- trained to receive the
most virulsnt poisons, ard it is hoped
that this training will be carried on
so as to deal with a great numter of
diseases.