THE GARDEN.

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DRAUGHTS.

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

Problem No. 10.-Correct solutions received from ■'•F. 1).." Auckland; D. Martin, Ponson t>y; J.L.,' Newton.

Ppoblem No 13. (By H. Henderson, Auckland.) Black,

White. Black to play and draw. Solution to Problem No. 10. l-6 18-15 11-18 23-14 9-18 32-23 2-9 W. wins.

CORRESPONDENCE MATCH BETWEEN TWO BLIND FLAYERS.

Mr W. Bennett, of the St. Rollex Drai7ghts Club, Scotland, has just com. pleted a match of four games with Mr J. Day, of Rotherham—a player who, like Mr Bennett, has the misfortune to be totally deprived of sight- The result was that Mr Bennett won two and two were drawn. We append the four games, for which we are indebted to the Glasgow " Weekly Herald" :— Game No. 31.—"Denny." Day's move.

*13-9 looks like a win for White — W.B. [The above note is rather amusing. Mr 8., no doubt, meant to say that 13.9 fe1t like a win for White.—D. Er>. E.S.] Game No. 32—"Ayrshire Lassie." Bennett's move.

Game Imo. 33.—" Double Corner." Bay's move.

Game No. 34.—" Black Switcher." Bennett's move.

THE MARTINS V. BARKER MATCH.

Martins Accepts for £100 a-sido

The supporters of Mr Martins have definitely accepted Mr Barker's challenge, and wish the match to be for £100 a-side, instead of £60, as originally proposed by Mr Barker. The sum of £10 has been de posited with the Draughts Editor of the " Weekly Herald," as stakeholder jrro tern., and if Mr Barker will forward articles and a similar deposit, the arrangements for the contest c&n soon be settled. It is not known how lonef the American champion may be engaged in his match with Mr Reid, or articles might have been drawn up; but, as only a fair and equal trial of skill is sought, no quibbling or frivolous objection will be taken to whatever arrangements Mr Barker may propose.

Meeting of Committee.

A meeting of the committee appointed to further Air Martins's interests in the above match was held in the Lesser Hall of the Waterloo Rooms, Glasgow, recently. Mr A, McLaren (in the absence of Mr McCall, convener of com mittee) was called to the chair. It; was stated that numerous letters had been re ceived from Mr Martins's supporters, ami subscriptions to tho amount of close upon £100 were intimated. The committee, in view of the fact thatthesum of £120 was re quired if the match is to be for £100 a-side, earnestly appeal to all admirers of Mr Martins to send in their subscriptions im mediately to the treasurer, Mr Archd McLaren, 147, London-street, Glasgow, who will be happy to acknowledge them in due course. Gentlemen who have already inti mated subscriptions are requested to send them on to the treasurer as soon as possible".

A NOVEL PICTURE OF WYLLIE.

A writer in "Society," who evidently knows nothing about the game 6f draughts, g[ives a sketch of the " Herd Laddie " the reverse of flattering. His. statements, how ever, are so extraordinary as not to be worth refuting, and our readers can take a laugh at them, &8 no doubt Wyllie will him self. • -

"The gentleman who enjoys the mild distinction of being the champion draughts player of the world resides at the Anti podes, and is a dbaf old Scotchman. Just now he k doing a steady business at a Melbourne caf<s, where he.takes on all comers three days a week. His terms are moderate and easily arranged. Each aspir ant, as he sits down for a game, hands over twa saxpences to the stolid champion, who quietly drops the siller in his pocket and proceeds to make, a move. During his first fortnight MV Wyllie (that is his name) played 200 games, winning 189 and drawing the odd 11. The 'Laddie 'has a good head-piece on him, and is an interest ing instance of how men of real ability can concentrate their intellectual powers on small aims. Any smart man of figures might, after three months' close study of the game of draughts, play ' draws' with the Liddie till the crack of doom. But as nobody else appears to think the game worth the candle, the Laddie keeps his title undisturbed. A man who could pitch peas into a thimble at several yards' distance once gave a performance before Charles'll. After the fun was over the giddy monarch rewarded the poor fellow with a bushel of [teas, remarking that it was a r suitable acknowledgment; of suctk ah idiotic enter tainment. Which reminds ue that Mr Wyllie is well paid ad a 'b6b »■* titae."

STAGE AND STUDIO.

[By Euterpe.]

lit consequence of the illness of Mis 3 Bleazard, the Choral Society's concert has been pat off from Tuesday next till Tuesday Week, the Bth prox.

Bland Holt was married to Miss Florence Anderson at Adelaide. The lady had just arrived from England, and was immediately engaged (for lire) by Mr Holt. Professor Herbert, the Wizard, starts shortly on a tour of the province. Piloted by Mr H. Waite, he will visit the Waikato, Thames, Tauranga, Opotild and Poverty Bay.

The many friends of Mr and Mrs W. H. Harrison (Miss Aggie Kelton), members, of Messrs Williamso i, Garner, and Musgrove's Opera Company, will learn with regret that their little daughter, Una, died at Fitzroy on the 3rd inst.

Sophie Harris is now playing the part of Katisha (" Mikado ") with the McMahon- Harding Opera Company at the Gaiety, Brisbane. Edwin Kelly, Lacy Cobb, E. A. Lambert and James South are also included in the caste.

Emelie Melville opened at the Royal, Bris bane, on the 17th, with "Masks and Faces." She i 3 supported by It. A. Vernon, G. P. Carey, J. G. Joyce, Frank Gerald, D'Arcy Stanfield, John Forde, Emma Brunton, Phil Stuart, and others who have recently been playing with Carrie Swain, and who may be expected with that lady in New Zealand towards the end of tl* year. Mr Carl Rosa has secured at considerable cost the sole right of performing Victor Masses brilliant opera "Galatea." The libretta has already been translated into English,andtherehearsals have commenced. Madame Marie Roze will create the part of the beautiful Galatea, and Mr Celli that of Pygmalion. Some very novel effects will, be introduced in the mise-en-scene.

Cassell's " Saturday Journal "for October (when the new volume commences) was to be materially enlarged and freely illus trated. For its price it has long been the best periodical of the kind (viz., a combina tion of the "Family Herald" and "Tit- Bits") in the market. The publishers are adding illustrations in the hope that the paper may eventually rival the " London Journal," etc., with " the masses."

iMr Lohr finding the Sydney Albert Hall much too small to accommodate the great number of people who wished to hear Locke Richardson,, made arrangements to give some farewell recitals at the Theatre Royal under the direction of Williamson, Garner, and Musgrove. The popular elocutionist has now returned bo Melbourne for a few day?, and thence comes on to Now Zea land.

The leading attraction in Sydney just at present is Sims and Pettitt's nautical drama, " Harbour Lights." The first per formance drew one of the largost audiences that has ever squeezed into the Royal. The caste is a very powerful one, including such well-known artists as G. W. Anson, Phil Beck, Herbert Flomroing, H. H. Vincent, J. A. Patterson, Decring, Jenny Watt-Tan ner, Agnes Thomas, Isabel Morris, Fxlwin Bryer, Pattie Brown, E. B. Russell, and many others. Tho scenery, by Brunton, Henningß, Peate, and Setrighfc, is marvel lous, and, all things considered, " Harbour Lights" ehould run well nigh up to Christ mas.

Buffalo Bill, the erstwhile pet of London drawing-rooms, has sustained something of a reverse. The aristocracy, who, singularly enough, vied with each other a few months ago in lionising Colonel Cody, have shown a disappointing want of Alacrity in re spending to invitations which he uenfe out for a garden party at the American Exhibi tion. rOnly a score, indeed, out of many hundreds, showed any appreciation of the honour, and mo3t of the " upper ten " re garded the whole affair as a piece of im pudence. Whence it will be seen that Buffalo Bill, who went up like a rocket, is now coming down like the proverbial stick.

It is to be hoped that the Committee will not adhere to their original intention of de parting this year from the popular custom of producing "The Messiah " at Christmas tide, and of producing Spohr's *• Calvary " instead. To say the least, ifc is a singular idea to celebrate the anniversary of Christ's birth with the performance illustrative of His death, and all the agonies of His last hours. As a work ib id exceed ingly sombre, the expression from the first to the last not© being intensely mournful. In spirit, therefore, it will be strongly at variance with the gaiety and light-hearted jollity of the season. The feeling among the public is one of very pro nounced preference for " The Messiah," and the committee surely do not wish to con temptuously ignore the wishes of their constituents? A propott of this matter I understand that the members of the Choral Society, or rather the majority of them, have signed a petition asking the Conimittee to reconsider the determination not to per form the " Messiah " this Xmas.

Writing from Rio de Janeiro, where he arrived in the Ruapehu on August 18th, Mr R. S. Smythe says that " the establish riienfc of two direct lines of steamers between New Zealand and London* via Cape Horn, opens a new route for theatrical artistes re turning to Europe. In consequence of so few of them habitants Speaking English adra matic company would nob be liberally sup ported, but opera and variety troupes, both in the Brazilian capital and in Monte Video and Buenos Ayrels, generally attract large audiences. As, however, yellow fever is never quite absent from Rio, and smallpox is very frequently prevalent, it would be neceesary for an opera company to have not fewer than three Or four prima donnas and five or six tenors, in case any of the principals' should be carried, off by either of those epidemics, to which it would seem that contraltos, baritones, and basses are not so liable to succumb, Vacancies in the rank and file could be" supplied from the large number of singing men and women that still survive in the chief South American cities—remnants of coinpanlea which have broken up through the directors ior principal artistes having suddenly shuffled b#their mortal ebil. Iti tact, Rio has probably witnessed the positively ' lasb appearance' of more artistes'than afty other city in the world." ' , „; , Mr Barnett.of Ghristchurch.has produced his original'drama of "The Schemer" in the Theatre Royal of that city-, but does not seem to have set Avon on fire with it, the Canterbury " Times" significantly winding up its notice w,ith the,remarks thab " Some excellent dancing and singing by auxiliaries not named ih the programme were the best features of the whole affair. The plot shows the attempt of a scheming villain (who starts by committing burglary in her house) to possess himself of the wealth of a rich widow. Mr Dunbrown; the schemer in question, makes love to; the rich widow, who explains that supposing she yields to his wishes and marries him, her fortune will go toher daughter. He professes perfect disinterestedness, bttfc produces a, supposition nephew whd he intends shall .marry the girl, and then £6 shares with him in the 'plunder.' Unfortunately the ' nephew' saves the girl's life when she falls into the eea at'a picnic, becomes really enamoured of her. refuses to be eftts paw, and is consequently hurled off a bridge by 'the Schemer,' who has met him in a lonely place to arrange the little business. Such a swimmer is, of course, n6t easily drowned, and turns, np again whence is supposed to be dead, Just in time to de nounce the villain; who at that very moment has at -length been;" bowled out by a detective who has been hovering about in the background of the play, all the time trying to pick up. the cjo6 to the bur glary first mentioned." The play was enacted by members of the Chnatohurob Working Men's Prawatic Ciob*

A JAPANESE EXECUTION.

The Punishment of Decapitation aa Witnessed by an .English Writer.

As each man stepped from the path on to the plateau his eyes were firmly bandaged with white paper, the only act of mercy I saw vouchsafed that morning. Finally they were ragged in line, the two cripples huddled on the ground, their poor heads as they drooped from shoulder to shoulder being roughly buffeted to a proper angle by the policeman in charge. This accpm plished, amid a silence so absolute that we conld almost hear oar hearts beat, the great mail in the camp stool rose, and unfolding a large document read in a loud voice what We supposed to be a description of the crimes for .which the poor fellows were to suffer and the process of condemna tion and sentence. This was a very long business, and before it had nearly finished the native spectators were laughing and joking upon the appearance of the doomed men, with that callousness to human sufler ing which so much blackens the otherwise amiable and pleasing character of the Japanese people. At last it was finished. As there were but five holes for seven prisoners, two would be obliged to remain in blind agony while their companions were being despatched. Five men were accord ingly thrust forward with staves and fists of police ; each man was made to squat on a mound, his clothes —if filthy, tattered rags could bo called clothes—stripped from his shoulders, his hands tied behind his back, and his head pushed forward over thehole. Our feelings at this awful mo ment can better be imagined than described, but I think we felt quite as much pity for the two poor .wretches left alone to listen to what was going on without that artificial aid to fortitude which the sight of a crowd sometimes gives, as for their companions on their death seats. Undoubtedly execution by the trenchant Japanese sword 13 as mer ciful a death as can be desired ; but the Oriental nature, as if to compensate for this erring on the side of mercy, counter balances it by an undue prolongation of the preparations for death, which is worse than a hundred deaths. So in this case. As the poor fellows knelt over their holes the executioner slowly and deliberately took off his coat and bared his arms. Then he took from its silk casing the fatal sword, examined it fondly and linger ingly from the Yamri me, or filings on the hilt to keep the grasp from slipping, along the Kirimon, or grooye in the blade, to the point, held it over a pail while a coo lie trickled water down it, and with a great deal of settling of his feet was ready. I felt sick and giddy, but I kept my eyes fixed on the scene. At a sign from tho official on the camp stool, the executioner raised his sword slightly, hardly half a deven inches, and al most before I could realiso it, the man's head was hanging over tho hole by a single ligament, and the blood was gushing forth in torrents. I then saw why the execu tioner had not completely severed tho head; and the wonderful skill of t.he Japanese swordsmen, using as they do the most perfect weapons in tho world, can be imagined in so arranging tho force of the blow that absolute decapitation does not take place. Ho tore the head oil' and held it toward the tour sides of the square ; then he gave it to a coolie, who roughly plastered the severed portion with clay and struck it on a kind of elevated shelf. In the meanwhile two coolies were thumping on the back of the prostrate body to hasten the rush of blood, after which one of the coarse mats was thrown over it and it was laid aside. I had seen enough, and I turned my head away as the executioner, after wipinghis blade with paper, approached the second poor wretch, who was shouting out something at the top of his voice, whethor a confession of a denunciation of injustice I was not scholar enough to under stand.

A MORMON WIFE.

The Pitiful Story of Her Wrongs.

Rev. Edward A. Lawrence, in the New York" Independent," says:

"I wish I" could toll the story which a Mormon woman told me, with her passion ate gestures, her indignant words, and her heart in every dramatic movement. "The husband had died a week before, and she was, perhaps, freer to epeak of it now that he through whom she nad been wronged and whom she had screened was £one. To me its greatest force lay in the fact that it could not have been a unique experience. • "The missionary Mormon elder, when he gathered a company about him in England, had won their hearts by promises of the rich, sweet life across the waters, in the land of the saints. Met by a rumour which had startled them, that polygamy was practised in that fair land, he indignantly denied the charge and allayed their suspicions. "So many years ago, she left her God-fear ing father and mother and came with a large number to the promised land. "Only too soon the dreadful truth stole like a wolf to the door, then entered in and devoured her. From Brigham Young— 'and,' said she, with flashing eyes, 'I believe never was there a greater Emperor than Brigham Young' —came the order that she should become a Mormon's second " She indignantly refused. The first wife, quite old and fond of her husband, added her treaty to Young's command. At last the woman's will broke down. She yielded. She came to respect, almost to love the man. The first wife diet}, leaving niessages of tenderness. She was left alone.

" An efficient business woman, her name would be recognised by many visitors of SaltJUkeiM should give it. She helped her husband to gain a fortune. It was taken from them by Brigham Young, who forced the man to sell his property tohim at a small fraction of what had just been offered for it by a Geutile. ; , \,, , , " They stariied again with another estab lishment which Young had induced the husband—Who, she said r was a (sincere and just man—to purchase of him. W hen they bkd made full payment and fancied their second fortune secure, they learned that it had never belonged to Young, but to an estate of which he was guardian. They were' suM for ths value of the property. , Struggling'along for a time, they failed i<> make their payments. The second fortune ■Was lost. ~ „ ' _~.., ~: f •' Then came "the laslblow. The husband was ordered to take a third wife. 'If you do that I will live with you no longer.' " The rebel was ordered to the President. 'Takea bill ol divorce and come arid live in my family.' Her indignant refusal! was fdllowed by a renewed command to the hus band, who at length yielded. She took no bill, but left him. Yet she continued to love him in some etti'ange woman's way. And when, in these latter days,' it became dan gerouß for a man to be known as having more than one wife, she said to her hus band : < Live at a distance with this other ■woman, and do not come* to see me,_ lest they find you out and arrest you.. 'I.will send word to you,' he promised, ' if I should become very sick.1 But although he ordered it, tyord was never sent, and he died with the third wife before the second oiie could reach him. . ■ \ "' So you see, sir, how my life has been blighted. My husband forced on me, two fortunes seized, then my husband stolen from me and my heart broken.' ■ - #. • " Y«t-she will not deny that ene is a Mbi'mdtt." . - . . •„' --~ !i-;

TiftlfliWtnv (who has ij6ver"boeh out of the^ city KfoS-Oh !ph! oh ! Kind rLav-What'e to matter Tommy t Kfctle Tommy--Why, what a big bky they've gob here, Miss J f-' '

FEMALE PHYSICIANS.

Their Success in the East and West — In

tho Medical Colleges.

Miss Harriet Post, a talented young lady who has been a practising physician in New York City for eieht years, recently in passing through Pittsburg on her way to the East after her vacation in her West ern home, remained over a few hours and chatted pleasantly With some lady friends concerning women in the medical profes sion. "In the Middle States," said she, " the female physician has made but small headway ; she is looked upon with suspi cion, and in many cases as some wild animal to be severely let alone. " In the East arid in the extreme West it is different. In the West the female doctor, like the female farmer, is growing up with the country, and if she proves herself a woman of sense and understanding she is consulted in cases of illness, and her advice received with respect and followed with obedience. In the East, while not exactly on the same plan with the male practitioner, yet her skill is freely acknowledged and her services constantly" called into requisition. There are a great number of lady physicians in and about New York City. We have our shingles out, and we make, takß it all in all, a nice round sum of money each year. • One thing we do dislike though, and that is to collect our bills. But, look ing at that in a philosophical light, the principal reason for disliking to collect bills is the fear of losing patients. No pun in tended," laughed the lady, "or fun either. We send out bills with fear and trembling, not knowing whether they will work our destruction or otherwise. As a class we are conservative : in fact, we are forced to be. In cases of kill or cure none but the very bravest dare to undertake, because of the kill. A man rarely hesitates on account of the kill, but to us it ever remains. " How do we get into practice? Well, our connection with a college brings prac tice to us. By the time we are graduated wo have a pretty fair start, and all that re mains is for us to rent an office and put out our sign. "The medical colleges are more strict with lady students than with gentlemen^ In the firstplace a good high-school examina tion is required of ladies before they are admitted. This the gentleman, except in rare instances, may omit. Another thing, when a lady desires to study medicine as a profession, she goes to college to study and to work, while it is frequently the case with male student:* that they are sent to such de partments by enthusiastic parents to be made, and, in consequence, either play or study to suit themselves. Enyious of each other ? Not generally speaking. _ Of course it is not pleasant to see an old patient call another lady physician, particularly if one has cured at other times and has not deserved the slight. Some of the female physicians in New York make hosts ai friends in a professional way. Some of them, after leaving the city and settling hundreds of miles away, are called to Now York by some favourite child of fortune,.who imagines that no other physicians can fill the place of the absent one. All expenses are paid,of courso,and a goodly-sized cheque pays for time and tiou We. Lady physicians, too, are selected more frequently to travel witli wealthy fainilic*. While this is con sidored by some as a bad thing for practice, yet it generally gives a physician prestige, and it is always a clear case of financial gain. " One lady physician of my acquaintance in New York is the admiration of the male as well as the female members of the medical profession; she puts through no end of work, and is a thorough business woman along with all elso. She holds clinics at the Morgue, delivers lectures to students, attends to a large practice, dictates articles for the medical journals, and has found her -way lately into the pockets of a number of wealthy New York people, so a now hospital will shortly be erected with the funds she haa secured. She interests everybody in her work, and is certainly one or tho successful female physicians of New York. "Ever expect to marry?" echoed the bright little lady. "Why," and the blue eyes twinkled with merriment, "what man in his right mind would ever marry a woman doctor?"

ON AFRICAN STREAMS.

The Steam Whistle as a Defence from

Attack.

When the traveller takes a steamboat for : the first time up an unexplored river he usually finds that the whistle is as potent as a howitzer would be in keeping un. friendly natives at a respectful distance. The cable informed us the other day that when" Stanley reached the big town of Yambunga, on the AruWimi river, the vil lage was depopulated in a twinkling by a blast from one of the steamboat whistles. When they found that nothing had hurt them, however, they came back. The scare they got may have accounted for the friendly reception they gave Stanley. When he visited this town several years ago the people would not sell him a particle of food. They had an abundance as he was able to ascertain, though they pleaded that .they were in k starving condition. This time, however, they sold him plenty of eat ables, and did what they could to speed him on his way. Nothing impresses a savage more than a big noise, arid nothing inspires him with greater terror than a noise he does not understand. Baron' Yon Schwerin says that firearms are chiefly useful to the Congo natives for the noise they can make with them. He thinks the native with a gun in his hand is not half so much to be feared as when he is armed with his lance. Flintlock muskets and gunpowder are two leading articles of import into the Congo region, but as yet the natives use them merely to contribute a regular Fourth of July racket to all festive occasions. Whole kegs of gunpowder are sometimes burned to celebrate a victory in war or the advent of a new chief. Sometimes-the wretched guns burst, to the great personal injury of the men who handle them* but these tragic incidents do not shake the native faith in the white mart's shooting iron as, on the whole, a very innocent and most enjoyable playthihg. But these .puffing-steamboats which are evidently things of life, are great sources of -terror on first acquaintance, and when the strange swimming monsters emit an un&arthly shriek everybody within hear ing feels that it is higrh time to take to the woods. Grenfell, Wolf and other Congo explorers triumphantly proved the efficacy of the steam-whistle -on occasions svhen the natives were determined to be hostile *t short range 5 and when Captain Everill ascended theTly river in New Guinea two years ago, meeting many unfriendly tribes, a blast from his steam-whistle was usually enough to cause a let up in the showers of arrows that everywhere greeted him.

Italics of Queen Alary of Scots.

The lock of golden hair of Marie Stuart sent to the exhibition by the Queen looks as fresh and glossy aa if it had been cut off only yesterday. The jewels, trinkets and quaint watches which she brought. from France ■,Contrast painfully with.,"the. coarse shoes arid rough gloves of her later years. The blood-stained lace which she-wore on the night of .Riteio's: murder, lies close to the veil which she wore the morning of her eieoutibhat Fothmngay.—'• Londoa Cable ' -

BOULANGER'S FORTUNE.

What Waa Predicted by a Witch of

Palmistry.

The " Figaro" vouches for the truth of the following story, of which, of course, General Boulanger is the hero: About eight or ten weeks before the fall of the Goblet Cabinet, Mme. Rcival, a fortune-teller, was sum moned to the house of a lady to exer cise her art; of palmistry. Among others the Minister of War asked her to tell his fortune, and it is affirmed that, without having any idea who he was she examined his hand and declared that he was a soldier who had served his country on the bat tlefield, and would again be engaged in war. General Boulanger pretended that she was mistaken, whereupon the fortune teller said : "I am only telling you what I see in your hand." She proceeded with her examination, and added: "You are in an unhoped-for situation, bub you will not keep it. A fall is awaiting you shortly, but do not despair. Later on you will ob tain an even higher position. The lines of your hand indicate that you will almost reach a throne." A little later Mine. Reival was told that it was General Boulanger to whom she had made the above predictions. " Oh !" she replied, " in that case I am glad I did not tell him all. It is written m his hand that he will die a violent death. Very shortly after this the General was at the house of one of Dr. Charcot's friends, and in the presence of that celebrated pro fessor and some of his clinical lectures and experiments the conversation naturally turned on hypnotism, double vision, magnetism and nervous phenopiena. Dr. Charcot declared in decided language that he did not believe in the faculty of subjects put into trances by magnetism to foretell tho future. The considerable develop ment oE magnetic electricity might certainly excite the faculties and augment the intellectual powers in the same way as it exaggerated the nervous sensations, but he would not admit that those phenomena went beyond the material world. A young woman who was regarded as a good subject was then put into a magnetic sleep and questioned by General Bou langer. like the fortune-teller she pre dicted his approaching fall, which waa to be accompanied with numerous popular movements without bloodshed. She added : " I foresee in the near future great commo tion and upsetting of things. It is terrible. The French and Germans cannot live at peace. A war will break out between them, but no one else will take part in it. It will be before the 23th of March next year.' These predictions were made at the end of March last year. She proceeded: "The war will last more than eight months. There will be terrible successes and reverses. In the end the French, led by General Boulanger, will definitely triumph. But, whatever they do, they will not oe able to go beyond the Rhine, where peace will be signed. Then on the other side of the Rhme I see revolution, shattered crowns, and thrones overthrown, and on this side the victorious General will be proclaimed chief. He will be the highest of all. — Paris Corr. " London Standard."

PREMATURE BURIALS.

Another case of premature burial worthy of being analysed in the realistic manner of Zola has occurred in France. An elderly woman who lived afc an Old World place called St. Onen la Rouerie recently fell ill, and, as her friends thought, died. _ The funeral took place, and as the grave-digger was preparing to lower the coffin into1 the earth he hoard moans issuing from inside tho lugubrious four board? enclosing the presumed corpse. Then followed a scene which was an exact counterpart of what occurred about twelve months ago in another rural part of France. The grave digger, half frightened of the probable gliost which his imagination conjured up, and partly awed by the require ments enacted by the law in cir cumstances such as those in which he found himself placed, left the coffin in the care of the mourners and went off with his sombre story to M. le Maire. That rural dignitary, having duly donned his scarf of office and summoned the village doctor, proceeded to the local "Gods acre." The coffin was then opened, and ib was discovered that the woman had just died from fright, having awakened from a trance to find herself hemmed in between the horrible deal planks. When horrible scenes like this are repeated, it is time for the authorities and the public at large to take into consideration the invention of the ingenious undertaker who has adopted'as bis motto : "No more premature burials." This practical person offers to supply in all cases of doubtful death an apparatus by means of which those who may have had the misfortune to be buried alive may not only inhale fresh air on ..their awakening,, but also.communicate by signal with the world which has left them for dead. „

An Effectual Treatment for Warts.

It is now fairly established, says a writer in the " Medical Press," that the common wart, which is so unsightly and often so pro liferous on the hands and face, Can be easily removed by small doses of sulphate of magnesia taken internally. Mr Colrat,of Lyons, has drawn attention to this ex traordinary fact. Several children treated with three-grain doses of Epsom salts morn ing and evening were promptly cured. M. Aubert cites the case of a woman whose facewaß disfigured by these excrescences, and who were cured in a month by a drachm and a half of magnesia taken daily. Another medical man reports a case of very large warts which disappeared in a fortnight from the daily administration of ten-grain doses of the salts. < '

Origin of the East India Company.

The East India Company, according to a document just published, was originated by a Dutch " corner "in pepper. Certain pri vate merchants in Amsterdam, who had begun to trade in the Eastern seas in 1595, had by 1599 fairly established themselves, and in that year raised the price of pepper against us from 3s per pound to 6s and Bs. The London merchants would not stand this, and at a meeting on September 22nd at Founders' Hall, under the Lord Mayor, they agreed to form an association for the purpose of trading direct with India.. Queen Elizabeth also sent Sir John Milden hall, by Constantinople, tothe Great Mogul, to apply for privileges for the English com pany, for which she was then preparing a charter, and on December 31, 1600, the first English East India Company was in corporated by Royal charter under the title of "The Governor and Company'of Merchants of London Trading to the East Indies."

A Lost Umbrella.

Tfim ease with which an umbrella miy be "lost depends very much upon the character of the property. vA friend once gave a man, during a rain storm, an old umbrella to throw away when it had served its tempo-" rary purpose, After numerous attempts to lose it, and paying various sums of money to persons returning it to him, he ventured one dark ; night to launch it from : the' side of.;a steamer. A deck hand saw him sneaking to the rear of the vessel and return with a guilty cdtih tenance. Nekt morning a male infant, done up in brown paper, was found in the river* and the umbrella adventurer read in an evening paper that the deck hand thought he could identify, the next time he saw him, the man who dropped the inno cent into the water.

POETRY.

BURNS FROM THE SPIRIT WORLD.

Ye ken I'm what the world pa's deed, My flesh the worms has served to feed, And fertilise fu' mony a weed. And blossom bonnic, But yetacontielifellead. " \, As bly the as ony. Hero is the native land o T spirit, Where folks their true deserts inherit, And find the bliss nnd peace they merit* Nae mair no les^;.. ■. \. My soul has peace and love to cheer it Wi' happiness. Altho' some preachers fain do tell I'm roasting in that horrid hell, They ding in folks' lugs like a bell, ■ Butdinnab'.ieveit. I found the name I made mysql And aft' can leave it. Ac af ten frae my name up higher, I watch the dhiels that strike thG lyre, And for the base o' fame aspire In rounds o' sang. Their mitds wi' noble thoughts to Inspire And sleep alang. The upright honest-hearted man, Who tries to do the best he can, Need never fear the Church's bant Or hell's damnaticfn, For God will need nae "special plan For his salvation. The one who knows our deepest needs Recks little how man counts his,beada. For righteousness is not in creeds Or solemn faces, But rather is in kindly deeds And Christian graces. So never fear with purpose leal, A head to think and a heart to feel, For human woo and human weal; Nae preaching loon Your sabred birthright ere can steal To heaven aboon. Wi'loving kindness will he Wait, . Till a' the prodigals o' fate y Return into their fair estate, And blessings mony, Nor will he close the garden gate O' heaven on ony.

BEWARE.

Wild anarchy may rise, like some vast deluge. Whofß surge against the realms shall dash ill fright, ..-..■, As'when the huge Atlantic billow surgeth, And its fretful murmurs roll in giant might. Reason dethrdn'd may stalk the streets and, alleys, Revenge may revftl with its hellish fanes, Hunger triumphant make fierce, cruel sallies; And mercy weep, unapt to soothe her pangs. Poor Lazarus, despis'd, starv'd, curs'd, neg lected, . Gnawing in greed- a crust of mouldy bread, May wormiike turn, and frenzied rend the rulers Who bring these curses oh our country^ head. Beware! ye leaders of a mighty nation. Beware! ye drones in God's muehfavour'd realm; There may bo earthquakes—terrors—fierce re prisals— And famine stalkabroad to overwhelm. .. Beware! ye pastors—see your flocks antended, Roaming without their shepherd's love and care; . , I hear their sorrow, wrung from hearts half rended, Whilst ye but mumble some poor soul-less prayer. Who then shall curse you? Not alone the people. Half«starv'd and femish'd 'neath your tending rod, But e'en. tho bolls that chime now peace and glory :. .'•■., ■'.\ Shall ring out curses, with the frown 6f God I . W.R.WiIJi.

HER WAITING EYES.

Her waiting eyes, so deep and true, Have searched the tender twilight through— Tho opal twilight, dim and sweet. Where day and night embracing meet At eve in. one short interview.

Tho fireflies glance, a fairy crew, <The sighing breeaes softly sw**. : The casement roses all entreat. ... •■ '■ Her waiting eyes.

In vain the blossoms brim with dew, " Un«een the elf lights cross her view; < Tho zephyrs ebb above the Wheat— For down the mossy sylvan street A lovor swiftly comes to woo Her waiting eyes.' . ' Georgia ROBESts*

NOBLESSE OBLIGE.

What is diviner than the peace of foes? He conquers not who does not conquer hate. Or thinks the shining wheels of heaven wait On his forgiving. Dimmer the laurel Bhowa Oft brows that darken: and war-worn repose • Is but a truce when heroes abdicate To Huns—unfabling those of elder date Whose every corse a fiercer Warrior rose.

Oye that saved the land ! Ah yes» and ye That bless its saving! Neither need forget The price our destiny did of both demand-- Toil, want, wounds, prison and the lonely sea Of tears at hornet Oh. look on these and yet- Before the human fail you — quick! your hand! Robert Underwood Johnson in the "Century*

Books Bound in Human Skins.

Cokt>ee, the murderer, of Maria Martin In the Bed Barn, whose malpractices thrilled Great Britain from one shore to the other, is reposing, or at least park of hpn is- repos ing, quietly in the Athenaeum Library of Bury St. Edmunds. It appears that thd body of Corder having been oufr downy was taken away to be dissected* and tb© doctor who performed the operation, know ing that a "biography" of the murderer was about to be written, sent the author a piece of his skin, properly tanned and pre pared, in which * a copy of the book was subsequently bound. This book ifc is which is to be found at the library referred to* Ife is worthy of note that a book was also bound in the skin of George Cudmore, who was executed for murder in 1830, and no> doubt other instances could be adduced to* grove the prevailing taste hi the matter of inding4.but.it is to be doubted,whether there is another example extant of a mnrl derer^s biography being bound in his own villainous skin. ■ .

The Stable Cure.

I was-not a little startled yesterday an I meeting on the streets, in the best of health apparently, an .old acquaintance whom I hadl supposed to be filling a consumptive's grave long ere this. The last time that I heard of him was about a year ago, and then he had been given up by the doctors as a hopeless case. I congratulated Mm on his recovery, but I must confess that my liveliest emotion ; in regard to him was one of curiosity. In answer to my inquiries he told me that when the medical men had exhausted their re sources he deterj^tfted to put in practice a plan of his own. he journeyed by easy.sta^#%6%ne Blue-mountain region of Virginia, where he established himself in > a farntihouse and bought a hors& He spent the wliole day m the open air,; taking caro of the steed himself and .riding him about the neighbourhood. Affirst, he told me, his weakness was such could not stay inthe saddle more than fifteen or twenty ■ minutes at a time, and he had to pull up very soon if the horse broke into a troth-.; Every (day, however; he; became a; littla stronger, and in a couple of months he Wai able to ride ten or twenty, miles on a stretch > with very little fatigue, He attributed bis recovery in, parfc to the fact that he not only rode bat groomed his horse, and busied him self an hour or' two in the stable every day. In his opinion, he confirmed what I remem ber hearing an old physician say years and ye^m ago, namely, that a "horseJbarn," at he called i<v is one of the healthiest places in the world. For those who love horsefr, the stable cure would be such a pleasant one that a 'physician who prescribed it might be sure that his directions would be followed to * the letter.—" Boston PeiL w Septate tft& ■ = ■^■t\3i)-hi- .7".-,.

THE AUCKLAND EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, OCTOBER ■-2»,; 1887.

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