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Article LOST AND SAVED; OR NELLIE POWERS THE MISSIONARY'S DAUGHTER. ← Page 5 of 5 Article THE MAP OF EUROPE IN 1877. Page 1 of 3 →
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Lost And Saved; Or Nellie Powers The Missionary's Daughter.
" Why ! Tom , what ails you V asked Peter sympathizingly as he beheld Tom ' s cold appearance . "I ' m droAvnded so I be , Peter . Bad luck to the ' Sparkler , ' " he replied in a shivering voice . " She has been playing the dickens with me . My legs are froze solid in my boots , and I'm loike the Arctic ocean at tliis minute froze up intirely . There ' s icebergs hangin ' on to ears loike a lobster to fingerwhile my eyebrovrs and tbe hairs of my bead
my your , arc as stiff as the jib sheet has been for the last hour I ' ve been overbaulin" it , and—No one IOIOAVS IIOAV long Tom Avould have continued complaining hacl not the Avelcoming cry of " Eight bells " put a stop to him . NOAV came the tumbling up of one watch sloAvly on deck , ancl the lively tumbling doAvn of the other . ( To be Continued . )
The Map Of Europe In 1877.
THE MAP OF EUROPE IN 1877 .
BY PTOLEMY PIIILABELPHOS . THE most unobservant of those AVIIO are looking on " at the things which are coming on the . earth , " must be struck Avith the altered appearance which the Map of Europe is now assuming , and is likely yet to assume , and of tbe utter disappearance of
the higldy lauded , often fought for , " Balance of PoAver . " Indeed , it is not too much to say that , as understood of old time by statesmen and di plomatists , as so much cried up , so passionately contended for , it seems practically to have entered into the re < rion of " non existence , " to be absorbed , to be forgotten , put on one side , and destined apparently only to be remembered amid the dusty archives of official 2 iigeon-holes , or by those esteemed Dryasdusts of ours who are as useless as they are out of fashion in this easy-going , reckless generation . Indeed , Swift ' s lines must recur to some of us Avho think on such things at all :
"Now Europe ' s balanced , neither side prevails , For nothing ' s left in either of the scales . " Ancl yet the sarcasm of the Avitty Dean of St . Patrick ' s is hardly correct , for the real facts of the case , as will be seen by a careful study of the Map of Europe , appear to the unimpassioned observer and the neutral politician—to the Freemason , for instance Avithout any politics at all—geographically to be these : that Russia hovers
over Europe like a great bank of dark cloud , especially threatening Germany and dominating Hungary . We say this Avithout any political prepossession or personal feebng whatever , Avhich Avould be out of place in the MASONIC MAGAZINE . TO use the Spanish expression , Ave do so only " para hablar geograficalmente , " ( to speak geographically ) , and Ave do ' not presume to enter into tbe views of statesmen , or seek even to echo the cries of nationalities , all wliich things are far from tho peaceful dreamland of Freemasonry . But Ave take
up the Map of Europe as a stud y , and ivhen Ave have digested our thoughts , Avhat AVO remember , what we realise , ivhat AVO feel , Ave think it well , in a sphit of the purest philanthropy , to communicate the result to our very courteous readers . The Partition of Poland was , as the great Maria Theresa felt in her " Geist , " and honest y , a great mistake , and a greater crime . Say all that diplomatists and historians ttay say as to the iveakness , the folly , ancl the childishness of Polish internecine disputes -admitting that the Poles themselves Avere , as that able man Lord Malmesbury seems to intimate , the actual original seekers of Russian intervention , and the true cause of
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Lost And Saved; Or Nellie Powers The Missionary's Daughter.
" Why ! Tom , what ails you V asked Peter sympathizingly as he beheld Tom ' s cold appearance . "I ' m droAvnded so I be , Peter . Bad luck to the ' Sparkler , ' " he replied in a shivering voice . " She has been playing the dickens with me . My legs are froze solid in my boots , and I'm loike the Arctic ocean at tliis minute froze up intirely . There ' s icebergs hangin ' on to ears loike a lobster to fingerwhile my eyebrovrs and tbe hairs of my bead
my your , arc as stiff as the jib sheet has been for the last hour I ' ve been overbaulin" it , and—No one IOIOAVS IIOAV long Tom Avould have continued complaining hacl not the Avelcoming cry of " Eight bells " put a stop to him . NOAV came the tumbling up of one watch sloAvly on deck , ancl the lively tumbling doAvn of the other . ( To be Continued . )
The Map Of Europe In 1877.
THE MAP OF EUROPE IN 1877 .
BY PTOLEMY PIIILABELPHOS . THE most unobservant of those AVIIO are looking on " at the things which are coming on the . earth , " must be struck Avith the altered appearance which the Map of Europe is now assuming , and is likely yet to assume , and of tbe utter disappearance of
the higldy lauded , often fought for , " Balance of PoAver . " Indeed , it is not too much to say that , as understood of old time by statesmen and di plomatists , as so much cried up , so passionately contended for , it seems practically to have entered into the re < rion of " non existence , " to be absorbed , to be forgotten , put on one side , and destined apparently only to be remembered amid the dusty archives of official 2 iigeon-holes , or by those esteemed Dryasdusts of ours who are as useless as they are out of fashion in this easy-going , reckless generation . Indeed , Swift ' s lines must recur to some of us Avho think on such things at all :
"Now Europe ' s balanced , neither side prevails , For nothing ' s left in either of the scales . " Ancl yet the sarcasm of the Avitty Dean of St . Patrick ' s is hardly correct , for the real facts of the case , as will be seen by a careful study of the Map of Europe , appear to the unimpassioned observer and the neutral politician—to the Freemason , for instance Avithout any politics at all—geographically to be these : that Russia hovers
over Europe like a great bank of dark cloud , especially threatening Germany and dominating Hungary . We say this Avithout any political prepossession or personal feebng whatever , Avhich Avould be out of place in the MASONIC MAGAZINE . TO use the Spanish expression , Ave do so only " para hablar geograficalmente , " ( to speak geographically ) , and Ave do ' not presume to enter into tbe views of statesmen , or seek even to echo the cries of nationalities , all wliich things are far from tho peaceful dreamland of Freemasonry . But Ave take
up the Map of Europe as a stud y , and ivhen Ave have digested our thoughts , Avhat AVO remember , what we realise , ivhat AVO feel , Ave think it well , in a sphit of the purest philanthropy , to communicate the result to our very courteous readers . The Partition of Poland was , as the great Maria Theresa felt in her " Geist , " and honest y , a great mistake , and a greater crime . Say all that diplomatists and historians ttay say as to the iveakness , the folly , ancl the childishness of Polish internecine disputes -admitting that the Poles themselves Avere , as that able man Lord Malmesbury seems to intimate , the actual original seekers of Russian intervention , and the true cause of