AHDREE.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXXII, Issue 174, 2 August 1898, Page 4

AHDREE.

(Left Greonland July, 1897, in his bal'oon, not since heard of). [A contributor, stirred by the adventurer of Andrea to the Pole, and touched by hia doubtful fate, hag written the appended lines]: — How wi'l men epeat of thoo ii after days? With frouder, ac'nr-ation, scorn, or pr&isa? A* poet, high abore cold Reaaon's rule ? Hero of iciance, charlatan, or fool ? Too icon, to ask; we first should kaow tbj Me i Will it remain unknown? Will resiue come too late ? Will the days come when men shall sai through air A* now o'er ocean depths, with no more cans? Than may thy name be honoured, as of old Man rendered honour to that Captain bold Who £rrt the broad Atlantic dared to croag Reck/e:s of ridienle, and risk and lo^ Hia knowledge less than ou.-s, his faith how grand! And new —no man may hope to find new land! Or will time show man's destiny to be Though free to roam at will o'er land and Mft, NeTer to navigate the realms of air, Hot more than he hath dared, in future dar*. Then, Andrce, may thy name be lest to fame, Or, if remembered, only held in Ehatne. Yet 'twas heroic! Life was on tb9 cast Set on the hop« that, spite of failure past Of men who toiled in vaia o'er land and 88*, Thy flight through air a grand success should be, And thou shonld'st stacd, or hover ocr, the Pole. Firrt of all men to reach that witching goal. Nor iv thy mood mree Taunt; For thou had'st cared To store thy craft with instruments prepared To seize new facts of .Science Nature gladly yields To men, so armed, who search untrodden fields. Why maj not Science show her heroes ra>h, Men with a Nelson's pluck, a Cochrane's dash? And yet had Cochrane fsll'n in his first fight Hia name wenld now be lost, forgotten quite. Or, if remembered, then—no hero he ' Simply a fighting madman he tvonld be. So, Andr£e, if upon the roll of Fame, High place aha'l e'er be given to thy name, Thon most return and do yet greater things! Fame from •access, and not from failure, springs. Ah, how we long to know —when deeply stirred By tale of such exploit, so deeply dared — What is the end r And if indeed grim Death Did cause to vanish quite, lika rap'rous breath In frosty morn, those glorious hopes of thine Till even Hope herself could make no sign, Whit wete thy dying thoughts! How little then CoDld signify to thee the praise of men! " Have I done rijht ?" That is the question then! Or was, indeed, the Tery power to think First frozen, so that life could only sink Unconsciously into the lap of Death, Nor thought revive, except with Heaven's first breath ? Let us not jadge. Is he not in God's Bight? " Shall not the Lord of all the earth do right V

Mr E. T. Hooley, ex-millionaire, remarked lately : —" if people had any idea of the many inconremenceß of bein« what the world calls wealthy they would never ask such a foolish question as ' Does oealth bring happineEs r' first of all, there are the begging-letter writers. Once let people think you rich, and before ft year has passed you will hare received, from people you abver heard of before, requests fcr loans, gifts, and offices of profit taflicient to exhauet the combiDcd patronage of all tba Lord Chancellors Great Britain has ever had, and to bleak the Dank of England. A rich man must ive conctantiy in the public eye. Privacy is a stranger to him. The public want to know more about him, and the newspapers teem with paragraphs, telliag how he opens his letters, what he ha 3 for breakfast, and even how be puts on bis cellar and shoes. An incognito is an impossibility for him. Everybody knows .him, and hia entrance into a shop is a signal for as increase of 25 per cent on ermything he desires to purchase. His reputed wealth maYes him more or less an object of envy to ereryone not so well off, and he is very apt to be annoyed with threatening letters from Auarchists, if not actually made a target for their bnlbte." M. Souz, of the Pasteur Institute (according to the Paris correspondent of the " Daily Telegraph ") has made the important announcement that he and his colleagues have discovered a leal and efficient cur* for tetanus er lockjaw. The (itrmans, it appears, have already used a sernm for sobentaneous injections in 3Ases of lockjaw, but no beneficial renits were obtained from the treatment. M. Root came to the conclusion that the anti-tetanic stuff should be injected into the braia, ander the membranes, so as to reach the saat of the malady. Experiments were tried on animals with remarkable snecsss, and M. Boor then enterd into communication with the leading medical men of Paris, and conferred with them on the advisableness of trying the effect of the serum on a patient. A man afflicled with tetanus was accordingly trepanned on April 26th last, and succesrfr'.'y treated. Ia the "Astrological Monthly " for January last appeared in the " Coming Events," wrnUa probably in November or Dacember, the following in connection wirh the horoscope of the yotmg King of Spain:—" V\ ho can doubt that wben Mars and tben Saturn and afterwards Draous, come to the opposition of the son's parallel, there will be war between America and Spain and betwten France aad Spain, and that Alphonso will lo«e his throne ?" Ihe lirac piedicllon has proved cotiect; will tUe tecond (aaks the "Oiago Daily Times' l) prove equally so?