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Lucknow Sentinel, 1890-12-26, Page 7\ • ther, when I look upon the valoished, voiceless past, where all my hopts lie dead, as one from hie own kindred banished or eome dark crime to a far country fled. Tere is no crime—yet a great shadow hoVere, Like mists that keep the mariner from shore, Biding the isles of peace which hope diecovere In early life from me for evermore. So life's unanchored bath goes drifting vainly, Where rude winds veer and billion waves roll nigh, ;clad gamy actlons avz tb in cncling Warming to life the worm that will not die. J.ly bens to benefit what trouble cruihed, The fate ot those who trusted the is blighted, Whom I could teach have for my folly blushed. Where wee the use, 0 Heart, in all thy hoping ? The bowl is broken and the fountain dry— Poor prisoned Cyclope round his cavern groping For some lost door was better off than I. A Sensitive Subject. ' A street car incident w sic). as come o on Eastern exchange seems to illnetrate --idniuneontoirraeneed Of apparent age. • An old lady on entering a crowded train caught the strap and by chance took her stand direotly in front of a lady passenger appar- ently as old as herself.. The possessor of the • seat was up in a moment. " Have myeeat, madam," she exolaimed with audible courtesy. "Ton are older than I am." " Older than you l" retorted the -other; " I beg a thousand pardons for contradict- ing my elder, but indeed, madmn, you are mistaken. Keep your seat." " Bat 1 p.m euro you are older than I:" " And I am equally euro that I am not. Will you be good enough to resume your place 2" • "Not while an older woman stands." The situation was growing interesting ; but, though all smiled, no one seemed moved to relieve matter ii by offering a second Beat. Both old pereons werepretty well warmed np by this time. • First one sniffed and then the other, as old ladies sometimeswill when 'sorely tried. ....-....-Theveoant-seat---was,--atill-before-them.- Finelly an overture of peace cisme from the owner of the eeat, the last speaker. "I don't want to be disagreeable, medam, and if I'm older than you I'll sit down. Let's tell oar ages,,and the older yields." The aggrieved woman did not relish this much, but the pressure of an audience for- bade a retreat. W ell,metsclam,!Lehe forning_the semblance of 'a arnile, "1 shall be most happy. Will you announce your age ? Then I shall take pleasure in telling mine." " I was born in Maroh,1817. And you?" "What, March, 4817 1 Good heavens 1 • So wae 1. And what day did you. snip, pray ?" " The , 7th. And yon ?" There were bright red spots on, the. oheeke of. both old •,NW' ladies now. 401 " 1 have nothing more. to • say," was, the • reply ; " my birthday is the 6th, I am muoh ' obliged for the seat." • And with 4 admirable dignity she set down amid con- siderable laughter. THEY SHAVED THE TURKEY, Howard Fielding and Kande Prepare a Oliristmas Dinner in the Absenike of Bridget. A HIGHLY INTERE8THIG EXPERIHNOE. The " Bird " Furnishes Neat for Many Meals—Comers Ghost Laid at Last. At eh% coming of this season memory alevaye smiles best -A &a t Wet Chet- mas day in that houathold of which I am W:APO.n,052,714Lttl'AM-P344P1-Nr fades beyond recall; partly beoanee I date the beat blousing for which any man can offer thanke- back to that period, and partly beoeuse the dinner of our flat that day left an everlasting impreaaion upon my digestive apparatue, We had been married but a -few weeks, and I had ranch to be thankful for. Mande, too, seemed resigned. Even that dinner, if Ihad known thee I was to survive it, a -43m le is natural to auppose that we could have wiahed to dine by the light of the honeymoon with only each other for com- pany. Mau and 1 wae so pr both BO proud of the most rndiscrimfl Sing and nearsighted observer would recognize as a model husband, that we resolved to aek Tom Reynolds up to dinner. I will remark, in parenthesise that TOM being dieoriminating and hi,r.sighted stayed awayon this 000aeion but we expeoted hem, and made prepera- tione to fill bim with turkey, pie and a desire to forsake the lonely peen of oeli- baoy. The eervant told me to order my -turkey in advance, and she suggested an eight - pounder ; but as walked to the butolier'e ehop the warm, expansive generosity of my heart rose up"lend protested spinet such niggardlineee. I ordered a fourteen - pound bird. It happened that on the evening before Christmas our servant went to call upon eome friends, and I am sorry to say her absence was prolonged thirty days beyond -her original' intention by jaciidel interference. but .the turkey arriyed en tiplet_end„,, wee a fine hipedL es I remarked to Maude, after receiving him from the hands of the butoher's boy. Mande looked nervotoo, and eked it 1. didn't think Bridget would oome back in time. 1 said I didn't, and then added that I was awfully eorry my own little Maude would have the trouble of cooking the • turkey, but that the pleasure to be thrived from eating a turkey which she had cooked wee detained down town, but that was too would unfit a man tor properly appreonne--- me"-- Loculd--0"-ea ookli.T--soatt9.“taiu° ing the, joys of paradise. She turned her face away; . and had a small, convuieive spasm, wnich I attributed to gratified va n iyt y . B9o'clock' it became evident that the preparation of the turkey would devolve upon Mande She was 'pale, but outwardly calm.' We invaded the kitchen together. The turkey lay upon the table, and his wee ao proud of her home, d of her, and we were se a man whom even Qs. I 117ponthe Florida etream.Now. the Author of Lhe Famous 80 great and alarming ohange had come over "IltFN ON TEM 8IIWANICE RIVE }IMMIIIIIMMMUMENNM111•1101.111i.. him. He did not appear to be burned, but he bad swelled to the size of an Qatrioh. tie skin was se tight as the head of druin, and it had stretched till it wee " Did you ever hear how transparent. He wae solo a fearful, look- River' was written ?" ing object that 3111atide ran away to weep, "Don't think I ever did," bat the sense of a deep responsibility would "Well, Steph Footer -Stephen C. F not permit me to desert my post. I was his full name-wae in the zenith selected a long fork, and approaohed the his popularity when he wrote the worde," said my friend to me. " He had written oven. " Julius," said I, stabbing him with the the song in the frame hotuie on Sandusky fork, " what makes y on act 'his way." street in Allegheny, but he couldn't find &dine replied with a long, plaintive the name of a river that suited him. yfiattninatfter which he resnmed his natural Finally he went over to the offioe of his Dahomey's Amazons. The history of the Amazonian warriors cif Dahomey ought to give a strong im- petus to the women's rights movement in Otipelling the objeotione that women are airanting in the courage, nerve and other high qualities neoeseary for successful com- petition with men in the battle of life. In the State of Wyoming women not merely exercise the suffrage, but complete with men forimportant civil ()fume. To force their way into the profession of arms and to contest with the menfor the 'highest military honors would be the final step in the assertion of their rights and privileges. In the evolntienary progress of the women of Dahomey it may be mentioned as an interesting detail that they have re- vereed with, men the onstoni • of 'riding on horseback. While the Amazons ride astride, the men sit in side - paddle fashion, the saddles being merely gayly colored cloth The men are lifted on and off by attendants, who lead the horses and steady the riders in their preca- rious position.. Even his Royal Majesty of Dahomey outs a sorry figure hugging a tall groom around the neck, while another puts his Arm around the kingly waist. To, this custom is doubtlese due the great 'Mart which the women of Dahomey have gained over the men. The hint should not he loot on our wOman'a rights advocates. If they could persuade the men to reverse with thein the custom of horseback riding, the ultimate and complete triumph, or the woman's rights movement would not be hing delayed. -Philadelphia Record. Too Much Shade. ' Houses in places otherwise unexceptiona- ble are often so closely- overhung with trees as to be in a state of humidity by preventing a4ree circulation of air and by obstruoting freeedmiseion to the enn's 'rare Trees growing againettthe walls of houses and shrubs in confined places near dwellings are injurions also as. favoring humidity ; at a. proper distance, on the other hand, treee are favorable to health. On tbie prinoiple, says a noted English t physiOian, it may be understood how the inhabitants of one house Duffer from rheumatiem, headache, nervous affeotione and other consequences of living in a con- ' lined; humid atmosphere, while their nearest neighbors, whose houses are other- wise situated, enjoy good health, end even hew one side of a large building fully • eiposed to the sun and to a free circula- tion of air may be healthy, while the other side, overlooking danip, shade courts] and gardens, is unhealthy. Humid, confined situations subject to great &item - Cons of temperature between day and night are most dangerone to human life. Dryness with a free•oiroulation of air and a full exposure to the atm are the material *hinge to be attended to in ohoosing a reaidence. sudden infliction had been due to steam from the moist bread -crumbs. I told Maude that the dangernf an explosion was over and she consented to return. Together we watched and tended Julius with affect- tionate care during the next two honre, and at the end of thee time be was no mean bird. We had discovered the mysteries of " boating," and Maude had oon000ted a machine -made mince pieeponi t e grocery store, And cafe noir of my own prepara- tion, which wae 'ad much blacker than ordinary black coffee as a negro is darker than a white man. But Tom didn't come, and I was greatly disappointed. I wanted to point to that turkey with pride and day that my wife cooked' it. Then. if Tom noticed anything funny about the turkey he wouldn't blame me. We had tb eat it all alone. We only made a good beginning at dinner, and we dined so late, after waiting for Tom, that we hadn't much appetite . for eu'pper. For breakfast we hadn't much appetite, either; ---that ie, not for turkey. I have a secret suspicion that Mende launched off aomething. else, for Julius showed no sigue of diminution when I returned for dinner. • , • Maude had tried vainly to get another servant during the day, but ehe had failed ; and so, to stem her the trouble of 000king anything we had Julius for breakfast. I did not eat heartily, and neither did Mande. When I left the hones T. advised her to take a good equere lunch, and I remarked, by way of inducement, that she was, -looking- trlittle-thinhe--ghost-of.. haunted me during the day. I had mildly suggested tb Maude that we might have something else for dinner, but she said it would ,be wasteful. I took occasion to invite several friends home to dinner, but they all had engagments. Then I medi- tated sending a telegram to Mande that I JenePh Mit Columbia .Legi The influenza b Japan. The choler On Nov. 9th Okayau, japen, portions. hThe bye- ieet n the mmo desk and said.: ' Mormon, I've got a new darkey [long here and it's complete except the name of the river. I want a Southern river with only two or three syllables. Give me one, won't you?'" "Morrison suggeated several, but they didn't snit. Then he took down an atlae, ran his eye overa map of the Southern Statee for a few minutes and finally said: orida bv4 alone. Maude had endeavored to disguise Julius in a stew, but I recognized him at dinner, and my appetite fled. " Mafide,"esid .1, " don't you think our poor old washerwoman would like the rest of this stew 2 " " No use, Howdy," said Mande, " this is only jest part of him." awn "'That's it, that's it,' exolnimed the gong writer, jumping from the desk. ' It's just what I want,'and picking np a pen he inserted the name of the river that has Mace become the title of one of the sweetest and moot pathetio melodies. I believe that Stephen 0. Foeternever thought very much of the piece himself until Biter it had taken its place among the popular songs of the country." -Philadelphia Press. dimenisions-were—imposing--and-awful, For five days nobody uttme -to help ne Maude cast one long, pallid stare .at him ; then drew a gasping breath, turned Bud- denly,•and fled. 1 found her with her face buried in a pillow. " What's the matter,' Maud 2 I asked. " The turkey won't bite you ; he's dead." " Go away, Howdy," said she, in evoke interrupted by obe. "You will never love me any more, Iahave deceived you; oh., cruelly, deceived you; I cannot, cannot cook. Leave me to my remorse." My dearest love," said I, endeavoring not to laugh, " you never told me you oould cook. If I thought ao the reeponei- biiity is wholly mine. The mistake arose from my natural inability to • imagine any shing which you could not do if you tried." Maude dug her head into the pillow, and persisted in saying"that he was a wicked, deceitful wpman. I perceived that a -change of tactics was neoebeitry. " My dear," said 1, "arise, and see me cook. It will do you good." • She allowed an eye to be visible, and there was an incredulone look in it. "Can yon bake a turkey ?" she asked. "People don't bake tairkeye," said I ; "they roast 'em. I don't pretend to be a specialist on the subject, bat I can cook in a general sort of a way, and it's my opinion that between us we oan get up a dinner snob as Tom never saw before." We went out into the kitchen and started e fire. It was getting late and time was precious, so I eprinkled the fuel liberally with kerosene od, opened all the draughts, and let her hum. Then we approached the turkey. "Mande," said I, "this bird is all right except hie complexion. • He has a dark, dissipated look which I don't like." I1&bB because he hatien't been shaved." Mand said. The little feathers ave be ont off close to his skim" • " Don't they burn 'em off? I've heard' heard about singeing fowls. Of ammo they db. Jnet life off that stove lid and we'll improve his personal appearance in a hurry." Mande lifted- the lid, and a column of • flame rose half way up to the ceiling. "You'll burn him all up if you put him in there," cried Mande, and she hastily replaced the cover. - - - "We never oan serve him np With those whiakers on him," said I, looking ruefully at the turkey. " I guess we'll have to come back to your original suggestion and shave him." While Mande prepared some bread crumbs for "Muffling" I got out my rakor and tried to scrape the turkey into shape. But he didn't take kindly to a dry shave. I had to lather him. I felt so much like a barber while I wee engaged in this process, and the poor turkey looked so human and wretched, that I got to talking to him I called him Juline Comer and asked him his opinion on varietal topice-the tariff, ,the weather and the condition of trade. Mterward 1 inquired whether he would have bay rum or "tonio" and then I gave him a wet- shampoo in a large pen and called "next " These trifling pleasantrie put Mande in good humor, and she sale that cooking was a good deal easier th she had supposed. We had a good deal of difficulty in ing the turkey with the bread o 'Maude had prepared, bnt Julius C� 11.64 ready to be roasted. 1 while we were busy with the prep • had become, red hot, hilt by bold blower from the parlor in front Of en old Roman shieldrI Managed the 151frilitirtErtif611.- - After a while we inspected Jul 43. out ; but at laet my sister-in-law, hearing that Mande was without a servant, came around to see us. She agreed to cook the dinner, and when I took my place at the table, behold,there were the bones of Julius in a soup. Mand took one look at him and left the table. " Jennie," said I, to tny sieter-in-law, " is all the turkey in the soup ? " "Why, yes, Howard, I believe so,", she said surprised. I lifted the tureen from the table and poured the contentsout of the baok window. It struck on the janitor's head, but I paid bim for a bat end a vest and an injured dignity without e. murmur, for the ghost of Julius was laid at last. Sarah Bernhardt is writing her reminia- °Mmes. Themes Q. Seabrooke will next season star in a comedy written by Bill Nye. Ada Hoban has pnrohased a residence in Vow 'nick for $21,500. She is now having emoted. ,Bark of a student at the trativer- harkov is on hie right side,...ble tett 0,Tia btu' upleen on hid fight, lung is longer than his left. BEAUTY, DRIAILITNESI, STYLE. Ideas for Women la ho Wish to -Look Well And Live Long. That a great deal of comeliness may be gained by a little thought and mimetic) thriftiness (eo to say) is well set forth in the following item from the Nees, York Tribune: The treatment of the face and throat to a bath of water as hot as it can be borne at night before retiring -holding the fees in the steam and gently rubbing the skin while it is still warm and wet -tends to promote perspiration, Miran. rate the poree and free them from hardened matter, whioh so often forms " blackheads." After the face _hae_been_th.oroughly,, treated in' this way, always remembering to use no harsh - friction, only gentle rubbing with the hand, it- is an excellent thing to rub it with some simpre, pure vegetable oil, using only enough to be absorbed by the akin and not enough to be perceptible. The very beet oil for this purpose is a perfectly fresh, pure olive oil. This on Saturday, oansing eome trouble on the Stook Exchange. • Miohael Devitt. says r John Hennessy the anti -Parnell candidate, will be elected in Kilkenny by a big majority. Talltiof the Stores. " Waved " hair is a New York fancy. The best theatre bonnets are tiny. 'Girdles of deisies, buttercups and violets are in favor. The •latest imported hat resembles a tambourine. Lavender Bilk and crepe tetegowne for second mourniug, Cloth bonnets trimmed- with sealskin, sable or Persian lamb. A becoming bonnet in amber velvet is trimmed with sable tails. Red appears very prominently in all the deooratione of the day. Ball drese bodioee are composed of rose petals, poppy petals and hyacinth bloesome. Four.button suede kid gloves are worn in the West, but will not preYsil in New York. Rochester Herald: A movement has Men may wear black or selfsolorebegun in New York to designate in dinner stitching, wide or narrow, epare points invitations tbe feet that wine is not to be eerved by placing a knot of bine ribbon to the lover left hand corner of the invi- tation. The regret follows by return mail. 'p - •11A „fit- &kali Mr. Laurier will leralritt Jeoehtinn,g New Brunswick Li B., on Monday 1.e lion John Dry ture, will address farmers at Datto The Austrian information the d'Anvers, whioh en, Minister of Agrionle meeting of West Elsie on 'illedneeday.. overninent has 'reosived the training ship Ville as reported lost, is safe. -vt4 • u•'. Penitentiary, is radually oinking and it Ta not expeoted th' 1 he will live over Christ - Mae. The will of aniel B. Fayerweather, the New York rei naire leather dealer, gives $2,100,000 to different oollegee and $95,009 to hospital(' The rep rt ,has reached Winnipeg that two 'eels; dio fishermen were drowned the other day in Lake Winnipeg, near Grand - tone Poi t. It is n erstood that a number of Cana- dian sten ere, of the tramp variety, hairs been profit ited- from carrying oattle to Great BMW . On Sunday fight the reeidenoa of the Arshbishop of alum* Spain, was dam- aged by the exp °Edon of a bomb which had been thrown tit. Members of t e council or the Board of Trade and a number of repreeentative` citizens of Toronto left for Sudbury last night to visit the nickel mines. The impression in Toronto conoerning the alleged case of pleuro -pneumonia among a cargo of Canadian cattle ie that it is nothing more than inflamation. -Arboat-oontainingrtbenaptain and foot teen men of the crew of the Japanese train, ing ebip Monju capsized off the comet of Japan recently and all were drowned but two. Cholera is raging in Guatemala. Edward Eliott. a London broker, failed amount of oil is nourishing to she skin, In the morning 'wash tTfedi ully in warm water and afterward With field 'water to give tone.to the com- plexion. Rewarded at Last. Rochester Herald: The multindee of women -who have been looking eider the bed for years will be gratified to }now that ..onenLtheir_rturnber,_14r1. Altex Demo of Camden, South Carolhas win rewarded the other day by findiig a °rimed gentle- man under there. Sio Imbed & revolver, ordered the darkey on, conducted him to the yard and made im milk a oow while one of her children vzit for an officer. In this way she was ail to keep np with her work. ge ,ss Failing. if: okn Shoe Recorder motherigwell; teihihI, Lady visitor- James, your father lo fie ta r ovheer is failing." Lim Jimmie -I guess he is. I heard him the dther niefor him to put everything in her nom' then fail an' offer ten " ciente on a dr! • ,1 Faint Hope. Mi ss Arde—I am so fond of painting. Indeed, pay say that I am wedded to my Jack 3r admireri-Would it be any use whether you have any oonsoi-- eto ni ocirlri°r uples against bigamy ? Gum Chewing Girls., rialo News: A prominent New York hoian eaid a few days ago that the retinal chewing of gum has produced ‘,:r1 minds in 14 oases of young girls now rer treatment, the comment movement he mouthuansing too great a atrain on 3 head. Beg to be Excused. . , only the plain cording. The plainer the decoration and the A the kid the handsomer the glove beco for women's wear. Several retail • dealers are now oiling tinsel ribbon effects, that were wonlia noveltieg four menthe ago, on their t tables. -Dry Goods 'Economist. Sensible Christmas Hints Buy no more than you oan afftht to. Give no gift where yon do notareagth Shkan no more than you, have', for. Entertain only within your/ mime Keep your Christmas nerve first f and heart, and hope.aonnel7fie;reiale, , y your own home, your owraetest dearefit, your closest; y then for the homeless, ad unloved, the " undearefia true, true to the last Chj, goes to your poet-offide, Christmas " that oroe We ere peopl mna ho w What the Police Found. ---"" Chicago News: rhe other eome ingenious gentleman oobblestone through a a on Webeeh avenue an coat ont thron at work on moored t Two white men, Jack Bridgea and Burk Robinson, were killed by Apaches in the Guedaloupe Mountains, Arizona, Friday. The Bolton Cotton Aaeociation has voted in favor of striking next week unless wagea are advanoed 5 per cent. The strike will effect-'25-,000-111inds. t af . • ' • Mr. Hitt's reciprocity resolution will likely be considered by Congress very sop and there are good -prospects of its bane passed by both Houses. ' The Armenian Patriaroh officiated yes, terday, which is taken to mean that the difficulty between the Porte and the Ar- menian Church hail been settled. All of the railway men in Scotland will strike on Sunday next for ehorter -hours. There ie a prospect or traffic, being en- tirely suspended during the Christmas , holidnys. The residence 'Of Judge Patnam, Sara- toga, was horned last night. The bout* was filled with valuable paintinge, rare curios, etc. The lose is over $100,000 actually, but many of the moat valued articles cannot be replaced. Tho by lew to prohibit the sale of intoxi-, eating drinks in the township of East Luther, submitted under the Local Option , - Act, was voted on yesterday and defeated, the vote 'being a tie at 219, and a majority being required to carry the by-law. The laborers on the railway that is being built from Galway to Olifden have struck for an increase of wages. The road ie be- ing -built by the Government, and the work was started as apart of Mr. Believe* scheme for the relief of unemployed work- men. Japanese advises state that in agreement has been arrived at between the Japanese and Hawaiian Governmenta regarding , Japanese immigration to Hawaii, by whioki the passage of each emigrant, $65, is frayed by the Hawaiian Governme J-Pierpont Morgan has a invitations to the p roads west of York