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HomeMy WebLinkAboutLucknow Sentinel, 1891-06-19, Page 6• r,"-.7,7,'-',411/••••;•yr,,,N61,4,,,„ ' , ,. • • • ,4•rs;',:1)11r:''''''''• ' s r^s- -.•Irr-rers..."••rI4r.••••r .4444444444444,44440444.4.441443044.44414.4440.44.344 , 4 a Ili. Veterans at '436. forget the robber band "SrS 111140hAllista$4.14strhets hon. OS0 were on o Ind. *n reb.Los IOWA . hOW Welneit wept, ' Verhar homeathereteilePlal. tied ohlried Wean ? ut eomradeestill our oath we kept. " And aIlobeyed ovir aountirs 4011 Do you forget his dyieg face. And hoethe ranks vittb :UM thrafl_ W'hen sontsene staggered in his place. -Odour first volunteer wee killed ? We gear his poor hollers head; or-% We tri b.0 lips of troth and loam, The Ars youlog patriot. boya wits dead; iki."4 dial riff ooluradea, flag eedhomo. Ana others died -so round the stone That marks the heroes of that fray. or thoee WtIllsLtio Their patriot blood baptized the land, They gamed., grave and won a crown; No other but the loyal hand Can pat the ingrate rebel down. -The Khan iirToronto World. • whe Death at =ay. Whezi rosy dawn io all aglow. Wi.h thee, tiny love, rii sail smelt. Where limpid waters dub and flow. Audopening leaves of lilacs pay. go Weems° I love thee so. Thou 'merlon one, 0, month of Kiwi 3 With thee across the sees 1I1 go, Then blow, ye winds of az =lug, blow. 'W'sler.rtrr, VOW. 8111. AtrIstr01.1 ••• • all there mato boor. ko rose to go. declialag to staK to luncheon on the plea a butanes& then round 131/1r. dhanee ; eballhaT1) honeti gelelinelit he sad• "If I "I ENO IR MU St igtoraey Sharp's, and to Work 'very ard indeed to pull upforthin CM rib In' 0 Vie; eall again this eveniog to see you." -111-, ova thatledre heed- a woratectlaspe and hie hoe wore a pleased smile se be mad it. Apparently be did not despair of being able to mill again. As he stepped down the garden pathway, hie etep anti°, big head up. Mrs. Wilson looked after him, well messed. "Ho is another man, George," said lire. Wihon to her husband," to what he wag .zelremehetetemeteilttAtettetvereettee,4,; , , , "Very likely, my dear. he was tirediiiiir replied Mr. Wilson. "Dat don't you think you spoke a little too freely about Miss Leth is She might not like it, I'm afraid." The tone wits hesitating, the speaker's mild blue eye' deprecated limy idea of re. prciaoh ; but 1Nra. Wibon turned round_ him. almost eharply. "1 think nothing of the kind. George," uaid ehe; "yon men areaways tor keeping things quiet that are all the better fee being known, and nioe mistakes eome liv.es are in oonsequence." "Perhape you are partly right, Alice," sad he; "but I don't see that any mis- taken life can, be notified by Dr. Lennitrd's knowing all poor Letty's little morello." "Ton cannot see it," sad Mrs. Wilson, " becauee youknow nothing whatever about the matter, and would not, my blind love. if it 'was to heppen over again under your very syn." . Mr. Wilson looked at his fair -faced. mil. ing sponse, and thought her humor rather strange that morning, bat, being meek and gentle in epirit, he let the matter rest there, and went out through the Frenoh window to look at hie pet plants, while hie wife. still smiling, went • up to the nursery, to overlook matters there. •. Dr. Lennard walked brieldy through Fenmore, stopping to return the kindly greetings of ehe few he met, until he reached Mr. Needham's. He was two or three hours closeted with that gentleman. and from thence he went straight lei Attorney Sharp's. By the time hie huainese with him was aompleted, ie wee hie dinner hour, and he went beak to the Needham's to pax - take of it with them. -Mr. Needham had been. friend of old Mr. Lennard's when Paul was a dark -eyed, ourly.hesded boy, who thought it must be the grandest thing in life to be a doctor, if Bo when the beams of morning thrm Their gold upon the vaosat day. Well wait the ebb and take the ' And' then and I will sail sway. For in thy bosom flowers grow' Ant bluebirds build. went mouth of May. ;2 Together thou, and I will go. Then blow.se winds of morniad. Wow. 144%3 -Tule KHAN in the Toren to World THE .DOCTO "And you are old boase? " he in the " Yes," she replied " atill living in the mime h011ge; hut it is little a a home tome • She speke qiietly, ittly even, bat there was Eau* in.breathing pain in the tonethat _ the doetorte heart ached se be listened. Be longed to take into'his arms then, and ' . hold her there, este from every sorrew„ as iar isehum,an shelter Gould mske her ect ; but hie cruel bond wag on him still, et he . _thought, eyed he did not dare to do it. "Ob, Paeilifie 'Pe -linnet" wee -hie eine ward ary, wrung oat by a sharp pain, a *hart) trial," could you not have spered me that last hortible, venomous sting?" Thenheturned quietly to poor, trembling, **neatens Letty, and spoke calmly and kindly to her, as he might have spoken to tbe girl Lady who walked and talked with 11_ to dreaming. It wanned is if the still even, fog, vrhh its drowey sounds and holt-yelled, hasy lights, woe a plature of his own life, dine end misty, and undefined, going on int asekness, ending in darkness. end less Ay over ell. ft was with an effort of will that hooasteuob..sot Iretalhat end opening the gait of the -nottsee, walked holdly-up-teibedoor and knooked. "Mi.. Leigh have generiiiii,-ar, so shoe often doof eneming, but mho will be in men for oertein; she seldom stays oth as late es this tarot" said the servant. The simple oountry girl who spoke held the door open with quo hand, while with the other she ehaded her eyes, the bailee to peer out through the rising mist at this stranger inquiring so abruptly 'for her ariaiiiii4TaiOr "-Re= teeeteeeeeeeeeeceueereceeee "She often goes out, does ehe ? " re. peat el Dr. Lennard, under his breath, as ib were, and pulling away it that thick blaok beard of hie more fiercely than ever, se though, in some way, it angered him. _"Yes, eir. algae master died she have been lonesome and -reettesalikeit and oho often goes an le the shore, happen, or up the lane toward the church. Mercy on tte, Mho, on fright me 1 " cried out the girl in the same breath, flinging the door wide open with a jerk as she spoke. The doctor turned quickly. and saw Letty within a yard ot him, her bee deathly white as it (Mowed in the light of the lamp, her aim bright me with fever, and one un - gloved band resting on the porch for support. Instinctively he put out his hand to help her, but ehe would have none of his help. She drew herself up to her full height, and fronted him, calm again; the Letty he had parted from in the morning, so all appearanoes, but that she could not at will banish, 1that deably pallor from her face. But for the servant -girl, standing open-mouthed in the hall behind them, he would have gathered that white faoe to hie heart, and warmed it into life and light with his kisees. As it wag, he_merely rattled hie hat, and uttered the few commonly polite phrasee usual on mai °cessions. He hoped he wee not intruding, but he found he had more time on hie hands than he expeoted to have. He was going in the morning, and he had come to bid her good. by again, se he heel mid he should. • Letty listened gravely, thanking him, as in duty bound, and even asked him if he would come in and rest a little. , Yes, he would oome in, he said, and the etre eyea. dropped hitherto, reised them - °elves quickly, and flashed a half -startled glance into hie. But he never heeded. He f 11 ed her through the hall, and into the, hh-ffehd-wifeTwhenethat-faireyoung-wife- was the only earthly objeot his heart had • room for. And Letty listening to him, forgot the dearer words that might have )(Men spoken, that one day oho had hoped Would have inien-epoken by him toiler, and • Wag almost happy. The dootor walked with Letty as _far as •the gate of her own house, and there lett • Bar with a few partite; words that would be bila last, in case he got through the business that had brought him to Fannon% as soon as he hoped to de that day. If possible, he • would then be leaving Fenmora that nigh*; • if not, on the following one, so he told her; and 0 he stayed so long, he would °all, and SI her good -by again. • Letty heard him like one in a dream, • owe her hand paseively into his, and bent bar head when he raised hie ha and turned • from her, end then, still pale and *rem. Ming, she went in.doors, and in the quiet ot bar own room broke the spell that was • apon her by a stormy burst ot tears. KOh I it is too maah, too muoli " she tided out, -sharply, in her stinging pain; "'and I osnnot bear it, I cannot beer it 1 " All the oldpessionste devotion had risen up at the eight of Dr. Leonard -an the vain longings and hopeless hope's that had so reeked' her heat in the first months of his %beano°. They were racking it now with tenfold power, and if ever *he had de. laded hereelf with the thought that she had forgotten him, the delusion fell away from her then, as, with burningblushes and hitter tears, she had to own how mph she forged him, and must awsys love him till • the life that was so dark was ended, and the gore pain Balled. "11 was bard enough • before," ehe thought, as she looked on the little gate by • Which he bad stood, and up the lonely lane • through whioh he was even then pagans ; • "but oh 1 it is ten times harder now; and flow shall I bear it ? " . Meanwhile Dr. Lennard, sitting in the ereotory parlor. was -hearing from Mre. • Wilson the story of Letty' s life, from the New Year's Eve on which he had last quitted Femme% and without seeing her, ' 'too, and that was troubling him not a little Vow, as he at there. It was, taken all in all, a sad story, and there were tears in the kind lady's eyes as elle told it, and in her husband's, whn eat listening though he had heard it all before. Not no her other lig- lenses ; they were bright and Weer, with • altogether • new light in them, as though be was rather phoned to hear of poor Lettyte miefortunee. Dire. Wileoa wag not usually a gossip; tO•day 'she rather surprieed her husband by entering WO the most minute details of • Letty'e history - some that would. have better been left untold, he thought. • , All the little world of Fenmore had known of Letty's engagement to E Test %venue, end hod agreed in calling him a Atioundrel for breaking the engagement • when the change came. Mei. Wilson alone , knew that the break had net oome from •' him but from Lally berm% and so she heldDr. Lennard, confidentially. "Letty told him," ehe said, truthfelly and honestly, as not many girls in her • !position would have ventured or oared to • do, that she did not lov'e him as she would like to love her husband, and that she would rather not be hie wife. He wee not very ma& out up about it, as far as I oen understand, for though thereto no doubt he 7/ was marrying her for her money, thiere 1. quite as little but he liked her well; how- ever, he took her at her word, and left here 'for the Continent, I think. And then the very next spring after that Mr. Leigh died, ' and the peer child was kit quite alone in world; and how she hag borne her dreary lot einee is almost more than I can einderstand.'t Me. Wilson had oonghed and fidgeted snore then once during thiarecita, but his wife took no notice of him,' end Dr. Len. • ward seemed fully as eager to listen to, as etillnege ag of something yet to oome-thet she WOs to tell, every Particular relating to etrpok a chill to Dr. Lennard'e heart„ low, woken tones of her voice, that tried und_horeaske,ar-whati.kg.h&d.hefgatitrong man though he wee, and, little given ' to ring bravely for pride'e sake, but could .6 4.-41 only to have a chance of tasting all the not, dmPly bemuse love is stronimr than pride; and she, poor child. was loving him met then with all her soul. For a few elements he ea .1111 1* hie ohar. mai drunk the sweet &skim in greedily; then -he bent ,forwardoind loch, the tiny boll bends into his, and told. the tale he- had eome in tell. and Wed _httilahlY for pardon in that be had not tom it bet: toeseendenved ' t. ing him, the pain and sorrow that had so changed her. • " was for my father," Laity began, bowing her lower still, and hiding her hot faoe against the tangles of black beard that bent ©vs! her. One of the rare sweet smiles that so seldom lighted up the dootorte grave faoe ,LIAtit‘t_ornaik it now, as, loosening his arms, ao asked, softly e "And wee none of it tor There was a moment's silence, and then the old frank spirit flashed cent. "A little, little bit ot it Wag became of youtehereaid--; " only a. little bkithough." "1 thought so, my darling," aaid he, and the strong arms oloeed around her again tightly, lovingly; and the grave, pale facie bent lower and lower till it rested on the girl's flashed one, as, with one long kiss on the tremulous scarlet lipe 00 near his heart, Paul Leonard sealed hie troth -plight. Amy Needham, pretty little timbre's that she wae, did not win poor Laura's sweetheart from her. Mr. Grimehaw ad- mired her very muoh, and email blame io him, for she was a sweet little creature; but he loved with a strong love her sieter Laura; ani when three months after, he went and settled in London, it was Laura. he &eked, to go with him and share hie fortune. Amy fell a little inclined to pout. Poor child 1 Fate was ming her hardly. At' eighteen and a half she had set her cap at two, one after the other, and lost both. But oheer up, Amy -take heart of hope, little maid There is a young lieutenant in her mejesty's navy, now craning about in the Mediterranean, who is bent on coming all the way home when hie leave -time cornea, for the express purpose of setting his cap - the jaunty true blue one it is -at you, though you do not know it. Just a little while -only a little while -and you will be telling eympathieteg young lady friende that "an offioer in the nsvy is a gentle. man, you knee-, dear; and there ie some- thing pion in a sailor than a doctor he has each nasty things- to do eometimei," Meaning that the dootor hag, of mune. "Laura does not mind that in the least. But ehe wag always odd, you know; and for me I like °snore beet, by a great deal." When Mr. Grimshaw left Fenmore, the old browit house on the hill did not remain empty long, nor did the eiok and siting- --continue le- supply overwork for any great length of time for Dr. Green. For the second time Dr. Lennard brought home a bride, and to the same quaint nest of a home, perohed on •the hill, and looking over the ocean; not a brilliant, pampered beady, but a grave, sweet -timed woman, beautiful only in her purity and gentlenees, . and her exoeeding strong love. In Dr. Lenitarcite eyes she was perfeation, and on her love his tired heart rested ;lately. When he held her in his arme, it was no beautiful mooking vision that he °hoped, reeking him with far -away glimpses of what might have been, but aslender, loving woman, all hie own, to the owe of her warm heart, and doubly prethous in his eight' be- cause of the past sharp. pan, wrestled with in silence so long and so bravely. - Letty Leigh was no more, and with the maiden name was buried the maiden troubles on the day that a new life opened before 'her, se Mrs. Lennard, of the hill. The dealer, too, wee °hinged on that day. The upright, handsome man, with the ready smile and the quick, firm tread, ie not much like the grave, temewhat stern gentle- man we have. known hitherto, and hie Wench and neighbors did not fail to notice it. It wee a thing so marked and unlooked for that they could in no, wet, amount for ; but as we who are wiser know," Love works woudere," and "Love is still the lord of ell." Ag years 'flew by and little feet pattered up and down, and shrill baby voices rang through the old house, its master seemed to grow younger and handsomer than ever. And when friends, looking at the kindly, intellectual face, and hearkening to the nob tones ot the genial voice, complimented Dr. Lennard on hie improved Woke. a softer light would come into hie eyes, a taint tinge of color to hie pale °hooks, and he wouM tell them, half Proudly, half laughingly, that they must thank hie wife for she ohange. Lesty, glad and happy in her prosperous matronhood, never forgot the past, Bate among the treasures in the pearl and ebony work -box, that need to hold Ernest Dave. reuxte wanted missivee, lay a tiny drab satin shoe. TOooking at it, she often recalled the time when that little shoe, all stained and torn, had dragged the veil from her eyes, and burned hot blushee of shame into her face by the tale it told. She thought of that time now, not with bitternese, not sadly even, bat jut a little wistfully, for she felt and knew that but for it she weald have been a more thoroughly light-hearted woman now that her time of joy and peso° had come. The chain had worn in deeper than ever the dealer, looking at her placid tam, could know; end a little of its galling smart rankled in her heart even yet, whenever she tholight of it. Bat, withal, there watt no bitterness. Safe and unepsakably °onion* as Paid Lennerd's wile, hie only true wife in heart and eon), though ehe wae hie mond wife, elle had pity, and pity only, for the memory of the miaguided woman, who, in her wilful blindness and jealousy, went so near wreoking both their lives. This poor, brilliant Pauline, who had fretted herein into her grave, dinging all about her in her venomorte spite, had worked, by means of that game pitiful. spite, great ill both in her life and after her death. Bat her evil power wag ended forever, and the redone°. tion of it only brought a graver shine to the Ater, gray eyes, and a more chestened light of gladness over the comely, whom° face of Dr. Lennsrd'a second wife. THE RED, sweet syrups that went out from his drawingroom where a bright fire wee father's little room, that was _study and surgery and consulting -room, ell in one. This inendship descended to Paul se soon as ho beams Of a-fi't-ieteTterit;a-ud-to-;- da.y Mr. Needham and he Mtge as firm inende as ever that gentleman and his father bad been. With Mrs. Needham, too, he was a favorite; and as for the three Misses Needham they fairly worshipped the gunned he tre;c1 on. To -day they were deoked out in honor of his coming, occi- dental as it was. The elder sisters wore their best pale -blue glutei silks, 'with the newest and most elegant lizoo berthas, and the youngest, being of a seatimental turn, and holding as a.firm tenet of faith that men of the dootor's age were most attreated by simplioity, wore a plain white muslin dregs and hair a la Greque. , Three prettier, sweeter maidens it would be hard to find in ell England; and when the dootor eat talking to their father in the dining -room, instead of going into the drawingroom after them, his great want ot taste was evident, not their look of beauty. When he did come up, he only stayed to drhik one oup of coffee, which he did se hastily that it Goaded, and went near ohoking him; and then with a few polite worths, he left, and the pale blue robes gave a little angry reale, and the white 0110 a half -timid sweep as he passed, esoh and all expressive of reprosoh, if he could have known it • but he did not, be - cane° he was not heeding. There was a soft, glad song in his heart that drowned, with its low monotone all outer mande- a bright and Amides • monotone, shining &boa hint, that blinded hie eyes to all outer eight's • Going ont, he met Mr. Grimehaw, the young medical man who was attending to most of hie old patients, and living a bachelor life in his old house on the hill. burning in the grate, for the early spnng nights were ohilly. • Laying her bat and cloak on a side -table, elni-motioned-the-dootoretceseelti, and went to turn up the moderator lamp. • Standing in the I all light, her tam turned to it, her arm bare to the elbow, where the white sleeves fell away from it, Dr. Len- nard saw her deafly for the first time that day, and the terrible change in her shooks& hien. To most men she would have seemed simply plain at that moment ; the heavy masses alter thirds hair braidedaway from her face tightly, with the heedlessness of one who did not care how she looked -the sombre fade of, her black dress falling heavily and dully -round her, showing in powerful oontraet the pallor Of her sunken cheeks and the feverish brightness of her large ayes; . her arm, too, so wan and shrunken with no ornament, either of gold or jet to Alieve its painful whiteness.. But in his eyes she never Gould be plain. She was dearer to him in her pain and eor. row then any other woman be had ever known, not exeepting the brilliant Pauline, and hie heart stirred with unspeakable ten- derness aa he saw how changed and worn she wee, how weary -stirred,, too, with a sharper pain than pity-* terrible fear that racked him, making his eves burn and hie face whiten, sending the blood with a riieh to his heart, till its pulses throbbed madly, and the breath teemed to stop in his throat. The two men bowed and emiled, but they did not stop; they were both too eager after other things to oars to stay jaet then. The deafer took the Rath to the shore, end Mr. Grimehaw went into the bongo and up to Mr. Needhant's drawing -room. He had not been long there before he found a eest on the low much by the window, over which Miss Amy's muslin skirls wore epread-the poor white skirte that she had hoped would have fluttered into Dr. Lennard'e heart. But they were not quite ugeless, after all, for Mr. Grimehaw evidently admired her in white, he was �o enesually attentive. She had thought it was her sister Laura he admired, and Laura had thought so too, and still sat by her mother, feeling not a little aggrieved, while Amy, highly &aged, telked and smiled, and Bathed, and wondered as the young dootor did hi beet to be gallant. Silly little head to be so easily turned ! Poor little heart, with he inner chambers empty yet, and giving snob a sounding echo to every passing tread 1 The head Meg grow hill with the garnering of years, but the heart le in danger of echoing each stranger step so freely, that when the true step oomes it will let it pase oat like the rest, and go remain empty for ever after. Dr.. Lennard did not go on to the shore, though he went toward ib; he ttarned into the lane that led to Lefty Leigh's cottage, and walked slowly up it, thoughtfully smoothing hie thick heard, and matching the hedges with hie etiok at he stalked by them. As he walked his head wag bent, and his faoe, at first oalm and brightgrew more and more troubled with every atop he took. A thonsarid hopes and fears were etirring in hie heart ; & thougend stinging rnemoriee ; ,a thousand half timid entice- patione of what might yet be. 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Why "0 11/1301401b.* The way in which Amerioa came to get he name is one of the features of fr.' lila- + ble old volume .whioh has jest been a ' red for use at the world's fair.' The nip names of the western world were 4' The Land of the Holy Cross," "Atlantis," 44 Biloperides," " thence," "Columbia," and" New India." In 1507 a geographer of Friebtug received a letter from Among° Veepudie detailing the manner in which the Italian claimed to have dieoovered this otiuntry. The geogropher was so iinpreeeed with the letter that he proposed that the new world should be given the name of Amerios, in honor of Vespucii, as Europe and Asia had been named after women.. The geographies were the standard ones of thaday, and were given °Shia recognition by the Duke of Lorraine, who assained the elle of King of Shiny end ,of Jeragalems., From that time since the name," Amerioa " has been. invariably used. There are four or flint copies ofahis ancient geograph ' in existence; most of them being in the els- . brated librarie.s of Europe. It 4 'et the rarest of these V011iaigg that -lee been secured for the world's f are A • " What if the chain had worn in too long t What if the delicate frame could not beer the inward fever, and that he had aome too late to esve her from tee gulf his own arm, strong in he pride, hsd pushed her into? " He knew she loved him. He saw it then, if he had never seen it before. He had known, though he had not said it, the true reason why she had refused to share her altered lot with Ernest Devereux. It had pierced the cloud of hie doubts and fears like a fleah of light, while Mrs. Wilson was telling him her pitiful story; now that glesm WI63 swallowed up in Shia blackness again. " What if he had come too late " The possionete pan in hie eyes frightened Linty, as ehe turned and saw it, and the earnest gaze that went from the trailing folds of her dress up to the bands of her hair, devoid of ornament, handl, and unbe- °owing aa she knew them to be, brought the hot blood ganging to her face. " He is wondering how plain and changed I am," she thought, "He could not care for me now." " Perhape, for ehe has epirit, will scorn me fer my terdieesse he wee think- ing. " was terribly selfigh in my pride." Letty, mating herself in alow chair oppo- site to bite, actress the hearth, as mach in the ehade tut possible, beat the rieing glow of the fire should show hew °hanged she was, claspedher hinds fast together, and tried io talk calmly and naturally to him, mi !the would have talked to any other genthekaan: Bin tried, but she failed. Hew could she help it, with her heart throbbing stormily,' and her breath coming thiok and fast under hid glandes ? All creation may say what it likes, but men are selfish. A oat plot/lag with a mouse, sure and este under ite pew, would be no bad emblem for their shield, it they would only be trne enough to wear it. Dr. Lennard loved Laity With all his heart; he had come to tell her so ; and' yet there he sat, watobing her changing face, her 'quietening breathing, her rootless hande, and drinking in deep draughts of subtlest pleasure from them evidenoe of hie power. Nothing but the inherent selfishness of man epuld have enabled him to torture the* poorlrenabling little heart go cruelly. Ilis etrange silence opposed her; he would not talk, she could not very nuteh longer, ehe felt, and the terror ot the oome ing pause made her awkward and nervone. Ho estv it all. • He read her love in her rotten fingers, and, the flushing pulses of red and white that Game into her face under hie glance. It wag plain in the unwonted dropping of her frank grey eyes, and in the A Hyman for the Oceanian. Mier the morning sermon I gave the "nodose," and then announced the number of the hymn to be stung. The congregation had opened their hymn -books. Seeingene of ihe &aeons coming toward the pulpit. I ----- waited with open book. He reminded me thee I had forgotten to give a notioe of the ladies' meeting. I then stated to the eon- gregation that I had forgotten to give nosh notice, announoed she number of the hyena • again and proceeded to read it. The feel- ings of the congregetion-not to gay my ' own -may be imagined when I reed the first line of the hymn : "Lord, what a thoughtless wretah was I 1 '=-Howiletic Review. What Disloyalty t St. Ostharines Standard: There ie en old woman named Mei Ceram, Guelph, spending her last days in the Camberwell workhouse, who claim to be the daughter of George IV., King of England. It it said that George married several times, but as his wives were not of mpg blood the marriages were no% recognized se legal - Had this regal reprobate lived in this age and in this country he would have gone to Kingston penitentiary for bigamy instead of to c throne, but he didn't, and as a am - sequence he became King of England. Girls, Dolls' Dreesmaker : • Don't -fidget. • Don't -chew gum. ' Don't -bite your flinger nails. Don't -tell excreta in theitreet OSTg. Doutt-use a pin bora tooth-piok. Don't -pick up pine off the street. Don't -e -abuse a book of any kind. Donta-play with knife, fork or spoon. Don't -.it• whhile your elders eland. Don't -wear rings on dirty hands. Don't -forget that yea may be old. Don't --forgot to read the "Do's." No Girds. Beam Record: Oneof our very melted young men made a call on a young lady at her home in a suburban town reeently. The girl who opened the door was green - very. Oar exquisite proffered his wird. "1 %vial to gee Mies L-," he esid. • The girl 'caught him. by. the coat !leave and dragged him in with a Jerk. " Go right in 1" ehe cm:lamed. "We" don't need no tickete. Go right int" Mr. Small then graphically sketched the depths 'of degradation to which he had fallen, his con- version at a meeting of the Bev. Balsa 'Janes in Atlanta City in 1885, his terriblo struggle with the appetite, the victory given him through She strength of Jesus Christ and the devotion of his life to the calm of temperance " * * * There wan no and to absurd Means people adopted to attain curs% People bought 500,0.0 of Henry George% book on " Progress and Poverty "-poor devils who were ill able to afford It, all to end out how to get doh without work. Ing. Four hundred thouesnd copies of " Bel- lamy's Looking Baokward " were bought by pimple, who, if they had been minding their own business, would have been looking forward. Taking medicine to euro intemperance wan Iika washing hogs with Pears soap -it was a, great waate to soap. -Brantford Expositor. M. Sam Small ought to study eorne scheine to bele the temperance cense with- out lying about other moral reformers. No man ever bought or read Henry George's book on " Progrees and Poverty" in order to find out how to get rioh wishont work- ing. The book dem not teach, and does not protege to, teligh, any such lesson. On the other haul, it test:thee how to prevent people from getting rich without working, and how to enable those Who work to keep for their own nee and enjoyment what they earn. -If Mr. Smell read " Progrega and Poverty" before he made hie Brantford epeeeb, tie lied wilfully about its contents. It he never read the book, he wag little less • to 'blame. A men harno businerio to eland before a public) audience and talk about whet he doeg not underetand, and what hs nevertaken the trouble to (Andy. Mr. Small ought to knotty that there are other vient begidee drunken:male end he had bet- ter gei rid of the reat of them. Alt a Dead Less. New York Herald : Hicks -We too bad we ere not IP: family of Eequimanx. Mrs. Hicks -How would that benefit no any? Hioke-Johnny furnishee blabber enough for the wholelamily. •