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Home My WebLink AboutThe New Era, 1882-06-22, Page 8June 22 1882. That Boy Lover of Niue. 'Twac my very first beau, aia ine ! how I loved. bite ; • We wrote on our slates every day An1 pa , -sod theni 'quite -sly from one- side to„„the et bur _ In 4:1 innocent kind of a way ; And ; is the way we connnenced tha dear you I" ebserved Rate sympathetically. But you'll get a better chance yet, Zora dear, ia some other line. Singing isn't the only career in the world. And then very likely you'll marry; yoia are sure to marry ; 1, Wonder you haven't married yeti" "It does oot do to trust to that chance," said Zorammftly-but praotically.... . " Whae languages cen you speak?" Asked, Kate as if inspired by a Buclden ehought.. " duly a little French." " Not Italian?" now take my pen hi my baud " ! - infox you Em well and hope you are also," • with other words, please understand. No; WiBbl I couldI am sure I slaould love Italittu. I taught myself just enough to pronotince my Italian songs -but that is all." "Ab, not Italian; that is a pity. I was thinking," said Kate slowly-" but no -ah well, Fm afraid not. Well, now anyhow, Zora, we imust see if we can't get you some recommendations or something. You Must advertise !again. 'Pm sure- that's the right thing. And now, dear, 1 must go. Good -by. No, no tea, thank you; not a drop. And, Zora, you roust come and see me, mind; we must not let each otheradrift again." Kate imprinted a hearty, kiadly hies on Zora's cheek, and departed, her silken skirts imetling down the istaircase, and catching on an obtrusive nail, which drew an aggrieved exclamation of "Oh dear what a dreadful place !" from the wearer. Zora sits alone, gazing into the -red -embers and letting her_ tea get bold, saying to herself1 with a sigh, "What a contrast !" and with O smile, • "1 ana glad to have seen her. It Was good of her to come." Not:a boy in the school could coMpare with nay lover; A beautiful brown were his curls, eyes wore as bright as the stars in the heavens, . • -Whenever they shone on the girls; 'He was saucy at times, but in hin it was charm- ing, Whi:ch to others may seein somewhat queer. No !natter, I loved him, his fallItS, Sirs, seemed virtues, 'arils first little love so dear. B ofidd that het:lever would love any other, His words I did sweetly believe, " And 'Q., .; I was happy as birds of the Morning, Not. dreaming that boys could deceive. There C;7.1110 to our school in the course of the se,ison • 12."./.1 that was pretty to view; 1 qtticMy was forced to believe I had reason T., look on my beau as untrue. lio ow, etly would smile on thegirl I was hating, ror,:e ail:1g that promise of is, . lir,u e wouldiabtain, after -cooing and coaxing,- - Wh.ct he sty -led a _most ravishing IciSs ; And this was -ray -area my very first lesson, , • ' Tl.utt boys could so love, then forget, , AnC, leave little girls 'that were loving them dearly . 'To sorrow and upieless regret: Tne boy and the man are the as me I`ani think - fickle and false as the wind; . • o .or they meet with a face that is pleas- '11eybreak every tie that may bind -- 110 Ili et ea awhile with the girl he thought pretty, 'hien left her, which served her aright; eatue sneaking back- to the girl he had 'Io ;lust "get the mitten" outright. A 1k1110W, my good sirs, I must tell you's, secret, Long sorrowfulyears have been told, Th0 i I so loved n my earliest girlhood, If,' now just a sight to behold. _ 1 (.1-.11.; :to). glad that apart we have drifted I row my own boat all alone; ' Pb. ^. 1 bear not the voice that in youth was so, charming, Wb i eh now has a discordant tone - 1 now, my dear sirs, you must sacredly promise 'Po tell not the secret I own. 1111( ere now single -that matt I'd not marry be were a king on his throne. Life's Mystery. There is a sound of foostepa anda rustling of skicte upon the Stairs, but as Zero does not evpect any Visitors, and the wood is just beginning to burn beautifully, she takes 7,aotice, till somebody plays a tattoo on . the door, and calls "Zora!" " Come in. Who is there ?" -• . ":.1.x.,,ra turns ' from her task with surprise and interest ; but she has not time to rise up from her humble .:position -before Kate, Craven burets into the 'robin withher habitaal vivacity,albeit she appears pant-. Mg and breathless. • ' • . • • '• Zonemy dear child, how are you?. 0e, • teoec etaire I Good, gracious! what are you doing there? Ohl. what a height to livet at t iam quite out of breath! Why don't yet -a -leave a lift?„ Seven flights of stairs, I declare it 1st"' . • "Only four," observes ,Zora smiling, and, looking really -pleased to dee her visitor, as she returnaltate's. osculatory greeting: "Well now, my dear girl, what has became of you • all this tithe?. Ithought I WO U ki come and see you instead oteevaitinge_ so -here I am.: Isn't, it an age sence we have met? Why do you live •up in this skyspar; lo? What are you doing now?" says Kate, pourieg forth remarks and questions ali in a breath. • , • " 1 lava hercaprineipally because it's eco- nomical:" Zero, repliee. "11. you will exemee me, I will put another stick into this obstinate are; Draw your cheer 'close, HO 1 to get all the little warmth there is. .It liembeen in such a sulky temper I oenn.ot• nada it burn." , The two girls are .a• great ' contrast . in p_ia.rance ; Kate Craven in her sweeping elle climes, her velvet hat and feather, her sealskin mantle withits deep Jut trim- ming ; • and .Zora Brown in her poor little dalmed serge frock; but ,Zora Brown betrea s no embarrassed consciousness: and he: inenner to her guest, , sweet and gentle. ue 1 L is, is delightfully eree,,from subserva ec)cy, and •equally far from the -awkward- imee of assuming and • claiming an equality v,..laich,there is any doubt.' .Zora's. man. /leg never asserts' the doctrine of "Liberty, E meaty,. and Fraternity," but simply peoree it -proved it by a, softness, a deli- cacy, a refinement of look and accent Of which no lady in the land need have been ashamed. • • Well, and now fell me all about yourself. Zora," says. Kate, when the sulky 'fire is begiuuing to smile,. and Dare has risen and talecitc 0 eitt .eeside. . her visitor.. ." As for 7ry ail vontures,b Rate continues, lounging • back in hor- chair, "they. are soon told. Two wintere,111 Paris -acme in Bauss.els-1 • arote you from Bausiiels, by, the bye. ,E very eeason in London all the season long. Lote•of society ; lots of fun; lets Of flirta.- tiou. I have :rown an awful...flirt; they' tell ; but 1 on so ieve 1 myself. Anyhow 1 end life a very jolly thina 1. how do you &Id it?". • , " Not so jolly aS you do certainly," res.. ere els Zoete with a rather, pensive smile. • .Tile world has not ',gone very 'do; but 1 ought not to Coenplain; for it have done much worse.", . , .11ave, you not get any 'money? HoW ou make your living?" •asks 'Kate, ..recalcly inquisitive, Juet now I give . a .few lessens telittle thildren, by which I provide .mYself with kread• ancl cold mutton and oceasional enpe of tea.." , " Why don't you get a gomernesst place nicafamily ?" • ... " It ie easier said than done.' First and toremoet, I am not well-educeted enough. • t could' tette- no place beyoed giving what they call rudimentary instructiohto little' ' ;. . '• Upon nay word, I don't think I could even. do that( Teaching in at be 'a liorrid bum!" exclaims Rate. "Why 'don't you o1 "e for a companion's place ?° •. ' clia. I tried that twice; •but---aa"-- Z ra heeiteted thoughtfully, "it didn't do. -And then I once den • Seine sittings to an artist ; andthiet t'didn't • fehe colored a little,' and • continued rather hur- riedly. "And" ohl Kate my one goocl chance 111 life I lost 1 I have • riot .done regretting that yea! I told you once, I think, that 1 wee etudying singing. Well, I Was teconee out in au Euglieb. operetta.. It was only a beginning; but it Would have been a geed beginning. And so I made .nly debut; and I sang for nearly a week; trad I vines -fall 6£ hope. And then I had 'inflammation of the lungs, and lost my voice ; and the doctor told me 1 must not sing even if , a got my -Voiee beck. And I tried to ping again, and broke a •blood -vessel and 'nearly killed myself. So you fate pay ,one good chaeceetes gene." • , • , ." Oh poor, chin!: that wee's'. hard upon On this afternoon 'too, -beside another are, lanotleer girl is sitting, not along, and with no needle' resort to tee red (teals for an object ito gaze at and dream over. Luli Glencairn is leaning back in a low easy-, 'ohairapeaeeful and graceful and happy, the -pure daylight resting on one pale oval cheek and curving coil of fair hair, the red gleam of the firelight flickering on the other side • of her face and touching the soft cheek nearestitewith an unnaturally bright glow. She is slowly smoothing the fur of a large tabby catIthat lies curled into a cushion in her lap and purring lazily in its slumber. The gull and the cat look together like a picture of home happinesa, each equally and supremely comfortable and, content - except indeed that Luli, with those dreamy spiritual eyes of her, can never leek utterly absorbed' in any purely 'sensuous pleasure Of luxury and ease; and even in her happiest moments, her soul, , when her eyes glance upward, seems always to be looking beyond, away into a land of dreams. ." Thereis. nothing that to my mind is suflernatural," Glencairn replied. There are powers that know the future. Under certain circumstances, they can communi- cate their:knowledge." ' - "The premise that there are powers that kuow the !future assumes that the future is preordained, so that what they foresee is inevitable?" "That 'is so," Glencairn said quietly; "and in that consists the irony of some of those strange warnings which we seldom understand, and by which we cannot profit." "-That is pure fatalism, is.it not?" asked Lula thoughtfully: ' ' he answered ;" " we all muSt dree our weird.", • --" There are some prophecies," observed Duke, practically,- "that do not need the doctrine of spiritual or unearthly knowledge to cCount for tlaern-forecasts that may with tolerable safety be ventured upon by reasonable calculation; for coming events do sometimes cast -their 'shadows before' • , - "There are some such prophecies as you speak of,' admitted Glencairn; "and there are others that no reasonable calculations • can possibly explain. .11ove would you account for a matas double walking before his dealla?-or for the Banshee's cry fore- telling trouble ?" Are such -things -well-authentioatedate- inquired Duke. ! " Whq, can doubt the mass of 'testimony toward them? A friend of my ' own, a young Irish fellow of Kildare county, has heard the Banshee twice, and it was each time followed by a death. You have heard me speak,ofatIcGregora-McGregor'eacether saw his wraith,vvalk it the garden the day he was seized with his last illness. De you not know tbat your favorite poet, Shelly, - in the leet month of his life, eaw a cloaked figure, which disclosed his own face to him, . and vanished ?"• Duke looked somewhat incaedulous, and remarked, that " Shelly Was ae eisionary and a dreamer." . ' "But what is the use of these appari- tions a' pondered Luli. " Unless it bo :to warn a fellow to make his will and prepare his lest requests," suggested! Duke. . • . • " In the case of a man burdened with the secret of any crime, it might be well that he should know his last hour was near, that he might! secure the peace ,of his soul beyand the grave," said Glencairn. "But I aelerlowledge such cases are rare. As a rule, there is in these ,forecasts no such clear motiVe as to warn a sinful man to free his soul frets its secrets. I don't enderetancl it -it is beyond rue.", "It is beyond us all," said Duke, respect- fully forbearing to attack Glencairnal evidently !unconquerable superstition. " Such 'appearances, if the I are clearly proven as occurring before the events they foreshadow," said Lola reflectively, "seem to serve Only one purpose -TM of proving that thinas, are predeStinecl.". • Which I think for the good of the world might ea well be left uneecoven," observed Duke. , • " Meaning that the doctrine of predesti- nation is 'too strong -meat for the souls of the millicra?" said, Glencairn. Well per - haps you are right there, Duke." "The Million, you see," rejoined Duke, "would be too apt to stop at the corn -fort - Mg, theory that all the crimes they commit are predestined, and would not advance' the next stelae() the perception that their pun- ishments; ize some world or another, are probably tpredestined tod.", , "Hard, on the _million that!" observed Glencairn •, "and, pretty had -on us all. .1 -lard -ton Judes, Iscariot that his name shOuld be a mark for obloquy for centuries'on account of a crime which he had beee. . for centuries .destined to come Here the door opened; '.'Miss Craven" was announced, and Kato, who had come on from ber afternoon- visit to Zora to dine and spead the evening wita Glencairne, made her appearance. • "My dear Katie, you are COLDe just in eirne to /LBSOUti 11B from fathomless depths - wherein ,we were getting bet," saia Luli, ae the tam girls eechenged an affectiOnaM ereeting. • „ " Depths o heberouotty freto which we will extrioate ourselyee forthwith," added Glencairn. "Ghosts, wraiths, and. Banshees, Mita-- Cravena',. said Duke in a deep and ''3epuicliral voice. r, "0 my gracious 1 And in tins twilight room !" cried Rate. " For goodneseeeeke lieht the' gits-1" CHAPTER XII. _ ' Love woll who will ; love wise wbo eau; But love; bo lova; for Ood is Love. Let lovo be ripe in ruddy pritac t Let hope beat high, let hearts be true; And you be wise thereat; and you Drink deep, and ask not any morel" JOACIOIST MILIABO. The spring bats budded, bloomed and faded and summer fruit is ripe. In the country, beyond the dust and -smoke and heat of the great city, all is peace and -melody and beauty now. Looking -on the billowy sea of chiffiney-pots, the intermi- nable Sahara of dry and dusty tile's, it makes one thirsty, as if for a cooling beverage in fever, to think how, only a few miles off, Over waving ways Of deep green grass the gusty winds did bring Soft subtle scents of sweet flowers blossoming With sound of wild birds singing face to face. But in London a genera yearning for the country does not seem to prevail, for the fact that the season is at its height, and that Lon- don is fuli to overflowing, is brought before you prominently at every hour of the day and night. lathe -morning and after the noon, the Row and the Ring are crowded, and the 'upper ten thousand, in sober broughams, in dashing barouches, in low victories, in lofty four-in-hands, on "black borses and white, red horses and gray," parade theeneelves before the eyes of the Milli0/1. The million lean over the railings, and gaze and criti- cise and envy and admire, as the always handsome horees, and the soruetimes beau- tiful riders -for you get the best of equine oftener than the best of human beauty in this exhibition -pass by in the uebending round. At night, walk through the West -end streets and squares! Here, there, and there again, red cloth is laid across the pavement, striped. awnings flutter in the evening breeze, and strains of music float oat from the open windows. Here carriages are setting down for a ball; there taking up from a dinner -party; here, there, and everywhere small audiences are congre- gated on the pavement to enjoy the enter- tainnoent provided gratuitously by the London' wealthy for the London poor. Visions of beauty -visions of - wealth - Worth's latest creations in dress -diamonds that are family heirlooms --flash by like shows in a magic la,ntern, under the eyes of the little street -Arab, the working-rnan and the working -woman and so to high and low, to the drone and the busy bee of the London world, the London season brings iVexcitement, its ples.surg, ,.its weari- ness of body and of soul. By this season of course Duke Mayburne and Luli Glencairn are openly acknow- ledged to "be engaged," thofigh thg acknow- ledgment has not been made suddenly or all at once ; indeed it would have puzzled both of these young people to have fixed the day on which their understanding became a ratified engagement, altfiough they had of course considered thenaselves betrothed, and had been mutually pledged to eternal constancy from the day on which Duke first spoke of his love to Luli. The pub- licity lead come gra,dually ; people ' had " chaffed" them more and more, and they had avoided the chaff leas and less, and confided in one friend after another; and Glencairn had looked on tranquilly, and interposed no objedtion, but, according to one of his favorite theories, had "bot things drift." So things had drifted, until this season Duke and Luli were openly affianced in the eyes of the world ;. and although they had not, yet fixed any time for their marriage, they were full of hopes and dreams and schemes for their united life, and the cloud -castle towered higher, fairer, brighter than e--13?. • -- Luli was as happy as the summer days were long; the sunshine of her smile lit up all tbe household, and it was almost pathetic to see how her happiness was reflected in the look of smiling content on old Miss Priscilla's faded, time -worn face. Even stern Miss Christiana, relented into tenderness with Luli's blue, soft eyes, all -sparkling with -joyi-looked -into-hers as -if. sure of sympathy: and Mrs. Boyd smiled, although she could not forbear a simulta-, neous sigh,. as Lulls glad voice caroled bird -like snatches of song while she went about the house, light of foot and light of heart. As for Glencs,irn, he was a man of but one love, one aim. His -daughter made all the music, all the senshine, all the holiday of his life. , After all, in spite pf the often and loudly asserted eelfishness of hamat 'nature, it is chiefly in sympathy with the young, and in watching what seems the resurrection of their own Youth, that the old live again. It is by entering into the spirit of the life of youth that is in the full flueh 8,nd flow of living that they who have lived their lives People, however, in this world, old or • - young, can seldom synapathize without volunteering advice as to the conducting of the eircumstances which inspire their sym- pathy. Lessons innumerable concerning the management of a husband and a house- hold are offered gratuitously to the young fiancee. Golden maxims are ehowered upon lier: minute and. accurate plane of life are drawn up for her benefit. If Luli followed all, or even half, the advice that is given her by the elders of her own sex as to the "management" of Duke in the com- ing days, the path would be more likely than not to conduct the young couple by ne very circuitouct route into the Divorce Court! As regards the ma.nagement of income and expenses, the advice, though each separate piece of it sounds eensible enough, when fitted together fornas a suffi- ciently puzling whole. "Ah 1 don't waste' your money, my dear, on that ridiculous notion othoneyrnoothiega Of all the rubbish, I think it is the abentdecit convention for a young new married cotiple to Lly into -exile as if they heel dorm some- thing wrong, and were baniehed from their native lend When Jones and I were married, we went straight from the -altar home to our little cottage at Hampstead. And do you, do the same, my dear!" one matron amnia say. • "1 hope you will take a good long happy honeymoon trip, my dear. When you come back and begin housekeepin,e„ ab! then you'll find your troubles begin a another would propbesy. --- "You will take a small house, of course? I should advise you to look out Kensington way; and be careful not to allow Deere than a sixth of your income for rent. Sta- tistics prove," etc. "Statistics" always lwectaeutrhe,i e,beginuthg of a long and instructive "You -won't commit the extravagance of a house, of course? A young couple can live so delightfully in genteel furnished apartments," would be the next adviseres beginning. "Really," obeerved lath eonfidentially to Duke one day, "1 feel like a target for everybody to lire advice tit! Mrs. Groves has been here today, and without making the slightest inquiry as to our plans and -projects, proposed to go and negotiate for us for a suite of rooms on the seventh floor of the Langliana hotel. She said it would be so delightful for you. to :have a 'smoking' and billiard-rdona on the eternises.. I had some difficulty in perguading her that her plan was rather premature, as we had hot begun to form out own schemes yet." "1 wonder why it ie people are alwayaae ready with their advice when it is not wanted, as( they are chary of their hale when one has any need of it," pondered " Perhaps -it is because it would be so delightfulto their feelings to -be able to say, That youngcouple owe all their ha,ppi- fleas to my judieious counsel l" suggested Luli. "And on the other side, don't yon think, Duke, it might be rather satisfactory for us to be able to say, in case of any fail- ure, that the responsibility rests with bur advisers 2" "I think I'd rather succeed or fail on my "But I had ratheraif anything went wrong, that you 'they'd find fault with anybody else than with me," she rejoined. "Filed fault with you, my pet? What arn't likely to have to find fault with my little darling about!" "That unpleasant discovery has yet to be made -and 0111 what an unpleasant discovery it will be ?" elm added with a very sincere sigh at the dolorous prospect. "Duke, I wonder if I ever could be angry with you?" "Don't lettus try the experiment, dear- est -in case you should find you could!" he answered, emiling, and fondly caressing her bright waving hair, that always got picturesquely ruffled during their inter- views, and required considerable smoothing and combing after his departure before it could be made presentable. " "One thing is satisfactory," observed Luli, as he lifted up his wrist for iespec- tion, "you wear studs! So many buttons the leesso many chances of quarrel the less! This is what 1 am informed, at least. Bettor's and dinnerse-ahose are the two critical points." • "You shan't be troubled muchas to but- tons, pet; and as to- dinners 1 --well, .promise not to throw the,dishecovers at you, not indeed to throw anything larger than a salt -cellar. - Will that content you? • I don't see why there should be any need of even so harmless a missile as a salt -cellar," she responded cheerfully as a re -assuring reflection occurred to her. "1 shall have plenty of time to study your tastes at table•d'hote dinners before we set up domestic mealsa-although to be sure foreign hotels will soareely be a fair test as you u ill have to , control any inclination for showing dissatisfaction by flinging about the table furniture." "Dud I ever show you 'what a long bill they sent me in at Etretat for the decan- ters and dishes and goblets 1 had destroyed in my righteous anger at their confound- edly bad dinners ?" he inquired gravely. "And, whew1 Luli, do you know what o'clock it is ?" he added presently, holding out his wateh. - " Is it so late ?" she said with unaffected regret. - "Tho time always flies so with us?" he observed somewhat complainingly, "Never mind! it will bring next summer the sooner, won't it, darling ?" He smiled as he spoke of next summer; for it was then that they hoped, if things went well with Duke in a worldly sense, to try the dangerous experiment of domesticity, and then those "buttons and dinners' would become seri ous realities. "Shall I see you to -morrow?" asked Lula looking down with the soft, coy shy- ness that was the nearest approach to coquetry she knew, "Not to -morrow, dear._ loam so hard at work just now. I had to be up at five this morning to get that double -page sup- plement of the Guild -hall reception off in time; and I shall have to sit up half to -night, for there's the block waiting for Conrad and Medbra without a line drawn on it yet!" "On Wednesday then ?" "Well, there's the Sociable Club dinner on Wednesday! it wouldn't do for me to miss that you know. But on Thursday at the gar- den party we shall meet and have a jolly day. Look out for me at the etation, before start- ing. And make yourself look your pretti- est, darling, for I want all my friends to envy me. I think they do that, already pretty well !"-he -added with -a self-satiefied air and a snaile of proud proprietorship. Duke was one of the class of men who like their choice to be admired, who wish a:ease the seal of the world's approval set upon their taste, who, 1 ar from being jealous of other men's appreciation of the charms of their beloved, would rather like than dislike to see the pathway of her bonquering car strewed with victims -it being well understood thab they must be hopeless victims, on whom she remit not waste her tears, or even lavish her smiles: Luli was nothing ef a coquette.; but ale was woman enough to take a naive and simple pleasure in her beauty for his sake ; and he being as proud of her as he was fond, the admiration which her pure Saxon blonde loveliness attraeted was equally gratifying to his vanity and hie love. On the day of the garden party accord- ingly, Luli was arrayed in her best and looking her lovliest, deemed all in white, as he liked her to be, floating, cloudy, filmy, white'with touches of tender blue gleam- ing through the transparent gauze, kied a graceful headdress that professed to be a bonnet -consisting of two white feathers, a bunch of forget-me-nots aad a tulle streamer -nestling among the fair braided masses of her hair. The meeting place appointed for all the London guests is the railvvey-station, where a special set of saloon carr ages are attached to the tail of an ordinary train for their benefit, to bear them in sociable comfort to their destivation. The guests are mustering exceedingly. From city and suburb, from the aristocratic) west, from the modest north and south, and from the despised east--" the cry is still they eeme." ' The party is it mixed one ; it bas become an entitled affair -one of the yearly offspring of an alliance between Art and Commerce. The host and the large circle of his old friends and colleagues represent commerce ; the hostess and the larger cir- cle of their later friends represent art. Oil and grocery made the money ; art helps to spend it. Trade made the master of Rolniswood Hall e and now the master of Elolnaswood Hall helps art to thrive ; and into the treasury oE art gold pours from the coffers which trade filled. ' If I look at her any longer, I ',hall be compelled to snatch it :off 1 so take me away on to the platform, out of the way of temptation." ' tUli ia• tOO glad elf the opportupity of getting out Of the crowded group in the waiting -room, and pacing up J tract dean tbe platform with het beloved. The 'travel- lers tusk frantically about. The garden - party people look half enviously at the 11 s who aro d f u1 .try trave er are bound rom B ery. n. don for the cooliug balm cif the eea-breezes and the feeeli delight of the sea -waves. 'The trevellers m their turn' regard the gerden party, sornetneetheauyy, and some with lot ty pity, The garden petty are not going abroad; true -but then they have no luggage ,to look after, and no Channel crossing before them. And then, too, while the female travellers proper are eke in enits of dust colored -home-wens med sober checks and modest broevne and grs,ye, the ladies of ifie-aarilen fete look se fresh ana 'radiant id their snowy muslins and taiu- bow-tinted silks ' "Now, Duke," ' begiris Lula eagerlyas eheyeemerge oa to the platforro, ,' I have something -very pakticuler to say to you." "All right; ,deat ; I'm all attention. Is it to propose that we should elope? 19 that heap of luggage yours ?- and am 1 to take tlhe tickets?" and will not therefore • be sold with the , "Not yet, plemse ; but it is something pictures and library. ' that dose concern tickets and luggage. You retaamher last year there was a talk of our joining the Oraveps fin a trip to some warm climate for the winter? "Well, *I dorat remeraber ; but , I dare say there avae." • , "Yes, there was: and his year -the plan has been, reviv,ed, Mr. and Mrs. itaieven came :round yesterday- to talk --about it.a You see there will be a 04pital opportunity this reason," he pursues, narratively and eagerly, "because they IMove a geatlenactil who has a villa on the Lake of Como, and he wants to let it furnished in September. So we might spend the atitumn, there, take it for, three months, you know, end then at Christmas move on do Wn to Rome and Naples, and return in tbe spring. ' They brought us a photograph of the villa, and that; and, in fact, papa and Mr. Craven_ the gentleman's letter abieut terms, aad all very nearly arranged it all yesterday. I halabout it been la2n, gingi to see you, and tell you al "Thinking it would be a cheerful piece of news for me? But I do not see the: delight of ocean wide between 05 roiling' for a whole •long winter. However, if you are pleased --I daresay- you'll enjoy •yourselfevery much." . "1 shall, I hope,"- she answers, brightly,. drawing near to hina confidentially, as if more of the plan remained to be unfolded. " By'r leave I"! yells a wising porter, trundling a truck over the hem of , her dresss. . "Come out of the way of these fellows," pays Duke, leading het to a seat by a book- stall. •jest as he has settled herself and her.flowing folda of snowy drapery on the bench, a stout lady, with two bandboxee, a basket, • and a ,bag, .advances and sinks breathlessly into the vaott seat next Luli, which Duke was shout to occupy. The lovers exchange comically piteous looks, as it is manifestly impossible- to continue a confidential conversation across the portly person of the intervening stranger, to say nothing of the piled -up barrier of small baggage on her lap. "Holbo, Mayburne I you here too 2" says a tall man, with long blond hair and an eye-gless, wheels sauntering by. To be continued.) :Another 4Bhiltilze Against ib-ithert. AprOpos of the 4tiestion as to the origina- lity of the song, l'or He ie &fl Englieh- man," a Trojan writes : The Bong He Is au Englishman ' is not the only plagiar.. ism in Pinafore, as Will be seen from the following extracts from an old ballad called 'The Bumbqat atroniates Story:" A burnboat woman was land I faithfully served the ships ' • With apples, and cakes, and fowls, and beer, and q. one cent dips - And beef for the generous mess where the officers dine at nights, .And fine fresh peppermint drops for the rollick- ing raidshipmites. Whenever I.went cin board he wonld beckon me down below, ' -'' Come down, Little Buttercup, 0Ora01" for he loved to call me so. • I'm 'sorry to say that ,rve heard thatsailors sonaetitnes swear But I never yet heard a 13un say anything wrong ,When Jack tars void, I believe they growl with . a big, big D- . • . But the strongest oath -of the" Hot Cross Buns " was &Mild "Dear me " Fasition'aLtitertFrolloo. The latest importations of flowers include the -flower horseshoes worn as bonnets, Fitle_and without:a crown piece. They are of sinall Iiiid-large flowers, arranged in rows divided by leaves. Large bunches of fiowers and fruits are also arranged, ready to place upon the large hats in case of accident to the plumes with which they are trimmed. This arrangement will be appreeiated by ! those ladies who have experienced the disastrous effect of the gee atmosphere uponostrich tips and plumes. Large bunches of monapons and an aigrette may also be placed,upon One side of a hat, the opposite sidebeing filled with folds or draping of surah silk or velvet fastened with many fancy, pins. Among flower novelties are the immense velvet pansies, dabeiett, poppies and other aesthetic flowers. They measure from eight to eighteen imehos in diameter, are colored in the most beautiful natural tints, and are arranged with one blossom and from one to three buds without foliage They are intended to fasten skirt draperies, and for corsage bouquets in the smaller glees. They are not likely to become common, at the prices range from 78 to $1,5 apiece. • Herndon's Operae Company have dis- banded at Kingston. Mr. and Mrs. Herndou. remain there., , The profits claimed to haveboon,made by some stars duaing the past season are very large. There is. claimed 720,000 out of Humpty Dampty'" in forty .weeks. Buffalo Bill received about 7100,000, of which half wae , clear profit. Maggie Mitchell and John T. !Raymond made about e40,000, while " Sanaa: of Posen " drew over 700,000 in New York alone last season. Edwin Booth is said to have made e85,000, and his manage,r, Mr. Abbey, 715,000 out of MS last seastin. -London Punch ; "k female' is' at the bottom of ,every conspiracy Look for the woman itt the Kilmitinhana Treaty mystery. and You'find her in O'Shea, !" , • , 'Ineocent Syracuse proposes to give its policemen keys to all the saloons, just s to• give the proprietors assiiancethat the law will stand between them and • jastice prObably. At the the animal exercise of Hiram. College .yesterday Mae' aanaes A. Garfield' was elected to the position of trustee, to fill the vacancy ea the cellegeloard created by the. death of her husband. Genetal. and Mrs. Garfield at one time taught classes side by side in this institute. , • Just as it girl aie:s about to drown herself at Athens, Ala. 'e, man caught her. She struggled, but hall -mid her fast. I'll give you ten minutes ,to think it over he said, " and it you then lwant to die 'I'll let you do. it." " When . the time was up he released her ankehe quietly Went home:. , -It was rt French wometa who exelaimed, 'holding up,a glase of spaaklhag fresh water : " Ahl if it 'were 'only ,wielted to chink thus how themitewould taste!". , Prince aemarek 15 somewhat batter, but contipuee to suffer much fromgout, "a watiingeapeetite and indigestion. Acute mein has of late, kept him from sleeping. If he is eble to do so he will stay a few weeks in Berlin, M erclea to 'be present at the taeond reeding df the Tobacco Monopoly Bill. It he c6thiot do- thee he Will inamedietela tate:cad to a• watering place. In spite othie illueesathe Chancellor .continues oily t6 work aS Wu* as possible ;with his second Son, Count Wiilianu.' Because you. look down on a anati it does not :make it line -lambent on him to look up to yoa. Hamilton Palace near Glasgow, the princely xesidepc'e of the Deka of Hamilton, Brandon and Chatelheratat, bas been let to a wealthy Australian for a term tif years, at ar.VerY high' figure. The magnificent collection of bronzebelonging to the palace has been purchased by the same pereon LATEST MOM TKE NORTHWEST. Locating the C. P. fi. Liae-Insurance itten's Combination -Man Lo" In tile Woods -Accidentally' Shet-Sig Fields from Farms A despatch from Winnipeg, dated last (Wednesatty)anight,--sayse --The-Canadian-- Pacific Railway is now graded for 150 miles west of Brandon, reed ironed for 80 miles. Word has been received‘frocci the Barclay and Brereton survey parties that the former has completed correction of the survey of last year; and the line has now been definitely located further south. The new line will save ten ranee of construction, beeides being etraighter and easienof opera- tion. It will be more expensive to build, ' but there will be &saving in the end. The route' as now loeated follows the line between townshipti 17 and 18, almost straight from the centre of range 11, west of the eecond principal meridian to the east line of range 21, crossing Pile of Bones ' Creek, where the north line of township 17 intersects that line. •The route is now fully fixed to Moose Jaw , Creek with this correction. Breretou is now about locating - the line trom Moose Jaw to Strong Current Creek and ferry and Shaw from there to the Rockies. Great indignation prevails here at a corn- - bination among the insurance men to keep up rates now that the city has gone to enormous _expense dia perfecting athe fire a system; and waterworks are on the eve of completion. Mr: Hamilton Chief of the Survey of the Canadian Pacific Railway Land laureate; has returned from putting land examining parties in the field. He reports that about 300,000 -acres of Syndicate landhave been exemiued, and ! is ready to put on the market. The work of laying sidewalks is progross- ing in Brandon. G. F. Baldwin has sent in his resignation is Town Clerk of Emerson. - Rev. Mr. Livingstone uow conducts the Presbyterian service in Nelsonville., Dr. Lafferty land W. J. Sutton have opened is private banking house in Nelson- ville. The services 01 a policemen are now found necessars, to preserve order at the Brandon Post Office, J. E. WoOdvvorth expects to manufacture , 5000,000 bricksj this season ae Brandon. He has fifty men employed. 'I'he atmosphere around the weeds is now scented with the delicious fragrance of the wild plum blossoms, which are M suoh nunibers as would indicate a heavy crop. The dwelling 'house on G. aL Butcher -as farm at Oak , River was mysteriously burned to the ground last weete. It had been ploughed around, and no one can account for its catching fire. A young man named Rogers, of Stratford, Ont., camping out near Rapid City, died last week of inflammation of the lungs. The Rev. Mee Sargent conducted the funeral service. The deceased was an Odds fellow, and members of the Order motel as pall bearers He leaves a wife and young family in Stratford to mourn his untimely end. Three weeks ago Wm: Butler Buttamore left the hoase of S. Doherty at Rat Creek ostensibly for the purpose of going to the woods where hel had a shanty near the As- siniboine, end hes not since been 'heard of . or been. The distance Buttamore had to travel was nihe Miles, and his health at the time was in DO condition to Undertake the journey, but contrary to the advice of hie friends he started, and it is thought he, not being familiar with woodcraft, lost the trail and Wandered around until' hunger and faagueovercame his wean out .coesti- tution, and he laid down in some , out -of the. way, place aerateerished. Several -par • ties have been oat searching for the miss- ing man, but ncetrace of him could be found. He was about 45 years of age, and had been an inveterate drinker, but very little is known of his previous life. .A. man named Henry Williseroft was - accidentally shot on the Westbourne trail on Wednesday afternoon. He and three or four other men were riding along in a waggon when they saw a gopher run across the trail, and they decided to shoot it, and for this purpose, one of the men drew his revolver, but in swinging it out of his pocket it went Off; and the ball carried away part of one of his fingers and entered Wilhecroft's shOulder from the back., The party at once drove into the Portage, and the wounded' man was'placed in charge of Dr. Vineberg, who, On examination, found the bullet had Penetrated_ deeply into the flesh, and had imbedded itself out of reach of the probes. Williserft is doing well. The Rapid City Standard says: At the " beginning.of the year eve sent cireuler.s. to all the thresher's, in the Little Saskatchewan district asking for infetinationaim tolhee amount ' of grain they had threshed, etc. The 'following tables, OOmpiled from the • returns we have received, will, doubtless ,prove interesting. a The -avetage, einem:it threshed for- each farmer, according to. aheee figures, aelittle . over 525 buslaelsea.is• sinall, but it • Must. be remembered that it large number of the, fames wero. worked for 'the. first time hest year, and in many cases: - only afew_tieres' were cropped. .Among .the ' older settlers the average was about 12,200 , bushels. Should theaseeson prove a favor- able one these figures Will he doubled when ' the teresher peas his: fleet visit. '. '. • AMOUNT or, pition. . . . Threshed by , No. of Farms. Bush. 3. -Brown, :Rapid gay' • -75 . 41,200 Prout Bros.,. '" • 20,00,1 Thin, Beck, Birtle 173 11,800 W. 2. Marlatt, oalt,Biv.er '; 30 15,000 11. Pangnmn, " 23 1342 203 ' 107,201 ntounsr FIELD,(arax,e.'c(u.)- „..Reported by ., „Oats. Whbat. ' Barley. 'J. Brown • 05 bus. 55 bus. Prone Bros •. 60 ."' , 46 ", 50 bus. T.BoCkele " " . 52 " • W. P. Marlatt... 75 " 48 " • R.. Pang an,. "" 49 " • . A'ODAGATIULD (1.,011 AC11E0 Reported. by -- 'Wheat. , "Barley J. Brown,;' 0 bus. , '80 bus. . Trout Bros:10 ." 80 `' • 85 bus. 3.1. Beck 45' " -31 " • W. P. Marhat; 50 " 28 ' : • 40, " . 834 83 " Mr. Brown threshed 10,0 bushels of aloe Fend and 12 bushels of timothy. The lettere' , he saysawes a greet success. • Tbe (teeth is , semoudeed at aloepeth of the Rev. Dr. Anclereon in his 87th year. 'Hie arca rainistbrial 'charge was id parish miniqter ot St. Fergus, which he con. tinned to hold until the Disruption in 1843. Deceased wee' 0 prominent member of the Preebytorian Church. Mr. George Munio, the New Yoek pub-, Esher, has endowed another chair ia Dalhousie College, to_ bo, lenewn lis the " George Munro " chair of English litera- lure, to which is added the subject --of- metaphysics. 70r. Schurman f kcdimt I,. College, W.olfirlle, hoz been empointed to the new , chair, , the endowment of, which , amounts to a2,000 mi yeer: ' -There is it faticY aeroad that city people de not visit their country cousins until very hot weather, but even a blind mem bearding an incoming train, knows by his nose that the daily outpouring lbegins whorl the lilacs bloom. , "