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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Times, 1893-03-24, Page 2144 gii0-441) VO„,„,,L4A0.4. r9PnicAlk_4?":„ IPA es RET Pi ART COPYRIGHT.-1892..13YlklE AIM& TELE WINGIIAM TIMES, MARQAI 24,. 1893, OMVM'....MWNV...a•OVqa.17.9aow.M.IRF.I.M.pff.epa..rt,nItMrM.F.W.R..am.l..qrr•••P,IK.O.P•••tsvommnavoe. 1 tug down. tbe slope upou a ewer and PROWG-trin. Mean* mem p neon rnt •Ice arAlt, (maim- -: it RAT heel been in ancital ran damn the lane. A eoluiniana 'ling crash %vital the high ringing 01 the cool gray of her a letter from. an admirer who had thatsummer morn- been dead three years, and whose met "Is lase vows ear noun?" inga dewy country ory she had probably buried. Neithei ' Couitland diaeFeetly retired to the lane, marked only was it tactful to. Meal). s. sentiment hall. To his great relic; a voice from by a few wagon- which might have; been a weakness el the outside answered: ''Whar. Mies tracks that never which she was ;ashamed. Yet, clear Sally?" '4.h encroached apon its headed and logical as Courtland was in "What did yowmove , e ladder for? grassy border, and his ordinary affairs; he was nevertheless Volt might have killed heel" 1'40 indented only by not entirely free from tha,t peculiala "Po' God, Mies Sally, I didn't moven* were bright gray batreaonywahleaMi that the frock of Indian muslin, albeit 'homemade, fitted 'Miss figure perfeetly—front the azure bows on her sin:alders to the ribbon around her waist—and that the hem of its billowy skirt showed a foot which everybody know was the smelled foot south of Mason and Dixon's line. But it was something° more intaugible that this which kept Courtland breathless and silent. "I'm net Miss Miranda Dows," said the vision, with a frankness that was half childlike and half practical, as she extended a little hand, "but I can tall 'fahra' with yo' about as well as aunty, and I reckon from what Maj. Reed says heah," holding up the letter between her angers, "as long as yo' get per- ' datums yo' don't `raind what kind o' pole yo' knock 'em down with." The voice that carried this speech was so fresh, so clear and sweet that I' am afraid Courtland thought little of its oddity or its dialectical transgres- sions. But it brought him bis own tongue quite unemotionally and quiet- ly. "I don't know what was in that note, Miss Dows, but I cart hardly be- lieve that Maj. Reed ever put my pres- ent good fortune quite in that way." Miss Sally laughed. Then with a charming exaggeration she waved her little hand toward the sofa,: "There! Yo' naturally° wanted a little room for that, co'nnle, but now thaterOve got it off—and mighty pooty it was, too—yo', can sit down," And with that she sank down at one end of the sofa, prettily arranged a white billow of skirt so as to leave ample room for Courtlaud, and, locking her fingers Over her 'knees, looked demurel.y expedant. •-••„.- )---re" the faint footprints superstition which surrounds ever -a ladder!" :".• - -,-- - ; of a crossing fox or man's romance. Be believed there was "Don't tell me, but go down and get coon, was now, be- something more than a mere coinei• my slipper. And bring up some more aeOr--"teee: fore high noon, al- deuce in his unea-peetedly finding him• nails." ly crushed, aten down and tram- self in such favorable conditions fox ernirtlancl waited silently in the hall. el out of all s blance of its former 1 making her acquaintance. For the In a few moments he heard a heavy, itude, The heavy, springless jolt of 1 rest—if there was any rest—he would footstep outside the rear window. This carriage and caisson had deeply cut simply trust to fate. And so, believing was his opportunity. Reentering the °ugh the middle track, the hoofs of himself a cool, sagacious reasoner, but parlor somewhat ostentatiously, he con- eadin,g cavalry had struck down and acing actually, as far as Miss Dows was fronted a tall negro girl who was pass- eddeci the wayside vines and bustles aoncerned, as blind, fatuous and un• in through the room carrying a tiny ury them under a cloud of follow- reasoning as any of her previous ad- slipper in her hand. "Excuse me." he (last, and the dull, plunging double- mirers, he rode complacently forward said, politely, "but I could not find any '.k of infantry had trodden out this until he reached the lane that led to one to announce me. Acs Miss Dows at coils ruin into one dusty level chaos.home?" i the Dows plantation. nag that rudely -widened highway, Dere a better kept roadway mai The girl instantly whipped the slip - less muskets, torn accoutrements, fence, whose careful repair. would have per behind her. "Is yo' wa,ntin' Miss pseeks, caps and articles of clothing delighted Drummond, seemed to augur ' Mirandy Dows?" she aeked, with great e scattered, with here and there the well for the new enterprise. Presently dignity, "oo,h Miss Sally Dows—hei° er wrecks of broken-down wagons, 'even the old-fashioned 1098,1 form of 'the niece? Miss Mirandy'd'bin gone to At hly thrown aside into the ditch to fence—a slanting zig-zaregave way te alanta for a week." leeway for the living current- For two the more direct line of post and rail, in "I have a letter for Bless Miranda, but rs the greater part of =army corps the northern fashion. Beyond at,. pres- I shall bavery glad if Miss Sally Dows passed and repassed that way, buts ently appeared a long, low freittage cd will receive me," retained Courtland, peaceful rwer. The handsome artillery officer had dismounted and was gently examining the dead man. His breast had been crushed by a fragnaent of shell. Ile must have died hastantly. The same missile had cut the chain of a locket which. slipped from his opened coat. The officer picked it up with a strange feeling—perbaps because he was eon - scions himself of wearing a similar one; perhapsbecause it might give hint some clew to the ina•n's identity. It contained' only the photograph of a pretty girl, a tendril of fair hair and the word, "Sally." In the breast pocket was a scaled letter with the inscription: "Tor Miss Sally Dows, to be delivered if I fall by the hireling's hand." A faint; smile came over the officer's face. He' was about to hand the articles to a ser- geant, but changed his mind and put them in his pocket. Meantime the lane and woods be- yond, and even the slope itself, were crowding with reserves and Waiting troops. His own battery was still un- limbered awaiting orders. There was' a slight commotion in the lane. "Very well done, captain. Smartly. taken and gallantly held." It was the voice of a general officer passing with his staff. There was a note of pleasant relief in its tone and the middle-aged, care -drawn face of its owner was relaxed in a paternal smile. The young captain flushed with pleasure. "And you seera to have had close work, too," added the general, point- ing to the dead man. - The young officer hurriedly explained. The general nodded, saluted and passed on. But a youthful aid airily gered, "But let me hope that I am not dis- lin turbing you unsea.sonaigy," said Court- ' "The old man's feeling good, Court- land, catching sight of the fateful little I land," he said. "We've rolled 'em up slipper beneath her sleirt and remem.. all along the line. It's all over now.' bering the window. "Pwas so preoccu- In point of fact 1 reckon you've fired pied in thinking of ybur aunt as the the last gun in this particular fratri- ' t " ditlons or p6litical pl ace anal neWer, unskilled in invention. and sad-- clenly confronted, with the necessity of, personal labor, was visible everywitere. Eyes that but throe short years before had turned vindictively to the north, now gazed wistfully to that quarter, for help. and direction. They scanned; eagerly the faces a their energetic and: prosperous neighbors—and quondam; foes—upon the verandahs of southern, hotels and the decks a southern steam boats, and were even now watchingl froms group in the woods the windows' of the halted train, wheee the head and• shoulders'appeared of two men of man- ifestly different types, but still alien, to the country in dress, features and ac -1 cent. Two negroes were slowly loading the: engine tender from a wood pile.', The rich brown smoke of turpentine 'knots filling the train with its. stinging fragrance. The elder of the two northern passengers, with sharp' eastern angles in his face, impatiently glanced at his watch. "Of all created shiftlessness this beats everything! Why couldn't we have taken in enough wood to last the ten miles further to the terminus when w last stopped? And why, in thunderl with all this firing up, can't we go faster? • The younger passenger, whose calm, well-bred face seemed to indicate more repose of chara,cter, smiled quietly. "If you really wish to know—aa we've only ten miles further to go—I'll show you why. Come with me." lie led the way through the car to the ' platform and leaped down. Then. he pointed significantly to the rails below° them. Elis companion started. The metal was scaling off in thin strips. from the rails, and in some places itg g or going, always with faces modern buildings which to Courtland's handing the letter and his card to the ed ea,gerly towards an open slope the right which ran parallel to the She received it with still greater ile- a e. And yet nothing was to be seen cess of dignity andmarked deliberation. re. For two hours a gray and blue- • "It's clean. gone outer my mind, sah, ef cloud, rent and shaken with explo- • • after explosion, but always dosing thickening after each discharge, all that had met ,their eyes. Nev- cies% into this ominous cloud solid ing masses of gray or blue had that ing melted away, or emerged it only as scattered fragments that t, crawled, ran or clung together in ups, to be followed and overtaken he rolling vapor. • or the last half hour, also, the lated track had stretched empty deserted. While there was no ation of the rattling, crackling and osions on the fateful slope beyond, ad still been silent. Once or twice ad been crossed by timid, hurrying gs, and frightened and hesitating e feet, or later by skulkers and niers from the main column who boldly entered it from the hedges bushes where they had been creep and hiding. Suddenly a prolonged. from the hidden slope beyond—the est sound that had yet been heard • that ominous distance—sent them over again. It was followed by the ous galloping of horses in the lane, a handsome red -capped officer, ac- panied by an orderly, dashed down track, wheeled, leaped the hedge, out on the slope and halted. In ther instant a cloud of dust came rling down the lane after him. Out strained the heavy shoulders and tened chain traces of, six frantic es dragging the swaying gun that his tempest of motion alone seemed ive and helpless with an awful knowledge of its power. As in fence to a signal from, the officer it hcd throughr'the hedge after him, a len jolt threw en artillery man the limber before the wheel. A t ; elaiss Sally is in de resumption of vl.,1 tah, atdishouah. In fee', sah," she con- ; tined svith intensified gravity and an 1 a response from the guns exaggeration of thoughtfulness as the I the whole slope shook and thundered.1; to impress the ;young ea e . • sounds of Miss Sally's hammering came I And the smoke, no longer white and 1 "So he concluded to stop over," he in- ' woolly, but darkening and thickening as 1 terrupted, cheerfully. "But," looking at the letter and pbotograph, "1 say— h • business manager of these es a I quite forgot that she might have a lady's hours for receiving." puny hours," haven't pun "We haven't got any eo taaid'Miss Sally, "and w el a g The last gunl Courtland remained silent, looking abstractedly at the frag- ment it had crushed and broken at his feet. now any servants for mpany map- "And 1 shouldn't wonder if you got ners, for we're shorthanded in the fields your gold 'leaf for to-da,y's work. and barns. When yo' came I was natl. But wrao's your sunny southern friend white, woolly smoke arose as another here?" he added, following his com- panion's eyes. flash broke beside it. hisTwas quickly , followed by another and another, with Courtland repeated his story a little •---til more seriously, which, however, failed • asea Sea• 4TrAlm*t °•-•-•-essaae.ge ••• shamelessly from the wall, I doahn in. with unburnt grains; of gunpowder, : know exacqy ef she's engaged play mingled .into the ono ominous vapor, 1 de harp, praetisin' de languages or and driving along the lane hid even the paintin' in oil and watch colors, o' giv- in' audiences to offishals from the court- ; house. It might be de houah for de one Id But comneunica,te wid look here! Dows?'Yi was another man picked up yesterday with a letter from the same girl! Doe •h The yelling had ceased, but the grind- 1 Z11-11'PhY aas it. And, by Jo slope from view. ii ing and rattling heard through the de- same picture, too, eh? Look here, , 1 tonation of galas seemed nearer still, Courtyl you might get Doe Murphy's 1 her, sah, in de budwoh on the uppah do'." She backed dexterously, so as to 1 and suddenly there was a shower of letter and hunt her up when this cruel 1 1 leaves and twigs from the lower war is over. Say you're fulfil ing a I 'keep the slipper behind her, but with no diminution of dignity, out of a side branches of a chestnut tree near the sacred trust!' See? Good idea, old ; 1 broken hedge. As the smoke thinned man! Ta-ta," and he trotted quickly door. In another moment the hammer - again a rising and falling medley of after his superior. . . 1 big ceased, followed by the sound of • flapping hats, tossing horses' heads and • and photograph in his ha,nd, gazing ab-. Courtland remained with the letter tractedly after him. The smoke had' rolled quite away from the fields on the left, but still hung heavily down the south on. the heels of the flying cavalry. A long bugle call swelled up musically from below. The freed sun caught the white flags of two field hospitals in the woods and glanced tranquilly on the broad, cypress -fringed, lazy-floysing andcruel hut beautiful Southern river, ' rapid whispering. wtthout; a few tiny shining steel appeared f for an ms , IIE SToOD'AT TliE (WEN WLNDOW. l twigs and leaves slowlyrustled to the advancing tumultuousl up the slope. surprise were enth•ely new inestructure silence. Ile ventured to walk to the But the apparition was as instantly cloven by flame from the two nearest . I ground, and then therd was complete of the usual southern porticoed gable Presently he heard at': faint rustle at guns, and went dovvn in a gush of and design. There was no reminiscence fateful window again.. or eoleions and veranda. Yet it was not the other end of the room and ho smoke and roar of sound. So level was northern either. The factory-like out turned. A sudden tremulousness swept the delivery and so close the impact lines of facade were partly hidden in along his pulses, and then they seemed that a space seemed staddenly cleared between, in which the iiwhirling of the •II drew a deep breath that -------.1 remnants of the charging Cherokee rose and 3essamme. As. (mg, pause. roofed gallery connected the buildings was almost a sigh, and. rema,ined mo- 5 cavalry was distinetlet seen, and the and became a veranda to one. A broad, tionless.1 which had all unseen crept so smilingly well -rolled gravel drive led from the IIe had no preconceived fancy of fall- shouts and oaths of hetinextricably open gate to the newest buildg which ing in love with Miss Sally atfirstsight, struggling mass becatne plain and ar- that morning through the very heart of seemed to be an edifice; a smaller path nor had he dreamed such a thing possi- ticulate. Then a gunner serving the nearest piece suddenly dropped his the battle. divergedfrom it to the corner house, ble. Even the girlish face that he had swab and seized a carbine. For out of .which, despite its severe simplicity, had seen in the locket, although it had ing . the whirling confusion before them a Reed's house there were n.o loun ghad not suggested that, and the idea single rider was seen galloping furi- a more residential appearance. Unlike Stirred him with a singular emotion, servants or field hands to be. seen; they he had evolved from it was never ously towards the gun. ; The red -capped young officer rode for - were evidently attending totheir re- a potent presence. But the ex- spective duties. Dismounting, Court- cpaisitely pretty face and figure before ward and knocked upward the gunner's weapon with his sword. For in that . door and took the smaller path to the painted from his own fancy of her, was rapid glance he had seen that the rider's reins were hanging loosely on the neck land tied his horse to a post at theoffice him, although it might have been corner house, still something more and something un - of his horse, who was still dashing for - afternoon' breeze wafted ' through the had ftever prepared hian for the beauti- ward with the acquired impetus of the The door was open to the fragrant eepected. All that had gone helot.* rose and jessamine. So was a side -door ful girl that now stood there. It was a charge, and that the youthful figure of opening from the hall into a long par- poor explanation to say that Miss Sally the rider, wearing the stripes of a lieu- tenant, although still ereetsexereised no that later experiences, en- boyish, blonde and ghastly; the eyes control over the animal. The face was wiath of the house. Courtland entered picture, and for or sitting -room that ran the whole was four or five years older' than her thing had the air of freshness and of ambition had impressed her youthful were set and glassy. It was Death itself it. it was prettily furnished, but every- larged capacity, a different life and new charging the gun. being uncharacteristically new. It was face with a refined nobility; it was a Within a few feet of it the horse empty, but a faint hammering was weird. fancy to imagine that the blood swerved before a brandished rammer, audible on the rear wall of the house, of those who had died for her had. in through the two open French windows some vague, mysterious way imparted and striking the cheeks of a gun car- at the back, curtained with trailing an actual fascination to her, yet it was riao•e pitched his inanimate rider across vines which gazed upon a sunlit court- a, fact that even a familiar spectator yard. Courtland walked to the window. like, Sophy, saw in her young mistress a Just before it, on the ground, stood. a very pretty young lady with the softeet small light ladder which he gently put pink complexion, the silkest hair—that aside to gain a better view of the court- looked as the floss of the Indian corn yard, as he stood at the epee window. might look if curled, or golden spider In this attitude ho suddenly felt his threads, if materialized—and eyes thee hat tipped from his head, followed al- most instantaneously by a falling slip- per, and the distinct impression. of a very email foot on the crown of his head. An indescribable sensation passed over him. Ire hurriedly stepped ' back in the roma, just as a smell striped- stockinged foot was as hastily drawn up above the top of the window with the feminine exclamation: "Good gracious me!" Lingering for an lestant, only to les- sure 'himself that the fair speaker had secured her foothold and was in no dun- 1 ger of falling, Courtland snatched up , his hat, which had providentially fallen inside the room, and retreated inglori- ously to the other end of the parlor. The voice came again from the windove; it, struck him as being singularly tweet 1 end elem.. "Sophys ipt that or u HE POINTED SIGNIFICANTLY TO RAILS. thickness had been reduced a quarter of an ineh, while in others the project- ing edges were torn off or hanging in. iron shreds, so that the wheels actually ran on the narrow central strip! It seemed marvelous that the train could keep the track. "Now you know why we don't go more than five miles an hour, and are thankful that we don't," said the young traveler, quietly. "But this is disgraceful, criminal!" ejaculated the other, narvously. "-Not at their rate of rspeed," returned. the younger man. "The crime would be in going faster. And now you can; understand why a good 'deal of the other progress in this state is obliged to go as slowly over their equally decay- ing and rotten foundations. You can't rush thin,gs here as wd do in the north." mune. SNrA.S SE14:,,N GALLOPING ni ruonst.y. or glanced back on the tetee chain hesitated. "Go mist? yelled the trate man, and the wheel went him. Another at4another gun owed out of the dust, clouds until whole battery had deployed on the 'Before the dust, cloud bad fairly lcd, the falling back of the panting with their driverg gave a mo- ry glimpee of the nearest gun y in position and -Inf the four dgnres beside it. The yell that ed to have evoked thil sudden ay alon agairt rounded nearer; a sling flash broke fro* the guns was instantly' hidcion btr the CHAPTER L • ID two o'clock express from Redlands to For- estville, Ga., had been proceeding 1 with the languid 1 placidity of the 1 river whose' banks it skirted 1 for more than two hours. But 1 unlike the river 1 it had stopped1 qUitefrequently; sometimes at ree- ognized stations and villages, some- times at the apparition of straw -hat- 1 ted and linen -coated natives in the solitude of pine woods, where, after a decent interval of cheery conversation with the conductor and engineei it (TO TM CONTINUED.) W. C. T. U. OULU (GONDECTHS 01 TILE NY)N011.kg D114 +, Far awl and gitttire and Natire woitgau thanttontloa, of the mothers at to tho luau, that ,She Women's Christian atm Colonnade every Monday at Ore 81 aht1j4ei1;1173411:111:11:1(111 ;11°1' IL:ZInii°11:113) moet1,g an MOnaarY of every month, except wiles adYertisod,to videll menu we invite ti geretleYEditOr has kindly Oren ns pm.* %Rm.-for ouravorit, WO elk friends of the send name of interest on all moral (meson day to ant 'of tour members. —Aro yenne!' permits doing all 3 to enforce the Tobacco Act? —Do o,yeteetere keepers try to k law —What.asight to see men on t bath day an a state of intexicatio law again itiolatea, who are the af —As eie expect to have Miss L. early in April to lecture for us, we v no goseelaneeting this month. * * Sir Wilfred Lawson pniuta the reuelit. garsn's Speech 18 t tO 116Pd the words 'liree control" in el:motion with li referee or to have contained tlae "liquor Arafat,. " * lathy ..fleury Sotnerset, °win!, effeas of 1.10erwork, ani edits tbe ncleilue of Dr. Norman Ke beat' obliged to abandon for t eat tier proposed tour in Wales was itodieve followed that in 8 Ovsr .3;000 attended the weleet, the Lady henry and Aliso Wi Gdiuburgh. * Mary West, who e long ago in Japan, whitt had .gene in behalf of the Obsidian Temperance Union,. man nob aeon to 1(0 forgotten. "crusade" against the Saloon a years -ago•slie took at active the sublime movement wig grew out of it she was not COLIIiaig the front, and fo, wielded •a wide intitleueo as 5 the Union‘Signal. lo partic fact is notable : Site graduated from toile but •sesenteen and entered epee tier lifework as a teach( pupils were strongly religious, of a large .8abbath school Ola Site tii.kutzlat-for many years in tl Virg, lila Congregational 12 girls hum: Merle as' unseat foreige I male. At the home 4 these tia 'Tek -yo she med. After being confined to hc thirty yea" Miss . Jennie of L1usiIG, liy , one of noted Christian workers in tie died on Fele 8. She is k ' world over, .aiid in every Country her birthday, June as prison flay, is ceiehrawttleirealtm. ton year.? ago. made iiiternati , iIvlisiste‘uvcilei trio! aitilaicii od til her death. 1 he Western Advocate says :—"She was a able power of the mind ever perforMing !asks from whic able-bodied weinen shrank. one hundred letters a week national superintendent of 11 Mission; wee President of 1, ing school tor Nurses, which s ed; managed the Jeanie Oas firmary ; organized and mani Cott:tee a summer resort for girls; anti was identified e important charitable wort country. . And all this she 1 upon her beck on a bed had not left for thirty years (dans considered her a tilary• tal and physical indurance, invalid. Miss Oassedtty was' three years ago, in Louii When a girl met with an which rendered her an inval ' - • ..'. -. .:_•:.:• - , :. ,.,,.,. , the gun. The het blood of the coil either took the stranger on board, or man smoked oti the hotter brass with relieve(' him of his parcel, letter, HT. Herman Hicks N the reek of the shambles, and bespat- basket, or even the vocal message with Of Rochester,, Y. a Which he was charged. Much of the - 4 , (-- • .1 way la,y through pine barren and 4;1 eaf for, a Year (/41-Nswampy woods vvhich had never Caused by 7 J been cleared or cultivated; mu& Catarrh in' the Head I J " 1.1 • through decayed settlements and Catarrh is a CONSTITUTIONAL disease, 4, . • a • ruined villages that bad remained. and requires a CONSTITUTIONAL REMEDY -unchanged since the war—whose last like Hood's Sarsapariila to cure it, Read gun had been fired three years before. "Three years ago, as. a result Of catarrh, f 1 There evert vestiges of the severity of a eted timbers of racilway bridgessstal ukn- Mnitd1;leu5edlasetvenrialpiiybt?lieeaml :1,tllit,13:111(iafitforbmtttore former military ocupation, the blac- 1!it"llriterhni o 111111 42111,1k no sound. 1 Wit.,s Fitending p ' t,..;; to cure it, mprnvementwas apparent. I could elisain... in.emortable march, sections of iron rails ,e, es muler tho care of iispecialist repaired; and along the line of a certain ' ine one suggested that possibly Hood's sat- ut'Villieg. • teirina would do ine some good. I beri Tu taken from the torn up track, roasted. n HANDSOME AUTILLERY oilman IS- in bonfires and bent while red-hot Z etta. e‘ing It Without the expectation of 8111' last ng MOUNTED A.ND WAS GENTLY EXA.MTN- 1 around the trunlig of trees, W er e still to 1..:211.iiiritilderyloicleiiiInslireveeotatblittlitesTtiltLeii.?il Iflotiotti!.al ING THE DEAD MAN. I be seen. These mementoes of defeat, tered the hand of the tanner who Still ' seemed to neither excite revenge, nor t,t,lcielytaali,,itillic.,eeni\,,suelneliilocetraevs. eyelitTif,:leir$eflozxdoitva,letirirstileleit.lalini:,;I:att mechanically Served. the vent. As they the energy to remove them; the (lull ' " \ lifted the dead body downs the order apathy which had succeeded the days came to cease firing. Per the yells of hysterical passion end eenvulsion H 9 a i and grinding was reeeding with the merit %hat eould be detected was tooaartl el rieshereheate, ieteo tic thaersrtlearl: 1,11.;aelyge X II IC XS, a 0 smoke further to the left. The ominous marked by the languor ,of commies - central cloud patted for a brief moment , deuce. Tito helplessness of a race, 11001e'S PILLS are purely vseetablo, and. do and showed the unexpected sun glitterhitherto dependent upon gettain bat- lleteurge,Datner gripe. setaby nd:mots. .. . - ood s Sarsaparilla II 110 from below had ceased too; the rattling still linwered; even the slow improve- \ England'S Drink B: Dr. Dawson Burris of Eingdorn Allienoe has just England's "drink bill" for is rather lower than that fei ions year. lie total amount 896,262 os agninst 4114 showing, a net decrease of aompering the tote{ expent the estimated population of ed Kingdom it appears the age expenditure per head i ld., in 1892, as n`gainst 4 1891, and 23 1 4d iti the drink 1411, which rose 7 between 1890 and 1891,ba per heral.hetweea 1891 and now Amid's ;id per head loci 1890, before the intertnadie place The diminution t t iteelf, and is extended over n period to justify any that it is due tb the growa once rather than, the del trade and kindred intte,