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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Advocate, 1887-09-15, Page 6laninommommoti SIR 11UOIT'S LOVES through he pale lips ; then aloud, " have Your own way, for you were ever an obstinate woman, ,Catharine, and fetch me a draught et Daisy's sweet milkand a crust of the old hrown loaf, and I will thank you and go ; but not before you have told me cTiAT)TETI T. IYAND4104., ' ter s„ ;know not wkat;thetleefolf 'Ireitrsfrom Ale dePtli 0 scume alifInPAPB130,r Bis o in the heart, and gather to the eye, looki46 64 the 1141)4y a.utitiiii410104;'' And thinking Of th.o f4rwit44t, Serene more, about Margaret—all that you :knew-, and that ymt: hope mid feet, ,catherine,:u .lieaven•bless you !gip Crystal, it•is the tamp tender hear; as ever, I see, Yea, you shall hear all I know j and that'shttle Xpraysen's Priacag, enough, Pll be bound:" And se,saying, she • Eett much of .A -pietnre, certainly hustled lip her doss overlie lineey pettieoat, -Only a streteli Of wide in:pureed, With and, taking a tin clipper from the dresser, tanttrisk hedge .and aelnotpp sliadowy was proently beard :calling cheerfully to .elms; attys.y tilieepniliblinginagrass diteli ; her milky .fayorite in the paddoek, on her and a brown 'baby asleep on s bench; way to the•dairy, beyond, low broad delds of grain whitening :Xleft to herself, the girl threw hers▪ elf --to'harvest, and, a distte,ht -dim and haxe.,- down—not in the wicker ebsir, 'where the bine olondiness, and the deep monotonons at lay like t furry ball einintering in the sound of the great sea, sun,1ut.on the old brown settle .behina the Yellow sunshine, green tarf, the buoyaney floor', where he could rest her head against of salt spray in the air; some one, trailing the wall, and see and, not lie Been. a white gown unheeded in the f4144Y cleat, .She had takeneff herbroaa-brinannialmt, -pauses a moment under the 'flickering pima and it lay on the table beside her ; and the to aaraire the scene, PiAnlight streamed threngh the lattice She is a tall, grave woman, with whips windOw.full on her face. oyea and dead -brown hair, the shade of :Simla a yonng face, mad—heaven help Withered leaves in autumn, with a Sad her-sugh a sad face; so be.aatiful too, an 'beantiful face. spite of the lines that sorrow had evidently It is the facie of one Who has suffered and traced on it, end the hard hitter curse :been patient; who has lovaa much and wiiI xodricl the mouth. love on. to the end; who, from the deptha The dark dreamy eyes, the pale olive of s. noble' selfless nature, looks ont upon' complexion, the.glosay hair, ---in color the the worldwith mild oyes of Charity ; a aun-steeped him:knee of the south-010NA woman, yet a girl in year, WlAtun. one( 0440 lips and pima profile, might 'have termed his pearl taileng Vi -94104 befitted a Yaallti.,just so might the epotleit Just now, stanaing under the.elins, with queen have carried her uncrowned head her straight white folas and micovered.hair,, when she.leit the gates- of Shuthan, and for her sun -bonnet lay on the turf beside have trailed her gerniente in the dust with her, her wistful eyes looking far away sea,. a Mien as 'gond, and as despairing. ward, one could have compared her to a There she Fitt motionless, looking over the' Norman or a Druidical priestess under the harvest -fields, while Catharine spread a shadow of the 139,0rea .oak; there is at once clean coaree cloth on the small oaken table something go benignant and strong, so lull beside her and served up a frugal meal of: of pathos, in her -face arid -form, brown bread, honey and milk, and then Low swaying oflaranches, then the patter- stood watching her while the stranger .ate, ing of red and yellow rain round the rongh- sparingly and as if only necessity eompelled. ,hewn handl, the brown baby awakes and 40 There," Ethe said at last, looking up at, stretches out its arras with a lusty ory—a Catharine with a soft pathetic smile that suggestive human gonna that effectually• -lent new beauty to her face "1 have done breaks up the stillness ; for at the same justice to your delieious fare; now araw, instant an urchin whittling wood in the your {lair closer, for I am 'starving for hedge scrambles out in haste, and a buxom- newt of Margaret, ana "like water to A looking woman steps from the porch of an. thirsty seal is news from a far country.' ivy-covered /ridge, 'wringing the soap -suds, How often I say those words to myself," from her white wrinkled hands, "But not bad news, surely, Miss Crystal ; Trifles mar tranquility. and it is like enough you'll think raine bad For a moment silence is invaded, and the when told. Hark, it only wants the half - dissonant oundo gather strength; for once hour to noon, and they are man and wife infant tears fail to be dried 'by Mother now." smiles, and, as if in answer to the .shrill 44 Man and wifel o whoin are you talking, ories„ flocks of snow-white geese waddle Catharine ?" • solemnly across the grass ; the boy leaves off 64 Of whom tfltould I be 'talking, dearie, whittling wood and chases. the,yellow.bills.; but of the young master ?" but the girl through' the leafy avenue dairies the loaded interrupted her with strange vehemence. corn -wain, thejocundwaggoner with scarlet "Catharine,_ yeti will drive me crazy poppies in his hat, blue corn -flowers and with that slow' soft tongueraf yours. Bow pink convolvuli trailing from the horses' can. Thigh Redmond be married while, ears; over the fields sound the distant Margaret Amide under the elm trees pealing of belts. so alone ?" The girl wakes up from her musing fit "But it is true, Miss Crystal, for all that with a deep sigh, and her face becomes —as sure as the blue sky is above us—Sir suddenly very pale; then she moves slowly llugh Redmond weds today with a bonnie • aoross the Mad towards a path winding bit child from foreign parts that no one set through the bare harvest fields;where the eyes on, and whom he is bringing home as, gleaners are busily at work. From under mistress to the old ball." the tamarisk hedge comes the shadow of A "1 don't believe youl " exclaimed the girl woman; as the white gown disappears and, stormily; but in spite of her Wordstheolitte the lodge -keeper carries off her wailing child, complexion grew pale. "You are jesting, the shadow becomes substance and, grows Catharine; you are imposing On. me some 'erect into the -figure Of a ,girl. . village fable—soine credulous report. As Of a girl in shabby black, footsore and love Margaret I refuse to believe you." weary, who drags herself with hesitating "The time was when . a • word 6.from, steps to the spot where the other women's Catharine would have contented you, Miss feet have been rested, and there she steeps Crystal," replied the woman sorrowfully, and hurriedly gathers a few blades of grails and her honest face grew „overcast. Do Ana presses them to her lips. . you think Miss Margaret's own foster -sister, Silence once More Over the landscape; ytheoas brought tip with herAtuld deceive the glitter of sunahine roundthe empty yOulfbw But itis like enough that sorrow bench; the whirling of bisects in -the and pride have turned yOurhead, and the: ambient -air ; under' the 'shadowy -ohne 'mistake of having Made the first false step ;girl smiling bitterly over a fewpoor grasses, beside:" ' gathered ae we iplack ttlaern frontt ;•.s loved 61. For&ive me," returned the girtheariely ; .one's grave.a • 4.) Z-.1 and the triek the Work-hardenedliand 'and 0*, a' pressed -it between both. her own. " will , Catharme,tthe lodge-meepeosa rocking try to believe you, though Ioannot realige her baby in the old porch seat :through the it that :Margatetmy iargaret—has been open doer one conldtt fitbit:gliqipbes Of the jilted." • . • , bright Md -tiled kitchen with its Wooden " No;-northateithei; dearie, We ding settle, and the tortoise -Shell, cat asleep on not blame thepoOr young master beyond. the great wicker chair; beYond, the sunny his deserts. He. Ioved her true, Miss little herb -garden with its plots of lavender, Crystal; he loyea her that trite that his. marjorearti.and aweekunelling,,thymejthe heart Was like to break ; -hat for? all that he last monthly- roses blooming • tundiagr 'the Was feted tO give her tip." • gooseberry bushes; a child cliqueting up "'Ice:tint:4 Understand it," init bewildered the narrow bid& path with abigstin.bonnet When I leftthe'clear old /mine and burnished pail ; in the corner, a toy, that summer's day a year agothel had been /onntain gurgling over ifloyster.:shellbord6, engager nine Menthe - les, • it was nine :and a few superannuated ferias: ' months, 'I rdmenthiii., -for it was 'on her atCatharine sat contentedly in the shady birthday, that he asked/ her. to be.his wife, porch, on her lap lay the brown baby With and they,had loved 'each other long ,before hie face all puckered up with wanes; his that. Do you think I can ever forgot that, tiny hole of a Month jnet opened ready for time ?" . the sinall timid thumb, and his bare rosy, "1 daresay not. Anyhow, thing§ went feet beating noiseless time to the birds ; he on Well for a, tiara ; the young master was Was listening besides to his mother's Voice alWays at the Grange'or Miss Margaret as She sat reeking ' and talking and Dlr. Baby at the Hall ; and when he tinconscibusIy aloud. was away, for he was always a bit roving, " Heaven blessher-P she Muttered, With he Wrote her a heap of lettere ; and All was °laud on her pleasant face; yes, those As right as .it could be till the Old master were her very wards, as she stead like a came home." . picture tinder the old tree yonder." . "Ah, true! 1 hadfOrgOtten Sir 'Wilfred." " Heatten bless her and him too,'—but I "Ay, he had been away. for More' than there was not a Speck Of • abler in her face two years in the EastAworking- forthat fine Ati She said the *Ora, Stid I Could see the book of his that folks talk abent se idea in her beautiful eyes. Oh, but you but he was in bat health, and be had •-ei, are a _saint, Misa 11argaretevery one strange hankering to die in the Old gall, knows that Ibut, at I tell Martini it is a There is MyStell in things, MSS Sin and a :ahtitne to ring the joy belle for a Crystal,. for if it hadpletSed Providende to feckless Chit that folk never set eye on; bave taken the poor- Old master before While our darling, Blida Ddargaret, is 1et reached the 1alI, our dear Mias Margareti alone n the old p1aes2'' raight have bet happy now." "What about Margaret. Catharine, for " Do you mean that Sir 'Wilfred olijedted :heaven's sake, whet abett Margaret 1" and to the ?" . ' the shadOW that had Cora° front behind the " Well, I don't rightly MOW What hap. itratitisk hedge now fell acrottk the porch pened, but Martin and Me think there, is S traight before the startled wratiaa. sonie Mystery at the bottom, FOlke say, Catharine- Piit adWii her apron trent he who know tho Stung:theater, that he has 4 Syea With sonaething like 4 Cry, „aria •steod way Of mating off things to the tibittoW ad iip tretablingsh�uld berdene to -day, and -either he did "Good griteietul 1 is that you Miss not tell MS father of big engagentent•tS Crystal? why, you crane befee one like. a Mae Margaret, or his lettere Went astray flash Of lightning ciii„a Stilitraer'S day, . to in those foreigh parts • but When the old Make One palpitate all over for fear of a Matter 'hearld. that Mr, Thigh had ptoreised Stem." to M84'11160E1 Mogarettleiriade an AWfiti "And about as *eleoroei t stipposey, scene, aria SWOrta that no Permit shou]d b� retiathea the yOting'Strang.q, bitterly,. !4jny mistress Of heamond good Catharine, your Bindle's a wonderfully ,A;" Geed hettienit 1 what 'reatfeii cetild trite one:" Wilfred hittre • for ref -Mang: his consent «1 don't- kin)* iought abant similiett,f fditeettretWatibeatitiftitieh,,and /hide Oryatitly "Mitt knoty-yotittreita *Adored DO yoo Mean to gay thitt. Sir 'Hugh adthe flotterein loy. COMO irt—oeme in Was no pot A creature. SS to giyeher .-.tnylarnl, and don't data ethrelthig, year tip f Or a *hitt , poor fade iti -the tun deine in arid Pll eye No, tie; 1s CrYettli, dear, We rclen't yeti Martin's Wielfer Chide by the open tilhiatatia the lights af it. Whet windOW, Where you tan tintell the sett and lltrgh left the eia..thlaatek no just rushed /IP the fields together, and I'll idol yaii a Sup te the Grange te See .Miss Margaret, and to cf Etiey'S ne* 'Milk, for yon look' 'quite tell hor of hi S Ittlier!SOppOSition ; but ebb faint and itiolthoted, like a loBt'and .Weitty had h right biv�iffinit Other OWMatid. she bird, ray pretty. Yes, jtst like tt Itiat and heartened hini tip-, dila 'bade hike Welt weary bird,"patiently end' she would:Witt over the- (ma Yoti Sat' inizrintire& the dit than:yeti Well, it is ti sad story, andi.eM I told you, neither Martinnor me 1c110Vir what rightly happened. Sir Wilfred came up to talk to Miss Margaret, and then she sent for Air, Hugh, raid toldhinatheynutat Patti that she would never marry him. That was before the old master had that *OM that carried laim eff, but she held firm, to it after his death, and nothinp that Mr. Thigh could eflY Wtaild 4w:teller- y#, if. ever Weresu 161/04 Margaret loved Hugh HeaP1944." " I knov,r it dearie no one pould look at her and not see that the light had goon out of her /he, and that her heart was just breaking—how white you, have one, Mimi Ctiata), am so sorry for Margaret. Oh 1 Catharine, Catharine, if I had any team left 1 think I could idled them all for gargaret," " Keep them for yourself,my dearie, maybe they will cool the fever . your heart, and make you see clear, and bring You back to us again." ' "Hush, bath 1 I will not hear you. .1 will Only talk of my poor Margaret. She would iaot marry him you say." Ne, she was like a rock,,not all thopoor gating master could say Could change' her resolution. I know she told biiri that his father was right to forbid their marriage, and though it was a cruel tronble to them both, they,nnist earit, for it was God',8 wilt, not Sir Wilfred's,that separatedthent; but lie would never listen to her, and at last he just fiung"eway in a rage and married the other." " The other 1—whora do you mean, Catharine4?" " 'Well, you have heard of Colonel Mordaunt, who lived up at Wyngate Priery, the big place, up yonder, some ef the land adjoins the Hall lands, but the house is no better than a ruin." "Yes, I know; Colonel Mordaunt died in India." "Well, maybe you did not know that the Colonel had a daughter, a bit bonnie lass, who was brought up by an aunt in the country. It seerad Sir Wilfred and the Colonel had always hoped to bring about a match tetween the young people, and after Sir Vilfred'is death they found &letter with the will, charging Mr. Hughby all that was sacred notfto marry Miss Margaret, and begging him to go aown to Daintree, and see Colonel Mordaunt's beautiful young daughter. Miss Margaret told me with tears in her eyes what a loving fatherly letter it was, and how it.prityed Dlr. Hugh to forgive him for crossing lais ; but told hiin at the same time that no blessing could ever „ follow, his marriage with Margaret Ferrers." 4!, No blessing? There is some mystery here, Catharine." t I t "That is what I say, Mise rys a , , u reason or not, the poor young master was half -crazed with the disappointment ;he was for ietting aside everything, and going on recIdess-like, but Miss Margaret she was like a rook—she could not and would not marry him ; and in his anger against her, and because he did not care what became of hire, he went down to Daintree and settled the matterwitb. Miss Mordannt, and that is, all I know, Miss Crystal." " One—two—three—four," counted the girl with a bitter smile," four broken hearts, four mutilated lives, and the sun shines, and the birds sing—one hungers, thirsts, sleeps,And, wakes again, and a benignant Creator suffers it; but hush 1 there are footsteps, Catharine, hide me, quick." "My dearie, don't loch so soared like, it is only Mr. Baby—ha passed an hour ago with -the parson -; but there ha only wee johnnie with him now." "Is he coming in? I am sure I heard him lift the latch of the gate; you will keep your faith with nae, Catharine?" " Yes --yds, have I ever failed you; bide quite a bit; he cannot see yam He 1.8 Only standing in the porch, for a sup of Milk. I'll fetch it from the dairy, 'and he'll drink wet:141;10A * ""It 'only,. jOhnnie were' 'irie`t there," girl; NO, rib, he has sent him inkanoSt likely to the Vicarage." "My good Catharine , ", observed a, quiet ;yoiCe from the poroh,-"how long am I to wait 'fbriny. glass of nailk ?". am perry, Mr. :Baby, I san indeed,". 'answered Catharine's cheery tones in the distance. Doiet, be sorry," returned the same voiert; "waiting will do me good.:” And then there was aflame. ' The stranger stole out and peeped through the half opened door. , • There was a tall man standing in the porch; a .rae,n so tall that the clustering ivy round the trellis -work quite trailed about him and touchea his forehead k until broad - Shouldered and strong, but with a stooping gait like a giant worn out With labor; lis was in clerical dress, but his soft felt hat was in his hand, and the grand powerful head with its heavy dead -brown hair 'and pale fsee vtere distbratly viable Under the shadow of the ivy. He did not move": at the sound �f the stealthy footstep or at the - light ehadOw that fell across him, though the girl crept so olose, that he could have touched her With hie right hand ; but on Catharine't reappearente she shrunk -bath With a gesture-, Of mingled entreaty and Command. 60 -There is the milk, Mr. Baby, and it is yellow and rich with cream to reward your luttitettken'6iy.o" " u," he replied, SMiling, and putting out a large white hand ; the stranger tOok the glass from Catharine and held, it to hint; he drank it with Seeming •undon- scidtisnese and with IDIOM& eyes. " A rimat delicious draught ; but your hand is trembling, Oatharine ; are you tired .tit "unwell ?" 4‘ gather, sir, thank yOU,,,," 'replied Oitharine, Ittiskilyi While the girl Aidw back in evident alarm. "Ah, thee is • Zohnnie come for you, he is waiting at the gate; here is your Stick„Mr. Baby. Don't forget yolle hat, for tile f3hri is Very powerful." "Io, no,' to u nod the 'c ergymalt, absently, "Good inerning, -datIntime." Then, as he Walked dearn the little brick - paved path, " HoW Strange Catharitie'a hand never folt like that ; it always Beetled frackered and traidh to Me, hattlins felt Soft and Cold at 1± tofiched Met And that it could hardly hold the glom. 100 is theM tiny one standing in thapOrCh With phi!' mailer "No, sir, Only rnotliti.° " StritAgo," he inUtteredi Strange ;' Surpese it Was my Amoy, 1 ani always fancying thinga :" and then he sighed and put hie hand ortthe boy'a ahotilder, for Eaby Fetters was blind, CHAPTER IL Tim BLIND YIOA4 oV S.i:.Nnrcnrvimi Over proud of course. Even of, --,bat no B9 stuPid,hund,,that WhOnl PAP o gram Taskinastor of the work; Eta Set to meditate, inistakon work, lay dreary face against a dim blank watt pirduahout ms.us natural lifetime,—could pro vont cr wish, Browning's Aurora .peip4, About five miles from Singleton, where Bedmond Hall Olinda, is tho little village of Sandycliffp, a 'small primitlye place set in corn -fields, with long sloping Aelas Of grain, alternating with SIllgOtIl green uplands and winding lanes, with the tangled hedge - paws, Sowell known M aputhern scenery. Sandyoliffeisnotaotualiyontheaea-shore, but a short walk from the yillop up ono of those breezy uplands would bring the foot - passenger within view of the blue sea line ; on one side is Singleton, with its white cliffs and row of naodest unpretending houses and on the ot/aer the busy portof Pierrepoint, with itslinstle and traffic, its long narrow streets, and ceaseless activity. Sandyeliffe lies snugly in its green hollow; a tiny village with one winding street, a few white -washed cottages groaped round a small Norman church, -with a rose -covered vioarge inhabited by the onrate's large family, The vicar lived a mile away, at the Grange, large red /nick house with curious gables, half covered with ivy, standing on high ground, with a grand view of the sea and the harbor of rierrepoint, It might seem strange to any one not conversant with the fade of the case tlaat the small, sparsely -populated village should require the services of a curate and ,espeoially a hard -workingman like' Mr. .Anderson ; but a sad affliotion had befallen the young vicar of Sandycliffe ; the result of some illness or accident, two or three years after his ordination, had left him totally blind. People who had heard him had prophesied great things of Mr. Ferrers—he had the rare gift of eloquence ; be was a born orator, as they said—a rising light in his pro- fession; it was absurd that Buell pewers should be wasted on a village congregation, made up of rustics and old WOCtlell he Tax Boon AT What a natation:Nat Illas teat), Abyat James W, Reid, fOrmetir et Illizet*onf writes to the Toronto News from Sault te,, Marie that he went th that place six Weiks ago on the report in a Torouto paper tint things were booming. He says"1 founi P4 arrival that there was 3qo shop tt\ rent and it would take a small fortune to, buy a lot to. /Mild on, as a ring of epeoulatora gobblea up all the property last winter for four o aVe mike along the river front and away bac* into the PeolltrY ever so fat% b7 merely paying down a few dollars en it-, in one ease I know of enly 1120 on purchase—and then all agreed to put up the prices so fearfully high that a poor man cannot touch a foot of it. Thia is killing the town, and keeping it back, as nearly everybody who oomes here leaven a few days, cursing ,the place instead Of staying here and helping to build it up. Oyer 150 people came in the week I did, but there are only three of them left now. There is pleaty of talk about lots, but no Bales are being made, and except a fevi cheap buildings no work going on. It is the deadest place I ever was in. One or two men have the business all in their own hands, and they do pot like to see anybody else starting in opposition to them. The hotels charge $7.50 a week for board, and it costs a lot of money to stay here any time. Everybody wants to make a fortune in a month and not work for it." Latest Scottish News. It is announced that the talked of change of the 7011.1 Queen's Own Cameron High, hinders into a battalion of the Scots Guards is not to take place. The last set of.girders of the Tay Bridge wore raised to their permanent position on the 1.9th alt, The work of construction has occupied about five years. The detailed prospectus of the Glasgow International Exhibition has been issued. The guarantee fund, it is stated, already excesds 4240,000, and is still being increased. naustpreaola from some city pulpit ; he was Rev. Dr. Efutcheson,of Banchory-Ternan. A man fitted to sway the masses an the east end of London, to be a leader among his fellows ; it was seldom that one saw suoh penetration andpower united with such simple unobtrusive ' goodness. Mr. Perron would smile a little sadly when these speeohes reached his ear. He was a man who cared little for the praises of his generation ; his one aim in life was was chosen Moderator of the general Assembly of the Established Church of Scotland, at Edinburgh, last naonth, and the Bev. Principal Rainy, of the Free Church. \ The same anonymous donor that gave 210,000 to start the Scottish National Por- trait Gallery, Edinburgh, has now intl. J mated his intention of being at the cost of Me to devote s talents to his Master's service finishing the building according to . the —to work in the corner of the vineyard original designs. .. allotted to him. His inner consciousness, indeed, told hint that le had capabilities for a larger sphere, a wider rangeofwork; when the call came he would be ready to leave his few sheep in the wilderness and, go out into pastures new. He was like a knight watching beside his armor until the reveille sounded; when the time came he was ready to go down to the battle. When the call came 1 Alas 1 it never came in this world for Baby Ferrers. In the fall prime of youth and strength the mysterious doom of blindness came upon the young vicar and left hira groping in a darkened world. There was bitter trouble at the Grange just then; a young cousin of -Margaret and Rely Perron, who had lived with them from childhood, and bad been the apoilt darling of the house, had left her home suddenly, leaving no trace behind her. Gossip had been rife in Sandyoliffe, but no one except Hugh Redmond knew the rights of the case' or why the girl should have abandonedher home when. Baby Ferreis was lying on a lied of suffering, aud Ittargaret wits watching beside him in prembling anguish,for the result. There Were week! and months of bodily suffering and fierce internal conflict— bitter hand ta hind fights with" despair. And then the Arran iliiind faith df Baby Ferrers triumphed ; back from the shadow ,of the valley of death he came, mutilated,. Efeari;e4, and victorious; and like blind Samson:, lealiy A bay, heone day electrified his people 'hy, entering his Pulpit again ; and at the sight of the changed pale* face, mad of the deep melodious voice. speaking 'with' its old' tender authority, there was hardly is dry eye in the6church. From thatdayMr.Ferrersnever flinched from' the purpose he had set before hire as far ad' lay in his power to do his ditty. Bound by his Ordination vows, he still gloried an the dignity of his priesthood. Sunday after Sunday saw ,him 'occupying the pulpit , of his little °burial, which, as the fame 6f his rare eloquence went abroad' was always crowded with strangers. He had seouredthe Services of an earnest hard-working man—the ill -paid, over- worked curate of an east end parish with a large sickly family—and baidalled them in the sunny pleasant vicarage. To be Continued.) Socks With a Place for Each Tao. Speaking of hose reminds ma of an imported idea in gentlemen's foot -Wear, or " sox," as they are called' by the haber- dashers. They are made like gloves, with a place for each toe,,and are saidt6 be far ahead of the old Style in matter Of comfort, also as to expense.—New York Leiter in 13oston Record. Petishable Prelght. A freight car Was left at Chippewa Fella by a north -bound train. It was Marked "perishable goods." When the agent opened the door after the departure Of the train out walked four trampis.—Milisatikee Journal. A ilusble de Lni*e. ' Bliatles are a iraVerdinding, source Of iniatity or plettailici, hat really- the battle liiXe is, one I have just tten. E± iii.inade Of silk, filled with hair, and hag:dainty whit ribbon for tieS.---New York. Star. A, Meeting Of Preebyterlaii ininistere aha, 61.cletit' WitS held in Toronto yesterday, When it .tvati dthided to ditide the eity into districts for naisaien purposes, and a porinantrat organization tat formed for. Mutual Cotinfiel on Ali toatiotit 61 ebtonion filtered. Dr. Anderson' CritOliettoif Lndoti, vat recently offered a fee Of . 27,000-,.-probably- the largest ndi�ai honOrtritim 'On record tb 10lb; to treat Ono Of the thtive &I/Idea, Vet' dtielined the drier. "Maniriut4, sand a little 5.year-o1d girl, pointing 16 a turkey gobbler str011ing aronnd a neighbor's yard, "ain't that red - The death is announced of the Dowager Duchess of Leinster, daughter of the late Duke and Duchess of Sutherland, and sister Of the late Duchess of, W, estnamster, Lady Blantyre, and the lateiDuchess of A hundred years ago, on the 4th of June, Robert Burns Ara went to Dum- fries, and received the freedom of the burg, in recognition of his talents, and tho service, as a writer of songs, that he had done, and was doing, to his country. The death of Mr. Alexander Brunton, Inverkeithing. author of the 44 Life and Heroic Actions of Sir William Wallace " and other books bearing on early Eicotti4h history, is announced. Mr. Brunton was 83 years of age. To the Wallace monument, at Stirling, five busts have already been offered— namely, those of King Bobert the Bruce, Knox, Buchanan, Burma and Scott. Watt should certainly. follow next in order. Each bust varies 111 cost between 280 and £100. ' A monument to the Marquis of Mont- rose, "the great Marquis," is to be placed in St. Giles' Cathedral, Edinburgh, chiefly by gentlemen of the Clan Graham. Dr. powland Anderson has furnished the de- sign, the carrying out of,. which will cosi 'about £1,000. Peculiar Death` of a Boy; a The death in a chestag .pathetically set forth in the " MistletoeBough" has its latest parallel in the (s -aa fate of little Tommy Gray, a bright 10iew York lad of 7 years, whose,body was fourid on Tuesday evening in it 'chest forming the seat of an ice Waggon, which stood -on the street. The little fellow,' With several solieol compan- ions, went bathing in thel'afternoon in the North River. They were surprised while in the water by a policeman, and in their fear Of 'arrest they sbattered in different directions. Little Tonizny ran with his clothes :under his arm, jumped into the ice waggon and hid in the chest, pulling down the lid, a self -locker. Here the poor little fellow was in the evening found suffocated. —Lia hitter to 'county CrOwn Attorney McMillan, of Orangeville, Lord Dafferin thus refers to hishiraily You will, I am sure, be glad to hear that my wife and all my children are ,flourishing. My eldest daughter had grown up into a very fine handsome young woman, and has new gona - home for a.yeitr -to England after spending Iwo years with us here. My eldest son is yotnig seldier in a cavalry regiment stationed in India, and the others sae all .grtditally growing up. raTrzar nth Our iiitleJim , Wabsucla &limb ilis Mother Beard& ould manage him. BM oyes Wore bine, And looked yen throng% And seemed to say, have my -say Hirt ago was 6, Ms saucy tricks Put made yOu tmxIe Theugh all tho while You taid, "You limb, Yeti *joked Jim; 13o quiet, do 1" Poor little Jim! Our oyes aro dim When Soft and low wo speak of him. claWring shoo Goos running through Thozilent room, Now Nrapped in gloom, So Still he lies, With fast shut pybs, No need to licuy, Alab 1 „" YoU little , You baby Jiro, • Be quiet, dot's' Give rii6 a Pint of peanuts, entity, and there's cents for you." Aunty Ilivin bliss yo, sbr.t I see yez aro a neat, Man an theforce."—New York " The Canadian Wimbledon ,teara intend efianding a week at Cambridge before taking" no their quartere tat Wimbledon for nosea chicken got an awful. big,linstle ?" 1 practice.