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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Times, 1885-12-25, Page 3A RACE AGAINST TIME I had been stationed on the main line of the great Central Railway for semething more than a year, attending to all the day and night duties et that point with such an unfailing regularity, that no thought of pos. eib1e accident had ever occurred to me. The duties were not especially arduous, but the responsibility was far greater. There was an express day and night, both ways, for which the main line had to be al• ways clear ; a local express each way, which ran on the turnout, and waited for the through train to pass ; a mail train night and morning which had right of way; one ordinary passenger, and half -a -dozen, perhaps, accommodation and freight. To see that the main line was always cloned at the proper moment, that the turn - cat was always ready when it should be, that the branch where the local made up wail open, and, in short, that ev- rything was in condition for prompt and satisfactory working, kept me almost constantly at met dnet, though, as I have alreeey said, the uties were not especially arduous. In order to be handy to my business, I Jived in a cottage c'ose by, from the open door of whioh, looking eastward, I could see any coming train for a mile away, and no- tice whether the signals of " danger " or •' " safety"a were in their proper positions. One morning, just after the local had made up and gone, my wife came running to me with an alarmed face. Our little girl was nrilssing. She had seen her only a few min- utes before the departure of the train, and bad ?Bade a hasty search for her as soon as s e discovered her absence. She feared she knew not what. I calmed her with a few brief words, and, harrying around to the station -building, be- gan a careful examination of every possible place where I deemed it likely the child might be, (She was only five years old, ) The searoh resulted in my finding her fast aeieep on the sunny aide of a pile of railroad , ties, with her doll, half as large as herself, lying beside her. That night I had a singular dream. I thought I was in the middle of a vast plain, through which etre'°hod, broad and clear before me, the double track of a main line. Like ours, yet unlike, for every few rods I could see open switches and blood. red signals, that gave mo an agony of appro- hension, As I looked again at tho line, my eyes fell upon an objeot—a small form lying •epon one of the rails. My child 1 With a ghty effort I awoke, turned over, and went to sleep, and dreamed the same thing again, with the addition that I seemed -mounted t a winged horse, and riding for • ee cies theswitches• e min I ew ite, bathed in perspiration, anu roused mysele.sufficiently to get up and visit my little darlings crib, of course to End her safe. I walked the floor in my etooking feet for awhile, looked at the clock, and again turned in, to dream for the third time the same thing ; to start suddenly and broadly awake, as if the voice whioh oused the Thane of Cawdor had hissed in my ear, as in his, " Sleep no more I" To awake, and find the first gleam of the 3ncorning day glowing gray on the eastern wall. However, avisit to all the switches—mine, not those/S:1_8 dream—a dash, headfore• riioe''''iifliool, deep, running stream near, and awarm breakfast, seemed to clear i; away whatever remained of the lingering effects of my nocturnal vieions, and 1 felt like myself once more. Between the passage of the down mail which stopped, and the through express whioh did interval not,there was an ierva 1 ofan hour and a half, that was essentially my own, But that morning a despatch had come for one of the directors, who lived three miles to the south of us, and as it so happened, the agent, who was busy, request. ed me to take it, offering the use of his fast mare, which stood in berness under the shed —an animal remarkable for its speed and endurance, as I ascertained thereafter. I had been to the director's house on one or two Simper oceaeions, and neither the agent nor myself deemed the time necessary to go and come any oonsideration when an hour and a half was at my disposal. Besides, had such a course boon necessary, he oould have taken the keys and acted for me. But there was no thought of that. I drove leisurely over, enjoying the ride much, for the snare, " Fanny," was in ex- cellent spirits, and the air was clear and bracing. I had delivered the, despatch, received a brief word of thanks, and was already turn- ing homeward, when the direct •r came him- self toward the paling, calling out to me by name. I reined up. " There ie some mistake here, Jennings," he said, with some excitement, waving the despatch. " This should not have been sent to me, but to our agent " On reflec- tion : " He knows the contents, I suppose ?" On reflection, I couldn't say, and so stat- ed. " then go back to your post at once, and give it to him. A special train of excur- aioniets for Hampstead Beach will pass at 9.30, L'rok out for it," Ho turned leisurely and sauutered up the walk toward the house, while, without a word, I started the mare it to a trot. A special train at half past nine I drew a taut rein with my right hand, and took my watch from my pocket with my trembling left. Nine twenty-two 1 Three miles of a straight road—less, perhaps, a quarter of a mile of detour to the station, when I should reach the track—aud the main line open to me westward for the passage out of the mall ! Three miles, and eight minutes in whioh to accomplish it 1 In my youth I had known something about horses, and'i:lrat knowledge did not fail me now. I drew out the long whip— seldom used, as I have noticed—and touched the mare quietly on the flank. How tau I describe that ride 1 • I have been where charger met charger in the swirl and duet of battle, and men and horses have gone down together, but in that there was fellowship—association, In this —but no words can fitly describe the fierce emotions of that solitary ride against time, where hundreds of innocent lives, all uncoil• scions of the peril toward which they wero speeding, hung trembling in the balance, I recall now the tempest which swayed my ehrinking soul, as, outwardly balm and rigidly erect, with every muscle strong as steel, I held the mare firmly up to her work and, by voice and touch, electrified the noble animal with almost human conscious- ness of the necessities and peril of the occasion. Trees, houses, fences, gardens—sometimes men, staring in wild-eyed astonishment— flew past in one unbroken flight. My hat wag off, my hair and beard streaming in the wind, my lips compreased, save when emit- ting low oriel" of encouragement to the noble mare ; and thus I reached a low rise of ground commanding a view of the line for a mile or more on either hand. Up to this moment from the time I had drawn taut rein and glanced at my watch, this point had been the objective goal for which I was riding, If I could reach it before the whistle blow at the creasing below, there would bo hope. It not—I shuddered at the alternative. 1 recalled afterward, and many tunes, how a thought of my dream --a long line of switches— swept acmes me then 1 how my eyes for the first time swerved from their steady gaze at my horse's head, and fleshed a glance up and down the whole vieibie line for the coining special ! Not in sight—thank God ! Stay ! there is smoke on the horizon. But there is no stay in the wild rush of our onward course. With as unflinching nerve as when she started, the gallant mar' strotohes away down the gentle declivity, while every mornent tho distance ieseens, and the on coming train gets larger and noisier as it nears us. I etand up in the wagon ; I urge to great- er speed ; 1 wave scarf and hand ; I shout, but my voice is beyond my control. He. ! Joy unutterable 1 I am seen I A whistle !—the agent rues out with a red flag ! two whistles ! Down brakes ! The train is saved, and comes to a halt not e, doz- en yards from the open switch, It a as time, (Time —as they Bay in the raoing•taienlar —seven minutes and a half, This I con- firmed afterwgrd ) I complete the laat quarter of the detour to the station more leisurely, but am in time to receive from the arms of the agent my sleepy little girl, whom he has .snatched from the shadow of that miaplaoed switch, where she was Iying fast asleep, with her golden curls directly on the rail. That dream again ! Shall I ever be thank- ful enough ? I am an older man now, and have other and higher interests in railroads, but not on that line, That experience was too much for me. I left Boon after, and my fortunes greatly improved. My golden -haired little darling is now a woman, and happily married, and has a lit- tle darling of her own just beginning to walk, And if you would like to see the gallant mare, Fanny, that won the Race against ' Time, and an affectionate place la my re- membrance evermore, come out to the or- chard, and you will see. her enjoying a item- fortable old ago, petted sad c..ressoa oy the whole family. So I end ail I began : Dreams are not always true. Nor, on the other hand, are they always false. PEARLS OF TRUTH. Help others, and you relieve yourself. Go out and 'drive away the cloud from. a dis- tressed friend's brow, and you will return with a lighter heart. Love is the most terrible and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only ono th't includes in its dreams the happi- ness of some one else, Words of praise are almost as necessary to warm a child into a genial life as acts of kindness and affection Judicious praise is to ohildren what the sun is to flowers, Politeness in a sort of guard which covers the rough edges of our character and pre- vents their wounding others, We should never throw It off even in our conflicts with coarse people. No way has been found for making hero- ism easy, even for the scholar. Labour, iron labour, is for him, The world was created as an audience for him ; the atoms of which it is made are opportunities. There appears to exist a greater desire to live long than to live well. Measure a man's desires, he cannot live long enough ; measure by hie good deeds, and he has not lived long enough ; measure by his evil deede, and he has lived too long, The most difficult province in friendship is the letting a man see his faults anderrors, which should, if possible, be so contrived that he may perceive our advice is given him not so ??such to please ourselves as for his own advantage. The reproaches, there- fore, of a friend should always be strictly just, and not too frequent. Ho that does not fill a place at hone oan. not abroad. He goes there only to hide his insignificance in a larger croe+d, You do not think you will find anything there which you have not seen at home ? The stuff of all countries is the same, V' hat is true any- where is true everywhere. And, lot a man go where ho will, he :an find only so mu oh beauty or worth as he carries, So long as dress does not violate the prin- ciples of beauty or the laws of health, eo long as it is made conformable to position, use, and oircuinatancee, so long is it to be en- couraged, not °oily as a source of enjoyment, but as the fulfilment of a serious duty—for the love of dress, which is to the body what language is to thought, is as true au instinct as is the love of what is beautiful and good. No trait of character is more valuable lir a female then the possession of a sweet tem- per. Horne can never be made happy with- out it. It ie like the flowers that spring up in our pathway, reviving and cheering us, Let a mem go home at night, wearied and worn by the toile of the day, and how sooth- ing is a word dictated by a good disposition! It is sunshine falling on his heart. He is happy, and the- carea of life are forgotten, Dr. John Hunter, tho eniinent surgeon, adopted a rule whioh may be commended to all, When a friend asked him how ho had been able to accomplish so much in the way of study and discovery In his busy life, he answered, " My rule is, deliberately to con - aider, before I commence, whether the work be practicable, If it be not praotica"lo, I do not attempt it, If it be practicable, I oan accomplish it if I give sufficient pains to it ; and, having begun, I mover stop until the thing is done, To this rule I owe all my enema." PERSONAL. MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. be sent by them to protect their re• epeotive interests. In this way it is hoped thiase /elands would be kept forever open to commerce, and neutral in case of any war that may arise. It Is grat,fying to think that iso much favor has been shown to thia scheme by those Powers to whom it has al- ready been submitted, f3'ories are floating through the newsp.- pere to the effect that certain Metas believe Ries has come upon the world again, One half-breed was walking along the prairie, after night,and just as the moon had risen, the great leader approached him and said, " I am not dead ; take my hand; it Is as warm as yours." He gave no explana. tione, but after talking much to the effect that God had spared him to the North-West people, disappeared. It is not stated whether the earth swallowed him, or that he dis. appeared as did the witches from the heath of Ferree like the explosion of a bubble. Be all this as it rte y, many Mitis and Ire - 'diens believe that the great 1 ader is upon the earth and living. It has been woll remarked, and can hardly be too of tenrepeated, that eters al fame awaits) the judge who will compel the average lawyer who always fancies that he shows his braios in browbeating witnesses, to treat these witnesses with proper respect, In nine cases out of ten witnesses come into court against their own will to testify concerning the crimes or dieputee of their neighbors. But the treatment they fre- quently receive from the attorneys is most shameful, and could her be ex. ceedodifthey were the crim'nela'se emeelees, A change ie ery much needed in this respect. In the exercise of no other business or profession is a man permitted to behave himself like a bully and a oad and why it should be so in law nobody can tell, Tho American girl is an institution which demands and receive a great deal of atten- tion. The West additien to the literature on tine subject comes from the Faris Figaro which says : " How cap *ivating the Ameri- can girl is in' society ! From the moment when she made her first appearance in the saloons of Paris elle created a perfect furor. Her engaging manners, her freedom from restraint, her familiar shake -hand at once conquered that class of young men, more numerous than most people imagine, who frequent doubtful society on acconntof their excessive timidity whea in good society. What can be more plcaeant to en embar- rassed youth in company than to have the converse ion started and carried on by a pretty, chatty girl, totally devoid of false modesty and awkwardness, and having rarely, if ever, an arriere-pensee of marriage? Nor can we conceive anythibe more pleas- ing for a young man than to be Chaffed and brightened up, Ho to speak, by pretty girls —for such the American girl always is— who have none of that stiffuesa and gauch- erie, neither the banls, nor feet no• love of gaudy col:rs so characters tic of their Anglo- Saxon great-grandmothers." Having retired from the Paris stage, Mlle. Wrnss will presently by marriage become a Princess. Mme. ,Sophie Menter, the famous pianist, is now enjoying the possession of a fortune of 3,000,000, loft to her by a Rasaian ad- mirer, The death of the venerable Lord Bucking- hsmsbire leaves Lard Stradbroke senior peer—ninety-one years old—though Lord Brougham comes in a good second at ninety. • By the retirement of Mr. Samuel Merely, the city of Bristol, England, will lose a man who has repreaented It in Parliament for seventeen years with distinguished accepta- bility, Count von Moltke, whose nearness to death is occasionally cabled, is really won- derfully healthy and vigorous for his years and he has juat celebrated hie eighty-sixth birthday, surrounded by hie family on his Silesian estate. The Duke of Abercorn, who died the oth- er day, was the senior Knight of the Order of the Garter, a position now hold by Lord Granville. The vacant stall will probably he given to the late Duke's son•in-law, the Duke of Baclench, Thebaw, represented as the raw head and bloody bones of Burmah, is really a hand- some young fellow of 26, the youngest and brightest of the forty -eight sons of his late lamented father, who rejoiced in the name of Mengdung Meng. Philippe Daryl, a French essayist anderI- tic, soya of Oliver Wendell IIolmee : " Eve- rybody who speaks English on the planet has been enjoying for the past thirty years the aaperior produc.ions of this Boston Frenchman. And yet the Latin world re• mains ignorant of him," Tho American beauties,' Mise Chamber-• lain and , Miss Winslow, who went from London to Hamburg to astonish the natives and casual visitors, were aetounded to find themselves forestalled by four American sitters named Walker who walked away with the palm for beauty, M. Cortes, the distinguished microscopist has been experimenting upon the efleets of various condiments upon the tissues of tho oyster. He ream -monde lemon juice as the most valuable of those relishes, as it has the property of destroying the animalcule: which infest the stomach. of that mollusk, Queen Eleanor's Cross at Waltham is to be r stored. It was desiened by Pietro Cavallini in 1291 and fi, ished in 1294, It is in memory of the consort of Edward h whn accompanied her husband to Palestine and sucked the polson from a dagger wound in his arm. She was the mother of the first English Prince of Wales. The Boston Traveller (Rep ) says that " a gentlemen who recently ,net :Hon. James G. Blaine found that gentleman in the enjoy- ment njoyment of acellent health, in good spirits, and happy in his literary work. Ho is en- gaged at his task three or four hours a day, takes long walks daily, and shows no signs of dieappointment over his defeat last year. Indeed, in talking of that event, he says that he thinks he is happier than he could bo in the Presidential chair." The comparative importance of Engli h statesmen, from the nowemen's point of view, may be eeen in the fact that accord- ing to annouucemout the London Central News reports allepeeches of Lord Salisbury, Lord R Churchill, Mr, Gladstone and Mr. Cnamberiaiu verbatim ; Lord. Spencer. Lord Hartington, Lord Grauville and Sir Charles DiIke to the extent of one column each, and Sir M. Hioks-Beach, Sir R. A. Cress, Sir W. Harcourt, Mr. Trevelyan and :Ir, Chil- ders half a column each. In La Temperance, Dr. Magnus Huss, the celebrated Swedish physician, is quoted as saying that people of the northern Stats of Europe who abuse alcohol degenerate visib- ly and afford more frequent'y than others examples of monstrosities at birth, In L ra- don, at the beginning of the eighteenth cen- tury, there was an alarming decrease of the birth rate which, on inquiry, was shown to be caused chiefly by drunkenness. Dr. Alvarez, a Paris homeopathist, brought suit egeinst the Princess of Medina Cali for 600,000 francs for medic sl services, stating that he was entitled to more than the usual compensation on account of the great wealth of his patient. The court •.warded him S4,000 francs, he to pay costs. Most physicians would consider $17,000 a handsome fee, but this doctor was much ohagrine 1 over the result. A few days be- fore he had refused a much larger sum to compromise the natter. Disraeli and Gladstone. It has been said, and with undoubted truth, that the man who is an artist, what- ever be his calling, seeks relief in his art when fortune turns unkind and he has fail- ed in other pursuits, While Mr. Disraeli sat in the Cabinet as prime minister of England lie did little in fiction, but he con- ' trived, after a fashion, to construct scientific frontiers and itteriug political pageant salter the epic and grand maunor which had exor- cised hie imagination in his books, But no sooner had he realized his last fall, and before the bitter critic could ceclero that there "was aDisr e i," he hied away to his closet, drew forth Eudymicn, refurbished that per• son, wrote some flashing chapters, and preg• want epigram], and g+ve hit! book to the world, The fame of his novel w:.s a food for his ambition when ,rho sweetness and glory of power had passed away from hiss, We have another case in point in England now, No sooner does Mr. G'adatone fell . from the united assault of the vaunted guardian of the stability of the empire and - the vaunted apostle of its d:antonibernrent, than he soothes his In Mead ambition by the balm of literary work. It is not surprising, . therefore, though a very thoughtful and cultivated weekly contemporary thinka it is, to find him in the pages of the Vineteenth Century netting his lance against moder^ irre igious science in a contribution entitled the " Dawn of Creation ani Wor- ship." In thia paper he takes occasion to - speak of a oerta.n noble house, 1 luetrioue iu the history of Engl.nd as having for its head in the long ago a person " who was a - driverof pigs," This must settlethe question, we suppose, that the illustrious Howard is noth ng more at the fountainhead than a He(g)ward, from whose name we havepo' sitely dropped the "g," We still wait for the evidence that will convince us that some of the medical stu- dents had not a leading hand in the Hal- lowe'en outrage, The soheel-master is about in these days, but does he Insist, al" the old-time teacher used to do,that"an honest man's the noblest work of God?" If some system of vaccination could be discovered whioh would prevent the spread of the annexation -fever among the nations 9) the world it might prove a blessing, The Japanese oan make sick handkerchiefa which sell as low as a shilling each in Eng- land, This Is rightfully regarded 88 a seri- ous menace to the English silk trade, Cook County, Iilinoie, has hardly elapsed from barbarism yet if the talcs told about the treatment of the insane in her asylum are to be believed. The brutal methods of medievalism are said to flourish there in pristine vigor. Fair Bolas. Lookwood is recounting her Prosidental candidature experiences to au- diences in the far wild west at fifty cents a head. She is porbaps trying to catch a hus- band now, that being the next best thing to the Presidency, The clam is a hard -shelled animal who keeps himself resolutely shut against the,in- troduction of new ideas, and who is hardly worth your trouble after you have opened him up. What a number of; human clams there are in the world I Don't bo a clam, Prophecies as to the ultimate humiliation of the Bulgarians aro as yet premature. At present writing the tide of succeee seems to have turned. Before the two little powers have done worrying one another the big ones will no doubt have their hands in. A greater nuisance than the girl with the immense chapeau concealing all in front of her, or the pretentious fools who make a point of coming late so as to command some attention, are those concert -goers who spoil other people's pleasure by persistent whispering. Undertakers are said to .find the winter time their best business season, because more wealthy people dio then, owing to their over- heated houses, and the custom of bundling themselves in fure, two things which make them more liable to take cold whenever they are exposed, It Is said by well-informed English papers that the agricultural laborer is bitterly op- posed to the church influence in the elec- tions, Hodge has had some reason for com- bining the parson with the squiro,ae the two forces which have always been moat opposed to yielding him his political rights. Nothing in the late Gen. McCiellan's career interested average British opinion so much as the yarn that got started about his being a more or less distant connection of a Lord Clyde. He rose ono hundred per cent iu .Eaglish intimation when that was told and sack correspondingly when it turned out to be only a yarn after all. Many men will steal books who would be shocked at the idea of committing the small- est infraction of the eighth commandment in any other way. And a first cousin to him who deliberately steals books is he who borrowe and never returns. We wish a good many people would cultivate a proper delicacy of conscience in this matter, To find out how much ill -breeding there is arncing tho wealthier classes of Toronto, and no doubt of other Canadian cities and towns as well, ono has only to take the tes- timony of some of the Ladies who give time and trouble in collecting subscriptions for various charitable institutions. Iu houses where better things might be expected they are often treated as if they were beggars asking charity for themselves, A good way of apending cue evening every week or fortnight during the winter months is for a number of young people to form a club for the special study of some author. A Shakespeare club, forinstanoe,or aBrown- ing club, undertaking to study certain plays of the great dramatist or Aurora Leigh, and meeting for the purpose iu one another's houses, would prove Itself not only a very pleasant but a very profitable institution. Reading a somewhat stirring poem which appeared in one of the leading dailies last week, we were rather startled by the first . line of the last stanza, which read as follows : " all are born free and equal." God•llko lie of all the host That build false beacons on the Ilse of Itids terrific coast." " (sod-'ike," as an epithet applied to any- thing in the shape of a "lie," has the charm of novelty, at anyrare, if not of great fitnese. It is the hardest thing in the world to convince some people who blame all their misfortunes or want of success an what they call their "bad luck " that the "bad luck" in nine cases out of ten is just their own term for shiftlessness, carelessness, laziness or mere stupidity. The time spent by some folks in bemoaning their bad luck, if put to good use, would go far to deprive them of any good excuse for indulgence in such folly. Tho case of a clergyman who seems to have very little respect for his own sacred futections is reported. A man died who con- ceived he had been badly treated in his father's will, and, wishing to remind the world of the fact, left directions to his min - titer to preauh his funeral sermon on the words,"And he gave hint, noue inheritance in it, no, not so much as to set his foot on. ' The clergyman, whoever he was, actually forgot himself so much as to carry out this piece of unworthy desth-bed spite. The 1. test subject of dispute between the leading party papers of Ontario Ie the amount and genuineness of the excitement in Quebec Province over Riel's execution. One side declares that the excitement, if not very great to outward 'seeming, is seething far down in the breast of the haloitants and is ready to burst out on the first favorable opportunity in a way that will prove as sud- den as It will bo terrible. The other party insists, in an equally strong way, that there is no such excitement and never was. W e should like to see the subject that those - party papers won't dispute about, The most sensible move yet in connection with these Pacific Ocean Islands has been : made by the Hawaiian Government, who wishes the other Powers to allow them to unite the different groups of these Islands ' into local representative'governments whose integrity shall bo guaranteed by the con. tracting Powers, and to whom consuls shall A Misuse of Clemency. We think that the circumstances are few under whith journals of repute ought to interfere in the solemn decisions of justice but occasions do arise when oilenoe would be blameable. We believe that, in the commutation of the death pcnalty in the case of Lison Mongrain, the murderer of Policeman Cowan, we have a c tee in point. Cowan was one of a recnnoirering party sent out by inspector lli,:kens from Pitt when that Fort was surrouudod by the Crees under Big Bear. This chi- f had come under the ramparts and coolly invited Inspector Dickeus to surrender his arms and accom- pany him to the lodges, as Factor Maclean and others had done, promising his pro- tection in tine event of compliance, " I" you do not come " Big Bear said, " my young men will burn down the Fort and do your people harm." Inspector Dickens, of course, sent the presuming savage about his business Meanwhile, Cowan an& another policeman were quietly riding along the prairie towards the fort, Per ceiving their approach a number of Big Bear's Wren seized weapons, and as the two horsemen drew near opened a murderous fire'upon them. 0 e man rode on and reaoh- ed the fort, though hit with several bullets ; but the other, Cowan, fell from his horseup- on the prairie. He lay bleeding and moaning here for half an hour, when Mongrain came up and pointed a nun at . his head. The wounded man put up his hand, as if warding the gun away, aad said, "Don't, brother,' but the heartless murderer fired, and not only once, but twice, into the head of the helpless man. The murderer was appre- hended, tried, and found guilty, and on sentencing him to death Judge Rouleau said : "After the verdict of the j :ry, I can do no more than pronounce judgment. By the evidence given you hive been found guilty of murder under the most shocIiug circum- stances, When the wounded man was lying helpleea on the ground and lifting up hie hands pleading for his life, you cruelly shot him. I never heard of anything more cruel than that a man who Haw another lying wounded and defenceless should kill him. The am provides that sentence of death be passed upon you, and the sentence of the court is, that you be hanged on the 27th of November." If ever man deserved death under the law, it surely was this miscreant ; yet we learn that the Pcivy Council has cones leree hie case, and reanimated the death penalty, A couple stood before a jeweler's, the other evening, when the young lady remarked: "Gawgie, don't you think there is some- thing perfectly lovely about those clocks?" " What do you admire so much about them?" he asked. "Why don't you see they—they name the day." The future will tell if Gaw- gle tumbled. " What great blessings do we enjoy that the heathen know nothing about? " inquired a Sunday -School teacher. "'Soap 1' was the answer that came out like the crack of a pistol from the small boy at the foot o the claaa. The late Dowager Lady Chesterfield's hus- band was so hard up that he was obliged to let Caesterfield House, and was unable to finish Bretby, hie country sea*, end his son had to sell Chesterfield House : but Lady Chesterfield, who had a life interest in the property after her son's death, finished Bretby and left $500,000, beaidca,; clearing the estate.