HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1888-10-4, Page 7Cuarexa xxiii.—UximeeeTnit
. A tenet gOtt-Citiette'tevAt'i4letalte be ta
Gittort, gift; tatetelteo eeadile atOePeee ftate
the ats8a tift stofetV Neft, 'ettcletful hew
very littleatheti, missed; he come. and
goes and dietteipeanii tote va /Olt eltettst as
the coele arid the ' houtiemel140,p'eni rao.
dem demotic, phantumegertset 'and otter a
4w moatbnleveryleedv igeaees ewe, to iegaire
whet hanbechme of hien e Ouierotindhoozon
knows her 00.naore.. ever .et tare intei.
vale the happen e to filtfee'e4t6Ment .acrose
our zenith again, it it hot; as et, rerenone
from, eerne 'distant,. 'enhere. 'Site t bee
played her part t in lifotoas fer as
we are eoncereed, whee elteabee " anished
the educeeient".ait our , growing stele,. rte we
cheerfully ttl take ievehat altappy idea that
anybody's eelueation couldtiver be 001,40 1
—and we. 44 her- dtop e,t,uti altogether teem.
our ocherne of tliinge oecordieglY, or feel
he; when be ievadese Our orbit ono more, es
ineenveniaatasall etbetreetageneenneverbiel.
ly find themeelvea. -Ifee4e,eit was ne .greA
weeder leaflet:1 that Elsie atballoner !Mould
subside quietly tato the peaceful routine of
her uew existence et the Villa Reese at Sdri
Remo,. with "Pe enettleurt *tads" as tha
adverkteemeataftendely and ingettuonsly Word
it. She hod e few- glrldriende in Egghead—
oldeirton Who tracked, het atill
on be path through the ofseincese and to thee°
the wrote unreaertedly 'ea. to her „ present
whermbonea She didn't enter Intodetalle, of
course, abeut the particular way oho came
to butte her loot temporetY iletne at the
ltleyeeys' at Whitestrend ; eve one is bound
to apostle ont every thlug ; but oho mid in
plebe mad aimple hatiguage -the had accept-
ed o slew and elm hopod more Ferman.
out engegeneeut ore the. Riviera, That
was alb he concealed nothing DWI added
nothing. Iler mild deception wag purely
negative, She bad no wine to hide the fact
of eer being alive from anybody on earth but
/Ingle And 'Winifred and even from them
She desired -to hide by Peeeive rather than by
• active cencealment.
It wae erdeined, however, la the neture
of thiego, thet sooner or later Rush Mee-
eluger newt find oe IteChalleuer wee
ready livlog, No situ eheota ever bavoud
the Balite of our geleacy. But the dimovery
might be poetpoued /Or an indefluite period;
and hes, no for ea Mile bereelf was con• -
cerned, be orsly wish we to keep the feat
, meret from Ilugh in perame, not from the
reap :of the world at large ; for she knew
evertbody elm in ter little *sphere believed
her merely to lave loft the /doyleys' in
a moat particular and unexplained hurry.
Now, Bogle for Ida pert, oven If any
vague &wow Of her bating been
sighted here or there in aeme distant
nook of the Riviera by Sotencl-so or Whaes.
hbonotne might happen ab any time to reach
his ear, would oertainly oat it down in his
ovm heart as one more 'woof of the eignel,
auceese of hie own clever end enuninaly
dealgued deception. As a matter of feet,
more than one peraon did ecoldentally,
the course of oonveroetione during the next
few years, mention to Irugh that mfilebody
bed and Mile Challoner had been aeon at
Mereeilles or Camas ,or Goncie or aoinewhere;
end Nagle in •every muse. did really., leek
upon it only a* allotber (butane* 34
Warren Reliti blind acceptance 'ot hie ble4i
ltttle iletiona. The more people thought
Ride
was slime the mere did -Hugh Munn-
\ ger la hie own heart prlde blues°. tAmpartily
ou the cloverresiiiind feit• 'fidniese ef the
plot ho haul lauleetid catried Out.,. that awful.
*receive' At the Fithernetniva 'Rett a initet
strand, in Suffolk.
'Thus it happened that Zisie Was not far
wrong, for the prevent at 'lout, in hen colt
oulatien of chances as to Thigh and
fred. t ;• :
The viretedey EUiereiteheeStin Remo; t
new of Mr. Meysoo's den,th ceme to her irs.
the paporse -Antis a Sudden :shook, ond the
terseptitatento Waite to Winifred then was
very etrent; but Eitioreeisted b.• She had :
to realest it—tte Grub down heattympothy
for eymnethy'e peke. Shoe oodleinit bear.
to break poiet Winifred/Sat heart et emit'
a momeat by , letting, her know to
the full nil lifights bsitenetiat It iteisielistid
indeed that Wim'fred ohoulel think he nee:
feeling, phatikl cell her ungienefula ehatild
suppose her forgettat,1 bet '.sete. inste'ettert
that --for Winffred iral:witliortt ihur-
touring. Selena deyettneliteptoniIrd
'would know; but she bopsnet.' POT Win-
ifred's rake, 'ithe :npRedoWiniftediwiluld
never find out what manner of"ncoxsue pro.
pored to -marry. ,
And for Nughts tot. -Foravetth etemirsioet
corsiateney and steadianthelur of feellege
Elsie "peen. nowaooulde not leeem to hate
hito. gay; rather, though eTkrectigieteed
hew kik an atepieable ea; thing /lee twee,
how .poor in spirit, howlytnwox/lc,t_of her
love, she loVedbire cenictinit he
iiekee tele ished
it all kept scoret for ever from %mired,
even though she herself mustAitliViNlintint
and the scapegoat.YiTinird would think
harshly4 hr str. any case ::.4trby letler
think harshly cif 'Hugh
And so, in the Ville., Rona, at an Remo,
among that calm r8poreful*Seeter of olive
groves ,Leriod lemon, orchards, „Elphe're poor
-wounded fiearfiliegantetradtisitly titfilintever '
a little Withesikteentethealing. eiShethadethe
b1esoo,goaaf44og igtitlen#4ojIai14r roatine
44 to keepler from breqclingWthose sixtkIertt
rant, delicate, tensitave, *yMpiethatio teen
sumptive girls lo teeth and look afteecand
walk out with -perpetually, .They. were
bright atmeggegie teat se. of ten heepp,ept atititt
their type.; extremely like Winifred her-
self in Mannete-L'etoo Iilf,•.Eiale"Ifoittetients
thought in. hen rfwn:,heant „ivithe a . sigh
• of presentiment. e And, E se's heat
was still young, too ta Thy i attar:bored to.
gather, like,girls.„Kthey, were, ainopc the
steep,1410Acatstrefeb '40314'
they exPlerndealeafnitetfee. ebtquettitreoun,
try;• they „wandered- along the:* betitafful
olive,Oleareitorettlilt*Yitthielb "Altdiptleit
eursions to the quaint- old ilta n ttha
mountain-thidel=c-TiakOhniVIPefiitrii.
$an Romolo and Perinaldo--,mouldering gray,
hotunit'Perelled'iticon pinnardeketrrinulliering,
gray reek; anclpiereed;by atesidetrop poreeh
gloom eact te°dieval iolt "A *alike)
helped Mahe tokbeat flecev,,neethie;:rleeppo
her griefaor.fe holdattat. ;hay intiheittoloo
,torturecithotomt„et Dottie she would ever be
haplw,4gii1K,V40.000s9ulin
sanguine moments sh'e data& to eiNgti
she warnot without hope that she might in
tima grow at least insensible. .
4
One mointugt he December, at the Villa
Bente, about the bent for early breakfast,
Etas heard a, light knock at her doer.
NYOS /30"k tl,*e9ok, with{ the cafe -au -fait and
ion and tiny Pat of batter 'On the neat email
tray for tho arOlerookfost Elate kuew thot
much by 4the- lightneei of the knack,. 4Come
en," the said.; awl the deor epened and,
Elie entered." Shetitelda letter in her rieht
hand, and a very grave bele sat upoe hr
aeually, merry face. ," $emeboiy dead r
mato thought With a start. But no; the
letter was net black bordered. Edie opened
it and drew „item it slowly a smell piece of
Paper, an adyertisencent from the
Tbou 14,00'4 breath cama and, went hard
She knew now what the letter portended.
Not a death—but a marriage 1
"Give it Inn, dear," she cried *toed to
Elie, "Let tne glee it at once,. I can War
it—I can bear it." "
,tldie handed the cutting to her, with A
WO On her foreheed, and oat wih her arm
routed Elile's waist ae the poor dazed girl,
half erect ia the bed, sat up and read thet
thud seal of Rughte cruel betrayal: "Oa
Dec. 17th, at Whitestratul perndx Church,
Suffolk, by the Rev. Percy W. Itickeratetle,
1114„ ceuein of the bride aeslated by the
Rey, 4. Welpele, tieett If eon B4WATtfil PE
OttlItTgUE'r MASS1FGER,, ed the Inner Temple,
Berrieter et -law, to Wr$11,1e415 MART, only
daughter of the late Thouno Wyville bitty.
aey, of Whiteetrand gall, IP,"
Mete gazed at the euttiog loog and Red-
ly ; then oho murmured at beet io a pained
Yoko ; And he thought 1 was dead 1 11e
thought he had killed mo 1"
Edie'e fiery iudigutien could reatrain it -
ell no longer. " idse'e a wicked, num," elle
cried .• "a wicked, bed, horrible oreetore
and 1 don't earo what you any, Bode; I
hope bell be 'punished aa he well dewervea
for his cruelty and. wiekednue to you, do.te
"1 hope not—I pray not," Elate anevrer-
ecl galena:31y. And ae atm said it, the
meant it. tihe prayed for it profoundlye
After A While She net ClOWA the paper on
the toble by tile itedelde, and !eying her
head on Bile's oluselder, buret into teare.."•A
torreat of relief for her burdeued feelinge,
Edie *seethed her and wept with her, tender.
ly, For half hour Elsie cried la Silence;
then alio rose At iaat$ data her eyes, burat
the little alip of paper from tbo " Timex"
reaelutely, and and to Retie "Now it'a all
aver."
"AU ewer .1" Edie cobeed in an'inquiring
voice,
"Yes, darling, all over," Elate *cowered
very firmly. "1 shaU never, never cry any
more at all about him. 114 Winifred'e
n014, and I hope holt be good to her.—But,
oh, EdIo 1 Not onetalove him sot"
And the winter wore away slowly at Su
Berle. Elsie had cradled down her love
firmly in her heart now—crushed it down
ond *tided it to Immo reel purpoae. She
knew Ilugh for eget what he was; ahe re
ooguized his Goldner.; his cruelty, his little
care for her ; and ehe Baer no eign—es how
should she boo it—ot the deadly remorse
that gnawed, from tlnao to titne at his tor.
tured bosom. The winter wore away and
Elsie was sled of, it. Titus was nuking her
re et leespoignant.
•aely in February, Belie came up to Ler
room ace oft,eructon, whoa tho six conetemp.
tire put:4**er° at work in the mho -dream
below with the old Italian mushomuter,
under Mr. Bali's direction, and seating
hertelf, girl.fashion, ou the bed, bean to
talk about her brother Viterren, '
Edie seldom *keel of Warren to Eine;
she had even ostentatiously avsfided the
eubjeet hisherto, for reasons, a Izter own
which will be instantly 'obvious to the
Meatiest intelligence. But now, by a sort of
atoident of designathe Mentioned mortally
something abut how he bad always token
them, pada/oar.; for eenteotteri Mae ttipa in
hiettsein to the lovely places on the coast
about Bordighera and Menton°, and even
Monte
• " Thin he sontotinaese Cotnew eta. tho
Riviera with you, does ,he 1" a Elsie asked
lietlessiy. She loved Edit Sod dear old. Mrs.
Ttai,.. and she was grateful to Weareerfor
hie ellivalrous kindness; •but she ,could
hardly pretend to feel profoundly interested
in him. There had never been more than
one manin.thii'yibrld for,hrii and that man
was nowVinifredt'hueband.,
"Ho always comer," Ediebanawered, with
a significant -stress on the word always.
4Indeed, thitris the very first year he's ever
'5.nisred coming Bina) we ftrs wintered here.
:He likes to be near nti whtle Arte're on the
mold. It given hurt a chance of varynig /no
subjectrs:: "Ile says himself', he's alwaye
dined to judge of genius eby2it5 power of
14r4
king tint in a fresh Ple—not always
repeating its own successes.. In aummerelue
skitehes round the mentil Of the Tjitleatie and
the North:Sea:bit tin ivirdeiho /Await; alters
the venue to the Mediterre.nean: Variety's
good for a painter, he thinks : though, to be
tore, that doesn't really mattero-yery muck
tOlhim becaurenobody ever.by any chance
buya his ptatures.t -
Can'bhe sell them, thdn Elsie asked
more curial:fly. .
4 My dear, Virerren's a born artist net a
pee -tura -dealer i therefore, of comae:a he
never :sells anything.: If le Were oemere
dauber, now, there might i?cA some chance
ar him. lteing a teal painter, be paints,
naturally enough, but he makes'no ukortey."
-feet' But the rearpainthr alwayaraticseede in
the end, 'doesn't he t!",.., .'•
r
"In the end, yea; I don't doubt that:
within a centtley Yrhs413A.#0
-good of succeeding, pray, a hundred years
after ye, titre dead andtheried?:-. AO:bankers
wont disethent a poeithutatitif delebrity-fer
you shouldlike to suceei4d white I,wee;
alive tp,„enjoy. I'd rather have a,naodeat
pelehedin'the nineteenth centuryIlan'
'tito principal -00°12e in hp Temple of Fame
in the middle or the teteiituttli. Beeides,
atreindoerWt want to..rucceed at elle, dear
boy eeet.leasit, apappeeht Tyinh togood-
nese he id. Be onlytwanitlio:tigait rep*
great"Ple'Jr" ;j 1, .;,., A 1,4
Thiit'rf theeeme thingieriftitor VerYe
IV.•
ebit f it Q eo
et a . eFv. • at Re& n t
some„cares. arienle one tif theni:e
never iinneitemethilehe
-shitellisnociesthein making
1Jnf'tt4Ind that's juift!what
fifth, toe, dear. -1 mean to make Warren
earn enough, to keep himself—and a- wife
and family.'
• Elide looked down at the carpet uneasiii
It wanted darning, "Why didn't he come
this winter as ustuti 1" she ook e4 in hone,
to turn the current of the conversation,
"Why?Well, why What et queeeion to
teak !—Jt because you were here, Elsie."
Eide exemined the boles the rarehu
pettem PA the deer by her aide with mtnu
ter care and precision than ever., 4* Tnat
wag! very kind of him," she eaid, alter a panre,
definiog one of them with tho point of her
shoe accurately.
• "TOR Med, Bile ectweel-,"too kind,
and .to mositive."
"1 tbink not,' lede mux•naered low, She
was blushing visibly, and the carpet was en-
etmeing oh her atteotien,
"AIM X thiek,yee,' 4 40 powered in 4
decieiVe tow. 'And whoa I thieg Yee.
ether peel!et Pught Ad a MAttOr 14 course to
agree wit use. Tnere'e stitch a thing eta
being tego geottettes, too delicete, to O?,°
eiderate, too ihouglatful for °thee'''. yoo
A° 'right to soanip t our owe individualit,
midi say, Warren outht to have breught t -
yawl routed to *an Rome loog ago, to give
4* all a liteled.vereiene, and eel; gout' sktelk,
;ng like a pielepocket Omi*i glee and Gelio
.Ioneca, and Toulon End S; Trove, tor e
couple of menthe together ata aeretelt. with-
out SO AMPha nrer even running over here
to 'we hie own mother autt gator in tbeir
wiatergaereere. Le's got reepeetful to his
own reletion."
Eine startal. 'Te you mean to eay,"ette
cried, "he'e keen as near ae, Nice without
coming to gee you la'
P.die tedded. ',goer since Chriotearte."
'We .Ziee roily
ray (Mid, Amity, er 1 wouldn't eay
50. It's A f radios ef nue° to tell the truth
rout theme se certain inclividuel. Werren
couldn't atop away frOln ng any Imager; so
he Week the yawl mend by Gibralten ofter
after the 17r.h.ef D °ember, you katew."—
Elide smelled eactly.--"And Ite'a ham kuotk•
Ing about Moog the cotet round here over
niece, afraid to come Qu'4PC fear of hurt
ing 'Mgr feelings Eine."
Itlole roue and ideated her Imelda tight.
"It WM VQ17 kind of him," she said.
A clear geed fellow.—I think I could bear to
meet him now.. Aga lo any Pad% I thittle
he oneht at teeth to oonee over and HQ you
and your mother. It would be very eelhah
of me, very wrong of me to keep you an
out of tte ;mole pleeeure.— Ask him to COMP,
Edina -Tell hitn—it would net, bort tue
very much to see talm."
eye e fleshed miteldevoue Are.
"That's 4 pretty aort of =mega togged any
one," she cried, with COMP/alight emosemeute
4We timidly pat it in a pelttrer term. May
I vary it a iittle ad. teU birn, Eine, It will
givnyou greet *unto to ace hitul '
4411 yen like," Elsie mews:red, quite eita.
ply and candidly. 110 was a niCe fellow,
and he was Fallots brother. She mast grow
aceustomed tonteeting him somehow,Zile
man was szythiug at ail to her now.—And
perhape by dna time he bad quite forgotten
Is feoliale buoy.
The celebroted centreboord yawl elfeid.
Turtle, of the port of London, Relit neuter,
seventeen tons regletered burden, was at
that moment lying up snugly by a wooden
pier In the (react little French harbeur of
St. Trope; tun; beyond the blue peeki ef
the frontier mountains, When Pot* next
morals* seedy brought abettor on board, ad.
dremed to the skipper, with an Itolion
atamp duly stuck on the corner, Warren
Reif opened it haetily with doubtful eto
peotetions. Its =tent made Ms Ineeet
brown cheek burn bright red. ":My
dear Ad Warren," the communication ran
elsoetly, '4 you may bring the yawl Toned
here to Sam Remo as moo as you. like.
She HYI you may come e lend what's mere
she Authorises me to inform you in the
politent terms that It will give her great
pleasure indeed to see you. So you eon
easily imagine the pride and delight with
'Which I itm ever, Your affeetionote and
aucoeseful alterf Bent.'
"Edie's a brick 1" Warren said to him:
self with A bound of hie heart; ; "and it's
reelly awfully hind of—Elsie."
Before to o'clock ;that HIM morn.
the celebrated osntreloard yawl
tid•tuttle, manned by he ownet and
hl" conotant companion,' VMS under
way With a favouring wind, and aoudaing
like a seabird, with all cesivas on, round the
epit'et Bordthr, on her voyage to the they
haibriur °Min -Remo,.
(To nn cONTINITIM)
A Pet Iteafs TriOkS.
When the geiltrnmrlilighibotistmr.i.entler,
Nam:mate, returned from her Alaskan voy-
age, she brought one more passenger than
she started, with. The passenger was a
little:black bear cub,' Sallie, Which literatly
-.hugged her Wei inthtthe leajfi
beard. e.
Being tonstattly wit* the „menet and ,eat
the acme timo being allioved tte restart all
°lir the v4sise1, ehe yerr'quickly beanie`
taine and 'gentle as a' kittr ; and quite as
playful.
Tub Only place where Ali was not allowed
was the engine -room, and ethia not bee, ause
'the chief did' not,like„her but letqaato'he
was afraid she would get hurt..
The other day Sallie was Misse& at din. -
not -time, and one ot the men VOISIItt3OrSui
to find her; when, after a long search, she
was 1ourid4perehed on 'thewalkiegtbettra, of
the engine, which wesin motion.,‘
There she clung, and ab every movement
of the great team she wee raised th within
six inches of the. ceiling, and her little fat 1
body con-firessed to is correspondipg thin --
nese, but she neer made 11*u-tin:per, and
was too much frightened to jump off, so
there he clung, alternately getting a good
breath and the nod moment losing it, in A
rather violent mannet.
The moment she was safe in the inan'e
SIMS, she hugged him tightly and 'began -to
ory and nealte-a, tremendoas,row generally.
Athong the:Many trickheaplitee.s onet t
"of etealing quietly up to the cabin door;
itsing on her hind. feet, giving the door a
sounding whack ewith Ewe of her paws, and,
grabbing the knob, alinbst sliak'e the door
ffoln hinge e ;the second she' hear,
footstep, away9he goes scampering aft. A
very oute betue;is Sallie.
„
*e' i e'"Useful Ault from' the Londoo
• anode' It Unit' weak 'carbolic aoid
eptMged on ethe skin and hair ot on the
clothing, is eeprotection against the bites of
mitts eocttether inseets. The eatest plan,
teccordipg etge;khe writer in question,' is to
•eep a saturated solution of the obi& The
tedlietiod oannet contain more t en six or
atiefelab,per., met, and it may be Added to
.
iweiteir thejatter smells stren ly. This
may be retldily and safely appr
sponge. Horses and cattle could •e protect-
ed in the same way.
STATISTICS:
'The pepoletiou oGthroltor 24g0.9,
cludIng 5,240 eoldiers. ,
0111. Row flowing throw& the lehria Pjr"
eine to South Chicego, Thep** line ex
tends trent LIMO, Ohio, to a point on the
lake abore about a Mile ASOuth of Calumet
harber—e diatmee of MS miles. The lay
ing ot thoplpe wall begun elpril 1. I feet
Wrought itonp. etieht Maws Ineide diemeter%
'Ka WAS reenetree bed to stand a ,preakeure
000 poundto the equare imin At I;m.
claw are a member of immense iron teoke
heldieg 35 000 herrele each, tato whioh-the
eil dove direetly from the wellit her
wlU 1*Ave reeeltieg Melee at South Ooicage
of the meaa capecity of 175,000 berrehs
Two are now eoutpleted and the othera wili
be finished inside of eleirey days. Though
Lima is 300 feet higher thee Senth ChiL ego
gravitation wilipot hang the nil hel'e
eacee cla 111811,4gindbiit at Laiteteu,
Ono immense perup aLims. rl°15r at work,
forcing oil threntit the pipe at the rate oz
8,4,00 berrele te day, '
Threrepexts$ thatr,S.Gpottelaieet-t clf Pen
;or Almon that, theretwere derlog the year
4ed•d. ig tbe peonote retie 00,252 new nomee
(rho lergeet eanne4 increue te the bletort
of the Durex* making A total of 451,557
penelopers on the mile, oiaeeided as followee
325 810 lettelide, 92 20s vil1os5rx, mitior
children and dependent relatives. 37 re-
Intionary widow,. 809 eueirivors of the
wor of 1812, 10 787 widowa of those who
served In thet peer, 10145 eartrivere of the
war with Mettesa *ad 0,104 widowof• them
who served in that war. The names of
2,02i previouely drepped wee* rettoreel to
unekieg an eggregoto of 5,280
toners aided sharlog tee year. Dorhoo
aane period 10,530 were .dropped frene
he rolls en account et death and varier*
ether eetncce leavin 4 net ingrHae to the
toile of 40,050 UMW, Tiaere hove beau
140,920 Pendell eleime filed since 1801
d 737,200 elm= to all cleseee heve been
alewet Since that doto, The emcomt peid
peutilelea educes 1801 has beee$903.030 444.
ilneream afpeneien was grouted in 45t710
emu. The average ntinUAI value of a
14 the clue of the year woe 9125 30,
el 64.80.
The Britieh Postuneeter-Geuere.lte Allotted
report for the year euding wide the last day
of Mart* foreielme HAW very interesting
istatiatioe. During the twelve months there
were delivered in the United Kingdom
1,512,200,000 letters, I9Se850,000 poet cord;
389,400,000 beak-packeto end eire.tehtes, 152e.
3004000 newapeperet and 36,732,000 parcel;
The meouitude of the omorti ova be leader.
atood by &olefin% the totals amonget the
neater of lohebttonta, and natters that
eery AM* woman* and and recelve4 last
yaac 41 letter; five peet-carels ten book.
puke*, four newspapers, anti' Goo pored.
tettrobeg to the telegraph; we dud *et
record la ineresaing by leaps and bounde.
Whereas In 1670 the_greee tetal emetwtee
seat In the 'Malted Jimmie= was 9,840,.
000, It now le 43,400,000, the !acreage in
two years befog no less then 14,000,000,
Attlee savings' book the numbet of accounts
open in 1678 was 1,800.000; It is now
5,650,000, The sum deposited at the former
date was 430.000 OM; it ls UCtW alas°
upon g54,000,000,. In ether worde, the
number ot depooltore has doubled in ten
yeare, These letter figures indicate thole
the eversge:condition of the workbag elutes,
oontrary to the etatemeuts of protectionist
journal; hu improved during the putt de.
owlet
According to an ertiale in the Soonorniets
Zen:case! August lith, by M, Rene Stour%
the national debt of Siam* Is the heaviest
borne by any nation eta the glebe. M.
Steurro's oomputotion makes the total
amount equivalent to 85,903,600.000. Thls
1. from 6330,000,000 to 8500,000,000 less
than the sonnet whioh it hoe been placed
by oome other computation!, beit the dis-
crepancy 1. explained by the. ombeelon from
M. Steunnts figures of 6432,000;000 of lifo
souanitien, which are -usually -considered as
part of tho debt. The, annual. Zthargte for
interest and ainkingfund, on the entire debt,
including the annuities 6258487,083, Of
the funded debt, $2paodis,00moo aro profit.
nal three per canto., 91,537,500,000 perpet-
uel four and a* half per tentSq and 'SOW,.
1308,200 redeemable bonds of various des.
°maw*. Annuities to divert companies
and corporations of 3477,400,000, and 8200,-
000,000 of floating debt make up the hal-
andel of M. Stourtn's total; Not to Franto
a the magnitude of the public debts 001120,
according to 11„ 48tourm's figures, Runde,
with 63,605,000,000 a England, with .33,585,-
800,000; Italy, with $2226,200,000; Aus-
tria, with 64857,600.000, not including
Nungary -which owes 3635,600,000; Spain,
with 31,208,400,000; and Prussia, with
3902.800,000. Of ail these nations England
and Prussia are the only two which have rev -
maned sufficient to guarantee a partner:tent
equilibrium of the budget. Not only is the
debt of France the heaviest- absolutely, but
it has increased- more rapidly. in the past
than that of ,ay °thee, and IS likely, M.
Stamm thinks, to do So in the future. in
presence of these enormous figines we can
eadily see -one strong reason why French
bateemen should have listened to the recent
declarations of Emperor William with such
unwonted placidity.
Poor's Manual for 1888 contains Some
prodigious figures about American railroads.
There are veer 149,912 mike of road io the
United States, of which 14,302 was beilt
set year. The asserts of the oompaniea are
$9,000,000,000. Trains ran 643.978.896
Miles dnring the year. Font hundred mid
wenty-eight millions of parisengers were
arried 10,570,p00,C0o milee, and 552,000,-
000 tons of freight were tooted G0,061,000,-
000 miles. The roads earned $931,000,000,
and the operating capons: s were $600,000,-
000. in Massachusetts there is a mile of
ailroad foreevery,d.12'equare mile of - lared
-eviry 883 inhabitants. The ateragsz
capital stookper mile throughout the count
try ill $22,454, and•the ponded ;indebtedness
$29,062. Comparing differeriticountries, the
°Bowing eis Ate, length of railroad in kilo -
Metres ^ 4
United Stateet te 204779
° Ail knrope.... 189,80t
„All Asia ..,. 20,768
All Africa.. .. ... 6 729
' Australasia,: ; -12el:42
Germany 36,737
; Great Britain.... 30,357
, France .! ."?, 4 , 304,959Russia1
" ' " "0
,
Ansittialtiittgetye 122,106':
Italy , "
British
Canada.. e,e; :15,414
World 470,197
This in reported ag the greatest watermelon
year the Georgians have had in A eleeede,
Savattesah paper reports the uumber of
carloada *biped .frora the State nit 7,055,
The average nun:direr of utelotto per cerlood*
1,190, molting sherd 7,800,000 molar* al-
ready shipped. The etaimate for the remain,
der of the mange is 35,000, makiotr the total
Prop, besides boxim coneumption, 7 835,900,
melees, the total value of which le placedat
81.500,000,
Wages In Ontark
Comporiog the wages reported Irt
wtl those of 1$87, Serne intereating ups
clowna ale clbseovereel, Bakere„.for ex-
ample, averaged 8806 per week in the
fttraetTeor, and $9 00 la tile latter, The
wageoef blockepeithe hove gone up from
i8 89 to $0 82; of helpers Irma 66 56 to
; ot boilermaker; 'from $9.53 to
$10 ; of hrieklayani, foam 614 87 to
$15.75; of brans anieheree from 69 86 to
610 ; ler marble cnttere, from 08 o
of plug:bens. from 610.8 t to $11,4;
of plaieerere, iron $14 31 TO $4 58 ; of tin
eoliths, fretti $8 84 to $9 22, These in -
mount are, it nod be theerved, targely in,
the building tradeti. Spemiletion na reel
emtata *mere. tO JINY0 helped PVtain Of the,
workers. While, bewever, plasteretee
plumber; and. brieleleyere heave -thee berme
abed, the brickruskere and carpenter* have
xperienced loseee. The wageeof thebrek
te.l.kete have gone down: trona 69.33. to
6R 35. and of ca-pentera f rem 610.40 to
1982. Lumber mill exployea have also
etoorieoced des:line. The comperotivet
wegeo in 1884 owl 1887 were as follow;
1884. 1897,
14 If9 04
Jgerehiktesliam.*441.11 • k• • 900 200
50 10 21
892
lieekomithe4 wages have aloe desereeseel,
Tte averege rate in 1884 was *12; it was
in 18S7 but 69 59, In menufaetereng lines
the movement hes been unequal. Certain
departments tin given PIASOSS et 'MAWS/
haitita a taiee ; others hove eaperieuced
fail. In organ meklug aleue has there boon
a general *creme. The rates compere
1884 1887
Aetien makere.........69 09 to 24
13 Howe mekera,...•,... 959 993
90 18 00
The plow =Awe hove had a mired expert.
euee, The Winne who Luke the gales IMVO
recived lower wsges, while them who make
the iutetiero bate had A Plight:1M Tannery
eruployes reeeive,d a dello a week more 1111
um in 1881. Outelde of them traders
tbero hoe been a general deeline. Thu*,
among axe:eatery PAlpUsyto the wage; have
gone down from W086to 69 42. Cigar
unikein gen es 46 ineteed of 60 45;
titannera i19 52 instf,sidef 610 15; hookiri
ere 610.10 knead of 12 24 ; covert4...6.%
lusted of 69 91; hereon mokere, 68 00 in.
Mead of 69.91 mothinieto *95O instead of
*10,93; choirmekers 67.98 instead of 84 70
cabinetmakera $9 20 inetesi of 89,07,- and
new retaken 612.75 iusteed of 1575. In the
textile tradee the skilled deportment* haVe
ratber more then held their own, while the
general operatives hove auffered decressee.
.A. loom fixer lo. a mitten Mill reoeliree 911.38
• where he had but 610.71 before ; but the
carders hive experienced a declineofseveuty.
eix cont., and the forria4 WOOTerit Of iiNt
mute. The TrOfillan finisher*, dyers, end.
fullers have also received a slight advance,
bat the ronera, ecourees, speakers, spinners,
spenders, warpath and weaver* hue reduced
wages.
—„„--.
At'Contrast,
Awriber in Nato and Querite, reviewing
the hhitory of railways for the half century, °
glace the following 'uterus:log aceount of
railroading in Eagiondlit its Waal etage t—
"In the year* 1840 and 1811 1 had occasion
to travel fr4quently from Manchester to
York, Tbe clerk took down my 324111Q end
eddretn end entered it into a way took be-
fore greang me my ticket. The tioket was of
paper. At one time the tiakete were all
°plicate(' at a barrier before entering the
train. Bat thia did not lone continue, for
permone took Advantage of the opportunity
of travelling a loog journey while ;taking a
short journey ticket. The train way etarted
by a bugle, on whieli the air "I'd be et
butterfly" was played. Carriage. were
made to raiment:Ile step coaohes as much se
possible. Luggage was placed on the top
much to the detrirnoot of the luggage be-
sidee giving a great deg of unneeessary la-
bour to the porbers. 'The guards satin
seats on the tops of the aerriagee, wherethey
were exposed not only to wind and rain
quite unnecesearily, but to the far greater
mconvepience of leceiving all the cinder -
dust of the engine into the eyes and nionth.
My experience of railway travelling goes
umch further back. 1 travelle& on tho Srat
railway that cerried passengera, the' Steck-
ton and Darlington line, which was opened
for passenger traffia five years before the
Liverpool and Manchester. Iti first passen-
ger carriage was the body of a, stage coseh
fixed to a, railway truck. The majority of
the paasengers on the opening day had to
centent themselves with plaess in empty •
coal wiggons." • '
'Underdone.
A etory is tom ineNew Hampshire of a
hunter of the laid generation, 'more boastful
than auccessful, who Once joined a bear -
hunting expedition in the numutains.
Daring the hunt, as this man was resting
by tho side of a rock and talking with an-
other hunter, lie remarked, " If there's any-
thing I dote an, it's bear, A slice of bear
steak, nicely done, is juet perfect."
"Well I" said his companion, looking up,
" if there isn't a bear now 1"
The, men who " doted on bear" looked up,
saw an immense bear standing on the rock,
gave a leap into the Woods, and disappear-
ed. His, companion soon overtook him,
and said to the fiiiitive as 'he emcee up:
"Why, I thought you likedhear ? '
• *Well, I do
,
"said the runaway, "bat that
ere one _ain't done'ettough 1"
An Incentive to Badness.
BOys have one inoentiye to show the juv-
enile animus that dominates their sinful
corpus: TheY never read' of the demise Of
any harturpecaruna sorb ,of; att adolescent.
It is only the boy
little ,11,40 dies.
The,ordinary boy would'aiwaye prefer to be
in 'front of a section of.apple.pie or ginger-
bread than in the meat costly casket. Per-
haps the ordiunnly beseiii" right in this par-
donable sapiration. Why should hee'entelee;
want to live and grow up with the coun-
try?