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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1888-12-27, Page 2^ •LOVE CRIME. (Tonetenewor. MPS, THE FRENCH, BY G. ,Iziate.oe,) CHAPTER V.--(Ceennesera.P3 Bat Martha replied in the eione one. " I do not weep becaneet I regret Berge - moat and the life of ease we hew,/ led. I weep beeause I cannot exist without my mother% love, far from her sight, far from her sweet wore," "Ta that U that you regret r 44 NO. I weep, too, beeeuee Jamea is lost ect me. I hove deceived myselt, yo* see, If Jerome lied love1 me he would not ieave ue- dertaken the duty of breeking our he.arts. jareetx does not love me," A sudden thought eroesed Isabel'a mind. She drew Martha tnto a cornsr and liaidt Perhaps I have guoesed why they semi ea away," 44 Ail 1 why? Ton meet "You love James. The filarouie perhaps hes Imo:). it. Jetaaa ioves ram Forhaps that displeeses the Mari:pile o daubt he has other ambitious views for his son. To remove you to a distance, my poor Martha, ifs the means he takee to eut short your a. feethea. Do you thiuk I am right 1' Yeti yen age right. It mu ouly be that. And you dear meter, me beret, made a eietten. Yon else. You. are geing to auffer, to be saerificed for nay eake. My God, what a thing to 1cI et them expel ute beeerse I alma lovebut let them keep you begeose yoer heart bee uot yokels," Bat Isebel, aluiklus her leead, mad grieved to the depth of her tool, replied "The hlergole has prebably guessed thet I efee-lfarthee-I %leo." "You love t -you leve, laeleel?...and who then?" It is Bieber., turn, pale atid. weak, as if like to die, to hide her heed ia Mertlite'e button For e moreene blartheb toted by A aherp suepiehm. Meld it be Joule*? tthe been deceiviog her ? But no, that was Inv peasible liseuel would AlAile to her. The ehe field like aaigh he her eer " Oliver r jebe not lift her face, but tws mede oa effiratetive in witUt her heed. Why thts feleelmod I Did ehe fereeee the futore ? Ds oho white to beatieh the oneell- eot doube the tenet diemfietude from her eletter'a nneny tend? Demi he fear her tealoutty 1 1. it, le Onver you love 1" Zola Merthe peeeemetely kielee her al eer ou the hair, en the forehead,. en the tem wet eyee. Thee kisses ere all the perk= that at eskii. Sho wishee fergiveates for her um oeutery jealousy. Both thee rezetiin sneer.. Itteli woe without thorieht of hielizig their teere OUVET AA5 beeu preeeitt during all title ceati without eakiete, pert in it. He geee hie iszo.ber end geourim 44 What. is the teal reaeou 1'1 be eke, "1 home told the truth. I de riot know." Marthe And Isabel separate. M -xtha re, mains :it the lower eed of the room, her el- bow ou the tebte, her ram biddee in bar handle She weeps uuceestugly and her jail betty la shaken by eenvelsive gobbing. Ieebel asks James "Could I riee year fether? Are we forbidden to embrace Me - dame Bergemoue " He will net receive you. An for ou nether, babel, you will see by her aieduese thee aim tekee your deperture as cruelly to heart as you can do, thab there le nothing ageinet you in her heart. She will continue to love you aa her own children," 44 Teen. af she love.e us, why deo she eon. their care. v ith morbid curiosity they eclat horn servants *baking earpete in the court- yard, the butchera and bakers' carte, rolling with a stiflen gonad on the thick snow, the glad barking of the dogs who were getting their breekfests, and the sharp rebukee of their keeper who wanted themto keep quiet. The poultry yard had awakened on since. The turkey•etteks were clucking, the hew were cackling, and the -ceche were tryiug to rale° their clarion call. Every morning the same sounds. But this Was the end. Henceforth they were to hear.other isounds. The otmosphere about them would he ehang. ed. No more effeetion. No more friends. Nothing but strange faces, morose, sorroW- ful, Whet to do . the everlasting question. litehat would become of them the Anoreas• hog problem, There is a knock at the door. Tney remain absorbed. Thera is a louder knock, and a voice says, fearfully, "Martha. 1 Isabel 1 aro you still asleep ?" It is Clotilde, they ran to open the door. The Marchioness utters a cry of fright, ao much -changed does she find them, so miserable does ehe see them, so worthy of pity. Both of them fall on their knees be. ore the poor woman. "Mettler, you drive us away, what have we done!' It is their first word, the first thought they express. Ib is also their first reproach. And that exclamation escaped from both at once, so much do they share their grief.They have but a single heart, and a eingle sufferings Isabel continues, "Mother, we wished to go away, at once thithout any delay, and aince we are being dismissed ignominiously, without a word of explanation or regret, as if we were guilty of •I know not what crime or shame, we were going to go away without trying to see you again. But since you are here, a ince the remains of affection have urged you to us, Mother, answer us, it you have a little pity for those whom you have so long treated as daughters. "What have we done? What is our fault ?" Clotilde contented herself with straining them to her breast in silence, while her eyes ran over with tears. What had she said? What explanations had they had ? Hardly had she strength to murmur, "My poor dear children ! ' will help you over the first few der, ezul keep you from feeling privatioa too quichly. I am sorry I can't make it mere, bue we are per," The young girls ha a inede the same ges- ture of grief ; they new made the same geses tare a repulaion. They raised their head proudly. aeid Iealeel you have braeglat up to be proud, yoe now drive As from your Immo. It smut be beceu,e0 We are SeriOttelY at fealt in some waytieing guilty, we are unworthy ete your bent z. Keep your mon- ey. We shall go from here, taking nothing. We have chefidenee ize Go:taxa u urselm3 God will help as. We shall work." You retests it ?" Did you really think that we would ac- eept it ?" He hesitated, remained etandinn there, leeeiteting between hatred, and pity ond remorse for hie cruelty. They Arka4r4t004, and both, cheeping then, hands eoid, "Fether, why do you fores us away?" But already hie faeet had recovered ite eteroneee. Hatred triumphed over remorse. " You refuse it 1 Well, Pleeee Your- eelvea." And be went out with the haughty step that we peculiar to Kea without twang round agate. The cLAWAINT4 4 thegirle wereuext to one nether. They did uet even trielnk et Rein to bed thet eight. They rieiteat the time en a sofa, their hands intertwmed, 41artlealh 13444oa 1614401.4 ettoulder, heaked in e elese embraee,ortd eleiverlee with cold. They did lea weep at all, The few winds they at= teed were eetlier estelernetioue by which their over -hardened beerte sought relief, "Abeetteetel Aimee NehodY in all the world I - When the 2'rey dawn appeared they were be mind. It seemed to them 44 if the orning heel come goner 0144 on ether titiere. ey TQ40* QFPrfae.ed with wearinese, their Mahe stiff and sore, their fingere cold, and they walked together to the wuulow. The drewn curtalue showed them the greet courtyard of Bergemoue car- peted with anew, in the faint glimeeeriug which preceded the_mornieg light. Their /aorta seek !ewer. $41OW VI murmured Menlo, how cold it meet be. atrente wind made them thadder. The phes trece APA'Rd row egelizotajeatieelly, eheir trunkagreatied beneath the prenere of the whelk and ao loudly elm the eeund cared be heard !elite plitinly la tee zoom. Nobody WB atireirig yet tie the house. Of all who lived there the Margail Wss tho ouiy e who heel Wept, A e lee: beaervantewoke Seem furtive atepe sereided in the or or, doera were epened eantioualy. It every day life that was beginning , brioging heek the same labours, the ‘14011193 the ane for ail. bat how dif- fer the two eietera. They had set n the sofa agaiu trembling more and mere. It Was not beefily cold merely that, they felt, but colticese or the acad. One wolaid have eeia they they Wel lost all their blood that night, so prorouud was their Bich one a the multiplied detalle of life at the chettain to whIch formerly they bad ecareely paid nuy attention struck them this morning and resounded' doiorously In "I ani ignorane. I hew told you all I ow." II 4 I can't understand it at all," she said, in o frightened and somewhat hysterical wee', But at once collectingherself, eaeritimug herself always in her sisterly heroism, and thinking alweye of Martha, she fond 4 "James, this is the firat great Berton, -of our lives, and it comes to ua from youriumd. Leek at Martha I See how tad ehe is, how ehe is la despair. Remember thab you love her; eau said to to ine, Remember altar eleatI told you she loves you. Go and corn - fort her. You wilifind plenty a sweet words in your heart. In your love you will find some sweet promise,' Oliver heed them, a frown on his face, Now that this young girl was going away he telt h's heart swell. Anger with the Margate invaded it. Re had wished to be- lieve that he did not love ; that doubt was henceforth impossible. But overwhelm - log pity for this unfortunate girl softened lum. en an 'natant all the shameful paat vauished, the infamy committed was effaced, the future, burdened with approaching menaces, disappeared. Be saw nothing more a his past life, not even the red donde of the morning sky which had so deeply tin - premed him the day ot hie crime, when he had exclaimed in spite of hinaeelf, "One would say it was blood 1" He took Jambes hand, pressing it gently. if S'mee you are so unhappy, I can tell you that—that I love you—" And then, terri- fied and dismayed as if he had committed a new crime, he left the room. James had heard him. Isabel did not dare to raise her eyes to him. "How he must suffer 1" she thought; "but not as much as L" At length she found courage to look him in the face. "James," she said, in a low voice, "Martini, is weeping all this time." He did not reply, but his eyes answered ler. And they said clearly, harshly even, "What matter about Martha? It, is you I love I And in mypreseneeyou have justheard • another's oonfeasion without being distarbed by it" He obeyed, however, though slowly, and went up to Martha, sat down beside her and took her ho.nda. Then he spoke to her to a low voice for a long time—a very long time. And Isabel, who never lost faght of them, noon perceived that a little measure of gladness was coming back, with the sweet words, to the child's heart. She slid not try to hide her eyes any longer, little by little her tears were dried, No smile Came, for this departure was so harsh, this dismissal which dishonored them almost, made her infinitely sad; but she thanked the young man with a look full of deep meaning and her fingers pressed him when he left her, with clinging, lingering graep. All this time Clotilde n was awaiting her son in her room praying, as she had promised, James entered, she rose up, and mother and soneh,...utne ;a' looks of despair without saying a -word, -without an itxplanation. Jeenee fat 1 into his motlier's arms and sobbed "And so, mother, what James told mi is true? The Marquis desires it ?" "His will is final and he ie the master." "And he misunderetands us ao much that yesterday he ot.me to offer as money, hoping, no doubt, to soften our chagrin in that way." " Do not judge him ill. He only wished to delay the first difficulties of your life." "Then hardship, mother, we shall accept with courage, for we have the consciousness that we have not deserved the pain which is inflicted on us." "What will beeome of you ?" " What God wills." "Where do you propose to go ?" " Where chance conducts Ile 44 How will you live? Some times you will angry, you wile suffer thirst." If we thirst the snow which foals will esh us. When we are hungry we 1 ask work in the villages, at the inns, t farm houses. If they refuse we shall ano ar. lotilde broke out sobbing, eaying • The door opened and the Marquis What I hear isn't possible, 0 my Greet came in., They rote up with a gesture of fear; " Mother, we do nob as& to leave you, but already they ,a he mote than a dread of since we are forced sway, that is the lot him. tlit waufrom him the evil had come. which awaits us we shall beg until we Be advanced to Isabel and held out a have found work' at some farm.' Pura% Clotilde dried her eyes and regaining coin, Here," said he, " take ib. There are poeure as the feta moment a separation two or three thousand frenes there which drew near, said, - "Swam to me, wherever you will be to write to me in Qrder that I may wetch over you." " Mother Bald leabel with eiegular firmiaees, if your heart always loves us, you can watch over us here by keeping us near you; bet if you allow tie to go you wilt ese na nevermore :main. .1 swear it as far as I am coucerned,°fer I wish to speak for myself only." "And I swear it also," said Martha. "You have tatighe us to be poende ante we profie by your lessons." "03 not swear, zny deaE girls, and above all do ziot grieve me by your refusal, The separation that threatene us le as creel to ms ea 18 18 to yeu. It is not 1 who require it. 'bee° entreated, hat have not beenlistened to, Keep your whole heart for nee still, then, I am alwaya worthy 4 Year love, Yeti ere ignorant of life, You have Itved surrounded by my care, my maternal love, and my anuoat watehfuluess, Yon eao heve Ito idea, because of the life of ease which has spared you the slightest enuoYances, of what awaita you, the daily struggle for existence, with its mistakes, its toil, its grief. I am weoug perhaps to tell you this, I ought aot to discoerage yen 'beforehand, on the contrary, I ought to increase your energy, but that is why I wieh you, to promise to *rite to )4e, he order that Imay ward from you the worst eorrows„ and that la why I prefer te frighten rather than to reassure you," Isabel and Martha obstinate/y shook th,eir heads. "No, ohm out of tlaia house and that le the end of ite We are dead to you unless some eopeet le paid to ger eerrow and we are told the meson we are seat away arid in whet- way we have deserved Ole eheetio- men; It is net poesitile tbat you do not keew it, mother. Why do you, bide Ito front tua Alt, surely she was almost pereueded to tell them all ao great waii their deep* So prefinzed their grief, so torn with agony her own sweet mother heerte Foe a me., Meat it was on her mind to exclaimthat he elope was guilty, Bet, AQI ehe could not humble herself to that exteet No, alto would say nethieg. The die had been east. Te volt eveuld not save them. Better that ebe ehould remota anent. "May Gad pro- teet you," she murmured in a voice broken by wan, "anti avert danger from your path." She aearcely had atreregth enough to era - braze them, age after the other. Then eh* ran oat of the room, for she tele that elm was losing oomziouuuei4 4.144WM gott'g to fahate For A long time in a atupsded heir orazy way, they .gazed the door through whioh the hlerelmouesa, their lait hope, had elle- Appeared, Then they clasped hands and embraced. "Let us go," seid Isabel. "We roust, It 18 neelesa to remain. It would only weaken us more and eoprive nsof whet Little etrengtle la left me" With one tweet they left everything that had belouged to them. They woula take away only the clothea that covered thorn. Martha leaned on Isahers arra. She hid done en all her fife eeeking atenotImee her heart, sometimes her remon, eornetimee her courage, Slowly they puttied through the long dim, corridor which reeselamed their atepa and led to the ateirwey„ At cull step of this they halted. Were they hoping to be milled back, filet SOM0 one would take pity on them f Ala, ye; at eaoh atop whioh brought them Ieabel had rightly divined, since the scene JAPANESE 'LAW. in the drawing room, that her beauty had stirred the heart- of dile man. For have hem so trankly make his avowal Theludgestren?eceitilEr:rleektellied. "re Depart. the moment she was almost pleased to before Martha, For thab allowed her to answer, also before Martha. to remove suspicion freeze. the little one, if sospicioo had already been born, to permit them springing up later on, should some chanee scatter the seeds of them again. "I am deeply toeohed and very proud a Had ,t passed away. Torture ut now entirely un your ylooveer, clagura.1°Iletvheoreidahhoevesariedioiced in it, kngwn, and'hamging has then the Pla°° because this perhaps wool have allowed me herikari, strangulatiem crueifixion and de- capitatioti in the administration en the death to leeve a glimpse of hoppiness, Bat I am far youfarf rte°DibeY°auflot°w9edinstioPtrineaknboarneedsisi.umYbetes.". penalty. ti)Tr4.,lettri;3° tillsemnote°znt°117. The 'r�neh Itearcr.noithwain4gYb°u4trassie4roterme" btql:otk*in.dgarYorE;t1r417, tlhawe Jhaeien4beegeen awsanit617 e4hePeeeeenitbble weedteelletsetelate- and a plaee to live, ready to lees, while fished ivith the beginning of the new regime waitingtofind it, to order not to di, of in the latter part of the sixties. Nowjanan hoilooewrisihed to insist, and, loot 48 Ili, raetiler hetes_ More then min 0421113API lewyeee, oleo it takes 1,500 judges to preside over her courts bad done, to implere them. She bee 1,000 men who not aa Prosecuting "At least let me omeee where ynn gn in attorneys awl her Judiciary Department crdor that moy promot you to your ttbuett, contains 1,700 elerits. Meister of the ness." Judiciary has seat with the Secretary of "No,and fart me Mr. Oliver, for we State,theSecretary of the Interim.' the Se tete-eau 4one another no creMnete a War and Navy and the Minister "See you no mere 1 Do not count on :1,d4tgrih epulturretimnentiroYjaheineteee%cirfaothoeeloliekoatdtoo, ilt114.t4iY"teien'it" eceeserY we wieb. it, We demand ItaTehmePjtYpatteret Judges ere required, to dreee e ye those of the war and oavy in the number of (eo isO coterintfora) in Prinee Albert ceata when on the bench. BLit) GHT,ORIerG A MOH They do not look half as digaified as their clerke, who ometimes wear Japeneea &owes, A. Japanese Out -rooms even now, is far epentard with a Rifle gnu Elft;;- Malaya different from a Canadian One, Imagine a earreomendent ova that a Ind, in mem halt ef which is Web up 0 a Weeder; viNe Aicttique,4 Aar Rick, in the in, reetriant Omit three feet high and the other dime terodoeieget attetapteo to a priast, liar floored with atone. Upon this mitre= and Arty or them were sueemeivelyabet down t4e tIafige 314 heh'Ind babies, '444 and neged, The eilloge.whteh eetarametoo are cevered with green cloth. In the le inhabited by several thousand natives, Qay411194 /nf'44 alld VI/1114444W amxrt4 The only Wbite man area $papjab priogt 4u4 there Aro three of these tebles, The Judge smother opeootrd, who llyod 4orrio. distalloe sits at the ceutre one. At hie right ill the away an hie QYFA estate, There 1144 been P-"'"c4tm"' °r. Et.g4"4t1134 4tt°r4e7" and 44 somo amo pact bad feelbag hetweet, the his left le the clerk. All three heve eetivos and ibe moo that hoide tome, ot paint bexee bolero them with bruelme for *tem, and reoenoy /nob of thona- Writ-ing 12140.S. JapaLL41/4 CalATAQtanh tiVOA attaekeri the priest, intending to put r„t1 no ateRagE4Plwr4 ars Ins& °Iwo uP to him to death by terture. The other Spud- "'A totruole el° it holows there 14 4 low ard, who was quickly informed of what had ocourred, took hie rifle and cartridges and hastened to the rescue of the prieet. Ati soon as he atrived at the prieat'e dwellluee which waseurroandedbyablaeknaolahowliog for blood, he (Toed fire On the cretin], He picked met the biggeet and feretuoat men and ehotthera down One by one. When he had med up Orty ortridgee arty dead blacke ley before him. The AAtiVeas ANVA 4triQiC4134 tied in terror, orylug thati the Spaniard was amisted by the evil one, and thros he had a gun that amid shoot forever without relmding. They did not even come hack to gather up and ;bury their deed, leering this duty** the MO white men„ VitaxiC Oanl'EXTEA. The present judiciary and judicial system of Japan ift the outgrowth 0 twenty-one years. The credo Wale which prevailed during the daps of Japanese feodalism have It le believed thab bad it not been for the markinnanthip and. nerve dieplayed in thie ease the natives in the ueighboring provinces would home risen And 1444440:02 the Euro. poem The Queen's Private Zatatea. Queen Viotorie'S private eatable extend aver 37,872 acres, the annual route', even at the lately depreciated prima, being £20,733 This does not include Claremont, which in the year 1806 was granted to OM Q340A for life, with the reversion to tho country. nearer the heevy door on the other side of Some ytara ago her Mejeety, acting under which lay exile, abandonment and wretched. the Advice of Lord Sydney, parohased the property for the stun of 478,000, eatimated at tho time as beteg 4 little over hitlf Ite markeb velum It is said to he worth to•day £150,000. The Qneen also peeeesees pro. arty at Coburg, andthe Princess Hohenlohe aft her the villa. of Hohenlohe at Baden, one a the best and mostvaivable resideneea in the pia= As to personal property, there was the bequest of a quarter of a million left to her Mejeaty by Sir James Camdea Neild, Ws will war proved in 1852, and et the oompound interest epee whioh it hat, been nurtured the bequest musb now have reach- ed magnificent leroportions. Than there was the propety left by the Prince Consort, es• tinumed to have reached nearly £500,000, but as this will was never proved, and so es - °aped probate duty, the exaot amount is nob known. Thesentems aro over and above the Queen's annual savings. The Prenoh Basher, nese, they were sarprleed in spite of them- selvee, in spite of their resignation, not to hear it loved voice arresting them They met none of the aervants. To the last moment the Marquis. remained levialble, 2Ikaon *Dee dopotio overeigna from whom mis tune comes, but at whose power one eau never hurl malediction% Clotilde allowed herself no more, The neat hall door atood o.peta. They were soon in the court yard, thenfeet in the Below, walking hurriedly without turning round, and supporting one mother arta in arm, The courtyard had never seamed to take so long to cross before. The wiad still blew violently and the snow whistled around them and covered them with lay, white dust. The aky was full a great grey-blaok olouds. It was bitterly oold. Martha was seized with violent shivering. "My poor darling 1" said more robust Isabel. "Fear nothing" said the child, "I am strong." Eight o'clock struck. The iron Fate of the Stone Giant was open, early as it was. When they had passed it, they both became nervously excited and clung more closely to one another. All the motmtain was white. The old pines alone had some branches from which the wind had shaken the snow, and the deep green colour of which seemed a pretestation against the precarious invasion of winter. Where were they to go? Where were they to go? This was always in their thoughts, though they did nos utter it. They walked on de- seendin.g the narrow path where Isabel'had been with James long ago, and had the con- versation which we have already report- ed. Suddenly they saw coming from among the bushes a man so covered with snow that they hardly recognized him. It was Oliver. He appeared to be the prey of violent emo- tion. He advanced to the sisters and they waited for him. He took a hand a each, but it was of Isabel alone that he was think- ing, it was to Isabel alone that he addressed himself. "You are going away," he said "without money, without introductions, without friends, here is winter on, the cold has come—what is to become of you ?" Isabel shrugged her shoulders without answering. "What can I do for you?" "Nothing. No more than your father or your mother." " Ieabel," he said, "here before your sister, I can tell it to you. Martha's pm- French barbers, writes Blakely Hall, wrap the end of a towel over the fingers of their lefb hand, and when it is necessary to bon& the face at all it is the towel that comes into contact with it and not the bar- ber's hand. The main point about their work is the swiftness and dexterity with which they Shave. In America a man usually reconciles himself to be fifteen or twenty minutes in the chair, and five min- utes of et is spent in dodging hair tonics, bay rum brilliantine, face lotions an powder. 'The French use none of, these things. They lather a man's face very slightly, run over it with it razor, sponge it off, and the man dries it himself with a towel and leaves the shop five or six minutes after he had entered it. Very many French- men shave twice a day if they are going out in the evening, and it is the regular cus- tom to step into a barber's on their way to dinner and get shaved after they have as- sumed evening dress. There is no pomatum or cosmetic of any sort used, so that the "barber's smell" is agreeably lacking. Her Lost Oharaoter. An Albany housemaid, wishing to obtain a situation in New York, procured a refer- ence from her former mistress and started by boat for her new home. On her trip she unfortunately lost her testimonial, and was in despair, until a friend, who had seen the precious 'dormant, offered it substitute, which, when presented to the new mistress, read as follow: "This is to certify that Maria Katherine O'Flynn had it character, which she lost on the boat oming from ence will keep your brow from Iluehing and Albany to New York." your heart from taking offense. Isabel, since I see you again, it seems as if I were He Showed His Passport. seeing you for the first time. I discovered in you a young girl whom I had notknown before, to whose beauty and cluirms I had paid no attention. Will you believe me when 1 say that notwithstanding the short. railing upon. whme the prioner plecee ide hands and looke up at the Judge As he ie tried, There are AQ }iota for the lewyere, and lewyere are not allowed inside the bar. At the extreme heck of the room OPQ or twe benehee atand for the atmeremodatien a viainIrsA and Upon these sometimes eit prieonere waiting to be tried, mew emus ann cenovereo, There le no jury and the Judge exate m the primmer himself., The Fromeeter etatea the Ce4e fire; however, and the Flamers CAA employ comma, 1,Vben it man fa arreeted by A pelleemen, be hi brought to this court and the Judge leeks into the evideuee for himaelf. No lawyers are employed, and it le jA4t pr liezinery examination, There aro A Dumber of mob eourte, and they might rather he de - teethed OA anew, for they cotielst of little cubby.holes mele up it reatrum and a. There ave seven appear courts in Japan, end emit of these hm Isom oven to eight- een judgea. Bach of the courts has ita Broaden; and all judges Aro appointed by the Mikado, and tor life. judger; of the Polio Court gee from 6300 to 6800 it yeas, and there is it breach of Oda court that deels with the infractIone of polio regule,tione, whore the Once run from five cents to 1.03 each. Common Plena courts have jurisdic- tion of criminal and civil metterre and they receive from $000 to 83,000 it year. The Appellate amigo get from. 83,300 to $4,000 it year, and the Supreme Judges receive from $1,000 to $3,000 per year. All of those artionnte, however, muat be reoloned In ;Tapeworm dollars, which are on'y worth a,boub 75 cents. So that the five -thousand - dollar man deco not got four thousand dol- lars and the fourethoneand-dolIar man gets about three. The Supreme Court is compote:a of twenty judges, mad them aro divided into four clams of flea judges each, so that four courts are kept; going at the same time, It takes it groat many clerks to run these Japanese courts, and the oliok of the type- writer is unheard tho elerioal part a the building. Some of the clerks wear Japan - en gowns and others drese in Europetto clothes, They UN paint brushes and black paint instead of pen and ink in their book- keeping, and the documettts of the court and the records are sbored away in green oiled paper covered baskets, so that they may be taken out quickly in case ot fire. The clerks got from $12 to $75 a tnonth and the prosecutors receive from $300 to $2,200 a year. THE POLICEMEN orr $2 A WEEK. The policemen are paid from seven to fifteen Japanese dollars a month. There are 5,000 policemen in Tokio and the great majority of them receive less than $2 a week. They dress in white linen duck during the summer, and their natty clothes are of European out. They wear caps instead of short dubs. All of them are good swords- men and the policemen have a drill of tencing, and have to be proficient in the use of the foils before they oan go on the force. When they arrest a man they tie him up with ropes as well as handcuff him, and instead of grabbing his shoulder and pushing him to the station they drag him along by the rope. There are 30,000 of these policemen in Japan, and the Japanese police se stem is organized after that of France. It` has a large detective force, and the spy saytera is suoh that the Government is kept very well posted as to what is going on politically as well as criminally. The polies srationa are scattered all over Tokio, and at the corners of the principal streets you will see little booth -like sheds, in which one of these dressed officers sits. There are inspectors of police, constables, and a Commissioner- in.Chief. The latter receives about twenty- seven hundred American dollars per year, and the constables get from $12 to $14 per month. - The Fire Department is under the police, ond Japanese fires burn down more houses than those ()ferny other nation of the world. A stranger when dining at a Nails hotel It is said that Tokio burns down every was accosted by a detective, who said to. several years and fires of from one to five him—" Beg your pardon, we are in seer& hundred houses are common, of an escaped convict, and as it matter of form, you will oblige us by showing your TEM PRIMITIVE FIRE DEPARTMENT. ness of the time I have been near you.—I Passport." "Do I look like it convict?" When a fire ,breaks out in, one of the in- lovHeisyvonai.ae" • wa " Possibly not. • •In any ease I shall require terior villages of Japan, if the wind is blow- s trembling strangely. 'Oer- to see your passport." The stranger, feel- "Mt t ovih prac y gone. The tainly he was in love, this one who had just sunk ing annoyed, presented the officer with the 1 rooes are in many eases cif. 'thatch. There to crime, and knew how unworthy he was a 1-,; ,st 'are, and the latter commenced to are no fire departments to speek of, outside love, and that love had come as sorrow to road—"'Sheep s head, neck of mutton, pig . him and like it wound in his heart. At first he feet,Very good I'. he observed; • of the large cities; and the ;six little. stem had. wished to keep his seoreb, but he had "The description tallies, You will pleaseengines which form Tokio's Fire Depertment would not weigh altogether more than two proved powerless against himself. What come along with us.' Canadian steamers. The firemen of Yoko= would be the result of this confession ? • hania wear blue hats like butter bowls. he heti not reflected. The one thing of which he was certain was that he loved to distract. His (heat Scheme. • ,Their pants stop just above the knees, and „ their blue gowns have it round white ring oft tion, devotedly, and that whatever the feel- Digby ; Aw've newt thawtawf awscheme the hack, infside of which are printed in ings of Isabel might be for him in the future/ taw keep thaw mawths awe awf Maw flaring letters—the Yokohama fire brigade. he could never wish her to -be his. Already elawthefs, dew yawiknaw ?The home life of the Japanese is such that he had ahnost profaned her by confeesing Bigby Whawt is it 7 fires clan hardly be avoided. Inetead of love, Bat to accept it from her seemed Digby : Awe -give eventawway—haw, Using matches for lighting their tigers they to be a crime more shamefulh hundred tirnea haw 1 have little hotels of charcoal calledhibachis, than the one he had committed, and under• •idyl these ate kept on the floor, 'Which is the very thought of which 'he was vainly The Vicar of Halifax, Epgland, i's no usually covered with straw matting. The Struggling • • fewer than 36 livings in his gift. • kitchen stove is merely a stone box and the , „ partitions of the house are of thinpaper or of boards whiclowill spring into Einem at a touch. There is no- mph thing as gait* the ordinary Japanese house, and tlte etodle and the coal oit letup are the illemtnalitto powers, The lanterne are the ordinij peper lanterns, which you see itt Canadi lawn, fetes, er square boxes of oiled pepett" atretched over a woeden frame in which it t lamp or candle burns, The lamps and lan- , terns are placed on the fbor and about them the' children play aed thefamily sprawl. It is a wonder, indeed, that there are not more fires, and When it is remembered that there is not a chimney on any of the hotises of Japan, and thab the fuel of the eotintry iet to * large extent charcoal, the danger from fire le appreciated, The ordinary Japanese smokes a pipe, and the fact thet this pipe mese be retailed aboet tWQ times it minute adds to the daoger of fire. The howl a Jepsrose pipe Is not bigger than the bot- tom alt thimble. It holds about two puffs of srooke, toed it is oeually made of brass or metal, "Thief-Qatolter," The rattan which is used in thie country as the material of chairs and other articles a furniture is put to a great variety of uses in the Pountrie4 where it grows, In the Philippine Islende the natives titie rattan be tie together the poles that form the frame- work of their houses, to fasten an the attaps of palm leevee which cover the roof and sides, in making their beats, and in almost every piece wleere we would use nails. They ala ° nae 18 to bang clothes on to dry, to tie op bundles, and t� snapend artielea from the roof, For all these purposes the ;dime are alit lutosleuder straude, whielt are, nevertheless, very strong. Vino an kelt In diameter are so Strong that they are used in dragging logs out a the woods, 1 (Mee stew four lauffeloce hitelutd, One ahead6 another, and all pelliag by means er two of M044 VA404, They week], drew the bog 4 ran' Verde, and then etrp to reet tiU the ahoethig of their drivers etaeted them again. But the moat curious ()Mee of it vett= is that of thler-oteher. The main sterns which run alooO for several yarda a little above the around, are many of them quite sineethebot they send out slender tendrila thee are closely beset witlashort and stout, but very aherp, therm Arranged in wherls, midpoint, .ing beck toward the base. TA1440 tendrils, or feedere, cateh hold of ytlehag aoft teat coulee in oontaot with them, aud the enly way far it man to get coo vrheit cetight, is to atop and pull the tendril forkeril. The " thief -needier" is nutdo by binding a lot of these tendrils to the Owner &forked stick, the therm all pointing beck toward the crotch, Tile lunette in five or sin feet An officer armed with ono of thee instru- ments gen to arrest it desperate men, whom he might not dare to approreah without It. 11 e cnn threat it on the man, there la no Waimea of escape, for the more he wriggles awl twists to get away, the more firmly he in caught. , Anoient Orange Tee. In an artiole an the ago of the orange tree the Rural Californian hae the following There Is still flouriahlog in the poroh of the convent of Sinta Sabina, in Borne, an orange tree that is said to have been plant- ed A, D. 1200. Another, in the monastery of Toad!, is aupposed to heve been planted by St, Thomaa Aceniriaa in 1278. In the Moorish Alcazer of Seville, Spain, meista one that was planted during tho reign of Pedro 1, between 1169 and 1266. °them known to bo 340 years old have a height of fifty feet, with trunks five feet in oiroum. femme. Age is not, however, indioetod by eiza, au in Andalusia there are many yonnger that aro considerably larger than those. In Aloala de Gaardaira, are two, the trunks of which at four foot above the ground, are respeotively oven and eight foeb in circumference, The yield of soma orange trees in Malta and Naples is eimply astounding, reaching as high as 30,000 or- anges, to it tree, and on the estate known as the /Mount Grande, in Mairena del Alcor, there aro two that are said to have borne 38,000 oranges eaoh in a season. Diseases of Man and Horse. There are various diseases which affect horses more severely than mankind, and vice versa. For instance, inflammation of the bowels is not a disease of it hopeless charac- ter in the human being, while 18 18 invariebly fatal in the horse. If a horse said to be suf- fering from this disease recovers yon may safely make up your mind that the diagnosis was wrong and that the animal had acute indigestion, impaction of the bowels'or some trouble nob of an inflernmatory nature. In some lung troubles the reverse holds good. Horses suffer a great deal from bronchitis and pneumonia, but the death rate from these affections is nothing like as high as in the human subject. This is probably be- cause the use of stimulants enters so largely into the treatment of these troubles, and that it man's system does not respond as quickly to alcohol as the system of the water drinking horse. 'ellen is much to be learned from a glance over comparative pathology, though very few physicians know anything of disease except as it is exhibited in the human race. Six at a Birth. Mrs. George Hirsh, a Navarro County, has given birth to six children. The mother and children are doing well and the father is reasonably happy. Mrs. Hirsh is twenty-seven years old. She has been married five years and was the mother of three children, all living, be- fore she gave birth to her lad intereoting brood. The oldest of the children, a girl, is now four yeara and three months old ; the ;second one, a boy, is three years and five months oli, and the third, a girl, is not yet quite two years old. .01 the six born en last .Saturday four are boys and two are girls. e Twenty-five years after the burial of $19,000, by a Virginian a Baltimore woman located the opot in a dream, and next day took two witnesses with her and dug up the coin. An old lady friend of oors told us recently that of all the medicines she had ever tried sne found none to equal Dr. Carson's Stom- ach Bitter, and said she, -'I always heve to go back to Dr. Carson'sBitters, no matter what other medicine lam induoed to try." Dr. Care0Q'S Stomach Bitters for the Stone; ach, Bowels, Liver and Kidneys, Large bottles 50 cents. An English paper, irritated by lectures on the duty of always regarding very tenderly the interests of foreigners, sayo ; "Let the world take care of itselL We yrant oar statesmen to take care of Ingland." Some Canadians may profitably consider this say- ing with the necessary change for local ap- plication. Charity is good, but it heed note begin abroad—nor,' whzttf5 still worse, cea e there and never come home.