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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1888-12-27, Page 3THE THREAD OF LIFE OR, SUNSHINE AND SHADE. .7.1••••••••,,••••••••••••• CHAT -ER XXXIX.-Almen Lone Gomo Arm Rene The time to stand, upon trifles was past Let him run the risk of meetipg Miaostnger by the way or nct, Warren Relt mut needs go round and feteh Deis to cornfort and console poor chebtg Whailred. -Ho hastoned away at the top of hie speed to the Ville Roma. At the door, both, girls together The o him. Elsie bad just returned, basket in hand, from the Aveane Vittorio -Elio manuele, and had learnt from Edie th pinch of ehe ocntents of Warren's hasty letter ite had been intended from the kilt for her ediOcation. Warren drew her aside: gentlY into the tiny salon, and motietted to Edie not to follow them, Eisie's heart beat high with wonder. She wars aware how much it made her pulse reeichen, to eee Warren again - with emething more than the mere fraternal greeting she pretended. Ber little eelt-deception brake down at last; the knew abe loved him- in an unpractical way ; and sheMeas almost :wry the could never, never make hire happy, Bat Warrenti grave f ea bed° ber iteert Mewl etill for a beat or two next moment. He had olgerly aromettsiug moet Serlelle to communigate-ammthieg that he knew would profoundly illetmesher. A. womanly %lams came over her with 4 vague surraiee. Geoid Werreo be gohog to tell :her 1 - 011 no 1 Impeesible, She knew dear War- ren too well for that; he at 1010 eetlid nor"' er be cruel, If Warren was going so tell her that, her faith be her kind would die out for ever. 44 Well, Warren 1" elms asked with trom- uleue tegeruess, drawing ;doer Up to him in her sweetwormuly confidence, and gag lug into his eyes, helf afraid, half affection- ate. How could ehe ever have doubted him were it only for amend ? Nieie," Warren cried, lataleg hie hand wide unspoken tenderness on her thepehy ahoulder, "1 wont you to come round at owe to the melon ou the Flame -It% Better to tell it all out At Mace, Winifred Magehatter% mute te San Reno, very ifl- lyiug, I fem. She kuttwe you're here, and shaia mud to atto you Elates Moe grew red and then white for a moment., and elle trembled visibly. "le he there?" the tithed, aftm a thort heath. Then, with a audden burst at nneantrollable rollosi Alm buried her face in her halide on the table. Warren soothed her with hia band tenderly, and. leaning over her, told, in.haste and in a very low voice, the whole tied story. "I doulb thlult bell be there," he added at the end. "hitt Aketinger said she wouldn't allow bim to enter the room. But in any cue -for that poor girlie eake-you won't refuse to go to her now, will you, Bide r "No," Elsie answered, rising celinly with womanly dignity, to Mee it ell out. "1 mallet go. It would be oruel and wieked of course to ahirk It. For Winifred% *alto, go in any thee. But Warren, before I dare th go"— She broke: off auddenly, and with a woman's: imp:also held up her pale face to him in mute submits:don, A thrill conned through Warren Relf's nerves; ho stooped down and. premed hie lips fervently to here. "Before you go, ------ -you are mine then, Elsie I" he cried eagerly. Elsie pressed his hand faintly in. reply. "1 am yours, Warren," she anewied at last very kw, after a short pause. "But I can't be yours as yon 'with it for A long time yet. No matter why. I .81141 be yours in heart. -I couldn't have gone on any other terms. And with that, I think, I can go and face it,. At the pension, Hugh had already brought the English dootor, who went in alone to look after Winifred. Hugh had tried to accompany hine into the bedroom ; but Win- ifred, tom to her terriblethreatI lifted mut „ stern iereanger before his swtmming eyea and cried ant "Never 1" in a voles so dog- gedly determined that Hugh stank away abashed into the anteroom. The English doctor stopped for several minutes in consultation, and. Winifred spoke so him simply and unreaervedly, about her husband. "Send that man away!" she cried, point- ing to Hugh, as he stood still peering across from tbe gloom of the doorway. "I won't have him in here to see me dial I won't have him in here! It makes me worse to see him about the place. I hate himl-I late him 1" "You'd better go," the doctor whispered eddy, loosing him head in the face with his inquiring eyes. " She's in a very ex- cited, hysterical condition. She's best alone, with only the women. A bus. band's presence often does more harm than good in such nervous crises. Nobody should be near to increase her excitement, - Have the kindness th shut the door, if you please. You needn't come back for the present, thank you." And then Winifred unburdened once more her poor laden soul in convulsive sobs. "I want to see Elsie! I want to see Elsielo "Miss Challoner?" the doctor asked sug- O gestively. He :mew her well as the tender- \ est and best of amateur nurses, Winifred explained. to him with broken little cries and eager words that she wished to see Elsie in Hugh's absence. At the end of five minutes' soothing talk, ehe dootor reed it all to the very bottom with profestional acuteness. The poor girl was dying. Her husband and she had never got on. She hungered and thirsted for human sympathy. Why not gratify her yearning little soul? He stepped back into the bare and dingily lighted sitting -room. "1 think," he said persuasively to Hugh. with authoritative suggestion, "your wife would be all the better in the end if she were left entirely alone, with the womenkind for a little. Your presence here evidently diaturbs and excites her. Her condition' critical, distinctly critical. I won't conceal It from you. She's oveofatigued with the journey and with mental exhaustion. The slightest aggravation of thehysterical symp- might carry her off at any moment. If I ere you, I'd stroll out for an hour. , Lounge along by the shoe° or up the hills a bit. P11 stop and look after her. She's quieMr now. You needn't come back for at • least an hour." Hugh knew in his heart it was belt so. Winifred hated him, not without cause. • He took up his hat, crushed it fiercely on his head, and strolling down by himself to the water's edge, •sat in the listlees calm of ueter despair on a bare bench in the cool fresh air of an Italian evening. He thought in a hopeless, helpless, irresponsible way aboutpoor dead Elsie and poor dying Wini- fred. ' • Five minutes after Hugh bad left: the lepensionOtWarren E,elf and Elsie mounted thteMig eenere,stairease and knocked at the Mimi of Winifred's bare and dingy salon. :1 The "patron had :already informed them that the eignor was gone out, and that the eignora was up in her room alone with the woman, of the hotel and tbe Englieh doctor. Warren Relf remained. by lei:to:elf in the ante -room. Bide went in unannounced to Winifred. Oh the joymil relief of that final mooting 1 The. poor dying girl rose up on tOe bed With bound to greet her. A seddett flush grim - stoned her sunken cheeks. AS her eyes rested once more upon Elsie% face -thee gamest eerione, beautiful face she had, lov- ed and trusted -every skadow of her fear and misery faded from her look, and the cried aloud in a fever of delight ; "0 Elsie, Elide, rat glad you've come. I'm glad to held your hand in mine again; now O die happy 1" Elsie saw ab a glance that she spoke the &nth. That bright red vett in the centre et each Wan and:pallid cheek told ito own ead tale with nummtakable Mesmeric% She fitteg her arms fervently: round her keble little friend. 44 MARIO, Winnie 1' she cried -my oWn. eweet Winme 1 Why didn't you let me know before? If 24 thought you were like this, r4 loVe Wee to you long ap 1" “Thau you leve me etill 1" Winifred reur. mused low, dinging tight and hard to her recovered friend With a feVerieh longing, "I've Always loved yon ; I ehall always love you," Bleie anewered ;slowly! "Al love doesn't come mod go, Winute, If hadn't loved you more than 1 the say, I'd have come long einee, It WM for your own he I kept rio long away from you," The Engligh doceor rme with a aigh from e their by the bedelde and Metlened the women out of the roont,-"Well leave yo alone," he geld in a quiet voices th "Don't excite her too much, if you please, MSS Challoner, But I know I can tram ;on I leave her in the very beet of hands, on con only be goothhog and reathd any- whete," Toe doctor's confidence Was perhaps ill advised, As aon aa these two were left by themaelves-the two women who had loved Hugh Mead:ages beet in the world, 11,334 WIIQUI Hugh Maseinger bad iso deeply =mew4 end ee cruelly isojurede-they fell upon ego enother'a :lecke with a great ery, and wept, and caressed oust an. other long le allonee. Then Winifred, leaping haek in fatigue, said with A sudden buret : "0 Elsie Elsie I ain't die uow without confessizig it, am, every word to you: ooce doyen know -mom than cum: 1 dletrueted'you 1" "I know, My darling?" Ellie =lowered with A tearful ensile, Itissum her Mile white fie ere many tiraea tenderly. "I know, I undorstancl. You couldn't help it. You needn't explain. It was no wonder,' Winifred gszed at her transparent eyes and truthful fem. No one who saw them could ever diatztzet them, at least while he looked at them. " Elaie," she mid, gripping her tight In her graep-tbe one being on earth who could truly sympathiao with heree" tell you why: he kept your lettere all In A box --your lettere and the little gold watch ho gave you." "No, not the watch, darling, " 31ele aim =vend, starting back.-" tau you Whet I did with that watch : I threw it feta the ilea off the pier at Lowestoft A light broke suddenly over Winifred's mind; she knew now Jingle had told her the truth for once. "Ho. picked it up at Orforduess," the mused amply. "It was: carried there by the tide with a wornan's body -a body he took tor yours, Elsie." "He doean't know I'm alive even "bow, dearest," Elsie whispered by her aide. "1 hope while I live he may never know it, though I don't know now how we're to keep it from him, I confess, much longer." ThenWinifred,emboldenedloy Blaietthand, poured out her grief in her friend's ear, and told Elsie the tale of her long, long sorrow. Elsie listened with a burning cheek. "If only I'd known I she cried at last "If only ra known all this ever so xnuoh soon- er I But I didn't: want to come between you two. I thought perhaps I would spoil all, -I fancied you were bappy with one another." "And after I'm dead, Elsie, will you- ths) hiin Elsie started. "Never, darling," she cried. "Never, never 1" "Then you dealt love him any longer, dear?" "Love him ? Oh no 1 That's all dead and buried long ago. I mourned too many months for my dead love, Winifred; but after the way Hugh's§ treated yon -who could I love him? how could 1 help feeling harshly towards him ?" Winifred pressed her friend in her arms harder than ever. "0 Blois 1" she cried, "I love you better than anybody else in the whole world. I wish I'd had you always with me. If you'd been near, I might have been happier. How on earth could I ever have ventured to mistrust you 1' They talked long and low in their con- fidences to one another, each pouring out her whole arrears of time, and each under- standing for the first moment many things that had long been strangely obscure to them. At laeb Winifred repeated the tale of her two or three late stormy interviews with her husband. She told them truth- fully, just as they occurred -extenuating nothing on either side -down to the vary words she had used to Hugh: "You've tried to murder me by slow torture, that you might marry Elsie :" and that otker terrible sentence she had spoken out that very evening to Warren: "He shall not enter this room again till he 'enters it to see me laid out for burial." • Elsie shuddered with imspealeable awe and horror when that frail young girl, so delicitte of mould and so graceful of feature even still, uttered those awful words of vindictive rancour against the man she had pledged her troth to love and to honour. " Oh, Winifred 1" she cried; looking down at her with mingled pity and terror traced in every line of her compassionate face, "you didn't say that! You could 'never have meant it r Winifred clenched her white hands yet harder OBOe more... "Yea, I did," she cried. "1• meant it, and 'mean it. He's hound- ed nie to .death; and now that Em dying, he shan't gloat over me 1" " V4 innie, Winnie, he's your husband, your husband re Remember what you pro- mieed to do when you married him. Oh, for my sake, and for your own sake, Winnie, if not for his -do see him and speak to hire, just once, forgivingly." "Never 1" Winifred answered, starting up on the bed once more with a ghastly energy. "He's driven me to the grave ;let him have his punishment 1" • Elsie drew back, more horrified than ever. Her frith spoke better than her words to Winifred. "My darling," she oried, "you must see him. You must never die and leave him so." Then in a gentler voice the 9rdded imploriugly: ".Forgive us our tres- passes, as we forgive them that trespass against no." Winifred buried her face wildly in her bloodless hands, "I can't/' she moaned out; "I haven't the power. It's too late now. We beep, too cetiet to me." For many minutes together, Elsie bent tenderly over her, whispering words of cen- solatien and ootnfort in her ears, while Wini- fred listened and cried 'silently. At las, after Elsie had sloothed, hem long, and wept over her much with soft loving touches, What. fred, looked up in her face with a whit -fed gaze, "I think, Elsie," /the said .lowly. "I could bear to see him, U you would stop with me here and help me," Rhtie atomic lot* herself with e Beddow horror. That would hes crucial trial, indeed, of her own forgiveness for the man who had wronged her, mad her AVM affeation for poor dying Winifred. Meet Hugh again, So painfully, eo unexpectedly! Come back to him at once, from the tomb, as it were to remind him of his crime, and be. fore were, eyes-poor dying Winifred:MI The Very idea made her shudder with alarm, 0 Winnie," she cried, looking down upon her friend with her great gray eyes, "1 es/tilt:1n% face him. 1 thought I should never she him again. 1 deren't do it. You muen't tusk me." "Then you haven't forgiven him your - ;self 1" Winifred burstouteagerly, "Youlove him still' You love him-eyon bete him 1 - Elate, that's just the same :to me. 1 hate hboo-bot 1 leve him; oh! how I de love him 1" She Voke AO More than the Ample truth, She waa lodging Elate by her own heart. With that strange womanly paradox we so often ace, she loved her hnehand even now, much as she hated hire. It was that indeed that made her. bete hire so much; her love gem) noint to her hatred and her jeel. oust,* "No, darling," BIsie anewered, bending er her °loser end ,epeolting lower in her am than the bed yet apeken. "'don't love hiOn; and I don't hate him. I forgive him a)! I I've forgiven Mtn long ago.-Winele, I leVe IMMO one elsle 13,0W. given my heart away at last, and I've given it to a bettor man than Hugh Messinger." "Then why won't you wait and help me to see hint?" Winifred cried once more in her 947 energy. "BeCAUse-bn asioaned, 1 can't look hint In the face; that's all, Whittle." Witudired clung to her like * frightened child to Re mother's iikirte, "Blade," site hmet out, nith ehildMs vehemenoe, "stop with me now to the end I Don't ever leave me I" Blele% heart milk deep into her bosom. A horrible dread pommel her soul. She sew one gimetly possibility looution before them that Winifred, never emoted to roma- niece Hugh kept her letters, her watch, her vanes. Suppose he thould come end- reeognieing her at onee-betray his eurviv. Ing passion for here& before poor dylog Winifred 1 She dared hardly face AO Mamma chance, And yet, the couldn't bear to entwine herself from Winifred's arms, that dung go Ifailt and ao tenderly around her. There was no time to km, however: sho :met make np her mind. "Winifred," the reur. Inured, laying'her head close down by the dying gide, "I'll do as you say. see Hugh. As long as you rive, ra never leave you I" Winnifred looted her arra one moment aguin, and then flung them in 4 freeh amen of feverish favour romid her recovered friend -her cleer beautiful Elsie."You'll stay here," she cried through her sobs And torts; "you'll help me to tell Hugh I for- give him ?" stop hero," Elsie answered low, "and help you to forgive bim." (e0 ni amixnerne.) Within a Nile. Int MAIM .ZdASSZT. Within a mile of Edinburgh town We laid our little darling clown; Our first: seed in God's acre sown; So sweet a place 1 Death troika beguiled Of half his gloom; or sure be smiled To win onr lovely spirit child. God giveth his beloved sleep So calm, within ite silence deep, As angel -guards se watch did keep. The City looketh solemn and sweat; It bares a gentle brow, to greet The mourners mourning at its feet, The sea of human life breaks round This shore o' the dead with softened sound Wild flowers climb each mossy mound To place in resting hands their palm, And breathe their beauty, bloom and balm; Folding the dead in fragrant calm, A softer shadow Grief might wear; And old Heartache come gather there The peace thatfalleth after prayer. Poor heart, that danced along the vines All reeling ripe with wild love -whim, Thou walk'st with Death among the pines Lora Mother, at thedark grave -door, She kneeleth, pleadeth o'er and o'er, But it is shut forevermore. She toileth on, the mournfull'et At the vain task of emptying The cistern whence the salt tears spring. Blind 1 )31ind ! she feels but cannot read Aright; then leans as she would feed The dear dead lips that never heed. The spirit or life may leap above, But in that grave ber prisoned dove Lthe, cold to the warm embrace of love. And dark, though all the world be bright; And lonely, with a city k sight; And desolate in the rainy night. Ale God 1 when in the glad life cup The face of death swims darkly up; The crowning fiower is sure to droop. And so we laid our darling down, When summer's oheek grew ripely brown, And Mill tho' grief hath milder grown, Unto the Strangers' land we elee.ve Like'some poor birds that grieve arid grieve, Round the robbed nest, and cannot leave. Queen of my Heart. BY GEORGE PULLER. Love thee ever, doubt thee never, ' Queen of ny heart. Fir as the dawn, bright as the morn, Sweet as the rose, love in repose, Queen of my heart. Cheer thee ever, chide the never, Queen Of my heart. .Weloome thy smile, sweet to beguile, Thrilling thy tone, ever my own, „ Queen of my heart. Serve thee ever, leave thee never, Queen of my heart. Time maywhito thee, age may blight thee, i Toil they n vain, still thou shalt reign ' • Queen of my heart, SEAN/WU BULEOTIONS, BY AAUON DUNN. Recently Smite Claus closed some reflec- tions on Christmas day, and descriptions of Chrietmae festivities, by wishing all his read- ers a Merry °brit:trims and eNeeppyNeve IYthr. As he ended ea I wish to begin and therefore I with all your readers, each and every one of them, young and old, rich and poor, a -very Merry Christmas and a most Happy New Year. And having done So I BOW proceed to make a few reflections a my own, following the good example met me by Santa Claus, If thole remarks par- take too much of the nature of moralieing for the taste of some of eon, Pm sorry, but can't help it. The kelt may lie with von, you know, quite as =eh as with me. Ilowever, 1 promise you this that 1 shan't make my little sermonette prosy or dull if I can help M. To beanie to say anything very new I can hardly ptetend, but if I can only force anew on your attention some old teethe in new lights, so that you will give them some attention, though you should not beoefib very much, or at all, by witat 1 stay on the Subleot, I eluill be well enough emisfied even though not partiootarly fiat. tered. I need Bey nothing about the customs and festivities which have to do wit'k Christmas day, for Santa Clans covereu . * start of the ground pretty fully. I shalt u, O . e :tie remarks of o cone vereational kind which seem to tee appro- priate to the Whole of this holiday season, embracing both Christmas and New Year, mel. then I Shell eloae with mute accoont of the dlifIrent wayg in Whiell Men have tried to show their smote of the importanee of the forst eley of the year. So here goes. In the first place don't yon think that the feet that you have been spared to 'see mother Christmee end another New Year% Day ought to melte in you very =VELA', Ma:WS ON ORATITUDN ? If you will twat think on the subject for a little I think you wilhacknowledge this with, a keener reelleation of Ito truth than perhaps you have deo() before. A year of exteteece Is smoothing to be 'thankful for, You nmy not have had a. very mood time in your own estimation, during the year, but you have at least been spared to see the beginning of another One, With all the itope of hotter thlege to COMO which that involves. And if yen are still inclined to grumble beemsee thinge have not been just as well with you AA yen wish they had been, it will do you AO harre, I Can more you, to reflect in thig way; that After All, even at the beet, your deserte have not been so very greet. Yots have mot been a paragon of excellence, even on your own confession, if you are quite hon. eet with yourself, and so you will !levet° con. fesa that even though you hove been pretty hard up, you have not been any more heed- IY served than youdeserved, but thet things have not boon so very bad, otter all, even at the worst. You have hail your life at anyrete, which is much. Then you have had A very fair meaaure of health, bad days meassionally, no doubt, headaches, and toothaches, backaches, and sideaohes at times, and heartaches, too, dyspepsia with its gloom, bilious:meg with its horrors, and eleknemes, It may beioven more dietreowing. But when you come to look beck over the year, your hoelth on the whole, haa been of a fairly average kind, as health goes. Some of your neighbors have been much worse off, and let me assure you, there are many thousands who would be glad to have your share of the gift of heath. Then you have had plenty to eat, rii veuture to say, three square Male on every one of the SOY= deys of each of the fifty-two weeks in the year. TOtimeaua 1096 raeals, not very eureptuous, perhaps, but yet suffiaiont Mr ene purposes of life and the fair average health which we have already aettled that you have enjoyed. Then again, when you come to think over it you will be ready to admit that the past year has not been bare existence, unrelieved by any of the pleasures or luxuries whio'h you are diaposei to envy when you eee them possessed in greater abundance by other mtn and. women. You have had PUDDING OCCASIONALLY, AT ANT NATE., and yourbrealrfasta and suppersb thenot been exclusively of hard tack and cold water. You have had preserves to your bread as well aa butter, your tea has been sweetened with sugar and mellowed witla cream or with milk at the worst. Then, although you have not been able to go to every high clam concert or other sort of festivity, you have been to one or two and to :leveret very eitjayable thee, even though no one wore a low-necked dress at them or a swallow-talled coat, and no celebrated artists sang songs in foreign tongues, of which neither you nor one per cent, of the audience onderstoed a single word. Von have had a few friends to talk to in a sociable way now and again' , &fireside or two th which you could drop in of an evening and have a pleasant chat. But why go on ? If you will continue the process of summing up your bandits, and give over thinking exclusively of what you have had to do without, 15 will be good exercise for you, and you will be forced to acknowledge yourself not nearly SO badly off as you may have thought you were. And it will be a very good New Year resolution for you to make that you will cultivate the habit of counting your blessings rather than your privations. Thio habit will tend to form in you a wise cheerfulness. Now just a word or two to those of TRUTH'S readers who may have been exceptionally fortunate during the pasb year. Oust let me WHISPER THIS IN -Y011 REAR : "Don't be stuck up about it." Be thankful, but not proud. Get down on your knees and thank God for it, and ask him to keep you humble. Are you a Christian? Then let me remind you of the Bib'e question which asks "who maketh thee to differ from another ?" You are not entitled to all the credit of your success. You know you're not. You didn't make yourself, give your- self that fine constitution, that quiok eye for a bargain, that "taking way with people" eto. You didn't produce those favourable combinations of circumstances which were denied to others. No, you did none of these Mines. So don't be too much puffed up, as if your own wisdom, your own wit, your own shrewdness, your own this, that, or the other good quality had done it all. Thank God, and don't make a turkey gobbler of yourself, swelling about like a creature all feathers ana no brain to speak of. Don'b look down on people who haven't as much money as you have. Money isn't everything even in this world, an'd it goes for verylittle in the world to come. Men and women whose shoe strings you are not worthy to tie have lived in small houses, and dressed in shabby clothes, -and fired on scanty fare for months together. Theability to inakeenoney is not the highest gift which his Maker hoe bestowed upon Men. IVO poseeskion doesn't entitle you to adopt , A TONE OP PATRONAGE 50 your poorer fellow creaturee. Another good Newt -Year resolution which you will do well to make, is -not to make a fool of yotinelf during the year by arrogance of feeling or of ma.nnerstowarde those who ato net as " welefixed " as yourself. Podium is proverbially fickle, Time brings many changes and brine revengeri elect, Yon have nolfiret lien on tile futhre. The man' you despise this year may be away up next, while yen are away down. Sudden reversee of fortune are no new thing in this world. What has bappenecl once may happee again. Better men and richer Iwo thap you are liave tumbled from affluence to poverty in much lea than a year. Yon bed better, all of you, my dear readers, form this reso- lution that you will lend a helping hand to Your neighbeor on every opportunity wee cionit 10 1110 the Devito, ea the priest on your definition of wht t a neighbour" is, Ile as liberal minded, ea the Samaritan. All of as cao help somebody or other in many little ways if we only look about for opportunities. Cultivate helptuI' ttese brotherty kindnees, charity above all ticuMge, Be omphibiant, courteoue, affable to 41, not to the rah and cultured only, hut ter every one. Don't be a snob. The moat detestable of all beinge 10 certain aepeetrie the pious snob. Reepect yourself. ef emerse, and respect other people, • Arnow ,propre is precious to everybody. Don't wound it unless detng so 4 absolutely neceseary. Cultivate tact, you have no idea how muck more popular a men or woman of tact is than PHA who is always j%rring peoplea• genithilitiee, Let an all try and guide out -pelves dozing the next yea!, more then we have ever doee, by the prueciple of the Golden Rule that we Mould. do Mothers as we wouid wish them to do tous. It is splendid morality that, thorough going and for teething, Yon will find it difficult to improve upon, An Barly-Riain% There has been established in Perla thig winter an earlytrishog aaSeelatien, Whieh ealle itself "Lo Liza de Matin,'• and rum - here among Ito rnembere not only Freneh women of the highest rank and diatiootien, but many .Araerteane who here married rzenek title; auolt,ae the Marquise de Tallyraud Perigord and the Docheag do Dino, as Well AS others equally well koeveu. The truth 18, matters have coon to each a pus in Paris that night has been literally turnesi into day. It is impossible to get hol4 of anyone before two or three o'clock in the dinner hour lam been gradually push. ed off until nine, and no one e,an 10 get for a bell or can be induced to really begin the evening before 1180- The xtholt ifs no one geta to loed before daylight or 4 reltelv get up uutil late in the afternoon. Them women have determined that the limit bag been reached anti the time for reform bee come. The club IISS been farmed with We end in view, and is daily readying moraine and more eapecielly from the American col. ooy. The rule of the club is that the mean. ber atoll pledge herself rim at 7, except in ram et ilineee, aod take A loth Of cold. wider, and, if the 185 riding woman have o morning canter in the Sas. Luncheon hi tocouraged as an eutertainumet to replace in A measture tbe frequency of dinners, and dinnera begin at 680. All their balls and receptions, begin, at 9 aud aro over by raid - night and tbe moot dissipated must riot alloviherself to be out of bed later thou 1 o'clock. On the evenings when ntembera go to uelthec bell nor opera they Are expected to retire before 11. The club le very pupn. lar and has alreedy began to bodge:me the night.owl habits of society at large. Sense aa Well as 11.0n56118e. Nine-tonths of the -unhappy marriages are the results of, green human calvea being al- lowed to run at large in society ?Natures without may yoke on them. They merry and ba.vemhildrehtmfore they do moustaohea, They are fathers of twins before they are proprietors of two pram of pante, and the little girla they marry are obd women be- fore they are twenty years old. Occasion- ally one of these gosling marriages turns out all right, but it is a olear cue of luck. If there was a law against young galoota rparking and marrying before they have cut all their teeth we suppose the little ammo would evade it ia some mix. But there ought to be a sentiment againat it, It is time enough tor these bantams to think of finding a pullet when they have reified money enough to buy a bundle of lath to build a. lien -house. But they eee a girl who looks cunning, and they are afraid there aro not going to be enough to go round, and Shen they begin to spark real spry, and be- fore they are aware of the sanctity of the marriage relation they are hitched for life, and before they own a cook stove or a bed- stead they have got to get up in the night and go after the doctor, so frightened that they run themselves out of breath and abase the doctor because he does not run, too. And when the dootor gets there, there is not linen enough in the house to wrap up the "baby," -[Peoria Ingenious Beetles. Some species of beetles are sextons, in, Shat they bury dead animals very much larger than themselves in whicb to lay their eggs, and thus provide for their young when hatched. In making these burials they often resort to expedients; as when GIs- ditsch, a naturalist, wishing to dry a dead toad fixed it th the top of a stick which he stuck in the round, thinking the beetles could not get at it there. Attrected by his scent, the beetles were yet unable to ascend the stick. But to gain their end the in- eenions little creatures burrowed beneath the base of the stick until it fell: than they buried both stick and toad. Now it may happen to you by and by, dear youth, be in pursuit of some needed employment. You may meet with rebuffs and trying dis- appointments. What then? Must you say that it is useless to try again? Not so. Rather let those ingenious beetles teach you when one effort fails th keep trying until you are able to build a tower of triumph over the grave of your difficulties. Try, and never give up. • The Pike Warned. "London St. James's Gazette :" When the late Artemus Ward paid a visit to the Britiah Museum he rapped the walls with his walking -stick and rapped the glass CUBS until he attracted the attention of a high official. He explained that he was making a thorough investigation of the place because, if he liked it, he would buy it.. Thennecclote occurs to the mind when we learn that Senator Sherman proposes devoting the sur- plus of the revenue of the United States to a fund for the purchase of the Dominion of Canada. The Americana of the States are a humorous people, and, like other. members of the English race, they love to have a laugh against themselves. The politic:tens of New York are regarded as fair game by the en- • terprising journalists; the pushing Congress- man or Senator has a way of taking him- self seriously which tickles the humor of his countrymen. It the States ever tried to evtallow up the Dominion'they would be in the position of pike thitattacked a perch. The perch put up his bank fin andthe pike wasMhoked. Mrs. H. B. Kells edits The White Rib- bon, in Meriden, Misn, a temperance organ. It is the only paper in Mississippi edited by a woman. • Sir William Htinter, whom. Canon Taylor acknowledgee to 'he "the, moat competculqf experte," awl, in An Article en Missionarlea 10 eidie.: "I knew of xte dam who boxer done ee. much to awaken the: Indian iittfilleet, a4ab the same time to leesen the :den= of the . If I were ..aeked te-nalne the two men who, durtogmy eervim in .1;444., have exercised the great influence on, native development :seed native op1ox4 10 mmiraN ehmild nem net 4 Governer nor eny do partmental need, but 4 elfesieeary itlehop of the. Chute* of England end A. reiletenaTy educator of the Scottish Free Nittle," It muat net.he. apposed that Verson Tay. ior disbelieves in miss:then H� say*: "The preacher's hut, hia,geeda, bis dress, hie food,thould 'he the eena4 es there- of the native?. Iteropensemitedenariee.faillmanne.. they attempt to metre 4slatica or Afrtwes. into ,sniddle.olees. EngliehRhilistinne, Isbam suoe.eeds hetter time :Chriettapity, lergely benemett leeveo the people 'nodieturbed.10 all the oetward .cir.eurestancee ef their lives. Ie bee been well Mid thee the tosteheee who, would appeal onentgefeIly to Asiatics or Afrimee 'theeld heas iVeSible teb. • .egliet; Meters or dissenting ministers." They theuld we aro further told, be celi- bates end aseetlea, practising skiltrrernms- dation lean .thinge. "If St. Nul, before starting on One ot his misedomey journeye,•htul retpleed St. &time and a C4teruittee at je.restalem goarentee bus 4390 4 Year,: Poid quarterly,- and had rorided himself with a theely ISOngelew, P114144 pony earrl:ege, And a. wilihaire • would not Iowa changed tb0 Manny of the. world." In abort, the Solvation Amoy .soldier who 10 14414 gem barefoot, in native oaturne,- end heee' hie iced from day to day, ware *0 10 Canon Taylor's ideal of the ustemonary, It may be thelo io this Imola right to a, limited extent Alieeleoariee eertainly ailaola be gelf,raerifichog end mif.depying, and -1 ee far as we knew, the meet of them, • • are so, • Canon Tnyleeki views !my be well direct-. ed toanother_portion of Sir Hun. • Ufa paper, *4 .which he semi of mimion. •*rim in Indio t-" The reenite .of their labour need neither overottetement nor mumalmen.t, I believe *het time reseelto. jeatify the expenditure of toopey, end the devetien of the many lives by whicb it le obtained.,' Tun town OF TUC VIII= CANONS,. The Manny of the white Canom, whom. thoEmpress Bomb hoe ertablialwel en Fern. borough, Begleattl, .in se large black buildhag„ Iti streewhet .eurious. They were turned out qj Femme ip 1780, gime wit= the Rropeeses haa been, their beat friend, In Septeroloere 1852, there were only five under a prior, and they founded a little priory in a eettage belouging to the Duke Of Norfolk, at Star. • ringMn, Now they number fifteen,. Sloott the Reformation no White CationAlisore hthei • seen 10 Et:gland. The order, which was founded by St. Merhert, in the twelfth cen- tury, at one time was the moat powerful ist Europe, Itavieg no leas than 1,000 ebbeya. under its rale. In the fifteenth century the litesitee rulued their abbey* in. Bohemia, mod, The sixteeuth, they beat .their.we, meroue houses In Germany, Norway, Eng - lend, Scotland, mod Ireleud. The 'revolu- tion of 1793 gorapleted their rain. Atthe preaent time the order has 'twenty abbeys • end forty priories; throughout theworld, to of which are in America.. Dr. B. W. Richardson on Aloha In 1863, end for a year er two befOre; had been making some original retearches into the propertith of a rime °heroical :sub. attuace named nitrite of amyl. Then I went on to inquire into the methyl aerie?, and so step by atep oontinued, reporting every year until, in 1886, I began with the alcohol. It was at one of these, but there exe now known to be several. Row, the firth great fact that startled ma when examining Into the alcohols was that they unquestion- able lowered the temperature of the body. did not then know that anyone Mae had noticed this before me ; but I hnow now that two or three others -Dr. John Davy, (brother of Sir Humphrey), Dr. Rae the Arctic explorer, and 1)r. Lees of Leeds, had all severalli suspected thie tact; but they had not proved it by experimental research. My great point was a demonstra- tion by scientific instruments -by the per - feat thermometer° now made. That was the first step -the startling fact thee alcohol lowers temperature. Now for the second. This came from the study of ameathetica. In watching the action of alcohol, I found there were just the same four degrees or stages in the action of antes- theties, : airnple excitement without in- senaibility ; excitement with commencing insensibility; insensibility akolnie ; and lastly, death -like insensibility. I came, therefore, to the conclusion that alcohol does not act after the manner of a food, but of a chemical substance like an &metathetic. This then, was the second step. This was fel: lowed up by tracing the changes and the modifications which take place in the body from the continued use of alcohol. I reach- ed thus the third step or third conclusion, viz., that alcohol is a prolific cense of death and of pereatharm to the internalorgansof the bedy; t7t3a, in fact, in its ordinary use, a slow poison, I can no more aecept the alcohols as foods than I can chloroform, or ether, or meth - vial. That they produce a temporary ee.. oitement is true; but as their general ambioree is quickly to reduce animal heat, I eSEIL05 see how they can supply animal force. I see. clearly how they reduce animal power, andt. can show a reason for using them in circler to stop physical or to stupefy. mental pain; but that they give strength -1. e., that they supply material for the construction of fine , tissue, or throw force into tissues supplied. by other material -must be an error as, solemn as it ia widespread. The true - character of the alcohols is that tbey are withtheahblematemnsielsoarYf ,Rogael, bruies his restless energy under their' iLlostx- ow. The civilized man,. overburdened witsT mental labor or engeossmg care, seeks the same shade ; but it is shade, after all, in which, in exact preportion as he seeks it, the seeker retiree from leeriest natural life. The Americans of ABM The Japanese call themselves the Ameri- cans of Asia and they are to a certain extent right. They are like the Amerloans in their ready adoption of new things and in their heingready to risk the presentyor the future. They are quick witted and they want to be up to the times. They lack, however, I atn prone to believe, the American's desire of accumulation, his industry and perseverance, and above all his wonderfel creative faculty. You will find a patent office at Tokio, but you can number the noted Japanese inven- tions upon your Angers. Up to this stage in their career tbe Japanese have been an imitative • rather than • a 'creative nation The civilization whieh preceded the one now coming in was largely Chineme-tErank, G. Carpentaria Letter.