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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1889-10-31, Page 2What's the Dee? Tile &Ole erees hi striving heed - But wt. at'the use? That fonts then tomes may discard. But what's; the use? Per people still blow out the gets, And teeine at Ot0,44/11p,a try to PaS3. While ladies still chew gum.alas no what's the we. The taxmen still are signing notes - So_ Wilar,* the use? And buying wed Bohemiau oats, zeo what's the use? Per though we warn them (ley by day. Tet suckers still will dearly PO' . For eyery".enap" that comes ellen way, 80 whets the use? AN AMERICAN GIRL. She was not at all what he had pietured bar. Singularly enough, no one had told him that she was pretty, and he had thought of her as a geunt ye -unperson with O determined and manly air. She snack hint, on the contrato, as being extremely girlish and charming to 100t upon. She Wore tbe pale pink gown, and ashe entered be saw her give a furtive little dab to her eyes with a hoe handkerchief, and hurriedly Mnished a open letter into her pocket. Then, Merging to diemise her emotion with facility, she AIM to greet him. "11 yon waut to eee Mat Belinda," elm eeid," perhapis you had better sit down. She will be here directly." He placked tip spirit to take a sot, end - only feeling his terror take wing. He was ammo's] at his own court's% Tb.44414, You," he said, have the plemare of----" There, it is true, he atop. ped, looked at her, blushed., and /Walled somewhat disjointedly. " Mies Octavio, Beesett, I believe," "Yee," ohe anewered, Ana Bat &MA neer When Allee Bella* demenaed the oteire, a Mort time afterwards, her ore were greeted by the earned of e hrtele eeneVerealeP, in which the Bev. Arthur Poppleton ap. peered to be toting pert with beforeater beard -el opt*. Whoa be Area* at her ea, Armee, there WAS in hi* manner an air Of mild buoyancy which aistonished her be- yond measure. When he eeseated, himself, Ie seemed eneite to forget the obeectut hie visit for some minutes, and was thew plaeed. in the emberritealisbe position of hems to refer to his netedeook, Having done so, and forma that he heel called to Aek aeeletauce for the fenaller one of his parishoners, he reoovered, hire. self somewhat. Ate he explained the ex- igencies of the OW. Oztarvia liata3404 44 welej.,, alte Amid," I ahead think it 'would make yam quite uncomfortable, it on aee thinge like Vela oiten." "1 regret to stay that X do oee metalline ouly tco frequently," he answered. "Greeinue she said; .hu$ that was an. Be woe oonevious beusg slightly die, Oirtted at her apathy, and perhaps it is to be deplored thee be tarot it afterward, 'when MieB Ilelinde had beatowed her mite, and the case was illumined for the time being. Ile really did forget it, and was be- guiled into Peeking a very long call, and eying hunselt as he had never enjoyed rneelf before. When, at length, he was receded. to 4 Mime of duty by a glance At the dock, he had already before his ilea an opening Ilene of delights, teklug the form of future olio, and games of croquet played upon Mint „Belinda s neetly.abeven grass -plot. He had bidden the ladies adieu in the parlor, and, being atappeci into the ball, was fumbling rather excitedle, in the umbrella. stand for his own especially slender clerical umbrella, when he was awakened to new rapture by hearing Miss Octatrie.e tone again. He tamed and eaw her standing quite neer him looking at him with rather an odd expression and Isoldlog something in ber bend. "Oh she said, "See here 1 Those people." ".L -beg paedon," he hesitated. "I don't quite understand. " Ob, yes 1" the answered. "Those deeperately poor wretches, you know - with fever, and leaks in their hoot), and ll aorta oedisagrettable things the matter with them. Gm -them this won't you ?" 33 This" was a pretty ailk purse, through whose meshes he saw the gleam, of gold 00in. "That ?" he said. " Yon don't Mean - isn't there a good deal- I beg pardon -but "Wefl, if they are as poor as you say they are, it won't be teonmah." shereplied. a I don't oppose they'll °heed to it, do you 7" She extended it to him as if she rather wished to get it oat of herhandi. ",You'd better take it," ahe said. "1 shall spend it on something I don't need, if you don't. I'm always spending money on thinge I don't care for afterwards," Be was filled with remortie, remembering that he had thought herapathetio. " really thought you were not in- tended at all: he burst forth. "Pray for- give me. This is generous indeed." She looked down at some pertioularly brilliant rings on her hands, instead of looking athira. "Oh, well," eh said, "I think it, must be simply horrid to have to do without things. 1 can't see how people live. Besidee, I haven't denied myself anything. It would be worth talking shout if I had, I suppose. Oh, by the bye, never mind telling any ,one, will you 7" Then, without giving himtime to reply, eam raised her eyes to hiteface, end plunged into the subject of the croquet again, prav suing is until the final moment of hie exit and departure, which was when Wire. Burn- ham mod Miss Pilober had been scandalized at the easy, freedom of her adieus. ' CHAPTER XV. summon anvAuraons. When Mr. Francis Barold called to pay hie respects to Lady Theobald, after par- taking of her hospitality, Mr. Barmistone accompanied him and, upon almost every ether mouton of presenting himself to her ladyship, Mr. Barmistone was hie com- panion. It may as well be explained, at the outset, that the mill -owner of Barmistone Mills wee a man of deoided, determination of character, and that, upon the evening of Lady Theohald's tea, he had errivecl at the • oonolnaion that he would spare no effort to • gain a cattalo end he felt it would add to hie happiness to accomplish. "1 stand rather in avie of Lady Theo- • bald, as any ordinary man would,' he bad amid, drily, to Barold, on their return to his house. "But my awe of her is not so great yet that 1 shall allow it to interfere with any of my plans." "Have you any special plans ?" in- •quired Barold carelessly, after a parole. answered Mr. Burinietone," Bev - oral. I should like to go to Oldelough rather. often." "1 feel it the civil thing to go to Oldolough oftener than 1 like. Go with "1 should like to be included in all 'the' invitations to tee for the next six menthe:. "I shall be included in all the invitations so long as 1 rentait here, and it ie not likely you will be left out in the cold. After you have gone the rounds once you won't be •dropped." " 13pon the whole, it appears so," said Mr. Burmistone. "Thanks So, at each of the tea-piertbse foilowin Lady Theohald'e, the two too* appeared together. The arnail end of the wedge beuig inserted into the solid stratum, the rest was not difficult. Mre. fluteettate was at once surprised ana overjoyed by her discoveries of the many excellencies of the man they had eo hastily deternained to ignore, Mrs. Abercrombie found Mr. Bur. mietene's manner all that could, be cleeired. MSS R.i10IaL expressed the highest appre- cliatime of lois views open feminine Mu - cation meaceour duty to the youage in o0r charge," Ineleed, after ears. Egerton'a eveuitig,the tide of public °piano turned euddeely in hie favor. Publia opinion did not °hang°, bewoVer, as fee ae Oetevia was concerned. Dieving had her auxiety set at rest by several we, couraging paternal lettere trona Neyeda, she began to make up her mind to enjoy herself, and wee, it is te be regretted, he- trayed by her youthful high spirit into the eentmitting ntimetroile iedleeretletis• Upon each festal mettelou, she appeared in a new and elaborate costume; the accepted the attentiooe of Air. Frintete Barold as if it was the most Asters" thing in the world that they should be offered ; she joked -in What Kra. Burnhera a esignetern iheeNeeada way "-with the Bev. Arthur Poppleton, who appeared more frequently then had been itio habit at the high tem. She played orogoet with *et gentlemen. and Atte Darold day after day, 'ROO the grass -pled, Were ell the oyes gazing dews, upon her from tbe neighboring windows ; ehe man- aged to come Mr. Bormisterm into johting Ogee itmaceat orgies ; aud, in fact, to TAM !dim Ditcher, there wee" no limit to the obeeneleoemee ot her antemialuo oanauct," Several times mush comment had been maimed by the Pea that Imola Gest= had been observed to ferret mee of the petty et pleyere. Shit had indeed nlayed with 13areid, against Oetevie and 41r. Poppleton, on the memorable doer open which that • seethe= hod tame hie neat lemma hied availed bimeelf of the in, vitationexeended to him by Oetaviee npon Morel ocavione, greeely to Wee Bain We eraberres.roent. lie had dropped in the Inzeniug after the curate's drat call. "Is Lady Theo:mu very food of you?" ()awl% had asked, in the eouree of thio "Itis very kind of her, it she is," he re- plies], with. Iseguid irony. "Ien't she found enough af., ye:a to anything you talk her V" Wen* tequired. "Beatty. I *Mk not," he milled. nine the degree of affeetiort it requires am not fond enough of any one to do any. thing they ask 33110 Oettoria bestowed a loos lookup= hien. "Well," abe remarked after a ranee," I believe you are I shouldn't think ea," Devoid colored very feintly. "I oay," he mid," is tint an imputation, or aereething o that character? It monde like it, you know." Octavio, dia not reply direetly. f3he laughed e little. went you to eat Ludy Theobeld to do something," elm said. "1 A= afraid, I am INOt in teach favor as you imagine," he mid, looking slightly annoyed. Well, I think elle won't refuse you this thiog," the went on. "It the didn't loth° Me so I would, ask her myeaf." Re deigned to emile. "Des ehe loathe you?" he thritara 33 Yee " nodding. "She would uot speak to =4 if it Wasn't for Aunt Belinda. She *blotto I Ara feet arid loud. Do 'you think I am fast and load?" He Wan taken aback, and not for Simard tiro, either. She had startled end dile composed him overal times in the course of their brief acquaintance, and be alwaye resented it, priding himeelf in private, as he did, upon bis neatness and immobility. He could not think of the right thing to say just now, eo he was silent for a second. " Tell me the truth," she persisted. 04 I Obeli not care "I do not think you would care at all." 43 Well, perhapii I shouldn't. Go on, Do you think 1 am fast?" "I am happy to say I do not find you slow." She fixed her eyououliirn, erailingiantly. That means I am fast," else said. 0" Well, no matter. Will you ask Lady Theobald what I want you to ask her?" "I should not say you were fast at all," be said, rather stiffly. Youliavenotbeen educated as -as Ledy Theobald has eau- °Med Mies Gaston, for instance." "1 should rather think not," she replied. Then she added, very deliberately: She has had what you might call very superior advantages, I suppose.' Her expression was totally inorenpre- heneibIe to him. She spoke with the ut- most seriousness, and looked at the table. That is derison, I suppose," he remark- ed, restively. She glanced up again. "At all events," ahe said," there is noth. ing to laugh at in Lucia Gaston. Will you ask Lady .Theobald? I want you to ask her .to let Lucia. Gaston come and .play croquet with us on Tuesday. She is to play with you against 3ltr. Poppleton and me. , Who is Mr. Poppleton?" be asked with some reserve. He aid not exactly fancy sharing his entertainment with any ordi- nary outsider. After all, there was no knowing what thia little American might do. • 4, He is the curate of the church," she replied; undistorted, "He is very nice, and little, and neat, and blushes all over to the toeg of Ids boots: He clone to see Aunt Belinda, and I neked him In tome and be taught to pley." "Who is to teach him ?'" "1 am., I have taught at least twenty men in New York and San Francisco." "1 hope he appreciates your kindness." "1 mean to try if T can make him forget to be frightened," she said, with a gay laugh • • It wee certainly nettling to find hie air of reserve and displeasure met with each inconsequent lightness. • She never seemed to recognize the inbtle changes of temper - attire expreesed ib his ntanner. Only hie tenuse of what was due: to himselfprevented Iiia being very nhilly indeed,- but,. en she went on with her gay &San in titter *- ilk:trance of his mood, and indulged in some very pretty airy noneenee, he soon recover- ed biznself, and almost forgot his private grivei9eite4oingrY'hePi°mile'dtaak Layleobedindelgenceinhe znatter of Lucia's joining 'them in 'their ganie. One epeeoh of Oetaviani connected -with the aubjed he had thought very pretty, as well aci kind : • , • "1• 'like Mies Gaston," she said. "1 think we "might be friends, if Lady Theo. bald would let me :Her superior advan- tape might do me good. They might im- prove me," she went on, with a little laugh, e and suppose I need iniproving very • much. All • 'my advantages have been of ono kind," • When.he had left her, she startled Miss Belinda by saying: • ' " 1 have been asking Mr. Barold if, he thought I was fast, and I believe he does - in fent, lam sure he does." "Ah, my dear, my dear I" ejaculated Miss Belinda," what a terrible thing to say to a gentleman 1 What will he think?" Ootavia smiled one of her calmest smiles. /en't it queer how often you say that l" she reenarked. think 1 Should perish if I had to pull myself- to,leet Way se yowl°. I ioet go pot on, and never worry. I doret Pisan to de anything (ewer, and I don't see why any one should think .erne," CRADTDa XVL 0401148.T. Lucia was premitted to form one of the pleyers in the gems ot croquet, being CB corted to and from the matte by Freneb Otteeld. Perhaps it occurred toLedy Thee - held thet• the oeotreee of English reeertt and Maidenlinese with the free and. essi mowers of young woman from Neve 3 might lead to ;some good results. "1 treat yoor venetian will ba Bach ati ehOW that yeuatleaet have eesidod io a ein llizeel laud," ohe said, "The =OA of ON present day may premit themeelvee to to amused by young persoes whose denagsna Might beteg a blush tp, the eheale of * woman, of forty, but it is 1101 their leebit 11 regard them with serious intentions." Lucie reddened, She did not though she withed very new* for the reel - age to atter the words which recta to ba lip. Letely elle bed fouad that now eel thee, at timewhen she was roused V anger, epeeohes of quite a olevor gea earcuetio . teeter() presented themeelvea her Mind, She was never equel to einr- big them aloud, but she felt the, intiro, ate might, bemuse at oettree it Wee lute an rednenee in spirit te think them, aid face, mea in imegination, the prebehiii4 of astounding reed sfni.V.innLedy Theclakt /iamb witb their audacity. " ought to Make m'., behave very welt" elle NT40 saying now to herself," to have lee tore nee the alteinetiVe Of not leelog gatded with Geriettil intentiella, 1 wonier if it is Mr. Poppleton or Footsie Berld who might net resod me serioasly. Ao11 wonder it they are any gonerifl Areeiea then we (lee be ilx,Begleed wbeg we eeeet bo eupseed the sitera004 very rarehe rticeleely the latter pert of it when :dr, orraistonee who was peoeing, came 1 ng invited by Ochevift eorosa abe prve hedge Hevieg paid his respeets to Abe Relinde, who eat playieg propriety arida lahernum tree, Mr. BarinietQue oreettel the graseeplet to LUCIA herself. She gal awaiting her" tura," and laughing at th* ardent euthneiasal of Dir. Poppleton, tho under Octavites directionit WAS dfiVOSIN al his energies to the game : her eyee wee bright, and the had heat for the time Woe, leer timid air et feeling bereelf lientehen CC the wrong. " I alel glad to See yeti hare," said 4, 13orroletotte. "I am sled. te be here," ate aretterid. hati been ouch a happy Aftertom. Everything lute eeereed so bright tutd-read different." 43 Differeut' la A V4:7 good word," In eeld, laughing. itialt a very lead oue," elm Termed. "And it expreeses a good deal." "11 doss, indeed," he commentri. " Lock et Iffr, Poppleton eud Wavle " Have you. got to 'Qtsvis ?' he quintet. lethe looked aown end blushed. (To be continued), Who ocopuea Poet Deed.' An mathenge saya ; At a ripe tld age, after year*, ot the meet texauded rot ment, s the Eno, Cook hes 7easetel away. Sit people's poet, the" woodland rolel bele eons was sung for the Inikatiee. not peauliarly a tempetanee poet, her lays cantata some beautiful the his on this theme; Taranto the desert, end then ye I West treesures exist in the cold, tlaijwel And the pieture of Atetals, to h flight, wrung by raarldeuieg thi jaring up "distempered Malone,'" to =tare I a X taw the crystal fount -ale pligg In leaping :sheets et snowy sprat; X heard the ttaduls.tine wave Of the swift river gush and law; 1heard the daabtngivatnr!aU- OhI it was cruel monkery aill How like to this deseriptioe are the literati of one who reeetunte his nighte ex- perieneee on the battle.fteld after the fear - fel °omega of Gettysburg "Pram the wotmded and the dying arose one Nepalese, far.reachirg bum of groans, arald whieh bat one word was audible. Dying teen reached out wounded arms, tote up the dew, grass that they might emelt the moisture. I noted that no man called ,for beer or brandy then. Bat one cry burst fromgory, lips -it waa nature's cry for Water 1*, Into the eilly error of ehellow minde- an error Whioh mistakes as " natural "the habit -born appetite for alcohol --Eliza Cook never fell. Hermoralizbag, however, ia not always so correct as her knowledge of =Ante, for, though she can sing, itt her "Song of the Goblet," of liquor imbibere that - The swine in the dust, or the wolf on it* prey Gave less of sheer disgust thitnehey. • ,eastee -yet she could regard the goblet as that which " oan cheer or kill." We need no poet to show tie the latter, and it would take quite a number of them to convince as of the former. But Eliza Cook gave the world beautiful, pure thoughts ; and her words were words of freedom. She sang for the masses, and, by her death, the people will be moved to turn again to her living words. As elm herself sang, so we -- Mourn not for the dead—lis they alone Who are the peacefid and the free. Fortifying morsel& Young Mr. Sissy (who meets his pretty Causin at an evening entertainment) -0h, Mande, I am eo glad to see you, and I want to have tt weal long talk. But first mayn't I bwing you an Ioe; or soniethiag Pretty oonsin-No, not an fee, Charley ; but you may bring me a little ether, thanks. A liminess ciergintan. When a Chicago clergyman ,hung ont bbs sign to the public 'eorae of bbs brothers were horrified at the innovation, but when they disloovered that that none eign brought him about three couples in dayto be married they stroked their Chins n a re. theotive way and .deolared that he had a great head for business. Was a good Boyi Mother -Did yon beak aey of the rules to del, Tonnay ? • . • e • Tompiy tapir deynat sohonll-No'm ; I Wall a good boy. Teacher broke two, though; one on little Harry Fletcher and another on Difference'ih lDegree. • 33 There was- a regular eyelone up at our inniee this morning. Pop wall mad as a • tter2' • "'Well," said Johnny, rue. fully, "we had a disturbance at our }mese, too.' It waen't a 'cyclone, tliciagh--ciort of • a spanking breeze." , ; HARIORA'S ENGLISH TOUlt, A Stes.rattste, Lacien with Animate and ier- icuriners Sate YesierthtY. Berinimitt Bailey's " Geeateet Show on Earth" left Bridgepert,ConneMonday night at ite way to Brootlyn, to the Anchor Line wharf, -where it will be placed ori beard the steamer urgessia for Leedea, Eog, Two hundred and forty people cooneeeed with the ahem witl also ne to Leotteln oxt thie hip, while on the steamer City cif Rome, salting ouWedheeday, Oet, 16, °us IMO* area and sixty of the attaehee wifl ,take passage. Wks arraagemeute for traropert- ing Ihe chow l.tave been most carefully meas. Six huge boxee, twelve by ten feet, have been built, each to contain an ele. ebant- When placed on board eleip there boxes; will be set twelve feet apart, the intervening epece forming another beet, in which an elepbapt weal else be plaged, and thus the eix boxes will efferd aecommoda- tion for the thirteen elephents to be taken. The camas and hereee will he placed in a seriee of atalle distributed all over the main cheek of the vessel. The ogee coo - tabling the animate, after first being deteohed from their running gear, will be placed side by side, with enfdelent opeen between to permit the attendaate to feed the beasts and attend to their wento, Au idea, of the oenatity el materiel eequired to feed the verieue ineimele may be bed from the following LIEI; There will be 80 tone of by, 2,000 bashelg of oats, 6 terra OI _straw, 6 Sena of bran, 20 hnehele of corn, 20 hales of pent mesa, 00 berrele of eerrote, 6,000 peteado et fresh beef, 1,590 peonde ot !mole fith, 10 barrelet pointoee, 161) heeds et obtage, 6,000 potato et fresh brawl, 10 berretta et tweet tipplee, 4 berretta 01 ontone, 7 herrele C11 tarelfid, 20 birrele of ilea himaite, 400 cane of eondeesed 4 seeke of iielt, 150 pounds of Gliother tielte, an exclueively for the aniraela andhome. All the zneee and Aide will be frozen and plaeed lackvireea alteraata itiyere of toe in hap refririeratere eapeeiAlly beilt for the Pirpoeta „the imelovoggi =Mg eettiedy fee the monkeye and polar hoer, The ea. penile ot the chow going to Europe la fetid *9 be the heaviest ever mamma intl.-lie line. About 0150 a day hoe been open* ia cable despettehee to and from Eurone during a period ot nearly four mouthe pest, The advertising material to he dietrihated free in Leaden has alreedy met 0160,000. The new ontureco, inoluding these made he Paris for Xtralty'e "Nero," in wig* 800 people will appeer, and thoes for the arena department Imre ceat 090,000. Alto - gaiter 8 te estimated that the expellees of the Affair, before a Riegle rerforneeme ie given, will foot up O350,000, exclusive at minim, and all thie for 41. probable semen ot orie hundred dayo. The eatimated ex- pellees for the London eeasoll, ealetdating 16.800 a day for the e„ircee, will be ueerly 012,440 a day, from whloh the rialto of the trip can baptised, But Mr, Bailey earl don't Cara for the expecte, even if 1 looe 0100,000. 1juet want to show the people al Europe what a big Wog la, We know it in this country, but they do not over there." Mr , and Ura. Barnum and hir.Baritinn'a nephew, 0. Barnum Seeley, flailed Setae% day ()Atha Etruria. An Ingenious Trick. One of the pozeling trielos performed by so -oiled publics mind-readere or cleir- voyente is an extremely eimple deception. The performer standing on the stage >Alike several pergolas; in the audience to write each it sentence on A alip of Viper and tient it in an envelope. Of eouree the etationery is furnished and afterward colleoted. One of the aniline° is a oonfederate and writes a sentence agreed uponbeforelamed. When the eatistant goo through the house gathering tip the envelopes tee confederate's oontribution is carefully pat where it will be the last one of the lot to be token up. The performer plate out aa envelope and after feeling of it with ranch °tramway pronounoes the undone* agreed upon, and the confederate in the valiance acknow- ledges that he wrote it. To mullein title the performer team open the envelope and repeats the sentence as though he found it on the int:loved paper, which is in reality mother man's sentence, which ho reads, and then, picking up another envelope and fumbling it over, he cells out the sentence he has just read. The one who wrote it aYa it is right, the pe.rformer tears open the envelope, reads what iti in it, and pro- ceeds in that way through the lot. -/few York Star. • Agricultural Item. A. -The weather we have had this sum- mer has been good for the hay crop, B. -I suppose so. It has been raining pitoliforke most of the time. First lobster -Well, what are you going to do now? Second lobster -Get drained for dinner. He Snow =ere Than $he Thonnbt. "I hope you will pardon my late ar- rivel:" said the young men, at he seated himeelf in the oiliest chair. I forget ma umbrella and had to stand in a stairway until the shower was over." "There's one on yore jennies" shouted Tonsmy, in great glee. "1 told you so. Of course he had sense enough to get in when it rained." And the silence, like a soft hat, was plainly felt. Had Lost One Case. Dr. Ipeceo-You seem to have pretty good luck with yonr oases, Belledona. Dr. Belladona-Yea ; I flatter myself do. Dr. Ipeoac-You never loat a case, did you Dr. Belladona-Yes, one. He weatto Canada. r needed that lizmared dollars too. The Son of a Canon. Arohdeacon Farrar's son, now at Lehigh University, is quite a wit. While he was imPhiladelphia he was lionized a good deal. One evening, at dinner, a rather f resh young lady turned to him and said: " :Your father is one of the big gene of England, is he not, Mr. Farrier 2" • " He was at one time," replied the young man, politely. 1' He WEE e canon, you know.' • TEE EMMEN MEL. The summer girl—oh, where is she, The street , the rare, tbe radiant maid? Gone; but her form we'll shortly see In glossy sealskin robes arrayed. And -when the snow begins to whirl And eddy in the ambient air She'll blossom out a winter girl, As fascinating and as fair. She draws us, swap% us as she wills, She smiles and to her side wed),; We'll run up livery stable bills To 'take her sleighing by and bye. "He blew into his gun to see If loading up was needed, And the jury to a man agree' That the gun blew after he did." Therefore the gun was discharged free, As in justice it ought to be; • For though the gun had laid him low, It was he who gave the first blow. -Live wires make dead linemen. Enough of the latter have been buried and now publics demands the interment of former. NAUTICAL. She fell in love with a harlSor-buoy, She couldn't have loved him more; . But one day jealousyspoiled her joy— He caught her hugging the shore. • IDEITH PASSED. Wkal aibilaelkt for a Par roll eirsiatenert on a.Level erosion& , The St, 491318 express was raetteg into Jersey City. A street tier wasi'r011ing aloug to "the Grove street crossing Of the Pehusylvania Railroad, Williem Peareall, the gate tender, eerefully lowered the gates e inet after the Street car got pee% and was ranibling CVe./: the west -bound trio*. It wee near midnight Sunday night, jam Connors, the car -driver, entldenlyeaW tbe headlight of a l000neotive bearing &MA npou him, le wee the cosine ot the 3t, Louie express thundering Along the east, legend *reek, Another pull end hie team would have the ear, with twenty peeeeogers, on the relle directly in front of the boom- ing train, Congers might have jumped awl saved himself. If he had he would have heard an inetant later screams and .greene of dying men, women and eluldren. X.he rail Street car, with its load. Of htunau freight, would bevel been no. lupe° than a feather in the path a the gloat l000motive travelliog et the rite of a mile a minute, J-ohn Oeuitore in the boar of heed proven Virluelt a here. With hie lett hood be iannued the brake hard down, With hie right bend he fairly dragged the lioreee Around ASA right angle to ehe street car, Thee' bo, leteenta the Qentre of the eme traces. Quiet as the driver me* the engine • wa4 quicker, end ea it flatbed by it struck the off home, and ripped him its two from head to foot,. Se doe were (rein Ana oar ehat the train beet twieted the front flaahbeerd a the eteetti4a0 as it swept by. doba Oeunere, the konehle cev.drivee, tuned pale awl eel* oa his kueee, wit/101e line still la hie hand, atter the ammo,: was Wee* Then Mare WAS a frit) in OM cer. The peetansere reetlieed thetreeetil After it Was aver am] doted pall melt mit en the treake. Heine, 11I,syer, "the eoridoeter, tried to atop them,hot he Was ewept teem the beck plAttoren like oheff before ehe wiad, The peemagere cisciPeed creeed eod ran hap, hazer,' Aereee the treeke wed tied le ell direotione, Oaly Condors and the otneduotee remained on the ger, They fixed it up in the good old way, As you can determine with ease; For her captain wrote me the other day ; "She's enjoying a spanking breeze." -Letter carriers' ought to make the best elocutionists; they havesuch good ideas of delivery. Telegroph. Where Amato Come* from Iu a recent ieme of -NI** and Okansoas a writer deseribee the areenie induetry in Devenehire. The beet -known ;nine in That Oeucity euppliee areinlie itt quantity in the "Devon Great Coueole," near Tool - Moak. Renised white ammo is here ob. toined from the rough ore, and the cam. Pony 8 working over again in the fornmete, for the sake ot the Amnia, moth rebate thrown aside in the palmy oepper In former dive the /melee were allowed to pen off into the workshope and iota the Air, ceasing fatal melte among the worionen wed destroyiug the ourcomed. ing vegetation for mime dietnee. Ilut now that *ramie (ova not copper) is the most veluAble product, premutatee are taken to prevent any escape. Three Mods of cal. einem MT in use at the "Great Cousele." Divot there le 140 ordinerte band Warier, Next the weli.known OxlAud's caleiner, which is 80 0311okt:toted as to require no attention from tin WOrlitnen. The third !aroma appears to he the moat efficient ot the three. In it a cirouler table, eloping considerably from the centre to the sides, revolves at A aomewhot elow rate. The ore fella on OW table, which be thoroughly homed by the furnace beneath, from an opening near the matzo; theme by the elope mai the circular MOVOMeni it is gradeelly distributed down towards the olretunfereme, 'where, almost completely deprived et its arsenic, it falls into it trough, while the fumes pese tip into the gaunt/rough en opening above the highest point, Tbe operation is an extremely pretty one to watch, tat the sulphur in the area oaten continual play of blue demo over the surface) of the incandocent mess, while the air above seems misty with the fine white smoke of meanie trioxide Pro, pared in this way the oriole produce has a dirty grey aolor, and be purified by farther roasting in a reverbatoty farnacedmated only with coke or authreeite, when it sub- limes in the flues in the form of a beauti- fully slimming white -powder, whiole feel° to the touch as soft a Roar. Somatic:nee no oolorleass orystale are found, especially near the doora of the fines. Visitors feel 'unwell for the rest of the day after an inspection of the Jarman. The workere have their menthe and nom wrapped up in oloth respirators with oottonwool made, lest by chance any pertiolee of what the Germane call *metier poison -flour snight get into the air patienee; all the workmen employed in tenting or packing thci fine powder of white arsenics are similarly pro- teoted. All employed looked powerful men enjoying excellent health. The work liati not been going ort sufficiently long (about 15 years) to compare the length 01 1118 of those engaged in it with that of those employed in furnace work with non- poisonous, or at least, non-volatile poisonous bodies. lie Went. Hera is a new wayfor a girl to get rid of a late beau. She gives him a paper and pencil with one of her sweetest emilee, and says: Now make a row of eleven oiphere ; now make a perpendioular mark downward on the right of the firat cipher ; upward on the right of the fourth; downward on the right of the fifth; upward on the right of the seventh and eighth; downward on the tenth. The marks should be half an inoh long. Ask him to read whet helms written. The effeot is eleotrioal.---.Rochester Herald. • What Be Was. Masked Man (dathing into a parlor -oar on Western Behroad)-Hold up yer hands. Passenger -Don't shoot, Please. Take all I've got and welcome. Masked Blan-Thisis a big pile o' money, so I'll give ye 819 of it back, I may he a train robber, but I ain't rie parlor -ear • porter. --Hew York Weekly. A person returned from Japan, Said, "At once I will try it I can • Speak pure Japanese, With correatnese and ease, Like a cultured and travelled young man." -ABiddeford, Ile,, man thought thatto accost a friend by tonohing the back of hie neck with the lighted end of a dear would be a good joke; a few days ago. But the friend wore a celluloid collar, which blazed up instantly, made a blister enoiroling his nook, and nearly cremated hien. -The following is to be sang to the tune of " The Death March in Saul." Are you all ready ? One, two, three,—,The autumn leaves are falling, and the year is growing old, and the snow delfts will be soon agamet the door. But our woodshed still is etnPty and our coal bin fall of air, and our winter clothing's hanging in the store. Yet the marble /seed delinquent reads our paperby the stove, while he burns , away the coal for whitih he oWee, and we shiver in the sanctum till the tears bedim our eyes, and the blossom reappeare upon our nose. -Brockville Recorder. ' The millennium is oomizig I At a funeral last • week the clergymen of the Methodist, Presbyterian and, Episcopal Churches were seated in the icame rig as the Salvation Army captain. It cannot be said now that the Church of England is , the "kid -glove ohnrole,- Palnarston Alstgi*p AVIIMpN CUTTING WAGES, • The Ohleage Ti, tees notes thet a great many matried women. are employed in the ?Ores and ether Imeineee estebfiehments ia that city, ae State street merchant told the reporter that married women ars always more persistent in their efforts to get work than their unmarried sisters- Uenelly they do nee start gut to tied work in this way tuatil driven to it by necessiey, end then they are prepated to do anything and take the ;smallest wages, Meet of the womeh who apply are ladiea Whelre., hoebands have either left theni provicka so emegerly for their 'support that they are compelled to do something to support themselves. Rot deser,ted wit'3413 are not the only married women who work clown town. Ilundreds of wemen both yoong xnedb 94 an, ec 1kt rh ebyy 004an.t4gR;t9hrOk titOhnlannlbOay housekeeping, and eo they find employ. ment itt ome kind of beelines and they aPd their lausbaods hocked:" of this °lase of out -working wives ere rileg WQM011 tirlIO before their mar- riage Wera engaged in ecoupetione of this kind. School teachers, clerks. fiteeograph- ere, typewriters and seleeweneen,who have etelvveero dtrAeoaonay tdoermi teataix to aw ue r4,13 ifie et do do 1. Besides, it ie ditiegreeahle to theca. They marry and ere aexama to help, their hue - bands. They bed good positions and pay befoza marriage, and naturally they go baek to the kind of work they know beet and at which they can melee the moat Walleye• The Yeinog leneheeed g nsrollp objeete, had a vegae,_ indeduite Wee, Nolen be was roviog blecle himeelf that pretty typewriter girle and no en Were Very =Ell %dined. te dirt, and he bed rather hezy notiees altent them till be met his charmer, Of mune elm wee different from All the others, but jttat the chime he deeenl like the idea of hie wife being thoostit Aleme and telked tthent by other PARTI es he need to thiok and itilk about the typewriters wed ohop girle. Sttene. glit,a ehjellblePe Are Jaetittg and etrops ewes keep his wife at home, bat very often he not unwilliegly gives in, eopecially if no femily has come re tie the wife to her home. Meanwhile the number of married wining who told places in offieee or eleepm is; large and the net of apple:mete ie bit- eroasing daily. Otto. can bear "Mut." tweet as Often se "aim" now when an employer addreeites hie aerie or atnanutnwist. Whether it ie an evil er a blotting le * question for the raitield mail mom - rade to coneider, but the UM reunion 'bet the edvent at the Married Wenriait itt the Add et labor is not tending to biomes* wages nor reeder employment easy at °bunnies. The young women bad shout banlehed the young lam teem many line* ef offiee sea elerieel, work, and the married WOnian is basting both at the other clams. 8lie can afford to work for leas pay bemtuse oho hes her hueleAnd to 'support her, and she often lowers the pay ot moat of the workpeople in an oftloe by offering to work for lower wages than is already being paid. Sam ,Tonee. "Sem Atm, I lee, hi getting 000 a asy. for premising," remerhed a Methodist. "end the optima nommen; are nothing touch of the fact. I don't know sal blame there for critieleing. It is a, Astute' feel. log to distrust e miniater who gore about preaching for so much per sermon, jot like a public) leoturer who apeake for so much per lecture. It may be all night, but it heats bad to the puhlie and is certain to create adverse comment. Of °aurae, a pea:deer has to heaupported. We support our minieters comfortably, and nobody Andefault with that. Bali wben a snap. malice abusineu nropoeitiort, Wet for so much money ho will oome aria get up a religious revival among us, I am% laelp feeling staple:lone and °lightly antagonistic. Sam Jona le a enuat man, and Ids mothode aro like Same of flame other re- vivalists, hat I can't bele thinking he lays himself HAN to %Inoue orltiohem."-- Louisville Post. Bow Do Ton Dace 'Tour /toots? Not one person in a thousand laces hie shoes °effetely: About the ueareet any- body gete to it is to lace as tightly as po- table. The cornet way hi to put your foot when you are about to lace your ghee as much as possible in tbe heel of the eboe„ asys Vanity Fair. You can do this beat by lacing your shoes with the heel of your shoe resting in a chair standing in front af the one you are seated in. Over the instep the lacing should be drawn as tightly as poseible. Thin will hold your foot back in the shoe, giving the toes free - doom and preventing their being cramped. Lace about the ankle to suit your comfort. itiding en a Dear. Near Forester Palle the other day young Mr. Buliner, of Rosa, discovered a bear quietly feeding on a field of este. He put two charges of shot into Brain, but he showed ability to escape with alacrity. Mr. Balmer with dariog ran up to the bear and sprang on ite back, determined at all coats to prevent his egoape. The bear was a powerful 'specimen and seemed quite equal to the task of carrying off his rider. Mr. Thomas Faught, a noted merkernan„ appeared on the scene with a gun, and with, a well direotea shot laid the bear low not in the least injaring or evenfrightening the courageous riden-Hepworth Sun. Had Met Them. Stranger .(to bloyole eider) -Are you an- feirtiiaeniriat?ed yeah the roads around here, my 13ioyole Rider (pointing to the scare on hie face) -Yes, I've met them quite often. Charity, Sweet Charity. Madame, can't you give me something • to eat; 1 haven't had a mouthful for two days." • "Certainly, you poor creature. Take this piece of chewing gum. If treated I kindly, it will last you four days." In New York there' is a remarkable growth of the number of women who ara students in the higher branches of educe - tion and the reports from England eleove that,. in this respect, Euglish damsels are keeping abreast of the Aininioan sisterhood. -New York Ston. -A.-Do you know that Jones is going to marry Mimi Dazenbury ? B. -Yes, so hear. What sarprieee me is that such an intelligent girl would ever have anything to do with a man who is so stupid as to want to make her hie wife. LUCKY VELUM Ile wooed her and sued hi3r and sought'her Till he naelted her heart so cold, Then he married the iceman's daughter And now he is rolling in gold. —Druggist (awakened at 2 am)-Weff * what ia it? Clnatomer —It's a boy. Get up Charming widow -And what are you doing now -a -days ? He -Oh, amusing my- self ; honking out for number one. And you? Charming widow--Ilooking out for number 'two. • The Canadian Atlantic cable project hue taken shape. The company, &inked by English capital, will lay the line shortly from Clew Bay, Ireland, to Greenly Island, off Nova Scotia, a distance of 1,900 miles.