HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1890-4-3, Page 2McGinty's Future Neighbors, There are many cranks of many kinds, here in this vale of tears ; The self-made man, the album (fond, the faith - lees weather scare— Whose mssion is to vex mankind, and surely ' you'll agree They should be with Dau McGinty at the bottom of the sea. There's the man who asks you : " What's the sem?" and offers you a tip, The peanut fiend, the high -hat girl, the man who'sof the grip, The wretojwhe tells you fut ny jokes with most infernal glee— They should all be with McGinty at the bottom of the sea. There's the crank who's always talking shop, the ruthless railroad brute, The toothpick fiend, the youth who plays till midnight on the flute, The girl who munches caramels, the lawyer and his fee— They should all be with McGinty at the bottom of the sea. There's the man who reads statisties and who crushes you with faots, Tito dandy with the cloven breath who tramps be6ween the acts, Tho man who's in the way and thinks there's company in three— They should all be with McGinty at the bottom of the sea. Yea, these and many other cranks upon the globe you'll Sud, Whose only mission seems to bo to worry poor mankind ; But Nemesis is marching on, and soon they'll safely be Doop down with Dan McGinty at the bottom of the sea. ADOPTED BY THE DEAN A STORY 01' TWO 00IINTRIEl3. " To England, papa 1 bn't why?' " Because, dear, 1 feel sure that in what. over way this war ends, some time must pass before the country is settled. You gnaw the present state of the Government c --the aoenes of the 31st of Ootober will be SUM to repeat themselves, and will, I fear, lead to something worse ; so, my ohild, it 1 ism no longer here to take care of you, the ezonor you are safely in Eugland the better." Esperance ebudderee. " We neednot pi papa. I will do just as Monsieur Leme, Lar tells me ; only do not talk as if -as t.--.." She hid her far.' •.,u bis shoulder, and did not try to finish .es sentence M. de Mebilio„ ueid.her closely, now and then whispering words of comfort and trust, but more generally keeping unbroken silence ; until in epite of the coming etrugg1e Esperanoe was soothed and strengthenea to endure. At length Gaspard oame in, flashed and eager, bat remembering Esperanoe, he etrded his enthusiasm. The room was almost dark, save from a feint gleam from the stove, by this he could eee her little white face raised. " Gaspard," she said, " is it you ? Is it nearly time ? " " Yee, Cherie," he answered, bonding down to kiss her; " I want you to be oar brave little vivandierc, and find as tome. thing before we eters." Esperance hastened to prepare some coffee, and in a few minutes the three sat down to their scanty meal, none of them sorry that the light was dim. Ten o'clock etrack. M. de Mabillon said it was time to go, and Gaspard, ever on the alert, was ready at once. " Courage, c#terie ! " he whispered, giving his sister a farewell kiss ; " Lemeroier will let yon low how we get on to -morrow." She let him go passively, and with trembling fingers tried to tie her father's eearf. " My brave little girl 1" he murmured ; then, as the word of praise proved too much for her, and her tears could no longer he controlled, he took her in his arms. " My precious little Esperanee, God bless you," She clung to him in a last, long embrace, then watched him go down the stairs in silence. The door closed npon them, and she turned to sob oat her grief in the arms of the faithful old Javotte. All the night a continuous stream of National Gnerds marched past. Esper. esnoe took a strange pleasure in watching them, and in trying to recognize her father's battalion. In the cold, grey dawn she slept, and Javotte put her to bed, hoping that she would sleep late the next morning, so that the suspense might not seem so long. She woke unfreehed and weary, her heart aching as she heard the continual firing. Mme. Lemercier, knowing that this would be a trying day for her, sent np an invita- tion to dejeuner, and Esperance, who was a believer in " distraction," was very glad to accept it. It is a strange meal, consisting of bad bread, cheese, and coffee without milk, but eo scarce had provisions become, that Esperance thought it quite luxurious. M. Lemeroier, a little, dried-up man with a id env, black mustache, made her Laugh with his description of the purchase of the cheese, and madame we so kind and cheerful, that she began to be comforted, end to look on the bright side of things, even when later they heard that serious fighting was going on, and that the ambul- ance was filling fast. Esperance had spent the whole day with Mme. Lemercier ; it was now dunk, and she had jast returned to her own room, when her quick ear detected the aonnd of footsteps ; it might be M. Lemeroier, with fresh news. She darted to the head of the stairs. Slowly the steps drew nearer, and, Straining her eyes into the darkness, she gave a little ory of joy. " Gaspard 1 Gaspard 1 is it really you ? " " Myself, and no other, oherie," replied the well known voice; then, as she would have embraced him-" Take caro, this right arm, of mine is damaged." " You are wounded 1" cried Esperance, greatly shocked. " A mere trifle, only a flesh wound ; I have just had the bullet extracted." " Don't speak of it ; it makes me shud- der," said Esperanoe, lighting one of the f©w remaining candles, that she might feast her eyes with the sight of her wounded hero. He looked pale and e_;hensted, but seemed to enjoy talking about the day'a events. It seemed that nothing had been gained ; the losses had been about equal on both Odes, and the battle had still been raging when he left the field. " And papa? " asked Esperance. 1° Quite well when I lett, and very glad that I oonld take back the news to you." " Then there is no ohance of his ooming hone tonight ? " " Not the slightest, unless he follows my example. To -morrow we will go up to the fortifications and eee how affaire are pros- pering." ros• I? erin " This was an oxoitieg prospect, and Eaperance hada p t ' pgreat longing to be near her father ; she thought in her ignorance, that it would be easier to bear the suspense if she were within sight of the battle. Gas- pard was much refreshed by a night's rent, end the brother and stater set oat on their expedition eagerly and hopefully, The day was warm and bright, there was a holiday feeling in the alt, which proved irresistible to many. -Eeperanoe was startled •dn reaching the ramparts to find the epootetors laughing, chatting, smoking, utterly regardless of the great tragedy that was going on. It was the first time Sho had seen any fighting, and even from a distance the scene was sufficiently terrible to be forever imprinted on her memory. Gaepard explained to her the,positione of the differ. ent divisions, and she tried to nnde,ratend the plan of the attack, but her attention was soon drawn away to the long : file of ambulanoee which, was; constantly passing into the city by one of the gates close by , Terrible havoc was being, made among the .French -around the gate was a crowd of anxious relatives, watching the amliul. ances eagerly as they passed ; now and then. there was a recognition, whioh made Eeper, ance shiver. " Let ue Dome and watch too," she said, at length ; and Gaspard consenting they took up their position among the anxious little group They had waited long, and Esperanoe had begun to feel faint with fatigue, and from the long train of terrible sights parsing before her. She olosed her eyes for a minute, when a half -smothered ejacu- lation from Gaspard roused her -looking up she saw a litter being borne past, on it a National Guard, his uniform covered with blood. liar heart throbbed wildly, her head swam, bat with a kind of deeper"tion she forced herself to look at the faun -it was indeed that of her father. A great miet same befnle her eyoe, she felt Gaspard puts, his lett arm round her, and waa eoneeious of relief. He spoke to her. Sho oeught the words " Ambulance Amerioaine," understood what they were to follow, and moved mechanically through the crowd. At length they leached the Avenue de 1'Imperatrioe, and applied for admittance at the ambulance; they had to wait long, however, and Esperanoe's tears were by this time flowing fast. A young American lady, touched by the sight, tried to comfort her. " Yon are waiting for news of a friend ?" " Of my father,'? sobbed she ; " oh 1 when will they tell tie 2 " •' As soon as is possible, everything is done so quickly now. See, here comes a meseenger." See went forward and received the whispered message, then turned to Gaepard. " You must go in at once to see your father ; be prepared for the worst." " He is mortally wounded, then 2 " asked Gaspard, turning pale. " i fear so," replied the lady. Without a worn, Gaspard took his sister by the band, and followed the meseenger into a cool, airy tent, where notwithstand- ing the fresh oases wbioh were constantly pouring in, all was orderly and well managed. They were conducted past rows of pallid enfferere, to the bed where M. de Mabillon lay. Gaspard saw at once that the end was very near, and was more overcome than Esperanoe. Now that :the worst had come, ehe was tearless, her grief for the time being overpowered by the joy of seeing her father. The nurse made room for her, and she knelt by the bedside, smoothed his hair caressingly, and whispered his name. He opened his eyes, smiling faintly. " We have rune to eee you, dear papa, Gaspard and I." ' Gaspard's wound 2 " asked M. de Mabillon with difficulty. •' Going on nicely, papa." He germed relieved, then looking again to Gaepl3rd, spoke once more with great offort. " Take care of Eeperance, end promise me, Gaspard, to leave Paris -when you can -take her to England. Troubles will thicken here-." He broke off suddenly -hie features con- vulsed with pain, his groane irrepressible. The nurse tried to persuade Eeperanoe to go, anxious to spare her the sight of her father's terrible suffering, but nothing oonld induce her to leave him. In the next lull he spoke to her. " We must not doubt, or question, little Eeperance-remember, • Nous Savona que Coutes chases concourent ensemble au Lien ' " Then, as the agony grew more intense- " Speak to me, Esperance-let me hear your voice. ' " I will say your favorite lines, dear papa," she faltered, and in low, trembling tones, she repeated one of Victor Hugo's beautiful verses. The pain gradually died out of his face, and as Gaspard and Esper- &nee bent down to kiss him, he even smiled. After that he noticed nothing, bat lay with closed eyes, sometimes murmuring the lines Esperance had repeated, " Venez a ce Dieu," and the last time adding, fainty, "il guerit." A few minutes of unconsciousness elapsed, and Alphonso de Mabillon's troubled life was over. CHAPTER V. The American lady, who had anted as nurse to M. de Mebillon, did the kindest and most sensible thing she could have done -took Esperance in her arms, and let her cry quietly. Geepard, meanwhile, was speaking to en attendant about the funeral wbioh was to take plane early the next morning. He soon returned to her side, speaking very gently. " Dear Eeperanoe, w nut come ; we hinder madame." With a strong effort, Esperance con- trolled herself sufficiently to murmur thanks and farewells, and allowed Gaspard to lead her away. At the entrance they paneed for a moment. It was hard, very hard, to return to the world. The sun shone brightly; the street traffic went on busily, alt seemed cruelly the same, while their lives had sud- denly been robbed of happinese. Gaspard was, perhaps, the moat to be pitied, for with him rested all the responsi- bility ; already he felt the charge of his little sister was no sineoure-already the harassing thought of their poverty, began to press upon him. With this in his mind, his first question was a practical one. " Can yon walk, oherie ? I think we ought hardly to afford a flume." Perhaps she thought him a little heart. loss ; she just inclined her head, and they walked home in perfect silence. Meanwhile, Gaspard, tired out with the events of the last two days, and weak from hunger and loss of blood, began to grow faint. Once ho stumbled and almost fell, but Eeperanoe was too much absorbed in her grief to notice and from very necessity he forced himself to keep up. At length they reached home, and climbed the long flight of staira. Javotte, hearing their approach, name to meet them, but Esperanoe oat short her inquiries and clang to her sobbing. As for Gaspard, he tweed on quitely into the salon and groped his way to the e'ofa, just condone of relief in the feeling that he need no longer make an effort to eee through the gathering darknese-no longer struggle to keep his senses. Javotte coming presently into the room gave a little scream. " Mon Dieu l but it is impossible that we loae Monsieur Gas- pard also!" Esperande turned round in horror ; the white, nnooneoione fade did indeed look deathlike. She bent over him in an agony of grief. Ah, Javotte, Z have been go selfish, I quite forgot how tired he must be, and he said not a word." " Wait their; child, he has only fainted ; I will fetchsome wine -there 1 eee, he revives. Alt C he grows like his blessed father, who teeter complained. Eeperanoe watched in anxione silenoe as by stew degrees Gaspard struggled back to lite, He would fain have resisted the return. hag oonsoiouenese, aware that thorn was a great weight upon his mind, and longing to (gimp .it. When, at last, he was reoovered, and openinhie eyes ;saw Esperenoe'a tear-etatued 'fade, he remembered every. thing, and for the firat time broke down m tl oo pie e y. Eeperance woe thankful for those te,,<��"",, woman•like, she loved Gaepard far e now that he gave way to hie emotion, than she had, when for her sake, he had borne np through the long walk. She, crept nearer to him, and waa glad to feel his arm round her, and his cold trembling hand pressing here. Nothing is each a close uniter es a °Dimon grief ; Gaepard:. and Eaperanee had never before` been so ranch to each other 1 Truth to tell, Gaspard had hitherto been very mnoh self -engrossed. The early loss of his mother, and his solitary eau m a ' had strengthened the natured tendenoy; bat privation, grief, and heavy responei• bility, were doing their beet to rouse him. Esperanoe's new love was a farther help ; she had always been too mach wrapped alp in her father to spare many thoughts for Gaspard, but now that he no longer needed her loving care, she was able to transfer all her solicitude to her brother. All this of coarse did not take place at once, but it bad its date from that terrible evening when in the oold,dark, lonely salon they first realized their orphanhood. Who bus not felt the utter misery of waking in the morning after any great change, the sense of oppression, the dawn- ing oonsoiouenees, the awful realization ? We learn from the very keenness of the pain to value the forgetfulneee of sleep. Eeperanoe had passed through, i all when she awoke ou that dreary let of December. Everything reminded her of her grief ; the perpetual firing was still going an, bat one National Guard would never again serve his country ; there was the tramp of a battalion marching down the street, but never more oonld sae look from the window to wave a farewell to her father; within the house she could hear Javotte preparing the coffee -only two cups would be needed that morning. Aud then with a rush of teare, Esperance for the first time asked the question, whioh we too often allow to embitter oar grief-" Why 2" Why had this sorrow come to them 2 Why had her father fallen, when hundreds of others had esoaped ? Why did God allow war at all 2 If she could only eee how good was to come oat of evil ! In the midst of her questionings, Javotte entered, a world of love and tenderness in her wrinkled old face. Eeperanoe, for the first time, fully realized how great a com- fort the faithful old servant was. " And my child has slept ? " she inquired, anxiously, her harsh vbiee unusually softened. " Yes," sighed Esperance, wearily. " Kisa me, please, Javotte, I am very desolate." The old servant obeyed, murmuring soft terms of endearment over her, bat Eepee anoe suddenly started back. " Javotte, how terrible thin you have grown 1 your bones feel quite sharp." Javotte shrugged her shoulders con- tentedly. r� " That may be, child, but then one does not expect to grow fat in a siege." " But you are thinner than any one I have yet seen, mach more even than Madame Lemeroier." " Chat 1 Why, child, I am an old woman," replied Javotte, shaking her head reprov- ingly ; " one can not be always young and unwrinkled. Bat come! take your coffee; oherie, we lose our time, and i mart go quickly to the market or we shall grovea. too soon. ' Esperance was satisfied for the time, and Javotte left the room, glad to end the dis- cuesion, and marmning ander her breath, " My little blessed one 1 dost think I would not rather starve than eee thee suffer ? " Eeperanoe had just finished her toilet when ehe heard Gaspard's step on • the staircase, She hastened to meet him, surprised that he should have been out so early. Have you been to have your wound dressed ? " she asked. He did not answer for a minute, and then Eeperanoe under- stood that he had been to their father's interment. " You should have taken me, too," she said, her eyes filling. " Why did you go all alone 2 " ' I did think of you, but you were sleeping, and I oonld not bear to wake you ; besides, it was a long walk to the cemetery ; you shall go tomorrow, and take some immortelles." She turned away and began to heat Gas • pard's coffee over a spirit -lamp. " Did you see the American lady," she asked, presently ; ' the one who was so kind?" " Yee, I saw her for a moment, and she sent you this." He drew out a little packet, which Eeperanoe opened eagerly. it contained a look of her father's hair, and her mother's wedding -ring, which he had always worn. " How good, how kind of her to send them 1 " she exclaimed, tears running down her cheeks ; " I shall always love /he Americans, Gaspard." She put on the Blender ring reverently. It comforted her a little on that dark day, and through the darker days that followed. (To be Continued.) Mr. Gibson and Insurance Hen. Mr. Gibson reoeived a deputation in Toronto yesterday afternoon consisting of Messrs. T. B. Maoanley, B. H. Brown, C. Hunter, of Toronto, and Wm. Braoe, of Hamilton, representing assurance com- panies whose head offices are situate out- side of Ontario, and propose an amendment to Mr. Leys' bill to amend the Assessment Act, providing that no discrimination should be made in the rate of taxation between the companies they represented and the home companies. Mr. Gibson promised to give the matter due ooneidera• tion. That Awful Carnage. " Fifteen killed and thirty•seven wounded," were the football oasualitien in England since let of September lest. And yet we have been so often told that modern battles are less bloody than those of a lees scientific age. Perhaps the plan of loading footballs with dynamite would lessen the awful carnage of a football match. -Paris Edition Herald. Soft All Around. "How beautifully soft it is," he mur- mured, laying his hand on her glorious white arm. " How lees beautiful, bnt oh, so mach softer," she tenderly replied, laying her jewelled hand on the top of hie venerable head. Mrs. Gadabout -What Bort of person ie Mrs. Milman, who has moved into the next house to yon? Mrs. Chaffer -I don't think ranch of her. Between yon and me I think she is next door to an idiot. Mrs. Gadabout (innocently) -I think so too, my dear. The only flowers proper for street wear ' are violets or lilliee-ot-tho•valley, and they not in great quantities. The immense oluators of roeee affeotedby some women etre as bad style as huge died:mende, yi;,,,;,,,yi;; WYOMING WANTS WIVES. School Teachers Special Favorites With the Siugle Men taut There. A member of the Wyoming Legielature has presented a Bill to that body which provides for taxing each unmarried man in the Territory over 35 years old $2.50 a year. " Martin Hopkine, who is stopping at the Grand Pacific (says the Chioego Tribune), is en ardent supporter of the Bill, which he believes will be adopted. He soya : " After our Bill has passed we expect an influx of young women. Today Wyo. ming is the best hnnting.ground for huebende in the United States. If 1,000 unmarried women from Chicago should start for Wyoming this month I would guarantee that 99 per cent. of the number would not be eiugle a year. It takes a right hard disposition to blook a match out there. Our school trustees want women for teaoh. ere ; our young' chaps want pretty, enter. taining girls to take to parties ; our baohel- ors want sensible, middle-aged women for life partnere. ' When I was here a year ago I advised a young teacher to go to Wyoming. She got a school about fifty miles north of Cheyenne and began work during the Sep- tember term. In December she married a wealthy cattle -owner. Before her marriage she turned over her eohool to another young woman from Chicago. She, too, married in the spring. Then the trustees employed an old maid who had seen about 60 Bummers ; but she was there only two months. She didn't get married, bat the bachelor rauohmen who supported the school would not pay a cant until the old woman was removed, They said if we couldn't run a kind of a matrimonial shop along with our sohoole they would quit the territory. The next teacher, an Omaha girl, was the prettiest one I ever saw." " Is she teaohing now? " .. No " Married a ranobman ? " " No; one of the school trustees." " Who was he?" " Martin Hopkins, and he is proud of it," and the wealthy citizen of Wyoming blushed like a girl. Tho St. Clair Tunnel. A notable tunnel is being rapidly exca- vated under the St. Clair River at Port Huron, Mich. It is for a single-track rail- way, and is to be 6,000 feet long, with approaches aggregating an equal length, or 12,000 feet in all. Of the whole distance 3,690 feet is under the river, where the grade will be nearly level ; from thence it will rise each way at the rate of 1 foot in 50. The tunnel is lined with oast -iron plates 2 inohes thick and 18 inches wide, with 5 inoh flanges all around. They weigh about 1,000 pounds apieoe, and 13 of them with a small key.piece make a circle 20 feet in diameter. The flanges are faded and securely bolted together. The plates for the Michigan side are made in Detroit, and those for the Canadian side in Ham- ilton, so as to avoid the payment of duty. The soil is a blue clay, and the tunnel ie driven by means of a shield 21 feet 6 inches in diameter end 16 feet long, weighing 60 tons,whioh it forced into the clay by a nam- ber of 125 -ton hydraulic jacks with an ag- gregate power of 3,000 tone. After each ad- vance of the shield another ring of plates is put in position behind it by the use of oranee in about an hoar's time, while 22 men remove the Olay that has entered the shield. Work has been carried on in this way from both sides for the last eight months, and up to March 8th, 1,577 feet of e4 Dnel_Proper had been completed on the Michigan aide, and 1,322 on the Canada side. If no unforeeen difficulty 000are the remaining 3,100 feet of the tunnel can easily be finished in the present year. Three hundred men are at present employed on the works and during the month of Feb- ruary 576 feet of tunnel was built, an average advance of 20.7 feet per day. This progress was made thronght eoft clay with an occasional pocket of quicksand, and without the aid of compressed air, for whose nee, however, provision has been made in case water or very soft ground should be encountered. An occasional inflow of gas has been disposed of by turning on a strong air current. The tunnel ie lighted by electricity, warmed by steam and well ventilated, so that the work is done under very favorable oonditions. The St. Clair Tunnel Company is doing the work with ite own men, and when com- pleted the tunnel will be a continuous iron cylinder 20 feet in diameter and 6,000 feet long, and its cost, with that of the ap• preaches, tracks, etc., will be about $2,500,- 000. Joseph Hobson, of Hamilton, Ont., the Chief Engineer of the Tunnel Company, has furnished the data from which this de- scription has been prepared. The air -looks were built by the Detroit Bridge & Iron Co., of Detroit, Mich.- The Engineering and Building Record. The World's Fair. The World's Fair Bill as it now stands may be oondensed as follows : 1. The Fair shall be held in Chicago and shall be inaugurated in 1892. 2. It shall be under the supervision of a Government Commission appointed by the President, an equal number of its mem• bers to be chosen from each of the two leading political parties. 3. It shall be directly in charge of a cor- poration organized ander the laws of Illinois. The capital stook most be at least 55,000,000, of which $500,000 most be paid in. 4. The Commission shall allot space for exhibitors, appoint judges, award pre- miums and have charge of all intercourse with the representatives of foreign nations. 5. The corporation is to prepare plans and rules for the Exposition, subject to ap- proval of the commission. 6. The President of the United States shall give notice by proclamation of the dates for the opening and closing of the Exposition. 7. All foreign articles intended solely for exhibition shall be admitted free of duty. 8. The United States will not be respon- sible for the acts or liabilities of the Fair corporation. 9. The Government shall make an ex. hibit, the expense of which is to be met by an appropriation of 51,500,000. This exhibit shall include a felly equipped life-saving station. Sagacious Ladles, The W. C. T. U., of Toronto, affords a good inetanoe of of eagaoity. It appears that the one police matron of the city was in danger of being dismissed. But' the W. C. T. U. took time by the fore look and Bent a deputation to ask the appoint- ment of a second matron, believing that to demand more would be a good way to keep what they had. The result proved their wisdom -the present matron having been retained and given better hours. -Exchange A stiok of chewing gam is a small affair, but John B. Curtis, of Portland, Me,, has made nearly $1,600,000 in the manufacture of it. Bill Nye has invested $16,000 in real estate in Salt Lake, and the papers of that city say William a bald head is level. TEA TABLE GOSSIP • SKIN SIDE INSIDE. He killed the noble Mudjokivist With the akin ho made him mittens, Made them with the fur sido ineido Made them with the skin sido outiiide Flo, to get the warm side inside, Pat the inside skin sido outside, Ile, to get the cold side outside, • Put the warm side, fur sido inside, ']'hat's why he put thefur side inside, Why be put the skin side outside, Why he turned thous inside outside. -Spring openings. -The tan shoe is here again. -Trousers are made narrower. -Easter garde are not in favor. -Amethysts are in great vogue. -A big demand for striped hose. -Emerald cuff -buttons are fresh. -Anything pretty ie now "smart." -Somme parasole are Cringed with groes. -Perfumed pencils ere a new accessory. -Philadelphia streets have 26,043 lamps. -When money talks, of course it talks cents. -The hotter the razor the cleaner the ehave. -Hens setting. Getting ready for Easter. . -The spring vest shows a great expanse of shirt. -An early spring -jumping out of bed at 5 o'clock. -"Glazed" parasols will reflect next sum. mer's sun. -Floral bracelets are worn with evening ooetames. -The dots on new veils are far apart, to eeeemble beauty patches. -" I guess we're all (nankeen pene,"said a candid dealer iu that line. -Harold, musing -She said she liked the kiss. I got it from her own mouth. Lives of bankers oft remind as We should make our sneak in time, And in skipping leave behind us Footprints tone other clime. -The oldest inhabitant will alwaye die, but he cau never be dead. The more the pity. -A bonnet for an Easter bride is of white cloth, shell -shaped, and lined with shell pink. -Time will tell, but the ordinary man with animportent secret won't give time a chance. -The messenger boy's rase not be ex• aotly " The Pace that Kills," bat it certainly is the pace that kills time. -There is a girl in Brooklyn who spells all her words baokwarde. Last night she was so aetoniahod when she spelled " re. viver " that she swooned. -" Yes, I'd like to drop around to church on Sunday,"' said an up -town man to an inquiring pastor, " but the Sunday papers ars eo confounded big." -Owing to the probable scarcity of ice next summer, the giving away of an ice gorge at Oneonta recently can only be looked on as reckless extravagance. -Shopper-Yoa may give me a dollar's worth of those strawberries, please. Dealer -Sorry, ma'am, but we don't elide strawberries. I'll sell you a %hole one for 51.50. -" Let me see," said the young house- keeper at the fish market. " Suppose you send me home a nine North river cod with a good roe and a box of sar- dines." THE OLD GAME. The rose and lily side by side • Were in a bouijuet pent ; " Ah ! " the rose exclaimed, "you're fair to see." And the lily said, , Of course, tee he ! But you cannot borrow aught from me, For I haven't got a scent," -Thomas Harrison, " the Boy Preaoher," is not in good health. " I shall never be quite myself again until I can take a trip aoroes the ocean," he says. There is a suspicion that Bardeen is suffering from a alight attack of old age. As a Boy Preaoher he is a little past his prime. -Among the "grand old men" of acienoe in England there are several past 80. Sir George Airy is 85 ; Sir Richard Owen, 85 ; Sir Edwin Chadwiok, 89 ; Mr. James Glaisher, 80. In the church there are a dozen stout old prelates between 80 and 90 and good for many years yet. aaeke,. -" Whether a gentleman should take off hie hat in an elevator containing ladies depends," said an authority on hat etiquette yesterday. " In some elevators the rapid motion of the oars creates a draught, `so it is not so much a question of good manners as of self-preservation." IRELAND'S PATOON SAINT. Oh ! Saint Patrick was a gentleman Who came of decent people; He built a church in Dublin town And on it put a steeple. His father was Gallagher, Fits mother was a Brady, His aunt was an O'Shaughnessy, His uncle au O'Grady. -H. Rider Haggard has quietly disap• peered. He is not at his country seat in England and his London haunts know him not. It is generally supposed that he has gone to the Orient for inspiration, but this is denied by people who claim to have seen him recently in Scotland. Perhaps Haggard is trying the advertising dodge. A Good One. A good story is told of the oelebrated sur- geon Professor Billrotte, of Vienna. He was asked a short time ago to perform an operation upon a Russian Jew, and he agreed to do the same for a fee of 250 guineas. On making the journey to the small town in which hie patient lived he was informed that the Jew had soddenly died. However, in order that he should not suffer loss by the transaction, the Professor was asked whether he would treat five hospital patients for a fee of fifty guineas each. He aooepted the offer ane did the work, and just as he was starting homeward he asoer. tained that one of the five patients upon whom we had operated was the Jew who was reported to have been dead -so at least the story rune. Daisy Had a Snap. Visitor -So you are collecting ,buttons Millie. Why, what a lot you have 1 Yon must have more than any little girl in the neighborhood. Millie -No, air! Daisy Fourthlie has ever eo many more. Visitor - Indeed 1 How does she get eo many -is her papa it dry goods neer- chant ? Millie -No, sir 1 He's a minister. William E. Gladstone is an example of prudence, and for the past fifteen years has made it a praotioe to go to bed whenever he catchall oold. Sam Jones nays he proposes to etiok to, preaching, as he le " making more money than any ten bishops in the Metho- dist Church." Watts -I suppose your wife is like most woman -never admits that ehe makes a mistake. Wickwire -Oh, she occasionally asserts that she made' a mistake marrying me. Bot ehe never admits even that out- side the Tardily. " Grapes dipped in sugar" aro a new confectionery, WHY BI8MABOK RESIGNED. He Found the Young Emperor Determined to Play a High Hand. FEELING VERY MUCH STIRRED- .The North German Gazette laet night. supplied some much•desired light on the causes leading to Prince Biewarok'e reek= nation, eoizing the occasion to contradict the statement of the Hamburg correepon}- dent, that before the late crisis reached lip climax the Chancellor had already made application for 'leave to resign, and had withdrawn it and endeavored to reconciler himself to the situation, bat without success. The North German Gazettes says that this, like the reporter regarding the Prince's opposition to the labor programme, is entirely erroneous.. What bae happened is this : The Chancel- lor did not wiahto depart from the. Cabinet order of 1882 relating to the inter- course between the Prussian Ministers and the Sovereign, but desired to retain hist control and right of oo-operation. That intercourse between the Emperor and than Secretary of State is regulated by the lava - of 1852, It was only within the last few' weeke that Prince Bismarck felt it neoee- sery to refer to that regulation. He con- sidered its execution and observances indispensable, and did not wish to be a. party to its abrogation. The opposition lie, encountered in this matter finally brought olearly home to him the necessity for his reoignation. The negotiations between_ Prince Bismarck and Dr. Windthorat; with reference to the Guelph fund and the attitude of the Clerical party in the Reich- stag, were only connected with the orisie ere far as that the Chancellor .ref need to sub- ject his intercoaree with the deputies to any control. THE DIFFERENCES RADICAL. The tone of the Gazette only feebly indi- cates the sullen smouldering energy which_ exists in the Bismarokian circle. The, papers have hitherto avoided touching the dangerous and delicate question of tea Emperer's interference in Ministerial re- sponsibility, but the Gazette's frankness will earl to a discussion which may awaken. the Emperor to the fact that a persona' directs system of government has not yet obtained a'aupreme hold upon the German people. The complacence with whicbt. Prince Biemarok'° retirement is now gene- rally regarded may soon be replaoed with regret that the country is left at the mercy of a self-willed antoorat. The Cabinet: order of September lath, 1852, has always; been held by Prince Bismarck as inter- preting the Pruesian constitution to, mean that the President of the Ministry ought to appoint his own Cabinet, rho°n- ing men having political opinions and principles in harmony with hie own. The Emperor refused thie reading, and main- tained the right of the monarch to appoint, Ministers having a direct responsibility' not to the President bat to the Crown:. The appointment of Baron von Berlepsoh. as Minister of Commerce was the thin_ edge of the wedge. The direct inetra'a-- tions that the Emperor gave to Berlepsch, affecting the economic policy of the empient evoked a warm remonstrance from the Chancellor. The Emperor in a written. communication sent by him to Prince Bisa marok early laet week explained his views of monarchical prerogetivee, his conviction. that the Chancellor's claims were an.. encroachment on the rights of the Sove- reign, end finally his determination exercise a general and absolute control. THE EMPEROR WRITES LETTERS. About the same time direct overtures to Dr. Windthorat and other leading clericals from persons in the Emperor's entourage, aiming to take the guidance of negotiations out of Prince Biemarck'e hands, produced the climax of the crisis. On Saturday the Emperor got, as bo probably desired and; expected, en intimation of Prince Bis- marok'e resignation, and on Tuesday, in a, closely written document of twenty folios,. the Emperor received the Chancellor's reasons for resigning. It was hoped that the Emperor would assent to an early publication of this great historic, apologia,• but its non-appearance beside Thursday's, resoripte impliee that the Emperor con eiders it a private State paper. Prince Biemarok has not parted with the Emperor either in the sulks or in apparent engem for after his deoision to retire became definite the Emperor consulted him with regard to the choice of his successor, and followed hie recommendation of General Von Caprivi. The new Chancellor on Fri- day held a long interview with Prince Bis- marck, and last night dined with the Prince and Prinoess in their palace. Since the,. crisis was disclosed, and especially since Prince Biemarok'e resignation was an- nounced, Princess Bismarck has held daily receptions, which have been crowded. Alt the officials of Berlin on Friday filed through the salons. The retiring ChanceI- lor appeared for a short time in the after- noon, and seemed more alert, cheerful, chatty and bright than for years. The National Gazette asserts that Prince Bis- marck will not accept the title of Herzongin von Lanenberg. The Bismarokian senti- ment certainly is that while responding to the Emperor's express desire as phrased in the resoript, Prince Bismarck ought to accept no favors or dignities from the Emperor. He starts for Fredrioheruhe March 30th. THE NEW MIfINISTRY. The work of re-forming the Minietry will not be hurried. Count Herbert Bismarck, however, pereiste in bis intention to with- draw from the Foreign Office at the earliest possible moment, and this obliges the Emperor to make an immediate selection of hie succeesor. Herr Meybaoh offered toe resign, but the Emperor objected. Herren. Miguel Bennigaen and Hinzpeter are talked,. of as possible Ministers. Count Eulenburg,, now civil Governor of Hesse -Nassau, who- is an advocate of reforms in the internal polioy, is mentioned as the suoceesor of Herr Herrtarth, in the Ministry of the Interior. Freieinnigen visionaries dream. of the possibility of their party being repre- sented in the Government. Nothing is certain except that the Ministers mut be enbmiseive instruments of the Emperor's internal and external polioy. An Unsatisfactory Remedy. "Cognac brandy is, after all, the bent care for pain in the chest ; don't yon think so, Fran Hirsohmaier 2 " " I am not so sure of that. Formerly my husband need to be troubled that way only twice or three times a year ; but since I began to keep brandy in the house he has been ailing nearly every day." "Yon make me tired," as the whee said to the wheelwright. We don't object to geeing, a woman bustle, but will be ;sorry when sbe has to hoop. "And how dictou like the services at our church last evening?"g2" e There! So, it was a religions eorvioe?. I couldn't have told Whether it was a religions service or a grand opera. 1'en awfully nearsighted„ you know." 7f ri