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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1890-10-16, Page 6The contumacious Nan. New 'Yet It Worn' We bave all of tut met with the bore who re - mares • 4, Tour leaden t I beg leave to differ.' No matter what topic upoo one embarks' - "our pardon t beg leave to diner: inbough mime and main is the truth you cou- ne,s e`quOrYoo to disputc, you, though etdiv° 00 you may; Be is never so happy as when he eau Say : Your pardon t I beg leave to differ." With things which you alwaye have rimmed were true, graeieway begs love to diner, And wore you to say that twice one equal two He'd certainly beg leave to diher. Judwhen at the net, as they stand bis boa, The doetee cr preacher :312all say: "Be is dead!" I'm sure he'll remark, as he raises his. bead: Your pardon! I beg leave te dine' WON BY AN ENGLISH ."77.•••••••••••••-••• A LOVE STORY. ahuokled with delight, and indeed my oy was so great that I was in mental fear est this last remark of Diane's might be too pointed, and would reveal the drift of our allusions ; but fortunately for us, and somewhat oddly, considering the exoop. tional intelligence of our hearers, our °beer. vatione and mirth excited no apparent eurprise; and Diane's parents, while warm - ng to the conversation, which became general at this time, seemed to consider me of no account whatsoever, while they relaxed their fixed Attention on their daughter's movemente. I knew too well the hold which propriety has over French people of all classes and all ages to exhibit even to the girl I so passionately loved, and whose love I now felt authorized to win for myself, any other eign or token of my admiration than those which words allowed or the play of the countenance revealed; but with a girl like Diane, whose heart laid baro the warm feelings of her soul, and whose soul was so pure that it could not hide the truth of what she felt, words and looks were ample to oouvay all I wiehed ; and I can never forget how singularly beautiful was the reception of those messages of love f rom one young heart to at:other, and with what rapture I marked in Diane's eyes her ap- preciation of the love she had resolved to accept and to return. By the end of dinner we were one in heart, soul, mind, and purpose, without havin said one syllable which any ono could sake up ; without on my part having made slay formal declaration, or obliged her to give a single expressed answer to any ereoified requeet. Bat for all that, the electrio spark which prep sees the storm had been struck; and strum; in one another's love, young and in- experienced though we were, we had made up our minds to fight for one another, and to bar cheerfully the evils that would ensue, certain of a heavenly peaoe on earth when the strong will of our earnest natures had successfully weathered the tempest about to rage upon our devoted heads. As we rose from dinner, and all returned to the drawing -room in the order in which we bad come into dinner, we gave each other but one look -a lookso fall of deep, passionate love that any one who could have seen it would have required no other sign of our determination to settle matters onts eves, and at the same time so infinitely tender that it amply compensated for the absenee of those more usual, but in France less customary, pressures of the hand and arm, which, if they are only natural and axone., ble, are less respectful to the loved obj ce before the words have been pro• nou eed which consecrate the engagement. 8 on after the coffee had been served the malCj nee's carriage was announced, and she took her leave with Diane. Happily, M. de Bretenille remained; so 1 had the satisfaction of seeing Diane to her carriage, while the count gave hie arm to her mother. I then told her I should call on her father next day early, , if indeed I had not the oppor. tunity of seeing him that very evening ; that I trusted she knew for what motives ; and that, had I by any misfortune rale- takeu her sanction to this proceeding, I im- plored of her to say so. See smiled one of those maddening smiles which simply sent all my senses reeling with intoxicated pleasure, and merely said in her ordinary voice, as if she wished her mother to hear, 4 'Do not forget nay roses before yon leave for England. Mademoiselle Garoux would be furious if you did not admire them. She is certain there is nothing in the world like them, and I hope you will sub- scribe to that sentiment." " I shall certainly call with your mother's permission " I replied, "though I am already of Mademoiselle Garoux's opinion.,' " Mother," said Diane to Mademoiselle de Bretenille, " at what time did you say M. do Manpert's family ars coming to see you to morrow? " At about three, I believe," replied the marquise, while her cloak was being put on. " Then at what time can Mr. Vere oome and bid us good-bye ? " " Will 5 o'clock suit him ?" 4, it is too late for him, mamma," said Daine, "if he has to leave in the evening." .. Would Monsieur prefer 2 o'clock ?" 4. Cored he not come to breakfast at half past eleven." 4, Daine," said Mademe de Breteuille, "what a child yon are 1 Mr. Vere knows yon are a fiancee." " So I am I" exclaimed Diane, laughing, and looking at me, Comme &est drole she replied. " EIow the part suits you 1" I remerkecl. " I suppose," she said, "that dinner must have some influence on these things ; because, curiously enough, I do feel a fiancee now, and 1 did not before." "Does a fiancee write ?" I asked as her mother stepped into the carriage. "By the governess's post sometimes," elle replied, ; and then, shaking bands with me, entered the brougham laughing. As soon as she had disappeared, Ray- mond de Chantalis who was really an intimate friend of mine -so much so that We called each other by our Christian names "You could heve married that girl if you had been clever." "1 shall marry her, though I am not," I replied. He looked at me 0 moment. " That's well said," be remarked, " but difficult of accomplishment." " WhY ? " " Parblen 1 leo:tease another Man has forestalled you." " Yes -with the father." " And maybe with the girl." I don't think So." " Certainly with her rnether." "That may be." "Two parents against yon is too txtaclie" " I tenet bear that evil." home and him 6 (tiger before you corn• Mit suicide." "By marming or liyattempting to defeat a French marriage by English wept." "0 Shell be hippy to aidii either 06t9e.v " Surely your English blood is oalmer than that phrase would imply? 4, 110 celinturee lice in in deterMinatien." " And its determination is to ruin the kaPntnees of e young and beautiful girl, in order to prove that her parents, who loved her and have sought her happinese only, may be shown to be in the wroeg, became an Agreeable young man of twenty-five years of age has ebosen to fall in love with their only child." " My dear Raymond, you quite mistake nee. Had I not tin knowledge that M. de Mitepert was positively distasteful to Mademoiselle Diene, I would 'never have allowed my' own fathom) to .be known or perceived:" " 13u.e," said the count, "surely you must be aware that tinge is nothing new be a girl dieliking the husband chosen for her, Oar' French girlseare no exception to the rule of humanity, that we all prefer what we select ourselves to what others consider beat in our interest : but they get over it in time, and end by wondering how it is they ever opposed their parents' wish." I quite understand what you say, but characters differ; and Diane's nature is not that of an of dungy French girl, and will fao submit to that doepotio rule whioh may answer in a few misea, seldom proves fortu- nate in most, and results in terrible misery in one mit of ten men mges thus con- tracted." " My (Max friend," replied the count, .' believe me, my niece, of who character you evidently know more than I do, but for whose beauty I can quite appreciate your admiration, for I never saw her look so well aa this evening, comes froom too French a family not to be doomed to the traditional fate of French girle. Make your mind easy; and though a short while sinoe I was regretting the necessity of your departure, I rejoice over ie now, as it will cure you of e passing end hopeless fancy. Yon are too young to cope againet the position and influence of M. de Maupert, and though I have no doubt the future is bright which looms before you, dismiss my neice from any share in it. Indeed, as your friend, I would recommend yonr not thinking of marriage at all. Remember thdold proverb, " Marione nous, merlons nous, elettons nous la corde au cm,'" But, Rey mond," I said, " I am decided and if I could feel that you were the friend yon always were, I would tell you that your niece is quite as decided as I tun." " Has she told you so ? " " Not in so many words." "Then how do you know." " By a thousand and one tokens." " Mon ober " he eeolaimed, " that is very vague, and, to tell you the truth, not quite complimentary to my niece, for it would seem to imply that she is either a coquette or is deceitful." " Deceitful " I screamed-" she deceit- ful? Why, of all the French girls I have ever known she is the only one then I can absolutely call truthful, toyed and straight- forward." " Not very kind to our girls," remarked Raymond, in an amused rather than a severe tone. " And as to the coquette," I went on, " if a desire to stand true to her love, and a wish to do so withont offending the parents she respects, is coquetry, thenethe need not fear the appellation, for it does her honor." " Aliens 1 " said the count, good. humoredly, " I see she has a champion, and I wish bine success, though I fear Don Quixote has a representative in your per- son ; but go to Madame de Chantalis; she understands these matters better than I do, and will relish leaving a hand in this romantic business ; our union was a very prosaic affair, and our lives have lost noth- ing by being nnpoetioal at the commence- ment. ' " You were not forty-two, and she sixteen et the outset," I said. " That is the only sensible remark you have yet made," replied the count, as he opened the door of his smoking -room. Hearing tie going, in M, de Bretenille and Madame de Chantalis joined tis. As they did so I went up to the former, and asked whether he would allow me to see him on a private matter the next morning. He re- plied that he world be much honored by my visit, and would be at my "orders at any hour I pleased to name." "I have promised to call and take leave of the marquise at 2 o'clock; perhaps yon would allow me to see yon immediately after." I did this becatne, as I anticipated his possible answer, I feared I would not be slowed to see Diane again after receiving it, and this prospect was too painful to Qom - template; but in a manner which had much softened since dinner he had made no ob. jection, but on the contrary told me I would find him in hie study among a heap of stuffed animals and papers, engaged in com- piling a dictionary of zoology which he thought might be completed if he lived to a hundred, but had little chance of enlight. ening his generation if he were not accorded a longer life than most men. "11 fent bien passer le tempe," he re- marked, " and that is how I spend my time when I am not at the club." "You will miss Diane," said the countesa, who, I thought, might have spared me the sad reflection the remark entailed. " Not at all, because she will never leave home," replied the marquise. "No one who marries my daughter can do so on any other condition." This I thought was directed to me, bat I listened without making any remark. " Nor," continued the marquise, " do I think that Diane would care to leave her old father." " Not so old," remarked Raymond. "A father always seems old to his child," said the marquise. "Besides, Diane has many tastes ; the is an extraordinary girl. Her fancies are not thoee of other gals, and hor tenacity is eerfectly surprising. If she helps me in any of my researches, and 1 feel inclined to give up a teak I some. times find too wearisome, 80 as to devote another time 10 11 when I can bring a mind fresher and more lucid to its discovery, Daine will continue it in ray •absence and greet me at dinner with an I have found it, papa,' whioh puts me to shame and impresses me deeply." How 1 drank in these words, and how I gloried in having found favor with each a character "De Manpert," continued the count, " did not like her to dine ont this evening, and I told her so. She %eked me whether there was anything wrong in it. I could not say there as. Her mind, was made up, and all the entreaties of her mother were absolutely futile. As I stimild' not back up her mother's arguments'she has had her way, but" (turning to me) " yoti mast belh3ve, rnoneieur, that my' fetherly weak. nese alone is the cause of this breach of the rules which guide the conduct of an engaged young person in Frame." It was dear that this simplemainded and excellent man was no schemer; it was equally plain that he adored his Oaughter, and that she could rule him as she pleased. These were important points to note; but I wee no less eurprified by hie talking' 'thin openly before ine-as if he wished to convey information sor my guidance -than bse the apparent ignorance he either affected or entertained of my sentiments for his daughter. I did not refloat that until I addressed him directedly on the sobject he would, As a matter of tonne, appear Wholly ignorent, and Would treat me to the most amen - across; but for all that, he wee slowly turning into that lightning•conduotor which Daine had ao wittily netted him at dinner whether he would care to be in order to protect us both from the impending storm. Looking causally at hie watoh, the marquis found tt loter than he thought, got up, and reepeatfully lining his sister's hand, wishing me "Au revoir a domain," and sleeking hands with Raymond took his depar Lure. I got up also to say good-bye, when the countess made me sit dowe, aud, opened out as to the'proceedinge of Diene and my- self that evening. Addressing her hueband, she said to him, My dear, we have to stand by these two lovers; for in the whole course of my life I never saw snob open lovennalsing on both sides." • ere be continued) Why the Elixir Didn't Cure. A fakir in medicine had just opened out in St. Themes, whoa a sturdy young fermer puehed his way into the crowd and said: " See here, mister man, yon were over at Clifton in June ?" " Yes, sir." " You were willing this same stuff ?" " I was." " Warranted to cure rheumatism, nem ralgis, headache, ague: bad liver, indigestion and about forty other things ?"d. " Yes, sir. 1 guaranteed it." " I had a torpid liver. Went to throe different doctors and all of them said she was torpid. I paid you $1 for a bottle." " Well ?" " Well, she didn't euro. Didn't have no more effeot than water. I want my money book." " Gentlemen 1" exolaimed the fakir, se he looked around on the crowd, "yon have heard what this man says. He calls my South American elixir a 'fraud' 'because it didn't cure his liver trouble." " No ; it didn't1" shouted the farmer. "Then let us see why. Did you eat pork ? " " No, sir." " Sleepon a feather bed ? " " No, sir." " Drink tea or coffee ? " " No, sir." " Take plenty of exercise ? " " Yes, sir." " Have a bath onoe or twice a week ? " " Yee, air." " Go to bed early ? " Yes, sir." "Now tben, my friend, answer me one more queetion. What was the state of your mind while taking my elixir?' " P -arty fair." " Weren't you engaged to a girl 7" " Y -es, sir." And didn't she give you the ehake ? Speak right up now." " She -the married another man," stammered the farmer, as he tried to get out of the crowd. "Ab ! I knew it! Gentlemen, behold the conspirator -the assassin -the Shylook 1 He is in love. His liver is torpid. He bays a bottle of my elixir. It is warranted to straighten the kinks out of a torpid liver at the rate of forty kinks an hour; but does he give it a fair show? No, gentle- men! This fiend in human form pursues his fair victim. He offers her his heart, but she won't have it. He persists. She still refuses. He finally loam her. Emo- tion bangs his liver from port to starboard -adds to the number of kinks -wobbles all over Ontario, and then he calls me a swindler bemuse I haven't cured him. Gentlemen, who is the swindler -the era - fiend ?" The crowd cheered him again and again, while the farmer made all haste to get ont of sight, and after peace had been restored the fakir held np one of the bottles and said : " Now, then, who takes the first bottle? Compounded by a South Amerioan hermit from herbs and roots grown in a myster- ious valley and I'll give $100 for any 0001 - plaint it won't cure. This is my twenty- third farewell tour and the stiles have been 40,000,000 bottles. Patented in every country on earth and the recipient of sixty- four royal decorations. Only a dollar a bottle and who takes the first ?"-New York Sun. 'Why We Buy and Sell. Popular Science Monthly : What is the object of exchange? How few people ever ask themselves that question! If each one of us did not save himself by exchange from some part of the necessary work re- quired to sustain life, there would be no ex- change; each one of us, and every other man, would live and work for himself alone. All this is elementary. It becomes perfectly clear when considered se between man and man. Does not the same rule govern the commerce of nations? Whet is the commerce of nations, except the sum of the exchanges between man and man 2 Unless each nation gains by the exthenge, does not the trade stop ? If botk gain by the exchange, dces it not hurt both to stop it by legislation? By obstructing exchange, we may make work where we might save it ; but that nation loses most from myth obstructions in which the great., eat abundance of product is attained at the least cost of labor and at the highest rates of wages. If there were such a thing in the world as pauper labor, that nation which exchanged the greatest amount of the pro• duct of skilled labor for the greatest amount of the prodnot of pauper labor world save itself the most work. Daniel Webster once said, when in his nime, "The people of this cannery can not afford to do for them. selves what they oan hire foreign paupers to do as well for them." This is true not only in respect to the price of labor, but to the kind and quality of the work whioh ie to be done. Anti -Students team. The young ladies of Bethlehem, in this State, have organized and anti -students' club, the ebject of which.- is to dieoounte. nance the attentions of students, on the ground that they are gay deceivers and delight in breaking feminine hearte and blasting matrimonial hopes. That the study of the classics and of mathematics should conduce to such fickleness iff a matter of surpriee ; and the subject is en- titled to the serious .consideration of the friends of higher education. It may be, however, that the girls themselves are partly reaponsible for this condition of effaire. A osp and a -gown sometimes at- tract silly little moths, just as a naval ot military uniform does; and in the con. scionsnese of power wings are sure to be singed. There ore doubtless good young men in Bethlehem inside as well as out- side of college. Give them a chance, girlo. -Philadelphia „Record, Must Blame Himself. New York Herald : Mr. Stiploby-Well, madam, you Wade a fool ot rae when I married you ; that' e dead Imre. Men. Stiploby--Why, Nioodemns, long before We Were married you thlWays boasted thet you were a self.mede man. So don't blame me. The banana plant has been found 10 con. bin o gteater quantity of pure fibre than any of the other nionerons vegetable pro. oerhed being he re ght oases y conte dude me or papa ON A 04AVE KMIEC/T, Some Queer and Quaint Efforts of Obituary JE'oets. Buffalo News: Simple soripturel quota- tions were once not considered sufficient for insoriptions, and graveyard poetry waa of more importance) than at preeent. lowing are a fete which were. evidently " original" Here lies"the bcdy of Debora. i Dent ; She kicked up her heels and away she went, A most indecorous prooeediug an the pert of the women with the demure name. Another equally flippant insoription is : Hero lies the body of Mary Gay; Silo would if she could, but she could not stay. She had two bad legs and a baddish cough; Her loge it was that carried her off, After all, moat people ere carried off by their legs, though not precisely in that way. • A really clever inscription is that found on a photographer's tombstone : Bore 0 lie -taken from life, Another bright and conciee bit is found npon the tomb of a husband and wife in a French cemetery : I am anxiously expecting you.-A.D. 1827. Here I am !--A.D. 1867. A reprehensible play upon names is : Here lies the body of Solomon Podd, Who shelled out his soul and went,up to God. Even more irreverent is the following: Here lies the body of old Crogior, Who had a mouth from ear to oar. Stranger ! stop lightly o'er the sod, For it he yawns you're gone -by —! Hero lies the Smith -to wit -Tam Gouk, Tics father, and his mither, WTani and Jook, and Joan and Noel, And a' the Gouks thegither, When on the yird Tani and his wife 'Greed desperate ill we idler, But without e'en din or strife They take their nap tbegithen The above suggests the disoord that only died out with the strain of life. Here lies John Meadow, Who passed away like a shadow. N. B, -His name was Field, but it would not rhyme. This was intended to be solemn, but some way it isn't. Wield, shield or yield would have rhymed with Field, bat ed• dently the poet was "tuck" on shadow. Here rests in silent clay Miss Arabella Young, Who on the 21st of May Began to hold her tongue. Arabella ehonld rise and haunt this pet. Here lies Margaret Sexton, Who never did aught to vex one; Not like the woman under the next stone. Margaret must have fixed this up before she died. The "ruling passion" is apparent in the following: 1809. Alexander Meilen, Chief Constable, Stirling. Our life is but a winter day, Some only breakfast and away; Others to dinner stay And are full fed. The oldest man but sups And 5005 10 bed. Large is bis debt That lingers out the day. He that goes soonest Has the least to pay. Budget of Scotch News. Mr. Peter MoGlashan, o well-known Scotch ',reporter, was run over by a train and killed near Perth on the 20th uit. The Cameron Highlanders celebrated the anniversary of Tel-el-Kebir at Edinburgh Castle on Saturday, the 13th ult. At a specie' meeting of the Town Coun- cil of Glasgow on the 19th ult., it was resolved to confer the freedom of the city upon Lord Rosebery. The Rev. John M.Neill, of Regent Square Church, London, preached to about 8,500 people in the Grand Hall of the Edinburgh Exhibition on the 14th alt. A stained glass window has been placed in St. Giles' Cathedral, Edinburgh, to the memory of the late Mrs. Cameron Lees. The subject is the Christian virtues. Mr. Thomas Nelson, of Friars' Came, Dumfries, died there on the 19th alt. in his 81th year. Mr. Nelson had o succesefal business oareer in Carlisle, where he owned large marble works, and was for several years Mayor of the city. The late Rev. Dr. Robert Stevenson, Dalry, Ayrshire, bequeathed £2,500 towards the endowment of West Church there ; £2,500 to the funds of Kereland Barony Church and school; end £2,000 to the University of Glasgow, besides smaller bequests. The death is announced of Mr.. George °Man, formerly one of the Magistrates of Edinburgh, which took place on the 17th tilt. at his residence, 5 Bruntsfield Terraoe. Mr. Cousin was born in Leith in 1807, and had just entered upon his 84th year. Patrick Allan -Fraser, of Hospitalfield, near Arbroath, died on the 17th alt. after a long illness. He for many years took a prominent part in publio business in the county of Forfar, and was known as an artist and a patron of art. He was a native of Arbroath, and was born in 1813. In Dundee Mr. W. E. Baxter's will has bean publiebed. Mrs. Baxter gets the in- terest of £50,000, the contents of the mansion houses of Kincaldrune, Inve- reighty, Kilmaron or Asholiff, and posses- sion of Inverarity or Asholiff. The herita. ble property goes to the sons, and there are legacies to the daughters and several servants. Readers will regret to hear of the death on the 18th alt., at Edinburgh, of the Rev. Charles Rogers, D. D., LL. D., who in his patriotic labors to perpetuate the memories of Scottish heroes had made himself known to all Soetohmen both at home and abroad. That he had constituted his *life mission, and in connection with it he about twelve years ago spent several months in this country and Canada. He was a son of the Rev. James Rogers, and was born in April, 1825, at DUE0310, Fifeshire. A Pressing Invitation. He -I see you are fond of autumn leaves, Miss Breezy. She -Yes; there is a world of romance to me in the colored leaf. He -Clan we not share the romance be- tween us ? She -Yes, Mr. Freshly I should be de- lighted. Come around this evening and sit on the family bible. -Judge. -Long-haired children are notes ubiqui- tous as formerly. Tangled curls and crimped tresses have come to be regarded among the luxuries and vanities that hamper comfort and coneenience. Tunnn are police who entertain the foolish notion that the best way to catch a criminal is to hide the foot that a clime has been committed from the newspaper reporters, and -ft must be °animated that some of them show more ingenuity in their efforts to deceive the reporters than they do in ferreting out the onlprit. Thi, of course, does not apply to the Hamilton police. Detective Murray, who hunted up Birohalt, however, has a different opinion. Ode of the first things he did after taking the me in hand was to oak the Totonto reporters to meet him and disonee the metier. Without the publieity of the press Benwell'a Identity world never have been diroovered. .'--tin is worn lower. - TA.I.,E AND HARVARD GAHM How a Katiehall Match Was Unexpectedly Went Of all games in which I hey° played, the most remarkable for a sudden revulsion of feeling wen ono between Harvard and Yale played upon Jarvis Field, in June of 1882. Yale went first to the bat but failed to score. itarvard followed suit. In the secoad inning, a muff by the Harvard first. bare man followed by the Yale catcher's umlaute a twoMagger ' hit gave Yale a run. Our happiness was short-lived, how. ever, for in the third inning Harvard made two rune, followed by nother is the fifth. Yale scored one in the eeventh, but Har- vard matched it with one in the eighth, so that we began the ninth with Harvard four to Yale'two. I think we had not the levet hope of winning. I remember feeling, as we came in for the ninth inning, that this defeat would settle our (Menem) of the championship, and thinking how the crowd of boys who, as I Meow, wale sitting on the Yale fence await- ing the news, would boar it and dwindle away in silence to their rooms. Our first man at the bat in the ninth inning went out quickly; and our oatoher followed, with the same result. Wilcox, the last man on our batting list, came to the bat. Two men out, two rens to reach even a tie, and three to win 1 I noticed that the crowd was leaving the field, and that the young rascal who had charge of our bate wee putting them into the bag. • Here, you 1 atop that 1" cried I, for we all were superstitious about packing np the bats before the last man was out. Besides, I was the next batter, if Wilcox ehould by any ohanoe reach his base, and I wanted my bat. "Two strikes," I beard the umpire °ell, end then at the next ball, to my great joy, " Take your base," and Wilcox trotted away to first. I remember thinking how moth I would give -for a home -run, and then there come a good ball just off my shoulder, and I hit it with all my power. It went between third and shortstop on a swift drive, but bounded high, as I afterward learned, for I was meanwhile running at my best speed towards first. When I was fifteen feet from that base, I saw the baseman give a tremendous jump up into the air and I knew somebody had made an overthrow. How I ran then! -for every base I passed I knew was one nearer to tying the score. As I came dash- ing past third -base, I save Wilcox just ahead of me, and we crossed the horne• plate within three feet of each other. Oar next batter took his base on poor pitching and stole second; the next followed with a base -hit past second which brought the first runner home with the winning rue. We then went into the field, put three Harvard men out and won the game - when probably half the seven thousand spectators were already on their way home with a viotory for Harvard in their minds. -Walter Camp,in St. Nicholas for October. A Cabman's Opinion of Women. Said an old cabman " I have been standing in Forty-second street here eince 1867, and never have I had an extra ten cent pieoe from a woman. -They are all alike and their name is obese. I never drive one that she doesn't want to go like an engineer, and if I demand extra pay for the time made over the road she will hold hook and fight with her month every time. They all want their money'a worth. If they agree to travel at mile rates and doubt my estimate of the distances I have to wait while they go into a drag store or telegraph office for points, and then I lose more time than the difference amounts to. If they hire me by the hour they will hold the cab till the full hoar is up. I never knew one of them to cheat in the time, and never met one who paid for a fraction over. A man will allow me half an hour or half a dollar occasionally to get baook to the Maud, but a woman never pays for anything she doesn't get. Unless she is with a man I don't care much about carrying her." -New York World. A. Salvation Reform Scheme. Gen. Booth's new scheme of social re- form is being matured and the general will soon furnish the public with full details in a book called " In Darkest England and the Way Oat." Having reformed the drunken, the vioions, and the starving and degraded poor, the general proposes to draft them out of the slams to home colonies. When they are transformed into honest citizens they will be shipped to sal- vation colonies beyond the seas, where the only tax will be one on land, as Henry George proposes. In this scheme of social regeneration the religious part of salvation is optional. The general has many new ideas to follow. His vary latest scheme is a salvation matrimonial ageney.-London Star. How to Eat Peachee. "The art of eating a peach" is, it ap- pears, one of the questions of the day. Aocording to one authority on the etiquette of the dinner table a peach should be picked with tha fork, quartered, peeled and eaten piecemeal. But as so maoh manipm lation would evidently leave all the jaioe of the fruit on the plate, this method, to be palatable, requires the courage of the young lady in the story who, at her first appear. anise at a dinner party, raised her dessert plate with her two hands and calmly drank the sweet juice of the neetarines. The French rale of eating peaches will, there- fore, be accepted with much favor, and that rule is, " D'y mordre a pleinee dents." -Pall Mall Budget. A Fool at Large. The following latter, dated St. Paul, has been received at the Free Press office, Win- nipeg : " ST. Parra Oetober, 1890e -Dear Sir, I have hoard about Winnipeg, and I am going to be there on October 16th. I am well known as Jack-the•Ripper. and I am going to do some work there. I ani going to kill three,women and one mart. Look out for me, and don't forget October 16111. &LH TIIE • RIPPER,. Good-bye until you see me." trassmasemasser tommissetneseamet MB LATE WIXOM LIDDON. iets etatraordinary owe ati a Preacher an& a story-TeBer. Lehii early der) the late Canon Liddott was vehement in hie style of preetohingt and he depended very little upon his remota soeipt, tipeeking exteraporaneouely, with am impressive aotton. He °erne, howevere gradually to write more and more, although: he had all the el:motel Ohs Of a sPeakert, hie speeohes being at times as striking aa his sermone. He bed the power of become ing more epigramatio the .more impaa- sinned he was. He was keen And incisive in his language., and possessed a wonderfat power of irony and humor, which showed itself more in his talk than in his sermon& In the latter the sarcasm and humor were very carefully eabdued, but they were, there all the same. He would never talk about hie own sermons; hardly ever referred to them. He regarded them with great humility, and had a speoiel dislike to any praise being bestowed upon them. He was quite conscious of the limitations that a sermon has. He would sey ` to himself: that it was only a net to oatoh scathe the means of getting nearer to men ; and ha had etrong belief in the work to be done behind preaching. He had himself a geed deal of personal contaot with hie hearers and a great meas of confidential letter - writing with people on spiritual subjects.. Although vehement in his gesturein hie younger days, he contented himself later on with a very quick glance round on hie audience as if watching the effect of hie, words, a throw -back of his head, and are expressive ehake of his right hand. Elis most dramatic effect was obtained with hie voice, which took a very high note. Tho oanon was a brilliant story -teller one of the very best I have ever Miocene seys a personal friend quoted in the Pa& Mail Gazette. Indeed, he had a special gift. in that direction, and would dramatize in It most brilliant way. He was extremely sensitive to hie company, and if there was, ono present with whom he was oat ot sym- pathy he would be restrained directly, and people who met him thus might think hinx almost formal and dull ; but among his in- timate friends he would bubble over. He was earoletio, but moat of all humoroas. His humor was a most refreshing, spark. ling, surprising thing. It never paused. especially in the evenings. If he could not sleep, and got you out in the "quad," at Christ Church, he would ramble about till midnight pouring out his stories. He hadl au exceedingly keen sense of comic situa- tions and a happy knaokof coining epithets that made you jump with laughter. Thiel humor so flooded his talk that yon could not imagine how he kept it out of his ser- mons to the extent he did. Liddon's great gifts wee a brilliant imagination and a gait:kr-leen eye for principles and the issues of things. Ere always saw the end of things directly, end had the disposition to classify -perhaps tea quickly -to pigeon -hole them at once. TEa aid not like indefinite thinge, and had re suspicion of anything that was not deoieive and not clear in outline. As was said of him by J. B. Mozley, he would shy like a horse at anything snspioious. He had extraordinary quick and strong affections. and was easily moved on that side, although quite immovable on the intellectual side when once he had taken np a position. He had a very strong temper, well kept under, but he could be round, and I have seen him in the old days become so heated that, the conversation had to come to a dead stop. There was a carious contrast be- tween hie fixed intellectual beliefs and hie very warm personal feelinge, the latter to some extent modifying the former. When he once mime into contact with a person he was exceedingly elastic. It Stands Much Murdering. " Do you know what the dead langneges are, Willie ? " asked the minister. .4 Yep, Latin, Greek and English." English ? " " Yep. English is dead, too. Pa said you murdered it in your Sermon last Sunday." An Absurd Query. Berlington Free Press: He (reading) - Then their lips met, and --- She (interrupting) -Was it a protracted meeting, I wonder? So great is the prosperity of the First Presbyterian Churola tet Cleeland, 0., that it employs three hard-working clergymen. The oldest man in England, who has jut (lied at Elgin, attributed his good heath and longevity to oatmeal, whiskey, tobacco and fresh air. Justice McMahon opened the 'Brno° Assize9 at Walkerton yesterday. A girl of 17, named McDonald, breught an action for aeduction against a merried man named WilliamsOn and Neared a verdict with $500 &meager/. The perties reside in Senile. amptOn. • • Took Eight Men To Lift Her. One of the largest women on record has died in Paris. She was known as the "phe. nomenal female," her real name bein Vioturie Tantin and her age only 19., Mlle. Tantin woe not a giantesa in height. but her girth was enormous and it took eight strong men to lift her out of her chair when ebe used to be conveyed for exhibition to a mud° hall. The individasE who engaged her found that she did not pay her expenses owing to the cost entailedi by her transit to and from the cafe concern, so Victoria retired from public life and lived quietly with her parents. Lately she - had an attack of erysipelas, to which she succumbed. Her funeral was the event of - the day in the suburban locality wherein she resided and great interest was manie fasted by the neighbors in watching the lugubrious preparations for the burial of the poor "phenomenon," whose remains, were carried to the hearse and afterward to the grave on the shoulders of 10 of the meat robust men in the employ of the company of metropolitan undertakere. A Queen Distributes candy. Gondal is a lilliputian Hindoo state in: the Bombay presidency. Its area is about - eight times that of London ; it has 140,009 inhabitants, and rejoices in an army of 609 sepoys, with sixteen cannon and a squad or two of cavalry. The ranee. or queen of this state, may, possibly enough, have asked whether the maharanee, or great Queen of England, distributed sugar candy among the population of the British Isles on the occasion of her jubilee. It is what the Hindoo queen would have done. She, dispensed sugar candy among her subjects, of Gondol the other day, in gratitude for her recovery from siokneee.-London Daily News. What Women Ought to Know. What attracts a man is one thing ; what will hold him and command his respect is quite another. A women's smile, for example, attracts man; but an even temper retains him. A pretty gown attracts a man ; the knowledge that it was inexpensive delights him. A pleasant manner attracts a man; brightness of brain holds him. A knowledge of how, when and whore tai be a little stately attracts a man; an: appreciation of the folly of frivolity wino his respect. This Can Be Understood to sun. Bingley --There goes Skimps. He's the happiest fellow I ever knew. Alwaya langhing and joking. • Bangley-Is he married? Bingley -Didn't 0 tell yon he wets per- fectly happy? " Gail Hamilton," Abigail Dodge, con' dttots " a Bible talk" every Bandelier after- noon at Seoretary Blaine's. A. lamentable accident marred yester- day at Attetin, Man. A young farraer named Daniel Livingetone, 25 yeses of sge. was engaged in stacking grain, when he hart his Wane° and fell off the stack. He came in contact with a pitchfork where falling, and it ran through his body. lie taken home, Where he Hee in a precarious condition. At her debut in Oporto a woman bell- fightet, Cloth& Mejstaik, killed two bulk& and a week later, in Lisbon, the killed twat more. -Samna; ineariably reeked et. maw phil000phleal. 4