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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1891-5-7, Page 2lileaniboy's Dream. The Grizzly Bear sat on a tree, And piped his tuneful lay, The while the buzzing Bumble Bee Played tennis with the Jay. The Zebra, sitting by the pump, Was talking with the Moose, While twenty Kangaroos, alunap, Played bullfrog with the Goose. The Pollywog climbed up the vine That grew upon the house; And sliding (limn a piece of twine Was one brown little Mouse. The Pox tossed up a big baseball; The Lion at the bat Just whacked it o'er the red -brick wall, And truck the Pussy Oat, At this the nate ana Weis did grin ; The Kittens n the soup Began to cry, and 'Lind the din Small lienniboy waked up. THE DOCTOR, ••••••••••••[...1 CHAPTER IL "I WILL LIVE TO CURSE I011." Those bitter words, that long had been tormenting in Mrs. Lennard's bre tat, hav- ing once passed her lips, they oftea pissed them. If anyone of her numerous whims Was objected to by Dr. Lennard, ewe never failed to remind him that she wee wealthy Omagh to please herself, and pleas herself she did. In the first glow and warmth of his /eve, the young doctor h1a never once given a thought to the riches his %mile had brought him. His private income was &Mph enough for them both, Lind her money had never beau touched by tam; if it had her taunts would probaely have diriven him wild. One morning they went very nem, driving him wild as it wee. Ain acquaintance, more or less close, had s rung up between the Laighs and them. M. Leigh, a broken-down man of the world, living on a very scanty annnity, Made sporer still by haviiag to supply luxuries for himself as well as necessitiee for his child, had come to Fenmore to be out of the way. He had played the game of life in cities, and loan He came to end hie days quietly in this lonely spot where what he hod been WES unknown, and what he was passed utinotioed. His daughter, Letty, a motherless girl, had a full share of the finite usual to one, and rather more than a full there of the sweetneas. She was young and wild and slay, and lovable withal, and therein lay her blemish in Mrs. Leonard's eyea. She saw that her husband, who had grown cold and wave to her, could unbend to Ditty, smil- ing kindly at her quaiut speeches, and odd ways of the ohild-woman. To her he was arivays gentle and forbearing; he never frowned on her, he never chilled her by a covert sneer, and all this the jealous woman tapcied he did to herself. Her ownbrilliant blonde beauty was fading rapidly, while day by day, and week by week, the soft flush fired and deepeued on Letty's round olieell, and the deem, steady light in her gray eyes brightened. F.or months now D. Lennard hod gone his way; never unkind, edwaya cold ; he did not upbraid, but he (meld not comae the woman who had dashed hie cup with bitten. He did not love her; she herself had killed his love; but he could never forget the unleavened joy of ths first few weeks of his monied life when he had loved her wholly, intensely, with the gathered. up strength of his manhood. He never ceased to remember often with a sigh, the radiant vision of girlish loveliness that had passed through the dim stone hall by his side that fair Jane morning on whioh he hid brought home his bride. Everyone but his wife was saying how ill the doctor looked; everyone pited him, and was considerate to him. Pauline's jealous nature, ever craving to be first, had sickened over hie neighborly attentions to Letty Leigh for day and days, and this morning the torrent beret. The breakfast'hour had passed in sullen Damn on Pauline's part, and quiet indif- ference on the dootor's. He had got used to these domestic storms, and plainly saw that one was gathering. Breakfast over, he rose to go oat, feeling thankful that this one had only threatened, and as he reached the door a clear voice, that both husband and wife recognized as Leap's, broke into a laugh in the hall. A moment later, and Letty Leigh, still smiling, stood in the door -way, with a merry " Good.morning." The doctor, after returniug her greeting, and plaoing a chair for her, and prineeded to eelect a volume, while he asked what had been amusing her so." - "1 have just been walking on the shore," she replied, "and before I knew, a gust of wind came by, and my poor hat went dancing over the waves.' "Yon ehould be more careful of your hat, Miss Letty, on so windy a morning," said the doctor, "1 know, but I wasn't thinking of it jest then," said Letty, "and Ittouldn't but laugh when I saw it bobbing about like a wild thing. Bat the tide was coming strongly, and I got my poor old hat again, and that is what brought me here at this hour. P have left it in the kitohen to get dried." "Mise Leigh cannot have breakfasted yet, Pauline," said the doctor, glancing at his wife, but ehe did not heed him. His pale fan flashed at her want of courtesy, and Letty's countenance was a most embarrassed crimson as she rose to go. "Thank you, Dr. Lammed," eaid she, "1 dare not stay. My papa will want me to get his breakfast ready and my hat must be fit to put on now, for it was drying while I talked to Jadith." The girl paused, out of breath, kier long speech not serving to losaen her confusion, the doctor's ke.en eye had glanced from her face to hie wife raoro than once as she made it. " You must not put on a damp hat, Mise Letty," said the doctor, "or we shall have yon taking cold, and then what would papa say? Better he should wait for his breadtfaet." " Speak.the truth at once," broke in Mrs. Lennard, huskily, her blue eyes flu:cling. "Say what you would say, if any hart came to your darling." With hie hand on the door of the book- case, the doctor stood and looked at her in amazement ; and then, as the full meaning of her passionate words and angry looks datvried upon him, he turned and looked at Letty. Her clear gray ilea, widely opened, were fixedly wonderingly on his Wife's . but there wets no fluthieg color in her heel; cheek, no tremble of the firm mouth. She had not understood airs. Lennard. " I think, Pauline, you forget yourself etrangely," he esid. "Yon meet he dement. ing to use such words." "1 am not dreaming," she replied. " once dreamed, its you know; "but nett tirne is post, and can never return ; mark that, Paul Lennard—it can never return. I am neitiaer dreaming no blind now, and I see more than either of yon fancy." "Whatever you are," paid ho—" what- ever you see, I hope you hove enoug,h gentlewoman left in you to refrain from ouch talk in the presence 6f a vieitor, and that; vieitor a young girl." Never had his wife seen him an round and the baleful light in her eyes flashed u stronger every instant. "1 Iscow how you cherish the young gir —you need not toll me," she oried. " was an Young as elte was when yo married me for my money; and now yo tell me to bear Day wrongs ne silence because the shomelees areature who i luring my husband away from roe happen to be young." She laughed a ringing, scornful laugh and poor Letty, end watching her like on fascinated, shivered. " You are planning to merry her for love euppoee, when you havo buried m quietly," she ountinued ; "bet I will livo curse you yet—I will live to OIICS*3 y011 1" She roee up in a tenapeet of paseion her epee gleornieg, her cheeke burning A benetital fiend she looked. With a sharp cry, Letty turned from the room and hoe she lemon, flyieg with swift feet down th road and over the Rands to her home, never stopping to get her hat, but off juet as she was, her dark curls tossed about by the wind, and her ears still ringing with that vengeful ory. Detre. Lennard timed and watched the girlish ileum in ite neadlong flight, and when she could see h no longer the sleek book on her seat end began to ory quietly. A new fear of her husbend mined in her. "1 might have watched them and thwarted them," she was thinking as she sat there; 'hue I should not have spoken out. Oh, dear I I with I had kept quiet! " Dr. Lennard stood quite Mile his hand resting on the bookcase, his eyes sonnuieg, tlae volumes within it, and no one could have told from his grime, still face the thousand bitter min that roeo up in his soul; (with for peace, for love, for eynapathy, help, everything he had not, nor might hope to have. Presently be oroseed over to where his wife sett, and touched her on the arm. She raised her eyes to his face with a start, and kept them there, owed into quietnese by the fixed look it wore. "As soon att Mr. Stump can draw up the neceseary doom:ants, ' said he, "every faetlaing of your money, whith you know as well as I do has never been touched by rae, as it is, shell be legally settled upon your. !self, so that I never can teeth it. Let that content you. You have sunk lower in my esteem thou 1 thought any woman, much less my own wife, ever could sink. In the future let there be another scene like the one of thie morning, and we two than be parted as wholly as the law can let eta. Remember this, Mrs. Lennard, and know that I never breok my word." Ho was gone, with those cruelly steady eyes, that cruelly firm face, and ae the door closed upon him, hie wife fell to the floor in a faint. So Judith found her when she came in to take away the brealifreit things, and her tending was none of the gentlest, her muttered words none of the kindest, as she set about restoring her townie:doneness. The doctor kept his word; every farthing of hie wife's fortune was oetiled upon her before the month was out. In the early days of spring a weakly ailing little sou was born, but meeting no, mother.weloorae, the little stranger soon faded away, and a tiny grove in the ohurch. yard was the only vieible token of his brief stay on earth. In the father's heart a yearning void was lef t, mnd a tender memory of the baby fingers that had thrilled his palm ere they etiffened at the touch ot death, and passed away from him forever. Perhaps if the child had lived the mother might have grown a batter, mid so a happiee woman, and, perhaps, she might not; for she seemed to have no love for the wee bleasona, no care for it, even while it was hers to cherish, and that brief,, term of motherhood passed, end left her still the same °tinkered, evilehearted, discontented woman she had been before. Something in her husbend's manner kept her from any open nil/kg. She felt she dere not try him now as she had tried him in those early days before the love in his lithe; had dried ttp. She practised instead a 'aeries of petty contradiotions, ae contemptible as they were spiteful, and yet not without their Ming. Did she diecover be particularly wanted a certain thing done, that was the very thing she put forth ail her power to prevent being aceomplished. Did she think he wimeri her to tette care of herself, she went out in ail weattesee. Was be indiffer- ent, she fussed etnd tinned hereelf into a fever. Never heodiog, or rather never seeming to heed, the doctor went his daily round of duties, thankful for even a surface intim. But that he was not destined to enjoy bong, though the end was nearer than he could know. Urged by some wayward fancy of leer own, Mrs. Lennard suddenly took upen her to be repentant for the insnit offered to Letty Leigh. She walked over to the lonely little cottage one day while her hueband was away from Fenmore, and told her i3OW sorry she wee for her rash, senseless words; and the simple girl, kindly and true herself, believed her, and freely forgave them, per. haps all the readier that she was conscious of a little secret and heamleee admiration for the grave handsome doctor, that had grown up, unknown to herself, at the very core of her innooent youug heart. 11 was nothing to bring a blaela to the purest facie. No true wife, knowing it, but would have seen that it was a natural, childish liking only; but the frightened girl, knowieg little of women, and leas of her own heart, had been hurried by Mrs. Lennitrd's words to the conclusion that ebe had been gnilty al some horrible sin some shameful folly that had been plain 10 all. Ever after, when she had chanced to meet the doctor in hor walks, Letty land avoided him; and he, thinkieg it.a sign of her anger against him, had let it pees as one of the least consequences of his wife' t ill wotk ; therefore was Mrs. Lennard's olive -branch gratefully aocepted, and gradually things wore round to their old course, though with o slight difference. Some people might have thought and said that Mrs. Lennard wag laying a trait) for her huabeind, she put Letty so much in Foie way. Perhaps he thought eo too; per. haps he shrunk from expoeing the poor girl to a second outburst of jealous fary ; but, whatever it was, he kept strictly within the bare forms of common coarteey. Be was polite to her as hie witch] friend—no more, no less—and if a trap was laid for him, he walked by it scentless. Mrs. Lennardls health had been ailing for mime time. Not trusting to hie own skill, rind feelivg that the advice) of another wao more likely to be regarded by her than his her husband called in Dr. Green. life ordered change to e inilcler eiimate, and at once. But if Dr. Lennard thought hia wife was going to heed any more, he was rale. taken. She flatly refused to leave Fen. more. "No," she said, in one of her old out. burets; "he heal brotight her them to die, and she would die. She told him how it would be, and now it had come true." Dr. Lennard said nothing, but his mouth domed, and a little of the pain that was eating his life out flashed np into hie face, He knew that any remonstrance of his would only fix he in her rettolVe but in his round that day he coiled at the Leigh's cottage and asked Letty tel go tip and talk to here' for," as he frankly f3Aid,' if you do riot succeed, it is hopeleite, My wishes the would not regard in the matter at all." 0 0 0 • before. It confirmed her jealOtts auapioions, Letty prOmind to use her best lufluentie; and that evening, when the dootor come home, he found them both emoted by the fire in the drawing -room, betty talking. Letty's dark face wee all aglow with eorneet eloquence, and Pauline lay book in her chair and 'Wetted with a quiet smile. Pauline hAd been very 111 of lots, worse even then the dootor himself knew of ; her always alight form WAS painfully thin, and leer ietege, sof 1 eyee weee painfully brilliant. Wide all her illehealth, the twist and curl never left her hair, and now it lay over the crimson ouehion 10 et silken tangle at light. She was very fair, very beautiful, more womanly than ever he had theta her, even in the fleet sparkle of youth and health; and the great, tender love in hie soul yeerned toward her as be looted down on her plaoid, delicate facie. It epoke in hie voice, in the touch of his hand; 11 shone from out the depthe cf his dark eyes. It changed the stern, grave leuebond into the fond lover of old time. Oh, blind heart 1 oh, oruel hand I to fling back such a holy offering. " You are better tomiight, Pauline? " said Isa. "Yes, I am greatly better," she sold. "1 auo not going to die. I walked down alone; and the, my hand is cooler. Oh, pee, you must see I am better." Har husband took the little white hand in hie, and stroked it tenderly, and though the cold daoap of its warn chilled him, he gave no sign. Her eyes brightened with a little of their old fire as she looked scum to where Laity sat in the elandow, her hood leaning egainst the mantel. 4' Letty came over early in the afternoen to see me," elle said," and from then till now her one ory has been that I must go to Devonshire, or Italy, or FfallOti, or some- where—anywhero I think would please her, so that it was far enough from Fermaore." Letty half smiled as she met the doctor's approving glance. " It is not what would please me," she said. "11 is whot Doctor Green says iynet require. I should not like to eee you going away from Fonmore only for that." Too weak to be angry, illre.Lennard grew peevish. "1 elaull not ieove Fenmore," ehe said. "1 am well enough to go to Lapland, if it is the cold you dread. I shall etay here." "Well, well, then, Pauline, you shall," said the doctor, soothingly. "You know years& a ohmage would do you good. But if you took it unwillingly, perhaps half the good would be lost." Letty stayed rather late that night—later then the usually did or cared to do then; but Mre. Lennard had been loath to part with her, and when she put on her hat and cloak, and the doctor roe° to see her home, his wife seemed as if she would have stayed him jase at the lost; but she said nothing, and he went. Their eltortest road was morose the sands; and to -night, with the moon shining, and the Bea calm and as smooth as &anted sil- ver, it was the pleasanteat also. A still aiglat, with a sultry breeze blovviug from the land that scarcely fanned the cheek as it went by. Letty was shy and quiet; his thoughte busy with the past, the doctor yeas in no talking mood, and the greater part of the walk was accomplished in thence. Once, as they left the sea behind them. and turned into the narrow, shadowy lane that led to Letty's home she thought she heard a cry, half gasp, half sob, as from some injared animal, aad she stopped and lietened. Dr. Lennard asked what it wamend she told hien, " Itis the wind that is rising," he said. "See the clouds that are banking up orer there 1 We shall have a storm to -night." Still the girl stood and lietened, her healthy cheek blanching with a terror to which she timid give no name; 00. aain, further away this time, bat still disti the longdirawn breath broke the 'Willem. This time the dootor heord it, too; perhons bonen he had been liaterring 1 or it. That was the meson he gave to Letty. "Ilia nothing but the sough of the wind through these old trees," said he. "You need not tremble so, child. The night ia so clear that we should see if any living creat- ure we,s near about." Very comforting to the prootioal doctor, no doubtt, but not at all so to Letty. She went the rest of the way with her head turned back over her shoulder every few steps to the if anything followed, and her ear straiaed to the utmost to catch the faintest repetition of that gaspine''sound, but none come, and the doctor lefther sof° inside her own door, and laughed at her ale face as it showed in the light of the lamp. "Yen will never do," said he," to live your life by the seet, if the Hain; of the summer storm and the breathing of the summer wind oan fill you with superstitious fancier,. I thought yea were wiser, Miss Letty." Letty tried to answer his light words, but she could not; and when he woe gone, rind she sat down ou the eide of her bad, she could not keep from bursting into tears. A sore pain seemed to lie heavy on her heart, o dim foreboding of evil shadowed her round; and nuder ita sinister influence the girl shivered and moaned as though rent by bodily suffering. And through a ail there rose those now half.forgotten words; " I will live to curse you yet 1 I will live to curse you 1 " And then, in the room, by her side, tibove her, all round her, the air seemed to thrill with that gasping cry, as Laity had heard it in the lane, till the poor girl felt as if she were struggling in some terrible dream, or dee losing her reason altogether. Whether that ory wos a reality or a delusion remained a mystery; but whether or no, the wiud was rising, and that rapidly, and the dootor remembring it would be high tide that night, went ,round by the village to hie home. The sky was now one shifting mass of block cloude, that were ported 'every now and again by long, keen flashes of forked lightning, The 500 was emending BO loudly that he heard it evan in the heart of Fen - more; and se he went up the little bill to hie own lame he heard it plainer Mill, and the wind beat great dashes of rain in his faces every few ;monde. "A bad night for the fishermen," he said, half aloud," and I'm afraid there will be a good mug out ere this." He had gained his own gate as he spoke, and he turned round to look at the angry pea. The great billows, rising high, dashed farionely on the somas and againet the rooks, their create thivering into foamy Whitenese. Far out—its far eta the eye could pierce' through the thick darkness— the wean of wateree spread, heaving and falling like a living thing—a terrible sight —while over all played the eithly glare of the lightning. Dr. Lennard turned haatily from it and, turning, stumbled over something in the patin Stooping, he eaw that it waa a woman lying prone on his doorstep, her light drams clinging oloaely to her, her long hair trailing over the ground. He pushed the door open, and lifting her in hie arms, carried her into the lighted hall, thinking with 'pity that it was Borne poor night,wanderer who had lost her way, and perlaape fallen from ex. hattetion. Ail the light fell fully on the figure i the dootor staggered under ktis burden, and a deadly chill etole wren him. He recognized the pale silk drools, the Amy golden hair. No need to raise the still, white 1 aoe to now that it woe hie wife. The banging.to of the hall door, and the Moiler of the lamp as the rough wind ruehed in, roused hitn, aud he carried her up to her own room, and, laying her on the bed, rang for judiala. The old woman mime, mid her froth faee blanched euddenly at the eight that met her eyes. Illre. Lennard lay on the bed, her ban& tightly clinched, her face algid, with her wet hair falling in tarnished mann round it. Her pale eilk dren Was stained with mina and writer, and of her thou one was missing altogether, while the other had plaioly been up poet the ankle in a eland puddle; and standing by the bedside, more worn and haggard than the old wonaan had ever seen him, even in these last miserable years, was Dr. Lennard, looking quietly hut sternly down on the strange figure of his wife. But he did not etand long thus. No stranger could have gone about restoring conseiousness more promptly and coolly; and when, after a weary time, life nine book to the still face, and the small hands trembled and unclosed, like a stranger he left the room, and sent the boy for Dr. Green. Ma. Lennard opened laer eyes on jadill'e rugged face as it was bent over her pillow, and, like one treating from a troubled dream, she raised her head to lock round on the familiar objecite, as though to convince her- self of the reality of the present. But even that exertion was too muck; and as her head touched the pillow again, she gave at low, sharp cry, and with the my came a rtufla of blood, staining her parched lipe, and making her white face appear etill inure ghastly: and Judith, startled into pity, went hastily out, and called the doctor. When he came his own Nes was as white and set as the dying fan before him, for he eaw that she was dying. When the blood hod ceoeed to well out, and Pauline was as well as she might ever be, the doctor was etealing softly from the room to the if hie messenger had returned, but she put out her hand and stayed him. "Don't go," she whispered; " I am dying. Don't go—don't 1' The few broxen words made the ominous red tide rise again, and Dr. Lumen:a bend. ing over hor, and meeting tho terrified, beseeching eyes of this woman he had loved so passionately, felt hie own ecorch with an agony too deep for tears. Hour after hour he stayed by her, exert• beg all his skill, but in vain, to stay the ebbing lite; and when ekill failed, soothing her with fond words, ealion of the glad music of paet days, and tender touones, eloquent of love, of forgiveness, too, to poor, dying Pauline. Dr. Green came, but hen -aid do nothing; she wits past all earthly aid, and in the ghostly gray twilight of the early morning she died. Wait the last nmiiltehing of her life Pauline had forced etrength to tell her hus- band he knew she had wronged him al- ways—this last time most of all, and to beg of him to forgive her, A racking vision of what this fair woman might have been to him rase up ae he bent over her dihig bed, mixed with a yearning thenkfulnees for the justice and the love that had come, though so late; and so he kissed her and held her closer in tale arms, and with his forgiveness and hie love sought to let her die in peaoe. But in peen ehe could not die. In vein he bade her put her truet in her Soviour, and fix her hopes ore His tenderaese and mercy; but her heart was closed and hard, sindthe holy words fell on heedless ears. In vain the dootor looked and spoke as if the cruel put was a dream, and she was the -fondly loved young wife of thoae early June days; she could not die in peace, and she did not. There was a went and a crying need in her dying eyes terrible to see; and it was under the harden of an unuttered longing that she struggled iuto eternity. (To be Oontinued. A. Ygodern Sodom. Orange Sentinel : There ie a remarkable difference in the observance of Sunday in Chicago and Toronto, not to the credit of the Western Metropolis. There the street oars run from early morn till early next morn; the saloons throw their doora wide open to their thirsty patrone ; the second- hand shop, pawn shops and cigar entree are in full blast ; saburban trains rash in all directions carrying, thoueands to out- lying parks and subnrba, where German bands discourse sweet music and where the foliciwere of Terpsichore trip the light fantastic to their heart's content ; and drink lager and Rhine wine as fast as it oan be handed oat to them by the active waiters. The theatres too, almoat without exception, look forward to bigger bueiness at their Sanday matinees then at those of even Saturday, and almost the entire popula- tion seen to give themselves up to fa day of pleasure, if not disalpation. True, the Sabbath was not intended se a day in which to do penance, or me a day in whittle one should shut himself up and mope indoors, but we draw the line at spending a Sanday afternoon in witnessing the gyrations of a female Spanish dancer in a variety theatre. In all, imme twelve theatres, variety halls and mammal, give matinees each Sunday afternoon daring the season and they are exceedingly web patronized. If Chicago keep(' on it will soon earn the title of the Modern Sodom. Oompulsorye„Vot ing. 03Wag0 Times: There is a bill before the legislature to compel every duly qualified citizen to vote at elections under proper pains andpenalties for neglect so to do. The exercise of the eleative franchise ia the highest duty of American citizenship. No good citizen has a right to neglect to vote and leave the selection of officore in the hands of the roughs and rowdies and that class of people who never neglect to vote except suds neglect as comes from disgust that no 0110 oilers to pay them for their votes. If American inetitutions re worth preserving, intelligent and antecede. ble eitizens should do their shore of the work, and if they are too indolent or too indifferent to do their duty the law should oompel them to do it, just as it aompele them to pay taxes or do anything else for the safety of the public. Scotch Ascendancy. Toronto Empire: It has been ilea with vane show of reaeon, that Sootchmen rule Canada in the domain of politics. The recent Austrolian convention has oleo brought out the prominence of men of that nationality at the Antipodea, such impor. tent dele,gatee ae Hon. William McMillan, Treasurer of Now South W ales ; Hon. James Mune°, Premier of Victoria; Hon. Delman ilhiea, ex -Premier of that colony; Dr. Cockburn, ex.Promier of South Aus- tralia ; Sia 'Thomas McIlwraith, of Queens. land, and Hon. Adye Donglaa, of Tetemania, all being Scotsmen. —It iaret tie° olothee a woman mare that turns her head ; it is the clothes other women wear. —A. man is satisfied to drop into the first ealoon to spend ten ciente, bat a wonaan Will make it show her throaglit every Moro in town. XildNAILINGVIE NEMO TO HIM Blow the 9ueen Consort Beard of King lialakaunis Death. Many women and men had been busily engaged in decorating the palace foe His illajesty'e reception, eaye a Honolulu letter to the San Francisco Chronicle. ,They had been othembled foe several days and worked under the Queen's perinned [super. vision. Early on the moraine of January 29th the wiling hen& began their labor of love, Soon the Queen appeared at the top of the wide marble etoircase of the main hall, clad in a italoku, the native limn. Slowly and etately she joined the workere, contributiog arnibes ant salutations to all. Stnnding among the native workers and directing them to add towhee here and there, she was a picture of tnajeety, but while every inch r qusen, she thorned to take an itlimose childish delight in the thoughts of the gratification with which king would greet her work. " Ile will be FO pleased," the said. The Hon. Samuel Parker entered and announced to Her Majesty that the Cheri. eston had been reported off Koko Head. At Ibis intelligence work nosed, and the at. tendents read in the face of Mr. Parker the Bad news he had come to break. " Alt 1 my King has prepared a surprise for me ond I shall ncit be outdone. Why ibo yon stop your labor? Begin again, and we will finish before His Mojesty arrivea," said the Queen, anti the began with her own hancle to entwine BOU10 maili in the meshes of the rich drapery. " But, Your Majesty," said Mr, Parker, " tho flogs on the Charleston are at half- mast, itnd I am efritid something has hap- pened." " How tied 1 Tiny must be relearning for some one who has died aboard," armwered the Q aeon. " lint the Ela waiien flag is at half-maet niso, Your Majeety." " Ah I my king should grieve with them thould anyone be dead." The attendante undeestood the woret, but Kapiolani refused to understand, and &till urged therm to complete their decora- tion. All were silent and bowed their heads, but Mr. Parken broke the silence, and 1H coin), sympathetic voice announced to the Queen the death of the King. The transi• tion from the simplicity of her delight to the paroxysms of grief was so sudden that Rba almost fainted, end would have fallen to the floor had not loving arms supported her. She gave r, ehriek, cud began wailing iu a mournful and most pitiful manner. Othere added their cries of wailing to the ead and bitter moaning of the Queen and the aeene brought tears to the eyes cif the etrongeet present. Mr. Parker wiped the team from his. eyes, and raising tho Queen supported Ler to her apartment]. Goodness Pays. At any rate, thia is the teaching of decision rendered in the court of appeale the preeent week, said to be the first of the kind ever given there, although the principle involved has been paseed upon by ether tribunals we believe. The facie are as follows: On Bilareh 2011, 1869, William Storey, a wholes:Oa liquor dealer of Buffolo, told hie nephew, William E. Storey, then it lad in knickerbockers, tint he would give him $5,000 if he would not smoke or drink moil he became 21 years of age. The uncle added several other conditions, even coffee, oar& End billiarde being tabooed. As the old men made his money in appetizing liquors his iejartetions to his nephew were the more remarketble. The incentive of e golden retvard caused William to lead an exem- plary life. On January 31sts, 1885, be attained his majority, and wrote to hie uncle claiming the $5,000. The unale replied, acknowledging the indebtedness, bas said he deaired to hold the money on interest until a. Patine day. Soon after Mr. Storey died, arid hie ezeoutor, Franelin Siclway, refused to pay the elim. The case was tried in the Supreme Conrt and judgment recovered for $9,585.89, principel and interest. This jndgment was reversed by the General Term, but Ishii] week was sustained by the Court of Appeals, and William E. Storey will get his money. Before You Clean noun. Long before the calendar nye it is time to begin house-cleaning, says the Ladiesj Home Journal, you should look over the magazines, papers, disabled farniture, die - c arded garments, and household ornaments which even twelve months accumulate so wonderfully. Be brave, and do not save an indisoriminato roan of articles against the posaible needs of the seventh year of which we hear so much. Give tway the bast of the old garments and sell the remainder to the junk nacin. The maga- zines and papers which you do not intend to have bound or to utiliz 3 in your scrap- book will be eagerly reed in thine hoepital or other inetitution. Even the furniture and ornaments will greatly brighten the dreary surroundiugs of some poor family. Have the courage of your conviotions in dealing with the contents of trunks etnd boxes. Dispense with non -essentials and systematize the remainder, and your reward will be a delightful sense of space and a feeling of almost physical relief. What He Wanted. Cloak Review: " I have come in here sir,' said the angry citizen to the superin- tendent of the horscaoar company," to get justice. Yesterday as my svife wea getting on to one of your care, the conductor atepped on her dress and tore eft a yard of it," " Well, sir," calmly replied the superin. fondant, " I don't know that we are to biome for that. What do you expect us to do --get her a new dress ?" "No, sir, I do not," grimly replied the other, brandishing in hia right hand a smailtpithe of cloth. " What 1 propose to have you do is to help me mittch *hie cloth." Refinement of Cruelty. " You look sad, Birdie; what is the matter 2" were the words addressed to Birdie MoHenipin by her friend, Mollie Squeers, as they met on Audio avenue. " I am not feeling well." "Are you sick ?' " No, I am riot precisely sick, but I feel tired—overworkede' " Do toll me about it." Well, you en our colored cook la sick, and now poor mother haa to do all the ceekino, and scrubbing and witehing and ironing, and it MOMS me feel no tired to me the old creature work. She im 00 slow." The eteamer Milwaukee struck on the Lime Kilns, near Amberstbarg, yesterday naorning, She ill now lying at Arnhorsiburg dock in a leakyoondition, but the pump] keep hrr free. Rev. Dr, G. W. Bothwell, of Brooklyn, accidentally swallowed a email ookk the other day, whioh lodged in bib left bronehae, arid phyeicians have been unable to reach it A fetal reenit is feared. The new Earl Granville if3 a palmfaced lad o119. He hi at preeent a student at Elan, and canned take hie pleats 11 the House of Lords until he attatne hie nato jority. BIRTHS! DIARRIAGEB, DEATHS. tomm••••••••••••••,.. Figures Giving Ontario's Record for Year 1889. SOME STRANGE REVELATION& The nthaal report of the registration of. births, marriageti and deathe for the year endless; December 91e1, 1889, whioh has been prepared in the °filth of Mr. Dryden, the Regietrince General, woo laid on tha membetel dealts in the Provinoial Legiele- thre Thursday afternoon. It shows that during the year 1889 there were regietered 48,538 births, 14,880 near- riagee eied 23,329 deaths. Compared with the registrations mode during 1888 the baths show an Woman of 1,585, the mar- riettetrejtenoifon4cre5.ase of 329 and the domain a d The mate births iia the Provinoe 'BUM- bered 24,737, the females 23,801, an exona of 936 males, ahowing a proportion of 1035 males to 100 females. , There was a email Morena in the number of twin Writhe registered. Three Oliflaff ob triplete, the some number NS in 1888, were registered. one eao'n in the oennties of Haldimand, Peterborough and York, reepeatively. The report saye " Of the 48,539 chil- dren whote births were registered during Mao year 1889, 47 581, or 98 pee cent, were: legitimate end 953, or 2 per cent., ilbegiti ratite. In 1888 there were 46,953 births registered. Of then 46,335, or 98.7 per cent., were legitimate and 618, or 1.3 per ciente illegitimate, showing a large increase in the number of illegitimate births regis- tered in 1889," The marriages of the four priacipoi deneminatione were lie follows : lYletho- diets, 9,920 ; Prethyterione, 6022; Epieco. pollens, 5,041, and Roman Catholics, 4,316. Little chomp took pion in the months chosen for marrying. October, December and January are 8141 the favorite menthe, especially December, which heacie the list with 1,753 weddinge, nearly 12 per centt of the whole number celebrated during the year. Comparatively few marrioges took place in Angast, only 913, or 6 per cent., of the whole number returned during the year. The returns ahow that 42 parting were married at the age of 70 yeare and over; 40 bridegrooms and 2 brides. Only two brides were older than their bridegrooms; one woe 82 years old and the bridegroom 62 years, the other WaS 70 years skid the bridegroom 61 years. The united age ot Mao eldeet couple worried in 1889 was 148 yeare. The bridegroom was 81 years and Mao bride 67. Four persons were married at 80 years of ago and over, three tnales and one female. In contraet to these marriages of persons advanced in years the fallowing youthful marriagewere recorded, viz. : Nine girls of 14 years of age united them- eelves to youths under 19 years, and thirty girls were married at 16 years of age. The yoangest couple married was a girl of 14 yeare of ago to a youth of 18 yeare. The greittest disparity of age exhibited in etny marrioge vete that alt mon aged 79 years vyveliaorBar. arrieci a maiden of the age of 15 The ten highest causes of death were consumption, to whioh 2,417 deaths were due ; pneumonia, 2,286 ; nervous diseanes, 2,268 ; general debility, 1996; heart dis- ease, 1639; diorrhoen dittoes, 1,192; fevers,953 ; enteritis and gastritis, 831 ; diphtheria, 801 ; and kidney diseasee, 592. The report contains colored diagrams, which preaent the deoth rote in each county, city eind town. Tim rotio in York, Carleton and Frontenao was high; 20, 1l and 15 per 1,000 respectively. In contrast to thia the following counties returned a low ratio, viz , Bruce, 7 per 1000; Grey, 7 per 1000; Huron, 7 per 1000; end Nor- folk, 7.3 per 1,000. In the eines and towns the death rate was generally higher than in the rural diatricts, owing, no doubt, to more oomplete registration. In Kingston, Ottawa and Brampton the rate of !nor- tality was unusually high, viz- : Kingeton, 27.1 per 1,000; in Ottawa, 238 per un and in Brampton, 23 6 per 1,000. The 1:0w0e0.st death rate in 1889 in the citioe anti towns was reperted from Port Hope, 8 per How to Lay a Carpet. Lay the linings on the floor, putting itt small took hero and there to keep them in plaice. Put the carpet on the floor, un- rolling it in the direction in which it ia to be lead. Begin to took it at tiers end of the room which is the most irregular. If there be a fire.place or bay -window in the roora fit the carpet around these places first. Use large tacks to hold the carpet temporarily in place; they con be withdrawn when the work is finished. When the carpet is fitted to n places use small tocke to keep it down. Tack orte end of the carpet, stretahing it, web; then a side, then the other end, and finaily the other side. Be careful to keep the lines straight and to have the carpet fit tightly ; for if it be loose it will not only look badly, but will not wear well. - Maxim Parloa in the Ladies' Home ,Tourn2l. William to Visit kngfand. The Emperor William is to arrive in London on or about Monday, June 29; he will atny at Baolsinghs.m Palace for a week, and is then to go to Windsor Castle for the wedding of Princess Louise of Sahleawig- Holstein and Prince Ariberk of Anhalt - Dessau, which ceremony, according to present orrangemente, will Seiko plan in St. George's Chapel on Tuesday, July 7, or Werinesdity, July 8. The Emperor will stay at Windsor for a, couple of dive asithe guest of the Queen, and is then to take hia departure from England. Sure to Rise. Munsey's Weekly : Shingler—I have called to ask your daughter's hand in marriage. Prospective Pa—But you are an un- known doctor, without sufficient income to snpport her, and the ethics of your preten- sion forbid you to advertise. Shingler—Yet I arn no fly.roost. I have let three roman over my office to repozteris, have given them free use of my telephone, and have joined the Peen Club. it Was ani Buffalo News: "Do you keep o dog 7" asked the young man of the old man, tenta- tively. "Ye, sir," said the old mau, sternly, "I keep a dog," The young man's heart fell 40 &gram; Yes, sir," continued the old man, soft- ening, foe he had seven daughter's, "1 keep one tied." No cards. A Drummer's Sample. A St. LOTliBoommercial traveler probably °orrice the most unique " sample ' m the profession. It is a human body, 3 years old, an example of the efficacy of a ciertain mbalining fluid. , On Saturasy the Detroit street car 00311 - rallies arid their striking employeeree forred their disputes toAve arbitratore for adjciatment, and in the meantime the mon return to work on their own terms pond- ing the decision of the arbitrators.