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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1891-6-11, Page 2pielelleommemempasamaemer wm Gong to the neapillere. I've struggled through the 'winter with 'bout balf enough to eat, An old hat upon my head, and with old oboes on my feet, And all the thume that I have bought hate been as cheap as dirt, But I'm going to the seashore if I nave to pawn my Shirt. I've lost my situation, and nay poetry won't sem MY:money's now en gone and my only friend as well ; But he can go to ula-hu where the hoses never squirt, For I'm Going to the seashore i I have to pawn my slairt. I'llaweak upon the sandy beaten and hold my dm:Magni hand ; And in the roiling eurf, in rapture I will ete.nd, And with all the giddy idens oil the sandy beach nu tura For I'm going to the seashore it I bave to pawn my shiet. When my chetah an expended, and the grand bounce 1 have got, Though I leave so quick that I won't know if i'm (awe or not ; Thougla the landlord's few remarks may be—well, quite severe and curt, l'm going to the seaBhore if I have to pawn my shirt. weese anameasemaimemeasur THE DOCTOR. She spoke his mane !shyly, with the womanly intent of rousing him by un - Wonted kindnen from the sties ege, cold elbow. " Ill 2 " he repeated. "No ; bet I might have been. Your father is tit, L by. He on fret and moan, but I ammo even do that. Will you walk with me n • v, and I will tell you the news I have omen- out after you to tell." Hie voles was low and hard, e nd Letty Shivered as she listened to it; still the would not shrink from hearing whatever it was he might have to tell. It was a story many had betened to beiere with only the difference of a few paltry details. It was a story that nese been told with deadly effect, by many a heerthmione, and in many a banking-hous—e tale that many poor creatures had shivered and moaned over before her—but it fell none the len heavily and enadeuly on poor Letty on that amount. It was all coni. prised in one word—tuin 1 It meant hard- ship and poverty, and hamilestion ; but they were all hidden us yet in the bleet: folds of that oue ominous word of four Letters. Mr. Leigh had sank all his daughter's fortune in a great brilliant bubble eoheme ; all hie gaudy airoastles bad the well-being of this scheme for their foundation; but now the false sands had Shifted, and the eide-board mansions ware strewn in the dust. Ernest Deverena had no fortune to stake, bat he staked his name and his proepeots, and all the ready mesh he could master, and the end was ruin for him also; more dire, more complete, than had even fallen upon Mr. Leigh. The young man had hardened and atiffened under the blow; the old man had broken down under it, and bat for Ernest Deverenx he would never again have been able to reach Fenmore. Not a very plemarint story bo to tell any. muoh lese to a young girl who had grown accustomed to all the joys and luxuries which money brings to tea possessor. And Ernest Devereme remembering the deathly faint of the past New Year's Eve, felt no little uneasiness as to how it would be received. But Letter did not faint now. She heard him to the end quite calmly and patiently, and than her words did no express sorrow for herself or for him, only for her father. o My father 1" she said, her eyes fall of teen, her voice broken - " my poor father how will he bear it 2 What oen I do to make him able to bear it? " Ernest Deveretat looked at her wondered. This was so different from all he had expected; and half dreaded so see, when the hard news was broken to her. " If I could endure a life of poverty with any women, that woman would be Letty," he thought. "She would never grow into a shrew under her troubles." "1, too, am e ruined man, Letty," he said aloud, after a peuse ; "but, for all that, the bond between no need never be broken, unless you will it." She turned and looked at him as he stood beside her, the breeze playing among his luxurient whiskers and gently raising the thick, silken ends of his mustache. He was very handsome, vary gentlemanly, but he was not the man she would care to face the storm with. She was honest and true to the core, and she spoke out frankly now, as Ernest Devereux, man though he was, would not have dared to have spoken. "1 do will that it ehould be broken, Ernest," she replied, " but not for my sake only. Yon are not one who could make your way in the world if you had a poor wife to drag you down. Some men could, but you could not, and I dare not marry any man to be a burden upon him—I dare not do it. No, don't," she said, putting her hand on hie arra to stop him when he would have anewered her, ' don't say any. thing. I know you are honorable and true. • I know you would marry me to -morrow if I wished it, though you would have to live and die a poor man in consequence; bat I do not wish it, Ernest—believe me, I do not." I She stepped and stood silent for an instant, her face flushing and paling, her frank eyes turned from him; then she whispered, timidly, as though owning some heavy crime: d I—I'm afraid I do not love you as you should be loved. I don't think I could if I tried ever eo. But----." She stopped short and looked up at him, and then quickly turned her face away, painfully flushed and embarrassed. Per- haps the memory of that ether love she had once confessed to this man was sting- ing her pride now, painting her cheeks with those burning blushers, and making her clear eyes falter and droop. Norte but Ernest Devote= himself, or some self- cankered, world -hardened spirit like him, maid know tlae effort his offer had cost him; and now, looking at her, he wished on hie heart thet she had taken him at his work. For one moment he felt that to have the lova of this true•hearted girl he would leave been content to fight his way in the world, and take bis plasm, humbly and earnestly, aroorm its busy workere; the next, he saw that he never could have token hie piece there with any chance of themes, and being a sensible man he took 'things as they were, and was thankful. But in that ehort apace of time, while he *stood by Letty, wittohiag the setting sun, without clearly knowing that he was watching it, the one bright light of his life faded out, tine Emma 'Devereux was the men of the world again and forever. Then he stooped and raised the sweet fame *hat • was so near his own, and kiesed it softly, and Broiled, as he saw the blushing bloom under hie lips. • "he last time, Letty. Remember we were engaged," said he, end drawing her arm clone him, as he led her toward • home. "our father Will went to see you by this time," he continued, "ea he will perhap think you tire grieving if you Mem away longer now." Bo they walked, arm in inn away frora the darkening este, eta on toward the little cottage where the old man was wattnag for the daughter he lead dragged back into piteertY. CEugxErt vzz. " TAM, STRO10Ba max r num." Erma Devereux did not ohm long with the Leig'os ; that some night he darted or Loudon; from thence he purposed making hie way to Beillogne, wnere at lomat he would be free from the peep of enraged creditors. Then Letty eet herself to face life bravely, as it was bee nature to do. Nat very pleseeet would that life be hence- fotth, bus it weal, have he (Rain, and these she wao determined to fulfil. One of the hetet of the many unpleasant things' thie loes of fortune brought Letter, was the lose of Mrs. Atherton. That lady% cutlery °data no longer be paid her, and she was not one to stay 0 (Angle hour for noth. Ing; he even grumbled and lamentsas though thiS lege was her own personal grievance, end hO, indeed, it was in one way. She made no pretense of sympathy beyond a few commonplace politenemes, that woe wort h less than the puff of breath that gave them ettbstanee. She ooramenced without tiny daisy to eet hor properties to- gether, end they liad increased vosetly dur- ing her stay in thet hoose; and then, when she lied all her preparations completed, she lamed Linty on the cheek and drove off to the known, MI:. Leigh escorting her. That was the bet journey the pretty little trap ever went wbile Mr. Leigh was ito owner, for three dos after ha sold it, and the gay mare that drew it. The cottage he had bought, and he would neither dispose of i3'nor of any article of furniture, however costly, however Ont of place and uselese it might be; and so father and daughter went back to their former humble way of lime, their one servant, and the thousand and one petty troubles that genteel poverty is heir to. Unutterably weary were tho glaring summer days the* followed to poor sorrow - burdened Letty. It was not the riches themselves she grieved after; they had galled her more then they had comforted her, at the beat; but it was the means of supplying the selfish neoeseities of her father that the was raining. The taste of wealth had fired the old passions of waste aud extravagance in hio heart, and he fretted sorely when he loot the power of feeding them. Gladly would poor Letty worked to produce for her father, bat work there was none for her to do. She could not toil meaningly, for she was a gentlewoman; teething, that laet resoaroe of reepeota. bility, was barred to her, for she had none of the showy accomplishments that the governesses of the present day are expected to possees and transmit to their pupils with proper zeel for the munifinnt stipend of, say, twenty pothole per annum. There was nothing, therefore, that Letter could do but sit pasaiva, and eootaomize her household expenses, and soothe her father's temper as beat she might. Oh 1 what a terrible thing it is for a strong soul to sit passive 1 Some have learned this from experienoe and the knowledge has sent them into their graves; to sit passive, and see the high tide of life drifting past, over paet, without flinging one waif of good fortune over the lonely rook where you are placed; to sit passive and see the fair years of youth gliding away into that terrible past, from which no after amount of prosperity can bring them back—so sit passive, and eat your heart out, till the chain snaps, and the slow agony is ended. Stich was life to Letty through the burn- ing heat of the long summer, and the biting cold of the longer winter that followed Mr. Leigh's last memorable visit to London. And he was growing dreadfully old during all those months. In the first bleak days of the early March Mr. Leigh coaid not leave his room; he seemed to shrivel up and fade as the days grew longer and brighter, and before the May blossoms whitened the trees, he ley under the green sods of the little thumb - yard on the hill. Then Letty stood alone in the world, with but a very small annuity to keep actual want from her door. Mr. Leigh had been a gentleman by birth and fermne ; he hid relations and friends in pa ety, bet they were worse than etrangere to hie orphan ; many of them he scarcely by knew name—to none had she shadow of a right to apply for help. Letty instated on going to the funeral; and when kind, motherly Mrs. Wilson begged of her, for her own sake, not to go, she turned a deaf ear. "He was my own dear father," she said pitifully—m the only creature that ever oared for me; and he shall not be carried to the grave without one who loved him to follow him." " Bat, my dear, you are not expected to do each a thing. It will be too trying for you," said the kind woman. " Do let me persuade you not to think of it, Letty." "1* he had a eon he would have gone," said Letty, " I was both son and daughter to him, and I will go." Well, my love, you must do what seems best to you," said the good lady, and there were tears in her eyes as she kissed Letty's cold cheek and left her. Every heart ewelled with pity for the pale, drooping girl, who stood so bravely by She open grave, and looked on with white lips and dry, burning eyes, as the earth fell heavily and sallenly on her father's coffin. lid. There was something terrible in the quiet grief of the girl, something perfectly thrilling in the stony calm of her young face. Looking at her, one felt the iambi was unnatural, and the reaction would be awful. When or how that reaction ems no one but herself knew, Mt the Letty that eat in Leigh's' pew on the following Sunday was so unlike the Lefty that they had known hitherto, that more than one eye turned to look after her se she went up the aisle in her long black dress, a dark, mournful shade between them and the onnshine. Small as the cottage was, it was too large for Letty now, and if ehe could the would have let it. But no tenant could be found, and she stayed it in perforce. The greater part of Mr. Leigh's income died with hira, and on the amity remainder Letty had learned to live. A proud girl in her poverty would gone away from the place, and from the people who hid known her in different circumstances. But Letty was more loving than proud, and ehe olung tenaciously to the opot that had seen the dawn and the darkening of her brief love dream. The sultry rammer ripened into "autumn, She corn stood high intim meadows stretch- ing around Letty's home, end the purple blooms of the fens were in fall luxurianoe. The first rending pain of her loss VMS over, but the weary void in her heart was unfilled, end often sitting in the warm haze of the Asignet days, looking out on the shifting sea, she would think with half a sigh that perhe,pe she was wrong, after all, in meting away Erneat Deveretut's love eo readily. And yet she felt that she could not do otherwioe, were he to COMO end offer it again. Of the one love that would have been so preolotes to her, the had given up all hteme ; and any other, however *toe, how. ever tenaer, ocnild be bra An empty mune to her after that. Th0 Weary days drawled away till !ping -time woe *gain. Leidy, Mending to the ohorohtyard by her fathel'a armee, looked down, through the blinding teare, on the green soda tate* heal been laia there so emmothly juet one year before. It was a tair April day, raede up of snore 'smiles then ehoivere, and the treble noted of the birds mingled, shrilly eweet, with the emit hind weer of the incoming tide. Tim narrow etrip of sand let t Imre by it was sparkling and gleaming like molten gold in the sunshine ; and es Letty turoed away from that lonely grove, the warm glitter ormeht her eye and drew her toward it, %Mom unawares. The henna' Peet Letty hed left so far be- hind seemed nearer to her as the great, green WaVeS rolled up to her feet, and the frail wind bruohed her fams. On that narrow strip of end, a few years back, she had firat mei Paul Leonard. Up ana down it she had walked once afterward with Paul Leonard's young wife, trying, to amuse her, striving to love leer, if only be. cause of the great, tender heart in which she was shritlea, like, as the girl in her oleermighted truth could not but own, a glittering glees bauble in a casket of retreat gold. Out there, where the great, gray bowldere rose dark against the foam of the strong sea that was breaking over and around it, the had stood and listened to the first few barren wordo in which Ernest Devereux had told his love; whioh was at that time just as oold and scant itself as they were, though she did not know it, and he would not have owned it even to himself. In that tiny creek, now slowly filling with the tide, she had picked up one morning, a dainty drab satin shoe that had cleared up a mystery in the past and opened a sealed door in her own heart, even is she held it in her hand and looked at it. Ili was not the common shore at all, it was fairyland, and every step she walked was haunted. Poor Letty was changed now—how Gould the but be—from the happy, merry-heartde gir/ that she was when the find walked there; changed by sorrow, and weari• nese, and vain longing, into a mere shadow of her former self. As she stood there -- thinking of the past and the present—the large tears welled up in her eyes, and fell glistening down her netted fingere. The past might have been so different, the present might have so bright, if only—. The grit of pebbles near her caused Letty to look up stuidenly, and Dr. Leonard was standing within a yard of her. He was almost as much astonished as herself, for he had come in sight cif her suddenly as he turned on to the shore from out of the tiny peso that led down to it at that part. For a second or two he eeemed scarcely to recognize her; then he same forward, his grave face all alight, and took her hand and held it,while he asked after her- self, and then, with a downward glance at her black dress, letter her father. Her heart bed throbbed wildly at the eight of him. She had to put up her free hand to her side and hold it there to keep down the stormy throbs of her heart before she could naenage to speak. When she did, it was in a voice so low, in earth broken, faltering words, that the doctor could only catch at their meaning, which he soon did, sedated not a little by the deep mourning which she wore and the sad, weary, pained look on her face. (To be nonterined. SEVERE froste and freezing blasts must come, then come froat bites, with swelling, itching, burning, for which St. Jambs Oil is the beet remedy. A Diet for Diabetes. The following diet for persons suffering from diabetes has been arranged by Priefes- sor Braurfoid Lewis, lecturer on Gantt°. Urinary Diseases at the Missouri Medical College, St. Lonna Allowed—All kinds of meats (except liver). Poultry '• all kinds of game. All kinds' of flake fresh or salt, sardines, oysters. Eggs in every style (without addition of flour, starch or sugar). Fate and fatty meats. Butter, theme. Soap (without flour or the prohibited vegetablea). Celery, cabbage, cauliflower, string -beans, asparagus, lettuce, spinach, mushrooms, radishes, cucumbers (green or pickled), young onions, water °ruses, slaw, olives, tomatoes. Graham bread, rye bread. Occasionally otale light (white) bread. Aoid fruits, smile as oranges, lemons, apples, plume, cranberries, inerrant% cherries, etrawberries, gooseberries (sweet- ened, not with auger, but with saccharine and sod. bicarb.). Gelatine (without sugar). Almonds, walnuts, Brazil nuts, hazel nuts, filberts, pecans, butternut% comanuts. Salt, vinegar, pepper. Drinks: Coffee, tea (without sugar), skim -milk, cream, soda water (without syrup), mineral watere ot all kinds, but especially viohy. Claret, Rhine wine. Prohibited.—Liver. Sager in any form. Starch in any form. Sauces containing flour, anger or March. Cakes of all kinds. All cereals, such as oraoked wheat, oat. meal, mush, cerealina, eto. -Potatoes (either Itieh or sweet), corn, carrots, trim nips, hominy, panpipe, beans, peas, beets, rice. White bread, corn bread, white Wilmette. Pears, peaches, grapes. Sweet jellies. Chestnuts. Malt liquors, beer, ale Gallant Burns Choate. 1110W TO HOLD ONE'S OWN And How not to Tithe on a Lot of ifIcah-- Froaperity's Drawback —A Talk for • Adlooee Americans who Eat Life's Sweets. Celle Logan, writing for the Chicago Nem,gives WI a great many bite of iniOr- roation and some Al suggestion's in the matter of healthful bodies. Celia, who la deter of Olive, writes : All healthy baloiee are fat, bat infanoy is the only period of life when that oonaition is natural. The adiposity of, infants is maintained by their milk diet, and gram. ally dieappears when they begin to take solid food. Should the excessive fat continue after the child begins to walk it ought to be subjected to dietetic) measures. At the same time no one should be skin and bone only. The body needs some fat to draw upon in (Baptise when the normal eupply of nourishment is cut off. FACTS ABOUT A 4•YEAR OLD. A child in the 4th year should be 3 feet high and weigh more than 28 pounds ' • in the 6th year, 3i feet high and weigh42 pounds; in the 8th year, 4 feet high and 56 pounde in weight ; at 12 yearo, 5 feet in height and 70 pounds in weight is a fair average. On a pretty girl saying to Rufus Choate. "1 am very sad -you -see, ' he replied, "Ob, no; you belong to the old Jewish soot; you are very fair-I•see 1" Nothing made eo muoh to the beauty of a fair girl, as a clear, bright, healthy com- plexion. and to secure this pure blood is indispensible. Bo mady of the somalled blood.puriflers gold to improve a rough pimply, muddy skin, only drive the soroftdone humors from the surface to some internal vital organ and disease and death in the inevitable residt. On the contrary, Dr. Pierces Golden Medical Disoovery strikes direotly at the root of the evil, by driving the impurities entirely out of the firearm and with a fresh dream of pure blood flowing through the veins, nothing but the softest and fairest of complexions can remit. A Nixed Commission, Roohester Herald: The BMW' Royal Commission on Labor has resolved that its meetings shall be open to the pros and public, and the fullest information ob- tained of its proceedings by those inter. exited. Among the members named as a oormnittee to arrange a plan of businerni are Lord Hartington and, "Tom" Mann, the dook agitator; Lord Derby and "Ben" Tilling, a aletlaodiet local preacher, and John Morley and Mr. Bart, the miner repreeentative. This eocamittee is demo- cratic though at all events. —In this age of keen competition a mon roust advertise and advertise wisely. He must give the wenn attention to hie saver. tieing as he doers to hi a etook and store. An advertisement forme an impreosion on the mind of the reader and it means a Feat deal to the , advertiser that that napreseion be a favorable .one and thet it he fully sustained in the establiehMent. —Ex. —Amy—I am sure that Charley levee me. Ethel—What makes you so sure Amer—Although he doesn't eayao, 1 (*nee that he Woe all my relativOia A MAN'S pRo2oRTIONS, Should weigh Ft, In. Pounds. 5 6 150 5 7 155 5 8 160 5 9 165 6 10 170 Should Weigh Ft. In. Pounds. 5 11 180 6 0 •..... 190 6 1 200 6 0 220 A hirge-boned man will weigh somewhab more than one whose bones are email, even though the height be the sarne—a raw. boned Highlander more than a small.boned Hebrew. THE OUNCE OF FREVENTION. How should a man who observes that he is losing his elendernees ascertain whether he is growing too large? Let him measure hie chest and waist and compare the figures. If the circumference of his waist exceeds that of his chest then he is verging into oorpulenoy, and if he desiree to preserve his symmetrical proportions he should at once begin to treba down. This is the only time when obesity is easily hendled. " MAN'S GIRTH AND LIM. I have been informed by a fashionable tailor that for a man the waist measure- ment and the inside trousers SeB,M should be the same. That is, if the trouser° leg is 32 inches the waiet should be about 32 inches. A. margin of one or two inolees does not matter much, e.ud will usually be found in the case of very tall or very short men. The ratio of the waist and leg holds good in ordinary oaees. WEIGHTS FOR liVOIMIN. A woman whose height is Ft. in. 5 0 5 1 52 5 3.. 5 4 Should weigh Pounds. Ft. in. 118 5 5 124 5 6 128 5 7 130 5 8 Should weigh Pounds. 139 143 148 163 168 —•••• Tide table is for women between 20 and 45 yeare of age. After that they become heavier. FAIR PROPOETIONS. A woman should weigh but little lam than a man in proportion to her height. The bust of a perfectly -formed woman should measure ten inches more than her waiata If the waist is laced in smaller than this the abdomen is pressed down and the bosom up, causing both to billow out to an unusual size and compressing the waist too much for either health or beauty: Before the natural shape of a women has been distorted, not to Bey deformed, by tight lacing and ohild.bearing, her abdomen, when ehe snide straight, should protrude very little, it any, be- yond the front line of her thighs. The abdomen should never be larger than the bust, whioh should measure at hetet five inohes more than the abdomen. The hips should measure one-third more than the shoulders. WHEN STOUTNESS BEGINS. When a woman sees signs of etontness elm 'should begin to deny herself many of the pleasures of the table. The shaking of mattresses, making beds, sweeping and dusting with the windows open, the run- ning up and down stairs while setting things to rights, is exercise constituting the best of obesity cures. LEAN CHAMBERMAIDS, FAT COOKS. The doing of ohamberwork steadily has been known to reduce a woman's weight at the rate of five pounds a week. Cooking, on the other hand, will add thet much. Cooks are ailment always etout, owing to their leek of outdoor exercise, the heat to which they are constantly subjeoted and their habit ot tasting the althea they pre. pare. It a girl is corpulent when she begins to do chamberwork she soon be- comes slender. As the reader sees, the best thing for health is (1) to restrain the appetite and (2) exercise. What need to say more. A Pennsylvania District nerrorized. A Huntingdon, Pa., despatch nye: The citizens of Mmeseysburg, Moreeville and the surrounding country distrioto are terror- ized by an organized band of robbers, who have established their headquarters in the fastnesses of the mountains between this and Centre counties. For two months past, almost nightly, incursiono have been made upon the inhabitants of the com- munity and muola valuable property has been stolen. Where the marauders fail to find anything of value of a portable char. tester they mutilate horses and cattle. They are believed to be also engaged in manufacturing moonshine whiekey. At an early hour this morning the residence of Winiera MoAlevy was plundered of much valuable property. He Did Not Walt. Bishop Williams, of Hartford, recently wrote thio sarcastic note to a fresh young men of his diocese who was about to enter the matrimonial state : " I regret, sir, that it is without my province to order the word 'obey' omitted from the marriage service. There is no way Shat this cent be done except by vote of the house of bishop% The house next convenes in 1892, and if you will postpone your mar- riage until then I will take pleasure in pre- eenting your petition to the botise for its notion." The young man aonolnded not to wait. • Men That J'unip At conclusions are generally "off their ban." Bemuse there are numberleed _patent medicines of questionable value, it doetin't follow that all fire worthlem. Don't clam Dr. Sagehi Chitarrh Remedy with the usual run of euoh remedies. It is way above mid beyond them It is doing what others fail to de 1 It is curing the worst cages of Chronic Nasal Catarrh. If youdbubt it, try it. If you on make at thorough trial, you'll be aura. 0500 forfeit for an incurable cage. This offer, by World's Dispensary Medical AiiimiatiOn, Buffalo, N. Y. At all • druggists; 50 cents. LIEUTENANT O1A5T13 (MANCE. The Young ilcotoli Meer who Beat Four Thousand Hanlpurie witli a Force of Eighty Nem (Richard itarding Davie, ic Harper'e Weekly.) The tone story of Lieutenant Cement is almost too good it sitory to be true, end reads like no of those that Mr. Bayard Kipling invents. lte scene is laid in Mr. Kiplinge own territory, ansi it deals with domain and jauglee, end tlae little daring GoorJshasot whom Mr. Kipling is so Loud, end with native pewees anal rajahe area Itendlem haud fighting and the glory of the British In the early part of April the Aesooiated Pram, under the unfamiliar date line of Calcutta, told of a masenore in Manipur, wherever that nay be, where eemi. barberons native Indiana rose against the representatives of the Empresa of Indict, and killed them treacherotialy while they were negotiating terms of peace, and try. ing to put the right rajah on the throne, from %Minh troops of the wrong rajeli had driven hint. The newe was partly rumor, pertly horgible fact, and the names of many compideeioners and ofacere were given as dead and as butohered after death. And at the end of eaoh news. paper account was the brief etatement, " Lieutenant Grant, who left Telma for Ilitinipur with eighty men, laas nob been heard from. He is believed to be demi." It was a moot unimportant ending and an anti -climax. Nobody but the Grants of Grant, in the Highlands of Scotland,. who " rased the Blaok Watch," knew or oared about this unidentified and UMEIDOWD Lieutenant Grant. What WWI one lieutenant and eighty men to three cammissioners and colonels and the ouniroiseioners' wives and the plaited troopa of the Forty.foueth Goorithaa ? But on the days following came fuller and more nacurate acommts of the mini- mum; and it was told how the hienipuri had shelled the Residency with the same cannon the Empress of India had Sofa them tie a token of her royat good feeling; and how the younger officers and Mrs. Grimwood had escaped in the :doled, end treiveled on foot by jungle prates for 120 mile, living on roote, to be rescued at the last by Ormtain Cowley hurrying fora -ere with re-enforoements ; and how Mra. Griinwood's hueband and the °there who nasi lab the Reeidenoy to arbitrate had been cut into quarters end thrown into the moat for the pariah dogs to nainerao as they pleased. It read like a page from the history of the Sepoy mutiny, like a modern version of the terrible stories of Cawnpore, Delhi snd Lucknow, and it was a blow eat the British rule in India, and a trial to ehe hearts of every one who read it, whether he react it in English or translated into a foreign tongue. But there was one saving clause, one paragraph that lightened the rest for everyone who mad it, for Lieutenant Grant, the unknown'matching, unconecions of massacre% between Tamur and Manipur, had at last been "beard from." Hie para. graph came ot the end, as it had on the days before, models:4, ao became his rank, behind the colonels and coramissionere "Lieutenant Grant," ib read, with 80 men, has deteated 4,000 Manipuri, and has taken Fort Thobal." Now nobody knew whether Fort Timbal was bristling with cannon or a mud embankment, but every one could appreciate that 80 into 4,000 goes fifty times, and that Lieutenant Grant's °Mince was only one in fifty when he charged up the wall of Fort Timbal, and drove the Manipuri acmes and over the other side. And all over the world, theatke to telegraphs and cables, the name and fame of Lieutenant Grant became mouton. tons and familiar, not only in the clubs of London, but in the elevated cars of New York, tend at breakfast tables from Paris to Portland, Oregon. For if all the world loves a lover, it loves a hero next, and the chance that came to Lieutenant Grant, mad the way he rose to it, became a brilliant spot in the gloomy tale of tressehery,butch. ery and blundering of the Manipur mane. are. Lieutenant Grant held Fort Thobal for three day e, and then repulsed the Mani - puri again at Alongtaing in a fight that lasted three long hot hours, during which the Senapiatty prince and his two own menders were killed, and the Manipur were driven off into the jangle by Lieut. Grant's men of the Second Burmahs. General Sir Frederick Roberts, the Commander -in -Chief of the Indian army, has congratulated Lieutenant C. J. W. Grant, which is as it should be, and Punch has given him a full page all to himself; it is also as it should be that Lieutenant Grant is se handeome as his portrait shows him to be,and that he ie only thirty years i old. "It s the boys—the raw boyo—who do the fighting,' Mulvaney (aye; and though Lieutenant Grant ie no raw recruit, he is a boy in years, and the Second Burmahe are but newly formed. Now, while the Home Government sends ant more commiseionere to determine who blundered and who should be punished, let no hope that some other Board of Investigation and Inquiry will do more for Lieutenant Grant than congratulate him, and that he may go to Simla on leave, and ride with all the pretty girls, and wear cool things, and drink the wino of praise and approval, and keep ont of the clutches of lira. Hanksbee. And in time he may get leis regiment and become a K. O. Who knows? And in the meanwhile his father, Lieu- tenant -General D. G. S. St. J. Grant, who is now in London, goes to all of hi o many clubs that the members may say, " Grant, fine boy that boy of yours; ought to be proud of him." And then the lieu- tenant -general says "Pooh 1 pooh 1 only did his duty"; and then goes home end telia his wife everything they oay. Perhaps this may mere to you a greet deal of bother about one young man; but do not think of what he did, but whet he might have done. He might have said: "1 have no instructions to take Fort Thobal. I have no right to rat my men's lives ab cid& of fifty to one. I ought to make s masterly detour, and show my 'strategic knowledge, and leave Fort Thobal eind the 4,000 Manipuri alone." Who would have blamed him? Fabian would have done it. But Lieutenant Grant walked right up the mud wall and over the other side. It was his chance, you see, and he took it ; and it teaches the moral that when .one's chance aoinee'it ie mach better to lee reported as " heard from" than "missing." A blew Beligion. Of the raultiplioation of octets there appears to be no end. The latest ha e been found in Alabama, ita creed being °lipoid - tion to all human law. The members claim the right to do what they pima°. One of them rune en ililait diotillery, and claims that any attempt to stop it will be religioue perseention. Dotzbilem the parse. °atom will accept the reeponsibility with. out trembling. . 33addha la worshipped in Park in vatiouo private temples, whe*a the devotees meet tegalarly to pay homage to the "Light of Asia." Moot of the Buddhisto aro japaneoe, but among them are many Frenchmen Slnd a few Englishmen, Neu TTI14 KITCHEN OMEN. palatable ponces That Are Within II/eachi of livery Teetotal Coolk. Horsemadisla Samee.--Beae a tweedier aa a pound of butter to a demo arid mix with it e quarter of a pint of oreera, half a etiok of horsemadieb, grated finely, pepper, eata one white wine vinegar to taste. Is ehould be es thick me °nem and be kept cool. Brown Batter Sauee.--Put tV70 ounoss of butter in a etewpan sod etir over the fire until it begins to get heown. Add one, teaspoonful Tarragon vitiegor, one of Prima Alfred's, or similar satin, twelve chopped capers and a nide essences ef anchovy. Simmer two or three minuteand eaves with ealraon outlets: or other grilksa fish. Butter Same.—One ounce flour mixed smooth in four teaspoonfuls of cold wittier. Stir into a half-pint of boiling water, add a pinch of salt ; let boil up and then stir in an ounce and a half of butter Wheat dieeolved serve. Parsley Sauce.—ele above, with chopped pareley thrown into the boiling water be- fore mixing with the flour. Caper Sourie.—Tableopoonful of French capers, simmer for ten minutes uncovered with a quarter of a pint clear broth or water. Mash well with a eitver or wooden spoon. Mix dessertspoonful of flour with two of cold water and add it to the oement while boiling, stir until thialtened. Break in an ounce of butter, and, when it is dia. solved, put in a teaspoonful of caper vine- gar and serve. Tomato Sauce.—Boil two sliced onions fa just enough water to cover them, and when nearly done, out up haltendezen fine ripe tomatoes rind put in the stewpecn with an canoe of butler, a dessertepoonful of emit and a shake of pepper. If toniestoau are seame a sharp apple, out up, may be need with them. Simmer threammerters of an hour and rub through a sieve. Return tar pan with a small piece of butter rend where thoroughly hot serve. Prince alfredas sauce—Vinegar IA pinte. water a pint, India soy A pint, walnut matt - sap pint, chilies 1 ounce, shalote 2 onneser, huritt en,gar 1 outlet), Salt 2 ounces. Bruise the catmints and boil the whole for la minutes; when cool strain and bottle. Ex- cellent for fish, cold meat or steaks. Robert sauce Fry equal parts veal and beam, bones aud trimmings to a nice brown ; slice three large onione and fay them in a little butter to a good golden color. Put all in a etiewpan in a pint of wetter arid boil to a Tarter of a pint. Re. move the grease; let the gravy boil rip; Mar in a deresertspoonf al of flour mixed in a little cold water or stook, meld an ortiami of butter, stirring until melted and finiefe with a good pinch of muetard in a demerit - spoonful of Prince Alfred's, or other oimilar samice. Pour on outlets. For wall Ladies. If you are tall and your height annoys you, have a plain shirt slightly geithered at She sides and tightly gathered—no* piaited —in the back. Get SoMe eilk two or three ehades darker than the cheese and make a sevendnah knife plaiting. Catch it dawn inside, along the centre with a running thread of button.hole and sew on the very edge of the skirt. This is not only a graceful trimming but it is easily made, it fleets prettily with the motion of the wearer and will take just seven lanhee frorn the stature. The little woman will do Well to ignore it, however, as any dark band or trimming will give her a stunted appear- ance. Have the plaiting, it you like, but keep it the same color as the materiaL A group of three three-inch bine raffles put on with a very narrow braid is pretty. These ruffles may be edged °with ribbon velvet of fingernail width. Another homy io the butterfly flounce. A deep flounce of lace is sewed on the dress and caught up in five places with bows of ribbon or velvet. This is very new, but only appropriate for house wear, the carriage, or the piazza cif a amide hotel. Perhaps the prettiest ruble of all is a blast one, six Mabee deep covered with a flounce of white or bleak marquise lam the same width and the two firished with a heading of stiff brocaded ribbon two inches wide. If the material is lace, gauze, net, organdy:or the like, the runlet con be made of old roses orange, peach or cardinal silk, and, oeen thronghthe flounce of grenadine indistinctly, the effect is yore pleasing. The Wife'e Obedience. Whole denominations of Christians have dropped the word " obey" from the rhea- riage service. The great Roman Catholia Church never had it inserted, and even in the Episcopal Church it is ommeionally cemitted—I have personally known several instances; or when retained, it is con- stantly explained by the parties con- cerned, or even by clergymen, as a thing to be taken with a mental reservation.. Two things have contributed to *hie— the constant immense in the namber of women who earn incomes of their own, and the vast progress el the higher education. Either of these experiences very soon ex- pands the wings of a strong feminine nature, and a return to the ohryealis fa thenceforth impossible. It is out of the lineation to give woman equel etatioritfon and equal property rights and yet keep her in the proatrate attitude ehe otedipied when her earningo belonged to her 'husband, and when tbe law denied her tbe safeguard called "benefit of clergy" on the ground that it was not supposable she could read or write.—T. W. H., in Harper's Bazar. • Bo to Speak. Woman is wonderfully made! Such beauty, grace, delicacy end purity are alone her possessions. Bo has she weaknenee, irregularities, fanotional derangements', peculiar only to hereelf. To coned: these and restore to health, her wonderful organ- ism requireo a reatorative eapecially adapted to that purpose. Bach ei one is Dm Pierce's Favorite Prescription—possernaig curative eind regulating properties to a remarkable degree. Made for this purpose alone—recommended for no other 1 Con- tinually growing in favor, and numbering as its stoma frie»cla thoneands of the rood intelligent end refined ladies of the land. A positive guarantee accompanier' each bottle— at your druggistas. Bolden triag t Warning to the Kitchen. There are greater evils than those of in- digestion and ill -temper arising from bail cooking, it wotild Refisin. In a paper upon the sooial questions of the day and upon labor refortse, where the opinions of ens& men as Seth Low, Henry 0. Potter, Simnel W. Dike and others are given, there occurs this peragreiph : " Inetadient food—more often, inotiffig oient variety of food—and poorly cooked food Create a craving for strong drink and create intemperance. * One of the &et phyeiologists in the land is authority for this," MSS M. G. McClelland, the Virginia noveliet, is of middle age'tall rend slender, with iron.gray hair that she wears parted over her forehead. She 150 genuine South- ern woman, cordial and kindly of manner, and a rapid and prolifio writer. Mrs. Gazzam—To-morrow in your day out, X believe Louise? Louble, Who onoa served Boston family—To•rnorrow will 13) my day out, madam.