HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1891-8-13, Page 6When Oid Jack Bled.
When Old Tack died wQ e1eYell from echool
(they
A t' home we meant ge that da)) 1101 110)10
Of ae ate ally breakfast—only ono,
And that wa'. IAPa- and his eyes were red
When. be cattle round where WO were, lay the
%Viler° Jae& wa,, lying, half-wav, in the suo
Awl helf-way 01 the shade. Whee We begun
To cey out loud, pa Lurnea and. dropped his
hoed
And wont awaY ; and neuema she went back
Into the kitchen. Titen for a long while,
All to ourselves like, we stood, there and
cried ;
We thought so many- good things of Old a els,
Ana funny theuee—although we cliclii'L 1.0110.
"tre couldtet only ery when 0111 Jack died.
When Old Jack died it seemed a. human
friend
Hatt eiuldenly gone from us ; that same face
That we had loved to follow and embrace
From babyhood no more would condscend
To smile on us forever. We might bend
With tearful eyes above Men, Interlace
Oter chubby angers o'er him, romp and race,
Plead with hue, call and eoax—aye, we might
send
Tho old. haloo up for lniO, whistle, hisb
(le sobs had let us), or, as wildly villa
Snapped thumbs, culled "Speak, and he
had uot replied ;
We might hasqc gone down on mer knees and
kissed
Tito tousled ears, and yet they must remain
Deaf, mationlees, WO lotew, whenOld Jack
died.
When Old Tack died, it seemed to vs some
way
That all the other dogs in town were pained
With our bereavement, and some time were
chained
Eves unslipped their collars on that day
To visit Tack in state, as though to pay
A last sad tribute there ; while neighbors
craned
Their heads above the high hoard fence, and
deigned
To sigh " Poor dog 1" remembering how they
Ile,d cuffed hieu when alive, perchance
because
For love of them he leaped to lick their
hands—
Now that he could not, wore they Satis-
fied?
. We children thought that, as we crossed his
paws,
And o'er his grave, 'way down the bottom-
lancls,
Wrote, "Our First Love Lies Hem," when
Old &sok died.
—.Tames Whitcomb Riley.
THE SISTERS
CHAPTER I.
A DISTANT VIEW.
On the second of January, in the year
1880, three newly orphaned sisters, finding
thern.selves left to their own devices, with
an income of exactly one hundred pounds a
year apiece, sat down to consult together as
to the use they should make of their inde-
pendence.
The place where they sat was a grassy
cliff overlooking a wide bay of the Southern
Ocean—a lonely spot, whence no sign of
human life was visible, except ill the sail of
a, little fishing boat far away. The low
sun, that blazed. at the back of their heads,
and threw their shadows and. the shadow of
every blade of grass into relief, touched
that distant sail and made it shine like
bridal satin ; while a certain island rock,
the home of seabirds, blushed like a rose in
the same necromantic light. As they sat
they could hear the waves breaking and
seething en the sands and stones beneath
them, but could only see the level plain of
blue and purple water stretchin.g from the
toes of their boots to the indistinct horizon.
That particular Friday was a terribly hot
day for the colony, as weather records
testify, but in this favored spot it had been
merely a little too warm for comfort, and,
the sea -breeze coming tip fresher and
strouger as the sun went down, it was the
perfection of an Australian summer evening
at the hour of which I am writing.
"What I want," said Patty King (Patty
was the middle one), "is to melee a dash --a
straight-out plunge into the world, Eliza-
beth—no shilly-shallying and dawdling
about, frittering our money away before we
begin. Suppose we go to London—we shall
have enough to cover oar travelling ex-
penses, and our income to start fair with --
surely we could live anywhere on three
hundred a year, in the greatest comfort—
and take rooms near the _British Museum?
—or in South Kensington.—or suppose we
go to one of those intellectual German towns,
and study music and the languages? What
do you think, Nell? I am sure we could do
it easily if we tried."
"Oh, said Elenor, the youngest of the
trio, "I don't care so long as we' go some-
where and do something."
"What " do you think, Elizabeth ?" pur-
sued the enterprising Patty, alert and earn-
est. "Lite is short, and there is so much
for tut to see and learn—all these years and
years we have been out of it southerly 1 Oh,
I wonder how we have borne it ! How have
we borne it—to hear about things and never
to know or do them, like other people! Let
us get into the thick of it at once, and re-
cover lost time. Once in Europe, every-
thing would be to our hand—everytlaing
would be possible. What do you think?
"My dear," said Elizabeth, with char-
acteristic caution, "1 think we are too
young and ignorant to go so far afield just
yet."
" We are all over 21," replied Patty
quickly, "and though we have lived the
lives of hermits, we are not more stupid
than other people. We can speak French
and German, and we are.quite sharp enough
to know when we are being cheated. We
should travel in perfect safety, finding our
way as we went along. And. we do know
something of those places—of Melbourne we
know nothing."
"We should never get to the places
mother knew—the sort of life we have heard
of. And Mr. Brion and Paul are with us
here—they will tell us all we want to
know. No, Patty, we must not be reckless.
We might go to Europe by -and -bye, but for
the present let Melbourne content us. It
will be as much of the world as we shall
want to begin with, and we ought to get
some experience before we spend our money
— the little capital we have to spend."
"You don't cell 235 pounds a little, do
you ?" interposed Eleanor. This was the
price that a well-to-do etorekeeper in the
neighboring township had offered them for
the little hole which heel been their home
since she was born, and to her it seemed a
fortune.
"Well, dear, we don't quite know yet
whether it is little or much, for, you see,
we don't know what it costs to live as other
people do. We must not be reckless, Patty
— we must take care of what we have, for
we have only ourselves in the wide world to
depend on, and this is all our -fortune. I
should think no girls were ever so utterly
without belongiags as we are now," she
added, with a little break in her gentle
voice.
The parents of these three girls had bon
a mysterious couple, about 'whose cireunw
stances and antecedents people knew just as
11111011 as they liked to conjecture, and no
more. Vie. kitig had been on the diggirigs
in the old daye—thet much was a fact, to
which he had himeelf been known to testify ;
but where and what he had been before,
eute 1 why he had lived like a pelion 111
the wilder/ices ever since, nobedy knew,
though everybody was at liberty toguess.
Years end years ago, he mod to this lone
tioast—a region of hellele6S Sella 511c1 ertib,
which no squatter or free selecl dr with a
grain of sense evmdcl look at—end here on a
bleak headland he buitt his rude hottee,
piece by piece, iu great part with his own
Maids, and fenced his little paddock, and
made hislittlegarden ; and here he bad lived
till the other day, it morose recluse, who
ehunued his neighbors as they shunned him,
and never was known to have either busi-
oess or pleiesare, or commerce of any kind
with his fellow -men. It as supposed that
lie had mecle some money at, the diggings,
for he thole up no land (there was 11050'fit
to take up, indeed, within a dozen miles of
him), and he kept no stock—except a few
cows and pigs for the larder ; and at the
same time there was never any sign of
actual poverty in his little establishment,
simple tend humble as it wits. And it WAS
also supposed --nay, it was confidently
believed—that he was not, so to speak, "alt
there," No mien who was not " touched'
would conduct himself with such prepos-
terous eccentlicity as that which had
maiked his long career in their misist---so
the neighbors argued, not -without a show
of reason. But the greatest mystery
in connection with Mr. King wan
Mrs, King. He was obviously a
gentleman, m the cone -entail -eel sense of the
word, but she was, in every sense, the most
beautiful and accomplished lady that ever
was seen, according to the judgment of
those who knew her—the woman who had
nursed her in her confinements, and wash,ed
and scrubbed for her, and the tvadesmen of
the town to whom she had gone in her little
buggy for occasional stores, and the doctor
and the parson, and the children whom she
had brought up in such a wonderful manner
to be copies (though, it was thought, poor
ones) of herself. And yet she had borne to
live all the best years of her life, at once a
captive and an exile, on that desolate sea-
shore—and had loved that harsh and melan,
°holy man with the most faithful and entire
devotion—and had suffered her solitude and
privations, thalack of everything to which
she must have been once accustomed, and
the fret and trouble of her husband's bitter
moods—without a murmur that anybody
had ever heard.
Both of them were gone now from the
cottage on the cliff where they had lived
so long together. The idolized mother had
been dead for several years, and the
harsh, and therefore nob numb loved nor
much mourned, father had lain but a few
weeks in his grave beside her; and they
had left their children,as Elizabeth de-
scribed it, more utterly without belongings
than ever girls were before. It was a curious
position altogether. As far as they knew,
they had no relations, and they had never
had a friend. Not one of them had left
their home for a night since Eleanor was
born, and not one invited guest had slept
there during the whole of that period. They
had never been to school, nor had any
governess but their mother, nor any ex-
perience of life and the ways of the world
save what they gained_ in their association
with her, and. from the books that she and
their father selected for them. According
to all precedent, they ought to have been
dull and rustic and stupid (it was supposed
that they were because they dressed them-
selves so badly), but they were only simple
and truthful in an extraordinary degree.
They had no idea what was the correct
thing" in costume or manners, and they
knew little or nothing of the value of
money; but they were well and widely
read, and highly accomplished in all the
household arts, from playing the piano to
making bread and butter, and as full of
spiri tend and intellectual aspirations as the
most advanced amongst us.
CHAPTER II.
A LONELY EYRIE.
"Then we will say Melbourne to begin
with. Not for a permanence, but until we
have gained a little more experience," said
Patty, with something of regret and reluct-
ance in her voice. By this time the sun
had set and drawn off all the glow and
color from sea and shore. The island rock
was an enchanted castle no longer, and the
sails of the fishing -boats had ceased to shine.
The girls had been discussin,eg their schemes
for a couple of hours, and had come to
several conclusions.
"1 think so, Patty. It would be unwise
to hurry ourselves in making our choice of
a home. We will go to Melbourne and look
about us. Paul Brion is there. Ile will
see after lodgings for us and put us in the
way of things generally. That will be a
great advantage. And then the Exhibition
will be coming—it would be a pity to miss
that. And we shall feel more as if we be-
longed to the people here than elsewhere,
don't you think? They; are more likely to
be.kind to our ignorance and help us.'
"Oh, we don't want any one help us."
"Someone must teach ns What we don't
know, directly or indirectlyadand we are
not above being taught."
"But," insisted Patty, 'there is no
reason why we should be beholden to any-
body. Paul Brion may look for some lodg-
ings for us, if he likes—just a place to sleep
in for a night or two—and tell us where we
can find a house—that's all we shall want to
ask of him or of anybody. We will have a
house of our own, won't we ?—so as not to
be overlooked or interfered with."
"Oh, of course !" said Eleanor promptly.
"A landlady on the premises is not to be
thought of for a moment. Whatever we
do, we don't want to be interfered with,
Elizabe th. "
"Sam Dunn is out late," said Eleanor,
pointing to a dark dot far away, that was
a glittering sail a little while ago.
"111 is a good night for fishing," said
Patty.
And then they turned their faces land-
ward, and set forth on their road home.
A pretty and pathetic picture they made
as they sat round that table, with the dim
light of one kerosene lamp on their
strikingly fair faces—alone in the little
house that was no longer theirs, and in the
wide world'but so full of faith and. hope in
the unknown future—discussina ways and
means for getting their furniture to
Melbourne.
CHAPTER III.
PREPARATIONS FOR FLIGHT.
Melbourne people, when they go to bed,
chain up their doors carefully, and bar all
their windows, lest the casual burglar
shoulct molest them. Buth people, no more
afraid of the night than of the clay, are
often quite unable to tell you whether there
is such a thing as an effeetive lock upon the
premises. So our girls, in their lonely
dwelling on the cliff, slept iri perfect peace
and security, with the wind from the sea
blowing over their Leo through the open
door -windows at tlx foot of their little beds.
Dan Tucker, the terrier walker softly to
and fro over their thresholds at intervals in
the course of the night, arid kept away any
stray kitten that had not yet learned its
proper place; that was all the watch and
ward that he or they considered neressary.
At five o'clock in the morning, Elizabeth
Ring, who had a little slip of a room to her-
self, just wide enough to allow the leaves of
the French window at the end of it to be
held back, when open, by buttons attached
to the side walls, stirred in lier sleep,
stretched herself, yeavocd, antl then spring-
ing up into a sitting posture, propped her-
self o11 the pillows to see the ewer day begin.
When the 111 115 loaves were done and the
big ohes pat iri the mien, Meaner fetched a
towel., donned a breed hate and, pctssing out
at the front of the house, elOW11
the uteep track oft the face of the eliff to
buscit hatilAIOUte On 1110 1)06,4 little
closet of rough, slabs built in the rock above
high water; whom° she presently emerged
in 11 twenty flannel garment, with her slen-
der white limbs bare, and flung herself like
a nuamaicl into the so, There were
sharks in that bay sometimes, and there
were devil fish too (Sam Dunn had spread
one out, star-wiec, on a big boulder close by,
and it lay there still with its horrible arms
daugliug from its hideous bag of a body, to
be a warning to these venturesome youug
ladies, who, he fully ex-peeted would be "et
0])" some day like little flies by a spider) ;
but they found their safety in the perfect
transparency of the water, coming
in from the great pure ocean to
the uneullied rocks, and kept a wary watch
for danger. While Eleanor was disporting
Izereelf, Patty joined her, and after Patty,
El ieetbeth ; and one by one they came up,
glowing and dripping, like—no, 1 Won't be
tempted to make that femiliar classical
cceliparison--like nothing better than them -
eaves for ertistic purposes. As Elizabeth,
who was the last to leave the water, walked
up the thort flight of steps to her little
dressing closet, straight and stately, with
her full throat and bust and her nobly
shaped limbs, she was the very model that
sculptors dream of and hunt for (as many
more might. be, if brought up as she had
been), but seldom are fortunate enough to
find. In her gown an(1 leather belt, her
beauty Of figure, of course, was not so
obvious ; the raiment of civilization, how-
ever simple, levelled it from the standard of
Greek art to that of conventional compari-
son with other dressed -up women—by
whieh, it must be confessed, she suffered.
Having assumed this raiment, she fol-
lowed leer sisters up the cliff path to the
house; and there she found them talking
volubly with Mrs. Dunn, who had brought
them, with Sands best' respects, a freshly
caught schnapper for their breakfast. Mrs.
'Duen was their nearest neighbor, their only
help in domestic emergencies, and of late
days their devoted and confidential Menet
Sam, her husband, had for some years been
a ministering angel in the back yard, a pur-
veyor of firewood and mutton, a kilkr of
pigs, and so on • and he also had taken the
orphan girls under his protection, so far as
he could, since they had been "left."
"Look at this 1" criedEleanor, holding it
up—it took both hands to hold it, ,for it
weighed about a dozen. pounds; "did you
ever see such a fish Elizabeth! Breakfast
indeed Yes, we'll have it to breakfast to-
day and to -morrow too and for dinner and
tea and supper. Oh, how stupid Sam is!
Why didn't he send it to market? 'Why
didn't he take it down to the steamer?
He's not a man of business a bit, Mrs. Dunn
—hen never make his fertune this way.
Get the pan for me Patty, and. set the fat
boiling. We'll fry a bit tlais very minute,
and you shall stay and help eat it, Mrs.
Dunn."
CHAPTER IV.
DEPARTURE.
They decided to sell their furniture—
with the exception of the piano and the
bureau and sundry treasures that could be
stowed in the latter capacious recep-
tacle; and, on being made acquainted with
the fact, the obliging Mr. Hawkins offered
to take it AS 1.11 stood for a lump sum of £50,
and his offer was gratefully accepted.
And so they began to pack up. And the
fuss and confusion of that occupation—
which becomes so irksome when the °herrn
of novelty is past—was full of enjoyment for
them all.
"We shall certainly want some clothes,"
said Eleanor, surveying their united stock
of available wearing apparel on Elizabeth's
bed -room floor. I propose that, we
appropriate—say £5—no, that might not be
enough; say ZIO—from the furniture money
to settle ourselves up each with a nice cos-
tume—dress, jacket and bonnet complete—
so that we may look like other people when
we get to Melbourne."
"We'll get there first," said Patty, "and
see what is worn and the price of things.
Our black prints are very nice for every-
day, and we can wear our brown homespuns
as soon as we get away, from Mrs. Dunn.
She said it was disrespectful to poor father's
memory to put on anything but black when
she saw you. in your blue gingham, Nelly.
Poor old soul! one would think we were a
set of superstitious heathen pagans. I won-
der where she got all those queer ideas
from?"
And so, at last, all their preparations were
made and the day came when, with unex-
pected regrets and fears, they walked out of
the old house which had been their only
honie into the wild world, where they were
utter strangers. Sam Dunn came with
his wood -cart tocarry their lug-
gage to the steamer (the corevey-
ance they had selected, in preference to
coach and railway, because it was cheaper,
and they were more tamiliar with it) ; and
then they shut up doors and windows, sob-
bing as they went from room to room;
stood on the veranda in front of the sea to
solemnly kiss each other, and walked quietly
down to the township, hand-in-leand, and
with the terrier at their heels, to have tea
with Mr. Brion and his old housekeeper be-
fore they went on board.
CFIAPTER V.
ROOICED IN THE CRADLE OF TIIE DEEP.
Late in the evening, when the sea was lit
up with a young moon, Mr. Brion, having
given them a great deal of serious adVice
concerning their money and other business
affairs, escorted our three girls to the little
jetty where the steamer that called in once
a week lay at her moorings, ready to start
for Melbourne and intermediate ports at 5
o'clock next morning. The old lawyer was
a spare, grave, gentlemanly -looking old
man, and as much a gentleman ashe looked,
with the kindest heart in the world when
you could get at it—a man who was
esteemed and respected, to use the lan-
guage of the local paper, by all his
know townsmen, whether friends or foes.
They Anglicised his name in speaking of it,
and they wrote it "Bryan" far more often
than not, though nothing enraged him more
than to have his precious vowels tampered
with; but they liked him so Much that they
never cast it up to hinathat he was a French -
This good old man, chivalrous as any
paladin, in his shy and secret way, always
anxious to hide his generous emotions, as
the traditional Frocliman is anxious to dis-
play them, had done a father's part by our
young orphans sinee their own father had
left them se strangely desolate. Sam Dunn
had compassed them with sweet observances,
as we have seen ; but Sam was powerlese to
unravel the web of difficulties' legal and
otherwise, in which Mr. king'sdeath had
plunged them. Mr. Brion had done all
this and a great deal more that nobody
knew of, to protect the girls and their
interests at a critical juncture, and to give
them a fair and clear starb on their oWn
counb. And in the procees of thus serving
them he had become very inuch attached to
thein in his old•fashioned, recent' way; and
he did not at &Bilk° haviog to let them go
away alone in blue lonely -looking night.
" But .Patit will be there te meet you."
Ise eaid for the twenbieth time, laying his
hand civet Elizeboth'e, which restet'l on his
Som. " Vole may trust to Paid—as 80011 as
the boat is telegraphed lie will come to
inets yett—he will flf:0 to everything that is
neceseery—you will have rio bother at all.
And, my clear, remember what I sty --fel
the boy edvise you for a, little while. Let
him take care of you, and imagine it is I.
You may trust him as absolutely as you
trust 1110, alld 110 will not presume upon
your confidence, believe me. Ile is not like
tlae young men of the country," added
Paul's father, putting e little extra stiff-
ness into his upright heure. " No, no—he
is quite different."
" I think you have iestructed us so fully,
dear .Mr. Brion, that we shall get along very
well without having to trouble Mr. Paul,"
interposed Patty, in her clear, quick way,
speakiug from a little distance.
The steamer, with her lamps lit, was all
in a clatter and bustle, taking in passengers
and cargo. Sam Dunn was on board, having
seen the boxes stowed away safely ; and he
came forward to say good-bye to his young
ladies before driving his cart home.
" 111 miss ye," said the brawny fisher-
man, with savage tenderness ; " and the
missus'll miss ye. Darned if we shall know
the place with you gone out of it. Many's
the dark night the light o' your winders has
been better'n the lighthouse to show me the
way home."
He pointed to the great headland lying,
it seemed now, so far, far off, ghostly as a
cloud. And presently he went away ; and
they could hear him, as he drove back
along the jetty, cursing his old horse—to
which he was as much attached as if it had
been a human friend—with blood -curdling
ferocity.
Mr. Brion stayed with them until it
seemed improper to stay any longer—until
all the passengers that were to come on
board had housed themselves for the night,
and all the baggage had been snugly stowed
away—and then bade them good-bye, with
less outward emotion than Sam had dis-
played, but with almost as keen a pang.
" God bless you, my dears," said he,
with paternal solemnity. " Take care of
yourselves, and let Paul do what he can for
you. I will send you your money every
quarter, and you niust keep accounts—keep
accounts strictly. And ask Paul what you
want to know. Then you will get along all
right, please God."
They cheered themselves with the eand-
wiches and the gooseberry wine that Mr.
Brion's housekeeper had put up for them,
paid a visit to Dan, who was in charge of an
amiable cook (whom the old lawyer had
tipped handsomely), and thea faced the
dangers and difficulties of getting to bed.
Descending the brass -bound staircase to the
lower regions, they paused, their faces
flushed up, and they looked at eech other
as if the scene before them was something
unfit for the eyes of modest girls. They
were shocked, as by some specific impro-
priety, at the noise and confusion, the
rough jostling mid the impure atmosphere,
in the morsel of a ladies' cabin, from which
the tiny slips of bunks prepared for them
were divided only by a scanty curtain. This
was their fit st contact with the world, so to
speak, and they fled from it. To spend a
neight in that suffocating hole, with those
loud women their fellow -passengers, was a
too appalling prospect. So Elizabeth went
to the captain, who knew their story, and
. admired their faces, and was inclined to be
very kind to them, and asked his permission
to occupy a retiredcornerofthe deck. Onhis
seeming to hesitate—they being desperately
anxious not to give anybody any trouble—
they assured him that the place above all
others where they would like to make their
bed was on the wedge-shaped platform in
the bows, where they would be out of every -
,body's way.
" But, my dear young lady, there is no
railing there," said the captain, laughing at
the proposal as a joke.
"A good eight inches—ten inches," said
Elizabeth. "Quito enough for anybody in
in the roughest sea."
"For a sailor perhaps, but not for young
ladies who getgiddy and frightened and sea-
sick. Supposing you tumbled off in the
dark and I found you gone when I came to
look for you in the morning."
"We tumble off!" cried .Eleanor. "We
never tumbled off anything in our lives.
We have lived on the cliffs like the goats
and the gulls—nothing makes us giddy.
And I don't think anything will make us sea-
sick—or frightened either.'
"Certainly not frightened," said Patty.
He let them have their way—taking a
great many (as they thought) perfectly un-
necessaryprecautions in fixing up their
i
quarters n case of a rough sea—and himself
carried out. their old opossum rug and an
armful of pillows to make their nest comfor-
table. So, in this quiet and breezy bed-
chamber, roofed over by the moonlit sky,
they lay down With much satisfaction.
in each other's arms, unwatched
and unmolested, as they loved
to be, save by the faithful Dan Tucker,
who found his way to their feet in the
course of the night. And the steamer left
her moorings and worked out of the bay
into the open ocean, puffing and clattering,
and danced up and down over the long
waves anti they knewnothing about it. In
the fresh air, with the familiar voice of the
sea around them, they slept soundly under
the opossum rug until. the sun was high.
To be Continued
Gilbert's Lateitt Burlesque.
W. S. Gilbert—who has been made a
justice of the piece—no, no • of the peace,
has produced at the Vaudeville theatre,
London, his fun burlesque of Hamlet,
under the title of " Rosencrantz and
Guildenstern." The funniest part of 111 18
that in which the young gentlemen, who
are not titled young gentlemen, set by the
queen, interfere with the soliloquizing
propensities of the prince. The ruffians
rude remarks play havoc with the "To be
or not to be" deliverance, and Hamlet,
with patience exhausted, cries out:
It must be patent to the merest dunce
That they cannot soliloquize at once.
Hamlet is described by the fair Ophelia
as " icliotiically sane with lucid intervals of
lunacy." He discovereathat the king has
written a very bad five -act tragedy. For
this horrible crime the majesty of Den-
mark is filled with remorse ; yet Hamlet
piles up the agony by engaging the players
to play the tragedy before the assembled
court. Of course he wants to give advice
to the players, but they belong to the pro -
leaden, and don't require instruction from
a raw amateur.. In the end, young Hamlet
is ordered to quit the palace and to find a
shop at the Lyceum. --Albany Press.
At Last.
The sports of summer are always prolific
of all kinds of phyeical injuries, and for the
treatment of such here is a most striking
example. Mr. Jacob Etzeneperger, 14 Sum-
ner street, Cleveland, 0., U. 8. A., says :
"1 sprained my arm, clubbing chesnuts ;
could not lift it ; suffered for years, but
St. Jaeob's Oil cured me.'' After many
years he hit the right thing at last. The
beet thing first saves much.
The pieltpocket is a living example' of
the truth that in owlet to suceeed in life
°MO ShOtild, keep in touch with hie fellows.
For age and want save while 3700 nuty ;
no molting sun kets all the (lay.
Noe Wilde is the latest author t� be
moused of plagiarism, the essertion being
made that his poem ealled Impreesion do
Matin" was printed, under the title of "0 ee
Pale Woman" in the London Worid fourteen
yeare ago.
TOtJ Gil 4441DIVING•
Bow a St. lailinee=viZZ 1.0ee1011 &ke Yaw
Recently a well-kuown practical joker
(says the Ste Cetharines dOt(riza/) played a
rather moo trick oe one of our hotel meet
who neually sete up a free lunch of cold
liver for his euetainers. The scamp pro-
m -wed aboub half a -foot of one of those rollere
wed hi printing offices, which are composed
of a villianous but not unhealthy compound
of molasses, glue, &Yoram and other in-
gredieate, He cut the \veld up into neat
Pthiee"as t
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on the bar, placed and epieed it up well
with pepper end salt, end watched events.
Soon a well-known luueher, whom WC will
call John, arrived and made a die,e for the
hash, a big piece of whieh he got into his
capacious Malice. After a moment's chew-
ing he hafted, evidently between tsvo opin-
ions, and then remeving the mouthful said :
"Bodeen bob if that's not the tuffese liver
I iver tasted," teedWalked out. 'in-
stantly another 'fly came to the plate
inthe person of a, gay yoting local r& -
Porter. He Was Moro fastidious about
the fere than John, and selecting tiSfair.
sized piece,. covered ft with muStard, and
sandwiched it with bread. After taking
21, good bite he began to buzz the bartender'
for the latest news still chewing Vigorously.'
" Billy " rernarked thathe oaceow a re-,
porter dile') . deed .whilst eating and taking.,
After a fete more ineffectual attempts at
inastivation the young man stopped as if he
had lockjaw, p.ulled. the quid e from his
mouth, exclabrung, "Well, blow Me'if
that baint inbbaw, ' and tied emidst the
cachinnations of the boys.
A EMILIE CALENDAR.
Every Day a Greeting front a nit4tallit Friend
Was Seen.
Some one the other day thought of this
about a calendar. A daughter was to go
away, to be gone a long time, on the other
side of the earth. So the mother, thinking
to bring her good cheer, bought a calendar.
But the calendar this mother made could be
duplicated by no one, for this is what she
did. Below the date on each leaf there was
a blank space. She therefore took the
calendar apart, sending its :3'65 leaves to as
many friends and relatives asking each to
write some sort of salutation on this blank
space below the date. When these were
returned they were bound together
and the calendar was given to the daughter,
who knew nothing of what had been done.
She was made to promise, however, to tear
off no leaf until the day had dawned when
the leaf was due.
What a source of delight such a calendar
would be to an exile from home can easily
be imagined. Every day a different greet-
ing from a different friend! Every day a
new surprise, and never to know till the
morrow what friend was to send a word of
pod cheer.
The one addition this mother might make
on another calendar of its kind would be to
ask each friend to keep a record of the date
when the greeting, as it were, fell due ;
then to remember both greeting and date,
so that when the exile read it in one of
those far -away countries, she and her
friends at home might, for a moment at
least, stand consciously face to face.--Har-
per's J3aecsr.
What Cared Bina?
Disturbed, disturbed; with pain oppreesed,
No sleep, no rest; what dreadful pest
Such terrors thus ensnared hiinl
Dyspepsia all night, all (Ian
It really seemed had come to stay:
Pray, guess you, then, what cured. him?
It was Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Dis-
covery. That is the great cure for Head-
ache, Scrofula, Dyspepsia, Kidney Disease,
Liver Complamt and General Debility. An
inactive Liver means poisoned blood : Kid-
ney disorder means poisoned blood, Consti-
pation means poisoned blood. The great
antidote for impure blood is Dr. Pierce's
Golden Medical Discovery. Acting directly
upon the affected organs, restores them to
their normal condition. The "Discovery"
is guaranteed to benefit or cure in all cases
of disease for which it is recommended, or
money paid for it will be promptly refunded.
Figs and Thistles.
Nothing can cost so much as sin.
The devil never gives any presents.
Christ loves to go where he is expected.
A prayer that has no blood in it means
nothing.
'Every man is rich whit has a living trust
in God.
No man can hie loW who is always look-
ing high. .
No man has a right to be a 'curse to his
neighbors.
A look toward the devil is as dangerous
as a leap.
When you surrender to God, do it uncon-
ditionally.
People never get the big head because
they know too much.
When sin hides it forgets that it cannot
cover up its tracks.
God loves to have his children ask him
for what they need.
If there is death in your heart there will
be death in your life
Giving us needs is one of God's ways of
bringing us to himself.
The man who does not begin the day with
prayer begins wrong.
.. Women Wanted
Between the ages of fifteen and forty-five.
Must have pale, sallow complexions, no
appetite, and be hardly able to get about.
All answering this description will please
apply for a bottle qf Dr. Pierce's Favorite
Prescription; take it regularly, according
to directions, and then note the generally
improved condition By a thorough course
of self -treatment with this valuable remedy,
the extreme cases of nervous prostration and
debility peculiar to women, are radically
cured. A written g-urrantee to this end
accompanies every bottle.
Skirts Must Not Rattle.
Very little starch is used in the laundry
at present. The only articles starched with
heavy starch are men's linen shirt bosoms,
collars and cuffs. Shirt waists for women
are finished with thin starch, and only A
slight stead' is used in any cotton dresses.
White cotton skirts are Starched, but not
enough to make them rattle.--Iereto York
Tribune.
Sunday Concerts.
Truax—What is there sacred about these
Sunday evening concerts?
Blade—They are attended by a great col -
Hiram C. Wheeler, whom the Republi-
cans of Iowa have just nominated for
Goverrior, owns 0,000 acres of the finest
farming land in the State. He boaght it of
John L Blair for less than $5 an acre and
the Jersey railway man has often regretted I
the bargain.
Minieter Fred Dottglese has a handsome !
home in Anacostia, 11 pretty eaburb of
Weshiegton, and he says he would inuch
rather live there than in llayti. Thomas
Is. Fortune, the colored, newspaper writer,
18 said to bo anxious to try his fortune in
ITayti.
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inherit some tendency to nys,
pepsia from my mother. 1 suffixed
two years in this way, consulted a
number of doctors. They did me
no good. I then used
Relieved In your August Mower
and it was just two
days when I felt great relief I soon
got so that I could sleep and eat, and
I felt that I was well. That was
three years ago, and I am still first-
class.,,) I an never
Two Days, without a bottle, and
if I feel constipated
the least particle a dose or two of
August Plower does the work. The
beauty of the medicine is, that 3rott
can stop the use of it without any bad
effects on the system.
Constipation While I was sick I:
fe 1 t everything it
seemed to me a man could feel. E
was of all tnen most miserable. I Can.
say, in conclusion, that I believe
August Flower will cure anyone of
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fontaine InrianWattoteldis' .2I2n91341d.”
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WHEILE CAMPROU COMES FROM.
It Takes Fifty Tears for a Tree to Become
Yielding.
An interesting description of the method
of Obtaining camphor is given by Consul
Warnsasrin a report from Formosa. He
y
The camphor expert, selects a tree and
scrapes into the trunk in several places,
using an implement somewhat resembling. a
rake, with the view of ascertaining
whether it contains sufReient camphor tat
repay the labor of extraction. A
tree is said not to be worth anything
for camphor purposes until 111 15 fifty
years old, and the yield is very unequal ;
sometimes one side only of the tree contains
enough camphor to satisfy the expert, and
in this case that side alone is attacked. The
trunk is scraped to as great a height as the
workmen can conveniently reach, and the
scrapings are pounded up and boiled with
water in an iron vessel, over which au
earthenware jar, especially made for the
purpose, is inverted. The camphor sub-
limes and condenses on the jar, which is
removed front time to time, scraped and re-
placed. The rootof the tree and the trunk,
tor sone eight feet up, contain, as a rule,
the greatest quantity of camphor.
If the scrapings obtained from the
trunk yield well, the chipping is con-
tinued until in the end the tree falls. The
roots are thea grubbed up, as it is certain
they will give a proportionately good return.
If, however, the scrapings do not turn out
well the tree is abandoned and work is com-
menced on another. No attempt is made to
extract camphor frout the fallen trunk or
from the branches. In spine cases the trunk
is sawn up into timber, but this depends on
the locality; from many districts, owing to
absence of roads, timber would not pay for
its transport. It is impossible, acids the
Consul, to imagine a more wasteful method
of procedure, and it iel fortunate that the
camphor forests of Formosa are practically
baexhaustible.
Temperance and Women.
Lady Victoria Campbell, daughter of the
Duke of Argyle, has joined the Juvenile teak
of Rechabites, at Inverary.
The young lady who passes you wine
would not make a good wife. Paste this in
your hat, young man. --Albany Times.
The Chicago Tribune, accounts for the
political revolution in Kansas, by the fact
that twenty-two of its newspapers are edited
by women.
Miss Annie Wilson, B. A., of Ridgetown,
has been appointed to thepositionof modern,
languages master in thePresbyteria,nLadiee
College, 'Toronto.
' Mrs. Georgina' Whetsel, a colored Woriutir
of St1 John, New Brunswick, controls the
ice trade of that :city, employing fifty or
Sixty men and ten horses. She serves her
customers so well that she has gained.
universal respect.
President Carnot travels free on the
French railroads, but after his journeys lac
his secretary foot up what the expense of
the trip would have been if paid for, and
then hands that sum over as a gratuity, to
be distributed among the subordinate and
poorest paid servants of the railway.
Cardinal Manning has just passed his
eighty-third birthday. Queen Victoria and
Mr. Gladstone sent messages of congratula-
tion to the great prelate, whose advice isa
matters pertaining to education and im-
provement of the condition of the poor, is
often sought by the English Government.
The Parliament of Victoria is in session.
The Governor of the colony, the Earl of
Hopetown, stated that the Government
would introduce a bill providing for the
abolition of the system of plural voting.
Another bill, he said, extending the fran-
chise to women, would also be submitted for
the consideration of Parliament.
It is a new thing in Italy to allow women,
any active share in public life. The news-
papers, therefore, call attention to the fact
that a widow lady of Vercelli has been
elected one of the administrators of a char-
itable trust in that city. The example of
Vercclli has since been followed by the
town of Diana Marina where a lady has
been made a member of local Congrega,-
tion of Charity, which disposes of the trust
funds for the benefit of the poor and sick.
ilezeklah's Surprise.
"Wal, Hiram, if this don't beat all! The
old way for doctors was kill et' cure,' but
here I've fomid a piece in this here news-
paper where a doctor offers cash er cure.'
fer eatarth I I wish we had it—I'd like
to try him I Jest listen, Hiram The
proprietors of Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy
offer a reward of $500 for any case of catarris.
which they cannot cure,' That beats all
lotteries hollow! The medicine costs 50
cents—your catarrh is cured, er you get
$500! 'Where's my hat ? I'm goingright
over to neighbor Brown's, to show him. I
never wanted to get within ten foot of hint
before, but if ib is the cure of his catarrh, r
guess can stand it onc't." Sold by drug -
Alexandre Dittos hes been at work for
more than a year on a eoinedy that is now
approaching completion. Last winter the
brilliant dramatist spent several weeks at
Monte Carlo, where he wttched intently
the operations of the gatnint.„0 °
tables an& t
15 generally Conjectured that theCasino
will figure among the eeellee Of the forth-
coming plity,