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The Exeter Times, 1892-2-18, Page 8' ....a...a A Winter Bona', The seat either whirls like a ring -dove s feather, net is tossed and, blown by the breath of Maar An ley the *brook in tether., rile Sid wind dire.,OS the p 'wing Ilan Bui; you, loco, dud 1, love, oapey weather, Laugh thoagh the skies he gray. OPrth and toy are the draughts we minele, And p edge King Winter a lusty ; We nile the logs on the roari g We tune the lute to a lover's strain, And olavry song to the Atririgs and tingle With never a nett) of pain, They say that May is the month formating wasei t se Iseeves breite isei the simaster WOO ; We wish all well in their weary waiting For the piecl-greexj meads and the arching But theres lifeand love in them) airs elating, Anal this is the tjitt for two! --piatonScollard. THE PIIHESSORS SKELETON. •The Predessor was a good man, a man of uoimpeaehable tharacter and reputation— a u who had never been known to make a istake, and also a man who was thorough - •aware of the fact So much for himself. or hie abilities—he knew his work, and do it , he likewise knew a good deal out other people's work, and, as far as he nveniently welch, isesisted upon its being one too. WithoVe`goieg into details, it I readily be understood that, though un- ubtedly a useful man in his day and neratien, the Professor was by no menus opular one; and it NM over one of his est luterdicts that, his wife and his step. ughter were conferring one rainy morning the solitude of the best parlour. " It is of no use whatever, my dear •, he 11 not even discuss the question. I am ry sorry for you; but I don't see any Ip for it." "You give way to him a great deal too eh, mother. If he had one shadow of mon-sense on his side, it would be other story. It's too late now to pass liege over in that high-lusuded fishiest." Mary Andrews spoke with some heat. sho not good mese ? Her first lover, exceptionable in all respects, had appear. upon the scene ; and without rhyme or ason, the Professor had put down his foot d refused to countenance any slush pro - ding. %Vise, 't why ? In my days, young pea - e did not presume to question the why aud iereforti of their guardian's conduct; it ht to be sufficient for you that I have oil reasous of my own, Mary," he had d her wheis the tried to argue the mat- ' Butit's not sufficient," returned Mary. I'm too old to be treated that way, papa. you have anything against him, you must I me straight and plain." Well, fouething," "began the Profes- , fairly driven to bay—for one thing, los nner is objectionable. 1 dislikethatlight tine style exceedingly. I believe him to incorrigibly careless and superficial; and do not speak withdtit observation. Then o le wanting in the eommenest courtesy of gentleinee ; I caught him only the other with a grossly caricatured representa- on of thyself ou his desk. You may think ese trivial matters, my dear; but strews the way the wind blows." -ofesear had been edging towards s he spoke; with the last word, from the room. With all his site not altogether above sums y quite understood that, mind to resume the discus. opportunity.: not so was pose of her views and he might do -with her aid to be the better part of Jovr did not appear again here or how he spent the tter best knowne to himself-: leedare • WAS tm- ossittle to secures e smallest chance of an eryiew with him. Ma. y met her levee n the Perk road one afternoon, and owned, vith 'mingled wrath aul irritation, that trairs were still as before. She had been bit to accomplish nothing in the way of ringing the Professor to a more satisfae- ,ory state of mind. "1 ain sorry to say it of anyone:Inflected 'th you, Mary," remarked the young man ravely; "bub there is a good deal'ef stub- ornuess ia your respected step -father's °reposition, he will neither be led nor riven Shall we throw him overboard, nd, do without his kind permission ?" Mary, shook her heed despondently. " Wehan't do that, John ; itimans moth- i toot besides, he has a kindly nature riderneath." "Thea he haste most unpleasant way of bowing ie on till surface," was the rejoin - ere "1 supp Ise you go air to your country natters next week, and it will be rank ereey for me to show my race evithin twen y le,s of the place. 13y the time von come sack, it's hard to say what may have hap- ened. I may even have married into the band f professors myself," said Mary demurely, and have an Infallible ,guide of my own." "I'll qualify him for three months in hos- pital first, time I come across him," was Mr Grierson's reply. "Seriously, John, we can't very well elp ourselves. You can write as ()hen as en like ; and the first chance I have of a olemn square up with the Professor, be sure I'll take it But for that unlucky caricature, there might have been no trouble of any • ind. Why r14 you risk it?" " It was in) sOssible to help it, Mary. If you hadhseen him chasing round with famous umbrella after smne imaginary iscreant who had tampered with his pap- rs—it was too good to be lost—not that 1 ve not been sorry enough about it siece," e addirlin a graver tone. It could not be undone now, and the pair had just to make the best of the position. or the need few days Dr. Dow kept his usehold in a perfect whirlwind of peeper. ion that effectually shut out all hope of privatedebate. On Sunday be raked up woe acquainta,nce ttt the other side of the wri, and spent the whole day there; and Monday morning, provokingly triumpn- t, be stood on the front steps surveying e train of cabs waiting to convey his fam- y antl their belongings te the station, and eepinga vigilant outlook for possible short- nge, Mary, my dear, if you would have e little regard.,tor neatness. I never in life saw such a disreputable portman- an. What was your mother thinking of ro 'allow it to go Unless I look after every thing myself Blutiard, did you notice if that roll of k rugs wee eerried out 1" interrupted Mrs. , Dow kora behind. " It woe), my dear, and put into the cab neves,. ye?met with a woman who knew vhere ti e wraps went, or if there were any A alt takes a man "- Mr. -lid not wait to hear the rest, had peohebly heard iti before. She went back int,. the t'ining-room, where a further consigo esreet to: packages was stacked upon the teeele, and began to , strap up an over - &win*. " -mother, " said Mary warningly, " that is not work for your fingers. Where' is papa, that he " Huth I Ile's counting up the boxes. Yoo know ib takes a "Oh yea ; I know dal aboat that," laugh- ed 'Mary, finishing the refractory straps herself. " New, mether, we will pleti go and put ourselves into the first cab, end leave the " man" to wind up, any way .that pleases him." She swept her mother out of the chaos, past the energetic Professor—who was ea- peondiug the first, principles of leverage to a sulky porter—mto the roomiest (Alb whence they looked out at the rest of the performauce with rather malicious setts faction on Mary s part. It came to au end at last. The Professor, with his hands under his °oat -teals, looking not at all unlike a, diguified bantam cock, strutted round the various rooms, turned the key in the frout door with his wetland, and descended the steps. One foot in the Cab he passed and looked searchingly at his wife. Isabella, where was my study coat packed?" "Oh dear," cried Mrs DOW, stricken into dire confusion and consternation; "Ido believe it hese% been packed at all ; it's hanging up in that dark closet behind your study. "1 knew it r ejamilated lier husband. The 'oat itt Question was a baggy veaerable garment, of a nandeserip greenish hue, but dear beyond price to the heart of its owner. The holiday would have been no holiday without it, teed the whole establish men knew that very well; hence the Professor felt, that here was solid ground for a rievence at last. He waved the cabman aside and went back into the boost). " Teke care of the matches, dear," his wife cried after him. Dr Dow stalked majestically in without vouchsafing a. backward gla,nce • he passed the dining -room door, his study door, and turned un a dim narrow passage; the closet, door was at the end, a big- dark cavern, that served as a general receptacle for lumber, and all the odes and ends of the household. The Peofessor tumbled over two troulte, hod knoeked his hat off against some sharp pro- jection, before it occurred to him to dive in- to his coat-tail pocket for a match. Then he discovered that the unfriendly projection had been thegas bracket, and that the shock had knooked off the burner. No matter; it was only one more annoyance. He lighted the burnerless pipe and proceeded to look for his coat. There it was, not even decently hung up --just throat oat of sight and mind behind an empty crate. The Professor carried it out into the lobby andsorrowfully viewed the creeees by the light of day. . Mr. Grierson ; 1 have to look in here for mine te or two," "Then perhaps you will allow me to wait for you? 1 heve several other things to speak to you about.° • Very reluctantly, the Professor gave way ; he had the instincts of gentlemen, and conld hardly decline as curtly at his own door as elsewhere. "The. h.oese is en des. habilIe," he said, opening the door with his latchkey; "butt if you leke te wait here for a moment, I will not detain yen longer. Leave the door open—it feels uncomsnouly , close inside." It certainly did, John Crimson stood in - the doorway, loo king thoughtf idly out at the passing cabs and omnibuses, a d making up his mind that there shonld be no fur- ther begging the question by hie pro- posed iather-in-law. If fair means did nob answer, he shoaid be made to understand in plain Saxon that they would do without him. At ad point Mr. Grierson suddenly became aware of smothered execrae tions an.s1 ejaculations from the regions be- hind. " Hullo ! is anything the matter ?" he call ed out. "Burghers --Good gracious !" He bad found his way to the little passage behind the study. Dr. Dow was there, clutching at the door into the dark closet, from whit% a, lurid light shone. The air from it was like a blast from a furnace; but the interior was like unto no furnace either of them had ever seen. a hye ; be sure and tell Mary I'll take a ren over too see her on Satarday." .And somehow—into the details of the prooese it is better not to inguive to close- ly—the Profess sr brought himself to deliver the message verbatim. Re knew that that same skeleton would be a powerful lever, in all coming arrangements,' Some years back—about the' juvenile era of the present generation—it was. the , tint- versal creed that uo good action ever went Warewarded, no deed Of darkness undis- covered and unpunished. Nevertheless, there have been many exceptions recorded. Dr, Dow's skeleton is one of them months of quiet dust have gathered undisturbed about it ; no ruthless hand has let in the light of day, or gas, into the dark closet be. hind the study, and possibly Mrs. John Grierson is the only outsider who has ever heard it whispered that there was any mystery connected with it. The nearest appioach• to discovery came with the Christmas ; even gentle Mrs. Dow was aghast as the length of the quarters' gas account "It is aperfect imposition," she declared indignantly ; we have not, burned the half of it. I am most carerul in seeing that it is never used Unnecessarily, I don't know whet the Professor will say when ho sees it." But the Professor coming hi just then, declined to interfeve. It was better—mach better, he said—speak ing very feelingly—to be cheated than to cheat; and if there was any imposition in the matter, he preferred to leave it entirely to the conscience of the gas °emptily, It was cerious that Mr. Griersou took much the same view when he saw the bill. After that, Mrs. Dow bad, no alternative bet to pey it, though she did it under pro. test, and with a firm conviction of flagrant iniquity in high quarters. Howthe London Streetkul is DI5I3339 d o f The mud collected te the London streets is metecl to the landiug-stage of the closet or the river, and there emptied into barges, whereby lb is conveyed to Barking Creek, and Crossness, fourteen miles below Loudon Bridge, where the contents of London sewers are discharged. Three new vessels have just been ordered from Lancashire, for the purpose of discharging out at sea the sludge and mud from the London sewers. AThen these are completed, there will be a fleet of five ships engaged in this work. These will be capable of removing 4,000 tons per week. The mucl and refuse removed annually front the London streets temente to e total weight of two million tons, and the clearing of it away costs ih320,000 per year. In order to do this thoroughly, there are employed 1,50' carts, 3,000 men, and 150 barges. These men have to deal with two pounds of rubbish per head of popula- tion per day. Papa 13—it was Mary's voice at the front door in a tone of indignant, expostulation— "do you know we have only fifteen minutes left, to get to the sration? It's oo use going at all if you don't come pow—this minuter Dr. Dew gathered up the maltreated coat under Ins arm. His papers, his umbrella -- where were they? Whet way was this for a man to setoff to his well-earned rot? In j a fever of uatifiable impatience at the utter poreasonableness of all things animate and inanimate on this particular morning, the Professor turned and locked the eloaet door —which had swung to of its own accord -- and rushed once more into the street. That was the last of the day's minor wor- ries ; nothing else went wrong.They did not miss the train or lose their luggage. The rescued coat was tenderler brushed, and folded up in the rack above. The sunsbone out over browning fields and parpling heather; the anxious line3 faded otte of Mrs. 1/ow's face ; she moved up a little closer to her troublesome husband, and both looked as contented as though their days Wein by in one utibruken round of peace and con- cord. They meant to enjoy their holiday - time. For the pair who were separated there was always one grand resource—the Pose :every wrote endless letters to her "young lover ; and neither of them appeared to be absolutely steeped in misery and despair, whatever they might choose to say on that head, and thought :het solemn s raring, up' ad co ns, an 1 goat), aid been of nonce'. feet. " It is entirely for your own good, my dear," said the learned mar, looking at her quite pethetically. He had held. his ground through all her arguments awl entreeties. " If 1 believed the young man to be worthy of you, no one would welcome him into the family more joyfully ; lint I have been un- able to discover ooe redeeming point about him ; and 1 should be failing, most miser- ably failing iu my duty to you if, for the sake of present peacee,- I allovverl you to sacrifice your flame.Do . o not speak to me auy more on this matter, my dear, beg of San.' 0 t course all this was faithfully reported to John, whoas firth fully promisedhy return, to do any doughty deed that might present itself in the rather limited round of daily existence. "11 be would hurl himself into the sea, 1 would only be too pleesed to fish him out again; or if he want a contribution to any pet charity, be has but, to hintt as much. I arn ready to thrash any rival: Pro- fessor within an inch of his life for him ; but I must say it is a trifle bard on us both his sticking out in tliis feehion, when there's not the least likelihood of anything of the kind." Some days after the exodus from town it chanced that the Professor had occasion to go back to attend a committee meeting. He was to return that same night. Neverthe- less, Mrs. Dow and Mary escorted him to the tiny railway station and surronnded him with little attentions, as if it, were to be a lengthy parting; a state of things that tne Professor thoroughly appreciated. He looked down upon teem from the window of the railway carnage with quite a benign. ant expression. b t her 1, dear," observed bis wife, em- oldened by it to a parting petition'"the evenings are a little chilly ; would you mind calling at the house and bringing my fur cloak back with you? It's hanging up in that dark closet." " Certainly, my dear," he answered. "You may depend upon me, though you would have left my coat in thee) game closet." Dr. Dow reached town very comfortably, attended his meeting, aud, after lunch, pro- ceeded leisurely in the direction of his own house. Not very far from it, he unexpect- edly and rather unwillingly came upon John Grierson. The young man was turning a corner sharply, and the pair almost came into collision. There was no loophole for pretending they had not observed each other; Mr. Grierson at any ra,te wanted no loophole; it was a chance nob to be lightly lost. "Ab, Dr. Dow, I am lucky to have met you," he said. "1 thought you were in the country." " So we are. A committee meeting brought me in for the day --that is all," quickening. his pace as he spike. Mr. Greerson quickened his too. "I want- ed to tell you that I have got that at point - meet I mentioned; it will make a very cemfortable addition to my income." I am glad to bear it," returned the Pro- fessor frigidly, walking up his own door- steps,—"I wid bid you good -morning now, The gas had been burning in the closet since the day the family left town ! The Professor had neglected to turn it off before he locked the closet door! Aud there it was, the smoking gas jet—without a burner —flari.,,g away, as it had flared day and night since the house was shut up. How the house itself had esat,peu entire destruction was a mystery not to be explained. From wall and ceiling of the closet, from shelves and pegs and crates and. garments, hung waving penclicles of soot. livery box and bundle was crusted with it, even to the boarded floor; and the luokless Professor stood gaz. ing helplessly in at the havoc he had accom- plished. Mr. Grierson gave vent to a prolonged whistle. " Phew if that's the plight your servants leave behind them, I'd make a clean sweep of them, every one, Why, the place might have been burned down three times over," "It was 1 who left it,' gasped the cox:e- victed master, "not the servants." 0-h r "1 wouldn'thave had it happen for ten — twenty—fifty posanda,"-peeted the Profes- sor. "I have always been so particular about anything of that kind, and now "---- He broke off with a groan that expressed more than words. Mr. Grierson made no comment; he did not feel called upon to express any sympa- thy—ft, was hardly to be expected of lum. Tho Professor might begreat, in metaphysics, hut in a practical emergency he was no- where. As far as John Urierson could per- ceive, they were likely to spend the rest, of the evening gazing at the sooty scene. " You aro going back by the six train, I suppose ?" he remarked tentatively. "How eau I go back with a house like this ?" desnaa ded the Professor. "1 shall never hear the last of it. Look at Mrs. Dow's cloak •, I was to have taken it back with me." Ile lifted the edge of the gar- ment as bespoke—the furdining might have been composed of black fringe, for any colour that could be seen. Mr. Grierson shook his head discouraging- ly " Pm afraid Mrs. Dow will never ptt t that on again." "1 never had a misfortune like this in my life before," wailed her unhappy husband. "I'(1 almost as soon the whole place had caught fire." Mr. Griersoa shook his head a second time. It was (tette a refreshment of spirit to be able to look on reprovingly; he would. even if ide own afFairs bat for aardoodvdeeraiin' consegnence. All at once a midden velem of inept ation came upon him ; some expres- sion that was hardly compassion so mac h as self interest sweat ocro-s his complacent face; he ditnly saw some beautifulpossibilie of estehlishing a hold upon thi e mmaculate Professor, and working it rouod to his own end. " How NvEttld it be if you were to say nothingat till about it?" he suggested ca.uti- nutty. "Get a charwoman in and have this mess elemed awley ? Its only soot, after all —there's no real damage done." The Professor gresped at the idea, like the proverbial drowning man at the straw. " Could it be done ?" he asked anxiously. "There is that cloak, too, only bought la.st winter." "Couldn`t you get another like it ?" Main- ! uated the tempter. "They're sure to have plenty more at the shop it came from women's clothes are all cut after the same pattern. The Professor fell headlong into the trap; the downward path is fatally easy, once the first crooked step is taken. John Grierson promptle placed himself at the head of affairs and the Professor was like clay in the hands of the potter. A charwoman was huuted up brooms and brushes brought into full play, Dr. Dow and Mr. Grierson assisting till they might have passed for a pair of itiner- ant Christy Minstrels. The cloak was vigor- ously shaken out of the study wiudow, and tied up in a clumsy paper parcel; ready for negotiating the chaege next morning. By ten o'clock that night the Professor's credit was saved; but his innocence was gone. For him, a grimy skeleton would haunt that closet through all time to come. "Would it be pessible to stop up thab gas pipe, do you think?" he asked his aocom "dice, as they stood. critically surveying the result of their labours. " It doesn't look at all bed till you tura that light on; a person coming in with merely a candle would. not notice any difference. Mr. Grierson laughed. "All right. We'll make assurance doubly sure. A plug of paper will keep that pipe oft duty till it's convenient to put it on again.—Now we may as well look after some weep and water for ourselves; we have put in a fair night's work." Whatever Jelin Grierson's failings might have been in the past, Dr. Dow had no reason to complain of his doing things by halves on this occasion. He gave the finishing touches to , everything, swept away all trace of the oharwoman'S presence took upon himself the sole respon- sibility of the cloak transation, and present- ed himself at, the station the next morning in abundance -of time to hand it in to the professor's carriage and asaure him that de- tection was impossible. "1 really do not know what to say to you, Mr, Grierson," said the Professor, un- eesily arranging his parcels hn the opposite seat. "You have given yourself a good deal of trouble over this unfortunate accid- ent. lam almost afraid I lost my balance slightly yesterday ; but it is so seldom that ttnything of that kind has occurred, you can perheys understan my unwillingness to have it generally talked about." "Don't think of it," said Mr. Grierson, with great politeness. "Very. few of us have contrived to get on so far without some kind of skeleton to hide away. —Good - The oyster ewes, from all accounts, to be scarcely leas prolific, actually, than the .fly. It is estimated that each mother oyster throws off from 200,000 to 2,000.000 ova =Dual ly. The whideback steamers which have created somewhat of a sensation in ship building and other circles, is likely to be superseded by another marine curiosity known as the turtle deck. And it is grati- fying to know that the that One of these new steamers is to be built by. a Canadian firm, the Poison Company of this city. For some tiniest firm in Sweden have been negro tiating with the Poison's for the constrac- tion of a steam+ r at the tartle back pat- tern. The plans have been prepared, and Show that the proposed steamer will bear a strong resemblance to the Macdougal whalebecks, which have in the last few years become such an important factor in grain and ore transportation in the United States and ehiewhere. The whalebaoks are built, with both ends alike, very much in hitpe of a spoon; but experience has shown that such a shape exposes the rudder and wheel to more than ordinary risk, and, inerooher, can lay no claim to any eounter- balancing aa vantage over the ordinary style. For this reasoo it. wee deemed advis- able to retain the old and tried model. The motive power will be steam alone. There are no masts, no rigging, no bulwarks. There is nothing to break the sweep of the deck, except a look -out tower well forward and a small deck -house at the stern, strongly builb of steel to re- sist all sorts at weather, and cover- ing the space occupied by the machinery and mew's quarters. All forward of this will be devote(1 to freight, whieh will be loaded and unloaded through seven batches opening direct front the hold. This arrange- ment admits of speedy and convenient hand- ling of the cargo. The deck is curved like the back of a turtle, a, device which increas- es materially the seaworthiness of the vessel, Her dimeneions wiit he as follows :—Length, 250 feet; beam, 40 feet; depth of hold, 23i, feet. Stearn will be generated in two Clyde boilers having each a diameter of 14 feet. She svill be furnished with the triple expansion engines, with cylinder having diameters of 21, 32, and 5S inches, and a 40.inch stroke On account of the absence of all masts, sails, and rigging, the cost of constructing a steamer of this kind is fully 20 per cent. less than that of an ordinary steamer of equal carrying capacity. If the contract be entered upon, and there is every probability that it will, the hull will be built in Owen Sound, and the engines and boilers he the city. 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