HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1898-1-29, Page 2Doctor jack
13y Ste Qeorge Rathherne.
The palace of Abtiallah Paella its net
a, great distance front the grand
residence: a las sultan4 and thoVith
not a,tterapting to rival the.
latter, It Is a place of no
mean oretensions—the beading itself'
bean; of marble, tilled wah eostly or-
naments beught in "Western capitals
like Paris. and the grounds of spacious
eetere, waned in, and tilled with trees
sate ehrtzeinty that charm the
:leen Seat Wont in it aefore—the zees
=ors- of that awful night cen never
lees e nand. and mire than once he
awe before heard such a voice, and it
was here on the Bosphorus.
Can this be Sady, the lovely latari
svith whom bold Aleelt fell in, love and
to resale whom he played hisoself in,
his present terrible condition ? Jack's
mind goes beets to the scene on, the
border of. the Bosphorus, when last he
saw this enceantress, and he decides
In the affirmative.
What is she doing here? It is folly
to ask—love, blind god tbouelt he maY
be accounted generally, is keen of eye,
and Sady bas not only discovered
where the one she 'oyez is incarcerat-
ed, but has also found a means ot
communicatiatt with aim.
Even, as they loolt she 'rises and.
glides away in the eirection of the
harem, and the last words they hear
bei.' drop through the grating are in
Eugliett
hee seught wnett a:: overage that so "i w I wall come if I live, Aleelt."
fair :1 Sttc ttld lve owned ey Sectit -
Jack is tempted to stop 1er, but fears
an reee as; the obi Pashe, but such a lest he may be surerieee into crying
; the ewe: en this world, weere
d and bringing upon the scene
n. se net I:eve te 1)3 noteurifte in some of the Passeves taniza,riee, rernn-
0' : "anew :owes- ereations.
ants or deseenSante a the fartuVIS
at,. much as
• - a.na whites was !woken into free:a-tents
az :rcrt,it ree nen teet 11,311v b.i -nheh heeee--ee nis
. a teisee's greueele. ' ""-
Aleeli. and tbe beauty whoso face
t atz energetic'.
s strewn ein; into this dlre :serape
e: Li- --sew tee avorage Tnek ',nee baewed out of the question al -
ranee t. et the E esseeet,
eier.
•
zee ; • v, 21t.11.«.;« elaveo .1 no lenger aeleis bitch. now
1v1I'r.re t1u rl has, away, and in
Ise , ezetala O'er. irn • ,.. aeorate rain -et' Jack. bias his
o neetwee, ntones resting see e the graveng that
of a sneeze:1 - osween Ateiet Morton and liberty
-v peaeuces it, Tile fail. Axis and his own
4.nelei froln eine lwast. lizetireerively he feel'
eeritel1 te teat their resisting quell-
4.sees- teen emilee ;se relnembere the
mese e strength tnat in his own
a neat' of eturey arrse axle 110-cu1l:en shoultlere.
If it eereee te wig of 'Naze doee
set (loins but tilos he will be able te
oar the %thole greeting out, anti time
e an opening for Aleelt W pass
rotafeh
Achre d saye Pothiege but goes a tit -
farther oa—the fitithful arinourer
mita mount guard while jack holds
ts COn-ettrsath.41 ants the matt in the
tingeete,r that he may warn tnera
n time ehould any one epproa.cb.
it ueula fie hard to define the feel -
of the skreeritan, as he crouchee
ow and pots hs head near the grat-
ng to nasal. Surrounded by the manY
thieve that remind him of the feet et
bie beire in a. Turitleh surdasand a
ionen Of e. bitter exleme at thee, ne
e waiters that 1.13 is Jack Evans.
le friend the brother ot the glrl
ese, Hee In 3. dungeon helaw,
e" inter:We he eau hear no
—all is as silent as the graVe,
Lomb he bangs over, It could
tew desolate and still—truth to
llving tomb for the 'wretch -
of the Pasha.
Jas n atom' it no longer—he mus
alt,ana know the werst. So he
preseee his face close down to the
rueI bars, and whievere
" Aleek
The sound seems to Fiteal down Into
ze awful sleekness of the dungeon, but
reply comes Week to greet him Jack
istens for a minute, and theu tries
eln, this time In a. louder hey.
believes he hears a rustling sound
—on the instant he imaginea it is the
clanking of chains, Achrited eas not
haisl anything abut Aleck being
;se:gated &Am this way. and a feeling
a actual horror seizes jack at the
rem* thought.
Ile cone, wes an idea—in the old days
'ellen :Owls and he were olaums they
liada secret Uttle whistle used as a
signaI—it is eaelly given. and by a
:erases -ter might be mistaken for the
"tee of eeme siesta' bird awakened
the wrong hour. Jack smilee to
remember how history repeats itself"—
bow, ellen, hundreds of years an, in
the tins •e" of the Crusades, the English
king, Diehard Coeur de Leon, was held
aptive by Duke Leopold of Austrie in
he old castle of Dureasteln, his faith-
ful minstrel, Blondel, roaming all Eu-
rope in search a his missing master,
played and sang the familiar romaunt
under the walls of the castle. and In
this way discovered his king, who re-
cognized the air he loved and the
voice ef Blond.el.
He gives the signal whistle clearly—
teens is a distinct movement below,
and then a groan. A. voice breaks on
les ear, full of lamentation and misery
—he can hardly realize it Is Aleck who
thus exclaims:
" Surely ray dream is come true—my
mind wauders. I imagine I hear
sounds that in the nature of things
cannot be. Let me look the truth
talinly in the face—what does :that in-
dicate? Am I to go mad? Oh ! ye
gods, A is a fate I have always shud-
dered at. Anything but that. If he
would only kill me outright I would
thank him, but to die and yet live for
years—what can I do to bring the end
quickly? If he would put me up and
have a file of his soldiers shoot me,
I would show him how an American
boy could meet death with a laugh, but
such a fate as this—I wonder if Avis
will ever know—dear Avis—never to
see her Aleck again—I hope she xnaY
be happy in her ignorance of his cruel
doom."
Jack can stand it no longer—a great
lump seems to have arisen in his
throat as he listens to the ravings of
his friend in the prison below.
" Aleck 1" he calls, perhaps louder
than prudence may have dictated, but
for the moment caution is a secondary
matter with bim—the querulous voice
below ceases its murmuring.
" Who calls me ?" asks the unseen
Aleck, in a quivering tone of mingled
hope and fear.
" It is 1—Doctor Jack.".
"No. no, you deceive me—he is dead
—they told me so—they swore it to
me," cries the prisoner.
"Then they lied to you," cooly re-
plies Jack. " Have you any means of
climbing up here to this grating so we
can talk ?" for he has a pretty good
idea that .Aleck was close to Sady at
the time she cooed her farewell to him
" Yes, yes in a minute. Wait for me
—don't go away, Jack, for God's sake
rm coming, indeed I am", he talks
constantly, poor fellow, as he labori-
ously climbs the wall in a way he has
erranged long ago, just as though he
fears lest it shall all prove a delusion
and a snare . "1 have been up here
many a night looking at the stars and
wondering If Avis were watching them
then, Here I ata at last—I was sure
to get here—where are you, old fellow
You haven't gone—you wouldn't desert
We lee
N." Isere - -se
tenteli of
4.
Wee :sews are 1-,32.
I :It ,eireeesw of thss reent
fee ewe d •slen„ theizelz ehurp
s li,/.114•1:?-41 even azale the
ge▪ eeee eloeeze Aii is silent areune
evire nelee; ef. tiee eity have
"7; I dt. isexiel. ate': la this region of
14tn •le
Se: et en; o tte. repe, and moving
r:.:t f.,'-;41 te ...Olen'. epee. vests
it csete nee. Having ouce upon a time
hotel ;e essevises: in T,,,•NaS. he nnows how
1,:weil • a ae; as- Iris% in that
ie farweee 6s 1t0-0, SO that A only
reevitree a few threws in order to
f.a-ent. the aecees.
enet twee e, tee vesestat den szot dies
Ve.-n" r•he twee it ne se:aunts upward
hea1 .se hetet, le 1tia the agatty of a
.1;4,4 Tar. Iteaehieg the tOil a the
Twill.14.0 es,aite few Ashmeti, whoIs
lore se csang. and zeal': lie Is cent-
e.ale I :^s -31'Fit lay an energetie pule
Is eaey erre:Isle o.nal pre.
essele toes- sestel an the gartlen. Jac%
Plat; ; a note Of the &pen by sneaus
of. ;1 eereee tree that leatts towerel the
veil,uU Wale feels sure oE finding It
agewi et' a hurry. for there is
;22)tr 4.,ing what adventure may bofall
teem ore they :again see the outside of
th•ree
lie has ntele inquiries of the Turk
with regard to the trutr, of the rumour
that a peek of fierce hounds trent the
eael,ree of Siberia. aecustorathl to pull-
ing sannt wollvee down, or.: let loose
in the Pasha's gardetia at nightfall.
Ateireeti Can atteA 'to the preeence of
the %Vete. for that slay he $OAV there in
Weer ircimels, but he lo•lieves it is In-
terelea that the Iieree brutes ellen only
Ise reerst their liberty on certain °c-
ease 1 e, and that the report has been
waned ey maple .07 the newspapers
tan be lets or sq e4 tiXis.'heta Vt110 read
them in tk. oafttS, in order to
ftsele ,02! who treelat be tempted,
to cleeib tile nalle and enter the
n'asea'e en ends. Te•• ••xe• experience
1.401 3.1711 initteteuve foreign, -
e▪ re, •n tees of them so nearly ran
see e ;ea prat, viewer ..zt hls harern,
h.1 b.u a lesson to hint.
iSie- est among tiiO trees, represent-
ing mem. ceunteies. awl along wonder-
ful tearer !eels, that in the daytitne
ereoent a gergoaus spot:twee, *Teak and
oot:TatitOlt dale nt•ar the white
ello •• the eala.w, which is built
sozneneine after tee matinee of a mos-
que. Wales; a Pleme, and several mlnae
nes clorzeisie.
ea. ver so. snarling" from one quarter
telio where ties eilwrian hounds are
heat in leaele ter.a javit puts one hand
tn -where he has his faithful revolver,
for elotuel ria se brures get loose, they
e evestake Went loeg before they
e 4. rewsh the friendly wall at the
.1,e. vi hea• the rep s dangles. a.nd 3.
tera.ible onenunter must task the prow-
ess the American adventurer to the
utniesi. Still. net a twinge of fear
gees through his heart—the man does
zate. eznow its ineasanve and has faced
mane a danger even more dreadfal
wit eout flinchinat
No. they reach the wall of the
=aril z palace, c.nd Achmed turns to
get les losarbigs. so he may lead his
benefacaor te the spot where he saw
the grating over the dungeon in which
the "dg of a Christian" is immured.
"This way," he whispers, and Jack
follows without a word—they get down
on bands and knees, e.nd inch by inch
crawl along, making not the faintest
sound by means of which their pre-
sence can be discovered.
It is exeiting work, even if silence
does mark their progress, for they are
on the grounds of the man who hates
Doctor Jack with all the vemon of his
eastern nature, and, once discovered,
their position will be one of extreme
peril.
Jack chvekles as he thinks of A.dbal-
la,h Pasha, fretting and fuming over
some email delay en route—if he only
knew what the Christian dogs" were
up to how he would tear his hair and
gnash his teeth in impotent rage.
Somehow the thought encourages the
American, and gives him new vim to
go at the business in hand.
Ile sees Achtned come to a dead halt,
and crouch low. Has the faithful fel-
low found the granting ? Are they
over the dungeon where poor Aleck
lenguishes ? Jack is about to speak
when a sound falls on his ear. He is
rooted to the spot, for it is the soft
voice of a woman he hears. Looking
beyond the Turk, he now • seepa white
robed object close to the ground, and
as it moves he realizes' that here is
the source from whence emanates the
sounds: he has heard.
33oth men are crouching low, that
heads are neer the earth, which IA a
splendid conductor of sound, hence
they can hear plaingly. It is te female
beyond, and her voice is like the rip-
pling of the brook in the forest, soft,
mellow and musical. Jack has only
eclat eleca ss Answer me, my brain
will burst—auswer, for }leaven's sake."
Jack does more—he seizes the 'mud
that has been thrust through the meet-
ing and squeezes it in both of his—aY,
bends down and kisses it, and without
shame to his manhood, drops aescald-
ing tear upon it, as he realizes how
thin Is Aleek's once plump member.
tyneer7.1,:ub
n:is greeted with a low, sil-
" Senor Jack does not halfknow
my accomplishments, or he would not
be so surprised. Vaya. 1 I ant here,
and every shave in this palace obeys
my wile If I uttered a signet a score
tanizaries would sweep the garden
from end to cnd and we to t• ny hiv-
ing thing they found there."
" Poor boy 1 poor Aleek ! to thirds' She utters these words slowly, ae if
whet you have suffered beta, while 1 to allow them to fell deep into the
roamed tee strcets of Paris with every heart a the man who listens, so that
luxury that money could buy. I never ne may comprehend their full signIA-
dreamed that you were alive uetil eaave, and Doctor eace, for perhaps
lately when I learned certain things the first time in his lite, has a soasirt
that gave ote o. elew, and I rneatt 0,11 92 re4r "eel) "er
haste to rea.elt your side,"
fte earesses the thin hand as * (To oR cO$TRIUBD.)
aother might that of her sick Oahe
I cies hardly believe my senses. Can CARE OF THE $1CK-ROOM.
it be you, indeed. racer? Teen my
pray(5rs. are answered and—bend down, X
aid let ale touteh eeur fitee---1 'cannot
e yeah but I may feel,"
',the hand creepe over Jack's face—
how it teasel* him—then a feelluev of
terrer streets to his soul—Aleck has
w he could not see. Ilave they
=wet cut his eyes in torture? It is
3. favourite teethed a revenge among
he Turks.
'Clem Heavon 1 na are not Nine.
Aleelethve —ey haltkit put out your
yes ?" he crew.
,11.T.,••••••
t should be Rein sovilpuiously Clear'
anti Free I')02151o1se•
Mrs, Burton Iningsland, writing or
'When Nursing the Sick" iu the Ladies'
Houle Journal, insists that "a tranquil
mind 15 32 the utmost importance to the
patient, and consequently everything
must seem to be moving smoothly and
eaeily. no matter what difficultiee the
nurse may have to encounter. The invalid
simnel nos 1/e allowed to feel any re-
speortibility whatever about bie own case..
The sielaroesa eheuld be nept serupa-
n'4. it ire the air twess I core- I
Ole:toed of. I•kraeov eon are Jaen
feted 3. thanti 'Cod fer tee fa er of pees
cla vow earry 4.71.,i news
my fate home ,23
• " C.%t1'y hihd1t1 eerne tere ta
twee yen away wain m4\ and lea going
re de' it rownorrow night 12.1 heve to
biew the triesie caetle of the Paeha tO
ileeewe
" That would be. joy Weald.bet V.
em afraid you 'eaneot ae it. Jaik. Yon
wet be -caught arei pur todeath—we
mile never quit' the coupler. Wetter
leave me to my fate."
rigoet weber your heatl about that.
Wow ateuree that ;vheu ja,eh weasel
olessieee to do a Untie mountains watet
halt bine Out of teit sent comein.a,n-
other night (lead certain. I've male
all preparations, one femme ens ee„,
seon be beyond the jurisdiction of hla
Turn."
"You. alve me new Ilte—aireany 1
eon to sniff the Petite' air of liberty.
yes. I will go with you, and if we Wee ,
I Shall tale you to Avis—you re,.
slither how often I have talked of
ler—she shall reward you for your
noble devotion to ber Aleek."
Jack's heart bears like a trip ham-
mer—the words seem eo prophetic that
he lents merrily. -
" old roan. I've got the start
f you there. Avis and 1 are good
reends-eht is as Much for her sake as
your elVil that 1 am here now."
"Avis—you ltnow bier ?" surprisea
awl delighted.
"Know her—yes, and love her with
all my heart and eon" earnestly. -
"Thank Ood far that—it is what 1
'have longed anti dreamed , for In the
past. Where did you meet here -
where is she now ?'
"We met in a picture gallery at
41—s11e was at 'the bull -fight, and
• tee get away with a black devil
of a. tow tlutt 113.41 flung the regular
mataaor out of the ring. eeme etrtinge
dventures followed, and, we have be-
come very good friends'', indeed—sworn.
allies in the design of reecteing one
Ansel': Morton from the bends of 'axe
wile Turk."
" She ts here ?" -
in Stamboul, ready to Mae
any aSsietance in her power, to show
her love for you. nut no more nsed
be said—I must go now. You will be
ready to -morrow night ?"
"Ready—the minutes between will
be years," breathes the poor prisoner.
".Well, good -by until then, old fel-
low. Take carer now You descend.
Have your trunks all packed ready for
a sea voyage," a. squeeze of the hand,
and Doctor Jack turns away with tears
in hia eyes, for this meeting has af-
fected him in a most extraordinary
element
misty neat and made as cheerful and at-
traceive as poesible, thee the eyes of the
petient may rese with pleasure upon his,
surromulinge. feho nurse herself may;
cenerileate to the agreeeble envinennent
if her own arose be simple and tAezefin, ;
anti abeve ail, eanspicuously neat. Alli
soiled ilidiee should be renteved innuese
dlately after being need, and no mod.
kept lu sleet, Even the medicine liettlee;
need not be obtrusively in evidenee.
"Stillness has in iteelf a POWer
soothe, and, AO all know, when the nerve
are qUt(54.2S. ' • e proeesse2 e
n NvIthout enlivenment. tereteeng shoes, ;
rieltlieg of garments, the reining of
disece end nincirea neitti'S aro often. five
asion of positive suffering to an in-'
id. To accidently jar the bed, to spin
the usedieine when administering it, to
1-"I„ y' are
cAsee where 'a small unkintineee is a
great offence' in the hyperemeitive coutli.!
tLou of the nerves of the patient."
CHAPTER XXL
Time Is valuable to Jack, and really
there is nothing more to say to his
friend. He has already forgotten all
about Sady, nor does she come into
his caleulations ; but It would- have
saved lam some future trouble had he
figured on her in the game.
He makes a sign to Achmed, who
knows the interview is at an end, a,nd
once more leads the way along the pal-
ace foundations, with the intention of
reaching the wall at the point where
,he friendly hope hangs.
Sack has a dozen things upon his
mind, anti is endeavouring to solve a
certain puzzle, when something hap-
pens to arouse him Tee Siberian wolf -
dogs burst out into so fierce a clam-
our that one can almost imagine they
have slipped the leash, and are run-
ning loose. This sound gives Jack a
start, and he gIences up, to see
A.clamed trembling just i21 front, as
though he bee looked upon a ghost.
Senor Zack 1" conies in a soft
voice, as if from the very palace wall.
The Ameriean does not restrain the
cry that bubbles to his lips—he recog-
nizes that voice, and yet can hardly
believe his senses. Those eoft tones
he listened to in the flower mart of
Barcelona, again while the nun from
Gerona bent over his wounded forrn,
then at the bull -tight in Madrid, and
later when the traia stopped at the
station, and the seeming peasant boy
warned him of the danger beyond
Logrono. Yes, it is, indeed, Mercedes,
taut what in the name of Reaven does
the Spanish beauty here—he has fond-
ly believed she still searches Paris
for him.
A terrible suspicion flashes into hie
mind—can the pasha have arrived
ahead of time ? Almost On the in-
stant he dismisses it --such a thing is
Impossible—Mercedes was net detain-
ed in Pales like the pasha, and there
has really been nothing to prevent her
following them- in some clever dis-
guise.
These things go through his mind
with the rapidity of lightning, and a
very few seconds serve to convince
him that there is no reason to believe
all is loet. Of course the mystery of
her presence remains as great as ever,
but that may speedily be cleared up.
/He turns toward the marble wall of
the palace, and discovers a email
opening—a window of some sort un-
doubtedly. In this he sees Mercedes
—she is not three feet away, and Jack
can account for the voice almost
breathing in his ear his own name.
" You h.ere. senorita ?" seam-
The (Mt SUPW.
We loge of an Artist's taste, his intel-
ligenee, his elittraeter, by jnst the paint -
jigs which calm forth from his pencil. r,
Why not leave our creator's finest attri-
bute from the forms of wontledul beauty ,
we see In creation? .And if we put nature
and the word together they will teatit us ,
ranch about the feet and about the ng -
use. Suovolakee lutve been caught at the
ra0Ment Of falling; and well° they gIls-!
tonosi In unbrokenb
of bleak velvet, the scientlets have elasel-!
fled the shape of the crystal. Ninety-three
exquisite forms of star and cross and
Drown and what not else they him put
on the catalogue alreadY. There newer
was a meolutuism with so excellent an'
eye-glaes or so steady a nerve that he,
could out a pattern which would not be
rude in outline and rough in surface be- ,
side one of these. And then especially the
eauliness of a field thus lowly covered
Is a display of spotless purity inimitable
and unmistakable, All these white blos-
soms of winter falling around us, like
fruitful petals from a tree of life, or like
feathers AVM the wing of altnighty pro-
tectione all this exquisite frostwork on
the window; all these loilgtel rainbows
In the icicles, and these jewels in lifesaver
drapery almat the eaves; all this pluming
Of the gateposts, like the 'helmets of hes-
itate; all this crowning of the mountains
and tbis fringing of the streams—all this
is just the clear presenting to us of God
in his -character. Snow has been ohosen
as the symbo1 of the grespelof redemption.
Tee stream of salwition is offered: "Will
a man leave the StIONV Of Lebanon wbich
oometh from the rock Of the held?" no
the promise is couched: "As the snow
comoth down from heaven, so shall zny
word be that goeth forth out of my
mouth; it shall acconipliell that whereto
sent it." The gospel has no tinge of
earthliness in it. "The word of the Lord
is very pure." Snow has also been used
to smybol the standard of complete sand-
fication, God engages nothing, will accept
nothing, but perfect purity in his people.
"Come, now, and let us reason together;
though your sins be as scarlet, they shall
be white as snow." 0, what a rebuke
one gets sometimes, as he looks forth
from the casement on a winter's morning
and sees the undefiled sheet of shining
whiteness with which God has covered
the beams and rooks and pools of the
rough road in the night! "'Whiter than
snow"—how far off we are from it yet 1
To Those Who Do Not nelp.
In many churches a few are left to do
most of the work, while the rest of the
members, who ought to have the saane
interest, either do eothing or are critics.
There is no better way to keep all heeds
from mischief than to find some good for
them to do. Many a captious critic has
been cured of this habit by being put to
work to do better than those whose work
he criticises. How much happier are the
people who can justly feel they are of
much use in the world than those who
realize that they are mere drones! There
is no comparison between them in real
satisfaction. Men sometimes complain of
hard work. But there is no man who bas
so much reason to complain as the Man
who has nothing to•do.
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it is your own fault
If you don't get it.
In days gone by dealers were
able to sell people just what they
pleased, but tb.e public of to -day
are inclined to find out for them-
selves the best article in everyline
and they insist upon getting it.
I don't take anything titet comes
aloes. I goetraight for the 'Omelet'
for 1 !mow it is the best.
Granby Rubbers
AND OVERSHOES
are known throughout the whole country to be the best
in fit, finish, quality and durability and that is why
people will have Granby's and no other. The extra
thickness at ball and heel makes them last twice as long.
GRANBY RUBBERS WEAR LIKE IRON.
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loommoriromok
‘1 A- ORS. and smothers the word
widen 122 112* ke tte of her erttence in a.
1111tint'4 Noicv. Hu. should he full of one's
DAtiOHTEP? OF i'S`.7 COMING TO Trir sulonet Onew how to deliver one's words
FRONT AS ,9.. K
PEAERS. nnd 111'4 ns ilSof itirget 13elf
and thipit only speech and menace,
odd, 'A poet is born, not
-Grabs Bove Developed Tw
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litanies ft dilresles - Some 1V4.,o 11a- • Of itiS utt(iiimet ,' end every /allele speaker
Sacred Fires.
The sacred fires of India have not all
been extinguished. The most ancient
which still exists was conseerated twelve
centuries ago'in commemoration of the
voyage made by the Parsees when they
emigrated from Persia to India. The Bre
is fed ilve times every 24 hours with
sandalwood a,nd other fragrant materials,
combined with veer dry fuel. This fh•e,
in the village of Oodtvada, near Bulsar,
is visited by Parsecs in large numbers
during the months allotted to the presid-
ing genius of fire.
conot 1.4putntion, Tw, would do well ti near that in mind. 'non
• 1 neet began ste.teing in public, I "used to
1°rs' 1/14/'" 03 tr1(1 Elsentlat lushi.isl.go out info the hiellways and hedges for
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Inglorione" eratore who for .r, ors 1664.1 hails, in rlaelunpes and at private rest- "
been Waning their commend of lunguart. dences."s-Wew York Commercial Adver,
fri hr le A mild aril agreeable eeneation t " 1 .041)1 tile w6ei °L the
p . tieer.
%II Caudle le.eures or allotting it to nee
Away in silence... Then came the womau's
club, and with it public smell:lug. Tim .0r,rve Persitture,
Iselectingeli deeervedl ,e Oar fur -
firer srte ehee were pot edifyittg. Stage I) e .., Y 1 P
eaupared to tie: etnoth.n oe the treieloiee, ilensenntid 'I''"°11t1 not e farg1"treu" Itth*
Orate carving that charms the eye is a des ,
spair to the netwou who has Its deSting in
Charge, for it is impos.sinie to get at its
Minute details with the ordivery duster.
A flue brush is the nearest approave to
a thoroutth elcuneer, though even tbia is
nat altogether eatisfactors. With this do-
mestic dilemma in mind tim wise house-
wife secures fora room that ts much used,
with the veceseary dust that that fact lin.,
plies, a table which is merely one great, "
thick' slab of nieliogany, highly polished,
but with no ernatuentation whatever ex-
cept its correspeadingly largo claw feet. "
=More who. with every frill on her gown
fluttering awl every ilower in her hat
quitering witb excineneut, put her hand
on the back of her chairand said,"P-f-fl•
monouctubers and g -g -guests."
Sometimes she stopped at this stage of the
proceedings and sometimes she went ou
with the courage born of despair, her un-
trained voice wavering Mni halting, now
shining to a sepulchral whisper, now ris-
ing to 22 squeak. When it was all over,
she promised herself that she Would never'
speak again—no, never. Occasionally the
memlars sceretly resolved 'Wet she never
sbould, but the growth of tetzles. Political:
literary, weevil mid scientific, has clump .1
all that. The eluinvoinan can now die
Mass with ease oral tiplomb to)y teplo.
has studied her every tone and gesture and
retie:need even tee manner tit rising from
her chair and the precise degree of sweet-
ness to put Into lier 8)11110 32 pietism.° ween
the applause bas become deafening. The
wife of a well known num recently male
her maiden speech in public and nebieved
raoh 33 rirmenal sneeess thnt the teacher
of elocution, who naively claimed the
31e3.11 of her SUCCOR, bus formed a /low
Separtment in her school. In this depart -
DICTA \Vomit W110 nre to speak before claw
or cougresses aro trained.
The Roman women were eery fend of
having a finger hi the marrImonitti pie,
and it may bo gently said that had the
Sparta) boy been brought befove Ms meths
sr instead of hefOro the ledge he would
have heard a bit of oratory that wOuld
base hula gate as nnich as did bis dearly
bought fox. Boadicea. queen of Britain,
berauguleg her soldiers before leading
them to war, was 64. type of tee wonaae
orator. nenairiunis, who may be a myth,
but who was a very substantial one, was
alot alone a seaman of words, but a woman
of wores. it was wile, suoceeding her
husband, tee founder of Nineveb, ruled
as queen of .Assyria, built the tower of
Baal in Babylon, which was famous for
speech of an and every kind, as we read,
conquered Egypt and superintended the
building of the hanging gardens of Baby-
lon and other wonders of tbat city. Cath-
erine of Ruesia, Margamt, queen of Nor-
way, and nee. Roland of France were
other great women and great speakers.
In .America Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stan-
ton, Mrs. Mary Livermore'Anna Dickin-
son, Susan B. Anthony, Mrs. Lillie De-
em= Diake, Mrs. Mary Lowe Deakin -
son, Mrs. Carrie Chapman Cate Rev.
Anna Shaw and Mrs. Isabella Charles
Davis aro all well known and have all lent
luster to the bright and shining record of
women orators. Mrs. Stanton, wbo speaks
very rarely now, owing to her advanced
age, 13 her younger days was eery hand-
some and besides this very patent argil-
.ment in her favor as a public personago.
bad a beautiful voice. She had ci greet
command of language and spoke with
wonderful fervor. Susan 33, Anthony is
satirical in a dry, droll way. She puts
commonplace facts in such absurd lights
and treats the ponderous arguments of
her enemies in such a sarcastic anti amus-
ing way as to disarm even the naost
witted. Anna Dickbason was poetic.
She was tremendously in earnest aed had
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ar LSI weeecahltels1;(4 Pmtla Imagery
Mrs. Mary Ellen Lease is another wom
an born to lead by virtue of the gift of elo-
quence. Mrs. Ballington Booth, who
pleads for souls instead of votes, is a type
ot the emothmal orator. No matter bow
much in earnest or bow indignant site
may be, there is always an undercurrent of
tenderness in her speeches. Her voice is
clear and powerful, but caressing, and no
one knows better than she how to play
upon heartstrings, no matter bow out of
tune they may be.
Mrs. Litho Devereux Blake, wbon
asked her opinion of woman in oratory,
gai'd4omen are the world's natural orators.
A good conversationalist makes a good
public speaker. There are many brilliant
conversationalists among women. Only
the exceptional inan talks well."
"What do you consider the most essen-
tial quality for an orator?" was asked.
"Opportunity and. practice," Insisted
Mrs. Blake. "Tim reason there are not
more women orators is tbat there have
been no opportunities. ,0nly the suffra-
gists spoke in public, and so today the only
orators are'suffragists. To be a successful
speaker one must be very much in earnest,
one's thoughts must be clearly and log-
ically expressed, but they must well up
from the heart. Then One moot study.
The beginner always' emphasises the un-
important worda, dwells 011 the lands,'
Indirect But Ineffectual.
"Ili is very nice in your wife to buy
°hears for you," remarked one man.
"Yes," replied the other atter some
reflection, "it's a delicate and consider-
ate , way of keeping me from spoiling her
lace curtains with tobacco smoke."
High Temperature.
"Doesn't it strike you that the tem.
perature of this room is rather high?"
"lhere isn't any doubt about it," re-
plied the frugal young man. "Every ton
of coal costs six dellars."--Warshington
Star.
The Giratrea Dilemma,
ah1les2 us have an affectionate regard for
that old joke abutzt toe itiraGe's happiness
when he is eating strawberry shtintealto.'
'We also have wondered 12 120 is subject
to sore throat, still meat, enlarged tonsils
or any of the other uilments that mankind
140411:IN CiPtitft's.
is heir to. The accompanying picture is
front a pbotograph. The unfortunate gi-
raffe, having been constructedfor the pur-'
pose of feeding on high trees, has consid-'
erable difficulty in dining off a low bill of
fare. But he has to do it in his captivity
Or starve to death.—Chicago Xews.
Tho reldnight Sun.
Our talk was of the far, far north
And Norway's sleepless sua.
A bashful little voice piped forth
When other folks had done.
"How lovely it most look, mamma,"
Was Sidney's sage ronutrk,
"To see the sun, like some big star.
A -shining in the dark!"
—Frank Valentine in St. Nicholas.
Win sentence.
Teacher—I want each of you to make a
sentence, using the word "delight" in it.
Small Boy (colored)—De wind come in
de winder an blowed out de light. —Phila-
delphia Times.
Knights of iambus
Delighted.
SIR KNIGHT JAMES OSBORNE, OF BARTON
TEST, No. 2, CURED OP BRIGHT'S
DISEASE.
"Kootenay" was the Remedy.
Word was received by Barton Tent, _
No. 2, of Hamilton, Ont., that Sir Knight
James Osborne was very ill, and the
sick committee" was instructed to wait
upon him.
It was found that he was suffering from
Bright's Disease, a disease heretofore
pronounced incurable by the medical pro-
fession, and it was accepted as a matter
of course that death was inevitable, attee,
his lodge insurance would have to shortly -- -
be paid. oWhat was their surprise to have
hint enter the lodge some time afterwards
in good health.
His cure he ascribed simply to Koot-
enay Cure, as he took no other medicine.
Before starting its use he had all the ,
characteristics of much -to -be -dreaded
Bright's Disease. His skin was pale and
puffy. He had Indigestion, Heart Palpi-
tation, Shortness of Breath and great
weakness. There was puffin6ss of the
face and swelling a the legs. His urine
was scanty, painful to oass and loaded
with albumen.
He felt that lifeWeas sliroptcrg from his
grasp with, great rapidity. Kootenay
Cure carne to his rescue. It restored his
kidneys to healthy action. It cleared
out all the poisons that were pent up in
the blood. It made him well.
Chart book free on application to the
S. S. Ryckman Medicine Co., (Limited),
Hamilton, Oat
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