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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1899-1-20, Page 2BETWEEN TWO LOVES, ern BERTHA et. (Contieued.) At eeventeen, the rent through the erdeol of all Enfdish ladies—she wee 'levee -Med at coert, and took her place in society ae one of its greatest orna- ments. It was a strange, piquant, yet aimoet terribie position; only seeeeteen, beautiful aa a peri, time wealthy as prineettatin a' fairy tale.; The whole of her motheree large fortune had beet) settled on nen, and the ineeritaace oe Weerlye was in itself tt grand one. All the trod(' raved about ber, as it was mire to do; she was more than pitmen:, We, (hie daughter of a hundred earls; here was not the common ode r of *emits; the Marvelous regmlaritY of treetop; the aristecratie grace. the ex-, etenete coloriag, were the least eharma *f her face: its piquant expression, its twice lovelinese—aew grave, noty gets— he thousand charms or change, its smiles sad teem, its Aprit-like loveliness, its radiance of pure beauty, could, not Mee been pat on minvas—no painte: amid Ire.ve; deplete' them: ber ey(w were of vielet hue, large, bright, full of a likoasand. meaninge that could never be told In words; her hair was of bright, soft getid—its seaviug, eilken abtindaeice "de henutY in itself; her figure was perfect—ilet grace aed symmetry were of the idgineet order: she bad "white hltele htuels," end Utile feet. No womier time, fee once the tablee were tithed. mad ennead of speculating what eeee Oman would marry her, the world wane leered we she would Merv. time* no youpg girl ever bad more Severe. She seemed to nee in a meted f theca—she was surrounde.d by them; ,tetteree homage. aduletion were all hound he. She may saw the fair eta bright side of life; she was preisee, flat- tete& complimented, until she began to think that se could do no wrong. Whom would the ratirre?—which would she choose from this crowd of adrotir. era? &lie had reached her nineteenth real- before her heart was touched at an; by that time the world, with its pneise and lts liattety, had sometthat emitted her. Theu the elle great love ot her life cane to her, mad her lover was env Clintou Adair. Perham in a -worldly poiet or view, the might have deue better. Sir Clinton was a baroutt; dultee and earls ead asked her in tear- y -age, and she hod refused them. The Astkiire of leastwohl, were ea ancient, Iowa, 'honorable. wealthy faralle: but ambler and wealtbiee ;nen bed been suttees to Lady hiny. This love was ber ttote—slet had bad notie before it. Line come after it; it wag the love of her life, the one greed crown of her womanhood—ehe knew no other. Peep one of the reasous she loved Sir Min- ton no well vras that he wire older their heestef—of a graver, more reserved na- ture: she was utivonseiously attracted by the very contrast he presented to he, ; His wooieg had been a subject of wonder; the was, ae ,he said, like a well, beautiful bird, difficult to tame; h required more sidle nore talent, more patience thou would bave been re - ii whining a battle. Be did win at lost; Lady May own- ed that she loved him, and promised to be les wife. Then her goodness seem- ed to citme to a sudden end—perhaps he had made concession enough; she be- came rmtive, and her lover, deephe 'his mitesive strength and patience, had some difficulty in managing- her. She wilehapromieed wife; sbe loved him more lban she knew; yet she would not hear the word marriage named—elle &f- leeted the utmost dreed of it. When he preyed and pleaded to her, the would place her white hands on his shoulder, and raise her winsome face to She would say: "Itly youth, Clinton; let me enjoy iny beautiful, happy youth; do not tease me bout being married yen" , She never dreamed that it was love which made her youth so beautiful and o happy to her, and he was as wax to her hands. There were times when her coy, shy avoideatee of love and marriage almost saddened hire; yet she was so sweet and winsome in her graceful tyranny he could not resist it. He could not be angry with it. He was, indeed, as he owned to himself, wax in her heeds. Then he knew she was young to be married—he was willing to wait patient- ly until she was twenty, if she would only indulge him by allowing him to talk about their marriage or their fu- ture; but she woeld not. She was the fairest enti sweetest of tyrants. The tract of the engagement seemed enouph for her. "Is it that you do not love me, Mayr he would cry sometimes, when a look or word from her had silenced him againet his will. "No." she would reply; "but, Mettle love and marriage seem so different. Let us go on as we are—in peace." "Bet. eurely," he remonstrated once, amused in spite of himself—"surely you will let me speak to you of merriage some day?" "Yee. certainly, Clinton " she replied. "And when will that be?" he asked, gravely. "When I cannot help it," ehe replied, with impudent frankness, for which he did net like her any the less." I "That is the most cheering prospect t ever heard for a lover," he said. `It was no wonder that sbe, so young, so bright, and beautiful, liked to enjoy her youth and defer the responsibilities of marriage. She liked the bright, taughing side of lite best, and she had grave suspicions that marriage hid some IBerliOGS MTG. it as not because eht failed in love for him thee she disliked the mention of nmeriage—he misjudged her in that; it was because she did not wisth to take up the cares and respcee eibilities of life mail, es she had said herself, she was obligetd. CHAPTER III. "wino BE 'remit P" reyerythitig goes by repression. rlintosa Adair had aelieved the great triumph of dm dew he had Won the love of the faireet arid weelthiest heir - Mrs in England, end with that know- ledge, be woe compelled to be content. Lady May had no idea of making any *other coneessions. "When will you marry ine, May?" v.aa the prayer ever on this lips, and she nod no austver for him. So that hie love grew be repression, Eecause Ms Mir, imperious queen did loot mire fox what the coiled loee scenes, and woe not willing to *elk about marriage, he was obliged te leverets, in some de- gree, the intensity of his love. She would, perhaps nave been startled could she have known how he worthipped her, and niert jealous peep lodged in het heart. For be did uot quite understand leer. He had beeu accustomed to worldly women, who never concealed the fleet that a good marriage, either for thept. selves, their diimehters, or sisters, was tiae beginuing and mid of existence. He del, not quite understand the reluctance of a girl to leave her gireheod behind her, and take upon herself the mem et womembood. Lady May often said to herself that she eould not possibly be happier than she um& The world was at her feet; she loved end was beloved; she was me premely lumpy ht her choice; *he oh- lieved Sir Clinton to be the noblest man fit tbe world; wee dieturb matters et -ben they were so pleasant? It would be time menet in a few years to think of marriage; when she was married, the would be obliged to change her life« she must heve less of laughter and mum less rayelw; she would hare ewe* that would make her graver. True, to out - balance that, she would beve niere love. bet her heert was warm now with its happy your:- love; eller need of Mere? But lilt° iitese tboughte her impetuous 'lover did not enter. He levee eler with las whole trent and soul; he would have prayed her with his whole helm aud 5014 to marry bite at once Iler etey, sweet avoidauee wagered hinz, If he had remembered her youth, end had been mere patient, mere eonsiderate, this story of a great trugedy waled laever have been writtee, Bet lie had rean's nature-, etroug, halleferee, be, cavil*, of even understeading the de- licate wineliuge of a woman's mina. What was really a daiuty dreaci of turbing a ham, sunny life, a girlith dread of the uuknown land of marriego, he nesteok for want of love, So be brooded In silence over his owe great love, wide"; grew now by revue- sion—gradually jeeloueo^ mingted mitt, las love, It Lady May had been more like other girls af the heti tallied of tealt future, if the had indulged him in prette love tete-a-tetes he would never bare been jealous. As it was, he wed that what he mild not win no one eln ebould have. IIie fair, Ineeld, dente Iove *holed give to no other wee* she refueed She was his promised wife; yet she, in some sweet, vague faehion tbat he hardly understood Itimself, be -id herself ;loot from Wm; he had kissed her face onee—it was oz the evening of their betrothal; he Itad never dreamed of kles $n her again. Once he remembered laying' his heed with a loving. cares -sing touch on her hair, and the had drawn herself coyly away from him. It was the remembranee ot that fact which argered hire ao greatly when he saw Count Soideni touch the fallen coil of hair, She had not ehrank from him. Sir Clinton did not understand that the shy avoidance ;of him was but a girlieh sign of Jove. Day by day his jealousy inereaeed. /t was not exactly that elm gave him any cause; the could not help being fairer than other women, ehe could not help men admiring her and trying to win smiles and kind words from her. Yet as time wore on, she began to take a wicked, amused kind of interest in her power OVer bine It gratified her inexpressibly to be so completely mistress of one human heart. While he talked about jealousy and warned her against flatterers, she was content. It was only when he begin to talk about marriage that she turned restive. "My dear May," said Mee Lockwood to her one morning, "the patience of that lover of yours is something wonderful. eland you do not try it too fare' But Lady May, secure in her youth and beauty, only laughed as she an- swered: "I should like to know what he would do in that case." Miss Lockwood shook her head gravely. "I know," she sale, "that on a sub- jett like this, all Interference seems to be impertinence. I do not interel my warning as such. I have known men to some trange deeds when their pati- ence ended." "But," said Lady May, "I do not see how I try his patience, auntie; tell me" Sete had a fashion of calling Miss Lockwood auntie; the elder lady pre- ferred it. "Tell yea! I cannot tell you; you must know yourself. A long time hilte elapeed since you first became engaged to hen, yet you will not settle any dine ior your marriage." "Marriage!" cried the girl, impatient- ly; "people seem to talk and think about nothing but mei-liege. Why not leave me to enjoy a few years of my youth in peace?" "My dear Lady May, that is not the language of love." "You mistake—you are quite wrong." cried the young girl, eagerly. "I do in deed love him." Her face flushed hone "Why do you make me say such thingn, auntie? Yon make me ashamed of my- self." "My dear," replied peaceable Miss Loektrood, "I do not make you say them; I know you are accustomed to no voice save the vtece of praise. Let me, for once, speak the truth. You premise me that you will not be angry?" "If I am to hear the truth for the first time, 1 ought to be pleased with the novelty," said Lady May. "You shoe hear it. 1 wal tell you why you dislike all D3elltIOD of maw Wage, even with the man you, profess to love. "I do love him," interrupted Lady May; but Miss Leckwood took no heed of the ieterruption. "Bride in at the root of it all, Lade May; pride, and nothing elee. You like your fall, free, unalloyed liberty; you like being uncontrolledmistress of ell your actions; you would not like to be itecountable to any one for anything ocu do or sey; you like being Lady May Trevlyn, the weelthy heirete, the leading belle of the day; you like being able to bestow smiles and kind words upon a crowd of adorers; you are too proud to religaish the advantages of your feemerm, too proud to submit to another's will." Lady May listened thoughtfully; then. with the fratokness that Made ilea, elaief charm, Se mid; "I am half inclined to think you are right, auntie. I have never had to eub- mit, and the idea et it is eot very plee- *tut, 1 am willing te own thee if I were lees proud, the notion of maritag,t would be less—what shall ;aye—lees terrible than it is," "I know I am rient, dear. have studied Toil well. You are toe meld., Lady Mae; and' there never was a prnlol hetet Yet,' continued the simple lady. "that Heaver& did not brieg low„ all fee Pride, LOT May . that yett twe malting one of the most houest heaves that ever beat ache Ititle 4 deadly pain." "I do not believe that," said Lady Mee., proUdly, eh is mote, my deer, nevertheless. Sir Clinton Adair is not like the same Mtn he was wheo he fleet loved you; he loeke sad at times, like a man Accuetomed to repress tee feelings, Iuteeference Is resb, I know; but, ag you have pro. wised to marry bim. I think you might eliitigthink ekinudeleft7tell'izIrei .p"ied the far, proud gd, aud Miss Leawood wit* copeent. Sae knew that the 'taught"' yeterg beires.e eeldem made a greater coneeesiou than that - "11 -hen you are older, you will know wore of the value of such love as Gir Chnealde," contliatied Miss. Lockwooli. Teit Det eppreviate it lest wive, he,, asuse every one ilattem Ent 1 do appreelate it, fellatio. D ou really think he laves me bei eery Thiiik, roe deer! 1 am mire of it, If 1 dared, 1ehottiti say that izt loved Tea better than he loved his ewe. soul, Too great love le often panished, as is greet wide." Lady May 414 tnitilt ot it the next time ale saw Iter' lever; for the Aral time'and of ber own free will. she spolce of iteh. marriage. She did it with a flushed raCe,. and a etrettee elownees of speech; but elle was rewarded for the effort by the light that shone in his Mee, If it Was peaeible tem his lore tO crease, it did so; the time eame when its force alemet Mantered hira—wbea its strength reacle fereut to everetbium It was when matters had reached this stage that the scene occurred with which ear story opens, Lady May had been the leadMe belle at one of tbe grandest halls et the season. As...ebe was engaged to be married to Clillten, it was one of her whims never to danee more then one. witli Wan -.111 the same ball, aud, when he remmaetrated with her, the eaid: "People used to laugb at Colonel Dempster and Lady Greeve; beeause they were levees, they (rely danced weer each other; no one shah =ugh at ewe' He knew when she took that view of a subject alt words were vain. He did net like standing by while her sweet smiles and lovely face charmed °thee men; he submitted, but it was with an ill-graee. He watched the little eptsode Chat had angered hire so. One of the loeg, golden roils of hair bad fallea over Count Soldenes arm, and be bad touched It with a smile. That smile enraged Sir Clinton; he said to himself that he would bear this tyranny no longer'that he would resist and as- sert his tights. The morning after the ball he called, resolved upon winning frerzt her a promise that she would not tvaitz again'except weal himself. That promise he had failed in obtaining, yea he left Cliffe Rhine more in love with her than ever—astonished, too, at his own daring in baying read his proud lady -love so long a lecture. "Will he tame her?" that was the question every one had asked, and era was the question which perplexed him as he walked home. That is the ques- tien, the answering of tylecla forms our story. CHAPTER IV. That was the question which, by morning, by noon and by night, oc- eupled him. Should he tame her? Should he eves. bend this bright, impe.1- ous, capricious girl? Should he ever really capture this proud, _sensitive heart? Should he ever feel sure a her love? Ile had tested her on this one point, and Ills test had failed; she would not give him the promise he asked. He was not more jealous of Count Soldeni than any one else. There was only one of whom he felt really jealous, and that was the young Duke of Roseeium, ene of the handsomest and most accom- plished peers in England—one, too, who admired Lady May more than most peo- ple. He bad made her an offer of raor- riage. which she refused, as she loved Sir Clinton—refused him, much to the young duke's amazement; but he would not give up all hopes of winning her; he Ahmed of .her engagement to Sir Clin- ton, hut be argued with himself that all was fair in lot -e and war—that, until she was -really another man's wife, he should never give up all hope. Of him Sir Clin- ton was jealous, not that his proud, fa:r young lady love gave him any cause; her manner, even to the young duke, was one of proud. indifferent calm. Lady May had learned some lessons of late, and leahang them had changed her. One of her friends. a young French giti, had recently married, and Lady May was discussing her wedding with the Countess of Lumbar. "I should look forward to . marriage as the end of all my troubles, if 1 were a French demoiselle," she said. laugh- ingly; "married ladies in Prance sse-a to me to have intree freedom then ;n England; I do not hear ee much of ob- edience and submission among Meet." The Countess of Lumbar looked quiet- ly at the girl's lovely face. "lely dear Lady May," she said, gent- ly, "the law of marriage is the mane everywhere where Christianity prevails; that law is 'submission and obedience from the wife to the husband." "I think it is terribly unfair," said Lady May. "In many cases that I know the husband is greatly info:tier to the wife. When that is the case, haw can she obey?" "I do not think it matters at all," wed the countess, gently. "Providence, in framing that Jew, did not make it depend on the ,husbantes worthiness; it is in- dependent of all such consider:Alone." [To BE CONTINUED.] • LONGHORN CATTLE. 'Rent -vat of Intel -ewe In no Old Vane hen •hreee, How the naeution of thenarne "Long horn" eeente to awelrert Memoreee of the past, says the London Live Stock ;four nal, with the many pleasant associa- tions that linger .round our schoolboy, and early farming days! Then we used to he delighted with the euormons, .pic- turesque bores and the long, deep .hodies of this famous breed and to hear the breeders and feeders of those days dis- cussing the prodts tttat had been drawn feign the grazing. We learned of the weight of cheese that had been produced from the cows during the summer or the weekly yield of hotter, or perchance it might be the merits of mime renowned breeding animal that after 15 or 16 years in the herd hattat last succumbed, when the thickness of flea) upon the loin formed the subject of great boast - ng, aud most of theee remarles applied .t that thee to the Longhorn. The het proved Shorthorn, or Durham As it WAS more commonly called then, bad only juell begun to displace the old ,familiar LONGHORN PM= PULL NENII.W011111. !towel] cattle, Among the many tuieede in the British islands that for perfection of form and general contour As well as for the, mere practical per - pens of produeing meat and milk are the admiration of every foreigner that ts foot upon our shores, whose line of life is ha any way connected with cattle breeding, it is very pleasing to find that the old Longhorn still finds a place, awl that this, one of the oldest breeds in the country and at ono time threat- ened with extinction, is still to be found in various parts of the country and iu sufficient numbers to make a very erect- itabie display. .At the reeeut Royal ehow, where ow- ing to the exertious of several breeders of this variety classes were instituted with a view to the reeuseitation of this at one titue leading breed of tbe central midlauds, hut whieh had become SO much reduced in numbers that it was thought by many to have been already eutirely lost, tbe entry of some 22 ani- mals in the three elasses ailettee to them at Four,Oaks Park, bowever. proved very coneintively that considee. able intereet is still tateth in their breed- ing, and the writer's experience is that there are many parts of England, and many conditions obtaining for wbich the Longborn will be found a more profitable eternal than many of the oth- er breeds. The general cheracteristies of the Longhorn are undoubtedly an ability to combine beef with niilk and also a hardihood of constitution that fits them for the greatest exposure. Indeed the breed are never happier than when Out in the fields both winter and summer, their thick mellow hide and heavy coat of hair enabling them to endure cold or wet without feeling the slightest ill effects. This quality alone admirably fits them for the greatly increased amount of permanent pasture that has been created in Eugland during the past decade, as well as for the increased la- bor difficulties connected with farming and which outlying cattle during the winter season reduce to a minimum. Then again, the rapidity with which the Longborn becomes fit for the butch- er is a very strong element in its favor, as is also its suitability for crossing purposes, crossbred steers attaining a great weight and good value at a very early age. As an instance of the latter it is within the kuowleclge of the writer that half horned steers, as the Longhorn crosses are usually termed, have very imently been sold to the butcher at as much as 30 guineas each at 2te years old, while as instancing their "great aptitude to fatten, it may be mentioned tbat during last month an offer of £27 was refused for a steer of the pure breed that was purchased lean imme- diately before last Christmas at half that sum. Then coming to the dairy, another very important point, the Long- horn for quality of milk and yield of butter occupies a position second only to those of the Channel island breed. Looking at these desirable characteris- tics many will naturally be led to ask why, if all this is true, did the breed so rapidly sink into comparative ob- livion? To this question there are sev- eral answers. Doubtless the breed, as it formerly existed, was a little longer in coming to maturity than some of the newer breeds. Then 'Ohre was the de- sire to try the Shorthorn, which tempt- ed really to get rid of their old favor- Stes. Then again, a great many herds had suffered from overbreeding, whioh had given an excess of fat in the flesh arid a recluotion of the milk giving prop- erties, and, further, there is little doubt that the Longhorn, so to speak, hasten- ed its own end by its rapid fattening properties. Disease of Young Cattle. A new disease, so far only affecting cattle less than a year old, has appeared in the herds of Messrs. Reed, Hamilton and Talbot in Hermon in northern New York. The disease makes itself known In the breeding in the throat of hun- dreds of white worms, which if not re- moved speedily' eat their way into the iflesh, making death certain. AERATING MILK, Mist Various Authorities Say OD OM subject. Hoard's Dairynian says that there it hardly a plaoe in whicli milk is used that it will not pay te cool and aeeate it at the same time. Such milk brought to the creamery or cheese faetory, if all the patrons would pramice it, would show at once in the increased quality Of the product aud the price. The diffi- culty is that there are so mAny patrons who don't believe in any improvement if it ie goieg to cost something to set it et Work. Yet wherever there is a fa°, tory or creamery that has prevailed on its patrons to practice aeration and cool- ing that institution stande high in the price received for its produet. Cornell experiment station in bulletin No, 89 published a table showing re - molt of tests made to ascertain the keep- ing qualities Of milk aerated by the champion milk emeler and aerator in comparison with milk aerated be a ma- chine for stirring and airing the milk and in comparigen With Milk neither cooled nor aerated. The result showed thAt the iniik aerated axid cooled by stirring kept sweet no longer tbau tlae unaerated milk, but that the milk aerat- ed by the champion nzilk cooler kept sweet in some nstances 14 boors IOW ger. Summing up the results of these tests, Professor Wing said that owing to the special conditions et cleanliness and care itt the Cornell dairy the result in favor of finch aeration was HO nearly so greet as would he obtained under or - (Unary farm CQuelitione, The New York farmers' institute bulletin gives the following excellent advice on this sublect; So do pot bo misled by a few cranks who will tell you that the Aerittlea Of Milk le Of no treble to the dairyman, who will tell you that aeritted railk will net remaie sweet one whit longer tban any otbei milk. lie not reieled by thee, we say, but try for yourself, et A good WEI* hined cooler and aerator and MO it ev. ery day in the year, winter and sum - liter Alike, In buyiug a cooler and aerator don't make the mistake of get- ting one thAt airs tbe uiitk Witleaut cooling it. Don't make the mistake of getting one thet cools the milk before it airs it, as aeration to drive out animal aud food odors must be done wbile tbe /milk is hot from the cow and before any zeduction itt tbe temperatere bee been ramie. Struggle to Keep Milk Were. It is an unending straggle, says The Breeder's Gazette, to keep the milk pure front the cow to the consumer, The honest beak does her work. If her milk aoraetimee fella under a 3 per cent con- tent of butter fat, it is not her fault. Sho was bred thet way and fed tbat way. But the handler aud mauipulator Of her milk is limited in his rougery only by his wits' ends and the law. He waters the milk or robs it partially of its fat. He colors and thickens the cream to give it the appearance of greater tbickPess and richness. He mixes neutral oil with butter and pro- duces a counterfeit article. He takes rancid "axle grease" butter or oleo oil and turns cut "lied" cheese. He uses beracic acid or borax, which are sub. stances deitterieret to the etemach, and thus keeps milk and cream "sweet." He adulterates, detericrates and weak- ens milk, cream, butter and cheese, and he therety rote, Ameng the latest aids to tbis deception and trickery is a eub- stance called alburninoid, compoted of boracio acid and gelatin, which is used to thicken and preserve cream. The pro- ducer who is auspicious that MB milk- man or marketrnan is perpetrating any of these fraudson him ahould take sam- ples of the euepected products and for- ward tbem to his state experiment sta- tion or his oity health department for examination. Publio exposure of such swindles will have a wholesome effect, even if tbere is no law to be invoked in punishment. Skimmillt Calves, Professor Curtiss of Iowa is preparing a paper for publication showing the results of experiments in calf raising by skimmilk or separated milk. Genes - ally speaking, the results have been highly satisfactory. When Secretary Wilson of the department of agriculture was director of the Iowa experiment station, Fame experiments were con- ducted of this character. Shorthorn calves were taken as subjects and im- mediately. upon being dropped were re- moved from the 'cows and fed upon warm, separated milk, fresh from the milking. They were kept upon this diet the usual time during which a calf is allowed to suck and gradually changed to a grain and grass diet. When 2 years old, they averaged 1,400 pounds each, and the cows bearing them had mean- time made over 360 pounds of butter each per annum. Record was kept of the cost of tbe feed. Cornmeal was found an excellent complement to the skimmilk, the latter being rioh in nitrog- enous properties while the corn is rich in carbohydrates, the two thus forming a clieap and well balanced ration. The difference in cost lay in the fact that the fat or oil in the corn was worth about 1 cent per pound, whereas that in the cream was worth 20 cents a pound. Better Blotter For Export. Some years ago we expressed mar be- lief that when exporters got courage to buy the highest grades of American Witter and ship it to Englancl tve should have a larger trade there and a better reputation than we could get while they sent only third rate, imitation and /adle packed butter, whioh could be bought cheap at such thoes as the market was overstocked with low grade goods. Per- haps the efforts of Secretary of Agricul- ture Wilson have had much influence in this matter, but some of the ship- pers have helped him, ane onr exports are increasing, while it is now reported that American butter sells at higher prices in Loudon than the best Danish or any other grade.—Boston Cultivator. AN HISTORIC RELIC. THE PAeSING OF LONC)OtWe OLD NEWGATE PlitSQN. Said to nave B.904 Built to tho iteles et Henry w—weit Knowa to ell Anglo- Saxons Through Britain's Aisitohless Bistorloal Fiction -Plano for Its fts- bundling—It will Soon Bo Warn Paw** Partly by reason ot the historical aeonpiations common to all Angle-EMrotia. Ann largely through the more entrancing pages of notion—no les* history, etterever —Loridores old nooks ane cornere and, faAnpus biiildinger are household nenuort les, 411 it were, in Canada as welt ag in Eogiane, Many Certainties know "Via Tower" better than most cockneys, and there are few haunts made memorable by Dieltene or Theekeray that have not been hunted out and peopled in imagination with the (Ammeters all know so Well. 9:hat New/gate Prison and the Old Balltri Court Botise are to be improved away thoreform have a personal interest for Meet of AM, Since they figure in the notion and serious literatare of England In (Weide-My eletaresque manner for bandreds et yeers. With the 014 Fleet Prison, famous or infamous for its cruelty to debtors and for its loose clergy, who married anybody witeout uompionction, Newgate Betake divided interest during the Mx oe oven otnturies. fleet Prieop end a known hie - tory ter 800 years when lt Was torn down in 1848, and with it but a memory New - TREWS orif5W04,17... gate was left supreme as the visible am- teutiment of ole berme and oriminal romances, with 014 Bailey, Itegiandei greet criminal court, on Old Belem street, neat St, Paul's Cathedral, all a close second. 014 Beiley street runs from Westgate meet to Ludgate Hill, and so tho mune and fame or the two plecee are thus doubly conneeted. In 1887 .Neweete, weleh bad begonia a mere house ot detention, was ordered torn down, but things move slowly In London, 40 it Will no; be mull this year that its last day will arrive. Tbe prison of Neweate is said to have been built in the reign of Henry elthough it had an earlier history as Chamberloin Gate, and wee restored under llenry 1. and titeplien, As oariy as 1316 it was a cominon jail for felons talon in the City of Louden And County of Middlusex. It is recorded that certain wealthy Jews in len wore ordered to contribute 20,000 marks for the restora- tion ot the prison or to be confined In Nowgato until they paid thig lino. In 1385 Sir Wilibint Walworth loft znoney to rollove Newgate prisoners, who wore gonorelly confronted with semi-141mm- hen, and Sir Richard Whittington be- queathed money to rebuild tho prison. In those early days it appears that beyond the tate-keeping of felons of all desurip- eons and the confinement of debtors Newgato Prison was the rompttiolo foe nobles, officora of state and the contuma- cious gentry not then impriaoned in the Probably the bost-known ineldeet hi the history of Nowgnte is that (used so eeectively by Charles Dlakono in his emu of "Burnaby Budge") during the famous "No Popery" riots in 1780, when the mob managed to burn down tho otd jail and release all tho prisoners, over 3u0 alt tola. The illustrations of the fire from an old :whit and tho new Newgate show that the jail was rebuilt largely on the old lines, and its oevority of aspect was not improved. Nowgitto, after Tyburn was abandoned, became the pima of public) executions. lhe records of the Old Bailey consti- tute the groat criminal history of Eng- land, while "The Newgate Calendar" and "The Cbronicles of Crime," have furnished plots for plays and novels in- numerable During its active history the 014 Bailey formed the theatre for crim- inal notorieties of every description, and the incidents are of the most sensational order. The court witnessed tho trial of tho regicides condemned for their parts In the trial and exenution of King Charism I., and of Lord William Russell, Alger- non Sydney, and other unfortunate patriots—" household names in conneotion with English liberty" --for their partici- pation in "The Rye House Piot." The Old Bailey gallows -tree was built withebree orossboams, and held at one time three rows or unfortunates. Between February and December, 1785, 96 persons were examine by the "new drop," the invention of which superseded the cart, white) used to be drawn from Nemeth She victims' feet. The pillory also stood in the Old Bailey, and the excited orovvds "AN EXACT REPRESENTATION OF THE BURN- ING, PLUNDERING AND DESTRUCTION OF NEWGATE, JUNE 7, 1780." were treated to the spectacle of offenders nelorieddh the confinement of a wooden Warne erected on a tcaeolding. They were hero pelted with rotten eggs, offal, mud or offensive missiles, and sometimes; stoned by 'the mob. Tbe last exhibition of this nature was one Peter James Bossy, conyioted of perjury, and sentenced to seven years' transportation. Before being transported he was eonfined.for six months in Newgate, and stood in the pillory in the Old Bailey June 24, 1830. All these details of rough and ready cruelty and rude justice were familiar to colonists in this country in the last cent- ury and innhis, and many early prisons and courts were but reproductions of Old . Fleet, Olci Bailey and Newgate. The prisoners of Newgate, for instance, were allowed to gamble and drink, and the inmates, of alt things, enjoyed recounting . stories of their crimes and debaucheries, so that the prison was a hotbed of vineinies and vices eEfovoard, the philan- thropist, has recorded: el scruple not to tetirm that half the robberies committed in arlid around London are planned by that 'dreaciful assemblage of oriminals, aud tile number of idle people who visit them." - ' 4,4 ;