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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1901-12-5, Page 61:4 •:• .:* •:# +4:4 -• 04* c Gold iller s Story. • •.0•4•0 • .• • 0 0 04. 0: ain't a sentimental sorter coon, by no manner omeans, and what's " more, I never portended es' I were.' A incident that I knoWs of, though, ' for downright sentimentality beats anything I ever heerd of, Even no, though it happened long time awes-. somewhere back about the fall of '51 —I can't recollect it without a chokin" lump rises inter me gullet and me oyes become sorter moist, It's. a yarn of what a feller done 'cos he thought it was his dooty and 'cos lie loved a gal. 'Ves. I tell yer, there's dramas en- apted in sich lives as 0111'n which, if they WaS pe1101111ed, on the stage, those pale -faced clever noospapei- kenowalls, or crielsets, or whatever they calls 'emselves, would say as it was onnattwele and could., never have happened in vale life; But they'd be mistook for all that, 'cos this hero yarn is go.spel.. l'll tell yer 'xactly how it come about. It was at Davidson's Creek— as wild a.nd brown and lonesome a. locality as ever mortal , man clapped eyes on—all level and sandy and monot'nous, They was a wild, harum-scarum lot of boys collected there, too, I gives yer my word. Of course, when gold is located at a, place, yer wouldn't exneet very high-class sercietY ; and Davidson's Creek were no exception, unless it were worse than most if anything. Nigh every soul there was a wrong'un„ Wan Tim Bennett, though--yer cculd hardly call him a wrongnin. Ile. was a short, insignificant, little shrimp of a feller, with a chivvy yet - couldn't help likin', and the most infernally bad luck as ever dogged a miner. lie had a smile and a kind word fer everyone, and I honestly blieve he would have given his last penny to a pard who was, down on his luck. We mostly called him 1,hc.t "Parson," not that he was extry re- ligious, but 'cos he was so much better'n the rest of us, and had e never been known to cuss for more'n half a. minute at a time. The fellers at first used ter take 'vantage of him, but it wernet long 'fore he showed us Ile could use his fists or his shooter as well as the best of us. `filen there were Nelly Hanky Dell's darter. She were a good one, and no mistake. She were always mending or patching fer someone, or. making a fine appetizia' stew out of some of our tough -tack," fer some feller ,that was took sick. We used ter fairly worship her, but she'd have nothing ter do with us. She was dead gone on the -Parson," and the on'y one that 'didn't know it was the "Parson" hisself. Wal, to be gettin' along. One day Denis O'Brien were a-comin' back to the camp after a bit of a saunter round, when Nelly, conies runnin' up ter hini, her eyes all red a.ncl swollen with. "Denis," she sobbed. "yer are a well -plucked 'un, and I W11.11ts yei to help me. Will yer ?" 011 comes Dents' hat in an instant. 'Want inc hellup, do ye. Nelly ? Shure, if ye oney say, .011 with yer head, Denis,' bedad 01.1.1 do it jist to show ye that Oi mane bis'ness. And what have ye been cryin' yer purty eyes out for, and what are ye either wantin' Inc to do ?" '01.1, Denis, it's awful. T hey've been and got the 'I'arson' at Shede's entloon, and they're jest, agoin' ter string him up. yer know Dan Black. It 'pears he keeps all his money in two black boxes, marked D. B. One of them boxes has been found empty under a heap of clothes in the 'Par- son's' tent, and they're' sayin' he's, done it. But it ain't him, Denis. EH stake all I've got it ain't him. T has my suspicions as ter who it is; in lac', I'm pretty sure ; but, yer see, I can't prove ' it. Yer will. help me, Denis, won't yer, ot' pard?" But what d'ye ixpict Inc to do, Nelly ?" "Do ? I've been up ter the saloon and tried ter get him off, but it ain't no go. They says the suspicions is too much agen him—they Want proofs, and unless they're brought the law must take its course. And I cart bring proofs.. Yes, Denis, I will btieg proofs. So what I want yer tee do is ter stop 'em fer half an hour, By that time .I'll bring my proofs, and if 1 can't—then Heaven help poor Tim !" "Nally, ten me. Why do ye take all this interist in the Parson' ?" There were no answer. 'eft's bekase ye love "Den is, ye're right—it is" says The, Irishman weren't no saint, and. when he beard. this his soul was filled with. jealousy. A bitter fight took Plaee 'tweeu his honer and Loire, 0.11d i1 weren't long 'fore Love kern out. on Lop. Why should he sacrifice everythink jest ler this mincing. "Par- son' ? .ineesently he looked up and said : darlint, ashamed of meself Oi am, but Oi can't help it at all, Inaze don't think too had of me, but Oi muse tell ye. Oi loveye neesilf. There's the trooth. Look at the inatther froiii a commonsinse point, of view. He'S Penniless and Oi has -a decent Piles now ; not that Oi mimes that as anny incloonemint, but •01, loir yo greatly. Why should ye throw yeeilf aWay on the 'Parson,' who is a, wrong'un—a hale ?" e'er are a lizzr ! The 'Paraon' Were fleeter a thief, and hew dare ye say so ? Yer a cad. I camp and ast<ed yer help 'cos 1. th01.1011; yet' was a geatlernan, Denis. Evidently I were iniStook," 'You're not mistook at all. It's iveryone fer himself in this wer-rld. What have Oi done dishgraceful, Oi should like to knew ? Oi refuse to purvent; a Psi; penalty beta' inflicted on a thafe, Who has badaa fair trial, with all the ividened agin him. 01 endeavour 10 dissuade', ye from: west - hi' yet' lo-ve on sich a one, and ()der ye 100 oWn ibve. Where is the dis7 graee '?, Ifowetrer, if -,},0'.11 be no Wife, Nelly, Oi.11, save him if 01 eau, timic or uo Chafe, not bekase 01 belay° he's' innercent, but fer your swate sake, e,) 1111111150 1 cannot," says Nelly, angrily, "Thin, bedad, let him swing," blurted out Denis, sullenly., at wIlieh Nelly commenced ter cry. ',rist promise, and Oi Save him or do me best.'' "Won't yer do it without me pro- nliSe ? Not as a honorable gentles man Denis ?" "No !" 'Then, I promise, but on'y ort coutlition that yer save him, mind ;vela I can't stead' by and see him die. But as for you—I hate yer fer a low-down mean hound.'' She run off then, leavin' 1)enis be- wildered. Ire watched her out of sight, think - in' all the time. Then a smile gradually spread over his face—the smile of a feller what' fought and plucky little gir'rl,'' he Denis arriyed at the tree jest in time, The rope were already round the Parson's neck. “Ilinays, what are Yo up to .?" says Denis. "I'm thinkin' yer'd better not a -in- terfere with this here gatherinn 1 Denis," said the President. "Arrah, but OVm on'y interferin', beg -gin your honour's pardia, Prisi- (10111, bekase it's committing murther yo all are. Ye are jist goin' to stbring up an innociat bhoy, Oi tell ye the 'Parson's' innocint." "Don't; yer be e. Tule. We've jest had a kinder trial, jedge, joory, and all proper, and the verdict of this court is Guilty, and rimy the Lord have mercy on his soul.' The empty box was found in his shanty right enough—there ain't no mistake in that—and he can't explain it nohow. I'm sorry fer yea seeia' as p'r'aps he's a pard of yourn, but got the job over," he said, turning to some of the ruflians standing ready. 'Now, listen to me, ye blayguards1 The rust wan that touches tha.t rope Oell. let daylight through him, Oi will. Listen to me. Oi ineve a con - fission to make. I did this crime • mesilf.'. Ter say they was astonishecl would be putting it mildly. There weere look of utter aumzernent on every- one's face. and they all crowded round the President and seemed to be all talkin' at once. Presently hush fell on the crowd and the Presi- the mail. who's (Mae it. Now, let him eome forward." A dead silence fell on the erowd as She patelect agen, but no one m0Yed• , Ilia eyes flashed With anger, and like a dart her arm shot Q u I:, , and with finger extended she Rotated , at ozeicn e. oaitbn Yet' cot 1efrd, Silas Dean ! Yer ie, thief ! Yer done it,' and deny it if y "eae With an oath SiteDeane sprang forward and, whippin' out his sheet - e1', he fired at Nell, Sich an action Could never be allowed. 1 ,More he coultl lire agen he was stretched On the ground with, more bullets in hi,S body than yer could count 00 yer i two hands. 111, Nell wer'n't clead 'twere on'y a „ere scalp wound. Nevertheless she 1 i m were the tall: of the camp. So were the "Parson" and Denis, for the mat- ter 0' that—'specially Denis. Wal, soou after this occurrence Nell were sittin on a tree -stump, lookin' the picter of misery. She had been cryia', for the "Parson" had jest bIt her, after he had summoned up enough courage to "pop the clues - tion.''' She, remenibering her Pro- mise to Denis, said that though she loved him she could never marry hialeolooked hex' in the eyes, and ' I rather fancy he understood it. Ile went sadly away, muttering some- thing like,- -So it's Denis ! Wal, , i she, s as lucky as ne s," Almost as soon as the arson" had left Nell Denis keel up, "A good morning to ye, Nell." Good morning', :Deilis.'' "Oi've come about that prinnise ye made. en' 01 hope yo're satisfied with the. way Oi carried out me own par -rt of the contract. And a near thing it was, indado, jist a CaSe of touch and go." 'I never meant yer ter take slch a risky course, Denis.'-' 'It was the on'y way of gainin' tonne. They shut, me mouth for me ivory tonne Oi spake.", "you're a brave feller, Denis, mul I can never thank yer enough."• Ye remember yer promise, Nell ?' 11. 'dent spoke, 'Tanis O'Brien, by yer . Own con - fission, yor pleads guilty of thievin'. Yee have heartlessly robbed a, oore nard-Workin' man and have also al- lowed .a irinercent young feller ter be tried. condemned, and nearly execut- ed. We ain't partic'lar here, but thieviri' is. a crime which we must stamp out at any ,cost. . Yer know the penalty and we can Make no ex- ception. 'Parson,.' ye're lueky and can new go free.. .Allow me ter be' the rust ter congratulate yer., , Then says the "Parson' 'Don't congratulate yet. Ver've just tried and nearly hung me fee- a. crime 1. never done, jest think of ‘the anxiety 1: must lave suffered. !Don't yer WM: yet: owe me a sorter ireconmense ? 1 don't went much. It's only that yer let DeniS go, if he promiSea to git away at once. Ile confissed tel this of his own free .will, which shows some Pluck anyway. ' The :PreSident Coinmenced ter look onensY; and More so stilt when Ile .saw Nelly quickly towards '0111. . 'Yer Sec, Pc like. this 'ere. 01' :Black's ,gold's: :been. Snicked, and Isomeone' ° s e'ot ter be punished fer it. ma L.11 ne,i f yet' citn, what a pr et ty P055 things would take if We 01100 took it inter our heads to let 'eel. oft. No, NI"C`, can't male° no excepticn in this case anyhow. Miss Bell," he 1, said. (awning to Nelly, "this ain't quite the place ler ladies, and I liope 1 1/e1' W011't take it as unkind if WC arsks Ter ter go away. As a matter 1 of fate,' we've got some very iin- pbeasallt liis'ness ter get fixed up." Up ter the present Ncll had not dared ter look at the prisouer. 'I tell yer, Mister President, yer've got the wrong man. The 'Parson' ain't took nothing." b "No, so we've found out ; but Denis has confessed. Nell stertecl back 131 amazement, j when she 230.10 Denis. 1 \ 'Denis, zee brave boy, Nyhat, have yer 1)0011 ail' done ?" she exclaimed. "Yer tould me Lo kape 'em back an' to make toinie, and, faith, this is t110 on'y vay could stop the 01- t therng blnyguards.'' c Neil turned tee the President agen. ; "I. know the real one as has role - bed Dan Black:. IL ain't the 'I'ar- 1 1:01.1,' 1101' it 1.1in't :Denis, though Ile 1 says it, isHe'11 explain ter yer wliy1 lie confessed afterwards. Yes, I know who has (lone it, and I wish ter give him fair warning ! Let him come forward 1.t11o1 otvii. up 1 il(e a inane' She paused several seconds, then added : ain't playin• no game of bluff. No, fore .1-feaven, I tells yer 7 know “Are ye wanting to back out air it, or are ye goin' to carry it through ?' "Why, I'll keep ter my word, of course." "D'ye know the Parsoa's' in love with ye, Nell ?" "I didn't know till jist now, wben lie told me, and asked Inc ter be his wifeIrefused him—'cos I promised you." `Welly, dear, yisterday Oi tuk ye at a mane advantage. Ye called me na.sty names. Oi wish to say ye were roight. 01 was worse than all that, but ye musn't call me secli names agin. Oi've been thinkin' and have decided not to marry ye. D'ye think Oi'd marry ye and ruin, yer whole life, knowin' all the while that ye were eatin' yer hear'rt out for the 'Parson,' ? No, darlint, I ain't so bad as that. Nelly, I release ye from yet. promise. entoirely." "Denis !" Nell cried. Yis entoirely, dear," "How can I ever thank yer ?" By lettin' me be the best man. at your weddin'—and olothing else at An' he was.—London WIIY WAS ITE AN IDIOT? There is a story told of a very 1..etlkative lady who met with a well - d. .• socialgathering 1101 long ago. ITer husband is a man of high standing in the world of scioa"ce, butathe lady regards him as a dreamer or impossible dreams. '`Do „ 1 , s rat caked tha gonitisi t gee is and mbecility are twin bro- thers? The world regards ..Tolia. as a genius. Now, there aretinies when I believe him to be an idiot." A painful silence followed, broken by a blunt old doctor who had over - learn the remark. ''Aro we to understand, 1)121(10.111,''' ie said, "that- Professor Y--, though your husba,nd, is so slightly esteemed by you?" "1 say what I thittk," she retorted. 'At times John is unmistakably. an diot." "Merely because he is your hus- tled?" 031, very well," was the grim re- oinder. `'We will put it in another tray. He is your husband because le is an idiot. Will LIMA, do'?" -- "This, bill of Itrishlet's is entirely 06 large," said a clerk in the gas ompany's office; "he could not have onsumed so muc11 gas last month." 'Pow do you know?" asked the )ook-keeper. •`Er—um--I ought to (ROW. f am paying my addresses to 1(13 daughter," Mrs. Greene--e'Who is thEtt pretty' girl over there? She is really be- witching. ' Uncle George—''Why, 1110.1 is ((10 woman your 11 us band used to rave so about.'' Mrs. Greene—"I wonder what, he could lave seen m her?" Abg.°1 "In"' vle4111 t•Ah sleeted 6 tevla' frum 3174 yo'' c f)ijel 03!11 *Q")q" .r-"eeeslnCl Ted elle" •.) OX A RAILROAD IN RD2SIA VERY FINE COACHES USED IN THAT COUNTRY. Peculiarities Noticed by a Travel- ler—Poor Light for the Evening. This train in which I ant travel- ling would compare well With trains in England and America, writes a correspondeat of the London Daily News, 4 There are two engines black ana greasy, and they have huge funnel - shaped chimneys. They consume an enormous quantity ' of wood, but there is no scarcity of it, for at ev- ery Station there are stacks of it 211(10et1 into ponvenient chunks. ' At ,One end of thetrain is the post wagon, with two brass horns orna- merit ing its outer panels, and a green -painted letter -box, bearing a picture of a. sealed letter, hanging outside. At the other end is what tipproximettes to .our guard's van where the conduet,or—a stout, may- oral gentleman in black nlilitarY kind or frock -coat with a white and purple tassel on the shoulder—occu- pies much of his time drinking tea, though twitra a day he makes a pro- menade' of the entire train, with a (10 1(1)10 01 supernumeraries, Liner 111011 Lo open and shut the doors for him. All the other cars are for passen- gers. There is one car painted blue 101' erst-class passengers, two paint- ed yellow fel' second-class passengers, ancl seven painted green. for third- class passengers. The cars are all built on the corridor plan, and as the gauge of the line is wide, they are 000101/. The "'swagger" people, like gener- als and their wives, SIBERIAN MILLIONAIRES, wealthy mei-chalets, and English journalists; travel first-class; second- class is favored by lesser military of- ficers, wives and daughters going out to Siberia to join the head of the family, who has his eye on becoming a millionaire, and also by men Whom I take to be German commer- cial travellers. But the majority are third-class, a higgledy-piggledy commtmity of de- cent -looking artisans and their wiv- ' es, anci hoz-des of children, wandering east to settle, and a fair sprinkling of harum. scarum young fellows,. al- evnys smoking cigarettes and diving into every bullet and shouting for pevo (beer), and having mock at- tempts to pitch one another out of the window. The mass, however, of my fellow -travellers are moujiks, shaggy men with big sheepskin hats that give them. a ferocious air, wearing rough-spua cloaks, and, olten with sacking Lied around their feet instead of boots. The women are fat and plain anct barefOoted, though the colors or their dresses are some- times startlitg in brilliancy; gaudy eramse is populace They, too, have hordes of youngsters, little bundles of unwashed rags, but plump and happy most of them. The first-cla:ss car is divided. into compartments, where, if you are alone, you mulintarn privacy by.turn- ing the ices. 'There are .plush seats on either side,' but as this is summer time, they ace 11 covered with red - striped cotton. Al. night the car at- tendant coines in,, touches a lever, and the back of the seat swings up and makes an upper berth. And the bottom seat ' TURNS 'ON A PIVOT. , conies bottom upwards, and A. .pull at a cord reveals a, soft mattress and pillow. The ideal way is to have 'a compartment to yourself, and you get this in exactly the same way as you secure a carriage to yourself on an English train. Railway attend- ants having the same weakness all, the world over, I have travelled the ideal way. The lighting of the car in the eve- ning is bad. A single candle is stuck in a ease over the door, 'and this has not only to illuininate your compartment; but contribute ta lighting pant of tlie corridor on the_ other side. It is inipossible to read. The lavatory accommodation is lim- ited, and as it is for the joint use of both sexes, it is a cause of frequent einbarrassineitts. Ablutions have to be performed singly. For two hours each morning there is a little crowd of unwashed, Inicombed, and semi - dressed men and women standing about the corridor, ,all smoking ci- garettes, women as well as men, ancl each eyeing titan. neighbor with side glances of distrust, lest there will be some underhand move to get posses- sion of the lavatory. first. „Among the. provoking things of life Is the way Russian hotels and lava- tories on Russian trains supply you with water to cleanse yourself. There is no tap to turn on the water but there is a button, which, on pressing with your hand, releases a trickle. The moment you cease pres- sing the button the supply is cut off. Wheti you are actually pros:341g the water trails along your elbow and soalcs your. shirt sleeves, or douses your clothes and boots. 'The .only refuge is selfishness. So I plug the basin outlet with a cork and hold the btit,t,on up with a lead pencil til1. tho'bitsin is full, Thee I wash. Thus. the water Supply soon gives out, and I pick- up several, expletives ins Rus- sian from Izty fellows. • _ A SE C 0 ND-01.,ASS C Alt . , Tile Second-class cars see01 almost as g900 as the first. Ladies or bus- , bande art'cle wives or travellers who understand the weak side of railway attenclatits can, 11 there is not too num11 traffic, (1e1 a coxima•rtment. °Chemise the seats awl beds are au- rangedwithout any cuble,le (Vision. ()11 hol; nights—and though. Russia in Winter ca11 be cOlder than the lviortli Polo, it earl in SU01Ille11 be 11101'0 tor- rid than the e2ltiet01-,-1 1„. is better Lo travel seeond-elliss Li- o n first. , Alt tile thi r (1 -el a es care are grin17,,; there are seetions reserved for 100111- 1 en tkl1C1 eilildree. The woodwort: is I painted dente inside, bet tiler° is /101 le \ 0211 14 01' ellSiliOil. 1 S p on 1, h o ties 1 among, these emigrants, .. I. fled Diem 1 interestinpa r,Piley are horribly diray 01021011, deSPlie tile telalPel'atere, the 11.1111 as they like to have the windows (-"rs 00011 With odor. carry all their worldly pOssessions with them, Some foul sleeping rugs and smile bundles of more foul clothing. These are spread out on the bard Seats to inake them a little less hard. Bread, tea and,inelons Seelll their chief fare. There are great clitniks of some black bread, and .11‘, every halt l(01 - ties are seized, and a scramble made to the platiorzn, where tile 19eal peasant women tutve steatiling sam- ovars, 'and sell a kettle of boiling water for a halfpenny ,and a water- melon as 1?i,g. as your head ..for a pen- ny. u. 13esicles break -eating and scattering half of it on the floor, and Munchin(1 melons, and niakinga mess with the rind, and splashing the water about when tea -making, •there is the con- stant smokily, of cigarettes. . A peasant, allay riot be able to afford a hunk.- of bread, but he has a simply of cigarettes. They, are tiny, unsat- isfyilig things, half cardboard tube, provide tdiree niOdest peffs, and are then to be thrown 'away. You could smoke a hundred a day, and deserve no lecture on being a slave Lo toleadeo., • PERSONAL TIT - BITS. • — Notes of Interest About Some Leading People. leritticis Joseph of Austria', 11010 seventy-one Years old, has been on the throne fifty-two years, and so bolds the record for length of reign. King Christian of Denmark is eighty- two, but has only been on the throne thirty-seVen years. A good story is told of Sir John Tenniel, the famous cartoonist. , One day 111e1/ zisked him why he had nev- er married. "Well," he replied, "if had 'married 'a girl she would al- ways have wanted to be going about all over the place, and that would not have suited me; while, on the other hand, 'if I had married an el- derly lady she would have worn a shawl, and that I could not have stood I" It will always remain to Mr. Ce- cil Rhodes's credit that he Was one of the few of whom the late General G-ordon made intitnate and trust- ed friend. Chinese Cordon first met the ,African millionaire in Basuto- land, and it is not generally known that he was earnestly asked to be- come the General's private secretary and alter ego, a position which Mr. Rhodes, after much hesitationede: (dined. s The personality` of the Sultan of Turkey is, much misrepresented. He possesses a sensitive nature and his domestic affections' are strong. Ills P010005 of work are exceptionally great, end„„he.never lakes stimulants except a01 occasional cup of coffee an.d a cigarette. His dress is simple —a black frock -coat cut in Turkish fashion and a white waistcoat., with a gold watch -chain. No great dis- play; yet when he gives you audi- ence on a Friday, after Um ceremony of the Selamlik, he impresses you with his picturesque dignity and pla- cid face. He used to be one of the best pistol -shots in Europe. As everyone knows, "Lady Aud- ley's Secret" was the novel which lifted. Miss Braddon into fame. It may not be so generally known that the author had so little confidence in her work as to bring it out in an obscure periodical, "Robin Goodfel- low." ,Then, indeed, it .would have remained "forgotten, buried, dead," had she not been able to prevail Up- on a publisher to bring it out in three -volume form, It then sprang Intoan instantaneous populaz•ity. The Success of -Clic novel was amaz- ing, and Probably the critics did no harm to the sale-- by „describing the: work as ''sensational." Mbre' than a 1111 1 11011, copies have been sold, and, the public still ask for More. The Talbots are said to owe 11)011 inheritance pf Lacock to a yery r0 - mantle incident. The yourig da.ugh- ter, and heiress of. Sir Henry Sher- rington being in love. With Jobe. 'Talbet; contrary to father's. wishes, and discOurs.ing; one night with . him. from the battlements of. the Abbey -Church; -said she : "I will leap. down'to..you." - Her sweetheart; replieft that he would catch her then but he did -not believe .she would do it. However, she leapt clown,, and Mr. Talbot caught her in his arms, but was struck with so Much force that lie fell as if deads She cried for help, and he was with great diffi- culty brought to life again. Ifer father thereon told lier that since she haansade such a leap see. should even marry him. • Quite a number or Royal ladies are adepts with the rifle. One of these is Portugal's plucky Queen, who re- cently received the.Gernian medal for saving .life. 'tier Majesty is a keen, sportswoman, and can, handle her gun, with a precision which is posi- tively deadly. Queen 'Ireton& of Italy is another clever shot. She spends much. of her time 111 her pretty little tainting lodge in the 'Island el Mon- te Cristo, arid is as clev,er witit the revolver as 117301 the rifle. The Ductless earl -Theodore, of Bavaria and her sister the Arcliduche.as Carl Ludwig, the Clrand Duchess of Lux-. ciabourg,'Mid the. Crand' Duchess of Hesie: are Others who cam, hold their awn with the gun, 01111 011711 Queen andlier. daughters' prefer the rod to the gun, (111(1111111be- regarded as CX-. pert fisherwomen. Itir Ito osevelt ,; tit e new P re si den t of the ;United' States, .1210151111 zt 'suc- cessor' (.6 Washington, Can ,boastof having saved the I i f e of a descendant of ',mai North, whose obstinacy lost England the Ailletienn Colonies,. In 1885 the iron. "Williain' and the Hon, Roger North, :1003 of the present Lord North, were in America, and visited Mr. Roosevelt, on his 'ranch in North Dakota, Mr, 'Roosevelt and Mr. Roger North. started ono evening to rid. to Medora„ croseiag 11 deep witty which was in flood 1-- the water ruardog over aar.bridge made of fagots laid o31 poles so that it SOUS Itiddea from view --Mr. Roger Northwho tees riding, went through, -horse , and all. Mr.,Boase- vett threw hi ,4 lariel, or lasso and hauled him out, px• he _west,. 'have I been droWned, RUSSIA PROM THE INSIDE Awful Picture of Affairs in That 00 witty, .Captain .3. NV. (lanibier, 11. N., Writes aa follows in 1110, Oct.ober PortnightlY : One can liken Russia's present eon,- dition to that of a spendthrift who C011tililleS to get credit soiriellow, aral trusts to pro,viclence to discount li bills,. It is clinictilt to 'exaggerate the financial dillicidties of ftussia 01 the In•esent moinenteeall her inches- • tries lying idle and agricelturill rein her chronic state. 1 Icnow of 110 per - title! to 'the difficulty the goventintent of the Czar lias recently experienced in disposing of the the thousands ttpon thousands of laborers :lila ar- tizqns thrown otit -Of woric by the closing of industrial undertakings in every part of the enlPire. To an Engl is hula!' ten, .fifteen, or twenty . trains per 'day, passing over one sin- gle line of istilway packed tvith. -starving. mechanics in (meal cattle pens—fed as they go on, on blaek rye bread • and water, and tlion. 'illtuelced out into the street to fish for themselves in their starvizig, desolate lioines, would indicate the end of •the British. Erepire. But this is the spectacle to be witries.secl any day in all parts.of Russia—aye 1 ` worse things, too, if the .11000005 .01 the slums of 111oscow, lCiolT, St. Pe- tersburg arid fifty other large towns could be revealed. We are accustoni- ecl to picture the film/10101 difficultiea ' of Turkey as being ALMOS'I' 'UNBEARABLE. . Those of Russia are, .0 -believe, fat worse ; the; Czar, or rather, his 3i -ulster De Witte, the minister of fin- ance, is compelled to find money for• not 01111 --a vast and t,,,enerally ruined nobility, whose fathers have spent Ilussico 1 recklessness, the iminey they received for the emancipation of timir serfs, .have left -their Sons Wi tli• 1101 1 11er money" to go on with, 1100 serfs Co wol•k their estates. This nobility has now to live as best it can; chiefly in selling its ancestral forests, or hanging about the goV- erntnent _offices ineesearch of pay er plunder. Then, above all this, conies 11e0 colossal army. It is true the private solaller receives scarcely any ,pay, and is fed on black bread;.sljuj his , munbers count pla and. in'addi lion to him is ,tliat Other arnre, the third seetio‘neer secret police. Thell throw in-ttie cost of the iinperial palaces, the salai•ies of the great oilicials, the households of the grand dukes, the vast cost of th0. imperial oPeca, t.he. countless. hordes of atselesa priests, the enorinous, and nit -taunt outlay on unproductive ptiblie tvol•ks', bearing in inind that Probably itol niore than one-half of any stua al.. lotted for tliese specific works ever serves its legiiiinate porpose;' adding also, the fact that out of every for- eign loan (as is openly tohnittcd in Rassia) only a small portion conu:s to Russia, the rest' going in all value of Russian. securities abr'oad— manner of ways to bolster up the E111(1 I think an impreSSion lutist be `••'' fornied that Russia "roast clo seine- ‘1\;a0ssoayutrTintIaliperoicvttnt1 t:itIbillei-. BOTH FOOD AND MEDICINE. The Fruit Cure For Soine of the Ills of the Human Body. The ell/alive value .of fruit is be- coming 111010 an.d ruore insisted upon by those who make a study of diet- etic. Grapes are reconunended for the dyspei)tie, the consumptive, the anaemic, mid for those with a ten- dency to gout and liver troubles. Plums, also, are said to be a cure for gouty and rheumatic tendencies. 'The acid fruits, especially leznons end' oranges, are particularly good for stomach. troubles and rheumat- ism. • 11 is not sufficienteesay the e.(1vo:- cates- of the -fruit Curele:eto ',cat 'a • small quantit.y at break-fast'*ordirte ner. One shotrhi eat front two IsIr eight pounds of 'grapes a day, or,if the orti.nges are the Curative agency, the nUmber to be. eaten in. a 1.1111-' inay vary from three to .six. A healthy. condition • of the body depends upon a perfect balance of foods taken. There are rnany other factors entering into the question. but this feat:tire 111.1(01 not be for- gotten. Fetv people there are' who can k.ecp healthy without fruit. How at,surrl, sonic one says, to be - told to cat fruit \Olen everybcirly eats it. Yes, but how do you eat '? Do ou take a definite aniount of it.•1211e same as you do of 'neat ..••••-' and pcitaloes, or do you eat it, as you. do ottrely ?, 11 yeti suffer from an acute attacit of indigestion LOU a, (Ulmer 01 &'Otipl 1110:Its. piclflessauces.: sala,d, cakes. pastries, with spices a11(1 poraliments enough to blister the Skill, to say nothing of .tho delieitte lining of the stomach, pray slo not aver that in- digestion arises froi11 the irtorset of fruit 11)1(.011 tit the end, Be- hotiest with .your stomach for a inontin Eat no ni.ore than you need of .simple, food, into which the true luxuries of nature,' such as pies, oranges, pears, or othet,fruit: shall en'101-, 11 only as an 11 1-' teresthig ,experiinent, to , eat, ingl,y of the cruder articles Of diet,' :111(1 mole of those Suited to yone 2•Ca/ needs, and sec to it, that fruit fcrins a part of each meal, "But ttre 111`1,11V kinds o fruit cannot eat." it- is agEtin. cionloteat,seventeeirkiii<is of food at' one ineat ending with fruit, it, of, com'se, was tlie apple or strawber- rfes tliat did the harin." "Da' doesn't- fruit ntalce the blood (hilt ?'' "It certaialy 'does. arid lye are Mighty glad of it. AsIc any cloctoor,, \S ho ,lias 9ietctiset1 inodieine for „ tett years with 'Ills 0,1021 open, /fad he wil 1 toll yott that tlie 510e1(1 inLtjok'ity 01 growlisup folks liztve blood 1110 1;1)i de, • '"I'lle Il1iJiCl nis 13t111 nettiral tteicls of the fruit ver,v best; , eon- c.civaleirs renie(lir.e; for tlliS 1,1)i ekciiCd (211(1(1114011 '61 I,1,10 1110(1(1. 'tlaett 10e111)1tte,',1 tt f1311(1 irt(elicirke -- a i,lece;ssitee 1,1)1 a ii,of‘le (1t)iIgi3Lfllt 11131'