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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1886-9-2, Page 7"RANG THE BA133r i' mai4;1 am all impatience. We'll shame "Thea on won't go Alice 7 here, and count your pictures, vases and ,pretty things, and Catalogue them, eo as to make mamma happy with a letter to- morrow. Order John, or Jack, or Blli, or whoever your coachman la, to get the carriage, if that is impossible, send for a cab. In less than an hour Mabel led her sta- te; to the great French mirror, and laughingly introduced her bo the loveliest and best• dressed woman he had ever seen. Alice trembled a little when ehe found herself actually on the way to Mrs. Mountjoy's ; bat her sister's urgent will had conquered, and her heart wan hard- ened by Herbert's emphatic expression concerning the baby. She was reassured, however, by Mre. Monntjoy's hearty wel- come "I'm so glad you've come, my dear," she said. "Your hnaband said he feared baby' would keep you at home ; but I told him that wars all nonsense. You did right to reconsider the matter." Herbert, like many handsome society men, was a little spoiled and selfish, with- out knowing it. He loved. Alice devoted- ly ; bub he was not unwilling to receive the sweet smiles and honeyed words of others, while, with a man'e inconsistency, he was not iestroua that hie wife should play the part of a married belle. "No r your bad husband into good behavior, see if we don't. No irresolution. 1 will stay at home and fancy myself. mlatreem erbert—I am eo lorry—bat the baby!" "Oh, hang the baby 1" and Herbert flung out of bhe room, 'a lamming the door behind him. Aline stood looking at the door, grow - Ing whiter and whiter. Then she gave a heartbreaking cry, and fell on her knees by the cradle, and hiding her fade in her hands, sobbed bitterly. She had looked forward so long to this particular party. It was given by Mrs. Mountjoy, one of the leaders of Baofoty, and all that was eminent in politica, di- plomacy or literature, as well as distin- guished in the fashionable world was sure to be there, She had been kept at home so much/libelee baby had been born that ehfelt the need of a little variety e seall f y and relaxation. But baby had been threatened 'with oroup the week before, and the fond mother had not yet recover- ed from her fright. Baby, she admitted, was better, "but not fit, she declared, "to be left, at least with only the nurse to look after it. Names are eo careless,. everybody had told her, even the best of them." She had not asked Herbert to give It up also, and even maid there was no rea- son why he should stay at home ; bub still in her heart of hearte, aha hoped he would. "He said, ' Haug the baby 1' yes, he did, darling," she mut mured, with indig- nant emphatic, as she bent over the little nnoonaoiocS sleeper. "It was your papa who said that, and he has gone to a bril- liant party with ouch thoughee of his wife and child 1 Did you come, deareab to es- trange us from each other 7" This awful idea called for a flood of bit- ter tears. Herbert had eaid such beautiful things in her trusting girlhood. "Never should their lives run in separate ehannele, . as those of some married people of their ao- quaintance did -never a joy be accepted that did not make them one—never a barrier should come between them." And now to think that this wee babe, with its golden curls, this beautiful little helpless creature, should part them, as never strong hands could. She pictured tho gay assemblage, and her Herbert dancing with young girls, smiling on others, and leaving her at home to die of heartbreak. Her imagination, always too vivid,. viewed him in his triumphs, until her misery took almost the form of madness. "He didn't want me to go," she said ; "he anted as if he didn't, and then he pretended to throw all the blame on that dear, belplees baby 1" S r.,• adde tnhe heard the sound of car- riage wheels outside ; they stopped at bhe door ; the bell rang, and a fairy-like figure stood on the threshold et the room, in all the wistfulness of expectancy. with dimp- ling smiles and laughing eyes. — "Oh, Mabel!' oriel Alice, starting to her feet with a glad cry. " This is, in- deed, a surprise, I'm so glad•you've come. My darling sister 1" Forthwith ensued a scene of rapturous welcome. Then the baby was exhibited, and one would not have dreamed that a tear had 'ver stained the cheek; of the proud mots':' Then the visitor's trunks were ordered to be carried up stairs. " Bat where's Herbert? In the study 7" at last Mabel asked. "He's—out, dear." - "Good 1 don't be avgry because I'm glad, for we can have such a nine little chat. You didn't expect me." "Of course 1 didn't." "Well, I didn't think of coming, as you know, for a month. Bub I thoughb it would be so nice to surprise you." " Oh, I'm so. glad I" "And then'Paul is coming," she said, blushing, ' next week, to stay a month ; he has business here, and he wanted me so badly to be here, too. I declare," she said, laughing, "I'11 have to marry him soon, to get rid of him." " Oh, Mabel t don't marry him unless you are certain you'll be happy 1" Dried Alice, hysterically. "Be sure first he won't go to parties, and le—ave you alone --with, the ba -by I'.' she sobbed. " What lis Herbert at a party 7" queri- ed Mabel, quite subdued. " Yee, he ie ; and when I told him I could not go account .of baby, he Bald ' hang the baby 1' Yes, yon little angel, your own father said those awful words- and then he sl—ammed the door." R " He'd a viper 1" exclaimed Mabel with sudden vehemence. "A nine way to treat a wife like you—a baby like that 1 But why couldn't yon leave baby 7" "Because he was threatened with the croup last week." "Bub he's well enough now—sleeps de- liciously. He'll not wake up all the night, perhaps. And the nurse would have taken good care of him." "I should have been thinking of fire, croup, and all that." - . „' Oh„ nonsense -I Yon ought to have gen, .. But Herbert had no right to be- have a he4lid, and he mast be punished ;" `sib threw her wraps on the bed ndab P a and took her eeat by the glowing fire. "It won't do to let him get the upper hand. Ah 1 I have it I I've thought of a splendid plan l A charming delightful plot 1" And she clapped her hands in glee. " Oh, Mabel, what is it 7� and Alice sat down ab her sister's feet, gazing in her face with expectant smiled. " What are you going to do 7" " I'm not going to do it. I shall stay • here find watch the baby. Yon are to go to the party. "Mabel! impossible 1" "Quite possible. In fact, it mast be done. You milli let Herbert see that you are as pretty ad anybody, and quite ars much to be admired. 11 is decided. You aie to go to the party and play a P teroramme. ext,. Let udurian e h Pg" But Mabel, 1 havn't a drone prepar- ed—or afrybhing. I gave up going a week ago, you see, when baby was threatened with the croup." "?thaw 1 You shall wear one of mime —one of the moat bewitching, bewilder - of dresses—bought from my lash allow- ance from Uncle Curtis, Only to dee ib will throw you into eostaoieaa Worth never complied anything more lovely. I want to dee lb- on you.. Conte, come, call your It was while he was dancing with one• of the most noted and beautiful women of the metropolis, who was willing bo lis - ben to hie nonsense, that Herbert, look- ing up from the face leaning against Ms ahoulder, while the dreamy waltz music " thrilled the heart senaltive to Badness as to joy," encountered the sparkling face ot his wife, and saw her arrayed in the freshest and moat graceful costume in the room. She was moving quietly along, with an escort in uniform. " Pray don't stumble,' said his partner, petulantly, for at that moment the grand repose of her manner was gone, and the lady on his arm might have been made of wax or any other ductiile material, for all he cared now. - " How the dickens Dame she here 7" he muttered to himself, as he led his partner, absently, to a seat, deaf to all her pretty words, blinded to her fascinations. Ib certainly is Alice—but thab dreas— bhe prettiest thing here 1 And I left her quite determined not to come. I don't understand it. Dancing with that milita- ry puppy, Guinetb, too ! She knows I hate him 1" With these amiable thoughts, he laid himself out to gain the attention of his wife, and make her explain. It was some time before he had a chance, ao he was obliged to content himself with following her graceful motions, angry with himself, and with her. ' "Alice 1 Can I believe my eyes 7" he said at last, in the pause of the dance. " I should think you might," was the nonchalant reply. "Pray, how did you come?" "Pray, how did you come ? I Did you walk?" " Well, but—" "Excuse me. I am engaged four deep, already," and Herbert was forced to move one side as a pompous acquaintance claim- ed her hand. "I'd like to knpok that fellow down," he muttered, angry in earnesb. Another pause, and another tete-a-tete. No aatfefaotion given. Herbert had hard- ly the grace bo redeem all of his dancing engagements. "How about the baby, Alice 7" he ask- ed, anxiously. She pub her rosy lips to his ear, and in a subdued' voice, exclaimed : " Hang the baby I" Herberb started and changed color. To be mare, he had used the same language ; but from her it was too exasperating. How he gob through the evening he could hardly tell. When at last they were together in the carriage, driving home, there might have been an open rupture but for the determined calmness of Alice, who book everything as a matter of course. One glance In the beautiful nursery un- sealed his eyes. There, by the fire, sat Mabel, in all the abandon of a negligee toilet, her luxuriant firearms falling in glossy freedom over her shoulders, while the little fellow on her lap clutched at one long, shining curl, crowed and laughed as well as he could for'aunty'e smothering kisses. , A sudden revulsion of feeling came to the father's heart at the sight of bhe sweet home picture. " Aha 1 I know who contrived bhe plot 1" he said. "But Ism glad to see you, nevertheleas." " Wasn't she the belle of the ball ?" asked Mabel, saucily. "There's no doubt of that. At any rate, I didn't geb a chance to dance with her." te rode. "Of course. Who ever heard in society of dancing with one's wife !" she aaid, ear- casbically. "I see that she followed my directions implicitly. You must ]'earn that a house divided against itself cannot stand—that is, if one half is flirting at a parby, and the other half at home crying her eyed out." " Oh, Alice—wape yon, really 7" "1 should tilir4Eshe was. I oan assure you that I myself saw half the house die - solved in tears and so wretched that--" "Oh, Mabel, do hush l" said Alice, im- ploringly. "Traitor, do you tarn on me 7" ex- claimed Mabel, with monk displeasure. " My child," ehe went on, bossing the crowing cherub, "tell your selfish papa e also has some obligation and that b , g d, a that, if you had known that you were Id be the bone d contention in balm family, you'd have staid in the garden of angels, where you were wanted." And that night she tapped on the door of Alloe'e room, and looked gaily in. " Wasn't I right 7" she naked. for And (she Herbert was right,b t wam strongly affected by this andaoiout out- burst, but it had the effect of leading him to dee his duty in a new light. It taught him to refledb; it opened his eyes to his selfishness, and made him, from that evening, a better' and more considerate husband. Six months after that time Allot was e dressed for a party. But thld time the party was to be given in her own house, and in honor of Mabel's marriage. Even the bride .did nob look lovelier, for no' thipg now over ogourred to mar .&lioe'a happiness, and happiness, after all, is the beat preservation of beauty. ,LATE DOMINION NEWS. a w i S k N b t a b P , t b it b a 0 t i t T A t d s t t 0 T w b s t a b 1 t t V t e 0 I e w w w a a d s 0 h plept e The Knights ef Labor propeee to establish bipoutlt factory In Oatmeal, Ont. A Walt Island hole laid an egg which weighed only a sixth of an ounce. Her n ame ie withheld' out of menet to the fain. ly. • In an answer to the question, "Who was k Walter Scott 2' on one of the entrance e :amination papore, a Parkhill boy wrote, ' A celebrated Scottish noveliot who was illed by Riei." Just as Richard Sullivan, of Farmerten, N. B., had got his last lead of hay into his new barn the building wee struck by light- ning, ing, and all the bay, and some farm ma- c hinery, crammed, latest " longevity" item ie furnished y a family living in Kingston, N. S. It 0 onelate of ten members, who are all living; he youngest being 52 years of age. The dded ages of the ten equal 700 years. A child who was flahing near Syndroal T bland, Stoney Creels, naught a small black ails. Before it could be landed a large m aaklnenge swallowed , the baa,. bait, and art of the line, and got off with the booty, A New Brunewlok man while cutting up a n old tree for kindling struck what he thought at first was a nail. He began to w hittle around it, when he found an old saes door knob thoroughly imbedded in the w ood, the tree having grown entirely around The work of deepening the ship channel etween Quebec and Montreal to 27- feet is dvanoiag rapidly, and there is now a fair banoe of a vessel drawing 27i feet ef water passing down the St. Lawrence from Mon- treal to Quebec before the close of naviga• Len this autumn. A Jersey bull which a boy was leading oto a stable at Richmond, P, Q., became 0 batinate and refused to move, whereupon he lad very unwisely solzed hold of the ing in the buss's noes with his hand, The nimal resented this insult by flinging him e several times around the stable. He for- nnately escaped with alight injuries. A fire occurred in Robert MoAbe's house, near Eganavhle, while the occupants were in bed. Mr. MoAbe got outside and put a lad - d er up to the bedroom window, egress to the nor being ant off by the flames. When he ecended the ladder it broke, consequently t be children, mother, and grandmother had o leap, one at a time, into hie arms. The two letter were badly shaken up. George Ke-ae•ka•wa•eie recently hired a e addle -horse from M. McCauley, of Edmon- on. At St. Albert he sold the horse to an- ther party. He stele the animal bank, came t o town, and paid McCauley a part of the hire, and leased him ter another term, The I ndian and the horse have both disappeared. he Indian has made the horse go a long ay in more eeneea than one. The Golden Lion property, situated on the usineea part of Main street, Winnipeg, was old a couple of days. ago to Mr. John Rob- ertson, ef Vankleek Hill, Ont,, who already f s an owner of Winnipeg property to the ex- ent of $200,000. Tbo property, which has frontage of 28 feet, was mold for $800 a foot, 1 ncluding the building, which is worth about $8,000. The prtoe le deemed a very good one y leoal dealers. Two years ago Charles, fifth sen of Mr. R ntherford, now Mayor of Owen Sound, die- ooated the bones of hie left wrist. The bones were set, but it was net then known that t he ligature which blade the bones was rup- nred, and the dtsoovery was made only when it w too late to restore to the boy he use of h nd. The thought that his hand would be seleea all his life gave him B teat distress, and was the cause ef a ner- ons dieeaee of which he died a few days a 0 gThe people of River Philip. N. S., were hrown into a state of excitement on the Cher evening by the report that three small hildren, aged respectively 10, 5, and 2t years, were 1 gat in the woods, As soon me P ass(bie about one hundred men were dearth - Ing the woods in all directions until one 'clock the next morning, when the moon ent down and further search until daylight as useless. In the meantime a men/longer despatched to Oxford for more men, nd Hugh McLellan threw open his house nd by the help of other friends the hungry men were fed. About daylight fully two hundred men were again en the alert, and the wood was searched In every direction for about two hours, when the rain began to f all in torrents and every one was getting teoouraged, but after an hour er two mere earth the little girl, aged• 10, appeared arrying the baby on her back. She says t hat after they fend they couldn't get ome she took off her flannel shirt and wrap- ped the younger children up in it, and -they leptuntil daylight, when, no doubt guided b y.the noise, she was able to find her way home. They do, not seem to be any the worse f or their night's rest in open air. Two of he children were eon and daughter of Fred- rick Oxley ; and the ether a daughter of A Hodgson. The Dark Continent Again. It Is difficult for ne Canadians who stay at home and lead rather humdrum lives to re• Mize the mighty changes which are taking plane In other lands, Here is Africa, for Instance. which is being attacked by civil- izing influences from every quarter. The English are hard at work in North•eaatern and Southern Africa, the Frenoh in North Africa, while theGermans ermane g and Porta nese are penetrating that continent from the east and west coasts, The Portuguese Govern- ment is building a railroad from Loanda, on the wont comet, to Ambaoa, two hundred and twenty-three miles inland, Another road .1s soon to be constructed to Congo land, In the meanwhile white travellers, prfnoipally Germans, are making themselves at home in all parts ef the interior, They are welcomed everywhere, and oddly enough their chief embarrassment is the desire ot the African princesses to marry them. Ono Serpa Pinto had to fly in the night from an Ambueila princesu who offered him' the al- ternative of marriage or death. Herr Binh': tier had the utmost diffioulty in deolintng a marital aniana° with the slater of Manta Yano, who offered broad aored and herds of cattle 0 he would only be her 'moan. Herr Hopfner has been adopted into an African tribe) as the king'. eon, John Dunne, a Sootohman, is the most Important chief of the thirteen in Zululand, and there are scored of other whito men who are becoming all powerful in the interior of Africa. The next century will dee a great change in the status ef the Dark Continent, The ladies of Copenhagen have founded a new soolety for r p "Im rovement and Pro- grees, Seven tramps were recently taken foroi& bly from the jail at Salida, Col., by mem- bers of the Citizene' League, flogged, and then met free. , HE,A,IjTB. Heaclaolle u i .11 tel fief, N. J, Bystrsfl' has'ohopl exaChimined. seven thousand` four hundred and seventy-eight boy! and girls In the St. Petersburg eohoole, during the last five years, and found head• apbe in eighe Hundred and sixty, eights ; that le, 11 6 per oent. Ha states that the per. tentage of headache Increases almost in a direct progreselon with the age of children, as well as with the number of boure;°coupied by them for mental labor; thus, while head., ache occurred In only fire per cent. of the ohlldron aged eight,;it attacked from twenty eight to forty per cent, of the pupils aged from fourteen to eighteen, The author ar guea that an essential cause of obstinate headache in school children la the exoeseive, Meatal strain er-forced by the preeent edn oaticnal programme, wbioh leaves out of eoneideretion the peonliaritiea of the child's nature and the elementary pr(noiples of eofentifio hygiene, The overstrain brings about an increased irritability of the brain, and oonueoutive'disturbanoes in the cerebral circulation, Professor Bystreff emphatical- ly insists en the imperative neoeaeity for permanently admitting medical men to oen- forenoon of 'school -boards. Of palliative measures, he mentions methodioal gymaas• tins, mild cperlents in weli•nonriahed child - ran, steel in the artemio, bromides, inhala- tion of oxygen, and, in severe cases, a tem- porary'discentinuanoe of all studies, Advice to Mothers and Fathers. 1 would advise mothers to study the laws of their own being, read books upon the sub- jeot of infants and how to take rare of them (there are many excellent works published upon this subject), auk the advice of your physician instead of your neighbors, and take proper Dare of yourselves ; instruct your daughters when they arrive at a pre per age and impress upon thelr minds what responsibilities they assume when marrying, Not alone do we need to advise mothers but fathers also, Your life and conduct have ae mach to do with heredity as a woman's, even more so, for if you think yon oan pet silt in drinking, ill-treating your wife and dtaebe)ing all physical and moral laws yon need never expeot to be proud of your sons and daughters. Your eine in the part will often produce a living witness to testify against you here and hereafter. This is so much to be said en the subject, but I feel that if what I have maid will benefit and console just one dear, loving mother's heart, I will be content. Hygienic Bill' of Faze. 1. Bread end milk with fruit. 2. Bread and whipped eggs ; honey. 3. Bcead and boiled eggs; apples (Ro- man.) 4. Bread and butter; rice -pudding with sugar and milk. 5. Cern bread and batter; roasted cheat - nuts ; honey, grain (or "sloan), 6. Oat -meal porridge and milk; fish, bread and butter (Danish). 7. Poached sgge ; panoakes with honey or syrup ; bread pudding ; hot milk. 8. Vegetable soup ; baked beans ; pota- toes and butter, biscuits and apple dump - lingo. HE DEFIED THE DEITY. A Story ora Boastful rbeeician's Bumillas tion and Bereavement. A gentleman reading in Middletown, who was visiting in Sullivan county last week, was attracted by eight headstones in a little grass -grown cemetery, near falls - burgh, all of which stood in a row and were exactly alike. He got out of his wagon to look at them, and found that they were all children of a well-known physician, and that all were grown when stricken down, and that the dates on the headstones show- ed that the first one died Nov, 23, 1861, and the ether seven between that date and Deo. 15 following, er that the entire family of eight children had died within eight weeks. When speaking of the matter to friends that day, he was told - the hietory of the ease, which is regarded in that neighbor - hoed as a visitation of Providence in punish- ment for defiance of the Deity. The story as told is that in 1861 there was a scourge of diphtheria in that neigh- borhood, and the phys(oian was kept busy treating patients Outfoxing from that di- sease. He was very successful, and gained euoh oonfidenoe In his skill that he began to boast that he could cure any case, and went eo far that he "defied God Almighty to produce a case of diphtheria he could not cure." In less than a week hie youngest child was seized with the disease, and although he exercised his skill to the utmost, having not only professional pride but a father's love to urge him to do hie beet, his boy grew worse and died, One after ;another his children sickened and died, until all were gone and laid side by side in the little graveyard near Falisburgh. Bat one child was left, a married daughter, but in a few weeks see, too, was stricken down and be- oame a victim to the dread digests°. The Editor Receives a call. A ohronio loafer, who thinks he has a right to bother people and render them as idle as himself, walked into the effioe re- cently. He wanted to see the editor. He eaw the editor. "Nine day," said the visitor, "Pretty warm," replied the editor. " Warm enough for you 7" said the viai- ter. A look of disgust on the face of the edi- tor. " Sowareyon gettin' along t,. said the visitor.: " Very well, thank yon," bald the editor, Pause. " Graeae 11,11 rain 'fore night," said the vleiter. " Probably," said the editor, Full stop. "How's all the folks ?"asked the vleitor. "Well, thank you," replied the editor. " Another pause. " Hotter'n 'twas yesterday, I believe," aaid the visitor. "Verylikely," said the editor, " Need'sood shower now to coal the air," said the visitor. "Y.e.e," said the editor. Two paws, " What'd new?" asked the visitor t "Nothing special," replied the editor, A very long pause. "Believe it a gottin' 000ler, by thunder," said the visitor, " Shouldn't wonder," replied the editor, "1'11 bohangedif 1 don't believe I'd freeze to death if I stayed here mach longer," aaid the visitor. "Quite likely," replied the editor. And then the visitor 000ly vamoosed and the editor, "hot in the collar," resumed his pencil. The new name for the man who throws a banana peel on the sidewalk s Benanarah > ��1 EYTHE WHOLESALE.. A Roman ,A cowed of poisesiing at Least Eleven r arsons. Mrs. Sarah T, Robinson, a widow. 48 years of age, ,has been arrested In West Somerville, Mast., on a °barge of attempt. fug to murder hereon, William J. Ibobinson, by administering poison, and her alleged ao- aumplioe, Thomas R Smith, were arratnged In the police court in that place, Mrs. lirobtneon came into court trembling, and appeared very much shaken and chattered he mind and body, To the oeniplalnt, which charged them :with "mingling polten with medioine with intent to kill one William J, Robinson," both pleaded not guilty, Judge Story deolded to oontinue the eaeev until the "18th Inst.. and held Mrs, Robinson in $25,000 and Mr, Smith in $3,500 bail. As yet obey have net procured bondsmen. In the mean time it was learned that the boy had died, and the oharge of wilful murder thewoman. The will now be made against alleged aocemplloe, Thomas R, Smith, ,a married man, 48 yearn of age, who has a home in Hyde Park, was oleo arrested, se be was about to enter the widow's house in West Somerville. He has been a mutant visitor there, and ie euspeobed of having maintained illicit relabione with the widow. The arreste were made after a chemical an- alysis by a Harvard professor had shown traces of arsenic in matter from the stemaoh of the widow's son, who was then LYING AT THE POINT OF DEATH at her house In Ye eet Somerville• The dy- ing boy asserted that his mother and Smith had both given him poison in hie food. An examination of the food given to the bey' showed conclusively that pawn was ad. mistered. £he case has oreeted a feeling of horror among those conversant with the facts, and the deeper the investigation the more ter- rible the case appeared. It is said that the polies have Information of the suspicion death of at least eleven persons. The last victim was the sen et Mre Rob- inson, who died the other morning in ter. rible agony,his physicians say of arsenical poisoning. This was the third death this year in the house. In March lass her oldest daughter, Elizabeth, 24 years old, was etrioken down with a peculiar malady which Wiled the skill of her physicians. After a short illnese,ehe, like the rest, passed away. Hardly three months elapsed when Thomas A. Freeman, a child of whom Mre. Robinson wasguardtan, fella prey to ilium and death speedily ensued. The twe last deaths following eaoh other so soon, and being apparently similar in their symptoms, ceased no little comment, but were regarded as peculiar rather than in a suspicious light. The taking down of William a few days ago with juet such an attack as the others had, seemed to demand an examination, The physician, Dr. White, procured a quantity of the contents of the young man's stomach and sent it to Pref. Woad of Harvard Medical College, who made an analysts, which chewed large quan- tities of arsenic. Dr. White immediately informed the police, who arrested Mrs, Robinson and Thomas R. Smith, The inveetfgation of the police has but just begun. They find that Mre, Robinson, who is apparently a cultured woman, origin- ally righrally Dame from Chelsea, but for about four years previous to her coming to Somerville resided In various neighborhoods in Cam- bridge. The first known about her was when living on Brookline street in the latter city, It was there that her husband, who was a carpenter by trade, DIED YSRYSUDDENLY four years ago. He was taken ill en fourth of July tight with cramps and abdominal pains, which resulted fatally in a few hours, His death was attributed to drinking ice water when overheated. Mrs. Robinson next moved to Hewes street, where the second sudden death in her family occurred,_ the viotim being a ten -year-old daughter. The circumstances of that death were re- garded as very peonliar at the time. After a short resldence at the laet•named place she moved to De Wolf street. While living there her sister died in South Boston, where- upen the latter's hneband, a Mr. Freeman, and his two small children want to live with Mre, Robinson. The infant child died soon af- terward, Mrs. Robinson soon after moved to 54 Boylston street, where Mr. Freeman was taken soddenly 111 and died, the suddenness of his death again ettraoting attention and suspicion. In connection with the death of Mr, Free- man, and, atilt later, of hie son Thomas, are oircnmatanoes which the police interpret as shedding a little light on affairs. Mr. Free- man was a member of a secret society known as the United Order of Pilgram Fathers in which his life was insured for $2,000. The money was made payable to his wife in ease of his death, but Ms wife dying before him, the money was made payable to Mrs. Robin sen, with the understanding that it was to, be devoted to the support and education of his son. The death of the son placed the money unrestricted in Mre, Robinson's hands. Then the daughter of Mrs. Robinson, who died in.Maroh, also had her life insured in the same society for $2,000 which` was made payable to the son- William, who has just died. He in turn was insured for $2,000 for the benefit of his mother, se that the later will receive the INSURANCE ON HIB LIFE and what has notebeen !pent of the sum re- ceived on the daughter's. Mrs.' Robinson's husband was insured for $2,000 in the New England Mutual Relief Aeaoolabion, The payment of the polioy was contested on the ground that the agent who reoeived tho premiums embezzled the money, and the ease le atilt pending before the Supreme Court. The police bay, without giving details, that they have learned of eleven sudden deaths In Mrs. Robinson's household within the past four years. It has never hapjiened that the same physiolan has been called twice. The man Smith, charged with being an accomplice, has been a frequent visitor to Mre. Robinson's house. He says he is an old friend of the family. It to said he is a social member of the same Pilgrim Fathers' dooLetythat Mre, Robinson and her children belong, but is not entitled to the beneficiary advantages. He is 58 years old and a re - spaded citizen of Hyde Park, where ho is the superintendent of aSunday school,` An autopsy on the body of William Rob- inson and that'of the Freeman boy showed the presence of arsenic in such quantities that a careful analysla was not necessary to demonstrate ltd presence, He Died Punning, A stranger lettering about a mill the other day was caught by a belt and drawn into the machinery, Re wall taken out in a dy- ing oondltton; but smiled faintly" as he re- marked to hid retailers "1 ate that yov are determined that I shall no longer remain Inaog," He was a professional hamoriet. Yea, my child, Weddingeday was put fm - mediately after Choosoday on purpose. The "British Flag. We are all farnil sty with the white, blue and bed insigne, and with the Wen i Jack which occupies the upper quarter nearest the flagetafif.The white ensign has the red arose ot Bt. George in addition to the Union Jack. Without the Jack this white ensign with a red crone represents our old national flag as it existed from the time of Riohard I. until the death of Elizabeth. This red cross flsg, the ban- ner of St. George, appears to have been chosen by the Soldier King in honor of the saint who was the patron of eoldlers. It remained for more than 400 years the flag under which the English warrior fought on land and on 000. When James VI. of Scotland succeeded Elizabeth the Scotch had a national flag. That also was a cross, but it was shaped differently from that of Sb. George, and was known as the oroes of St. Andrew. The ground of the Scotch flag was blue, and its cross was white. To mark the anion of the two kingdoms under one sovereign thenation- al banner underwent a change, although Scotland still retained its separate Perlia- ment. In the new flag the two banners of Sootland and England were united. There appeared in it the oblique white oross of Ste Andrew on a bine ground, and Oh red cross of St. George ona white margin, worked in the blue field. The. King was accustomed to sign his name in the French form of James, "Jacques." He was in fact the Union Jacques, or, as we improperly pronounce it, Lek. For local purposes the Scotch still °outln- red to use the white St. Andrew's crow on the bine field, and the English the red cross on bhe white field. It was stated by Royal Proclamation in - 1605 that "whereas some difference bath arisen be- tween our subjects of South and North Britian, traveling by seas, about the bear- ing of their flags for the avoiding of all enoh contentions hereafter, we have, with the advice of our council, ordered that from henceforth all our enbjects of this Isle and Kingdom of Great Brittau, and the members thereof, shall bear in their maintop the Red Cross, commonly called St. George's Cross, and the White Cross commonly called Sb. Andrews Cross, joined together," " and in their foretop our subjects of South Britian shall wear She Red Cross only, as they were wont ; and our subjects of North Britian in their- foretop heirforetop the white cross only, as they were accustomed." In 1707,'when the Scotch, andEnglish Legislatures were united;, the distinctive flags ceased to be used, and the united flags as arranged in 1606 became the single ensign for the United Kingdom. It was the soveiregn that made the union and established the na- tional flag, and an eatabllahment of dis- tinct legislatures again would not alter the flag. Ireland would take presumably for Ito local ensign the Red Croce of St. Patrick. The Irish banner ought tolhave appeared In the Union flag of 1606, but it did not. Ireland had no distinct recog- nition in the Union flag until 1801, when the Irish and British Legislatures were united. At that date the Union Jack underwent a further change. and the red diagonal cross of St. Patrick was intro - ducal. Since that date the Union Jack has shown the red cross and white mar- gin, recalling the banner of Sb. George ; the white diagonal and blue field of St. Andriw's banner ; and the red diagonal crone of St. Patrick, showing over the white diagonal cross of the Scotch banner. The blue ground of the Jack is therefore nue to Scotland, and the red and white as crosses and margins to England and to Ireland. BDIENTIFIC AND USEFUL. A lamp standing for some time In a cool room, and then filled full ef cold ell, will run over through the expanse of the oil when taken to where it is warm. Then the lamp may be blamed for leaking, To ob- viate this, never fill the lamp quite full, Myopia le said, on good evidence, to be Increasing with great rapidity in Europe, Daring the past fifteen years the proportion of the near-sighted students In the Poly- technlo school of France has raised from thirty to fifty per cent., and eighty per oast. of the students have to wear glasses. Dr. Riley, in his last entomologioal re- port, deem net take a very hopeful view of the immediate prospects of Bilk-oultnre in the United States. In his opinion it re- quires a temporary stimulus, and he would auggost a duty en reeled silk Imported from foreign countries. Handsome pillow shams oan be made by using eight mediumoezed, hem -stitched handkerchiefs, four for each sham. Trim them by Inserting either lane or fine em- brodiery se teat the insertion forms a cross in the middle. Edge with lace or embroidery and make up ever bright colored cambric. As a' rale, phosphorized cod liver ell is welt borne by " rickety " children, and it renders them great service, Tho appetite and general health' improve rapid- ly. A grain of phosphorus may be Manly - ed In five ounces of good ced liver oil, of which a teaspoonful may be given three times a day. Carlyle wrote of women aa -physicians: "Their form of intellect, their sympathy, their wonderful acuteness ef observation, eto., seem to indicate in, them peculiar qualities for dealingwith disease ; and evl- ently In aoertain dpartment (that of female diseases-) they have quite peculiar epportun (tied of being useful. He Could Catch. Baso ball captain—" Yon say that you (latch?" Tramp—" Yls, eorr," B, B. Capt.—" Yen don't leek like It, What kind of a catcher are you t' Tramp—el Rat-catcher, yer honor," Again the sea serpent, and this time in fresh water, in Sandy Lake, near Min- neapolis. (?ria Engsteln was eibting on the shore of the Ieke with his gun, waiting for a chance shot at a water fowl, when a violent agitation ot .the water not 160 feet from him brought him to his feet., In an instant a huge scaly head was lifted from the surface. Two horns pointing forward and an immense month adorned it. It was about as large as a beer keg' Mr. Engsbein says that almost mechani- cally he lifted his gun and fired, The bullet dbruok the:beast squarely intthe forehead, and as it glanced upward the sten glittered upon it, showing that it had been scraped down about one-half as neatly as if done with a file. The animal, doubtless astonished at the greeting, 'dank below be surface.