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.
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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
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: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
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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
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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
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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.