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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1887-4-28, Page 6• BY nr 'hp THE LEAGUE GENERAL NEWS., ORDER 1BL ! piRollOgIMIIEng AwNAf'dol---"runenced. on March )5t1 • 1 in •Lethbridge and MeLeed districts It is re orted that there is a Bus' Mau' !N. W, CHARTER IL Witimat the city wane, hiddeo by the umbrelle pities, and back from hose eeclud- ed waun iks wheve young Rome takee its pleesure, stood the Villa Selvarino, almost tinder the shade of the walls, and hard by the gate of Sala Panerazio. In the more prooperotte deys of the h'ternel City, it might here both, 'and iodeed ayes, the red - deuce of some great Roman family ; but aristocracies decline and families pase way ; and the hanglaty ownere were by no means averee from making a few English pounds by lettiog it to any traveller who had the inclinetion or the meane to spend. a few months there. The present tenant at this bright Eeeter-timer Sir Geofh.ey Oherteris, of Grosvenor Sete:Ire, London, W,, and Havereharn Park, in the county of Dorset, Bami ret, Deputy-lieuteuant, and Justice of the Peace, was a man of long descent. The pale azure fluid in his veins was not tha blood of us poor mortals; his lifiegiving stream had been trausmitted through suc- ceeding generations from a long line of gal- lant warriors and gentle denies ; frotn fear- less ancestors who followed their sovereign at the call to arms, marched with Richard of the Lion -heart to tha Holy Sepulchre, and maybe crossed swords with the doughty Saladin himself. The title, conferred upon a Charteris by the Black Prince in person after the glorious field of Crecy, had known no tarnish as it passed down the long line f ,great and goed. men, soldiers, statesmen, • ad divines to the present worthy represen votive of all these honors. Not that he had greatly distinguished 'himself in any field, save as an Under-secretary in a short-lived inglorious Ministry, where he had made a lasting name as the most incompetent in- dividual ever appointed to office, though he adated every subsequent event and prefixed every after-dinner story by an allusion to the time when he was in the Earl of Mud clleton's Ministry. The reception rooms of the villa were orowded when our friends arrived. It was a kind of informal after-dinner reception, attended ,by most of the English visitors lingering after the Carnival, with some sprinkling of the resident aristocracy ; for Sir Geoffrey liked to gather people round him, birth and genius being equally wel- come. Sir Geoffrey looked every inch an English gentleman, standing there among his guests. He was apparently about fifty years of age, tall and straight, thorough- bred from his stiff gray hair to the small shapely feet, as yet untroubled by the fami- ly gout. His eyes were pale blue, and somewhat weak; his face, clear-cut and re- fined, with an aquiline nose and a highlwhite forehead, but the whole marrecl by a mouth weak and nervous to the last degree. A connoisseur of art, a dabbler in literature, and last, but not least, a firin believer in spiritualism. Enid Charteris, his only daughter and heiress, a girl about eighteen, must be tak- en for granted. Imagine in your dreams of fair women what a golden -bronzed -haired girl should be, and you have Enid, with all her charms of manner and person, with that perfect expression without which the most classic features are cold. She smiled bright- ly as the new corners entered. It is not giv- en to every one to be able to disguise their likings and antipathies, and it did not need a practised eye to see her cold greeting for Le Gautier, and the instantaneous glance for Maxwell. "I really began to think you were going to fail me," she said: "and -this is the last of our receptions too. I shall always have pleasant recollection of my visit to Rome." " We have been dining with Maxwell, Miss Charteris," Visci explained. Could' we forget you, if we tried 1 And now, be- fore you are so engaged that you can have no word for poor me, I want to ask you a favour. We are going to my country retreat on Fridey, and my sister Genevieve is dying to see you. Do persuade Sir Geoffrey to come." "Here he is to answer for himself," she replied, as the baronet sauntered up to the group.—" Papa, you must promise to take me to see Signer Visci's country -house on Friday. Do you hear ?" "Anything you say is law, my dear," Sir Geoffrey answered with comic resigna- tion. "Anything you desire.—Le Gautier, I wish to speak to you, he whispered quiet- ly ; "come to me presentlys—Salvarini, you hear? I thought you had forsworn gaieties of all descriptions. Glad to see you are thinking better of your misanthropy." Le Gautier turnett off with the baronet somewhat impatiently, leaving the rest together. Salvarini, looking on somewhat thoughtfully, almost fancied there was a look of relief in Enid's face as the French- man left ; certainly, she was less constrained. "We shall look forward to Friday with great pleasure, then, signor Visci," shesaid. "I have heard you speak so much of the Villa Mattio, that I am expecting to see a perfect paradise." "With two Eves," Maxwell whispered in English. Visci was not a man to misunder- stand the meaning of true company, so, with a bow and a little complimentary speech, he turned aside, taking Salvarini by the arm, and plunged into the glittering crowd. "1 do not understand the meaning there," Salvarini remarked as they walked through the rooms. "If Maxwell means"— "Orange blossoms," Visci interrupted la- conically; "and right, too.—Let us get into the music -room. Le Fanu is going to play." Marvell remained by Enid's side, toying with her fan and discoursing in their native language in, a low voice. From the expree, sion in his face and the earnest ring in his voice there was no doubting the power of attraction that chained him there. "When do yon leave Rome, Miss Charter- is ?" he asked, ebrhptly changing the con- versation. "This is your last reception, I know." "We shall leave in the middle of next week for certain. I shall be very sorry for some reasons, for I have been happy here." , "Isbell probably return with you," Max - 11 observed.h deferred m 1 parture too long already. It would. be pless, ant to leave together"ai "After learningeverything that Rome could teach you," Bold pit in archly. ' Then„the Eternal City has no more artis- tic knowledge to impart?" Yes ' • I have learned some lessont here," Maxwellreplied with a tender inflection, " besides artistic ones. I have been learn- ing one lately that I am miter likely to for. get. Am I presumptuous, Miss Enid ?" "Really, Mr. Maxwell, you. are too mys- , teriorts. If I could, understand you"— "1 think yeti do understemd me; I fer- vently hope yotz do," For a momeot, it little wild -roe bloom trembled and flushed. on the girl'e ditch, then she looked down, played with her fan nervously, No reason to say she did not mi- derstand now. Maxwell did not /allow up his advantage; sone inetinct warned him not '• and adroitly thaiming the conver- eetion, he told her of his life in Rome, each. paeeiug Moment linking his °liable the 6rin- er, Gradually, as they set talking, a group of moo gathered, round, breeltine in upon I their tete-a-tete, laughing end talking 'after the most approved drawing -room fashion, In a dietaut corner, Sir Geoffeey had but- ton -holed Le Gautier, and was apparently deep in conversation Q1•1 Seale ell-abeotdiog eubteet. The Frenolutian was a good listen- er, with that rare faulty of hearing all that WM worthy of note and eutirely ignoring tl uperfluous. He was not a man to talk much of himself, and consequently heard. a , great deal of family history ; details and Ms formation that astute youug mau had found valuable on oceasions. He was interested now, Maxwell thought, as he idly speculated upon kW Moe, "Yes," Sir Geoffrey was saying, "I am firmly impressed with that belief." He had got upon ins favorite topio, and was talking with great volubility, "There are certain gifted beton who mu 'ets.11 spirits from the vasty deep, and, what is more, the spirits will come. My dear sir, they have been manifested to me." "1 should not wonder," Le Gautier re- plied, stifling a yawn in. its birth. I think you are quite right. I am what people call a mediuin myself, and have assisted at many a Settles." "Of course you believe the same as I. Let =believers scoff if they will, I shall always believe the evidence of my eyes." course, e au ier returne 130 Ita- ly, his thoughts wandering feebly in the di- rection of nightmare, and looking round for some means of escape. "1 have seen ghosts myself, or thought I have." "It is no imagination Le Gautier," Sir Geoffrey continued, with all the prosy ear- nestoess of a man with a hobby. "The strangest coincidence happened to me. My late brother, Sir Ughtred, who has been dead nearly twenty years, manifested him- self to me the other night. Surely that implies some coming evil, or some duty I have neglected ?" "Perhaps he charged you with some com- mission," Le Gautier observed, and pricking up his ears for any scrap of useful informa- tion. "Not that I remember; indeed, I did not see him foe years before he died. He was an eccentric man and an extreme politician —in fact he got ilitro serious trouble with the authorities, and. might even have been ar- rested, had. he not removed himself to New York." "New York ?" queried Le Gautier, wondering vaeuely where he had heard of this Ughtred Charteris before. "Was he connected with any secret society—any Socialist conspiracy ?" "Do you know, I really fancy he was," Sir Geoffrey whispered mysteriously. "There were certainly some curious things in his effects which were sent to me. I can show you some now, if you would like to see them." Le Gautier expressed his willingness; and the baronet led the way into a small room at the back of the house, half library, half studio. In one corner was an old ebony cabinet; and opening the front, he display- ed a multitude of curiosities such as a man will gather together in the course of years. In one little drawer was a case of coins. Le Gautier turned them over carelessly one by one, till, suddenly starting, he eagerly lifted one and held it to the light. "Where did you get this ?" he asked abruptly. ' Sir Geoffrey took it in his hand. It was a gold coin, a little larger than an ordinary sovereign, and bearing on the reverse side a curious device. "That came with the rest of my brother's curiosities.—But why do you ask? You look as if the coin had burnt you." For a moment, Le Gautier had started back his pale face aglow with suppressed excitement ; but as he noticed. the baronet's wondering eyes upon him, he recovered him- self by a violent effort "It is nothing'— with a smile. "It is only the coincidence which startled me for a moment. If you will. look here, you will see that I wear a similar coin upon my watch -chain." Sir Geoffrey looked down and, surely enough, on the end of Le Gan'tier's pendant was the Mc simile of the medal he held in his hand. "Bless me, what an extraordinary thing !" the startled baronet exclaimed. "So it is 1 Perhaps you do not mind telling me where you procured yours ?" "It was given to me," Le Gautier replied, with an enigmatit smile. "It could not help you, if I told you.—Sir Geoffrey, may I ask you to lend me this coin for a short while? I will tell you some time what I want it for." " Some other time, perhaps,"—Le Gautier threw the coin into its place.—" You see, I regard it as a valuable curiosity and relic, or perhaps 1 might part with it. You will pardon me.—But I forgot all all about our spiritualistic discourse. As you are a medi- um, I will ask you"— " At some future time, with all the plea- sure in life," Le Gautier interrupted hastily. "Meanwhile, it is getting late—past eleven now." As they walked back to the salon, the Frenchman was busy with his thoughts. "What a lucky find 1" he muttered. "It is the missing insignia, sure enough, and the ill-fated Ughtred Charteris is mine host's brother. I wonder what I can make out of , this? There ought to be something in it, with a feeble-minded man who believes in spiritualism, if my hand has not lost its cun- ning. Nous verrons.' He showed nothing of his thoughts, how- ever, as he parted from Enid with a smile and neatly turned compliment. It was get- ting late now; the streets were empty as the friends turned homeward, Salvarini bidding the others good -night and turning off M the direction of his apartments. "You had better change your mind, arid come with us on Friday, Hector," Vim urg- ed Le Gautier. "The baronet and his daughter are to be of the party. Throw work to the degs for the day, and come." My dear Carlo, the thing is impossible. Do you think I should be chained here this lovely weather, if stern necessity did not compel? If possibly I can get over later in the day, I will not fail you." "1 am very sorry," Visei replied regret- fully, "because this is the lath time, in all girobability, our friends will meet together for some time." "1 am sorry too, Carlo, but I cannot help it ,Good -night." Le Gautier watched his friend along the moonlit street, a mile upon his face not pleasant to see. "Ah. yes,' he murmured is quite impostible, Genevieve is a good little gial, but good little girls are apt to cloy. It id' getting daamerous, If Visci should find out, it would be a ease of tsvelve pones and hair -triggers ; and I cannot sacra fioe myself yet—not even for Geneeieve.' , $1 !vessel off Youghal, County Corlt, waiting t , laud a eargo of dynamite. 1 T1Ppoo Tib, appointed*Governor of Stan loY 14118 bY Mr, flenry M. Staoley, ie to re oeiye it salary of $1,800 a year. 1 Fifteen to, twenty miles of snowshede wil be built by the Ottuadiau Peciho railwety this snootier iu the vieinity of Donald, B. U . Measures for the development of the blaok cod fisheries a British Columbia ar , eapected to be adopted by the Governmen this summer, Pirates are roaming about Tonquin in powerful bands committing all kinds of out rages, and the French troops are too weak 1 to cope with them. With a view to protecting the fisheries of the province the Menitoba Fish and Game Protection Society Is trying to get the ex- port of fish prohibited. Two Mounted Poliaemen at McLeod man- ed Johnston and Toomey, who got intoxi- 'cated and resisted arrese, have been ;swami - I oed to twelve months' hard labor. I It is reported that Lood Balfour of Bur- leigh and Lord Dunraven are drafting a 'scheme for Ireland, whieh will he submitted ' to the next session of Parliament, 1 Unfounded reports are circulated at Pesh- awur to the effect that the Amen of Afghan- istan is dead, that Kelat has fallen and that Cabul and Candahar are in danger. .11 is expected that the affeirs of the insol- vent Exchange Bank, of Montreal, which have been in liquidation for three years and a half, will soon be finally wound up. I M. Barthelmy Saint Hilaire has published a work on British India, in which he advo- cates the formation of a league in Western Europe to cheek the advance of the Slav - empire. The plans and preparations for the new station of the Canadian Paoific railway in the west end of Montreal are completed, and contracts will be let and work commenced forthwith. , It, is reported that negotiations for the transfer by the Michigan Central railway of the entire Canada Southern line to the Can- adian Pacific are in progress, and are likely , to be soon completed. 1 it appears now that Major-General Krock, !Russian commander at Warsaw, who was 'said to have been murdered, committed I suicide on learning that his son had been ar- rested on suspicion of being implicate& in the recent attempt to assassinate the Czar. IJoseph Racine, the alleged counterfeiter, who escaped from a Montreal detective re- cently, has written from Paris to the Mont- real Chief of Police offering to come back land turn Queen's evidence if guaranteed im- munity from prosecution. I Lieut. -Governor Masson of Quebec, con- tinues to suffer so greatly Loin ill -health as I to seriously interfere with his performance of public functions. It is reported that he would have resigned some time ago but for the pressing solicitations of Mr. Mercier. IIt is rumoured that Mr. Ross, ex -Premier I of Quebec, and Mr. Cornwall, ex -Lieuten- ant -Governor of British Columbia, will be • appointed to the Senate to fill the vacancies caused by the death of Mr. Chapels and the appointment of Mr. Nelson to succeed Mr. Cornwall in British Columbia. The contract for the masonry work of the Canadian Pacific railway bridge at Sault Ste. Marie has been awarded, and the work is to be completed by November 15th. The contract price is $260,000, which, with the ironwork, will bring the total cost of the bridge up to $400,000. I The London Times, commenting on the appeal of the members of the Newfoundland Legislature for compensation for losses sus- tained by the disallowance of the Bait bill, says the suffering complained of is real and serious and might have been already remov- ed but for the dilatoriness of the Colonial Office. Recently a cow belonging to Mr. Richard iCoad, of South Ekfrid, gave birth to a double -headed cab– The heads were per- fect in shape and size, and each had a separ- ate neck which united at the shoulders. :There was also two backbongs, which united , in the centre of the back. At birth the calf weighed 103 pounds. Mr. Cormier, M. PP. for Ottawa County, recently received an intimation that the wife of one of his constituents, Mrs. Luke C. Ryan, of Stagsburn, on the Gatineau river, had given 'birth to triplets, and as it is understood the Queen's bounty is no long- er extended in connection with such events, Mr. Cormier beaded a subscription and raised $100 for her among the members of the House. Mr. John Sanagan, a veteran of the war of 1812, died at St. Thomas recently, at the advanced age of 94 years and five months. Deceased was born in Montreal in 1792. He enlisted in the Canadian volunteers when the Americans invaded Canada in 1812, and secured his discharge in 1815. He took part in the battle of Fort Detroit and Chrysler's farm in 1814, serving under Col. Salisbury, and was awarded a znedal for his bravery. Cro nCON'TINtran), 406. In the case of trees which beat in alter- nate years, judicious thinning will often ro. suit in considerable fruit ha the off year, Shoot the Tiger. In lately pleadingfor high license and the consequent restriction of the liquor trait' fie, Dr. Howard Crosby, of New York, made use of a very unfortunate figure. He said "If a tiger were loose in the streets of New York, would it not be better to try to confine him to certain, streets rather than have him to roam all over the city ?" A voice from the gallery very naturally and very promptly called out, "Shot the tiger," and the Dr.'s argument and illustra- tion went at once by the board. What man in his senses would ever try to keep a loose tiger within certain streets of a large city? What man in his senses would ever think of thanking God that the tiger did not kill above two or three children a day, and. that only in the poorer parts of the city? Who would ever dream of calling thitt men a public benefactor who would merely drive away loose tigers from Jarvis street and confine them to Lombard or the low-lying regions about the Don ? Adyet this is exactly what some supposedly wise Men, ministers of the Gospel, and preten- t tieus philanthropists, went to do with the liquor traffic. " Shoot the tiger" is the only effectual plan. Still, high license is far better them free trade in liquor. see COMpliCated Anger. Gilhooly—il You say your wife is in a bad tinnier ?" Petinybrinker—" Yee, yon bet she is." What is she mad about?" "In the first plaee, she got mad at the servant girl, then eho got meet at me because I didn't get mad at the servant girl, and now she is mad at herself because she got mad at the servant Firl, nd you underetand ?" 11QUSEH0LD. M11011 is said newadys but. the necessi- ty for exaetnese in giving a recipe, and yet every heusekeeper knows very well that elm cenoot, alwaye follow her own excellent Ana 11 tried reoeipts to the very letter, If she did, her reputation as a firot-elase cook woold be gone forever. The experienced cook kinswii that there is a great differenee in flour, We have made a cake for whioh we have establiehed quite a repotation, widish e,alle for two cups of flour izt the recipe. We make thie when in the oity, nsing the Western, new-proeess flour, and if we use over a 'cup and a hall We spoil our cake, and make it tough end dry, When im the coun- try, using the flour ground at the local mills, it takes the full two cups, and we ofteu shake M a little more before the cake stirs " just right." Again, the eggs to be used. are by oo means of exactly the same weight, although the euccessN1 cake maker will al- ways select eggs of a uniform size for her company cake," If she uses large eggs, her "judgment" will tell her that she needs a little less water or milk for the wetting of her (sake, or a trifle more flour, as she may profer. And if the eggs are small, she mey, if she is sure of herself, put one more in than the printed receipt mile for. As for salt, it is so easily forgotten, it is a good plan to put that in even if the reoeipt calls for none, except you know that the butter is salter than that which you are in the habit of using. There are very few things that are harmed by the addition of salt, and so many are improved that the salt jar should be placed near the stove that it may be al- ways within reach. No rule will tell you the precise moment when your scrambled eggs will turn from golden solidity to whey, nor the exact time• when your cake shall come forth from the oven, moist yet done, warranted not to fall, and all your fond hopes with it. Nothing but your judgment and experience will tell you the correct heat your oven must have for your graham gems, your bread or your pies, and should you make an error, and put your bread into au oven hot enough for suo- easeful gems, or gems into a heat just right for pies, justifiable failure will overtake you. Good judgment is one of the primal quali- fications of a housekeeper, and economy and good living come only in its wake. More "Emergency Dishes. A good dinner from scanty materials is a genuine triumph of mind over matter. There is nothing very inviting in the appearance of a leg of mutton or a shoulder that has been well hacked up on its "first appear- ance." Cold meat is very well for supper, or even for dinner with a good soup prefac- ing it, but as the principal feature of a din- ner, a cheerless dish, around which it seems impossible for a family to be social ar joyous. A very gooddooking and good -tasting din- ner may be made from the remains of the mutton, by cutting the meat that remains upon the bone into small pieces and putting them into a baking dish with some of the gravy which was also left from the previous dinner: lacking the gravy,' take a little hot water, some small pieces of butter, and a dredging of flour, and you have a very good substitute. Cover the meat with a layer of mashed potatoes, and put into the oven and brown nicely. Meat balls, made from any kind of cold meat, mutton, veal or even corned beef, are very good for a change, and present a better appearance than the scraps from which they may be made could possibly do. Chop the meat rather fine, not so fine that it is like paste, but so that there are no large lumps in it. Mix with either potato or bread crumbs, form into flat, round cakes, and brown in a little butter or drippings on top of the stove. The dryness of bread crumbs makes a beaten egg necessary to make the cakes cook without crumbling, but if potato IS used, they will keep their shape very nicely. Use sage or celery salt for seasoning if liked. As a relish for these quickly prepared dinners, nothing may be in readiness sooner, except celery, than "cold slaw." Chop or shave part of a good firm cabbage very tine, and place them without further preparation upon the table, leaving each person at liberty to use what quantity of vinegar, salt, pep- per, sugar or oil te prefers. Original And Tested Recipes. BREADED CHOPS. —Take chops out from the leg of a lamb or mutton, dip in beaten egg, then in cracker or bread crumbs, and fry in butter or drippings. Ate excellent gravy to be eaten with the above, is made by putting a cupful of hot water into the frying -pan after dishing the chops, adding a cupful of stewed tomato and. a small onion, chopped fine; season with salt and pepper, and pour over the chops, or serve m gravy dish, as preferred. TOMATO Sour.—Put a quart of tomatoes on the stove in a porcelain kettle, and when boiling add one teaspoonful of soda, and boil thoroughly. Set the kettle on one side of the stove and add two quarts of milk. Season with salt, pepper and butter, and put two cups of fine cracker crumbs into the tureen, over which the soup is to be poured when ready for the table. This may be prepared in less than ten minutes, and is an excellent addition to a cold -meat dins ner. POTATOES BAKED IN MILL—Take as many potatoes as you are in the habit of preparing for a dinner for your family, pare nd slice as'thin as possible—so thin that you can almost see through the slices. Let them stand covered with oold water for a short time. Then put them into a porcelain or tin baking dish, sprinkling with salt, and pepper as the dish is filled, also placing little ' pieces of butter here and there. When the dish is filled cover with milk, heated while preparing the potatoes, or milk and water, if milk is not plentiful. Put into the oven and bake until the potatoes are ready to fall to pieces; a dish holding two quarts will cook in one and a half hours in a good oven. This is a most delicious way to cook pota- toes, and always a favorite with children. • Miscellaneous. Strong brine may he used to advantage in washing bedsteads. Hot alum water is also good for this purpose. Punt -snout] Porastr.—Eaual parte sweet oil and vinegar and. a 'pint of gum arabin, well powdered; sheke the bottle and apply with a rag, It will inake the furniture look as good asi new. Never set the lamp upon a rod table cov- er; if you cannot find time to make a green, hunponet, put a pioce of green cardboard tioder the lamp, and you will fincl the re- flection upon your work mu& more agree- able to the eyes than that from the red cover. BOW TO PRESERVE MITTEL—First work out all the milk thoroughly, then Salt with Rook Salt, according to taste, .pack itto Air. Tight Jars or Cans, and keep a coolplaee. :By ebeetvingthe above rules you tan keep butter freth few years. Tie a bladder over the jar ot cam Mies Ethel Dickens, granddaugiter of Charles Diekene, lies started a typ.‘writer. office for the copying of parte Paid p'r*pt bookg,.. Sir Henry Tichborne will come of age In May next, end will mateis upon the posses- sion of Ills mucli " claimed " estates, which will pay hien a oet income 9f about $45,000 a year. Gen, Annenkoff, who is building the Rua. sian railroad in, Bokhara, is a men of 55 rims., full of vigor, energy and hope. Be wife is lese than half his age and is a very wealthy German lady. 41 rich Russian amateur, I‘1, Davidoff, has left to the Paris Conservatoire a genuine Stradivarius violin, valued at 20,000 francs, on whish the lanreates of the violin chose shall be allowed to play in the wooed give en at the distributioo of prizes, Gen. Count Kinoda, chief adviser of the Mikado of Japan, was one of those engaged in the insurreotion of the old nobility, and when he found that he was defeated he ao- eepted the situation, and has since eordial- ly co-operated with the Mikado in the in- troduction of our civilization. It may be remarked of Mr. Gladstone and his remarkable old age that he has not for the last forty years smoked his dozen cigars and taken his eight or ten drinks a day. He still has nerve and a coating to his stom- ach. Good nerves and good stomach coat- ing largely makes the great man. Ghee is much used in India in a way similar to our use of butter, suet, or lard for cooking purposes. It is made of boiling fresh milk in earthen pots for an hour, and after it has cooled adding curdled milk, Made pure, it will keep for years fresh, and is highly prized in every class in India. In 1842 the depression of trade and agri- culture in the United Kingdom was even greater than that of the last few years. In that year peuperism end crime reached, not their relative, but their actual maxima, till at last one person in every eleven was a pauper, and one in every five hundred was committed for trial., Sir Henry Hawkins is getting a repute, tion in England as a witty judge. Recent- ly a prisoner pleaded guilty of larceny, and then withdrew the plea and declared him- self to be innocent. The case was tried and the jury acquitted him. Then said Sir Henry Hawkins "Prisoner, a few minutes ago you said you were a thief. Now the jury says you are a liar. Consequently you are discharged." It is stated that the consumption of dis- tilled spirit increases yearly in France in an alarming manner, having doubled itself within forty years, and being to a great ex- tent substituted for wine. The relatively mild drunkenness occasioned by wine has given place to the intoxication produced by distilled liquors containing a higher pro- portion of propylic, butylie, and amylic al- cohols. " Fortified " wines are also render- ed dangerous by the introduction of the higher alcohols. A curious belief of the Chinese is what is called the " Fengehui,"' or the iniauence of wind and water upon the physical and men- tal prosperity of the race. There are regu- lar authorities in this belief, and without consulting them a Chinaman will not build a house or choose a grave. This belief has one great charm, insomuch that everything in a Chinese city is found to harmonise with nature. The houses all face to the south, and wherever the eye rests it meetsyaith a pleasing picture. The fur -seal has been many times con- founded with the hair -seal, Two animals more dissimilar in their individualty and method of living ca,n hardly be imagined, although they belong to the same group and live apparently upon the same food. The hair -seal, white or grey in colour, common on every marine shore, has no generic af- finity with those seals with which it has usually been associated, the fur -seal and the sea -lion. It no more resembles them than does the raccoon a black or grizzly bear. Mahogany is being introduced into every part of India, where it promises to thrive. The seeds sown have germinatedremarkably well, a single pound planted in greenhouses in the southern districts having yielded be- tween three thousand and four thousand plants. It is thought to be quite probable that the world may some day look to India for its mahogany as well as for its quinine. The Eastern product of the latter has already become so extensive and of such superior quality that the cinchona bark exports of the United States of Colombia, are said to have diminished fifty per cent. in five years. In Chunking, the capital of Se -Chuen, China, it is usual to see in the streets, after the shops have been shut, a number of street -preachers, arrayed in full clerical garb, expounding the teachings of Confucius. They are employed by a benevolent society and the custom is prevalent all over China. Another benevolent society devotes itself to collecting waste paper. The Chinese believe that, as writing was given to them from heaven, to devote paper bearing writ- ten or printed characters to vulgar pur- poses is desecration; and so all the paper the society collects is burnt outside the city in enclosures erected for the purpose. • Mr. J. G. Barbour tells the following queer story as to the origin of Athole brose, a peculiar mixture of honey and whiskey., There was once a terrible wild man of the woods who was a great nuisance to the lovely heiress of the honours 9,nd lands of Tullibardine. Accordingly she let it he known that the slayer of this monster should be rewarded with her hand. At the par - denier desire of the lady a handsome young man in humble life entered the lists; and this was how he succeeded. At a certain hour in the day the monster was accustom- ed to resort to a hollow stone in the forest to drink. This hollow stone one day was filled with whiskey and honey. He drank it, and fell and easy prey to the handsome young man, who won the heiress; and ever since the particular mixture in question has been know by the name of Athole brose. She Will Succeed. It is safe to predict that the young woman mentioned below willeuceeed avith anything she may undertake. She is not likely to spend any time in search of "light work," and her example is is refreshing one of .gen- nine pluck and pereeveratice., An Iowa paper says of her: Miss Marcia McDonough its teaching the winter terrn of school it -Union Township, and the walks six and a half miles to and from her school every cley. She has not missed a day this winter and is always on time, Her salary .is thirty dollars per month, and her school is one of the best in the country. Here is an example for a certain clan of young men who "Mar seven days in the Week complaining all the time that they ean find nothing to do because) of "hard IT HAPPENED RIGHT, " Slieuldn't you like to be a heroine 7" asked Adelaide Moss of her consin, Teeny "I don't know," said Teeny, looking up as if she had been startled out of quite another treio of thought. Why, what made you thiok of that ?" "Oh, I don't know; I have always wished to be orie—elwaye longed to do some great thing, or he some great person. Sometimes I think it weuld give the greatest pleasure to be a Splendid singer --like Jenny Lind, for instance. How elle was worshipped 1 How grand it must have been to spring up from obscerity into something even greater t ha111 r ." "believe she cared for the al3- gleam, though," said Teeny. "She wasn't at all that kind of a woman." "And then," continued Adelaide, "there is Ida kfeowri s, stiohWhhaetsPl en r smasdkithethel—ngto being life. And I'm sure I do believe she might marry almost any rieh man she chose, there are so many willing to take her," Why iti that your idea of the ao a of heroism—to enable one to marry af rich man ?" queried Teeny, £\T511, no, not examtly ; though it must be a fine thing to be rich, too," "Then, almost all heroines are made by accident, or rather, their good fortune comes unsought. Ida Lewis never stopped to think whether the world would applaud. I presume no one was more astonished than herself when she saw her name and her brave acts making the sensation they did. . So, dear, if you are ever a heroine perhaps you will be as much astonished as ido, Lewis was." "Ah V' responded Adelaide, with some- thing like a sigh, "it ien't at all likely I shall ever do any brave or beautiful thing, I shall go plodding on baking bread, mend- ing the children's clothes, helping mother, coaxing father when he gets low spiritell and thinks we are all going to the poor- house, merry somebody who can just get me O living, NO as to save the expense of being taken (awe of at home, and so on, for who knows how many years! I'm only 16 now." Adelaide's brother came in just then. "There's a plot under way, girls, to get us over to Silverton Falls to -morrow," he said. "Dr. Jones is going with his sister Hattie, and Brigga says we can have his waggonette and welcome. What do you say?' "It would be just splendid 1" cried Ade- laide. "AU right said John; "then I'll see to things. There will be some five or six couples going besides us. Dr. Jones' ne- phew—he's a great doctor, they say—and the Carrells' cousins. Won't we have a jolly time 1" The morning came—a perfect one. The party took different routes home. John Moss started with old Dr. Jones' buggy in company. "Young Dr. Jones was parcel- ed out to somebody else," the doctor said. He was very proud of his nephew. They were about half way home, singing songs, laughing, andchatting, when, sudden- ly, from one of the cottages, a whimsical- lookine• object started out toward the horses. John's horse, seeing the poor, lly ,scare - m crow brandishing a broostick,i si dre ed in some outlandish manner, took frig t and leaped on one side, upsetting the vehicle be- fore John could control him, and they were all thrown out. Fortunately the vehicle was caught by a tree and held so firmly that the shafts were broken, and the horse made his escape at a run. "Anybody hurt ?" cried the doctor, com- ing up with them, as John had succeeded in lifting Adelaide, who uttered a low cry of pain. The doctor was an old man, almost too old for practice, "but bcrm , good yet " e soe- 4 times said, "for a broken limba• . "Something ails my arm?" said Adelaide with another moan of pain; "sec 1 can't move it." "Broken," said the old doctor senten- tiously. Adelaide grew white at the lips, but con- trolled herself bravely. Her first thought was: "More expense for poor father." "We had better take her into one of the poor cottages here, and I will set it," con- tinued Dr. Jones. "Upon my word I wish my nephew had come back this way." Adelaide was led into one of the poor cottages, her arm was set, and she bore the operation with great fortitude. Then, when the splints were on, she was taken home in the doctor's buggy. For some days Dr. Jones pronounced the arm doing well; then he began to look grave and uncertain, and one day he said to his wife : "I'm going to send to the city for James. There's something amiss with that arm, and I haven't the courage to tell them." So he sent for his nephew, who came, looked at the sweet face of the invalid, re- collected he had seen it before, looked at the arm, then pressed his lips together. The arm must be broken again,if you want the proper use of it. As it is it would be a deformity." Adelaide hid her face. The hot tears scalded her cheek almost. She trembled for a -moment from head to foot. The long, long bill, and her father so poor. At last she found voice. "When should it be done ?" "As soon as pozJsible. I will come to- morrow. You shall have ether. We will spare you all the pain we can." Adelaide looked up in his face, very pale, as she said quietly "Doctor, I won't take ether'but," 'she lifted the arm with difficulty, "don't wait; please break it now. I am not afraid; sha'n't faint. Now, while my courage is He said nothing,but he set his lips togal —a glance of admiration brightened his ace Jar one brief moment—and then—it was kver —and the suffering all to be gone through with again. Nobody knew it till, pale, and exhausted, Adelaide was left, and the doctor detailed his experience to the family down -stairs, John sprang to his feet, and her father burst into tears. "Your daughter is a heroine," said the doetor'admiringly. "I never saw such for- titude in my life." Teeny ran up -stairs, but her courage failed her at the door, and she could only kneel there and weep, and vainly strive for amn- ia:sore. At last, when she went in, Ade, Miele had fallen asleep from sheereXhane. "n. We are happy to say that her father did not have a heavy hill to pay, for young Jones, the celebrated physician, found so much to admire in brave little Adelaide that he would not rest contorted till he carried her off some time after ae his wife. "So you see," said Teeny afterward, "18 happened about right for Addy after all, didn't it? She *Wag a heroineancl she got a greet ancl good man for a husband," s . All men git krecht hero for what they are worth, and ;nanny for more,