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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1887-6-9, Page 3entreannelleleinerneeleleretelenneltrereeratienereanteitneenneennel OR A M.p.17....0.f.?:.,!• P4P,' 13 "Z' leT 0 Et T:T G- Tel El Et It was a lovely, Ammer morning, The beautiful trees around the northern out- skirts of the " Queen City" were clad in their lovely robes of emeralcl and the joyful carol of thoumnde ef feathered soeasters filled the air, The happy song of birds resounding through the trees that mornieg wee Accent* panied by the loud, ringing tones'of a nienlY baritone voice trolling forth, "Oh ! to be in Canada—In Canada now." "How good it seerne to be home. After all I think I'll settle down here. .A quiet life best ; but as for taking the mater's a nee and turning Benedict, I certainly a all pot. I an a confirmed old bachelor an likely to remain rio," "In. Canada now I" and the loud, cheery' toners again echoea through the trees, etart- ling the shy, tawny squirrels. Guy Monteith was en t happy mood.that morning. He had returned to Toronto, the home of Ms ancestore, the previous day, after years of wandering in foreign lands. Wealthy, courted, this last lineal descendant of the house of Monteith had reason to be joyous. Ten years ago Rupert Monteith, of the firm of Monteith and Buell annau 'ehe wealth- iest stockbrokers in Canada, died leaving "Monteith fleece" and all his vast,property, situated in and neer Toronto, to his only child, Guy, then just of age, and in England studying hard at Gains College, Cambridge. Leaving College, Guy Monteith joined a fellow -student, Sir Arthur Paget in a lengthy tour of the continent of Europe, thereby acquiring a taste for Bohemian life. He then made a voyage to India' and for the last four years had resided withLord Paget —Sir Arthur's father -1n Calcutta,. During these years "Monteith Place" had seen nothing of its young master. Mrs. Monteith, a haughty, young -looking American lady of scarcely fifty years, loved nothing in the world better than her only child, and fretted continually at his long absence. Now on his return to Canada her greatest hope was that he might wed the gni she had already ohosen for him, Pauline Buolutnnan, the only child of her husband's late partner, whose marriage dowry would be not less than 8750,000 and nho, with her chaperone, was then staying for a few weeks at the "Rossin House." "In Canada now," resounded again through the maple trees, this time startling a slight, girlish figure, clad in white muslin drees, which was gracefully gathered up by a pair of small, dimpled hands to hold a quantity of starry water lillies ; but with a startled blush of fright the girl let them fall to the ground. As Guy Atonteith raised his cap he thought the face before him the sweetest he had ever gamed. upon. A fair, oval face it was, now tina bright blush like the petals of r65na, and surrounded with a tangle of short, flossy, golden curls and brightened by a pair of bewitching hazel eyes, shaded by long, dark lashes, which drooped low at the earnest gaze of a stranger, as she bowed slightly in answer to his salute and hastily began to gather up her flowers. Mr. Monteith .stooped to help her and then again raising his hat be held out his hand "Gladys—Miss Morville, I mean— pray, forgive me, I did not recognise at first my little friend and playmate. Do you not remember Guy, the noisy school -boy whom your good father undertook to tame and pre- pareane the college in Europe, and who so ill-reqWeed his trouble? Will you not weloonie me home, Gladys?" Then Miss Morville recognised in the handsome, bronzed, bearded face before her Nee gay, young student, *he had been the life and terror of her quiet home; but who had alweys talon such tender care of the little, motherlesii Gladys. They sat down on a fallen tree, for he had much to relate, andefound a willing and at- tentive listener. The distant chime of a clock told that luncheon was already served at "Monteith Place" and Guy asked permission to accom- pany Gladys to her home on Bloor street and take luncheon with her father. That evening as he gave his arm to con- duct Miss Buchennan to the Monteith din- ing room'his mother's eyes dwelt admiring- ly upon them. " What a handsome pair they will make," she thought, "and there will not be a more wealthy couple in all Canada." But, alas 1 Guy was mentally comparing thepale, dark beauty at his side with the winning, dimpling face of golden -haired Gladys, and the comparison was not flatter- ing to Pauline Bucheaman. .Alas !for Mrs. Monteith's match -making, her son was irretrievably, hopelessly in love with the penniless daughter of the Toronto schoolmaster. One evening when Mrs. Morvillen old- fashioned garden was laden with the sweet breath of the roses, Guy Monteith asked Gladys to be his wife. The schoolmaster had earnestly begged him to cease his vis- ite, fearing Mrs. lelonteith's displeasure at them; but the master of "Monteith Place" was not thus to be reasoned with, and that very evening acquainted his mother of his engagement to Miss Morville. The anger of Mrs. Monteith was very great, and she firmly refused to call upon Gladys, determining by fair means'or foul to put an end to such a foolish entaagle- ment. " To think that you, Guy, my only 4.hild, can be so blind. Pauline Buchanan es you devotedly, and it is the wish of nit heart, as it was of your dear father's, to see you both united, yet you must demean yourself by marrying a common -looking, paltry, soi disant governess. I have no pa- tienoe, "Hold. Though you are my mother, I wil1 not brook such words. Miss Morville is a lady in the highest sense of the word and as my affianced wife shall be recognised as such. I do not wish to turn you from the home you love. So long as you live you Shall remain here if you wish. I have bought an estate in England—Brackonbury Court in Northamptonshire—a far larger place then this, Gladys and I will live there until you can give her a mother's welcome home to Canada." And Guy walked off through the 'spacious lelontieth grounds in no tender mood toward e the haughty woman, his mother. The following day he received a telegram sammoning hirn hastily to Montreal to the death -bed of a distant relation, Bastiler pencilling a few lines to Gladys, he left the note on the library with strong Injunctions to hie manservant to see it de- ivered to Miss Morville that evehing, Mrs. Monteith, entering the roe/Tie:maw the note lying on the table, How very much Cluy'e hand resembles mine," she thought "efeh 1 I know a way to break off this very ; foolish engagement and in fter years h ) will thank me for It," Breaking open the seal Mrs, Monteith with a scornfulcur of the hp, rea tenderly worded epistle that apologised fo his few days' abeence, eubstituting instead a few cold lines begging Miss Melville t .release him from his engagement to. her, When the schoolmaster entered his sitting room that evening he was horeified to find pow. Gladys lying upon the floor insensible. Th cruelly forged letter lay in her hand Placing her upon a couch he bathed be forehead with some iced water and then the poor cbjld, weeping bittenly, threw lier arm around her father's neck and begged him to take her away from Toronto until she could forget the face of the false one who had won her heart only to trample upon it as a brok en toy. . That evening Gladys penned a few bele 1' yMonteith, ' g ' engagement had been a mistieke which sh much regrebted and hoped they might neve meet again. The fleet train from the Union Station the following morning bore her and her father— who had. concluded to leave his school in th eharge ofhis assistant—away on their road o Winnipeg, Mrs. Monteith hastened to forward Mis Morville's note to her son, supposing rightly that it was—in answer to the cruel one ah had forged—to release him from his engage ment to her. Directly Guy received the letter, hi kinsman being dead—he returned to Toron to. He did not in the least suspect hi mother's treachery. Great indeed was hi surprise ta hear of Gladys' and her father' departure to Manitoba. He was naturally of a very jealous disposition and Mrs. Mon teith, beingaware of this, alluded strongly to an imaginary lover of Gladys and tried by all her powers of persuasion to bring about a match between him and Miss Bu channan. But Guy'a life in Toronto, 'believing Gladys to be faithless,geew unbearable and he determined to again join Lord Paget in India until his wound had healed. Accord ingly he bade his servant at once prepare for the journey. Mrs. Monteith was terribly grieved at this, finding that she could not induce her son to marry Pauline Buohannan and with the painful knowledge of the wrong she bad committed—but alas 1 not dating to confess it--sbe wept bitterly and offered to write to Miss Morville and welcome her as a daugh- ter if he would only stay. But Guy would not hear of this, for be be- , lieved Gladys to be untrue, and with a heavy heart he journeyed to New York and from there set sail for India, via England. Gladys Morville, to her father's intense grief, fell ill at her aunt's house at Winnipeg with a violent attack of brain fever in which the burden of her wailing was "Guy—Guy." W hen able to be removed she was brought home to Toronto ; but a perfect wreck of her former self, the lovely rounded cheeks wast- ed and sunken, the merry, hazel eyes now dim and joyless. Guy Monteith could not enjoy his Bohemian life with Lord Paget as formerly and after nearly eighteen months' absence, roaming aimlessly about from place to place, he returned to Canada to satisfy himself if Gladys had married her old lover. The church bells were chiming, for it was Christmas Eve. His heart was lighter than it had been for months, as almost playfully shaking the heavy snowflakes from his thick seal -skin coat, he entered the gate of the schoolmas. ter's old-fashioned garden on Bloor street. As he turned the corner of the little sum- mer arbor—where but little more than eighteen months ago he had asked Glady's to be his wife—now covered with pure, white snow and thickly friuged with icicles, he met the schoolmaster. Regarnlese of the freezing wind, bis gray head was bare and bent down upon his bands as though in great trouble, but an angry, fierce light came into his keen, gray eyes as, with a start of affright he reoognized Guy Monteith. He did not take the young man's pieffered hand as he enquiredeagerly for Gle,dy's and if she were married. Sweetly and faintly over the snow came the sound of the Christmas bells, but they sounded like a knell to the heart of Grey Monteith as he breathlessly listened for the reply. "No, Guy Monteith," said the old school- inaster, with a piercing, heart -ren ding look in his eyes, "1 will take you to her and there you shall have your answer." Leading the wan across the snow into the house and beckoning him upstairs he paused at the door of a white draped chamber and reverently, almotit pityingly, bade him enter. "Here, Guy, Monteith, is your ansvrer." " Oh 1 my God—dead—my little Gladys, my golden -haired love—dead--dead—" an Guy Monteith, with a wild, heart -broken cry, fell forward on the open coffin sense- less. Mr. Alm villa sprang towards him, but it was too late, the young master of "Monteith Place "was no more. * * A sorrowful -looking, white-haired lady repentingly kneels daily in one of the most secluded of the Toronto churches praying earnestly for forgiveness. She would glad- ly give her life if it were possible to recall the two broken hearts, caused, alas! by her sin. CURED BY BROOK. Inee Affel ect or rriS 'Upon NeirveMN IMes SeeS. "You may See a person with gout," says Abernethy in his lectures, "-who is almorst :enable to move with pain; but produce a shock on his nervous system by telling him that the home is on fire and he will scamper abont like a lamplighter." Smollett toile us inone of his novels of a Captain eeismaliago, who went into a house and cried out to an old man who had thegout, "Mad do gl mad dog r' e when he jumped up and ran out of the hone°, "even Moe, pond of water opposite." In Huai eicamples it is ilnlilttterial whether the tenor ° arises from a real or iniaginety ceuen. the r remarkable though familiar fact is that a stroeg, mental image or impression infuses new power into the nervous awl muscular epitome. The very fear which in a healthy person miry produce excessive mueeillar contraction—convulsion—will serve to nerve °, the limb of the cripple podagric just sufin • ' ciently to enable him to escape from danger. r But were this all, we could not adduce this ' occurrence as an illustration of the cure of the gout; an obeta,cle to locomotion being temporarily overcome but the disearie re• maining. In the secood case'however, ad- duced in the following illustrations an actual - cure would appear to have been effected. "A captain of a British ship of war," says Dr. Rush, "who had been confined for several weeks to hes cabin by a severe fit of 6 the gout M hie feet, was suddenly cured by r hearing the cry of 'Fire' on board his ship. This fact was communieated to me by e gentle man who was a witness'of it. Many similar es are • •d in booksf medicine. e I shall in another place insert an account of one in which the cure effeeted by a fright eradicated the disease from the, system so 8 k completely as ever afterwards to prevent its I return." Here is the case communicated by e Judge Rush, the dootor's brother: "Peter Faller, the person cured, is now alive, a * I househo'der in Reading seventy-tbree years 8 0' age, a native of Germany, and a very - hearty man. The first fit of gout he ever En had was about the enter 1773, and from 8 r that till 1785 he had a regular attack in the s, spring of every year. His feet, hands and elbows were much swollen and inflamed; 1 the fits lasted long and were excruciating. In particular the last fit in 1785 was so se- vere as to induce an apprehension that it would inevitably carry him off, when he - was sundenly relieved by the following ac- t oident : As he lay in a small back room ad- joining the yard, it happened that one of his sons in turning a wagon and horses, drove the tongue of the wagon with such force against the window, near which the old , man lay stretched on a bed, as to beat in the I sash of the window and to scatter the pieces of broken glass all about him. To such a degree was he alarmed by the noise and vio- lence that he had instantly leaped out of bed forgob that he had ever used crutches, and eagerly inquired what was the matter. His wife, hearing the uproar, ran into the room, where to her astonishment she found her hn s - band on his feet bawling against the author of the mischief with the most passionate ivehemence. The Man Who Saved 'Victoria's Life. Incorrect statements have been published respecting the naval officer who saved the Queen's life in 1834. Here are the real facts: His name was Joseph Saunders and be was master of the cutter Emerald. The mishap took place as that craft was entering Ply- mouth Harbor with the late Duchess of Kent and Princess Victoria on board. The Prin- cess was asking Saunders to look after a favo- rite dog, when a steamer collided with the cutter, carrying away her ri ging and taking the mast. Exclaiming " For God's sake come forward, or you will both be killed!" Saunders promptly hurried the dis- tinguished party out of danger, and would not allow them to be transferred to a boat until the mast was made safe. The Duchess and Princess were duly grateful, and on tak- ing the dog of his future Queen to tb.e hotel at which she stayed at Plymouth, sheinquir- ed the cause of the accident. His reply was that when Admirals and other superior of- ficers were on board they took the charge of the vessel out of his hands; to which the Princess retorted, with characteristic com- mon sense, that if there were not so many commanding officers disasters would not oc- cur. She also added that when she was on board he was never to give up the charge of his vessel. The Duchess of Kent preaented Saunders with a prayer -book and Bible. He got no speciel pension or pay for saving the life of her present Majesty, and has long been dead. Two daughters are at present living at Southsea, and two grandsons are in the navy. Hanging a Man Who Has Been Hanged. Governor Ross, of New Mexico has four men under sentence of death on bla hands. and he appears to be unwilling to issue the warrants for their execution. One of the malefactors has an interesting history. The others are common frontier murderers. Theodore Baker, awaiting death at Springer, has already been hanged once, and this cir- cumstance has caused thousands of people to petition for a commutation in his cage. Soon after the murder of which he has been convicted ho was seized by a mob and lynched, but the Sheriff at Springer cut him down and conveyed his remains to the gaol, where a successful effort at resuscita- tion was made. The gecond night the prisoner was conveyed to Santa Pe, where he lingered in a week physical and mental eondition for several weak& Then an ina proVernent began, and when he was restored to health he was placed on trial and duly convicted. Baker has graphically described his gensations while hanging, and it is under- stood that he has serious objections to under- going the experience again, ars Silver match -boxes take the following odd forms: A thumb in bright finish, a clateashell in oxidised finish. The State of Russia. Those who know Russia, well, give the most melancholy accounts of its internal condition. It may seem to be strong and aggressive, but it is this day in reality dying of that very autocracy which many regard as the secret of its strength. The Czar is said to be supreme. He Can do everything. Whom he wills he kills and whom he wills he saves alive. It may be in one sense a fact, yet that Berne Czar is the most miserable creature under the sun. He lives in daily fear of falling, like his father, a victim to dynamite. Thousands of the best people of the country are in gaol. Both men and wo- men, especially the latter, are exposed to the most atrocious outrages. The peasantry are threatened with reinsla,vement The excessive taxation, the conscription, the infinitely var- ied kinds of oppression are crushing the very life out of them. It is said that nearly twenty millions of them are absolute paupers. The tyranny of the police is every- where. The soldiers are abused by their of- ficers'the civilians are the slaves of the po- lice. What wonder that Nihilism should abound? The great wonder would be if it did not. Some alarmists are of comae still crying out about Russia's immense power and about the danger to the whole of Euro- pean civilization from her aggressive spirit It would be perhaps foolish to effect to dis- pise her, but the day of her greatest power has passed, as will be seen should it ever he tested by actual warfare. The Smallness of the World. I was one day in London, walking down the Strand, while a gentleman who was ac- companying me was relating to toe a some- what startling incident in which he had been an actor. He and a friend, while bathing in the Amazon River narrowly escaped being de- stroyed by a shark, which suddenly joined their company, and. abruptly terminated their aquatic gambols in the tropical stream. My friend related the details of their escape, and extolled the bravery of his companion on that oceasiou. Then naturally, he ex- pressed his regret at the unlikelihood of their ever meeting again; and while proving in the most conelneivo way that it was quite imposeible that they ever should do so, he suddenly exclaimed : "Why, my goodness, here he is I" And behold 1 in that crowded thoroughfare, and shaking hende vigorously, stood these two men, neither of whom ever expected to see the other again.—Rose Bytinge, HOUSEHOLD. ‘` Our Boys" why is it that some boys, at a very early age, begin to feel responsibilities, and, loek forward to taking a manes poeition, while others seem to think that they are not re- sponsible and society ha e no claim on them until the become of legal age? Once raise a boy's ambition, set his mind at work to find out how he Ivey beeefit his family and hirnaelf ; once get hini in the train of thought that by his own exertione he may fill the position that some influential man fills in the community where he lives, and the work has gone far toward comple. tiou in making hini a man. As an illustra. tion of how early in life a boy's mind will turn to the hard practical ways and means of helping to support a family, we ineteuce the experience of a prominefit and well. know businees man. His home was in a smell village, where his fathee had succeeded to a well-estab- lished business ; but love of pleasure, natural carelessness, and the habit of using intoxicating clrinle had brought the family down from comparative affluence to abject poverty. The poor, high-spirited mother had struggled with all her might fe keep the wolf from the door of tho little family of three children and a drunken husband. But at last every thingwas one, and they were turned out of their home, They took the refuge offered them by a kind neighbor in an old house that had been used for stor- age of old artiolea. This man, then a boy about ten years old, was his mother's solace and confidant. They talked thgether, devising how they could succeed in getting food and clothing. The mother was already doing such sewing and washing as she could get from neigh- bors. The boy went to learn the tailor's trade. He got up in the morning at day- light, sawed and split the wood, built the fire, helped his mother:get the scanty break- fast, and then wentcheerily and quielely away to his employer's house to take care of the horse, milk the cow and bring in the wood, after which he went to the store, sweptit gut, built the fire, cleaned upand arranged everything ready for the business of the day. Everything that his active mind could think of to do to please his em- ployer was done promptly and cheerfully, and it had the effect of making the latter a firm friend of his, who befriended the fam- ily and. took pains to teach the boy the tailoring trade. From basting the trim- mings to plain work on the elothes, and to fine work on the coats, to cutting them out, all came in due time and regular order to this ardent worker, and in six years this dulged in quarrela which disgraced the rhe Dog's &mph,. boy was called a good workman, earning neighborhood. He desired to submit proofs wages which enabled him to provide quite that she was only his fourth wife, and. that Johnny was a very careless little boy. decently for his mother and sisters. He was always losing his playthings and they lived in such a perfect state of happi- Onward and upward this boy progressed, ness that he never knew whether his shirt books, tearing his elothes, forgetting er- from a workman to be a partner. His perse- buttons were off or on. rands and ma,king himself and every one else ' dlft bl Fehdh veranoe, intelligence and energy were such that he steadily enlarged the business, in- creased the profits, so that, from an ex- clusively retail house it became a manufac- turing establishment, selling ready-made clothing to merchants in the surrounding country. " Our boy was the head and front of the business in making purchases, and through this means he became the active sen enee. o own an go o s eep. The Secretary then announced that he didn't mean to, but I didn't think," he said , clean floor." partner of a large wholesale cloth house in HE muse GO. a large city shortly, afterward. I Johnny looked very sorry; "0 mamma, I The acceptance of the latter resulted in had been placed ip possession of certain sad eagerly. transfering him to a sphere that gave hie business talents and energy full scope, and facts concerning the character and reputa- femme shook her head. "That is what tion of Brotker Green Smith, an honorary you always say, Johnnie, and yet almost the result of all this leas been that he is member living in .Alabama. Brother Green, every day my floor is tracked with your now, at middle age, head of a large and who is a licensed preacher of the Methodist dirty feet. Pm almost afraid to take you prosperous manufacturing and wholesale church, was sent as a delegate to a confer- with me to visit Aunt Jane." firm, who are marked An AA, in character, ence. The conference adjourned over , 0 mamma, do let me go. I will be very credit and cash. His mother lives with Sunday, and the members made up a shake careful indeed, indeed, .E will," Johnnie him in a finemansion (his father having died purse and bough -0 Iirother Green a bag of promised very earnestly, some years since from dissipation), and his oats to feed his horse. He slyly placed. the sisters are married to prosperous business Well," I will try you this time," said oats in his buggy and set out for his home, mamma, but remember, Johnnie that if 3 men, a few miles away, and when a good brother you do not cure yourself of this bad hake went after him he was found sowing the seed Aunt Jane will not be likely th invite you on fruitful soil. The case was brought be- apace, fore the conference, and it was voted to re- Johnnie promised once more to be careful and he really meant to keep his word; but alas the very first day of his visit he forgot again and Aunt Jane's pretty carpet was almost ruined by his shoes which were cov- ered lay it on slices of buttered toast, dipped in mit a preacher to git de best of de clicker in ere we mud. " Oh, I am always forgetting 1" exclaim - the water in which the celery is cooked. tradin' off mules, an' we won't go back on ed Johnnie in despair. Add a little butter or thick cream and serve him if strange chickens insist on trine into "You will have to take lessons from my THE LIMB -IL li CLUB. ItTEW THINOS IN J,EW4LRr. kneweg an ole mau who died de odder Dounle chaina are p9Pillols tor geAtlernen day widout religun," said Brother Gerdner, with the vvateh at one end and a pencil at me he operied ehe meeting. "Some of de' tee other, while errenl the bar depends a eeal or a t' )4edusediead freed pins, in wheoh the faces are carved one of red sand and the Ozolky- looks are repreoeneed gone or oxidized SU" von are fit companions for the popular sphinx beads. The last stage of folly is indicated by the appearance) among Derwinians presturiald,Y) ot the monkey neelebtee—a string of these people who si,00ci aroune is (loath -bed an' saw de erode on hie eace as be eunie away in death could not make it out. He belonged co no chui•ch—he worehippedwid zio congre- gation, an' dey wondered diet he died coin tent, No, dis ole man has no religun, accord - en' to de way Chrietians put it, Out know - ed him long an' well. In de first place, he was honest. All de money in Detroit ugly creatures fastened, together by their wouldn't hey bin a totritashun to nim, in tafis and claws. The jeweled, spicier neeke de next place, he ems forgivin' an' eonscien. lace though rarely seen, cleservee the same ehus ; it he wronged anybody he would go comment. k . . A hancleorne moonetone pin and. pendant combined consiste of a centrepiece of moon - atone, with a cherub face carved thereon in low relief and the edges scalloped to resem- ble a shell. A frame of elosely set small diamonds eurrounding the whole makes a rich setting for the little picture, g "Ms ale man paid hie honest debts. To him a debt was as sa,cred LW holy writ. He had kind words fur all. Neber was a man Ho bad dat, dis ole man could not say sun - thin' gored of him. He respected de law : he upheld all dat was moral an' virchus ; lie was widout envy. "An as de April sun sunk low in de beta hem dis old nuat's time had eome. He said. good.bye to de world in a whisper, an' he was not afraid. De settin' sun poured its last beams of glory frew cle winder over his ole black face and it liohted up wid sica rta diance dat we stood der and held our brefs, It was de eand of a man who called no man hes pester an' tools no church fur Ids guide, but when de las' minit' cum de joys of Ilea- % en were so plo y seen in his face dat he saontecl fue glory. "An' eu he aied, an' sich was de eand fo' what de world calls a sinner. We has got among as bean three k.core church members an' prayin' men. Ize wonderin' how many of us will Rink away to rest as calmly and coefidently dat ole man whose name neber appeared on a church roll. Ize been won- derin' if we cloan' pray too much an' hang off a,bout our debcs too long; if we dean' eing wid so much zeal din we havn't got Some very elaborate coral sets have recent- ly been imported from Naples. Exquisitely chiseled rose sprays and amphorn pendants are the me etnoticeable features of these sets. A Cupid reclining on a bed of roses forms the bracelet ornament, and the centrepiece of the necklace of the finest set. The designs of imported watches are copi- ed largely from timepiecee worn by court celebrities. The present demaud tends to- wards small watches in bulging oases, with open faces. Enamel and chasing are used considerably. Some of the most popular watch. chains for ladies are similar to one which is a favorite with Queen Victoria. They are short with a swivel at one end for the watch while at the other is a small decorated pin from which depends a short chain terminaling in a bell or seal. One of themost characteristic insect pins of all is a beetle composed mainly of split car- buncle representing the parted wings, while 'null kfe to speak kindly of our nayburs ; if small diamonds in silver settings cover the we haul'. so swill of our own salvashun dat head end, the exposed pare of the body. To we doe,n' keer about a.nybedy else. Let os complete theresemblence horns are frequent look into die au' find whar' We stand. Dar' ly 'added, tipped with diamonds. Buckle am religun an' religun. De sort dat sends a and cloak -clasps in antique oxidized finish - member of dis club down on his knees at de ed are considerably worn now, and pretty Thursday evenin' pray'r mediae an' allows etched garters floral in and coin designs are him to walk off wid stmeone else's umbrella, seen iu great variety. Two new finishee keep elect of." deserve notice. The first, in all but colors heab on Saturday night am a sort I want to which have recently appeared in these goods SQUAB= HIMSELF. is a clever imitaion of alligator skin. The . . , Greatly to everybody's surprise, Elder second, which resembles an orange -peel in its pitted surface, consists of a sprinkling Toots had remained wide awake thus fan of fine bright flakes on a rough and dark &an he now arose to a question of privilege. He had heard it flung out that he was living oxidizea ground. wieh his fifth wife, and thee the two greax "We dean' keer fur de proofs, Brudder doing things he might not to do and of go - Toots," observed the President; "you ing where he ought net to go. He never hasn't bin offishually chaiged wid any mis- meant to be naughty ; but he didn't take conduct befo' de club, an' we kin took no i time to think and sometimes his poor mam. . . anshun.P ma almost lost patience with him. "But I desiah to Beluga.' myself, sah." 1 «o johnnie, Johnnie," she would say, "You am squared., Brudder Toots, an' "just look at your feet, all covered with kin consider yerself discharged on susyendecl mud I See how you nave spoiled my nice Healthful Cooking. CELEE.Y ON TOAST.—Celery that is not crisp and fresh may be prepared like this: yoke his license. After washing the celery and removing "Dar' kin be no queshun 'bout de fack in the green leaves, cut in pieces about the de ease,' said. the President, "an' de coge same as you do asparagus, then put into nomen of Brudder Green Smithwill be erased boiling water. When it is tender, draM it, from our rale. De rules of dis club will per- . his cabin an' wringin' deir own necks, but we dog," replied his aunt. "Major is not Blume]) Lamm—Wash thoroughly a leg can't uphold base ingratitude an' wrank hy- handsome, but I am afraid he must be of lamb. Put into a pot with very little pocrisy. De branch clubs at Montgomery smarter and better behaved than you are water, just enough to keep from scorching. an' Huntsville will be notified of our axsilun, in some things. When he first came to live It must be watched continuously and when an' should de deposed brudder attempt to with me he used to come to the house with the water boils almost away a little more visit one of dose lodges he will feel a saw- dirty paws, but every time he did, so I took may be added. The secret of success is to mill hit him. '0 pan of water out on the steps and washed cook the lamb in the least possible quantity UNFAVORABLY REPORTED. 1 them before allowing him to come in. He of water, letting it brown on the pot but not burn. Serve with the water or gravy InGiveadam Jones, Traveling Lecturer and soon learned to be careful and never gives in which the meat is cooked. stallator, desired to report on the applica- me trouble now. I often see him go out of BAILED IVIAOARONL—Cook the macaroni tion of the "Dark Shades" of Henderson, his way to cross the street on the crosswalk Ky., for a branch charter. He had been instead of going through themud." broken into small pieces for fifteen or twenty minutes, then put a layer in a baking dish, down there and made the acquaintance of 1 Major pricked up his ears and wagged Setback Johnson Hardheel Smith, Turkey his tail at this praise, but Johnnie hung his sprinkle with grated cheese and bread Davie, 'Possum Williams,and other apple- head for very shame. At last he stooped crumbs, add a little thick cream or butter, cants, and it was his opinion that no branch down and patted the dog very softly on the then another layer of macaroni and more could be organized to do honour to the parent head. cheese, and so on to the top. Pour over dub. Most of the twenty-eight applicants " Well, old Major, you needn't think I'm the whole, half a cup of milk, and bake cov- chewed the meanest kind of plug tobacco; going to be beaten by you," he said; and ered. This is considered a very hearty dish kept fighting dogs and played policy, and from that day mamma was never troubled and a good substitute for meat. two of them were juet out of the county by his dirty shoes. GRAHAM Bisouirs.—Stir sufficient graham jail for larceny. His report was accepted meal into lukewarm water to make a dough and adopted, and no charter will be granted. stiff enough to mix with a spoon. Knead Harmony v. Law. vigorously on a board for a few minutes, cut WORKING WELL. , At a trial in the Court of King's Bench into biscuits, and bake quickly in a floured The Committee on Patents and Copy - between two publishing houses as to an al - pan. Some persons prefer to sift their flour rights, to whom was submitted the query : leged piracy of an arrangement of "The having it entirely free from bran.. Another "What is the Torpedo chicken, and how Old English Gentleman," T. Cooke was way to make graham biscuits is th stir into does it work ?" begged leave to report as subpcenaed els a, witness. On cross-examina. cold graham pudding, graham flour until follows: tion by Sir James Scarlett, the counsel etiff enough to mold. Roll, cut into bis- " De Torpedo chicken an de invenshun of rather flippantly said, " Now, sir, you say euite, prick with a fork and bake in a hot oven. •de lion. Hannibal Hamlin, of Maine. It was that the two melodies are the same, but dif- invented to decimate de cull'd race. It al.,' ORANGE PUDDING. —Cut up three large a fax -simile of a pullet', made of zinc, an ferent What do you mean, sir 2" Tom oranges and grate with them a little of the filled wid powder and slugs, When fasten- promptly answered, "I said .the notes in outside peel. Sprinkle well with sugar and e the two copies were alike, but with a differ - o e r ' c let them stand until they have become set. bird dat de wisest ole nigger in de bizness 3r ent aecent." Sir James :---" What is a musical accent?" urated. Take a pint of rich milk, and the can't tell thedifference. He strikes. a match, . a Cooke. lesson yolks of three eggs, and three-quarters of a reaches out to pull de pullet off de pole, an' sir" (A, loud laugh.) cup of sugar. Heat it and when very hot den am a 'sploshun which shakes de nay- Sir James (ratherlift]. d :—"Don't inind add one and one-half tablespoonfuls of corn barhood an' causes. anoder well-known citi; your terms here; I ask you what is a musi- starch, mixed with a little water. Let it zen to turn up nussm . As to decimatm cool, pour over the oranges, add tbe beaten de culla' race, it hasn't dun it. De alarm cal accent ? Can you see it 7" whites of the eggs on the top, and serve was sounded at an airly date, an' de great Cooke :---" No." cold. majority of our people turned from chicken Sir James :—Can you feel it 2" ' Cooke .--"A musician can." (Great laugh - to codfieh. Now an' den eomeole hen -steel- , { ter.) Blushes. er, who can't let bizness die entirely out; ' "Now pray, sir, don't beat about the d veitim of de Torpedo, but de wise . ' . . Blushing is a disease. No one blushes for am e ' n 1 eaee a , saves bush; but tell his lordship and the jury, shame. While the woman of the world may man passer,5, e len won a r o n I whe are supposed to know nothing alaout it, wear cheeks of marble, the nmocent counety • e his bacon. the meaning of what you call an accent." lass is made red by being looked at, The Th t ted 'thprofound 'Accent in music is a tierces laid perjurer tells his story without a change ei e gratitude and admiration, and then the 1. The roper was nccep wt. I c °eke :24 on a particular note, as you would lay Stress color. the hottest witness is flushed end meeting went home. word, for the purpose of being press truth in courts of justice. Coantless . 111—.0111•4111.--1 I on a given , are an ass, it rests on ass ; but were 1 to confused by the lawyer who is hired to reap- I better understood. If I were to say, You . . ow He roses are said to blush iniseen. They are very . I say, You are an ass, it rests on you, Sir foolish. Politiciens never blushb t they , u " Johm"mid, Mts. Smith, " you didn't James." growred in the face (worth° spiritof the cam- tell me how yen managed to get that neck- I Reiterated shoats of laughter by the . paign, ancl claim modesty as an inheritence. tie on Sunday." {whole court, in which the Bench joined, "Oh," replied Smith, abstractedly, ab- followed this roperten Silence being !obtained, Lord Denman, the judge, with sorbed in a newspaper, " in a Want')." ......__ !much sceming gravity, accosted the chop- , fallen counsel, " Are you satisfied, Sir 'James ?" Speaking of pork and plays, although there is commonly stipposed to be no con- nection between the two, would a small hog's hind leg be a Hamlet? Two ladies are converging on the qualities and demerit of their own fair gex. Sid Warning for Bad Writers. Loudon, the gardener, once wrote to the 1 Sir Ames (deep red as lie naturally wag) Duko of Wellington to bog leave to see his had become Scarlett in more then name, and boodles The duke read the letter as one in a great huft said, "The le itriese may go one, with a twinkle it her beautiful eyes, frtoienistttlio(3sBe See bis1ib°reeLeohleust,onancdolgitaavieniangeoarnrlite. dewh''' ea. have never known but two women q who were really perfect." "Who was the reply stating that the bishop might see on htheerrtlli n'aenface,kedhor companion, with 6 smile those, he wore at Waterloo as he eoppo sed The United States colleges contain 18,000 those wete Whet he meant, Worhen students, ,