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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1887-11-3, Page 6NIITTIE 114f11 Q RAKER I, S'r. ATI Q$ CUOIi 'Tor be it Icaown That their saint's henot the iF ow"-Oeen The teem Mieklethwayte was rising end thriviarg. There svere eeltibrtous spriu s Whieli an enterprieing doctor had lieu beought into notice. 'The firm of Greenleaf etid Dutton menufactured umbrellas ia tante quentities, from the stout weether.preof fatally roof down to the daiutieet fringed toy of it perasd. There were e Guild Hall aril a handsome COM Maiket.„ Modern Sehool for the beee, and 0. High it, that it was a. profeesionel place. Every one had something to de eiteer with echool or mularellita, scercely exceptirtg the clooter and tbe golicitexe for the former attitude(' the pupils and the latter sepplied theta, Mr. Dutton was a partnerin the teabrella factory, and lived, as the youngee, folks said, as the old, heehaw: of the reed. }lad he not e hotteekeeper, a poodle, and a eat, end waft eQt hie house, with lovely eill boxes full of flowers in the vrindows, 'the nehteet a the neat; and did not the the tiny 000 the over his dining,room window always produce the flowers most needed for favoured. ladiee. Why, the very daisiee never aunt lift their heads hi little twat tvlaich even bore a Freitch auglet, with I% narrow gT4vel. patti leae by a tiny grams pot Qtatein Gee, WaS coveted with A rielt veil of PU elematio, was ;be hone) ot Mrs. Egremont, her aunt, and Nuttic ; the other, adorned with e elleiro de De oe term second bloom, wee the itbode of Mary Nugentl wite• her niotItere t,he widow of a. eavel cseeteie, Further ore ivith adjoining gardene, was another couple of houses, hi one of which lived Mr, Dutton ; in the other lodged the youth, Gerard Godfrey, together twit!), the partuer of the priticipal tuedical men. The opposite neighbours were a meeter of- the Modern School and a scholar. Indeed, the sayiugof the vicar, the Rev, Francis Spyers, teas and Se Ambrese% tel Rowas proud of Scliool for the girls, and a School of Art, and a School of Cookery, wed National Scheele, and a British School, and a ,13,ord, School, also church= of every hegi4, "chapels of every denetninatione and iron mission rooms budding out in hopes co be replaeed by churches. Like one of the animals which zoologists call radiated, the town. Was oenstautly stretching out freeh arms along country roads, all livine and worklug, and gradually absorbing the open. spec= between. One of these arms was known as St. Ambrose% Road in right of the church, an ineopaplete structure in yellow brick, consisting of handeonte chancel, the stump of a tower, retty semen 0 Rawest: reward - d a. good ' nd "elle wee o oice to' hisse-yen, "ta ',nether were both govereeerice," continued, the girl, "and yet they don't want me to go out. They had tether vrae a teacher at the High School." " They don't want tO trest their Little Dear out in the w,orld." "1 think it mole than that," egad the t‘ I can't help thinking that lie -my father-4must have been itome one rather grand, with ench a beautiful name as Alwyei Piercefield Egrethout. Yea; know it was diet, for e„ Jew bepttemal certificete when I stood. foe the e0h010,11)14 it was Dieppa---Ursule. Ade°, datueletee of Alwyn Biercefield and Alice Elizabeee EgreMeett, CHINA'S BIGGEST OPIUM DM INTERESTING ITBK0* 14R,4U IPA' ,POW'SZE' The fields ci" d 7,:egesemoe. of La ieer goons Memos tor site Rich au° Iripatie an,- g ram 'Vendee aud the Lower N. oier, France, are hope the BpYub741t.Iotsl'etswInvet3e"a:oneeleed the Tim Nan-a)gisrteinf7thtehegri:tueer't opium den NbVe1}191dheaVsa Satiattadbyy destroy us tetWo yce4dt °err!. tilhaer Pwitarteet Idelr'. that Mr* Baw°" and u'rcl uu°t4.11tlY sion In Shanghai, eetthee storet'e threw The Nieceee of %lice leas ooneented to 1)(IMI:Ta.rar13.°'ioitkv)geeto'illire 0E1 that If her7161)0P4bi Qeirsatti 14hP 'rieothttlesri ::(1, aun:dn' le China ie tituated in the French coneee- f000lfor cattle. tilitfee,Wielli: thetun::::tY,ktowittilhien svm,11.::::: hoeecvo ill urtemtehuet wps.,:siceent::10i fehtehdeeilga:: e:e, :refilpaagrot: te/iiieouwgohrhilo. r Ernie° ietos Irt0:1:hahillitt;9ewb: queer.L.jke oeium sholis are suppoaed to exist. The lee,I of ji.41g,,8 college, thrdegs 'siting it repreaent all etations ef - illn,gland, `Xliis That is, we haven't been married quite long and the lecturea are" now attended lq four many other young huebentlis he wears a ateroliant Or the sinelteriendeeie- It ie with huedred women. . inuelt larger will now then he will a °maple , Mr. Fiance De Laurie of Slittreted Court, of years hence, but that is a fault instead of diffo4hy ,oeit-oliwgoallisisie thk,pugh, „the , eTI:hcret/wolfler6e7elet3 44,,K7og rar4veenisditPeoeCint9e.,°,32r. 000nty Kent, has attracted to isimself the ee evil The other evening he came hem° ef, popper cash to 'presiure the baneful pipe atlinirieg eyert of the British. nation by sac- aittroLdstatitiee hoofuse ewxeitihtelltiejentn, osoPritre teh:dtie41, watch with horrible wistinineee each of 1'0w desfullY l'idei4g and harvesting a °r°1-) °f eurlaaiellifiaolaSien0..a eitiumppese.Lverett-I think Jia, r;20rU aillaent PasS in with' a aetVtglS, 1 ed Step, or totter out wearing that peal.- , in r - itno4 y1)111:flue egoet,, nuIedet,ni st:r ghtsehi aaottoevhoberens httnialoolnl ft1 r a t ever raised for abweehaile, and then iuquired ; heesunguiruwaceititobtviislaliy; se::,,e,Tlehhelriell„:eariha00:::Oa ;oleo Itunne) u:I.S. HBOatrve- (To be coxrimmo.) sinolter'e U'r dazed'ocexelleriZien„,ewhIelelenhEea°41§1e°eada at'eurd hies SeTetieMett het,,,4114StS thatgho (letting another bateh of usplees •---e-------weete-e..rem., transient pleasure has tassed, away, Oils' t,lrlty on hie, crop the same as thoegh the Yoe A Terrible Fight Between Lions, requires a strong stoma° th stand W314 'tobacco were imported. II • books ?" • ' " All lroks are uselete to eome people Mrs. Beef/for If you were like some wives I know of you'd encourage your husbend, instead of insulting him." " " Well, I shall be glad to have yov. read every evening. History or polities "Neither. They are works on oratory. ' " What ?" "Mrs Bowser, I have been rad.vised by my many friend% to take a few leesens in elocution •and. delivery,. and then to swept some of the numerous invitations tendered me to address this or that society or organ- isation." " Ric:herds Mosee Bowser, you can't be in earnest 1" "That's it! Yell out at the top cif your veine and tell everybody in Detroit that my name is Riobard Moses 1 Maybe it molds better than Major. Why shouldn't I pluck the laurels from the field of oratory? If some people are satiefied to grovel in the ' eying fumes with. which the air iusid 's I as wife of a rominent citizen of Dr- • ' looking- 9 1 Bark TeesaitY eawieilei th"4 Nv" fear- thickened. The olouds of smoke, the dini bfeitliaouudaeteeitterphettltie nhtZeontb,ilit, Emxolitit; lieht from the numerous colored lamps, N giellit, or clay, and were put at onoehatustgeet: :ieteingge the numbers of reclining forms with dieter- pluckytainer of beases• Five more lions, of a different kind, but very big also, arrived from Africa yester- the nerves of the vit3itors for a long time by trifling in a cage With three big forest lions. sickening sensation. , with the three attepgiy eg 1106.3 mere. 1,,is got up on au expensive scale, In the bad 00 training, but Delinuniut, *en:tmy centre of the lower room hangs one of the ted facee bent over the small flames at whish the pipes are lighted cause the novice a ed to the scene it is noticed that the place But as soon as the eye becomes accuetorn. and one aisle justweather-tight and usable, eia's gl°133 in the eeetrea Mies but by its very aspect, begging for the cone t Miss Mary as every oue !till calledu her, :Is eldest eister'e marriage wasl among them and thrilled the crowd that fill:, finest of Chinese lamps, the ceiling is of riehly earved wood, while the painted walls petition of the beautiful design that was sue- her "ni ed the inanagerie by an unueually seneation- vended above the alms -box. was assistant teacher at the Schee of Arta, ` al performance. When he had done mile. are thickly inlaid with a peculiarly marked It was the evening of aesuunner day which and gave private drawing lessons, eo as to 1 t in '6 th does bl h' h gives the idea of unfinished sopplement the pension on which her moth- .1C'°"" d" Partner' wen w' 1 "44 marble, ellteetches. Numerous doors on . and took a little clog. *This was ‘re- all sklea lead te the smokers' apertmeets. had been very hot. The choir praottce was trooping er lived. They also received garbs as oar - Pet over, asid the boys came out the • ers attending the Nigh School. and chattering; very ,mall 011ea y were , they were sure to try to get into the c of the old, ehurch, which had a foundation that fed, clothed, taught, and finally appren- ticed them. So, though the little fellows Were dad in surplices and cassocks, and sat for the more trustWerthy 'Ana of airls and lest her husband at sea, and on this her • aunt had settled at Mieklethwayte to make, home for her and her child, at first taking pupils, but when the Nigh school wae:set up, changing these into boarders; while Mrs. Egremont went out as daily governess to the children of a faintly of somewhat higher pretensions. Little Ursula., or Nut - tie, as she was called, awarding tO the:kcal contraction was, like the child of all the party, and after clinibing up through the 'High School to the lest form, hoped, after passing the Cambridge examination, to become a teacher there in another year. Iu the outer portion of the budding stands a counter covered with little boxes of the drug ready for smoking, which a dozen as- sistants are kept busy handing out to the servants who wait upon the habitues of the place. The Leverage daily receipat are said. to.be about 4.e00. The smoking apartments are diwidee into four classes, In the cheap- est are coolies, who Fey about 4a. for their smoee. In 'the dearest the smoke coats about 7d. The drug supplied in each class is much the same both in quality and game - cage rocking and the eight hons fig beg tity ; it is the difference in the pipes that furiously, 'rolled up into a huge dark ball regulates the price. The best kinds aro &eine which the blood-stained fur was flying made of ivory the stem being often inlaid in all directions. The' lihge beats rolled with stoned and rendered more costly by over and over, dashing madly against the reason of elaborate carving; the cheapest kinds ere made simply of hard wood. The rooms also are furnished according to class. In the most expensive the lounge upon which the smoker reclines is of fine velvet, with pillows of the same material; the frames of each couch are inlaid with So dul Mies. Headwortli, Who had all he s v t sing tolerably, for as 80011. the' e-tal a life been one of those people who Beene con - damned to toil to make up for the errors or disasters of others. Firet she helped to educate a brother, and soon he had died to leave an o han daughter to be. bred up at her cost. he girl had married frorn her in the chancel for correetnees sake, there was a space row:1014e heimentem, reserved first situation; but hatbalmost immediately youngwromen who =Tee fort nex , ed by four or aye meoharde.0 Behind came the nucleus of the choir -e. slim, fair-haired youth of twenty; a neat, precise, well -trimmed man, closely shaven, with stooping shoulders at least fifteen years older, with a blitek poodle at his &heels, as well shorn as his master, newly Tiben from lying outside of the church door; a gentle, somewhat drooping lady in black, mot yet middle-aged and very pretty: a email, eager, unformed, black-eyed girl, who could hardly keep batir her words for the outside of the church door; a tall self-pos- sewed handsome *mien, with a fine classi- cal cast of feetures and lastly, a brown - faced, wiry heed -working clergyme.n cult an atom of superfluous flesh, but with an air of great energy. . " Ub. I near, wnere are we to go?" was the question so eager Go break fourth. 4' Not to the Crystal Palace, Nuttie. The funds won't bear it. Mr. Dutton says we must spend. as little as possible on locome. dons. " I'm sure I don't care for the Crystal, Palace, A trumpery tinsel place„ shams." "Hush, hush, my dear, not so loud," said the quiet lady ; but Nuttie only wrig- gled ' her shoulders, though her voice was ta. trifle lowered. "11 it were the British Kimura now, or Westminster Abbey." "Or the Alps," chimed in a quieter voice, " theUffizi. Now, Mr. Dutton„ that's Ject what I want. Our people aren't ready for that, here 1 You don't know now charming this is. ' but what they have let it be zee. 341es She moved aside so as to leave the ascent eMary, don't you see what I mein '?" -by an inverted floWeiepot and se laurel "Raeber better than MiareEgremone het brancle--open to liar friend, thus, knocking self„." said Mr. Dutton. ..........down one of the pile' of beeks which she had d, Well," said the Vicar, interposing he ,ta.,ken. to the top of the wall. Mies Nugent the wordy war, " Mrs. Gree.aileaf's children pickedat up, "Marie Stuart Is this your have scarlatina, so we can't go to Horton way of studying her?" CHA.PTER II. =seas HORTON. " Aid we will all the pleasures prove, By shallow rivers, by whose fans , actiodioushieds sing maalrigals."-Old It was' holiday -time, and liberties were taken such as were not permissible, when they might have afforded a bad pre- cedent to the boarders.. Therefore, wheri two afternoons later Mary Nugent, return- ing from district visiting, came out into hei• gaiden'behind the house, she was not scanda- lised to see a pair of little black feet under a holland skirt restieg on a laural branch, and going a feiv steps more she, beheld a, big shady hat, and a pair of little bands :buoy with a pencil and a Meek book; ail 'Ursula sat on the low wall. between the gar- dens shaded by tila laburnum which facil- itated the ascent on her own side. 4-4 Mis Mary l Delicious! Ceme up Bishop. The choice seems to be between South Beach and Monks 'Horton." "That's no harm," cried Nuttie; "Mrs. Greenleaf is so patronising 1" "And both that and South Beach are so stale," said the youth. "As if the dear sea could ever be stale," cried the young girl. "I thought Monks Horton was forbidden ground," said Miss Mary. "So it was with the last regime," said the Vicar; "but now the new people are come I expect great things from them. I hear they are very friendly. "1 expect nothing from them," said Nut - tie so sententiously that all her hearers laughed and asked her exquisite reason," as Mr. Dutton put it. "Lady liarkald.y and a whole lot of them came into the School of Art." "And didn't appreciate "Head of Anti. nous by Miss 'Ursula Egremont,"' was the cry that 'interrupted her, but she went on unruffled-" Any thing so fool- ish and inane as their whole talk and all their observations I never hear& "1 don't like this style," one of them said. "Such ugly useless things I never see anything pretty and neatly finished such as weused 'to do." The girl gave it in a tone of mimicry of the nonchalant voice, adding with fresh imita- tion, "And another did not approve of drawing from the life -models might, he such strange people,"' "My ears were not equally open to their profanities," said 'Mien Mary. "I was struck by the good breeding and courtesy of the leader of the party, who, Ithiek, was Lady Xirkaldy hexself. " I saw e I thought she was patronising you and my blood boiled I" cried nettle. you, boiling blood endure a picnic in the park of so much ignorance, folly, and patronage?" asked Ur. Dutton. "Oh, indeed Mr. Dutton, Nuttie neer said that," exclaimed gentle Mrs. Egretnont. "Whether it is fully worth the doing is the question," said the vicar "Grass ana shade do not despise," Bald Miss Mary. "There surely meet be some ecclesiasti- cal remains," said the young man. "Mid. there is a river," added the vicar. "I shall a stickleback for my acqua. /chum" cried Nuttie. "We shall make some discoveries for the Scientific Society. I shall note clown every individual creature see ! I say 1 you are sure it is not a sham waterfall or Temple of Tivoli I" "It would please the choir boys and G. F. S. girls quite as much, if not more, in that taro," said Mist: Mary; "but you need not expeet that, Nuttie. Leuidseepegarden- ing is gone by," " liven with the coutitry people?" =id Nuttie. "By at beet half a century," saki. Mr. Dutton, "With sal deference to this youlig ady's experience." ft was out of their own mouths," cried 'the girl defiantly. " That's all I know about country people, and so I hope it will be." " Conte hi, my clear, you are talking very fast," interposed Mrs;Egremont, with some pain in the soft sweet voice, which if it had been a little stronger, svould have been the best in the choir. The houses in St. Ambrose s Bead Were serni,detached. The pair which,the party had reached had their entrancee at the peated four tim during the day, and the aye new lions were toe reuall" stunned. by the huge, noisy crowd about them andthe re- peated visite of the lady, gentlemen and dog to think of anything else. Their. aB- tonxehpaent had not worn off, and they were still quiet when left alone for the night by the attendants at 10 o clock. Shortly after midnight, however, the menagerie was filled with a frightful roar- ing and snarling, and a servant sleeptng on the premfsee rustle& in to find the big iron , "Now, you know 'tis holiday time, and 4olunteer work; besides, she was waiting for you, and I could not help doing this." She held out a hand, which was scarcely needed, and Mary sprang lightly to share her perch upon the wall, "Look here 1" "Am I to guess the subject as in the game of historic outlines," said Miss Nug- ent, as the book was laid on her lap. " It loolas like a modern -no, a mediasval-edi- don of MMUS Curtius about to leap into the capital opening for a young man, only with his dogs instead of his 'horse. That hound seems very rationally to object." "Now don't 1" Guess in earnest." "A compliment to your name. The Boy of Egremont, poor fellow, just about to bound across the strid." " Exactly. I I klways feel sure my father must have clone something like this.' "Wee it so heroic ?" said Miss Mary. "You know it was for the hundredth time, and he had no reason to expect, any special danger." "Oh, but his mother was waiting, and he had to go. Now, I'll tell you how it must have been with my father. You know 19 Bailed away in a yacht before I was born, and poor mother never saw him again; but I know what happened. There was a ship on fire like the .Birkenhead, and the little yacht went near to pick up the people, and my father called out, like Sir Humphrey Gilbert - "Do not fear, Heaven is as near By water as by land." eide of the elate and inting pieces put of each other with a ferocity that was'iicken ,Ing. All the 'etglits organized to • gratifY Man's. fosidnesS" fpr fighting would' have seemed the taiireit ' child's play in coral -Ali- son.' 4Aftee la While it'became evident that filigree were tWo dietinct saes th,e battle mother-of.pearl and jade and the whole andthe new arrivels were pitted at unfair air oethese rooms isone of sensuous luxury. odds against the lions who tte,d been in.Pest Theo is also a number of private rooms, session. The efforts of the servant to sep- In the pogrest section will be seen many arate them onlylinereased their fury); and at wearers 4the tattered yellow and. gray last he rushed i'off: for Delmonico, whet Was robes of Buddhist and Tavist priests. Wo - asleep near by in Edge lane. The tamer ar- men form a fair proportion of the smokers. rived half clad and. found his lions bleeding The common belief is that the opium (deep fearfully but !till fighting. is intended. by a mild, pleasurable delirium, d -.The hattle was narrowing dewn to•. a duel with brief gla,nces of Hirsh= ; but this is betWeen to of tile, biggest tlioniat which the exception, not the rule. People smoke were rapidly biting each other to pieces in to satisfy the craving begotten of previous the middle of the cage, Qc,caeionally the indulgence. There is . accommodation for battle became general;and for a few seconds 150 smokers at a time, and 'there is seldom there wOul&be a wild' jumble' of snarling' a vac.aney very long. The stream of sinok- lions with a savage crunching of teeth to tell era ',Pea on from early morning till !mid; how the flesh was being torn. The appear- :night, when the place closes the cloud of once ofDelmonice.Withe red hot iron pro- smoke' go up inceesantly all day long. &Ceded effect' iatiff13,11+abut the, two chief , Combatants Stepped fighting and, croupled mieglisen, Conn.,'caught fourteen , pounds of blitckfish in frmet of her seaside cottage et Ansonia, the other day, and would have caught more if a two pounder hadn't broken her tackle. But this fiah didn't get away; for when :she saw the there was danger that he would, she waded in,to the water, and, using her skirts as a landing net, brought the fish in triumph to the shore. There is still running in good cendition on the Auburn branch of the New York Central Railroad the ear in which. Abraham Lineeln rode from /duffel° to Albany on his way to Wafthiugton for his first insegurse tion. The ceiling is decorated with the national flag, and at one end is a portrait of Lincoln and at the other one of Washing- ton. The car, now known as No. 540, was new ib i rebriary, 1801, and was decorated for the purpose of catrying the President. snllenlv down'I baking their bloody worinds h. Word to Young rEtrmers. 0 . • , ' and snarling encouragement to the two We'have just read a very interesting and leaders; On these in thew aage hot Iron instructive article giving advice to young was naeless, even when applied to raw Aesia,,- men ietting out -on Ithe patheete` Hu, The The lions responded to the burning lents. felicity with which the pilgrim progresses And the little yacht was so close when the ,great ship drew up that it got sucked down in the whirlpool, and rescuers and all 'died a noble death together 1" "Has your mother been telling yen?' asked Miss Mary. Oh no 1 she never mentions him. She does not know, No one does; but I am quite sure he died nobly, with 0.0 0110 to tell the tale, only the angels to look on, and that makes it all the finer. Or just suppose he was on a desert island all the time, and came back to find nalI sometimes think he is." " What ? When you are quite sure of the other theory ?" "1 mean I are quite sure while I am think- ing about it, or reading Robinson Orusoe, or the Swiss Family.' "Ohl" "Miss Mary, has no one ever told you. anything about my father ?" " No one." "They never tell me. other ones and aunt Ursula puts on her " there's -en -end -of - it look," Ito you think there ft anything they are waiting to tell the till I am older "If there were, aril sure you had better not try to fitct it out beforehand." " You don't think I would do anything of bliab sort? But I thonaht you might know. Do you remembsr their first aettling here V' "Scarcely. I was every smell child then," lelise Nugent had a few vague recollections which she did not think it expedient ,to mention. A dim remembrance rose before her of myetei•ious whieporitere a,bout the beautiful young widow, and. that it had been said that the rector of the Iola Church had declared himself to knot( the ladies well, and had heartily recemmended them. She tlamight it wiser only to speak of hate ing been one of their first echelon, telling of the awe Miss Ifeadworth ftepired; but the pleamatet it wail to bring a leaden to tion only by tearing away at each, other more fiercely. - lc/fere is ever a.n enticement, and alluremeet . rests very much with himself, but for youth. At last Delmonieo, fearing he would lose to waywardness just as intich in the motto - his two greatest actors, took a resolution bony of a rural as in the dark diss.trttions The, First Surrey Rifles of the British 'dust they needn't try to prevent others , , Axmy, are givinga burlesque performance from soaring to the clouds." of Buffalo ill's Wild West Show, It was given first at Wimbledon, and was so suca oessful that it had to be repeated before the Duchees of Albany, Lord and Lady " But you have no presence -no Tome. "1 haven't, eh? I was present enough, and made myself pretty well, understood when I athed your hand in marriage 1 You Wautage, andother distinguished spectators don't know me, Mrs, Merger, See here. and now the soldiers are giving it as a. pre- And he drove himself to his full height, lude to their promenade concerts. Whereat a which is a trifle over five feet, swelled his London paper regretfully retnarks that ,eternach out, and as he lifted himself tqo on "Nothing is sacred to the elitist or the his tees he waved his arm and began : burlesquist." The Society of the Sidney Presbyterian Church in Illinois is composed Wholly of women. They buiet &handsome little chapel and dedicated it substantially free from 'debt. There were no men to hold the offices, which have been vacant a year. The little church became a sort of elephant on which would probaby not have occurred to ;and frivolous gaiety of a city life. When a. any other man if the existence of the entire • yoong man has commenced the world, as himself ib. ile nett opened a door commu- 'sten sad of morality as a Christian en could hear the puff and sizzle of the gases should friake a failure of it you would feel nicating with a second cage and drove into duty as a man, from which he neither it like so many sheep the six lions that had swerves in tribulation nor abandons in pros. been looking on. Meanwhile the other lions perity: A good farmer is none the worm were 8til1 fighting, although much weaker. for being a good Christian, a goad father Delmouica's attempts to separate them were and e, good husband. On the contraree all useless. They paid not the slightest atten- ' those attributes generally excel in the man tion to him, and although in their struggles who succeeds best in his calling. When a they dashed against him, they were evident- young farmer has finally determined to es- ly unconscious of his presence. Before the Waist' an independent settlement of his tamer could form any plan to separate them own'either among his. friends 01 10. a foreign the fight ended of itself. The bee fore, , country, he must learn to labor and to wait. lion, who bad been defending his home Few men grow rich all in a moment; fewer against the five strangers, rolled over on his still attain that independence over the per - back, growled faintly, and died as the other , plexities of life which, make living on seized hire by the throat. One of the frent,, many farms a burden. Another partieu- legs, was gnawed off coinpletely, alum' d leg 'lax to which the young farmer should was chewed to a pulp, ell of the mane and pay attention is in keeping an accurate most of the neck was bitten amity and the record of his expenditure, profit and body was covered with blood, as was the 'loss. A system of book-keeping of some entire cage. , There was not on the dead kind is absolutely essential. A common. lion any unbitten whole.piece of skin lareta place account in which the items of the enough to have made a glove. He had day's expenditure, household and ferm, and fought for his rights just as long es he had profits, if any, are entered and balanced is al been, able to work his teeth and claws. that is required. It will show where the The victor seemed at first inclined to dash expenditure may be curtailed and where 'the at the tamer and at the lions in the neigh- direot road to profit lies. Many young boring cage, but he °hanged his mind under , farmers begin their agricultural career with. Delmonico's eye, and after a weak but tri- out having any more exact scientific train- umphent roar over the body of his victim ing for the pursuit they axe about to follow, he retired into a corner and moaned over his than the most ignorant laborer, who plods wounds.. Although conqueror he was not on i hie toilsome, unconscious way from to be envied. His mane was gone, and his dawn to eark. 4 little knowledge is any- body looked as though an espedally wicked eking but dangerous on the farrn ; in fact it harrow had been repeatedly dragged over 'is all but indispensable and people who be - it. Blood trinkled from la hundred ugly lieve, and unfortunately there are many wounds, and there is little hope that he will iwho abide in that belief to the contrary., are live. Curiously enough not one of the Hone =worthy of the name and position of farm - had its tail bitten off in the fray, which era -Shrsat and Farm. means to indicate that some code of honor VOW exists :among lions which prevents them from reeking each other ridiculous, even in The 04 1'. R., aud-Cotton for Ohms. the deadliest combat. The other six lions The Boston Berald says The Canadian pleased to talk about hirt profesaton and to still live, but they are badly bitten- The Pacific is developing a considerable traffic in give any information to those who asked fee leas if the second lion dies, will be about manufactured cottons from New England it The followin was eis account of the " Gentlemqn may cry peace, peaeo, but there is no peace. The next, 'gale which sweeps from the North will' bring us the clash of arms." "Yes, Mr. Bowser, but your voice is squeaky, and yen are very, very short. Please give it up. I should feel awfully bad if you made a failure."' ' the hands of the Mooraington presbytery, "Squeaky voice 1 Very, very short which recently appointed a committee to Make &failure 1 Mrs. Bowser, yen want to complete the organization. The question choke nee off, but you Can't do it! You will whether women are eligible to all the offices yet be deafened by the plaudits of the Mul- necessary to a complete OrtiaelZati011 titude who cheer my ora.tory.1 under consideration. He had five or six books re speeches, die - Otter Belt, one ot the greatest of Co- loves and lessons in preparatory gresanees, manehe chiefs, died in Indian Territory a and 0.8 8000. as supper was over lee 'locked few days ago. Five minutes before his death himself in the fibraey and began. He was they held him erect and rigged him out in still going it when I went to bed, &neat his best war costume. They painted him midnight I was awakened to see him before red, set his war beenet On his head, tied up the.glass,•on the dresser and to -heat him his hair in beaver skins, and laid hirn doVen saying just as he died. Then his five wives took 1 tell you, gentlemen, 'that the bul- :sharp butcher knives, slashed their faces works of Atnericen liberty are tottering to with deep cuts, cut themselves in other their foundations. A few more such aqts as, places, and beat their bleeding bodies and i these and -a few more -a few more-e„efew pulled their hair. They also burned every- more such acts as -as----." thing they had, tepees, furniture, and even ' " your wake up the baby he may have moat of the clothing' they had on. A big , cramps egad, , , crovidof latickslook onandkilledtenhorses, Mr. 'Bowser TiraS indignant that he including a favorite team of Foss Adding- would,not utter a word in reply, nor did he ton, on whose, ranch OtterBelt addrees me nntil after dinner pelt day. He The firat; young girl" to be cremated in continued his labors for, a, week or tedays, te America, was 9 year-old Alida Weissleder,1 ranging ite his outbursts of oratory from the denehter of the superintendent of the " The Dying Child" to "An Appeal for Brush'Eleetric Light Company in Cinoinnati. Liberty.' Then, from what I could over - Her body in burned. last week et theeheae, I made up my. mind *et he was pre. crematory an that city. The corpse, wrapped, paring an a.ddress for a special occasion. in white alum linen, with white and yellow ,1 Re couldn't keep the news to himself, but roses on the breast, was slid into the retort ' soon informed me that he 'was to soon sule °mime creation had been threatened. He the saying ts, he will find life not wort e by two attendants, who at once retired, and dress the Young Men's Liberty Chile, enterea theca e half dad as be was and shut ,living if he does not set up for himself a in the stillness that followed the mourners r. ow p gi . '.ii of the body as the heat devoured it. After far—. an hour the blue flames stepped circling "Make a failure of it ! Mrs. Bowser, about the body, and 'a long white streak you don't know me! Just attend to paint - was seen where it had been. These ashes, ling your old pottery and drumming on that wfien gathered up, weighed less than a piano and I will take care of myself 1" pound. They were returned to the parents I pity the poor man when J. look back and will be preserved in an urn. It was the over those days. He wrote and re -wrote. ninth incineration at the ceraatory. Pro.ssian CavalrY Officer' I think he prepared as many as six or seven addresses before he got one to suit, and he spent at least tourteen hours per day trying to commit it to memory. He looked upon In the course of conversation with the me as his enemy and refused to have any. Adjutant of a dragoon regiment stationed at further conversation on the subject until. Metz learned that he, in company with the day, of the evening when he was to some nine or ten brother officers, had been speak. Then, being apparently very tier - out on a ten days' reconnaissance under the General oommanding the cavalry division. The expenses of the trip male partially if not wholly out of the officers' pockets. My friend spoke of the tour veith the greatest vous, he remarked : "Do you think my voice has improved ?" "1 hope it has." "There you go ! Do your very best to discourcbge me 1' enthusiasm, and I went to the General to "Mr. Bowser, can't I prevail upon you obtain from him the details of the system to give up this idea of making an address followed. Now, the General in question, to•mght ?" Von Wright, an Englishina.n, whose namely "Never 1 If I can succeed with my wife is dear to all of us Officers who made his ac.. seeking to drag me down the hone will be quaintance was one of the most dieting. all the greeter." :fished °aviary officers in the Germany Army. At midnight they brought Mr. Bowser From Major in a cuirassier regiment he was home in a hack. He was in a nervous chill. selected by Von Moltke, although personally He went upon the platform to deliver his unknovrn to him, and on professional re- address, and began commendations only, as his miiiitsry secretary "FELLOW CITIZENS -Let me assure you In 1880; as commander of a cavalry rev. that I highly appreciate the great honor went he led the Third Array into Chalons; paid me by this club in selecting -in choos- isinubposerqtaunenttlyntaduffrinagppthneintornainenptgai,gninhneiu‘dhineldg .i_ntepinickpiinclgrimnge omtiet_ouint_toind_eliv.ej-deliver that of Quartermaster -General to Prince That was as far as he got, one boy yelled Charles during the trying Le Mans oam. out : "Go it, Shorty and others told paign. At the time of this! particular visit bite to take his nose off, put e, brick on his to Metz he was the Lieutenant -General tongue, etc., and be broke right down. commanding the Fifteenth or Frontier Ca_ The papers next morning charitably re- valry Division. The General was always frained troin even mentioning his name. I was looking to see if anything was said, when Mr. Bowser came down to breakfast. I sinitel at him kindly, but he shook one flat at the baby and the other at me and hoarsely repleed. "It's all right -all right, but I'll pay you off if I have to wade in yore knee-deep 1" £400. Inany case he will always be a dam- points. Recently a ahipment of 3 044 ales aged lion. 1 of cotton cloth to China was made via Bos- ton and Lowell Railroad to Newport, Vt., ani Canadian Pacific Railroad; Vt., to Van - GM Lives, couver, British Columbia, and thence by Few things are so coedutive to a steamer to Yokohama and Hong Kong. The M. During the afternoon and the evening cheerful spirit WS that habit of mind tv hich shipment made a train of twentysix oars, I examined the work, and I delivered my takes delight in the common and ordinary which ran through to the ship's side at Van- criticierns on it when the officerci assembled things of life. The songs of birds and the couver, a little more than 3,200 miles from next morning." The fact that 1 have been fragrance of flowers the bright oky ata the Boston. By this react cotton goods can be brought up in the Engle& Army must be fresh gtass, the mirth of ohildrenethe inter- shipped from New England even without accepted as an excuse for the blundering esti; of home, the society of friends, the the expense of the dressing whkh the Eng- question I next addressed to him : lint, day's vacation when a longer one is denied, lish manufacturers apply to their packagea General, how many irtaff officers, aide de3- thelittle gift where a costly one isimpoesible, shipped through the Suez Cava Instead of camps, Assistant Adjutant and Assistant the thousand little acts of kindness and that, Amerkens can ship the cloth in ordin• Quartermaater Generals had you to do the courney, of eharity and benevolence, that My bales orboxes, becauae the vOYege being details ?" "None," was the reply; "1 costa° little and mean eo much -such things a short one and wholly in a northern late. did, all the work myself." Here was a Gen- tede the condition of the goods on arrival end of the highest professional standing will be the same as when they left tbe face 1 and reputatiort-a man who has won hie tory. The time required for the shipping position by the harden of work in European of the goods from the New England mill to ' warfare, and at ote time at peace mancetiv- Shanghai is about thirty days ; the time 1 rea commanded some 4,000 to 5,000 sabres from England via the Suez Canal to the , -deliberately ettiployiva his spare time in same point is about fifty-three days. And giving to some dozen regimental officers in - what are our cotton manufacturers, doing? struction which might fall ba our army to a There ought to be no possibility of over. garriaon instructor. It Seems bnpossible to production' in Canacilan cottons, if theae ar- 1 overestimate not merely the value of finch Made euiteble for the Eastetn market,. instruction, but the impetus given to pro- "fessinal etudy among the officers by Gebe Thre lute been 4',361,492 spent fel exter. orals it: Von Wright's position not consider - i 181 eneath them to become instruetors. reconnaissance : he evening befbre we started I thought out a scheme. At 7 A. M. the following morning I met the officers, end to each I gave his day's work, which he returned to me completed at 2 -and their name is /egion-inay, if they are `permitted, fill tip the life with gladness and the heart with cheerfulness. 13ut, when they are pushed aside aa not worth at- tentioe, and every nerve is etrained to the utmost after (wetly and far.off illithions, it is no wonder that the starved capacity for happinees should dwindle away, and that a, ploomy dieconterit, born of hope long defer- red,,shotild ,doot rive the smile tthe lipe and the cheer from the heart, Mrs. Maria White, an old Ileeeher fatally, has rented. Henry Ward Beecher, and furnished recites to ledgers, friend of the ;imitating rabbits in Australia, and 7,853,- ng the house of r187 rabbits have been killed. That igt every 1 --ewseaseitotateelete-e----- will let the ;rabbit has cost nearly a, shilling to kill, The Chinese giant, Chang, Is eight feet 'while they have rather increased, 1 three inches. Inquiring hien& eleuroley had been, away from home a couple of months, and on his return inet Robinson. "Yes," said Dumley after the greeting was over. "1 am honestly glad to get batk. After all, there is me place like home. I &pose the boys were asking after,rne ?" "Oh, yes," replied Bobinson. "There's Brown, the gas collector, inquired only this morning if you ever expected to come back ; and Totn Sawyer, the tailor, where a letter would reach yon; and 'Billy,' over at the Holean-the-Wail, said he was very anxiotis to see you, and -what, going? Well, so long, old boy. 1 s'pose you're anxious so see the wife MA belies." It ShOuld MA. Be Costly. Ponsenby--‘.1 How charming Miss Mac - bullion looks in full dress Fitzroy-" Superb By the way, I'm told her costume cost $3,000." Pensonby-" Oh, surely not !" " NS+ by not 1" Ponsonby-" It doesn't. come hio gh you see."