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The Exeter Times, 1888-1-19, Page 2IIITTIE 8 FATHER. oliAp., XIII, neemenetteurente Nine miles was a etevere &teen through taotmery lanes in Nevernber to go to a hall ; -but the Itedcestle Hnut Ball was the ball of tato year, uniting all the comity mitgnatee ; nencl youtig Indies were hardly reekoned .......... i ....... .........1, 1. ./.. ........ ............................. " 1/1rk) yol; will oblige me by takiug your en being the stronger Man, and, mountleg ulatnes, and only 1".Iettie coneented to have Tki,e PIG Tan WENT TO MAE.KET. ceusla bank to her ntother," the box turned end drove off in quest of the carriage rug added to her trappinge -- .# til rrhe grey tyregt fenger,, mgrtogred Ant•feether'help, et a wayado cottage, or from 6nd ingeniously tied en °leek -fashion, weth BY A. DAD. naple emopetby. 'Plot being the ease, I the atteralants On the eneine, whose weieht her sash by Gerard. Be and Mark piloted may as well go baoh in. that direction tam," had probably done the misehief, and pre. the three lathers oyen the narrow border of This enulted tn Analog Lady Delmar and leered the trap for the next miner the hole, which looked a very black open the two leire. EgeemonM together, eemper. -Nearly the whole of the 'hind wheels and gulf, Ammple had thanked the men, aud iug notes about the two different TAPAS to meat of the door had •disappeared on one bidden thene come to Lescombe the next daY Redeastle from their several homee. side; and, though more yeas visible on the to be paid for their assistance. Then they Lady Delmer was deelariug that her it W418 hultoseible to oven the door, all Weed to watch Mark ride through the ceaclunten wa$ the meet obstinate mem in ex- as a 2°"8 of rubbish lay on it. Amutple was river. SA the [Mellowest place, indicated both on this side, and her voice was heard, gall- by her end the labovren. It was PerfectlY istenee and that her Imeband believed, in 'as ' (wale out ' till they had appeenta him to ' t t ing to May in idle of the laughter which is fordable, so Annaplen were mock hereics 'there. Mrs Egrernontes position would c t t'LlY °N elled when. she quoted— bardly be 40J:dished tin e ., 4 \i' bleh WAY did you come V the mike d. PerhaPs near altea to soreants— e Weyer beavier mart and heron preanted to the notabilities sielvehollaltV;edebeleit 013Yeelle/314114eiltelteeeLtlentettg"esjidmthheerCeanjoaneer 4 - " 1'1)°41(1411°b'elllalgYe ilsau.bYr°Lkeeen td"Iwn. eteannod a midnient torrattes forme, 3i°24 ealliug intereenree ; and her husband eau Angapte, " n ' , "Janet will go •in for second-sightever !titer, And Nuttie responded in e few seconds-- . . Prepared himself to beviennused with en " So nauoh the worse. I knew we shall Yes, she's all = m right, except a etch fro. "yet enough geed heart and our Ladve's gra =punt of grurnblieg tlaat was nentudecl to m come to grief over Bluepost Bridge, and theglass, and that I'm sitting on ber more Mill eoon be gained the landing plane" , lineprese her veith the megniturle of thesecrifice, now there will be treble weight to brea,k it or less, :How are you getting on?" "The They were both in high spirits, admiring 'but which only made her offer to forego the down, I eintanit it, telt you, and there's horse is all but ont• Net hurt, .21eY think. each otherni droll appearance, end epeculat- ,gaiety, and be totd that she would never cl ' ht ' bh f '1 " Here's another man come to help—a gentle- hig on the ghosts they might appear to my • nave any. comxnen tense, $o their carriage led the way, and Ives 'followed by the Rectory weggonette con - reeking the ladies and. Mark, who had. been mamma:ten home, singe his stepmother (Inl- and public balls -without a gentleman in Into A hole ttild duck fast, while the red-fien you . a, is I now . as p- g ,attendance, and his father was not to be de- traotion enginerna,n, prodded her with an vanished. umbrella till she was all over blood. Now, 'Theyare looking for something to make *tolled. from his fireside. And in a group near the door, got up a$ if it had been anything rational, I should levers of," returned May; " them wooden elaborately as his powers could accomPlish, have thought something of her secorid sight! rails are too rotten, retood Gerard Godfrey: He knew nobody 1 tell her Was suggested by— "Can't thee' get ns through the window?" . sighed a muffled. voice. ee the Soleil, The e,x-offieer xn queshon had there except a family in his sistern parish, "redon,Brifte i8 bv0119,a "Yes, but you should tell what you did man—my dear, it is your partner, Nuttea's one who chanced to look out of window. &mem, Janet," said her slater. "She umbrella man." "Oh, xnaeing it complete elnuttple walked id; the horse's head, calling thonght Robinson, the coachman, was —hopes, Jen:let—I'm sorry, bus can't help him poor old Bobin Hood, and caressing waltzing with her over it, and they went squashing You 1 I can't help eubsidiug on him, while Ger ard and Nuttie kept together bbs • (TO BE GONTINUED.) . . Selling French Oeorets to Germany. A serious charge has been brought against former ow officier of the line, in the pages anee o er my lady neat °wa' " Not unless are could be elongated, like distin d hi lf i the Tonquin carn- gu s e inse u Niko had good-naturedly given him a seat in their fly, end having fulfilled his duty by " W 11 I n nit certain th the Hope of the Katzekopfs. paign, and as a recompenee hed been pro- enelning the daughter to dance, he had no- t ti e ' al ill quote ek 't tieme rao on -engines w meted to be 'an Ajutaut of his corps and to - thing to disturb him in. watchiug for the rea, wake " We shall manage now," cried Mark ; we have found some iron bars to the th 'Ft ,•oynoroare whose attraction had led. hien into -these unknown regions, mad, as he remelt- -bared with a (paean nus might surely grant etetteself dispenention from the vigil of a black lettensaint. There at length he behold the entrance. ' There was the ogre himself, high bred, al - ...most handsome, as long as lee was not too aelestely scratinimd, and on his arm a well. known figure, metamorphosed by delicately - gated. satin sheen and pearls, and still more by the gentle blushing gladness on the fair cheeks and tbe sat eyes that used to droop. 'Then followed a stately form in mulberry enoire and point lane, leaningon Gerard's more • especial abhorrence,—" that puppy," who bad been the author of all the mischief ; and -behind them three girls nein lateen, tb e other • etwo in white, and, wiat was provoking, he teselly conldnot decide whichvras Urania. The roarefully-dressed hair and stylish evening alress and equipnaents had altogether. trans, -.formed the little homely schoolgirl, so that, 'though he was ours she was not the the fair- haired damsel withpaleblueflowers, he didnot 'know how to decide between the white and daisies and. the black and grasses. Indeed, las thought the two whites must he sisters, and all the more when the black lace halten no. exchange :greetings with some one her -face put on au. expression so familiar to him, 'ente,the started forward and'etried to catch intemoye but in vain, and be suffered agonies eni doubt' whether she had been perverted by zreteuness. It was some comfort that when present- ly rt, rush of waltzers floated, by, she was not with her cousin; but to provoke him .still more, as the daisies neared him, lie be- held for a moment in the whirl the queer haInfrightened, half -exultant, which Tee had seen on Nuttie's faze when swing- deerg sky-high! When the pause came and people walked about, tbe black lady stood talking so near iaim that he ventured at last on a step forward and an eager "Miss Egremont," Mut, as the turnen, he found himself obliged eto say, "I begeYour pardon." "Did you mean my cousin. We often get nantataken eor each other," said May civilly. He brightened. "I beg your pardon," be said, "I knew her at Micklothwayte. I ,atrrhere— quite by accident Mrs. Elmore was so good as to bring men' May was rather entertained. "There's =ray cousin," size said, "Lord Philip Moly- wenn is asking hor to dance" and she left tdra most unnecessarily infuriated with Lord hWpMo1ynenx. A steward introduced him to a dull -look - ting girl, but fortune favoured him, for this time he did catch the real Nuttien eye, and all herself, as soon as the dance was over, she came up with outstretched hands, " Oh Gerard ! to think of your being here I Come to mother I" And, beautiful and radiant, Mrs, Egre- name was greeting him, and there were ten minutes of delicious exchange of news. But " pleasures are as poppies fled," Nettie had tao dance to spare, her card was full, and she had not learnt fashionable effronteey enough to play tricks with engagements, and just then Mr. Egremont descended on them—" I wish to Introduce you to the Dttchess," he said to his wife ; and. on the way he demanded— "Who is that young cub?" "Gerard Godfrey—an old neighbour.' "1 thought I had seen him racketing about there with Ursula. VII. not have &we umbrella fellows coming about I" 'Does he really make umbrellas, Nuttie?" asked Blanche, catching her hand. "No suoh thing 1" said Nettie hotly, "he in in the *office. His father was a surgeon; ,his sistere married clergymen 1"' "And he carne here to meet you," said Annaple Ruthven. "Poor fellow, what a tehame it is ! Can't you give him one turn!" " Oh dear 1 I'm engaged all through 1 To Mark this time." • " Give him. one of the extras I Throw Mark over to mel No," as she looked at the faces of the. two girls, "I suppose that • wouldn't do, bue I'm free this time—I'm not the fashion. Introduce me ; I'll do my nest as coneolation." Nuttie had. Ind performed the feat, with ;great shyness, when Aferk appeared, haYmg been sent in quest of his cousin, when her father perceived that she had hung back. Poor Gerard led off Miss Ruthven the more gloomily, and could not help sighing • out, "1 suppose that is 0.1:1 engagement 1" " Oh !you. believe that impertinent gossip in the paper," returned Annaple. " won - ,der they don't contradict it; but perhaps • they treat it wieh magnificent scorn. " No doubt they know that it is only premature." "If they means the elders, I &teeny they wish it, but we aren't in France or • Tbaly." "Then you don't think, Misa Rathven, that it will come off ?" " don't see the slightest present pro- epect,'" said Annaptel tumble to resist the kindly impulse of gtving immediate pfeasute, though she knew the proved might be oven slighter for her peetner. However, he "footed it' all the more ightly and joyously for the eminence, and the good-natured 'maiden efbarWarde made him conduct her to the tearoom, whither Mark and Nuttio were also tending, and , there all four contrived to get mixed up together; and Nuttie lead thee to hear of Inlannieur's new eccomplishment of grin borne for lerr. Dutton's luncheon an bringing it in a baeket to the °Ste, before Irate egein demetteled ; Mr Egremont, who had been at the far end of the room eanong some congeners, who pro. tferred istemiger refreshment, silddenly Iteerd. bet lettght aMpeted up, and, with a look of thender toWards hen nbeerseedina low voiee, or o en saa Lady e mar " receme e un I env medal While station- - . always trying to get John to bring it hatch down there. But you must prepare ed in the .plerteant garrison of Nioe he fell a for a shook or two before you can be set before the magistrates, but he only laughs free" victiin to a local , sorceress, on whom he at me, and nothing will induce Robinson to .spent money. Owing to his repeated acts of ture they have just 1 The two gentlemen and three servants absence without leave he was deprived, of go the other way, beca been mending the road' on Lescotnbe Hill !, strove and struggled, hoisted and pushed, to his rank and ordered to prison for seventy- Annaple, my dear, Pcan't allow you another . the tune of suppressed sounds, half of flee days. , mobs, half of laughter, till at last the carriage When he came out he setae a letter to his waltz; Mark must exouseyou—I am genie. et is half -past tvvo, and the carriage was order- , was heaved up sufficiently to be dragged r mistress, which he asked. her to forward. to ed at two 1 Robinson will be ix, a a mmte , backwards beyond the holo; but even then 1 the German Consul. The woman opened " ' it would not stend, for the wheels on the Z the letter, read. in and kept it. A month tem -per than ever if we keep him waiting. She bore her sister off to the cloak -room, 1 undermost d ost side were duelled, neither she could i ago ue quitted Nice to fellow her lover's and. there, nearly an hour later, the Egre• either door be readily opened, ons being i regiment to Antibes, and as she was unable ' smashed in, and the other jammed fast. An- : to pay for her rooms, she left some of her mitts found them still waiting the pleasure naPkh however, still tried to keep up her effects behind in trust with her landlord. of the implacable Robinson ; hut what was that in consideration of having kept her own spirito and her sister's, observing that ' . Among these was the letter,which the land - sister from such a letrimental as poor mem she now knew how to sympathise with lord read. Hi He found that n it an overture had beeome ? So muttered •Mr. Egremont Johnnie's tin soldiers in their box turned i was made to communicate secrets concern - upside down. 1 ing the new Lobel rifie of the French army in the satisfaction of hiving hirnself, with 1 - Two sturdy labourers here made their a.p. ; to the German War Department. Them gentlemanly severity, intimated the iesup arable gulf between Miss Egremont of pearance, having been roused in the cottage , was, however, another letter in which the Bridgefield and the Man of Tembrellen. and brought back by Mr. EEgremont,aala a", : soldier had asked his Amie not to send the Moreover, his sister-in-law took care that ' last ono door was forced open by main force, 'letter on to the German Comae The land - he should hear that the Duchess of B.edeastle and the ladies emerged, Annette, helping lord, after he had made himself acquainted had pronounced his wife sweetly pretty and her sister, beginning some droll thanks, but with the peculiar contents of the first epis- pausing as shteperceived that Lady Deliner's tis, despatched it under cover to the officer's lady -like, and talked of inviting them for a visit of a few nights. i dress was covered with blood. ,1 father, a doctor living in Nancy, who com- "A bore," observed he ungratefully, "'els I "My dear Janet. This is worse than I i •, smolitlidsieraetgeidmietnot. purport Ia otitd tl.ehrevcCausl oanteli.hoe f b ill: as dull as ditchwater." at, in truth, . guessed. Why did you not speak ?" though the Canon'sfamily, when in residence, ` " It is not muck," said the poor lady, i in prison. were intimate with the ducal family, , rather faintly. "My neck—" I Byorder of the Colonel the rifles in the ..Tdie elder ladies came about her, aed seat- 1. keeping of the regiment were counted, but Alwyn Egremont had never been at the castlesince the days d his earliestouth . ed her on oushions, where, by the light of none of them were missing. In the mean - and he was not quite tprepared to his Mey's lamp, Alice, who had been to an time the police seized all the documents and - owe ambulance class at Mieklethwayte, detected papers which they found in the rooms of toleration there to his wife's charms, or the the extent of the cut, extracted a fragment the ex -officer's acquaintance, and • among Canoness's patroneme of her. And innocent Alice only knew that every; of glean and staunched the bleeding with these, it is stated on the authority above body had been very kind to her, and it was handkerehiefs and strips of the girl's tulle ' quoted, was a letter from Germany, in whicth only a pity that her husband did not like skirts, but she advised her patient to be the alleged traitor was told to draw up a , driven at once to a surgeon to secure that new plan of the fortifications of Antibes, as her to notice poor Gerard Godfrey. I no morsel of glass reniairted. Mr. Egre- his firat one had not been understood. 1 mont, gratified to see his wife come to the ; As the price of his work he n as to receive t CHAPTER XIV. front, undertook to drive her hack to Red- 200 000 francs or E8 000. Such ate the de - castle. Indeed, they must return thither to „ tails, as published of this new scandal in GOING E.• t cross by the higher bridge. "You will go 1 the French army. It has caused the great - "din ye were a brig as wild as me."—Beene. [ with me," entreated Lady Delmar, holding est sen ration at Nice &nd Antibes. "What's the matter ?" exclaimed Mrs. Egremont, waking from a doze,— "that brulge ?" "ridge I Don't be mob a fool 1 We aren't near it yet." The servant, his face looking blurred through the window, came to explain that the delay was causedby an agricultural en- gine which hed chosen this unlucky night, or morning, to travel here one farm to an- other. There was a long delay, white the monster could be heard coughing frightful- ly before it could be backed with iM spiky companion into a field b0 as to let the car- riages pass by; and meantime Mr. Egre- mont was betrayed into uttering ejacula- tions which made poor Nuttie round her eyes in the dark as she stet by his feet on the back seat, and Alice try to bury her ears in her hood in the corner. On they went at, last, for about a mile, and then came another sudden stop—another fierce growl from Mr. Egrenaont, another apparition of the servant at the window, saying, in his alert deferentiel manner, "Sir, the Midge have broke under a car- riage in. front. Lady Delmar's, sir. The horse is plunging terrible." The door was torn open, and. all three, regardless of ball costumes, precipitated themselves out. The moon was up, and they saw the Rectory carriage safe on the road before them, but on the bridge beyond WM a struggling mass, dimly illaminated by a single carriage ;lamp. Mr. Egremont and the groom hurried forward -where Mark and. the Rectory coachman were already render- ing whet help they could, May standing at the horses' heads, and her mother trying to wrap everybody up, since stay in their carriages they coal& not. • Transferring the horses to Nuttie, the two sisters hurried towards the scone of action'but Blanche's white satin boots did not carry her far, and she turned on meeting her uncle. He spoke with a briskness and alacrity that made him like another man in Mani emergency, as he assured the anxious ladies that their friends were safe, but that they could not be extricated till the carriage was lifted from the hole into which it had sunk amid bricks, stones, and broken tim- bers. He sent his own coachman to anise, • Alice's hand; and the one hastily consigning „Nuttie to her aunt's care, the other giving injunotionsnot to alarmher mothertoAnnaple who had declared her intentions of welkin,'b, I home, the two ladies went off under Mr. Egremont's escort. 1 Jut then it wasediscovered that the inel- mar °nehmen, Robinson, had all this time been lying insensible, not dead, for he moan- ed, but apparently with a broken leg, if nothing worse. Indeed, the men had known it all along, but until the ladies had been rescued, nothing had been possible but to put his cushion under ids head and, his rug over him. The ladies were much 1 shocked, and Mrs. William Egremont deeicl- ecl that be must be laid at the bottom of the 1 waggonette, and that they would take him• straight to the hospital. I• They were only a mile and a half from , Lescombm and it was pronounced safe to 1 cross on the remains of the bridge, so that I Annaple, who had a pair of fur boots, had alrea,dy. decided on going home on foot. The other gues,wanted to accompany her, and, as MayandNuttiebothliacl overshoes, they were ' permitted to do so, and desired to go to bed. and wait to be picked up by the waggonette, which mustneturn to Bridgefield by the Lea - comberoad. Blanche, having e.deitcate throat, was sentenced to go with her stepmother. Mark undertook to ride the horse through the river, and escort the three girls, and Gerard. Godfrey also joined them. The place where he was staying lay a couple of miles beyond Lesoombe, and when Mrs. Elmore's fly had been met and turned back by Mr. Egremont, he had jumped off to render assistance, and had done so effective- ly enough to win Mark's gratitude. It was by this time about half -past five, as was ascertained by the light of the waning moon, the carriage lamp having burnt out. It was a fine freety morning, and the moon was still powerful enough to reveal the droll Sgures of the girls. May had a fur cloak, with the hood tied over her head by Mrs. Egremont's lace shoevl ; Nut - tie had a huge white cloud over her bead, and a light blue opera Moak; Annaple had "rowed herself in a plaidie" like the Scotch girl she was, and her eyes flashed out merri• ly from its dark folds. They ell disda tied the gentlemen's self-denying often of their • A Modern Pleasure Trip. A brief pleasure trip to India made by a party of Englishmen last fall shows' how much may nowaeays be seen in a short time with the aid of fast steamers and fine rail- road service. The party was away frora England just sixty days, of which thirty- . nine were spent ni the round trip from England to Bombay, leaving three weeks for ightseeing in India. Two days weratgiven o Caloutte, two to Darjeeling on the north- eastern edge of India,, where there are snperb views of the Htnutlaye.s ; two days to the temples and palaces of Betides, one day to the beantiful city of Lucknowt two days to the rernarke.ble palaces and ancient tombstat Agra two days to the scenes of the mutiny at Delhi, and two days to Jeypore, the most unique and one of the most interesting Mein of northern India. Then the party returned to Bombay to catch the steamer: They ead devoted fourteen days to sightseeing in the towns and seven days and nights to railroad travel, catching glimpses of a good deal of the country, and travelling by lend and sea in the sixty clays a total distance of 18,000 miles. Of course, in so hurried a journey there is no time for careful investigation, but many valuable Impressions may be ob- tained even in a flying trip of this sort. There is no doubt that the members of this excursion to India will hereof ter be able to read about the affairs of that great country with more ietelligence and interest than ever before. might Have Done Better. " No, sir," said a poiramus little mer- chant, "1 can't be trifled with. I,know the world ; I've been through it." " s, I euppoee so," said the travelling man to whom these remarks were addressed. " I'm a self-made man ; entirely self- made. What do you think of that, sir ?"' " It strikes me that you might have done good cleat better to let out the contract." "You may brbagn7—e," said a Toronto girl " a small portion of a Celtic disturbance" " A which is it ?" said the waiter. " Irish stew, you etapid," answered she. AN IMPENDING- FASHION. WItAT Tut emettems WILL DE netween To Iv wen sTreente Ann or eTten. &MANED, • (.4 Bea -limo Story.) Once on a time there were five pigs that lived all in a new. Fat Mr. Pig aud hie wife Menem PM, with the three tittle pigs, their children These inede up the whole Old Father Pig wae pe big as anY two of them and every morning went out to market to bey meal and candies for the family. Old Mother Pig as regularly stopped at home and got up three meals a day for everybody, besides minding the children. The eldest little pig did not need to be minded, because he was a good pig that was never ecolded or whipt, but always got nice bread and butter, But the second little pig wasn't a good little leig at all, and he needed minding end he had to lee ecolded and whipt and so he got none. While the tiny Mies Pig went and got lost among the grass mud the canes and, required ever so much minding and had to be flogged so that she (Ivied " weeh, weeh," all the way home. This is what heppenecl every day to this family of pigs and this is what was told to them every night as they were tucked up in bed, until they all mild they would stand it no longer. Mn Pig put his foot clown on going to market and Mrs. Pig declared that she wouldn't stop at home, one little pig said he wantecl a change from bread and butter, and the other said he heel gone lone enough with none. The tiny, weeny pig stud she was time of beim; flogged all the way home, and that she wanted a change as much as anybody. So every- one in that happy family wanted to do'whe,t they oughtn't, and they got into a heap of trouble over it. ' Mrs, Pig wene off to xnarleet end got all astray 'in no time. She went down the wrong street in the first place, then a big dog ran out and bit her hi the leg. She ran and the dog ran until they overtook a fat old lady, who didn't ru.n at all. Poor Mrs. Pm ran m fast that she ran up against the old lady, and there was trouble. But pig nor dog couldn't wait to see how the old lady got up. • The pig then ran againt a lamp post, and stopped short, to find that the dog had given up the chase. Then she saw a little dog, and she made a dash at him, e.nel ran between the legs of a fat old man. He fell, and the pig and dog were gone. Then it rained, and Mrs. Pig forgot to bring her umbrella and she got all wet, and she fell down on the slippery boards, ancl the fat man laughed. Ile was with the fat Woman ; first they cried, and then they laughed. Then Mrs. Pig enquired of a policeman the way to the market, but he toldher to move on. Then she rad a drove of pigs, and she asked the same question of the driver, and he said to come along, but she was too wise for that. So she turned around and declared she would go home, and this is what 'happened. First Madam ran into an apple stall and tipped over the table of apples and things; and the old woman that kept the stall chased that pig down the sereet, over the lane and across the gutter, bato a drain and out of a wood-yarcl, up and down, over and across till neither could go another step. Then a small boy with a stick drove her— the pig ---out again and she ran under a wagon and over a wheel -barrow and on one side of a baker's cart and en Mae other side of a boy with ten band -boxes, sending them all over the town. •, Then tho old woman got up and followed the boy, and the fat man joined the fat wore= and the big dog tore along with the little dog, the butcher's boy and the baker's man, three policemen and e, dozen of men all along with the pig ahead, higgledy-piggledy, ell out of breath, till there wasn't a soul in town that wasn't into the raoe of the pig that couldn't find the way bo market. So she said she would go home, but she got lost again and wandereci all around the town. At last she met Mr. Pig coming down the street like mad saying he wouldn't stop at home any longer and would and must go to the market that day or die. But Mr. Pig was civil enough to show the old lady home and he told on the way all the troubles he had. These form the story of the pig that stopped ab home. el ---- ----a------ Airbe Concludes His Narrative. DEAN 114AISTEE GRIP,—Ill 0011thliWatiell O' tue led miathen ter, an 1 tenet', ye last week, I just got by the lent ea the burin' hoose a elide oa pair o' sharp Shop,rs lyite' on the bureau, when up 1 grabs them au' we WC vigorous (dip I divorced mann' free um wife --juat comin' within a hair o' cormnittin' merder, thought for the shears were sherp piuted, are ermine' doon wi' eic' force, they broche up in Mistress Airlie s haffits no half an been Mae the jeguler vein ! Loeb, mon, I cen find the rope roon me thrapple yet when I think on't 1 But tao describe the torrent o' abuse ehe began to poor oot on ma devoted head at that 'oor o' the neorniu' wad be pest ma lingual pooers, in lack, 1 (liana beer% for bythis time the reels were up afore the door an' the heat an' the °rood wae something townie Sae gettin' on a when dede I harried on, jest in time tae gin the Arendt a canny hint that I wad see it wad be naething oot o' their pooeh, sit, afore they began tae ply on hthe fire, they vead just drone a wee drap Inner on me, t hoose tee keep the pent free sterin' like, 1 canna, say but they treete . ea re- quest very cee.vily ; but the mucki, cuifs, misunnerstaunin' me nao cloot, turned the nozzle on Me instead o' the hootte, an' loth 1 I thooh J me very head was blown aff. Ony- hoo, I faun inascl soornied aboot on the sidewalk tae the on mitigated merriment o' the orood, though what they cud seo Me hutch at in a, fellow beied gettin' dookit tee the ISkin 1 canna mak oot. I winna tak up yr dine tellin' ye hos I °remnant° the beck noor,a.n' shifted ma °lame al:14 hoot after, I•tell asleep Wr ma head. in a bonen o' warm water soakin' the muoilage oot o' ma hair ; suffeece tae say I made ma rein breakfast that morale''no demi& tae wreaker' up IMAMvir S Airlie, ha had game back tae bect again After the tire was oot. Auither thing ye may be sure it'l wasna gann tee let an onfortunete rnisteke prevent me frae usin' the hair dye noo after I had laid oot the baw- bees °int ; sae, takin' gude care tae see I had the richt bottle this time, I peers oot a gude sup intee ma tufo an' rubs the decoc- tion weel intae ma hair an' whuskers. 1 rubbit, an' rulthit, takin aye the 'tither slaik, till tbe result was a most beautifu' black beard an' moustache. I declare, I hardly keat mead' when 1 tuk the first squint in. the glees. In fack, so youth& was ma a,ppearanoe, that I began tae grue for 'fear I had, wha kens, through ma vanity, Belled masel tae the deevil, an' that maybe this was the first- in- stallment o' perpetual youth. No tae say that I had ouy objection to the youth itself in a way, but there , was ma bit laddie wad be growin' up' an, gettin' xnarrit, an' growin' tgray like an honest mon ; an' here wad be me, the auld grand- father, ma hair as black an' me, skin as fresh as a laddie o' nineteen, a livin' lee, evie ma Auld heart an ma, young face. Gude forefend ! the rnair I thocht men the mair horrible the picter seemed, an' the molt. I became convinced that this hair dye was a decoction o' the deevil's for the entrapment o' the vain. Sae mad was I at gein' the devil sic a chance taell a cari- cature o' an holiest Scotchman VI tnk the poker an' smashed the bott'tlee then an' there. Then kennin' confession, was gade for the soul, I gaed up the stair an' made a clean breast o' the whole thing tee ma wife, an' tellin' her that what I had on ma beard noo, I wad let wear off by degrees ;' an' then, nae =titter hoo sair the years mouleed their white wings doon on me as they ft_ ovrer ma head I wad never complain. • Sa peeoe wos restored an' awe I geed doon to the wa,rehoose evlaustlin' like a mavis. But gin a mon thinks he can escape tho consequences o' his folly by simply sayin' that he'll never dae the like again he's muckle mista'en. For three days I sported ma bonny black beard, but on the fourth day it lucked sac dingy greasy luckine that after I had go' tenthe warehoose soopit up, I got a sveceper warmwater an' washen an' scoored ma head, determined anco for a' tae get rid o' the in- fernal stuff. I rubbed ma head weel dry an' tuk a heck in the eless—just a'e keek— an' fell doon oneeusible. Hoe lang I lay 1 dinna kin, but when I cam' tae the hale es- tablishment was gathered roon' aboot me, an' lauthine every mither's son o' them, lauehin' in the maist inhuman manner 1 Choltin' wi' rage I serammet tae ma feet aaa' said I wad really like tae see the pint o' the joke. At that meenit Meister Tamson held afore ma face a sma' mirror—an' the nexe.meenit I tore oot the back door amang roars o' lauchter an' the yells o' newsboys— an' maiden a dive intae the firet barber's shop I beggit for mercy's sake for a clean shave, heaelan' a', regardless o' expense. Sair, sair did I pay for ma folly, for ma hair was S8 green AS grass 1 Yours baldly, HUGH AIRLIE. The Progress of Islam. When Canon Taylor told the Church Cons gross in England that Islam a,s a missionary religion. is more successful than Christiani- ty, he aroused a violent controversy that has happily brought into a clear light a few facts of great interest. It has been abund- antly proven in Mile debate that Islam in that now dominates half ihe continent and is constantly advancing in a large pare of he remainder. It has also been shown by Mr. Bosworth Smith, Dr. Blydeci, and others pre-eminently qualified to speak,that compared with the paganism it is supplant- ingetho religion of Mohamed is a great blessing to the natives of Africa, eradicat- ing, as it does, the practicee of cannibalism, human sacrifices, aud intetnperance, de- stroying the belief in witchcraft and fetich- ism, and rearing schools, mosques, and manufactories in the large cities of the Soudan which Barth, Na,chtigell, and Roblfs have described. . In tbe vast region south of the Sahara, in which Islam is now suprerne, Dr. Blyden says there are 60,000, 000 of water drinleers amongvehom the rum question Call never arise. The question is, can Christianity make any headway against the irrepressible acti- vity of the Mohammedan faith? • The men who hive most thoroughly studied this pro- blem says that it can, and. that it is to day making converts in the Mot a rnme.dan strong- holds on West Africa. Dr. Blyden says that Muslims, many thousands of whom are Magid to read. the Koran, do nob object to reading the Christian Scriptures, fitad that they pay close attention to their °orients, Many who visi t the coasts to trade buy Arabic Bibles, and many of these Bibles and Testa - 'mute have been mut inland from Sierra Leone e,ud Siberia. •Africa is an aggressive conquering force it is not Arabs, but negro &elver ts to Islam, who have converted the millions of natives in the Soudan. The white naiesinaries of the west, coast are appealing for negro Christians to work in the vast domain of lelam, and nlielop Taylor and others are calling for °more drecreits from America to merry on the spiritual war in West Africa 'lacy say that trice.nevi not be conquered wholly for 'Mem if tho diseiples of Chrietn anity °plated the field with curage vigor. Mne ooneroversy now pmetieally closed will not be withoue gooe limits it it, opens the eyes of the Christian world to the fact that Beam is doing's, vast animate of good in Africa. The energies ot Christiari maidens should note be exerted to securely plant their truer and higher feith in all the new fields which Mohammedanism has invaden in (*der that they may not only vie with Islam in contribating to the welfare of man, but also overcome Buell evils its slavery anti polygamy, which Islam eacourages. Does Sugar Cause Cancer? • For some time past it has been rumored that a new method in the treatment of the Crown Princen; illness had been adopted, and the Munich Heueste Notehrichten re- cently stated that this new treatment was based on a theory launched by Dr.'Irreund. of Vienna. who found that the blood of pa- tients suffering frern canchr contained an - abnormal quantity of sugar, and that can- cerous growtlas might be destroyed by re- ducing the sugar in the blood to its normal quantity. This statement is brought into notice by telegrams from San Remo stating that the Crown Pritme began tb,e new treat- ment on Nov. 20, and that since then his condition bas been steadily improving. • Dr. Freund is no specialist, and is still a young man. Ile took his degrees lad year, but his name became known by a paper published in the Wiener Ifedieiniache Mager in February, 1885, in which he proved the connection between sugar and cancermAn- other paper of his on the non coagulation of blood on oiled surfaces was mentioned last year, and eince then he has discovered that tuberculous growths invariably contain cellulose. ' Juit So. Wife (pleadingly)—" I'm you do not love me as well you used eo paid , George, ) l3neliand—" Why ?" Wife --"Because y,ou alwa, s let me got up to light the fire." Husband—"Nonsense my love 1 Your getting up to light the ire makes me love yon all the more." A Well -Posted Child. "Pa, won t you give me a ne,w drestl ? I want one so much." "Ill speak to your mother end it.' tUen ebild'e wistful expression Was turning into disappointment. Surely maieme will know if it's necessary." " Yes," replied the child demurely, "I Suppose so. 13ut when you speak to her touch her easy, papa, or she might want one for herself." The Bares:lose leurdetnCeette and other philanthropic persons in London are about to eetablieh, it is said, a scheme to provide workshops furnished With !sewing machines where poor mainstreams can go and have the use of the machines at a very low charge.