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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1888-2-2, Page 6RITTEE'8 FATRE117,- BY CHARLOTTE M. YONGE. Afterwonds Mark put Gerard on. the way to his bretherninbew's living, asking bun on the road eo matey grueetious aboutbo um. sure how to tate in, and doubted whether nun he found himself told o to take t at who really loved therm ppeeed that he could talk home, and had to content himeolf with May Thus she did her heat to penman° her old the young well au m nothing elm p,s tee a companion. Nor was his sister's Mode friend that there were few openings for mitigated when but hie lia hlia4 "let, 44 sixppenneeroo maostua Of receiving the umbrella plan reaseuring. man of his son's afre, and that if the Aliolder verso, %mew to enter tho ommeni, to Shelled Aerated too ftenwith her atom other thwayte bush:tem were all Out Mark inaagth - whom enould he &RAY?" "Do you know any one who wishes for anything of the kindV' he asked. "Are you reeking incai tries for any one?" end on a hesitating affirmetion, " b'ecause I know there is an opening for a man with capital jest at present. Dutton won't tedvertim— ids so risky ; and he wants, some knowledge of a person's antecedents, and whether he is likely to go into it in a liberal, gentlemanly spirit, weeh good principles, you. see, such as would not upset all we are doing for the hands," " Whet amount of capital do you mean!" " Oh, from five hundred to a thousand 1 Or more would not come amiss. If I only had it! Whet it would be to conduct an affair like that on true principles ! But luck is against me every way." Mark was at the sitting -room door as the four querters began to strike in preparation for eleven but Ledy Ronaieglen had been' in her chair for nearly halnan-hour, having been rapid and nervous enough to hurry even the imperturbable maid, whom Anna. ple thought iimapable of being hastened. She was a little slight woman, with delicate features and pale complexion, such as Ono deals with gently, and her once yellovr hair now softened with silver was turned back 'in bands beneath the simple net cap that suit- ed her so well. There was a soft yet spark- ling, look about her as she held out her hands and exclaimed, "Ab, Master Mark, what mischief have you been doing ?"Mark mane and knelt on one knee beside her and said: " Will you lot me work for you both, Lady Ronnisglen ? I will do my best to find some" " Ah than is the poiat, my dear boy. I should have asked and wiehed for definite work, if you had come to me before that discovery of yours i; and now it is a mere matter of necessity. ' "Yes," said Mask ; then, with some hesitation, he added: "Lady Ronnisglen, do you care whether I take to whet people cell a gentleman's profession? / could, of course, go on till I am called to the bar, and then wait for something to turn up ; but that would be we,itin,g indeed! 'Chen in other direotions I've taken things easy, you see, till Ina too old for examinations. I failed in the only one that was still open to me. Lord Kirkaldy tried me for foreign office work, and was appalled at my blun- ders. I'm not fit for a parson." " I should have thought you were." "Not I,' said Mark. "I'm not up to the mark there. I couldn't say honeetly that I was called to it. I wish I could, for it would be the easiest way out of it; but I looked at the service, and I can't. There— that's a nice confession to come to pm with! I can't think how I can have been so inn pudent." "Mark, you are a dear good lad. I re- spect and honor you ever so much more than before all this showed what tuffwas in you! But the question is, What's to be done? My child is verily the 'penniless lass with ia high pedigree,' for she has not a pool thousand. to call her own." "And I have no right t,o anything in my father's lifetime, though I have no doubt he would give me up my share of my mother's portion—about 23900. Now this is what has occurred tome: In the place where I found my uncle's wife—Micklethwate, close to Monks dorton—there's a groat umbrella fac- tory with.agencies everywhere. There are sup- erior people belonging to it /eve seen some of them, and I've been talking to the young fellow who helped us last night, who is in the office. I fiad that to go into the thing with such capital as I might hope tor, would bring in a much larger and speedier return than I could hope for any other way, if only my belongings would mit aside their feelings. And you see there are the Kirkaldys close by to secure her good society:" Lady Ronnieglen put out her transparent. looking, blackonittened soand, and gave a little dainty pat to his arm. "I like to see a man in earnest," said she. Her little Skye terrier was seized with jealously at her ges- tare, and came nuzzling in between with his black nose. "Mull objects!" she said, • smiling; but then, with a graver look, "And so will your father." • "At first," said Mark ; "but I think he • will give way when he has had time to look. at the matter, and sees how good you etre. • That will make all the difference." So Annaple, who had been banished for a • little while, was aLlowed to return, and mother, daughter, and lover built them- selves a little castle of umbrellas, and be. meowed a little arch commiseration on poor • Lady Delmar; who, it was agreed, need know nothing until soinething definite was •arranged, since Annaple was clearly ac- • countable to no one except her mother. She would certainly think the latter part of her dream only too well realised, and consider that an unfair advantage had. been taken of her seclusion in her own room. In spite of all loyal efforts to the contrary, Mark, if he had been in a frame of mind to draw con- clusions, would have perceived that tee • prospect of escaping etrom. ithe beneficent • etzle of Lescombe was by no means unpleasant to Lady RonnisgIon. The books that lay within her reach would hardly have found a welcome anywhere elso in the house. Sir John was not brilliant, and his wife had turned her native wits to the practical rather than the intellectual line, and had quite enough to think of in • keeping up the dignities of Lescombe with •a large family amid agricultural difficultien Annaple remembered at last that she ought to ' , go and look after her guests as- • sieted therein by the pleasure cf giving May a heartelkiss and light squeeze, with a muri • niur the. "all was right." etantion deaoription of the iniell to hie une fortunate earrlage 'when the Canon. arrived, With his wife and Blanehe, Mark would have gioen worlds in bis impetienee to bevel tidicrale, protest, or dificouregement benn ell alike treated ens the dear mother hi olde Wand unpractical romance. It gelled her linewise tbathhe octuld perceive the deter- matters settled between the two parents then minatien that Aneeeple Antheren ehouln be and therm but Lady Bonnisglen had already' digeeed of before Muriel Delmar came en warued hire that thia would not be poeriible, she mono ; end the retiring to over eo areal/ and oneured him that it would be much Ileme a their own bad been dineuesed be: wiser to prepare hie father beforehend. Meow inother and deughter, and only put Then be fixed Ids hives QG solitary drive aside became of the pain it would we ladle business that the youth was not melte with hie father beck in the pony °arrive, their houest-heAreed host and their hostess, •••••4•••••"•.4.,,,,,AW.T. 110V8E1101,133, 110therie Dinelplinei Thia tender eltory.of a mothere experience, was thp Oinestinei Weekly, $he hp,d. laid her table with great care And pains fon a company of dietingaished guests, wben, her little girl ecoidentally overturned a tureen of gravy on the snowy cloth. "What should I do? It seemed a dron too much for my tired nerees—nmuy drops too much for any tablecloth, .1 was about to jerk my child down angrily from the Wile when a blessed infleence hold nee. I caught the expression an her face ; such a over Nuttion having beenbrought up among Mod, it was not beneath the attionbion even sorry, frightened, anneeding loele I never umbrelles to be ready to &wept the same lot of a well.born, gentleman in theme modern and euddenly a, pieture of the past for her brother an n hor friend, end she was dim's, and. would involve less delay than all'W' came and stooc1 out vividly before my quite sure that her father would never con- any other plan, except emigration whioh mind's eyp. My child's face revealed feel - was equally dreaded by each permit De- ings whiesh I had, experienced twenty year eent. " Au Egremont an utubrolimmalzer 1 how horrible 1 Just fancy seeing Dutton, Egremont and Cm on the beadle of one's umbrella 1" "Web?, you need not atronise us," mid 14. . i "But is it possible that Led % Romitiaglen did not object ?" said May. ful waiting. And altogether the C,anen fele "She seemed to think it preferable to that if m person of Duly Ronnieglen's retuk driving pigs in the Texas, like her son Mal- did not object, he had soaroely a right to cam," do so. However, both alike renamed con - "Ye, but then that was the Texas." sent until full inquiry 'theold have boon " Oh May, May, n did not think you were made. smell a goose 1" The Canon wrote to Lord Kirkekly, and "1 should have thought the folly wee in in the meantime wanted to gether what; in - mot being patient. Stick to your profession, formation he could froni his eietemiu-law ; and something must come in time. I but lie found her absolutely ongromed as "Ay, and how meny do you think are , her husband's nurse, and ecareely permitted sticking to it in than hone? No, May, 'tis ' to snatch a meal outside the darkened room. ley there must be, not only in order to athertain the faota respeoting the firm, but to prove whether Mark had aim aptitude for the business before involving any capital In it. However, every other alternative would involve much longer and more doubt - " I WaB menelf a little minim's girl, about eight years old, in the happy home of my childhood. It was o stormy day in winter. It was mien after ocielmil lamps were intro- duced, and my father had bought a very haudsorne onee The snow had drifted up against the kitchen windows; so, although it was not dark, the lamp was lighted. Mother was sick in bed up -stairs, and we children were gathered in the kitchen to keep the noise and confusion away from her. I was feeling myself very important, help- ing to get supper; sA any rate, I imagined I was helping, and in my officiousness I seized the lamp arid went clown cellar for some butter; I tried to set it on the hanging shelf but alas ! I didn't env° it room not real patience to wear out the beat yeath ,He groaned and gxumbbad itt bbs brotbers fien000urgh, and down it fell on the cemented of my life and hers in idleuess, veaiting for selfishness, and declared that her hoalth somethine not beneath an Egremont to dol" I would be damaged, while hie shrewder lady "But is there nothing to Sin better than decls,red that nothing would be so good for "1 shall never forgot the shock that it that ?" • I t 1 red " Find it for me, May." CHAPTER XVI. MR every penny which sho told, Oree.vive Panay turned to gold."—s.m.orp. her as to let Alwyn find her endiepeneable g . n eernect to this comfort, even beyond Gregorio. didn't dare go tip-atairs, and I was afraid This almorption of her mother fell heed to stay down there. To make it worse, 1 ei on Ursula, especially when the first two heard my father's voice in the kitchen. He days' &term was over, and her mother was bad cautioned. us again and again to be care - still kept, en entire prisoner, as companion ful of that lamp, and now there it lay, rather than nurse. As before, tee rhourna- smashed to pieces. • The Blueposts Bridge had produced a "But is voice seem - - tie attack fantened upon the heed end eyee, 0 - good deal of effect. 'Ursula Egremont in calming lengthened suffering, and teaching petus I needed to go tip and meet the scold - special seemed to herself to have awakened Mr Egremont that he had never had eo big or whipping, or both, which I felt slue from a strange dream, and to have re- gentle, so skilful, so loving, or altogether so awaited me, aud which really sumed her real nature and affections. Sho pleaeant a slave as hie wife, tlae only person served. So I crept up over the dark stair - felt as if she would give all her parthere at except Gregorio whom in his irritable state, way, and as I entered the kitchen I met my the ball for one shake of Monsieur's fringed he would. tolerate about him. father, with such a stern look upon his face paws ; her heart yearned after Aunt Ursel His brother could not be entirely kept then I was frightened. I sew there was no and Miss Mary • she longed after the clients out, but was never made welcome, more ea. need to tell him what had happened. He had heard. the craela, and if he hadn't I guess my face would have told the storm "The children stood silently around waiting to see what father would do, and I saw by their faces that they were horror- stricken, for that lamp had been. the subject of too much talk and wonder to be smashed without a sensation. As for me, I felt Bo (lightened, so confasecl and sorry, that I couldn't speak. But upon glancing again at father I saw the angry look die out,of his eyes and one of tendoreet pity take its place. I doubt not that he saw the sante look in my face thee that I saw in my "IOW. •OWS Oablespoonfule o minhe ene-luelf imageries& Ausnm,Earga,E8, of salt and oneniallnalt epoonfonof popper. Mninentiot Ifeeileinlimmeeireel non Auseritt Monne Meek Sinee the official organ of the German. arney, the elfiteram Woctlenblatt., genie its in- minohs comparition of the strength of the • frontier fermi on Gera:nem and Ronda, the discuesion of the situation has elioited nothe. ing more dennite than tiecieeminrifieial state - moat in aeveral mere that despite the am nval of edditionsel Rumen troops on then - frontier dee German Government for the. present will not order etie counter movement; neceneary to °venue the strength of the two forces, Ilhis ia MO of several indica- done that the Government believes wor nee been delayed. • • The reporto reeehiog the War Moe touching the breaking driven et the Reeteian transport serviee, the evastse of munitions, the defective corsentssetrien a/4V the etarnni tion and diseeee in the Russian numen- able the announcement bo be r „no tnat Germany moiniteins a waiting an mettle., Oa the Inteaentimetcle the discovery theta woald be impossible to open effectively an early campaign has caused the war party to modify itsnone. The Moscow Ganws has eindicened ehanPecific policy of Rixisia. It declared that n,ea,oe was assured unless Ramie shmalci be proveked by aggressive acts of her neighbors, The Novo, gretnyci. proteins that the Russian armaments are purply defensive. The Sod disputes the • ilfochenbnanns figares and tries toprove that, Germany mei concentrate a million men on the frontier of Poland within ten days, • while Russian huge areas of territory ren- der diffioult the work of mobilinetion. IThe postponement of the rupture is not in accordance with the strategy of the Ber- lin War Office, nor with the wishes of the, V iennese but, continues due to the irresolu- tion of die Austrian Government. Although, convinced that war is inevitable, and, than neat aleout one tableepeonfell /eutter PA° an omelet pan, and when it is bob pour in the (Tn. • When thiaa eet ore the bottom; lift up with a fork and let the n0000ked, pore don run to the beet° n of the pen. Do not cook too long. Turn oven onc,halb upon, dee other and serve, Bonne) aALIBIJM—Take a Peeper° pieee, put a lietle boiliug water in a pan, and place the neli in it, the dark ;Ahmed side down. Let it tand nfteen, minutes then scrape off the wales, This proeese iiteltea away the strong oily tasto. The fiele should then be put upon A thim shoot of iron having a ring at einde end, and placred in the pate to balee. Pour milk over the fish until et is on -half inch deep. Enke an hour, basting often. When the fish is done the sheet is lifted by the rings from the pan, a knife ;dipped under the fide, and it is served unbroken, Servo with an IfigglScitwo.—Molt oneequarter cup of but- ter, dd tveo tablespoonfuls et flex, and a pour on slowly one pint of boiling water. Season with one-half toitepoonfuloi salt, and one-half salt -spoonful ef penner. Thou add ono -quarter cup more of butter and two hard-boiled eggs chopped. coarsely. Pour the sauce around the fish. of the choir; mad when she thought of the effort poor Gerard Godfrey had made to see her, she felt hira a hero, and herself a re- oreautheroine, who hadwellnigh. beenbetre.y- Egremont snarled, and Alice protested that ed into frivolity ancl desertion ca hem, andshe sho was never tired, enclneeded.nothing. The registered secret resolutions of constancy. 1Rectory party were, exoepting the school - She burned to pour out toner mother allthe room girls, engaged to make visits from Micklethwayte tidings, and all her longings home before going into residence at Re d cas ble, to be there ; but when the Rectory parity and were to begin with Monks Horton. set her down at the door, the footman, with They offered to escort Ursula to see her a look of grave importance, announced that great aunt at Micklethwayte —Oh joy of Mr. Egremont was very unwell. .." Mr. joys 1—but -when the Canon made the pro - Gregory thinks he. have taken e. chill from position in his brother's room, Mr. Egre- the effect of exposure, Ear, and Dr. Fiera- moat out it short with I'm not going to peoially evhen he took upon himself to re. monstrate on Alice's being deprived of air, exercise, and rest. He got no thanks; Mr. Annex, CANE, —Boat two eggs, add one cup of sugar, beat well; add. one -hell cup of milk alternately with two. caps of flour in whiele two teaspoonfuls of basing powder have been sifted. Thou add ,as the last thing ono tablespoonful of melted butter. Pour it in- to two jelly cake pans. Cover each thickly with sliced apple sprinkled with two table- spoonfuls of sugar. The apple ehould be sliced very thin, aud spread upon the cake as thickly as possible; the sliees may be set up edgewise. Let the cake bake onmhalf hour, or until the apple is done. Serve with an EGG PUDDING SAUCE.—Bean whites est it would be preferable for Austria sooner three eggs to a stiff frota ; then beat in slow- than later, Count Kalnoky persists in wait- ly ono oup of powdered auger and ono teaming Russia's time. Publie sentiment in spoonful of vanilla extract; then add the Vienna and at Peet% displays • irritation over the position. The Hungarian papers beaten yolks of the eggs. change Inalnoky with ton great subservience DUMPLINGS rola A STEW.—Sift one.half to. Bismarck, and urge that action be taken teaspoonfal of salt and two teaspoonfuls of waiting for an order from Berlin. baking peinder in ono pint of flour. Add • without enough milk to make a soft dough which can one cup, Prince Bismarck has already fully pneseem iThe truth of the position, however, is that be handled; it will require about od Count Kalnoky of thee fact that a %w- hin Cut out with a, spoon or shape slightly man initietive to war is impoasible, leaving with the hands. The stew should boll the Austrian Government free to open hos- rapidly when the dumplings are added, and should continue to boil while they are in. tilities when it deems the time ripe. There should he meat or vegetables enough in a stew for the dumplings to rest on or Predinies at the Piano. they will be heavy. Do nonput in ao many that they are crowded as they will then be Josef Hofmann, the marvellous boy heavy and soggy. Let dumplings cook about pianist, who plays from memory with the ten minute, technical skill of a master, and with won- derful feeiing and breeen'th of conception, is • in everything sere music a thorough child. Defending their Rigblands. He is 10 years old, the picture of health and King John's ablest General, Ras Alula, is perfectly unconscious what a genius he is. confronting the Itelians on the northwestern His performances et the Metropolitan Opera edge of the Abyeninian plateau, and two :House in New York have created an unpre- ilton has been sent for. have her ranniug after those umbrella. child's face toolay. In a minute he lifted me forces of the King's troops are advancing cedented sensation. Whena.ver they occur The Canon and his wife both got out on m„„mme in his arms, and was hugging me dose to toward Massowah along the more e est ly thoueancle are unable to get eaten -the build e er Tlie Canon's heart sank within hira at the his breast. Then he whispered, oh so routes hy which access to the highlands may beg, vast as it is. Not it little -61 the enthu- . this intelligence, and Mrs. Egremont was • n • d hte • • summoned to see them. She came, looking tone, and he was really very sorry famine in .3 • ever m , i She brought them downstairs just as the gong was sounding, and the rush of girls clecending from the sehoolroom, and Lady Ronnisglen being wheeled across the hall in her ohair. is:little who had expected to see a gray, passive, 'silent old lady like Mrs. Nugent, was quite amazed at the bright, lively faeo and voice that greeted the son- in-law and grandchildren, May rend herself, eongratulating these two on having been so • well employed all the morning, and observ- ing that she was afraid her Nannie could not give so good an account of henself. Well," said Sir John, "1 ane sure she looker as if she found plodding along the lanee as wholesome as sleeping in her bed Nan Applemhooks, oh 1" • Whereupen Arina,plen cheeks glowed all the Mere bate resemblante of the baby -name vehicle she had long ceased, ±0d,eserve ; but • May could see the derkneael under her eyes, betrayinn that it Watt only excitement that &nee alYay fatigue. Sir &ono had not gone far in.his dream, more frightened than they thought the oo- niece who was likely to have a fortnight or ell know ib was an &cadent, but I riope casion eiemanded, for she was appalled by three' weeko of comparative solitude before you willtake the email lamp when you go • ' the severe pam in the head and eyes ; but they . her father was ready to set out on the own ce er again. ccmforted her by assuring her that her hum ;minim " Oh, what a revulsion of feelings I ex- lands, where he well knows that the fevers tdea of his range may be gathered,from his band had suffered in tbe same manner in "Can't she help you, he roadine to her l perienced ! It was Ouch a surprise to me of the meet are likely to prove as fatal to part of tbe programme at the meet recent "' the opting, and she saw how well he had re- father—er anything ?" he asked Ali'ce, who that I was suddenly overwhelmed with feel- the newcomers as the fiercest onslaughts of concert. He played the BeethovenceMinor covered ; and then telling; Nuttie to bring . had cane out with him int* the anteroom hip of love and gratitude, and burying my his warriors. Massowah is one of the hot- ' Concerto, Mendolssohn's Rondo Ce.priccioeo, word what the doctor's report was, and then to express hor warm thanks for the kind face I sobbed as if my heart was breaking. test and most unbealthy places on the coast, it gavotte, by Pirani /vIendelssohn's "Skin - proposal. spend the evening at the Rectory, they de- No punishment could. have affected me half and hundreds of Italians hay° already perish- nerlied," and, togrither with his father, parted, while poor Nuttie only had one kiss, She cheek her head. "He would not like so muck, and nothing emu eflece the memory ed there during their brief occupancy of the , Weber's " Auffordertuag euro Tenn ' As a ieland. A march inland and up the moun- theme for improvisation hew as given some t, nor I, for her." of it from my mind. . e one inquiry whether she were mien., before i her mother fled back to the patient." I should think not !" exclaimed the "How I loved my father to -day, as tho tains fortymiles from Massowah would measures of the larghetto movement from th Nor did she see her again till after e Canon, as his eye fell on the title of a yen sight of my little girl's face brought it all place the invaders on the great plateau, Beethoven's Second Symphony. The tochni. doctor's visit, and then it was only to de- ion, French book on the table. "1 hare freahly before me ! Will she love me as from 6,000 to 8,000 feet above the sea, and cal skill, the ripe understanding and thien sire her to tell her uncle that the attack was heard of this 1 Does he make you read such . dearly, I wonder, twenty years or more enable them to fight tender favorable con- feeling which marked Hofmann's perfonn. I pronounced to be a return of the illness of as this to him, Alice ?" ' from now, bemuse, moved by the same im- ditions. armee carried. the audience by storm. last spring, and. that it would bo expedient ii Nothing elso seems te wrens° him," she Pulse that stirred my father's heart in that Though the low valleys among the moan- I Albere Weinstein was discovered by the to go abroad for the winter. said. "Do you think I ought not? Idon't long ago time, I was able to preas the little tainsare alwaysunhealthful, no pare of trop- , manager of a New York minstrel troupe, Go abree.d 1 It had always been a vision understand much of that kind of modern frightener/ thing to my heart, and tell her ical Africa is endowed with so fine a climate who advertised for a "musical prodigy," of delight to Nattie, and she could not be French, but Nuttie kaows it better." kindly that I knew she didn't mean to span as the plateaus of Abyssinia, and the chief with the idea of burleemlingyoungHofmann. greenly concerned at the occasion of it; but n Not that /rind, I hone," Bald the Canon the gravy, and that I knew she would be aim of the Italians, iu the early part of the Among the applicants was Prof. Ludwig she did not find the Rectory in a condition to hastily. "No, no, my dear," as he saw her more careful another time ? Will she be coming struggle, will doubtless be to gain a Weinstein, who, mistaking the object of the converse and sympathiee. Blanche was lying colour mending, " small blame to you. helped by ie when she is it mother, as I have foothold in the highlands. If they win a advertisement offered the serviees of hia son. ' be gained from the coast. The evident pur- siasm he has aroused is due to his delightful pose of tho dusky nionarch is to keep the childish manners. thousands of Italians, most of whom are Owing to the boy's tender years his pub - fresh arrivals in Africa, in the deadly low- lie appearances are at long intervals, Some down with a bad 1aeadaelle. The Edwardses You ha,ve only to do the best you can with been helped by et to day and a whole party of semi -genteel parish him, poor fellow 1 Then we'll take any-, visitors had come in 0 innuire about the ' thing for you. We've said nothing to Nut- aociaent, and had to be entertained with tie, Jane said I had better ask you first." ' afternoon tea ; and May, though helping her l stepmother to do her devoir towards them, (no ME CONTINUED.) seemed more preoccupied than ever. As indeed she was, for she knew than Mark wasputting his fate to the touch with his father in the study. The Canon heard the proposal with his utter consternation and dismay at the per- verseness of the two young people, who might have been engaged anytime these two years with the full approbationof their families f position among the mountauas, victory may The lad was given a trial and with ouch already be heti were, for the eoverest theta , precocious brilliancy_ did he play that he of their endurances at.' resource.% will probe,- 'Wm enga,gil, not to nitsitine, but to emit - Sympathy. bly confront them on the outset. late young leofmann's playnig. , Mr, Do Cosson, one of the lateen travellers The two boys have listened one bo the Many a ohildish heart has been harilened on tho road from Massowah to Adowa, the other and axe very good friends, though ,and alienated by lack ef sympathy with its chief town oZ northern Abyssinia, says that they are not to be considered together as What It Costs to Bury a Vice-Reesident. 'interests and pursuits. The occupations camels cermet climb the rocky passes lead. performers, Hofmann being immeasurably and plans of the libtle ones are in reality of ing up to the highlands,and that oxen and superior. He ia a youthful genius to be Few people have any idea of the expense as much importance as our own, for while mules are the only bast e of burden that um , ranked with the first in the history of piano attending the burial of a Vice Preoldent ours are the means, perhaps, by wheel sus- gain tbe interior. The highway to Adowa music, while Weinstein is only remarkably and fewer still are aware that the Govern- tenance and clothing are furnishedthe grow- is only a rough and narrow path, generally !clever for his years. ment foots the bill. The total cost to che ing bodies, theirs is the way by which these traversed on foot, 8,nd often winding along I Wonderful as young Hofmenn's playing Government of the funeral of Vice -President same bodies, and what is of greater cense- the edge of dangerous precipices. The seems to those who hear it, he is not with - Hendricks, in round figures, was $4,500. quence; their minds as well, are developed Abyssinians, fighting as tleey honestly be. out many precedents in preamity. Mozart It cost $800 for a casket, $10 for washing and se= thened and now chose the very moment vrhen every lieve for the life of their nation and. their ' when three years old amused himself pick - one was rejoicing at their freedom. d I vi th b d $270 b 1in i an a le, ng e o y, or em a ng ; "When a young man has got into it decorating and use of funeral car, with ickle " he said "inc first; thing is to want horses, 8150; three men for seven days' a,t- to be married " tendance, 8210; for sixteen vehite sUk 1 "Exeotly so, sir, to give him a motive 8181188, $112 ; twenty pairs white silk gloves $20; hotel bill, carriages and porter - for getting out of pickle." at Indianeepolis, $352 • for draping " Umbrellas ! I should like to hear age Senate Chamber, $234 ; 'for carriages, what your grandfather would have so,id 1" ' hacks, etc., for funeral, $573; for three " These are not my grandfather's days • PI "No indeed! There was nothing to do but th give a hint to old Lord de Lyonnais, bands et mumc $294 ; for flowers $331. ; for badges, $3130 • for saddle iblankets, Whatever a person, young or old, is most interested in, becomes in a measure their educator; therefore, whatever occupies the thoughts and time of these little ones is in pairr, the material out of which their future character is made. It is our duty, and should be ourprivilege, to be intensely interested in all that inter- terests them. There aro some who act as if they thought children's affairs beneath their rosettes, sashes and arnocrapes, $100 • for notihe ; good, conscientious parents too, who homes, will be able, though greatly inferior ing out thirds while his sister was prentie- in equipment, to make a deaperate resistance , ing; four he could remember melodies under circumstances that are so unfavorable and had composed little pieces, and at six to the marenuvres of European.troops, he played in concerts and before the Royal Though the men with the beat and biggeet family of Germany. When eight he was it number of guns will probably win, they will , composer whose productions were eagerly set out on no holiday excureion when they bought. Beethoven" began at the harpsi- attempt themountein passes in the face of chord at four, at eleven was beyond the — Abyssinia's defenders. teaching ot the time, and at fourteen was court organist. Menclelssohn at 'inine was a public performer, and at eleven was pro- ;,;,, fn,' at hotel for Cabinet officers $1.00 ; P cl f ,hAh- hild f t Something About Bucking Horses. deicing fifty or sixty compositions a year. and he could get you put inte any berth you for services of city band, $64 ; for hauling within their power, with the exception of One thing I have never been able to un- Robert Schumann began playing the com- oe,nnons, caissons, Gatlin guns, draping the this costleas one, it loving sympathy. dersta,nd, and that is the subject of bucking positions of others at five and at six he was cho e. Inthrest was intermit in those days! I don't see why Kirkaltly can't do the same etc., $100. And some nein ere ever ready to con- horses. I have given the °venation some making his own. Liszt began his successful same." study and find that only in the western part career at the piano at nine years of age, and " Nob unless I had foreign language at my These are among the larger items of ex- demn anything which the child undertakes, tongue's end." pense. The Government paid even for re- thereby putting upon it the seal ' of their of the United States, in South Amerioa and Rubenstein at ten. Wilhelnij, Camilla Urso • • • . in Australia do " Paid Charles E, Shover four dollars for This is horses indulge in thies most and other wonderful violinists began play. Whereat the ,anon groaned, and Mark had to work again through all the difficul- ties in the way of the more liberal profes- sions ; and the upshot was that his father agreed. to drive over to Lescombe the next day and see Lady Ronnisglen. He certain- ly had always implicitly truated his son's veracity, but he evidently thought that there must have been much warping of the imagination to make the young man believe the old Scottish peeress to have oensented to her daughter's marrying into an umbrella factory. Nuttie was surprised and gratified that both Mark and May nut her through an ex- amination on the habits of Mickletnwayth and the position of Mr. Godfrey, which she thought wee entirely due to the' favourable impression Gerard had produced, and she felt proportionably proud of him when Mark pronounced him a very nice gentle- manly young fellow. She tiould not think why her uncle, with more testiness than she had ever seen in that good.natured dignitary, ordered May not to atand Amt. tering there, but to give them some music. The Canon drove th Lescombe the next day under pretext of haquiring after Lady Delmar, and then almbst forget to do so, after he had mediated that she was a pris- oner to her dressiegmoom, and that Sir John Was out shooting, The result of his interview filled him with aetoffistiment, Lady B,onnisiglcin having had a large prepare tion of sons th put out in life on very small ineans had 'learnt not to he faatidious, and held that the gentleman reight ennoble the vocation instead of the vogatiOn debasing the gentleman. Moreover, in her Menet soul she felt that her daughtet Janet's mencerineei were far More truly nog -hiding than any form of honeet labour: toed it wasvery Esore to ;her to have no power of preventing therm pairing the roe to the cemetei y, as follows: nliP, very dishearteningThe child P it not ot veto. stern tuapleasant performance. This would not ing in babyhood. The list of child muse - hauling eight loads of gravel and fillin. up either learns to look upon himeelf u- bo stra,uge if it was confined to horses raised Ol8.118 might be extended at great lengeh, for holes in road to Crown Hill Cemetery." capable of doing anything well, or else pro - g as in these countries, but it seems tone in the it is a fact that the greet maaters generally ceeds to carry on his little business trans- climate, as the progeny of western ponies, began their career almost as soon as they actions without regard to parental approval. if taken east, never buck, and a oolt of a could talk. What may look silly to us may seem like real common sense to the child, and no doubt would e same ±0 mune ves 12 we would but recall our ohildhood. Some one has wisely advised "cultivate the habil ofsympathy," and 10 itO wityn we more effectually do this than by putting ourselves in another's place. Want of syinpabhy upon the t of parents has a tendency to lead the loving littlehearts,f thoae to wbomthey would naturally give their best affections. Tho child instinctively turns to the parent, and especially to the mother, for companion- ship in enjoyment ; in fact, it hardly seems capable of enjoying to the fullest extent un - testi mamma shares in the satisfaction ex- perienced. And if this sympathy is with- held, if in the press of many cares she turns indifferently away, the heart of the little enthtudast suffers an irreparable wrong. Childhood is an impressionable period. Its joys, ibe griefs, its affections 8,re keen. I , feat we do not 'alwaya appreciate the tender Ilittle heerte throbbing with varied emotion. Let us strive to enter more fully into their pursuits, let us see to it that other and less important interests do not wimp tile place : which belongs to them. • Mns. SUSIE E. KENNSMA. A Canadian Inventor. This morning Col. Webb received news of the most important telegraphic discoveries by it friend, Charles Dion, a Caneeian by birth, but a citizen of the United States, Mr. Dion was the original inventor of the fire alarm system now so generally used, with slight improvements, throughout this country. For many years he has been en- gaged in seeking it method of telegraphing the Morse system over the Atlantic cable, and is confident that it oan be done at the full speed. Mr. Dion further hopes to apply the Wheatstone system. Should he succeed at working the Morse system ib will quadru- ple the speed of ocean (sables. Carrying Out the Programme. Some minstrels recently started out on it tour and advertised in a town to give a per- formance "the benefit of the poor. Tickets reduced to ten oonts." The hail was oratinned, and the next morning a com- mittee for the poor.' called upon the tree - surer of the concern for the amount the said benefit had netted. The treasurer ex- pressed astonishment an the demand. " 1 thought," said the chairman of the comMittee, "you advertieed this concert for the benefit of tiae poor 1" "Well," replied the treasurer, didn't we reduce tho tickette ten cents so that the poor eould all come ?" ItitiFenport, Iowa's, building improvement hat year goats error $1,140,000. Oooking latoipen. At Cullum —)3.reak four eggs into e bowl boat with it spoon until you can take up a spoonful of it, but no longer. Add four high born eastern horse, i2. born on the With such insteinces in history it is ran plume, well buck the first tnne a, saddle is Isonable to expect then young Hofmann will laced on its back a thing that other colts one de,y be another like Mozart, or Wet from the shme mare in the east never do. And young Weinstein will probably demon Beth the Kentucky and Irish horses have a , op into an excellent, if not a great pianist. triok of bounding into the air and alighting I In it few weeks the father of the boy Hof - with stiff legs, which is sometimes called mann will take him back to Europe to have buck-jun:tieing, but this in no way resembles him thoroughly educated in music, and as the true plunging buck of the plains. I a juvenile wonder he will Over be heard 1 er Hofmann ow, Poland, donna. never saw anyone who could account for ' again in this country. The e the change of habit in colts in the west, but is leader of an orchestra in Cr every man who ever had anything to do and the boy's mother is a prinl with horses in that section of the oountry I is perfectly familiar with the ifact.—[St. Louis Post -Dispatch. Lots Just Like Him. SD* "Oh, woman, woman?" shrieked an era. , tor in a speech the other night, "thou art the light, the life, the salvation of the world! I ehudder when I think of what this world would be without thy gentle, ro- • fining, ennobling influmice. I bow at thy ' shrbao, ao now e gmg y pun y an ru I . . There is nothing, no nothing so beautifel, GO true, so perfect as a woman I reverence and bow down before them 1" And when he went home he said to the woman who was ito unfortunate to be his wife: "Whet did yeti let the fire get elo low for? you knew I'd come half froze. .You're just like the rest of the women, you haven't a thought beyond your nose Stir around and get trio it cup of hot tea, can't you? See if you out do Viet much for a felloW. I'd just like to know what yore women think you re good Coining Events Cast their Shadows Before. "1 wish to look at some mourning goods," stain a lady, as she entered it dry goods store. "Yea, madam," replied the clerk "this way, please." After looking through the entire stook, ahe temarked that she would come iii again in the course of a day or two "May I ask," said the clerk, "12 a deanh has occurred in your immediate family ?" "There has been no deeth yet," she re, tilled, eerily; "but my husband is very Gentleman (to bartender)—This000ktail bsn't quite up to the mark, old men ; but we omen have everything to please us in thin world, es here's looking at yon (Hs pea to breakfast.) Same Gentlemen eett break- fast)—Poor coffee again, my deer. Take if; away. can't have good co eet nit fen ineyhoW,-1Tid.Bits. .1want any.