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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1888-2-9, Page 2wasisissexismiwirearensmairimmiiiimamapow NUTTIET FATHER, euaiaLonu M.vonlaz. CHAPTER XVI,—(Corimargo.) "Oh, that was kind 1 I am glad she was spared the disappointment," Not thee she was. For when she learnt her couains' destination, she entreated to go with them, aucl had to be told that the pro- posal, had been atede and refused. There is no denying that she behaved very ill. It was the trot real sharp col - listen of wills. She had differed from, and disapproved of, her father all along, but what had been required a her had general. ly been pleasant to one side a,t leaat of her nature; but here she was condemned to the dullness of the lonely outsider to a sick roorn, when her whole soul was leaping back to the delights of her dear old home at 1VIzoklethwayte. She made her mother's bre meal with her such a misery of protests and insistenees on pleadings tvith her father that poor Alio was fain to rejoice when the servants' pre - Bence silenced her, and fairly fled from her when the last dish was earned out. When they met again Nuttie demanded, "Have you epolten to my father?" "1 told you, nay dear, it would be of no use." "You prombied." "No, Nuttie, 'did not." "I'm sure I understood you to say you would if you could." "It was your hopes, any dear child. He is quite determined," " And you leave him so. Mo her, I can't einderstand your submitting to show silt h ...cruel ingratitude 1" Nuttie was very angry, though she was ehooked at the burning colour and hot tears that she beheld as, half choked, her mother said "Oh. my dear, my dear, do not sphak so I You kuow—you know it is not in my heart, but- my first duty, and yours too, is to your father." , Whatever he tells us r demanded Nuttie, still hot and. angry., "1 did not say that,' returned her mother gently, "but you know, Nuttie, Aunt Ursel herself would say that it is our duty to ab'de by his decision. here." "Bit you could speak to him," still argued /(utble, " what's the use of his be- ing so fond of you if he won't do anything you want ?" "Hush 1 hush, Nuttie 1 you know that is not a right way of speaking. I cannot worry him now ha is ill. You don't know what that dreadful pain is 1" Happily Nuttie did refrain from saying, "No doubt it makes him very cross ;" but she muttered, "And so we are to be cut off for ever from Aunt "Creel, and Miss Mary, and—and—everything good— and nice—and catholic?" "I hope not, indeed, I hope not. Only he wants us to get the good society manners and tone—like your cousins, you know. You are young enough for it, and a real Egremont, you know Nuttie, and when you have learnt it, he will trust you there, said the mother, making a very mild version of of his speech about the umbrella -mongers. "Yes, he wants to make me worldly, so that I should not care, but that he never shall do, whatever you may let him do to you." His bell rang sharply, and away hurried Alice, leaving her daughter with a miser- ably sore and impatient heare and the consciousness of having harshly wound. ed the mother whom she had meant to protect. And there was no hugging and kissing to make up fcr it pos. Bible. They would not meet till din- ner -time, and Nuttie's mood of stormy re- pentance had cooled before that time into longing to be more tender than usual to- • wards her mother, but how was that possible during the awful household ceremony of many courses, with three solemn men -ser- vants ministering to them? And poor Alice jumped up at the end, and ran away as if afraid of fresh objurgations, so that all Nuttie could do was to rush head- long after her, catch her on the ler ding, kiss her face all over and, exclaim, "Oh, mother, mother, I was dreadfully cross 1" "There, there ! I knew you would be sor- ry, dear, dear child, I know it is very hard, but let me go. He wants me 1" And a very forlorn and deplorable person was left behind, feeling as if her father, after carrying her away from everything else that she loved, had ended by robbing her of her mother. She stood on the handsome staircase, and contrasted it with the little cosy entrance at her aunt's. She felt how she hated all these fine surroundings,and how very good and unworldly she was for so doing. Only, was at good to have been so violen; towards her mother? The Rectory folks were dining out, so she could only have recourse to Mudie's box to try to drive dull care away. A few .days more and they were gone. Though Mr. Egremont was gradually mend- ing, he still required his wife to be in con- stant attendance. In point of fact Alice could not, and in her loyalty would not, tell her dignified brother-in-law, far less her daughter, of the hint that the doctor had given her, namely, that her husband was lapaing into the constant use of opiates, founded at first on the needs of his malady, but growing into a perilous habit, which ac- counted for his shutting himself up all the forenoon. While under medical treatment it was possible to allowance him, and. keep him under orders, but Dr. Hamilton warned her not to &Row the quantity to be exceeded or the drugs to be resorted to after his reco- very, speaking seriously of the consequences of indulgence. He spoke ati a duty, but as he looked at the gentle timid woman, he saw little hope of her &leg any good! Poor Alice was appalled. All she could do was to betake herself to "the little wea- pon called All -prayer," and therewith to use all vigilance and all her efts of coaxing and cheering away weariness and languor, beguiling sleeplessness, soothing pain by any other means. She had just enough success to prevent her from utterly despairing, and to keep her always on the strain, and at her own cost, for Mr. Egremont was far more irritable when he was without the narcotic, and the serenity it produced was an absolute relief. She soon found too that Gregorio was a contrary power. Once, when he had suggested the doe, and she had replied by citing the physician's oom- mands Mr Egremont had muttered an im- precation on doctors, and she had caught a horrible grin of hatred on the men's face, which seemed to her almost diabolical. She lied prevailed then, but the next time her absenee was at all prolonged, she fatted that the opiate had been taken, and her dread of quitting her post inoreaseal, though she did not by any means always ancceed. Some, titeea she Wag good-humouredly test asides sometimes roughly told to Mind her own business ; but the could net relinquish the struggle, &Da Whenever she aid aumeed in preventing the itidulgenee the felt a leopeful- nees—in Spite of himself and Gregorio, aie mighe yet (lave hien Attether hint she bad from both the Can, i on and his wife, When they asleed what place was chosen, Mr. Egemont said he haa made .Alice write tQ inquire of the houses to be lead at various resorts—Mentone, Meet Cameo, and the like. She was struck by the ardour with which they both began to praise Nice, Genoa, Sorrento, any plago in preference to Mentone, which herhusband Deemed to 4110W 44d like the best. And wheu she went down stairs with them (Abe Canon held her band a moment, ead said, "Anywhere but Meatone, my dearY' She looked bewildered for a moment, and the Canoveas added, "Look in the guide- books," Thea ehereinembered Mont° Carlo, and for a moment it was to her as ehooking a warning as if she bed beeo bidden to keep her husband out of the temptation of thiev- ing. She resolved, however, to do her best, feeliug immediately that Again it was e, puIl of her influence against Chregorlota For- tune favoured her ao far that the villa fav- oured by Mr. Egremont was not to be bad, only the side of the bay he disliked, and that a pleasaut villa, offered at Nice. Should she close with it? Well—was there great haste? Geogorio knew a good many people at Mentone, and could ascer- tain in his own way if theycould get the right side of the bay by going to the hotel and waiting. Alice, however, pressed the matter --represented the danger of falling between two stools, pleaded personal preference'and whereas Mr. Egremont was too lazy for resistance to any per- suasion, she obtained permission to en- gage the Nice villa. The next day Gre- gorio announced that he had heard that the proprietor of Villa Franoaleone at Men - tone was giving up hopes of his usual ten- ants, and an offer might secure it. "Villa Eugenie at Nice is taken," said Alice, and she received one of those deadly black looks, which were always like a stab. Of all this Nuttiej know nothing. She was a good deal thrown with the school- room party and with the curate's wife for companionship. Now Mrs. Edwards did not approve of even the canonical Egte- monts, having an ideal far beyond the rit- ual of Bridgefield ; and she was delighted to find how entirely Miss Egremont sympa- thised with her. Nuttie described Si. Ambrose's as a para- dise of church obser vances and parishmanage- ment, everything becoming embellished and all shortcomings forgotten in the loving mists of distance. The harmonium was never out of tune; the choir -boys were only just naughty enough to show how wisely Mr. Spyers dealt with them; the surplices, one would think, never needed washing; Mr. Dutton and Gerard Godfrey were para- gons of lay helpers, and district visitors never were troublesome. Mr. Edwards listened with open ears, and together they bewailed the impracticability of moving the Canon to raising Bridgefield to anything approaching to such a standard ; while Nut - tie absolutely cultivated her home sickness. According to promise Blanche wrote to her from Monks Morton, and told her thus much—'We have been all over your um- brella place. It was very curious. Then we c lled upon Miss Headworth, who was quite well, and was pleased to hear of you.' Blanche was famous for never putting into a letter what her correspondent wanted to hear, but her stepmother wrote a much longer and more interesting letter to Mrs. Egremont. "You will be glad to hear that we found your aunt quite well. I suppose it is not in the nature of things that you should not be . missed; but I should think your place as well supplied as could be aoped by that very handsome and superior Miss Nugent, with whom she lives. I had a good deal of conversation with both ; for you will be sur- prised to hear that the Canon has consented to Mark's making the experiment of work- ing for a year in Greenleaf and Dutton's of- fice, with a view to entering the firm in fu- ture. I was very anxious to understand from such true ladies what the position would be socially. I longed to talk it over with you beforehand ; but Alwyn could never spare you, and it was not a subject to be broached without ample time for discus- sion. We felt that though the Kirkaldys could tell us much, it was only from the out- side, whereas Miss Headworth could speak from within. The decision is of course a a blow to his father, and will be still more so to the De Lyonnais family, but they have never done anything to entitle them to have a voice in the matter, and the Kirkaldye agree with us that, though not a path of dis- tinction, it is one of honourable prosperity; and with this, if Mark is content, we have no right to object, since his mind is set on present happiness rather than ambition." It was a letter gratifying to Alice in its coufidential tone, as well as in the evident approval of those aurroundinge which she loved so well. She read it to her husband, as she was desired to give him a message that the Canon had not written out of con- sideration for his eyes. He laughed the laugh that always jarred Jn. her. So Mos. ter Mark has got his nose to the grindstone, has he ?" was his first exclamation, and, after some cogitation, "The fellow wants to be married, depend on it 1" " Do you think so ?" returned Aliee wist- fully. "Think 1 Why you may see it in Jane's letter 1 I wonder who it is 1 The little yellow Ruthven girl, most likely 1 The boy iP fool enough for anything 1 I thought he would have mended his fortunes with Ursu- la, but he's too proud to stomach that, I suppose 1" "1 did wish that 1" said Alice. "It would have set everything straight, and it Would have been so niee for her." "You ahould have out out your daughter after your own pattern," he answered; "not let her be such a raw , insignificant little spitfire. 'Tis a pity. I don't want the estate to go out of the name, though I won't leave it to an interfering prig like Mark un- less he chooses to take my daughter with it 1" The latter part of this amiable speech was muttered and scarcely heard or attended to by Alice in her struggle tc conceal the grief she felt at the uncompromising opinion of her child. Nuttie might outgrow being raw, but there seemed less rather than more pro- ved of a better understanding with her father. About a week later Meek made his appearance, timing it happily when his uncle was making his toilette, so that his aunt was taking a, turn on the sunny terrace with Nuttie when the young man came hur- rying up the garden. Mark What? Are you come home ?'' "Not the others, Theyare at Mr. Condamine's. I came last night—by way of Lescombe. Edda'dent, it is all right 1 Oh, I forgot you diclnot know 1 There was no seeing you before we went away. Ah bythe by, how is my utcle ?" "Much better, except that using his eyes brings on the pain. Whet is it, Mark? Ali 1 I oan guess," she aaid, aided no doubt bythat conjeeture of her husband's "e Yes, yes, yes 1" he answered, with a rapidity quite unlike himself. "Why, Nuttie, how inyatified you look 1" sure / don't wonder at any one be. ng glad to live at dear old hlieklethwayte," eaid Nut tie slowly, "But, somehow, I didn't tbinie it of you, Mark." "My dear, that's nob all 1" said her mother, "Oh !" cried Nuttie, With a prolonged intonation. "Is it?—Oh, Mark I did yen do 0 that night when you led the horse home r "Even, so, Nutti* 1 nd, Aunt Alice, Lady lionnisgleo is the best and hravest of old ladies, mid the wisest. Nobody objecVs hot tady Delmer, and she deciaree she shall not consider it an engagemeav till Ron- niaglen has been written to in Nepaid, as if he had anything to do with it; but that =eaters the leo, aim° they all inalet op our waiting till I've had a year's Wel at the of- fice 1 I suppose they could not be expected to do otherwise, but it is a pity, for Pra afraid Lady Delmar will lead Annaple and her mother a life of it." "Dear Mark, 1 pan delighted that it hi all going so well. "1 knew you would be 1 I told them I must tell you, though it is not to go any farther." ' So that hope of Mark's restoration to the inheritance faded from Alio, yet she could not be cencerned for him. She had never seen him in euch good spirits, for the souse of failure and disappointment had always been upon bum; and the definite prospect of occupation, gilded by his hopes of Annaple, seemed to make a 110W man of (TO BE ooneantran.) Turks and the Introduction of Tobacco. The envoys of Christopher Columbus to Guahani (San Salvador) were certainly the first Europeans acquainted with the use of smoking tobacco. The plant smoked by the Indians of Guahani was called by them coniba, but they called their piketabu°'and Colum- bus gave the pipe's Indian nameto the plant, the right spelling being tabaco (Spanish) and tabacco (Italian). The French pronunciation has varied between tobac and tabac, the latter having prevailed; and the German: between toabak, tbak, and tubak. The form tobak, tobacitobacco, is from the Flemish toubake. Tobacco was introduced to Eur- ope about 1560 by a Dutch merchant, who offered the plant to John Nicot, French envoy to Portugal. Nicot presented the plant to the great inquisitor, and at ,his return to France to Queen Catherine de Medicis who took an immediate fancy to it. The pclun," as the plant had been called by the Brazilian smokers, received for a time the poetical name of " herbe a la reine," and was adop- ted with enthusiasm by the gentry and army. John Nicot (hence ?duodena troatieum, nice- tiana, &o. ,)had, before leaving Lisbon, in- formed the pa.pal nuncio, Cardinal Saint Grove, of the new discovery. Cardinal Saint Crove 'introduced tobacco to Italy, and the Italian merchants introduced it to the countries of the East, especially to Athens, Smyrna, and Constantinople. It seems, however, that tobacco was used for smoking in Persia and China three or four centuries before the discovery of America, (Pallas, Neyer, &c., who write that the Chinese yellow tobacco is the same as the American nicotiana rustma.) As to the smok- ers in the" Thousand and One Nights," it seems impossible to ascertain if they smoked hasheesh, American, or Persian tobacco. The tobacconistaNea.nder, thinks that the Persian and Dutch merchants have an equal right to claim the honor of the invention. The Secret of Success. It seems to me that the success of the dili- gent people who stand before kings and queens of various degree, is, in a measure, duet° their successful diligence, and further- more, this successful diligence Indicates the existence of certain qualities essential to success. True, there are captains who creep in through the cabin windows, and there are generals unfit to be seargeants, but these pampered pets of unjust favorit- ism do not "stand" before kings, they bow and crouch before them. But when one is successful in ;spite of adverse criticism and sharp coropetition, I am inclined to think there must be some reason for his success. You ask me, for instance, what is the secret of Mrs. Brown -Potter's success? Well, I think it is her success. But you say, "There are plenty of girls in all our large cities more beautiful than she." I don't doubt it, I think there are twenty-one. Ana "they are more gifted, and blessed with better education?" "Yes, I know that." And their social position is higner ?" "1 should say so, my dear." "And they have great histrionic talent ?" "Indeed. they have. I agree with you." "They can act all around her ?" "01 course they can." "And they ought to have her place on the American stage ?" "Well, then, why don't they have it ?" Thirteen Unlucky 131-unders. To yield to immaterial trifles. To look for perfection in our own actions. To endeavor to mold all positions alike. To expect uniformity of opinion in this world. To measure the enjoyment of others by your own. To expect to be able to understand every- thing. To believe only what our finite minds can grasp. To look tor judgment and experience in youth. Not to make allowances for the infirmi- ties of others. To worry ourselves and others with what cannot be remedied. To consider everything impossible that we cannot perform. Not to alleviate all that needs alleviating as far as lies in our power. It is a grand mistake to set up your own standard of right and wrong, and judge people accordingly. Facts About the Year 1889. The year of 1889 corresponds to the year 6602 of the Julian period: to 7398-99 of the Byzantine era, the year 7398 commencing September 1 ; to 5649-50 ot the Jewish era, the year 5650 commencing September 25 at sunset; to 2642 since the foun dation of Rome, according to Varro ; to 2636 zinc° the be- ginning of thetera of Nabonassar, which ham been assigned to Wednesday, February 26 of the 3967th year of Julian period, and in the notation of astronomers to, the 746th year before the birth of Christ ; to the 2665 of the Olympiads; to 2201 of the Grecian era, or ota of the Selucidte ; to 1605 of the eta of Diocletiart ; to 2549 of the Japanese era, and the 22d year of the period entitled"Itleiji,4 The year 1307 of the Mohammedan era, or the Hegira, begins on August 28, 1889, and the fitat day of Jarnutty, 1889, is the 2,411,- 00ath day since the commencement of the Julian period, A Lover's Stratagem.-" How is it yon always take your intended to the railway station 1" "13tmanse We can there kiwi disturbed, aa folks thihk we are merely say- ing good-bye.", DATST NWB TWIRH, Xr, J. I?, Whitney bee been °looted to the Ontario Legislature for Daudet; by thirty two Majority. A severe earthquake ahook was felt at many places in the New England States the other mornieg. The Hungarian press net:trots with regret au alarming increase in emigration loin Hungary to America, Rev, Dr. Courtney, of Boston, has beeu ueanireously eleeted Bishop of Nova Scotia by the Provincial Synod. It is rumoured that Torkey ha oohed the Russian Government to explain the massing of troeps upon her frontier. The Carmen Government will take part officially in the Paris Exposition by sending exhibits to the fine arts department. An action is threatened against the pro- prietress of a millinery establishment in London, Eng., for elattetising one of her ap- preutices. The reported outbreak of smallpox on the Pacifica coast is believed to have been an un- founded scare, nothing further haviug been heard of the matter. The private bank of Mr. W. H. Outten, at Guelph, called the Guelph Banking Com- pany, has suspended owing to the winding up of the Federal.Bank. The Council of the anited Counties of Northumberland and Dorham has refused a grant towards procuring evidences in sup- port of the Trent Valley Canal. It is rumored that Coptic Patriarch is about to send a mission to the King and clergy of Abytasinia, with the object of pre- venting war with the Italians. A regular January thaw is prevailing all over the North-West. High temperature and. bright pleasant weather is reported from all parts of Montana, Dakota and Minnesota, John Gamble was the other cloy sentenced at the Toronto Criminal Assizes by Mr. Justice Falconbridge to be hanged on March tith for causing the death of o young girl whom he had betrayed. A mammoth dry goods store on Main street, Buffalo, has been destroyed by fire, with a great part of its contents, and a num- of adjoining buildimgs were badly damaged, the loss being estimated at $42,000,000* Mr. Henry J. Morgan, chief clerk in the Seoretary of State's Department, has been reduced by the Privy Comma to the mint of first-class clerk, with a corresponding re- duction of salary from $2,500 to $1,800 a year. It is said that a considerable sum: will be included in the militia estimates this year for the construction of coast defences, in ex- corlance with the suggestions of the Im- perial Government. The fortifications at Victoria, B. C., will probably be the first work undertaken. In a late interview, Mr. Martin'Attor- ney General in the new Manitoba Govern- ment, declared emphatically that the Gov- ernment were determined to build the Red River Valley railway, no matter what obstacles or legal difficulties are placed in the way, or die in the attempt. The women of Wisconsin were defeated in the Superior Court yesterday, the court holding them the Legislature of 1885 did not for a moment contemplate extending the same suffrage to females which the males en- joy, but, on the other band, meant to re- strict female voting to school matters only, as specified by law. The Marine Department has Cancelled till August the certificates of Captains McCuttig, Martin and MeSherry, as the result of the investigation into the fatal collision on Tor- onto bay last September. Captain Parkin- son's case has been referred to the Depart- ment a Justice to see whether proceedings can be instituted against him. • THE W0/11.AN'S WORLD. interesting Personal Mention of Members or the Fair sex. Nothing will turn a woman's head so com- pletely as a bonnet that has passed by. Mrs. Holloway Evans, of Marion county, South Carolina, has given birth to five chil- dren inside of one year. Miss Bertha Piper has been eleited jour- nal clerk of the Washington Territory House of Representatives. Miss Phoebe Couzins has announced her- self as an independent Prohibition candidata for Governor in Missouri. A comely figure in a woman has its charms. But it is the incornely figure that influences the average wife -hunter. It is less important to a young lady that her lover's diamonds should be of pure water than that his drinks should be. The Town Councilof Helsingfors, Finland, has decided to rescind certain clausea in the law which now prohibits the election of wo- men as poor -law guardians. Mrs. Livermore, who is in constant de- mand in the leuture field, has set out again to fulfil a round of engagements which will occupy the coming two months. On theefirst Saturday after the death of Emma Lazerus, her memory was honored in all the Jewish pulpits of New York, and the hyms that were sung were selected from her poems. There are those who think that Susan B. Anthony's speech on woman suffrage some years ago in the Assembly Chamber at Al- bany first weakened the ceiling of that apartment. Among the medical students in Paris is a young Spitnish lady. Her father is a Ma- drid journalist, andher mother a lady who, under the name of Renooz, has published several scientific worka. A number of Ohio men in Kansas have organized an Ohio Club, the motto ef which is "Tho sun of Ohio never shone on the face of an ugly woman." Ohio women all carry umbrellas when the sun shines. Frances E. Willard contributes to the Woman's Journal a story illustrating the good effects of the tricycle upon mind and body. Miss Willard is an enthusiastic be- liever in this kiud of exereise for women and girls. "11 womea are not good enough to be- long to the Masons," said a fair one, with pouting lips, the other day, will you please tell us why ?" "My dear, that is the very trouble, You are too good. The neceasity for your membership (bee net exist. Masonry was founded to make the men better, and the Loiel knows they need it," An organized society of female thieves has lust been broken up by the police of Vienna. The society existed for a long time and fiottrished audaciously. It was oomposed of pretty shop girls au leagite with their pretended purohasers, and the tracks of that operations were covered cenningly. )3116 at lad they were dieeovered. Fifteen of the beautiee were arrested, and more are expected, ,ARA13 041131MEN. •••11., be ateniarkahle laumher of Playe IsnvIo1a %%eh ROgagOq If the little Arabs are heathen, they are at least picturesque heathen. In their col- ored clothing, with their dusky skins, their bite& eyes and their lithe, active bodies, they are Very picturesque. Put, it must be ehnfeased, they appear best at a distance; for soap la nob so faahionable among them as might iustly be expected from the people of a country which manufactures the most cleansing soap in the world. In watehieg the children at play, one soon notices that the girls do not alweya have a good tune. Arab boys are not trained to he zentlemanly and courteous to their slaters although they treat their eldera Notate delightful deference and respect. IAittle girls in the klast are sever welcome. "When a baby is born, if it be a g the threshold mourns forty days." So, utt taking O glimpee at the amusements of the Arab children we must be prepared to find that they are chiefly boys' games, in which the iris seldom participate. A little boy in Canada asked a person who had lived in Syria if the boya there played baseball and Ott learning that they did nothe said, "Well, they can't have much fun there." It is very natural for the children of any country to imagine that the children in other countries amuse themselves in the same ways. And the number of games that are in reality uni- versal bait,.inong onildren in all countries la re - For example, the Arab children often play blind -man's -buff (they call it ghummaida) and biz memo or puss -in -the -corner, and a game like "button, button, who has the but- ton?" (which they play with- a pebble), and owal howa, or leap -frog, and gilleh or mar- bles. But there are other games of which you probably have never heard — such as kurd murboot, shooka, joora,, taia •ya-tala. kkatim, and the greatest and most exciting of all their games—the national game, it might perhaps be called--fereeel. Trained Muscles'. Wellington said that Waterloo was won on the cricket -field of Eton. He referied to the gallantry of his officers, raany of whom had been trained by the games and sports of that famous school. An illustra- tion of the effect of such training in develop- ing a man's limbs and wind was given at Iiikerman, one of the most stubbornly fought battles of the Crimean War: a young officer, who had learned at Eton not much from books, but a good deal from its sports, had hot work on that eventful night. His sergeant fell at his aide. Seiz- ing the dead man's rifle he fired it, emptied leis own revolver, drove his aword through a Russian officer, was surrounded and tnado prisoner. While going to the rear in charge of two stalwart Femssians, he looked at their long coats arid said to himself, "They can't run." Watching his opportunity, he knocked one soldier head over heels, threw the other, by a wrestler's trick, into the mud, and took to his heels. Before his guardians were on their legs and could fire, he had got over a good piece of ground. A Russian lancer made at him ; he ran as if leading an Eton foot -race, and cleared a good-sized fence. The lancer cleared it after him'and with lance fixed pressed the fugitive hard. A swollen brook, running fiercely, barred his way. It was seventeen feet wide, but the old Etonian had won the "long jump" when at school, having cleared nineteen feet over Chalvey ditch. He now jumped the brook; the lancer refused to follow, and the young officer ran back into the English lines: "Hurrah for Eton 1" he shouted, as a sehoolfellow shook his hand—recalling the school where he had learned to shoot, to fence, the art of boxing, the wrestling dodge, the high jump, the long jump, and the use of his legs. Mother Swan's Telegraph. "The very earliest telegraph in America,' said great -grandpa, seating himself in his story -spinning chair, and taking Bright Eyes on his knee, "was in active operation in Vermont, while the first settlers were doing their best to beedme actually settled. Mother Swan lived there in the centre of what is now a flourishing town, but which was then a pathless forest; and, being a widow, was obliged to look out herself, for her little garden and live stock. " Every morning the cows were let out to feed, and went straying away through the 1 woods, and sometimes, by three o'clock, not a tinkle of their bells could be heard. Then IMother So ibn's telegraph came into play. "She had eight children, and these she sent to find the wandering animals; but she Idid not despetch them together, for then they might easily have become lost in the iwoods. The youngest child was stationed !just far enough from the house for her i mother to hear her if she should call ; the I next in size went only far enough to be able , to communicate with the first, and so the • line stretched out, 1 " When the one at the farther end of the l line changed his position, in looking for the cows, he shouted directions back to the next station, and so the line moved to left or right, as the case might be, perhaps ending, before the cows were found, in describing a ' circle about the house, exactly as that i , might be done by the minute hand of a clock, 'the log cabin, with the anxious mother, be- i ing at the centre of the dial. i "At the first tinkle of the cowbells, I',Found!' cried Nunber Eight, and 'Found!' repeated Number Seven; and so the news ran along the line, until Mother Swan her- ' self received it. And the little sentinels 1 kept their places . until the cows had been ' collected and driven home, as nearly as Imight be in the liue held by these original telegraph operators." How to Pronounce " Pepys." How to pronounce the name of that lively old gossip, Mr. Samuel Pepys ? Mr. Wal- ter C. Pepys has compiled an account and genealogy of his family and sets forth the information that the first mention of the name in English records is in a MS. of 1273, where Richard Pepis is described as the pos- sessor of "ono ntessue.ge and a rood of land" hi a partieular district, and John Pe - pee is deolstred to have rented half a r etch: for eightpenoe. The spelling of the name takes no less than seventeen different forms; mid the pronunciation varies greatly coca now, but the anther thinks that " Peppis " is right, while the most famous of its beat- ers, the diariat Samuel, undoubtedly pro, nounced it "Peeps" Recommendatory. Desier—" Yes'medarn?, they are a most beeutiful pair of jet earrings; in fact, ma. dame, they are just the pair I would select for my own wife were she a widow." "Women acts Madre man thinks," ea writer. Yes, that's why nian is bald. AUSTRIA AND RUSSIA li41 FIGRTi t Exports say.TIM 'Wait a rreteal 0 1Whalk kaeh Other -The Prlave'e 'Skroat. lisnirt, Jan, 20.—Herr von Tisza's state - Monk in the Dower House of the Hungarian Diet was anxiously awaited here. It has confirmed the coeviction that war between Ausiria and Russia is aocepted by both sidea as inevitable. The Prender's atatement waif given in a carefully poised speech, professing peace but breathing the spirit of war. Oper- ators on the 13oerse, who bad waited for despatehes from Pestle offered intereational attacks for Buie freely, but the 'effect of the Preanier's speech was, not fully seen till the opening of business on Monday. Private advices front Viennkstate that the diplomatic negotiations reetniely opened between Prance Labanoff, the Ro4seat Am.' bastador to Austria, and Cu Qhtlnoky have been Abandoned. The coalition of affairs now exiating between the two Gott- eruments is simply that eaoh is lying in wait for the first chance to strike. • Reports re- ceived at the War Office from agents on the Polish frontier intimate a renewal of activity. among the Russian troops. Diffi- culties in the way of transportingthe troops are being remedied. The commissariat has been improved, and disease among the troops is decreasing. In the provinces of Volhynia, and Podolia military requisitions for grain and forage are °among a dearth of provisions among the people. At Kremenetz eight great magazines are being built. They will be surrounded by fortifications. At Dunbuo acoommodatione have been ordered for 30,000troops. At Luck; between Doubuo and Wliidemir-Wal- inski, a new comp is being constructed which will hold 30,000 troops. These pre- parations would seem to indicate an inten- tion of invadiug Galicia. Austrian war offi- cials auspect that the real object in view is the invasion of Bulgaria,and that the aim of the Caar's strategy -is to entrap 4.tu8. tria, into sending the bulk of her forces Ilbto Galicia while the real coup is delivered in the Balkan Peninsula. Remarkable Generosity Towards a Poor Woman. Two richly -dressed women boarded a Fourth car one evening jut at dusk, says a New York paper. One was young and al- most handsome, the other middle-aged. They paid their fare out of well-filled purses. At Fourteenth street another woman enter- ed. She waspinched, worn, and pale, and her dress was shabby and faded. She carried a Large bundle of laundry and a baby, while a little girl, scarcely a,ble to toddle, clung to her dress. She sank into her seat with a sigh of relief and put the bundle down on the floor at hor feet, then shifted the sleeping infant to her other ahoulder and helped she *toddler up on the:heat be- side her. E.very movement jsetokened weariness, and her wan face ,told plainly of suffering and sorrow. When the conductor approached for her 1 are the poor woman be- gan a nervous search for her money. She felt down in the pocket of her worn ram, and as she groped within its recessee le look of consternation crossed her face. Pafeeent- ly she looked up in the conductor's faca iand said: "1 can't find my 'noisy. I had ten cents in my pocket, but I must have lost it." "Try again, misses," said the conductor, not unkindly, for even he seemed to be touched ley her apparent distrese. • Again she tried to find the missing coin, even turn- ing the pocket inside out. But there was nothing there. "No, it's gone," she gasp- ed, as she glaneed appealingly at the ma before her, her lige trembling meanwhil and a suspicion of moisture glistening li her eye. The conductor hesitated for c moment, then hardening his voice, said " Pm very sorry, madam, but you cart ride without paying fare." • "Ob, I know it, sir but I've so far to too ; can't I pay you when I come back? I Shall have some money then ;" and she looked down at her bundle as if that would confirm her ste,tement. But the conductor wasproof against the appeal, though to hia credit, be it said, he was not harsh. "No, that's against the rules. You'll have to get off," he replied, as he reached up, for the bell cord. The other two women had watched the scene with apparent interest, and at this juncture the younger one sprang from her seat toward the conductor and uttered an imperious "No" Before any one could divine her intention she had opened her purse rnd emptied its contents into the poor woman's lap—$4 or, $5 at least rattled down in a little shower of coin, while two or three pieces rolled off on the floor. The next instant the generous young woman was out of the car. Her companion follow. ed after dropping several more pieces of sil- ver into the poor wornan's lap. The aston- ished recipient of the bounty seemed unable to speak. She impulsively covered her treasure with one hand, and burying her face against the sleeping infant she sobbed until even the conductor's heart was touch- ed. He picked up the stray coins and placed them with the rest. Then he rang up a fare out of his own pocket, and retired to the rear platform and blew his nose vigorously. It Was a Narrow Escape. Wife (who has just returned from the dentist's)—" I shall be awfully stupid now." Ilusband—" Why so, any dear?" Wife—"I have had all my wisdom teeth pulled out." Husband (with the best intentions in the world)—" Of course, my love, you know it's nothing but a superstition, the idea that wisdom teeth have anything to do with wis- dom. If you were to have every tooth in your head pulled it couldn't make you any stupider, you know—er—ah, by the way, here's $50 to pay tho dentist." ; [He succeeded in smoothing the . matter over, but it was a narrow escape. A Great Lodge Man. Pint Deane —"Mrs. CroesIy, my husband tells me that Mr. Crossly as very popular among the society gentlemen," Seeond Dame—" Yee, he is. If I do say it, my hueband is a greet lodge man." "Indeed." yes he :goes down town to lodge &beet 7 o'clock every night led retures horae to lodge about the same tinie every morning." His Etealth Was Delicate. Lady of the House--" Now that the ser- vant hat given you a lunch in the kitchen you will shovel the snow off the sidewalk, will you not?" Tratnp-,--" I would like to oblige yon, madam, but really, 1 eaetot." Why not?' " M y physician has forbiddeb E ine to hahdle atythaeg eold, extept cold vietuais, u revoir." 41,4"