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(Ade RIOneei Elennevele,)
By M. E. BBADDON,
Author, of " Lair AnDLEr's Sitinrr," " Wrslann'slWxinro," Era, 'Fge.
CHAPTER III.—Deneutets
Lady Belfield consented to fulfil the en
gAgement .vhioli her son had made for her,
hat she owned that her dear Adrian, had
been somewhat precipitate.
"To call two clays running seems rather
too eager," she add," and if we find by and
bye that Col. Deverill has degenerated,
and that the girls are not nice, it will be
difficult to draw bugle. To go to them twice
in a week implies mch an ardour of friend,
ship."
Adrian blusha4„.x
"1 think you will like them," he said,
with a troubled air.
"You have told me so little about them
after being with them so long. White did
they talk about all the. time?
" The places where they had lived, mostly.
You see we had no common friends to pull
to pieces. Mre. Baddeley *teemed horrified
when I told her what a limited amount of
gaiety she is likely to get in this past of
the country."
Then she is evidently fond of pleasure.
I'm afraid she is. However, her hus-
band is expected home next montli, and no
doubt he will keep her in the right path
.»
".Andi
the unmarried sister, what s she
like ?"
" Verylike Mrs. Baddeley, only prettier."
"My dear Adrian, you talk of nothing
but their beauty. I'm afraid they must be
empty headed girls."
"They are not blue stockings. They di
not quote Huxley or Sir John Lubbock, di
not make a single enquiry about the geolo.
of the neighbourhood, or our antiquana,
remains. I believe they are the kind of w
men who think that ruined abbeys were in
vented for plc -nice, and who only consider
geological stratum in its adaptability t
the growth of roses or strawberries. The
are very handsome, and think they ar
very nice. But you will be able to judg
for yourself in ten minutes." This ciialogn
had occurred in Lady Belfield's barouche, o
the way to Moreomb.
They were approaching Mr. Pollack
demesne, and a little flock of Mr. Pollack
eheep had just passed them in a cloud o
dust on their way to the slaughter-hottse,
sight that always afflicted Lady Belfield, e
tender was her Jove of all four -footed beast
from the petted fox terrier .in her drawing
room to the half starved horse on th
common.
--e_Thesearriage drove up to the Corinthian
porticoe'eandobefore the horses drew up
Colonel Deverill was out upon the steps
welcome his -oldeltive. He handed her on
of her carriage e and escorted her into th
house. He weir. a fine heudeome-lookin
man, with gray hair and black moustach
and eyebrows a man whom strangers gen
entity spoke of as "striking."
"1 cannot tell you how grateful I am fo
this early Lady Belfield," he said
"1 was rte. anidous for my girls to know you
They have4d such a wandering life, pee
children. I have so few friends, except m
that miserable country of mine where, o
course, everybody knows them. And th
is your son Sir Adrian," shaking hands wit
him as he spoke, "my girls told me how
well they got on with you yesterday
elerazen-faced husseys, I'm afraid you limn
them"'
Agiten Adrian blushed, so strangely di
the paternal phrase jar upon his ear.
"They are not at all like the ordinary re;
of young ladies," said Deverill. "1 hav
brought them up in the true spirit of crmair
aderze and I always think of them as jolly
good fellows."
Lady Belfield looked horrified. She aci
companied her host through an ante -room to
the long drawing.room, speechless with
wonder that any father should so speak o
his daughters.
Two fair and graceful forms rose from be
fore the hearth, and Adrian breathed more
freely. No flowing trend to.day, and a far
less liberal display of ankles. leers. Bad-
deley wore a fashionable tailor gown and a
high collar, and her hair was dressed to per-
fection.
Helen was in aoft, grey cashmere, with a
falling collar of old lace, and long tight
sleeves, which set off the beautiful arms and
...Allender white hands. She was still asethetio,
but-shelvas tidy, and her little bronze slip-
pers only played at bopeep under the long
limp skirt, as she came forward to welcome
Lady Belfield.
Her beauty was indisputable; her smile
' would have fascinated an anchorite. She
recived Lady. Belfield with caressing sweet-
ness, almost ignoring Adrian, to whom she
only gave the tips of her taper fingela She
seated herself on a low sofa by her guest,
and asked leave to loosen her heavy mantle
with its deep fur border.
"you will take it off, wont yon? Yon
are not goin a to pay us a flying visit. Father,
take Lady Belfield's mantle directly, or she
Will be suffocated in this warm room."
Between them they removed her ladyship's
cloak, and made her comfortable upon the
sofa with a hassock fer her feet, and a little
table for her teossup.
"Nos, you look homelike and friendly,"
Mid Helen, seatieg 'herself on a still lower
ottoman, so as to be in a Manner at the visi-
tor's feet.
Colonel Deverill looked on with a pleased
" I hope you won't 'object to our being
very fond of you," 'pleaded Helen. ".You
are not in the least like a stranger to us,
Lady Belfield. Father has talked so much
of your girlish days and his young mannish
days, when all the world was eo much bet-
ter than it is now, and when even an Irish
estate was worth something. How hard it
is for us yowig people to be born into such
a bad, usedlup world, isn't it ? To be creat-
ed at the fag end of everything f"
• The girl abhost took Consteame Belfield's
breath away. She was so easy, so spontane-
ous, and her pretty caressing had suoh an
air of reality. Adrian's mother had come
in fear and doubt, rather inclined to dislike
Colonel DeverilPs daughters, who were only
beautiful ; and this one was wheedling her-
self into the warm motherly heart already.
"And so you have not forgotten the old
days in Eton Sq,uare when your father and
• my father Were midi friends," she said to
the Colonel at last., fooling that she must say
something. "It is very pleasant to find
you have made your daughter like nie in
advance."
" have not forgotten a single detail of
that time," replied Deverill. It was just the
one golden period of my life beide I had
found out what oare reclaim. SO longaeI
• was a pensioner on my father everything
went well with me ; if I got into difficulties
the dear old boy &heaps got me out oi them.
There was a growl, perhaps, and then I
was forgiven. But when he died and I Was
einy Own Mader, With a rich wife, too, as
people told me,, the floodgates of extrava.
gance were opened and the stream was too
strong for me. I thought there must be a
lot of spending in our two (fortunes, and I
took things easily. When I pulled up at
last, there wait deuced little left, only jut
enough fru us tc) get along with in a leery
humble way. We have had to out and con-
trive I can tell you, Lady Bellield. This
girl Of mine doesn't know what it is to have
a gown from a, fashionable milliner, and I
have left off cigars for the last six years. I
only keep a Inez or two on the premises for
any friende."
"A oase of real distress, sighed Mrs.
Baddeley, with a tragi -comical air, we
contrive to be very happy in spite of the
wolf at the door, don't we father? It is an
Irish gentleman's normal Ante to be ruined.
Now, Helen, go and pour out the tea, and
let me alt by Lady Belfield."
• Helen went to the tea table whit* Dono•
van had just sot out. There was no other i
servant n attendance, This slow and faith.
ful Hibernian seemed to comprise the indoor
staff.
"And are these all your family ?" asked
Constance, looking at the sisters.
"These are all I have in the world, and
one of these will be deserting me, I suppose,
if her husband can contrive to stay in Eng-
land,' answered Colonel Deverill.
" Whioh I hope he may be able to do,
poor fellow," seed Mrs. Baddeley, with a
more careless air than Lady Belfield quite
approved in a wife's mention of an absent
husband.
Adrian handed the tea cups and muffins,
and when thoge duties were performed dip-
ped into a seat beside Helen, and they two
talked confidentially, while Mrs, Baddeley
and her father and Lady Belfield carried on
an animated conversation chiefly about the
neighbourhood and its little ways.
Sir Adrian was questioning the young
lady for the moat part, trying to find out
what manner of girl she wag, so that he
might be the better able to meet a second
attack from his mother.
• Did she hunt? Yes, and she adored
hunting; it was juat the one thing in life
worth living for.
"But I think you are fond of yachting
too " suggested Adrian. "Yon talked of
yachting yesterday."
"1 revel in a yacht. Yes, when theres
no hunting yachting is just the one thing I
live for. When father had a two hundred
ton yaoht travelling about the Mediterran-
ean my life was an eostacy."
"Then you are a good sailor."
"If that mearts never being ill I am a very
good sailor. But I go a little further than
that, for I know something abortt naviga-
ting a yacht. I should not be in the least
afraid of finding myself at sea without a
skipper."
"These are out of door accomplishments,"
said Adrian, "no doubt you have equal
gifta for winter and wet weather. You are
musical, of course."
" Comm ci commis ca. I can play a vale;
or accompany a song." .
"Your own sons% for instance."
"My own, or yours, if you sing."
" Alas 1 No, I am not vocal. Bat y
—.I like to know all your talents. Y
paint, perhaps—flowere.
"Heaven forbid 1 Do I look the kind of
girl to devote a week to the study ot a car-
nation in a glass of water, not a bit like
when it's done? or to a hedge sparrow's
nest and a bunch of primroses? No, I
never have used a brush; but I sometimes
indulge in a little caricaturing with a quill
pen and an is, kpot. But how very egotisti-
cally I am prosing. Tell me about yourself,
please, Sir Adrian, since we are to be friends
as well as neighbors. What are your pecu-
liar vanities—tennis, shooting, fishing—I
hear you don't hunt ?"
"No, I don't hunt; I do a little fly fish -
lug in the season, and I shoot a few
pheasants every October, just to keep pace
with the neighborhood. 1 am not a sports-
man, Miss Deverill. Books and music are
my only vanities."
I adore books, said Helen, smiling at
him, "they furnish a room so sweetly. If
I were rich enough I would have mine all in
vellum, with different colored labels."
"You are a connoisseur of bindings, I
see."
"Oh, I like everything to look pretty. It
is the torment of my life that I am not
surrounded with beautiful things. In onr
nomadic life it is impossible to have one's
own atmosphere. Two or three Liberty
chairs and a little Venetian glass won't
make a home in a wilderness. • I hope some
day I shall have a lovely house of my own
and heaps of money,"
She expressed her longings with perfect
frankness, as one unaccustomed to think be-
fore she spoke.
Lady Belfield roma. The visit had lasted
nearly three-quarters of an hour, not as long
as Adrian's yesterday.
"Yon will come and see me soon, I hope,"
she said to Mre. Baddeley,
"1 am dying to see the Abbey. I am
told it is too lovely."
"It is a dear, good old place, and we are
all fond of it. 1heard you talking of books
Mies Deverill. I know Adrian will be
pleased to show you his library."
"1 shall be delighted to see it—and the
stables," answered Helen. "1 have heard
so much of the stables. And I want to see
Mr. Belfield's hunters." •
"I am sorry he is not at home to show
them to you. He is very proud of them."
"Oh, but it will be fun to get acquainted
with them in hisabeenoe'and when becomes
back it will seem as if Ihad gone half way
towards knowing him" said Helen laugh.
She and her sister went with Lady Bel-
field to the portico, and hung about her as
she got into her carriage. These caressing
Irish ways were new to Constance Belfield,
but she melded to the fascination of two fair
faces and two fresh young voices, full of
music.
"I don't know that they are altogether
good style, Adrian," she said, as they drove
home, 4 but they are very sweet."
Adrian agreed as to their sweetness, but
not as to their deficien6y in style.
"1 have never agreed to any hard and
fast rules for a woman's manners," he said,
rather irritably, "1 don't recognise that
conventional standard by which every we -
elevated you into a kind of ideal frie
Their hearte went out to you at once."
"They are very oherrning, but whe
Med with .glede of that kind I om always re.
minded of 'pot, the fox terrier."
"As how, mother
"She is mob e, darling thing, am' if
he sees me ie the 4orderi or the dable yitril she
rushes toene and leaps up at me in a kind
of eostatto affeoldeu, but I have seere her
behwee just the eaele Ave' minutee after-
wards to the butcher. It seems an exuber-
ance of love that runs over anyhow."
"Bather hard upon Helen Deverill to
:ompare her wit& a fox terrier 1" said Adri-
an.
Helen Deverill! How familiar seenied
the sound of her name to him already.
Helen Deverill 1 and he had known heron
four and twenty hours,
ad, "Baddeley."
What? We have' some Baddeleys
among our foroiey connexions. daresay we
he shallthinTdzouTt EtitomBrAs.pBmadodeiNeyAso.oband
io a kind of coUsin. The world is ere abaurd-
rybas l 3 rAi3,b el emf roseumudri . 0B' Co' .mh Rime idteltelely,d, fAoo Adrian rsti rat ino. walkedThomas, forger, t otlse
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1 feo Be oolieureen.)
ever with an air of novelty, as one who in-
troduced A new light to his congregation.
volumes of the great divine, and that he had
never been known in his sermons to quote
any other authority, yet produced his name
worth that the Vicar never read any other
gxactly in the seine attitude, and. as it
seelned to his old pupil, in the same Keit ef
clothes whioh had marked him in those
earlier days. It was a tradition in Chad -
book than those andent mottled -calf -bound
luminary nodding over his Jeremy Taylor,
rudiments twelve yore ago, &wavered that
Vicarage, and in the dusty old library,
where the worthy Vicar had taught him his
Several Backs containing dynamite have
been discovered hidden in a field near Pres -
burg, Hungary.
• Many arrests have been made in Southern
Russia owing to the discovery of an eaten -
sive agrarian movement.
"You'll ask them over soon! I supposm
mother ?"
"f you like dear."
"To dinner?"
" That means a party."
"Oh, no, pray don't have a party, T
Vicar, perhaps,and the Freemantles--ju
three or four friendly people. One sees
little of one's friends at a set dinner. Tit
would like to meet Freemantle and bia wif
I dare say."
'"And we could ask Jack Fremantle,
there are girls." ,
Yes, 1 suppose we mud have Jack. H
is an oaf, but the kind of oaf who alwa
gets on with girls."
"He sings, Adrian."
"Did I not say that he Was an oaf
mother. In my estimation, a man wh
sings ranks almoat as low as a man wh
plays the flute."
"And yet I thought you were fond
music."
"Music, yes, but not amateur single
end playing. It is because I love mus
that hate the young man who carries
roll of songs when he goes out to dinne
arid the young woman who can sit down i
cold blood to murder Beethoven."
The mother smiled and then sighed. He
son was all that was dear to her, but eh
had the feeling that a good many mother
and fathers must needs experience now -
days, that the young men and women o
this present generation are trained too fine
The invitation to a friendly dinner,a
three days' notice, was sent next morning
Adrian reminded his raother of the letter a
least three times before it was written an
despatched by a mounted messenger. Post
in the country aro so slow, and there was
always a hunter to be exercised.
Sir Adrian walked across the fields to
Chirwell Grange, and invited Mr. and Mrs
Freemantle' whose house was just three
quarters ofa mile from the Abby, as th
crow flies. Mrs. Freemantle was h
mother's most Intimate friend in the perish
a sturdy, practical woman, who affede
nothing better than common sense, but ex
celled in the exercise of that admirable qual
ty. Her well-to-do neigbours, for the most
part, disliked her. She was too keen an
outspoken for them ; but the poor and th
iok adored her. She had known the brother
rout their cradles, and treated them as
avalierly as she treated her own Jack
uture Squire of Chirwell, or her daughte
Lucy, a tall slip of a girl who scarcely seem
d to have a mind of her own, so overshadow
d was she by her strongminded mother
"Von muse all come," said Adrian to
his stalwart matron, who stood bareheaded
a the cold, clipping the dead leaves off a, fav
rite shrub in a thicket that bounded her
awn. "I am sure you will like them."
"Them," echoed Mrs. Freemantle. "Then
there are more than Colonel Deverill? You
nly spoke of him just now."
"There are hia daughters—two daugh-
rs."
"Oh, there are daughters, are they.? Is
hat the reason you are so eager to launch
his new man? I thought you generally
eld yourself aloof from girls, Adrian. I
now you have been very tiresome when -
ver I have wanted you here to play tennis.'
"1 am not particularly inclined to girlish
odety in a general way, perhaps. But these
mike are—well, a little out of the common.'
Mrs. Freenantle gave a sotto ince whistle.
"1 see," she said. "They are the new
tyle of girls, fast and furious, just the kind
f girls I should not like my Lucy to know.
hey would corrupt her in a week. She
ould begin to think of nothing but her
rocks, and consider herself a martyr ba-
ause she lived in the counery eleven months
n every twelve. God forbid that she should
ver gel intimate with such girls. Irish
co 1 I believe that after five and twenty
hey generally drink."
"Don't you think it would be as well to
ee them before you condemn them ?" said
drian, who was used to Mrs. Freemantle's
We ways, and not prone to take offence at
er speech.
"1 am not condemning them. I am only
reparing myself for the worst. Yes, of
ouree we will come, if Lady Belfield wants
a, We are free for Saturday, I know."
"You'll all come."
Mrs. Freemantle pureed up her lips in an -
her suppressed whistle.
"Four would be too many. Jaok and the
ther and I will come. That will be more
an enough of us."
ou are afraid to trust Lucy among my
ibernians. I don't think tho ladies have
ken to the oratur yet. One of them is
arried, by the bye, her husband is expect -
home from Bombay, shortly."
"A grass wilow," ,exclaimed Mrs. Free-
antle, worse and worse. I feel sure they
e a very disreputable set, and your eager-
ese to insinuate them into society is a inis-
istaken benevolence. And you would
akeme your deeper. I am to be the thin
d of the wedge."
"1 don't believe Colonel Deverill or his
ughters care a straw about your stuck-up
ral sooiety, only they are bright, clever
ople and I want to see something of them
yself:"
"Take care, Adrian. What if this Irish
tenet want's to be your stepfather ?"
"He will never realize his wish. I can
tut my mother's discretion, and her love
r her sons."
"My dear Adrian, nine people out of ten
uld say your mother acted 'wisely in
rrying again, if the were to make a Entit-
le match. Your brother Valentine is nob
e easiest young man to menage—"
'Do you think a step -father would make
an more manageable, Mrs, Fremantle? I
nder you can talk such nonsense," ex-
imed Adrian, getting angry,
"My dear boy, I don't know what to
ilk about stepefathers and eecond mar-
ges ; but I think your mother has a
ublesome handful with hor youimer eces."
He is a good fellow, and he is very fond
his mother."
Fond of her, after his own fashion, yes
it dutiful son, no. Well. Adrian, every
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man muse speak and look and !neve in ex- beck has to carry Its burden ; may your
tatty the same fashion. I think Mrs. Bad- mother's rest lightly. You are the person
deley and her deter are simply charming in who can lighten it for her, She has at least
their tuistuclied franknems and warm-hearted one devoted Son. There, there, you look
enthusiasm. How reelly pleased they were ' angry and you look distreseed. My foolish
to see you, a
"They seemed very plumed, yet as t was •
quite a stranger to them —"
"Oh, but you were not a stranger, They
had talked of you and thought of you, and
• tongue has been running on too fast. I
promise to be in nay most agreeable mood
ott Saturday evening, and I'll try to admire
Colonel Deverill's daughters V hat is the
married lady's name V'
_
Austria and Turkey have been visited by
a succession of violent snowstorms, which
have paralyzed traffio.
Prinoe William of Prussia emphetioally
denies the rumour that he is longing for war
for the sake of personal glory,
Mr. McNamee has been awarded $20,000
in settlement of his claim against the Do-
minion Government for the cancellation of
his contract for the British Columbia grav-
ing dock.
Ott is reported that the Czar has ordered
the Russian Foreign Office to prepare a cir-
cular note to the powers calling attention to
the fad that the present situation in Bul-
garia is contrary to the Berlin treaty.
• Postmaster -General McLelan has pur-
chased in England five hundred yards of
wool serge for,poatmeres uniform, whit h, tak-
ing advantage of the Government's privilege
of freedom from duty, costs only about 60
cents a, yard.
It is rumoured that Ald. Beausoleil, of
Montreal, M. P. for Berthier, will soon re-
sign and run for the same seat in the Local
House, to become Provinoial Minister of
Agriculture in the event of Mr. James Mc-
Shane beisig disqualified. •
A resident of Montreal has received a let-
ter from a miner at Sudbury giving marvel-
lous accounts of the richness of the gold
mines in that district. The writer asserts
that a piece of native gold valued at $50,000
was taken from one vein.
An International Yachting Race After All
We are glad to announce that there is
some prospeot of an international yacht race
next fall. This year, however, the contest
will be beteveen steam yachts for the Inter-
national Challenge Cup of the American
Yacht club. Mr. G. L. Watson, of Glas-
gow, Soothutd, the British designer, has
written for all information concerning the
conditions covering the challenge oup, and
intimates an intention to challenge on the
part of the Scotoh syndicate who were own-
ers of the Thistle, Just as the model, rig
and sea -worthiness of America yachts have
.cluring elte past three years, been hnproved
'bs, the contests for the America's cup, so
will the steam yachts be improved. There
is at present more chance for improvement
in steam than in sailing yachts, and there-
fore everything should be done to encourage
a challenge. As a rule American steam
yachts are remarkably fast, but, defi-
cient in sea -going qnalities, while the con-
trary is true of foreign steam yachts. Here
is the great problem which an international
steam yacht race would do much to settle,
and as a result Americans might hope in a
short time to have the fasteat as well as the
most thoroughly seaworthy steam yachts
afloat. While the attractionsof steam yacht-
ing are not, to the nautical sportsman, so
great as those of sailing, new interest will
be awakened by such an international con-
test as is proposed, and we hope that the
challenge may come, and the Challenge Cap
not be as successfully defended as the Amer-
ica's Cup has been. The foreign yachtsmen
will be sure of a sportsmanlike reception,
and "may the beat boat win."
A $300 Gun.
In the window ofa bromlwaygma store,.
in New York, the other day, there was a
handsome, goldplated gun with a, card on
it, which reads, "Made to order for the
Sultan of Turkey." There is a single bar-
rel of ordinary length, with another below
it of half the length that appears to have no
hole in it. A small wooden cylinder, that
seems to be made for the left hand to olasp
when thing the gun, surrounds the short
barrel. A clerk said, "That is a maga-
zine shotgun. The short barrel holds six
cartridges of ordinary size. The empty
cartridge is thrown from the gun and a fresh
one put.in its place by simply pulling the
cylinder back toward the trigger and re-
placing it again. The gun can be fired six
times in three seconds. We have sold a
number to express companions and to others
who have valuable property to guard in the
wilds of the West. Those have the barrels
out off short, and when a man of nerve turns
one of them loose on a band of road agents,
the temperature will rise with a surprising
suddenness in that vicinity. The Sultan's
sun cost him $300 in gold. It isnot design.
ed for upland shooting, but if the Sultan
does duck hunting, he will find it very
handy.
agars $1,000 a Thousand.
"The highest priced cigars handled in the
regular trade," said the Chicago representa-
tive of a noted firm of cigar manufacturers,
"aro worth $500 a thousand. We have
filled a fear orders at that figure, and more
at $400, $850, and $800. Thetrade in goods
like these is not large. A$500 would have
to be sold for a dollar straight, while a $300
cigar brings 50 cents a,t retail. The trade in
suoh goods is chiefly about the holitheye for
presents, The most costly cigars I ever
heard of was a lot which our house made
for the Crown Prince of Germany. The
price was $1,000 a thousand. No better
cigars were ever made, or could be made.
The stock was selected from tho ohoicest,
and each wrapper was choseo from among
a dozen or more of the best pieces. The
result was a perfect smoking cigar, but for
all that I Ain free to say that there was not
a thousand dollars of value in them.
Sir Edward Henry Lieveking is the new
physioian h ordinary to the Endish Queen.
There is a aiirncicnt recompense in the
very consciousness of a noble deed.
VAXBT148.
The great craze thie winter in Pane is
aye o'clock teas. They should be made
sefficiently substantiel to epoil entirely a
dinner appetite. °avideandWiebes are de
rigueur, with Russian tea, At th o diluter
table one gime only le placed near each
plate. On serving tables several teeye hold
eaoh separate glees ser vise. For sweet
wines inlaid glasses are used : for Bordeaux,
crystal inlaid with gold designs ; for ohm-
pagne, an opaque rose colored glees. The
table einem is embroidered profusoley lo
ninny tints, making the effect meet startling
when the a ine is changed and the glessee
are removed.
In time instanced two ladies will meet in
A friend's parka., and if not introduced, will
sit and gaze at each other as if they belonged
to hostile tribes of Indians and were seeking
each other's scalp. It is a relic of Isorbar-
ism, and shows that the Indian is still com-
ing out of the ground in this native land of
the redskins; moreover, it is dredfully
• ignorant and ill-bred. It is proper in your
friend's parlor to exchange the common-
placeof courtesy, even if you go down the
front steps witheut speaking. Piave good
Planners for ten minutes in your friend's
house. It is the least repayment you can
make for the privilege of being there.
There is no use in Irish or any other land-
lords trying to keep up their rents above
what is fair and reasonable. They had bet-
ter be wise in time, lest a worse thing fall
upon them. The days are past, or are
rapidly passing, when tenants are to be re-
garded as mere rent -gathering machines, or
as the live stock on the property. If the
land can only keep one family, 18 19 the idle
one, not the working, that will eventually
have to go to the wall, A great deal has
been stud about the rights of property.
The time has come for a good discumion
over its duties. In the past everything
has been done to bolster up rents. They
must now come to their natural level,
and there is no detensible reason why
they should not.
Is their not a great deal of truth in what
is often said about the cruel and unoluistian
exclusiveness that is often shown where it
ought least to prevail, viz., in the House of
God? Poor people, at is said, are not want-
ed inesuch places. It takes a good deal to
keep up such grand and easy churches, and
that means that only those who can pay for
the luxury should think of going to say their
prayers in such places. It is a terrible job
with many of those modern Pharisees when
a poor fellow happens to stumble into their
nicely upholstered pews. Ten chances to
one a broad hint is given to the intruder to
get out. It takes an awful time for a,
wealthy worshipper to become acquainted
with a fellow -sinner without the cash. How
is this Who knows!
Woman's right to the ballot has a, deter-
mined advocate in Mrs. Lucy Sweet Bar-
ber, of Allegheny County, N. 'Y. In Nov-
ember, 1886, she went to the polls, offered
to vote, was challenged, took the oath like
a man, voted the straight Prohibition
ticket, and then went home to await devel-
opments. She was arrested, but, being
subsequently released, determined to re-
peat her operation this year. Accordingly,
she voted last October, aaid then other
ladies followed her example. All were in-
dicted for illegal voting, end, by consent
Mrs. Barber's case was made a test one
She was tried by &jury of Allegheny County
farmers and merchants, found guilty and
sentenced by the court to twenty-four hours'
imprisonment in the county goal. She de
dares, however, that she will not go to,
goal, but will take her case to the United
States Supreme Court, if necessary. She
evidently "means business."
A useful discussion, which the Toronto
World claims the merit of having initiated,
is going on in the newspapers, with regard
to the necessity of vigorous action to locate
and develop the mineral wealth of Ontario.
The belief is common and no doubt well-
founded that large sections of the Province
are rich in mineral ores of various kinds, but
notwithstanding the exteneive geological
surveys that have been carried on by the
Dominion Government, there seems to be
still a lack of defuaite information, such as
can be readily turned to practical use.
Should Sir Charles Tupper succeed in ob-
taining a measure of reciprocity in natural
products, with the United States, the
opening up of an extensive market would
no doubt prove the best means of stimulat-
ing discovery and development of our min-
eral resources. But in any case it is doubt-
ful if the Local Government could do better
service than in devoting a considerable sum
to careful exploration and to making the re
sults known to the world. The field of
geological and mineralogical research is one
in which the Dominion and the Province
could well afford to work side by side.
There is ample room for both, and whatever
brings to light the vast stores of natural
wealth, which now lie buried beneath our
hills or crop out here and there in our
ravines, will rebound to the prosperity of
both.
How is it that the possession of great
wealth in another seems to have such at-
tractions for some people? If they have
any hope of ever sharing in the spoils their
might be some reason for the phenomenon.
But they have not, and yet they continue
to worship the golden calf with the great-
est possible reverence and dooility. They
know right well that it is not a cow that
can be milked. They have not the slightest
hope of ever sharing m it by a cent. They
know in many came that the object of their
idolatry is a worthless blockhead who but
for his money would not be touched with a
ten foot pole. But they worship in the out-
er sanctuary all the same. They look at
him as Fe passes with a sort of dazed stu-
por. They listen to his babble as if he
were inspired. They tell of his yachts and
his luxuries as if Inc had come from the
upper spheres, and though his spelling may
be peculiar, so long aa a cheque can be
drawn by him and honoured for a million by
the bank it is all right. • He may sin against
Lindley Murray and the Ten Command-
ments as long as he pleases and as often,
what does it matter ? Why the very man
that cries out against the folly may himself
have a certain feeling of uncomfortable awe
all the same, and the gold ring and the gay
i
clothing carries the day notwithstandiug.
Hose is it Payn, the novelist, lately
said, "I hate people that stink of money."
Very likely, but it is an but cer-
te.in thab he could stand a good deal of
stench when it came from his own pocket
and that he would cotton to a Crmsus in
spite of his philosophy. Ab, how money
commands reverence 1 How the calf that ie
golden carries the day even with those who
know that they are themselvee but "poor
beggars." And yet in many respects bet-
ter than the creature to whom they roves.
entially kiss their hands! No wonder that
vreelthy folks are cynical and contemptuous.
They know that as long as they have the
(sash they can have any number to lick their
boots, who if the cash were gone would curse
them to their face,
Seen in the Spirit,
CzePaterreeowes, P. E. 1, Jan. 27.—Eigto
teen utonthe ego Charles el. Yeo returned
from Winnipeg to visit his relatives in
Prince Edward Ieland, 04 New Yearei
day, a year ago, he was in Oharlottetown
on ha return to Winnipeg. While here he
visited the house of o, reletive, and after
leaving it disappeared as noyeterionslY and
completely as if the earth had swallowed
him. He had several hundred dollen on
his person, and, no trace being obtainable,
his parents offered $500 for information of
hie whereabouts, eked or alive. That two
last summer. Nothing more was heard of
it till this week when the grand jury met,
and Miss Tucker, a domestic, appeared and
told a most extraordinary story. Upon
hearing of the reward offered foe letso's
whereabouts he prayed that she might die -
cover the secret. In answer to her prayer
she had a vision. In the spirit she saw a -
man walking up and down in front of a
certain house. Her description of the man
Wilms completely with that of Yeo. A man
whom she minutely desoribesecame out of
that house and asked Yeo to go to the rear
stable to see a horse. The two were joined
by two others while there. The first -men-
tioned stranger drew a knife end stabbed
Yeo to the heart. The Murdered man's
pooketa were searched and a large amount
of money obtained and divided among the
three men. The body was stowed in an
°Wein, and subsequently the bin and the
body a ere taken some distance away in a.
sleigh, a hole oub in the Ice by the same
three men and the body thrown in, when
the men returned to the city. This story
of her vision has produced a profound sen-
sation. The investigation is still proceed-
ing.
Lives Four Doors .Below.
The Fall River News publishes a story,
told at the expense of the Amherst College
Glee Club, which is too good to keep. About
ten years ago the club made a trip through
New York State, and sung in Rochester at
the same time that Kate Pennoyer, a pretty
stage singer, was there. After the coneert
it was proposed to serenade the lady, and
the club proceeded to her home and amok
up the familiar college hymn, "Dear Eva-
lina," paraphrasing the chorus thusly:
"Dear Kate Pennoyer,
Sweet Kate Pennoyer,
Our love for thee
Shall never, never die."
After singing the entire song the boyn
waited a, moment for a recognition of their
serenade. Slowly a window in the third
storey was raised, later a man clad in robes
of white and a ith whiskers a foot long was
seen, and then a bass solo was wafted down
be the collegians:
Dear boys below there,
Sweet boys below here,
Your Kate Pennoyer
• Lives lour doors below here."
As the last words of his song died on the
frosty air, the Amherst College Glee Club
gathered themselves up like Arabs, and as
silently stole away,
Talking Over 8,100 Miles of Wire.
VANcOUVER, B. C., Jan. 22.—Mr. Henry
Norman, the special commissioner who is
making a tour through the different colon-
ies that form the British Empire, arrived
here kat night, and to -day carried on a con-
versation over the Canadian Pacific Rail-
way Company's wire. At one end of the
line was Mr. Hearst, of the Examiner, San
Francisco, and at the other end Mr. Stead,
of the Pall Mall Gazette, London. There
was an unbroken telegraph circuit extend-
ing from San Francisco to New '4 ork, 4,600
miles, the distance from New York to Lon -
bon via Canso, N. S., being 3,500 miles, or
8,100 miles in all. The telegraph linea ran
from San Francisco to New York, via Van-
couver, B. C., and Montreal ommecting at
New York with the Mackay -Bennett cable.
The telegranvs exchanged between San Fran-
cisco and London were therefore only re-
peated at New York, Canso and Bristol,
_England, the latter point being the landing
place of the Mackay -Bennett cable. The
object of this experiment was to demonstrate
the fact that London and Vancouver were
practically within "speaking distance' of
each other, which would in any case of war -
complications in the East, be of the great-
est importance to the British Empire.
Bumble Bees Wanted.
Says the Lexington (Ky.) Transcript .--
"Mr. Joseph McDonell, of this country,
wants to buy $10,000 worth of Kentucky
bumble bees that understand the manage-
ment of clover. They are to be sent to Aus-
tralia to assist in growing clover there by
carrying the pollen from bloom to bloom. A
gentleman who came from Australia last
fall and bought some stock front Mr. Mo-
Donell made the arrangement with Mr. Mo-
Donell to supply him with the bumble bees,
and they will probably be gathered from the
crop of next season. It has been known for
yew% that it was necessary to have them 'in
Australia. It will make business for the
small boy of this country, -and fun for the
Asturalien schoolboy in time to come."
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How China Treats Thievish Castilian.,
The cashier of a Chinese Bank tried tee
leave with the funds of his bank for some
undiscovered bourne or other, but was,
un-
happily for himself, promptly captured. It
seems to take a good deal of vengeance to
satisfy the demands of Chinese justice, which
certainly ought to be, and no doubt is, ex-
tremely deterrent. At all events, in the
case of this luckless cashier, the preliminary
step, when they caught him, was to wall him
up neatly in a cell, and leave him to reflect
on the error of his ways and to starve, and
in the meantime they chopped off the heads
of all his family,
"As the Twig is Bent."
"Oo ittle totsy wotay, I 'pees oo bettah
dit down on de f'o' an' et momma wuk."
"Flo'nceiwha's de use raisin' de baby wid
skit baby talk? Does yo' wan' de chile tet
talk like dat arhen he's a grow'd-up man e
An' -he will 'f you 'dress him in dat fash-
ion. Why dean yo' say, 'I's ob de 'pinion
ye: bettah set on de flo' while yo' muddah
pufome her duties,' an' hab it grow up an
speak good English whileyOuss 'bout it ?"
Bogus Maple syrup.
A patent for the manufacture of artificial
maple sugar has been isaued to Josiah Daily,
of Madison, Ind. It is made by adding to
a gallon of ordiaary sugar syrup three table-
spoonfuls of a decoction made from hickory
bark. The inventor says that this syrup
mud be distinguished from the genuine
maple syrup. —le, Y. Tribune.
A Doubting Thom as.
Applicant (to postmaster)—Ia it a letter
yez have for Misthress Mary O'Toolihan?
Postmaster—No, ma'am.
Applicant—Gwen now; it's nob Mary
O'Toolihan who wud believe yen looked
through all thim boxes thot quick i