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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1888-3-29, Page 6mummTgye A mirEED U liD 1) ,1! al Mil 04 tro OwAnaehltO WenOn. CHAPTER XXLI--(CoetnintiOn.) Duthie vehemence ot purpose deeeended euoldenly UrS1110. Egremout once mere ; and the honuen twat could, not but be quickened witIi the idee, not entirely unfounded, thet it wAs to him that she had flown back, and thot her exile proved that ehe cared for him more than for all the delights she had en- eyeda heirees. of Bridgefield, The good youth was consoientirms to the back-boue, and eotreritely perplexed between his Self - dedication awl the rights that their implied, underetandiug might give to her. Wes she to be the cowing bleesing of his life, to be :saved partly through leis affection from worldly trials ani temptations, end be. stowieg on him a brillant lot in which boundeess good could be effeted? Or was she a syren luring him to abandott his high- er and better purpoaes ? The firet few days of her stay, the former belief made him feel like treading on air, or like the hero of many a magazine story ; but as time went on this flattering supposi. tion began to fail him, when Nuttie showed her weariness of the eubjects which, in his exclusivenese, he deemed the only ones worthy of a Christian, or rather of a Catholm. Both of them had outgrown the lively, aimless chatter and little jests that bed succeeded the games of childhood, and the growth had been in different directions, go thatiareula aelt hemelf untrue to her old womance when she became weary of, his favourite topics disappointed by his want .of sympathy and comprehension, fretted by his petty disapprovals, and annoyed by his evident distaste for Mark, to whom she turned as to one of her proper world. At last, after many tossings, Gerard fixed -upon a test. If she endured it she would be the veritable maiden of his imagination, • and they would stand by one another, come velaat would ; if not, he would believe that the past had been fancy, not love, or love that had not withstood the attractions of fashionable life. A great temperance meet- ing was coming on, and Gerard, eager at once to fihl. the room, and to present a good- ly roll of recruits, watched anxiously for his moment, and came on Nuttie with his bands full of bills in huge letters, and hie pockets of badges. " Excellent speakers,",he cried. " We shall have the hall crowded. You'll come, Ursula ?" "1 don't know what Miss Mary will do. I don't think she mean it." "Oh, if you insist, if we both insist, he will. Look at the paper —we are tohave some splendid experiences." Nuttie made a Dee. " I've heard all about those," sbe said. "That man," •pointing to one of the, names, "regularly rants about it; he is like a•madnian. ' "He dees go rather far, but it is 'mite necessary, ae you 'will hear. Oh, Nuttie, if you would only be one °flu 1 I've brought a card! If you would 1" "Why, what's the use, Gerard ! I don't • like wine, I never do drink it, except a little claret -cup sometimes when I can't get water." "Then it would cost you nothing." "Yes, it would. It would make me ridi- culous." "You used not to heed the sneers of the world. "Not for anything worth doing—but this is "It is the greatest cause of the day 1" he cried, in an eager exalted manner, which somewhat inclined her to laugh. "Do tervay-Irlbh alcohol and you would do away with crime 1" " Thank you for the compliment, Gerard; I never found that the infinitesimal drop of alcohol that I suppose there is in a tumbler of elarencup disposed me to commit 44 tee jiing her to tnige the pledge, az. Ottltn heoatotble et underatandieg. her reeeettlin coat thiuk why Gerard. lute groWn stupid." , " Eathusitionns airy people, Atvoyt" reo turned Mary. "11 Mr. flatten hod only stayed, he tvoidd hove kept Gerard like himself, eatd Nettie. ,. But there was no relentina. The two young people avoided each other ; aod per, haps Nuttie was seoretly relieved that the romance she hod outgrown no longer en. tangled her. dErApT4R xxiu. A VAILURE. •" Would 1 bad loved her more r-7AIRS. 1:11M, , "On the 14th of January, at Bridgefield ggremout, the wife of Alwyn Idiercefield klgrement, Escleire, a son And heir." Ursula had beets. prepared for this eyent for about a fortnight lay a long tender lettei from her mother, mournin,g over the not meeting at Christie -las and, the long. separa- tion, but saying that she had wushed to spare the long anxiety, and that it had been a tryiug time which ahe felt herself able to cope with better alone, thao even with her deer Nuttie, knowing her to be happy and. safe with Aunt Ursel. Now. if all went well, they would have a happy meeting, and begin on a new score. "If the will of God should be otherwise," added Alice, "I am sure •I need not entreat my Nuttie to do and be all that she can to her father, My child, you do not know how sorely he neede such love- end tendarme and prayer as you can give him. I know you have thorght I have set you aside—if not better things, for his sake. Indeed 1 could not help it." Then there was something tear -stained and blotted out, seMethiog tot ease her poeitioa eho solids "Thenk yea," S.ntl then Mote IfftforouslY, " Thank you, ClgaP a11114'1, for all you lutve been There was little mere, • $be afsited Nuttie fer "-her hyntli," the evetiog hymm with which AlOtheg 4hd daggilter Used nightly to o to Bleep; aod whiea, her estrange reamy way, the girl managed to gay. Then a little niutiller and sign peeped be. tween the elder ladies, and Mrs. Wililani Egreinont fetched her husband. At he open- ed, his book to find the counneodetory pray- er, thinkiug her pest all outward 001500t011e- DOSS, and grieved by the look of euffeting, her eyee ogoin dosed ahd her lips paid, "Don't think of that 1 God can make failures euccess." There we o half mile, a look of 'peace, "He makee up," she sAid ; end thoee were the last, audible words before it was over, and the tender spixit Was released fr 't strife, some time biter, they 914 know:when by the failure of the claap me her husbands hand. Old Miss- Heodworth did net underatand the meaning of that •sad word till the ;aext foreneon. There—ae she at in the darken- ed tent-rOOmie crying,, over her, letters,— while the stunned and bewildered Nuttie was, under her Aunt Jane's direotton, at- tending to the needful arrangements, Canon Egremont wandered in upon her in the overflew of confidence of a inart vvith a full heart, wanting to talk it all out,, communi- cating the more, because she was a discredt woman, and asked no questions. He had tried to see his brother, but Gregorio had not admitted him. He was tewAre now of the whole state of things. Dr. Hammondhad told him, when first beginning to be alarmed for his patient, that the cause for anxiety. was the exhaustion caused by the long strain on • her spirits and strength consequent on her and it ended with "Ho is beginning to miss efforts to wean her husband from his fatal your step and voice about the house. I be- propensity. There had been other "compli- lieve he will reidly be glad to see you, when cations," as , he doctor called them, and more the bright spring days come, and I can kiss immediate causes of danger, but both he and his colleague, summoned from London bet lieved that she would have surmounted them if she had had more strength to rally. But her nurses dated the decided turn for the worse from the day when she had gazed into Mr. Egremont's face, and detected the look in his eyes that she hod learned to well to understand. ' She would fain have lived, and, according to her obedient nature, had submitted to all the silence and stillnesa enforced on her; she had told Dr. Hammond that she must see her brother-in-law before she was too far gone. And the doctor, knowing all, took care it should be brought about. oiatioa m favor of Mark was no longer pram And then the had spoken of her failure in ticable.• the effort of theEse years. "11 I had begun The residence at Redceeile was not over, better," she said, "ib might not have been my own Nuttie again." Nuttie was very much delighted, but a little hurt that her aunt and .Mary should have been in the secret, and pledged to say nothing to her till her mother should write. She found, moreover, that Miss Headworth was extremely anxious and not altogether reassured by Mrs. William Egremontas let- ter of announcement, which filled Rattle with delight. How happy the little mother must be to have a baby in her arms again, and though she herself did not profess to have a strong turn, for infant humanity, it was the greatest possible relief to be no longer an heiress, excepting that the tenure. but the Canoitess had come to nurse her sister-in-law, and kept up the correspond- ence. 'The son and heir was renorted to be a perfect sPecimen, and. his father WAS sinned againet bit us all. Alvvyia was no so with him.' "My dear, indeed you have nothing to blame yourself for. You were grievously greatly elated and delighted, but the letters saint when he drew you. bat() it—and you, showed anxiety about the mother, who did yoU new been at, geed engep doing an awe did not get on as ehe ought, and seemed to more too," said the Canon, almeet breaking have no power of rally about her. At done. - length came a letter that seemed to burn it- "I tried—but if I had been a better wo. self into Nuttie's brain— man --And to leave him to that man I" "MY DEAR URSULA—Your mother is "Child, child, -victories soreetimee mine longieg to see you. You had better come this way l't he cried, scarce knowing how home directly. Your aunt saved her before it was put into his mouth, but glad to see Tell her if she will come, she shall 'nye my the light in her. eye. 'deepest gratitude. I shallaend to meet " Thanks," she replied. "No, I 5.11 train.—Your affectionate father, ought not to have ksaid that. leave A. P. Eanersorr." him to God, and my poor Nuttie. Mrs. William Egremont wrote at want you to tell her, if I can't, what she more eng Symptoms had set in must try to do. If I had but brought them which filled the doctors and nurses together eaore 1 But I tried for the best." with double anxiety. Advice had been Then she begged for her last communion, sent for from London, and Mr. Egre- saying, "I do pray for that poor Gregorio. mont was in an uncontrollable state of dis- tress. She had undertaken to summon `Ur- sula home, and to beg Mies Headworth to undertake the journey. She evidently did not know that her brother-in-law had writ - Isn't that forgiving him ?" And the at- tempt to exchange forgivenese with the Canon for their mutual behaviour at the time of her marriage overcame them both so much that they had to leave it notlalf ut- crinaes." ten himself, and before they could start a tered. Indeed, in speaking of the scene, Why wont you understand me, Ursu- telegram terrified them, but proved to con- William Egrernont was utterly overwhelmed. la? Can't you give up that for the sake of tain no fresh tiding, only a renewed sum. "And that's the woman that I treated as . " a mere outcast 1" he cried, walking about "fwonder whom it would save. inoMnsie's Headworth forgot all her resolutions the little room. "Oh God, forgive me! I saving others r ,, " Example saves ! If you put on this "--- about Mr. Egremont's hospitality -- her shall never forgive myself' taking out e a ge— ow many s ou you not lean at your home ?" remedies that had been found efficacious at she had longed for any amount of retribu- " Just nobody 1 Mother and I should Dieppe. The good lady hada certain aonfi- I tion on Alice s hardhearted employers, but have a bad time of it, that's all." . deuce in her own nursing and. experieuee of it was a very different thing to witnees "Arid if you endured, what would mot . ' ' Alice whieh buoyed her up with hope, 'such grief and selfereproach. He had in while Ursula seemed. absolutely stunned. he truth much more developed ideas of duty, had never thought of such a frightful loss or both as man and priest, than when he had griefeand hermental senses were almostpara- I massively left a disagreeable subj eat to his lysed,so thatshewentthroughthejourneyinae'mother-in-lew, as lying within a woman's kind of surface trance, observing all around province; and his good heart was suffering her much as usual, looking ont for the lug. acutely for the injustice and injury in which gage and for the servant who had come to he had shared towards one now invested " Ah ! that's the way you all deceive meet them with the report, "No change." I. withan almost saintly halo. She did the honors of the carriage, and coy. I In the gush of feeling he had certainly re - yourselves. Moderate drinkers are ten ered Miss Heaclworthwith thefur rug. They ivealecl more to Miss Ideadwortla, than his times more miachievous than regular drunk - wanted it, for they were shivering with wife, or even he hitnself, in his cooler mo- or& " I merits, would have thought prudent, and "Thank you, G arard 1 And outrageous "xietY' Canon Egremont came out to tlae front , he ended by binding her to secrecy; and abstainers are more mischievous than either hall to meet them, and put his arms round 'saying that he should only tell his niece of them, because they make the wholething Alice was her only thought, and all the Poor Miss Headworth 1 In past days your testimony effect in the household and village ?" "Nothing! I have nothing to do with the men -servants, and as to the village'it is very sober. There's only one pablic house, and that is kept by Uncle William's old but- ler, and is as orderly as can be." so utterly foolish and absurd." She was really angry now, and so was Gerard. "Is that your ultimatum ?" he milted, in a voice that he strove to render calm. " Certainly ; I'm not going to take the pledge." Having quarrelled In childhood, made quarrelling now easier, and Gerard answered bitverly "Very well, I hope you will have no cause repens • Nuttie tenderly, saying, "My poor, dear child I" then as he saw he had frightened them, "No, nol She is alive—conscious they say, only so very weak." Then with something of his usual urbane grace, he what was necessary for her to know. Nuttie was going about, dry-eyed and numbed, glad of a.eypassing occupation that would prevent the aching sense of desola- tion at her heart from gaming force to over - held out his hand, "Miss Headworth, it is , whelm her ; courting employment, and very good in you to come. You have a great ' shunning pity and condolence, but she could deal to forgive." Inot escape when her uncle took her hand, He took them into the tent -room, where made her sit down by him, with "1 want to tea was standing, interrupting himself in 'speak to you, my dear ;" and told her brief - the account he was giving to bid Nuttie let ly and tenderly what her mother's effort had "Tis not the way to matte me repent it, her aunt have some. It was plain from i been, and of the message and taelt she had to see how it eems to affect some people's his nutnner that he had given up hope, and I bequeathed. The poor girl's heart feinted S eommon sense. It is just as if all your brains in auother minute in harried his brother, !within her. had run to water !" said Nuttie, laughing a looking terribly haggard and with blood- I " Ohl but, Un -le William, how can 1? little; but Gerard was desperately serious, shot eyes, gtving his hand to each, with, How can I ever? Mother could do things 1 and colored vehernently. "That's right, Miss Headworth, thank never could! He did core for her! He does "Very well, Aliso Egremont,I understand. you. Come, let me know what you think not core for me!" , ' I have had my answer," he said, gathering of her." ,You must teach him to do eo, Nuttie." „up hia papers and marchmg out ofAte room. "Does she know they ote come?" said ' "Oh 1" she said, With a hopeless sound. ,She stood still, offended, and not inthe the Canon. " No t Then, Alwyn, let them The Canon did think it very hopelese in least inclined to run after him and take back have some tea, and take off their things, his heart, but he peraevered, as tn duty her it ords. He, poor fellow, stumbled down I can tell you, the leursea will never let them bound. "1 told your dear mother that per- thenjust off a journey." , I haps you would succeed where she thought steps, and held by the garden rail to d collect his senses and compose himself. MiS3 Headveorth seconded this, and Mr.she had failed, though indeed she had done "What's the matter, Gerard, are you ill or Egremont submitted, allowing that she had much. It made her happy. So, my dear i giddy ?" asked Miss Nugent, coming up in not asked for Nuttie since the morning, child, you are bound to do your best," the winter twilight."Yes ;" then, after a pouse—" But and then had smiled and squeezed his handl "No, oh no 1 Only the dream of my lite when he said she was coming with her aunt ; mother could coax him and manage him, is over," he answered, scarce knowing what but he walked up and down in direful rest- Mother was with him day and night; she • he said. lessness, his whole mind apparently bent on couli always get at him. What can I do 1' "Von haven't---" cried Mary awhast, extracting front Miss Headworth that I "X think you will find that he depends " Oh no," he 'said, underetanding the she had been as ill or worse at Dieppe. upon you more," seid the Canon, "and it may be made easiet to you, if you only set blonk, "only she won't take the pledge 1,, Alas 1 when Mrs. William Egremont came res ended Mary "Is that all '?" that matters were much worse. The sweet ' your will to ib" " If I ought, I'll try," said poor /cattle, "I don't see how she could or ought," down to fetch Nuttie ; there was no question and more u y p r p an s e a ever . Ger- ard. " le is right I It is eh °vet now. I the heavy lids of the dark eyes scarcely 8PD ; dejection, and ken before bat in utterfiton aud been strung up to a lunb, It was " I made it the test," muttered poor face was perfectly white and wasted, ediall know how to go on my woy. It is best lifted themselves, but the lips moved iht0 a her undo answered her like a child. evident that a great mistake had been made, so—I know it is—only I did not know whes smile, arid the hand closed on that of the r " There tha 's a good i 1 , t gt.Nobodyean and after a brief confab with Sir foam Wan e or the Canon had one ho e. He had not pole the President said : " We shall send a telegram to Selma to al. girl, who stood by ner as one feozen into , ' i ther anything wan due to her. It was , • do more " '• numbnese There was the same reco nitioni la ld d t. at+ lar' kin be no doubt •Tat LIMR-RILlit 0013. "In Walkia' 'softly leng de path of life der' am *saran doge woold be well te inember,"seid Brother:Gardoer rie the moot- ing"%PoePled' ittidge el a meads twenty by hie whiskers, He may groves 'eta to conoeal Pieoltice an soArs. '0 Doan" jodoe of a wountn'e good nettle by her talk on a street kyar or the way elle sm,i,leosuienic.ehaujoonlowhy our omen get licked so often is beortuse their parents, happen to be de biggeet, "It is only a fool who goes reround fookia) fur a model man. A man widout faulta would be too soft to stand die climate, " While consistency should be respected in a gioeraa way, doan' hesitate to eauirm out o' any sort of a loophole when %ruin' wid a lawyer " Alseue de time a man leegins to assert dab die World owes hina a Illetn ar about de date when he Should get hie fest seotence to State Prison, Wtien you, Ifar pussen or,gfying diet der' am no sioh thing as fuchur' punishment' you bas lighted upon an ole mintier who or' twin" to lie to hiseelf. YC1.1 OOMpliMeat 801110 men altogether too highly to call 'ern a hog. hey noticed dat no hog gets drunk except by accident. " While I admit. dat George Washington was a great an' good man, I would not, if I Ws runtiird oo'ner 'grocery, trust any •odder American on dat account. "De man who am allus ready to fight fur his convictions will fight Oh de wrong side at least half de time. " If it watsn't fur nayborhood gossip some ohill'en would. go widout shoe, an some mothers would pub six mo' dollars into deir bonnets. "An egotistical pusson is simply a refleck- shun in Nature's lookinhglass. "Dignity ar' de fence which sartin peo- ple build up to get de world from gittin' clus 'nuff to find out how bad dey really PABSED AWAY. The Secretary announced an official com- munication from Vicksburg announcing the death of Col. Whyfore Johnson, an honor- ary metnber in good standing. 'While I has bin expectiu' it fur some time," observed the President, "it nebber- theless comes wid a shock. De Kurnell was an aiverage man. He'd eteol a water. mellyon in 'summer, but divide up bis wood- pile in winter. He'd giv up a lost wallet he had found, but cheat you blind in a mule - trade. While he'd return yer borrowed wheelbarrer on de werry reinit it wouldn't do to to lend him a dollar in cash. 11 he war' a leetle hard on his ole mule he war' de kindest master a dog eber had., I won't go so fur as to say dat Kurnell Johnson un- folded hia black wings an flew straight into heaven's gate, but we shall hang out de usual emblem of mournird an' hope dat he war' giben a fa'r imparshel triol." NOT WANTEIi. Prof. Pardon Devis sent to the Secre- tary's desk a letter he had received from Springheel Smith, the colored poet of In - diem, offering to write a poem of forty verses for the club for the trifling sum of $10. He had written a poem and sent it on to Queen 'Victoria, and was now erecting one to send to the Emperor of Germany. Brother Davis said he didn't set himself up as a judge of poetry, but it struck him that a shilling a verse for a poem was dog -cheap. Deacon Richard Black moved that the club accept the offer. Ghee and India -rub- ber and sugar were going up in price, and the same poem might cost them $10 next' summer. tepback D ewson. also favored the idea. Poems wee like potatoes—they should be laid in when the supply exCeeded the de- mand. " We dean' want it 1" bluntly replied Brother Gardner as Trustee Pullback was about to arise. "1 hey no doubt it would be fast class, an' we could probably use it as a lung -tester. But brudder Bebee ar' de reglar 'leckted poet of de club, an' he takes de keenest pleasure in supplyin' all our wents in dat direcleshun. I happen to know dat he is now buildin' up a poem which is already twenty-six feet long an' not half done, an' it would be in bad taste to cut him off in his wild career. Da moshun ar' de- clar'd outer order." - TIM WRONG MAN. The Secretary men reaa the following: SeLmA, ALA., February 28, 1888. To the President of the Lime -Kiln Club, Detroit: HONORED SIR—Tvvo suspicious charact- ers, giving their names asHenri Waterson and Deo° Smith, were arrested here to•day, vrho claim to have Coma from Detroit. From letters and. effects found on their persons I am satisfied we have the parties who made the sixty-fourth attempt to deatroy Para- dise Hall several nights ago. The following are a few of the articles found on their persons: Part of the hair from the bust of Plato. One eye from the bust of Cato. The nose and ears from the bust of Nero. The cheek from the bust of August Spies. A two inch square auger bearing the name of ' De Soto on it, with a large number of mottoes and proverbs vith tlae name of Paradise Hall on them. Also a large leath- er peeket book with the name " Lune -Kiln Club of Detroit" engraved on the back of it in pearl letters. This pocket book con- tains : • Seventeen $1,000 bills, seventy-nine $500 bill's, 218 $100 bili, 911 $50 bilis; total, $123,850. This money I have deposited in the Commercial Bank of Selma, Ala. If you will come yourself, or send Pickles Smith and Giveadam Jones with a certificate bearing the great seal of the club, and iden- tify these article's and money, they will be cheerfully turned over to you or them. Congratulating you and the Lime -Kiln Club on the arrest 'of these two vandals and re- turn of the property, I am yours very truly, WILLIAM C. ROSSERTY, C. M. The letter was a thunder clap to the club, as according to a communication received last week from. Brooklyn, one of the guilty wretches had beeri caught, made a conies - most a sob. • thought it ecornieg to speaPk to her o the Dear old Gerard," said Mule "• I Soo Wheti her aunt was brought to her side, the you meant to do right. It is Well your inbui, poor old lady commandine herself with c°anter icfluencebut he could not help, sh it possible that if he and his son, uoots. he settled I think You'll find f come difficulty, as the loving ' glance OttiVered thhoking k d a fort in yor good work." ' ; over the ace. . Y Y , g Ile wrung her hand, and she went in half Time pouted on, and she still held Nattioas pull, a strong pull, and a puil altogethet, hand. Once, when a ittle rattly, by Some the mi ht induce his brother to art with sidednees of the Mania. for temperance ender ainused, for 'she was fully aware of the Oilarritimutant a hor hips, she made an effort Gregerio, and this would render Ursula's ' whieh he acted, yet honouring his high, and said, "Stay with him ! Take care of task far less impossible, pure inotinee, and rejoicing that he had him 1 Love bim 1 And your little brother, feint t is iedireet ino o of gauging Nettie e.nsy /cattle! Promise 1 right about therm and thehe was no revitVItnowing what elle said. feelings toward-him—that is, if he VOI promise," e gir a SW I ScarcO Far front it. Nuttie wile still abg wad eest, 8101 And the eyes clomed with an air of peutee it Gerard had been so ricliottions," elmeaait Avila When Miss Iteadwortlx WAS &deg (TO BE OONTINITE.'D.) ,Good Patient, "How do you feel this morning, Grand- ma?" "I don't know, ohild. The doctor has not donee yet." dey str' de villaine who robbed ail' wrecked us. As fur depiatty who was lyoched itt Brooklyn, dat etch a misteke was made, an' de club holds itself hi roadie , neee to contribute money 'null to buy him a ' tombstone—a cheep one. I teckon he was scone pow= who nebber had $5 alt at one time, an' a $10 gtexerstone will round him of in fust-clase shape. 105 WAS MAD. The Secretary then announced the follow - n,1 while it was being read it took the WtranloM) N. Ow rehsuaah 1$88r Rev, Penetook, (tare Brother Gardner ; Doan S1R--4 &Site tO hring to yoor notice a patent " Atttematio Chicken Lifter," of which 1 an the inventor, By its nee great- er are obtained thou by any other procese. Is is simplicity itself, besidee be. ing acere and easy to operate. The tisk hi reduced to nothing and detection abeolutely imposailde. It ahould be in the ban& of every member of your elute I offer you the Detriot agency and will allow a liberal commission as an inducement for you to take hold of it. Sent free oo trial for thirty cleys, Let me hear from you at oneeea,o4oaelit,hyeve an application on file, fro,m Giveadom Jones. You have both had ex-' perience, but I 'shall QuIY aPpoint one agent in Yours troly, SAIA When the reading was finished the men let go of Penstock, andhe jumped three feet high and yelled out: It/Baser Chaarrnan, I protest!" " Sqftly, Brudder E'enstook," replied the vfsese.Wd:ut. " I see no oecashun fur *need il- "But I do, sah Dat letter is an ineult ebery member of dis club 1" "Sit down, Brudder Penstock ! . In de fust place a pitmen in North Carolina has invented a ohicken-lifter. Dean' we want to lift our chickens around? He doesn't say it is to lift anybody else's chickens. De. teatime is impossible. Dat's all right. You lift one of your chickens an' nobody knows it. He offers you de agency. You doan' want it. Dat's all right, a,gin, an' Giyeadeon Jones will take it. De risk is reduced, to nuffin' in course, when you lift a chiciteu you dome' want to risk breakin" his legs. IVs all right, Brudder Penetock, an' you needn't be ()nearly. De meetin' willnow go home."' WIRELETS, It is reported that the French Govern. ment have decided to cashier Gen. Boul. anger. , A defalcation of at least $150,0,00 hos been discovered in the accounts of the Kentucky State Treasurer, James W. Tate, who was yesterday suspended, Nine thousand acres of land near New - dale, Manitoba, have been bought by two Englishmen, who intend going into farming operationamn on extensive scale. The Government have deprived Mr. Moy- lan, inspector of penitentiaries, of his Ito crease of $200 this year, as a punishment for his impertinent allusionto Senator Bellerose. Dr, Grant has returned to Kingston from New York, and will leave shortly for Australia, specialists having advised him that a sea, voyage would benefit his health, impaired by excessive work. The steamer Nederland, from Antwerp for New York, wee towed into Halifax the -other day by the steamer Amsterdam, hay- ing lost her propeller at sea. The Nederland has eireamodeed passengers on board, united efforts of Elder Toete, Corbolic Devi- trnt Vifisdoin Smith to hold the Ray, Pens stock down : The German Government have otclerect a military guard to protect Or, Mackerzie from the friends of rival doctors, and also to prevent his being molested by the army of newspaper correspondents eager for news of the Emperor's condition. The grain men's section of the Toronto Board of %rade have adopted a petition to the Dominion Parliament praying for amendments to the Inspection Act of 1885,. and also passed a resolution warning farmers and others against purchasing Menitoba barley for seed. Reducing the Tariff in the States. The proposed reductions in the tariff of the United States are of reat intereat and significance. They may not be carried, but in any case they foreshadow the beginning ot the end, pointing as they unmistakably do to the adoption of a comparrtively low tariff at no distant day. It is worth while to put on record what these reductions are so that it may be possible to conept.re them with what will be actually secured before many years pass by, and the following is what chairman Mills said in introducing the measure :— There are two or three hundred articles on which the duty is to be removed. A large number of these articles thus placed on the free list are of minor importance and the change can in no wise affect our indus- tries, and where a country charges an int.. port duty upon any of the articles named the present duty will remain. The princi- pal item is lumber, and as to some of the ar- ticles placed on the free list the result will be to break up a few of the numerous trusts now forming in the country. Copper is an instance. The total amount of reduction that will arise from the extension of the free list will be something like $22,000,000. The reduction on wool and woollen goods will amount in round numbers to $12,000,000. Where a specific duty was charged before we have changed it on a number of articles to an ad valorem, standar& On sugar a re- duction of $15,600,000 is anticipated. One result of this will be to break up the in- famous trusts that have been formed for the purpose of increasieg the price of that ar- ticle. The reductions on iron, steel rails, etc., are small, and we think the importa- tion of such articles will not be materially increased. Iron in pig is put at $6 per ton; the reduction mode is only 72 cents. On isu- port tobacco in leaf, manufactured and not stemmed, we have fixed the duty ot 35 cents per pound; &metro is excluded. When the duty on Sumatra was $1 per pound a good deal of it was smuggled, pad the revenue was thereby lost to the—Gov- ernment. On some of the articles on which we have reduced the dray the rev- enue will be increased, while on others it will be reduced. Fish we have not touched. That question has always caused trouble be- tween this country and Canada, and in valves disputes that we do not care to en- courage. We have properly lett the internal revenue question outside, and will bring in a separate measure for that. We intend to have a bill on that eubject, It may be ap- pended in the House to the nenerai bill but that I am unable to say jest now. The cus- toms duties will be reduced about $55.000,• 000, and in 'tech a way that the monde°. tiring industries of the ocruntry will have no cause for needless alarm. The bill re- duces the revenue, by the closest eetimate which can now be made, by about $53 000,- 000, of which $22,250,001 come from the ex tension of the free list, $12,000,000 from woollen, $11.0 0,000 from sugar, $ from earthen end glassware, nearly $2,000,- , 000 -from metals, $500,000 froro cheniicols, $5 000,( 00 from provisions, $250OttO Iran cottons, nearly $2 000,000 from hemp, jute, etc., and about $10,000,000 from sundries." i • 11,41'440e of WAlefe pu* Th 9 1141190 et Wales talres no part in poll.' , tics, Ile has never voted but once in. the Rouse of Poem, sod this was upen the aet for the bill Authorizing marriage between a man and ble'dead wife's sister. Ile Irnews that royalty in England owes its strength to 1M occupObeg a' neutral position, and that it would be 'soon endangered if it were to be embroiled with polialcal faction. Re do e s oo t ex prows oph lions on oioliticalettlotectfit even ainopg kis MOSt intimate associates, Two, Years ogo he gave a dinoer at Merl- boroogh Howse wiiieli no other English gentlems,n, cold have succeeded iu giving, He gathered there a company which oould not bove been brought together' under the roof of any other }Muse. At this dinner - table there were forty-two guests. It is err. treinely difficult to get together in. England, under any circumstance's, such a large num- ber of prominent peeple, e for t e reason of stwhonezin.eaubbteitriPntlgictliah*er:iynfavelintogaotamigeemumaindtltsoVver'srruuienwhose:orlf; hose other invitations, and so he watioble to bring together at thie dioner all of the representa- tive elements of English society, He took a particular delight in this dinner, beca•uee he had brought there the leaders of factions who had been fighting each other with the greatest intensity and bitterneau for years. The extreme Tory and the most vigorous Home -Ruler, the repreeentotives of the highest aristocracy and the moat extreme • Redicia.1, high church dignitaries and elo- quent dissenters, the legal profession arid even the city were taking into this gather - hag. The , Prince, iu the seating of his guests, placed the opposing elements side by aide. Mr. Gladstone, who was an hon- ored gueet at this dinner, was seated be- tween • twit of tho most furious Tortes in Great Britain, one of them, a high church dignitary, who hadoften said that he would be reconciled if a thunderbolt fro sa God struck Gladstone down, The gentleman who gave me the picture of this dinner, said . that the arraneement of thee° guests afford- ed a striking illustration of one of the most prominent elements in. the Prince's eharact: er. He hates foctione and is always seeking to harmonize. In giving this dinner he practically aitid, "Gentlemen, differ as You will as to the method of conducting the public affairs of England, but do not let these differences carry you as far as to for• get that you are Englishmen, and that upoo the Subject of England herself you should always stand united and harmonious." A Canine Consoience. "Tell you another dog story? Let roe see," and the invalid doctor lifted his lame leg into a chair and scratched his head. "I never told you a.lamet old tedro. He was the special friend of all the children in the neighborhood, and had a most remarkable memory. He was a water epaniel, with a big head, long ears and a kind face ; wes fat, lazy and perfectly harmless., The children used him as a foonstoca, oat upon him, dretned htm hieaytattoo'planed his iihaggy earts hack with burdock burs aud he Seemed to like their frolics immensefy. One summer an ordinance was paseed by the village trustees, requiring all dogs to be muzzled. Pedro was instead, fastened with ii a peculiarly made chan, whch had once done service in a suction pump. It wtyeettot heavy, but one would. never forget tlahoodd shape of its links. A hole was cut throegh the side of a workshop, and the chain was fastened with a strong staple to a joistwhich was exposed when the hole was cub. Pedro was a very unwilling prisoner for a week, when, one morning, he was found lying on the doorstep—collat, chain and staple gone. He had gnawed the staple out and had pull- ei ed the collar off over his head. None of hier fasteningscould be found, high or low. Two yeara afterward the chata and collar were dug out of a pile of ashes in the far back end of the lot, The diggers knew that Pedro had buried them. They whieded, and he soon came bounding to the spot, ex- pecting fun of some kind. The digger's pointed to the cheia. Pedro looked down at it, dropped 'his tail between his legs, cowered, and whined piteously for mercy. Did he get whipped? Not much. Efes got a big shank -bone to maaw, and the children wanted to give him a medal. The Amazon to be Explored on a, Bicycle. The latest London Sporting Life contains the following: "Two brothers Jean and Batiste Le Four (French Canadiape), left Liverpool to -day for Brazil, for the purpose of exploring the Amezon for some 3,000 miles up its waters. The machine on which they propose to make the trip they sent di- rect from New- York; it in described as a quadricycle, but can be converted into a tricycle at Blunt notice. The motive power is gained by a combination of a crank and. lever motion, but when the lege get weary a rowing' attachment is at hand. They are provided with cooking utensils, two folding canvas canoes, photographic camera, fire- arms and a stock of chernmale large enough to stock a store. "The scheme is to navigate the Amazon river and its tributaries by the aid of the canvas canoes a.nd the quadricycle. The canoes and the 'cycle will be used in about the same manner as tlae King's water 'cycle. Trips inland will be made by the ad- venturers, who will take photographs of everything of interest which they run across. When they reach the Upper Amazon (or Maranon), which, with its tributaries, is well peopled with hostile savages, they will depend upon their knowledge of chemistry, and work npon the superstitions of the braves, in order to carry themselves through. As to the deadly warula poison, with which the savages tip their arrows and spears, Betiste says he has no more fear from it than from beer. They also intend to take notes on the people, habits of living, climate, and anything in fact that comes along." Judging From the Outeido. Tramp—" Will the gentleman give a trifle to a poor mart ?" Gentleman—" How do I know you are , it poor 1/1941 . " iarow ae 1 knew yon are a gentlemen? Ito ority by the outside) that either of itri can judge the ether," - A THEATBE, HORROR. cores of Lives Lost by att ExploLOf�f Gas at Oporto. Orowro, March 26.—While a performance was in progress at the Banquet theatre the other night an explosion of gas occurred and the theatre took fire and was destroy- ed. The house was full of spectators and a number of lives were lost. Eighty bodies have been taken from the rdins, most of thoew burned were in the third tier boxes and galleries, whore whole fa,miliee were suffceoted. There was a telr fic striate* at the doors when, the Spectators tried to eacape. Large numbers weresuifocated and trampled upou. Many on reaching the street Were so seriously injured that they vomited blood. Nearly all the victimwere epeotators. The actors escaped in their theatrical enstumee. Many in the theatre, finding themselves unable to reach the doore, jumped from the windows. Some corpse's were found in the stage boxes. The gas was extingaished shortly after the fire broke out, thus adding to the confusion. Loge gongs of workmen are exploring the ruins. Two bodiee were diseovered looked in a dose embrace.