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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1888-3-29, Page 7[Now FIRST Bnlansuna;1 [4m, R10148 Ri8ERVED, LIKE AND UNLI By M. E. 13RAI),DON. AUTHOR OP "LADY AIIDLEY'S S. Wyatt/Larne WatrineET0., ET°. CHAPTER VIII.—" No Gnitentetear Two strong mile were thrown bac& to clasp Wotan BAIT Acne)) So." and encircle leer. She was ought and pine There had been but the briereet lottera ioned as he bent ever the chair from Valentine either to Lady Belfield or to But in the next inistant' ithe imatched•hen Adrian. He was at Monte Carlo, awl. he , self back from thoies encircling arms, and intended to relmne in time for the last of the I drew back with an indignant exclamation, hunting, This was ,all that, wae, known ' crimson with rage. about him,. end now the season weS nenrly •"It is not Adrian," she said. over, and he might be epectedatairy tube. dere you? How dare you ?" A tall figure rose from the chair with a careless, easy movement, and steed efore her, erect. Taller and broader than Adrian's figure, stronger— different somehow, and yet iso like, so like—that it was difficult to believelhat this was not Adriaa himself. f How dare you, she muttered again, and thought; and played, .aild lived his earn almost beside herself with anger ; all her sacred. inn m life, with winch the rest of the Irish blood boilieg in her veins. household had little in common. , "My dear young lady, you must allow It was not a conventionalliba.ry---not a me to observe that it won you who began place of massive bookcases and regulation ,the assault," said the stranger, with a Most sets of booke. It'wste leaf a ameic-rooria provokingly placid air, "That oonsiders,tion ought at least to mitigate your wrath." "To—to kiss me like that I" "Ife laughed at her rage, as if she had been an angry child, , " Would you have a man's lips meet the lips of beauty as if he were kiseirtg his laun- dress ?" he asked lightly. " Besides 1 had a right tit Mae you—as your future brother." " No gentleman would have acted so," she eaid, still fuming,her light riding whip vibrating in her tightly clenched hand. His rooms were ready, his horses fitglis own partien 'I` grown wee en the look -out for his retur It Was a .,. P. afternoon in February, and at . • s Helen was alone in the library, her lover's favourite reeve, the 'very sanctuary of hia life, as it Were--theplane -where he read, • with an organ at the 911E! 4nd, end a grand piano in the angle neae ,the old-fashioned fireplace. Adrian had in h coifed his mother's love of music, and played both organ and piano. The books were chiefly of his own collecting, a library of modern belles lettres, in several languages. , "You are so awfully learned," exclaimed Helen, after glancing at a shelf of German metaphysics. "Do you really, really read those dreadfulb k V' "1 ha-ve !spent some thoughtful houre that • What would she have given ti have horse. way, love. 'won't go so far as to say that whipped him I There were women tn the world who had done such things. "No gentleman 1 Perhaps not," said Valentine, "1 have never prided myself upon that spurious conventional merit of be- ing a gentleman, to which every grocer's son aspires from his cradle. I would rather be a blackguard, and a men. I am a being of nerves and muticles, passions and im- pulses. Whether that kind of thing can be gentlemanlike, I don't know and don't care. 'Come, Helen, don't be angry.' 'Twits no stranger who returned your kies just now— hut your lover's twin brother, who claims the right ° to love you.. You cannot be &Featly loved by him without being a little loved by me.' "We are two halves of one whole, and .1.• am the stron,ger half. You cannot be wax to him and marble to me; melt at his touch and fretze at mine. Our natures are too closely interwoven. To love nee of us in to love the other. eCome Jlelen, forgivetand be friends."' ete He held Mit 'his hand, `andnilie could not refuse to give him her own. But the little gloved liand lay supine ia his strong clasp, and there was no such thing ail pardon in te' I understand them." • "Dom anybody ? .And then she would take out a volume of Keats or Wordsworth, and twirl its pages for a little while, and declare that the poetry was quite too lovely. "Which do you like best, Keats or Wordsworth ?" he asked. - "1 don't quite know, loceting up at him with interrogative eyes, to see which of the two she ought to prefer. -" They are both eo sweet. heats is delicious—but Words- worth is—Wordsworth—mi I cermet find the right word for hint nlitit 1 Mt feel his poetry, / • , • And Adrian was content to accept,this kind onthing, as thenexpression of a spirit- ual essence that had net been concentrated into epeech. • This afternoon, Helen had had the library, all to 13e1 -Self since luncheon. Adrian led., gone a long journey to Exeter, .to look at a. pair of horses which he had been advised to buy for his mother's barouche. The horses she was using were beginning to show does of wear. He was not expected back till dinner-tirne. ,Lady Belfield had complainedher h of a headache after lunch, and had gone to . "I have •!always heond that O yen: are a her room to lie down. She had been hav- very strange person," she said; "but as _lien ing bad nights of late, and sorely wanted --- Th of tten ...e EICIPICSU 8 brother, f -1-auppotie wegauet be fr1ad. And with this not over civil speech she left him to las reflections!. ?nti'etltnr.1 He threwhinnielf into the ohaiiennynnhe fire, stirred up the logs and Viola:641ns cigar caae for n comfortable smoke before he went to hit dressing -room. ,When the door was sleet ton Helen—he had not troubled himself to open it for her—he laughed softly to himself. "As lovely as her namesake, and as spirited as Kate the curet," he muttered. "I like her ever so .much better for that flash of temper. ' Upon my eoul, Adrianhas not made half a bad choice. I hardlygave him credit for such good taste. But then the girl was flung into his lap, as it were. No doubt Deverill came here of malice afore- thought, to Plant his daughter upon my mother's on. Hark, there's the :art, and Adrian." Ee went out to the porela to receive his brother, who was almost overcome with de- light at seeing him. "My dear fellow, what ages you have been away. How glad my mother must be 1 You have eeen her of couree." "Not yet. I have only been here an hour ; came by the slovetafternoon train• from Exeter. ,They told me my mother won lying down, net over well, so I wouldn't. have her disturoed. I've been sitting, over, the fire in the library, balf asteep. I crossed the channel last night, and have been travelling ever since." • "And you have not seen Helen ?" " Oh, yes, I have. Helen and I have made friends already." He laugbed a little as he spoke of her,and the light danced merrily in his eyes. He wondered whether she would give her be- trothed a detailed acconnt of their filcirmish. The odds were against it, -'thought. Wo- men are curiously shy about trifles. She would lock the story up in her own heart, and always bear malice against him on ac- ceunt of it. • "And you like her?" asked Adrian shyly. "There has been no time for liking, but I admire her immensely, and I congratulate you on your good luck." "Yes, she is lovelynis she not? • And as dear as she is lovely." •• "Clever and accomplished into the bar- gain, I suppose ?" "I doubt if you would'Jan her either; yet she is the brightest and most fascinating girl I ewe met" "1 am glad she's not learned, or a para- gon in the way of accomplishments. Every step that a Woman travels in the road to mental perfection is a step that leads away from feminine loveliness. A beautiful wo- man should be only beautiful. All the rest is outside her sphere. Imagine a lovely forehead that has got itself wrinkled over Darwin," He rattled on lightly,with his arm through Adrian's, as they went into th house and up -stairs together. "Not a word to my mother," said Valen- tine,' as they parted; "I want to eurprise her when I go down to dinner." 1 sha,'n't see her till then. I've etlly just time to dress. • Half -an -hour later and Lady Belfield was sitting in her accuatorned chair at a respect- ful distance from the drawing -room fire, with her book -table on' ono side and her workbasket on the other, when her two Sons came -in together, more like than usual in their evening dress which hardly varied in the innallest detail.' The mother rose ut a tumultof delight to receive the wanderer, " Nly deafest, how could you key away so long ?" she naked, almost piteously. " A truant disposition'and the perversity of my favorite color. Never mind, mother. Here 1 am ahd here 1 mean to etay till you talte me up to London for the season," "I am so .glad. I am so happy. tfow Well you are looking. You must have en- joyed yourself very much to stay away eo long." Oh, 1 Wee With very good fellows, and the sky wee blue and the Wilms even good, and we luici a yacht, and knocked about A good deal in some clouded rough Weather. IleVpo 'o • o z wnthfuli1hfg Wag eh far oft Re Mei& Carlo. The mothei• Jetta beeh fulltof anxiety about- that Way- , ward.yrnnger son, whoge prolonged alteence rnight0ean mischief of some kincl. , The afternoon waa dull and Cold, with occaseenal showers. Helen Made up her mind to spend it indoors. She would amuse herself in that dear old mem, free to peer and pryabout like an inquisitivemhild. - The delight ,of looking at things all by herself—opening private drawers—turning nyer books and papers—lasted about half an -hour. Then she played the piano a lit- tle, trying first one piece and then another, never getting beyond a page cf any corm position before she was tripped up by a dif- fecultyt and turned the leaf in disgust. Wearyttig of this, she- tried the organ, of which she could make nothing; and then in a fit of disgust, she flew to the bell and rang it sharply. "It is miserably dull iedoors," she said; • "I must get a good gallop." • The butler appeared in the usual leisure- ly manner of a servant who ignores any ill- bred impetuosity in the ringing of a bell, by being a little slower than usual in answer- ing it. , "Will you ask Dodman te saddle alone for me," she eaid ; should like Mr. Ben • field's last new chestnut, if 1 caw have him. "Yes, ma'am. Will you require Dod man ?" "I shan't require him, but I suppose I shall be obliged to have him," fetid Helen. It was one of her grievances that .Adrian would not allow her to ride without a groom. She liked the seese of freedom, being ac- countable to no one for where she rode or what she did with her horse. She had heard a good tdeal abaut the chestnut hunter's evil propensities, and it was naturally on that accouat she wanted to ride him. - But Dodman was not the kind of man to be caught napping; and he knew that Sir Adrian would not put his future wife on an ill-disposed brute like the chestnut. So when Helen ran down to the hall in her habit and hat, eager for the fray, she found the pretty skewbald Cinderella saddled and ready in front of the porch. "Am I to ride that brute ?" she asked. It was the brut she generally node with Adrian. . "You -don't find no fault with her, do • you, ma'am?" asked Dodman, immovable , as a rock. "No, except that she is a sheep. I sent you a message by Bellows. I wanted to , • ride the chestnut." "You couldn't ride that 'oss, ma'am. He's too much for any lady." "He wouldn't be too much. for me." "1 should be very sorry to see you on him'ma'am." you are much too careful. You ' have spoiled Sir Adriann riding and now suppose want to spoil mine." Dod an was too superior a person to noticesthis unworthy petulance. He flung the lady into her saddle, and gave her the bridle without a word, and then he mounted behind her and followed her along the avenue. She punished him for her disappointment by taking the skewbald over some of the worst grounds in the neighbourhood, and at a breakneck pace. She did everything ahe ought not to have done in the course of • an hour and a half of hard. riding. 11 was six o'clock when she went back to tho Abbey. • There was a good fire in the library, she ' saw the red light shining through the lat. j • time, and the emblazoned glass of the upper mullions. She was cold after her ride in the wind arid rain, and she went to the lib. rary with the idea of eejoyieg hereelf for ' tonnarahour in front of the burning logs, 1 She did not expect to the Adrian till dia. 1 ner-tirne, but to her otterteiee there he was, sitting in the low armchair by tho hearth, ' figure And face bothin shadow, tis she ap- proached , She estele towards him on tiptoe,bent tieter the been of his chair end kiased him. • The loss Was Pallined With Interest. The Mediterranean isn't all tarn' Bat al- together the life putted am. There were plenty of pretty womene but not one so pretty as iny future aistertintlaw" he added in an Ondertmee as Helen entered, in an netthetic frook of pale blue cesnmeee with ehort sleeves and a short waist .4 .'baby - 1811 bodice whioh,set off herperfeet simuldere and swan-lihe throat. • She came into the room more slowly than her wont, and a sudden reset flush swept over her face and neck as she drew near the spot where the two brothers were standing. "Helen, let me introduce my other son," began I.ady Belfield. "We aro friends already," answered VA- lentiuo. "Are we not, Helea f" "And will be MOTO than friends—brother and sister, in the future, I hope," aaid his mother. • "Amen to that isweet prayer. Come, mother, it is my,privilege to take you in to dinner to night,' as the butler made hie an- nouncement, "and I shall astonish you by the justice which a man who has been fed on kickehawii at a Monte Carlo hotelban do to your old-fashioned English fare—your in- evitable saddle of mutton and your elderly pheanants. They went in to dinner, a Snug little party, of four. Tile room looked all the brighter for that fourth aresence. Their triangular dinners had been marked of late.by a gentle dulness. ' Lady Belfield WAS ill high spirits, °map- tured at the return ain iret"-nYounger and Vakntite was full of talk ahnut himself and his adventures, good luck and bad luok, the people he had met, and the women with whom he had flirted. . , • Helen was unusually silent, as if some- what oppressed bythat exuberant gaiety, Valentine was right in his Burnam Not one word did She say to her betrothed, on that night or afterwards, about her skirmish with Valentine in the library. (To I 6 C9NTIiiIIEJ1.) The l'erplekities of a Foreigner Concerning His English. "Dos is so shtiange in der .Anglish lon- gua,ge apoudt oop und down. Ven I readt apoud oop und down how shall I take him? Vhen I cross de river high oop on a plank, you say, 'You yin be dizzy—look not down —look up'—und ' understandt dot. • But vhen I readt in der noosbaber aboudt der big note' dot yes purned—she pe purned oop, und she pe peened down -1 know dot ish der sannit--down-lund oop ish shoost der same un4. 1gao- ahke. Bet vhen I teen dot der_Wodclehonber cut der big tree down*, und he cut it alneop, dos is ehoost a' leedle tifferenet Und vhen Iereadt •again dot 'der rioh man is all proke down, und pretty soon right -avay he is all px•oke oop, too; I dink dot itLitrettyaineeln,der same—only a leddle tiffetent • "Und vhen der noctor dell mn leedle poy he must take dot pitter medicine, he say, 'My leedle. fellow, now you trink it all down,' und den he say right avay to his Muddier, Dot is a prave poy to take dot lopelia or dose sals und seeny 9 m noint LO open jefei Mobile tan tjjnki alt oop' —und dos is shoost der same. " Und, py and py, der very nice lady knock at der door, und my Irate say very bolite, Come in und sib dOwieund'she say, Dank you ; how is dot poor leedle sick poy? I -vill stay all night mad sittkip 'with him'-- und I saynhow is dot? She vill sit Meat •und she vill sit oop. Vill she sit avay high oop on der shelf? ' Oh; dos is too ridiculous! " Oh, I can nicht uriderstand about dose strange verdts, down und oop -dad oop mad down." - • tt, Nearer Old Sol than we Thought. The report of the Commission appointed in England to sift the results of the -English observations of the transit of Venus in 1882 has recently been made. It gives the solar parallax as 8.832e. If, then, we take 7,912 miles as the diameter of the earth, we get ninety.two million three hundred and eighty- nine thousand five hundred and thirty-one miles and a quarter for the distance of the sun. This sounds 'very accurate, but it must be remembered that the parallax above given is subject to limits of error which make the calculations of distance uncertain to the extent of about a quarter of a million Miles ; that is to.say the sun's distanonmay be 250,000 miles greater or less thintlhe figures given above. Notwithstanding the elaborate preparations made for the obser- vation of the transit of 1882, and the gen- eral success of the observer; it appears that the results are no more satisfactory than those obtained from the transit of 1874. The parallax is not very different, and the limits of error are just as extensive. In one respect, however, all modern measurements of the solar parallax agree, and that is in showing that we are about three million miles nearer the sun than the school books of the last generation told us we were. Lord Dufferin's New Appointment. "The news that Lord Dufferin is to 'go to Rome' will supply the political gossips with alternate explanation e of his enigma- tical retirement from the viceroyalty," says the St. James' Gazette. "Many people will see in it a confirmation of the rumour we mentioned the other day, namely, that the reasons which have induced the Viceroy's resignation are strictly private, and eminent - ed with his desire to qualify for, a full diplm matic pension by serving a further term as ambassador to eome foreign court. Others may see in the despatch of a diplomatist of so much reputation and authority to the Italian capital a confirmation of certahe sus- picions of their own. They may hope, or fear, according to their temperaments and principles, that the appointment of Lord Dufferin to Rome will be the beginning of intimate and confidential relations between the Government of the Queen and that of King Humbert." • What Brought Him Thre, Judge—"Richard Quimby, don't you feel ashamed of yourself?" "I do, your honor, When I think of my kind parents and my brilliant opportunities; and think of what brought me to this place--" "I know what you would may. It was the demon alcohol that 'laid its destroying finger upon your brain and lured you on to ruin and disgrace. It was that demon that has blasted so many lives that brought you to this." " You're mistaken, sir. It was that bandy-legged policeman over there." Very 00neklerate. "Well, John," said old man Jordan to his young friend, "you have just married, 1, I heard." •a " Yes, sir," he anseverede With a spring morning smile; " juet a month ago, and vvaut you to go up to dinner with me to- $ day," • "Have you got a cook V' " Well, my boy, e'rose vve go to a reetau- n rant this time, You angst remember I had at • EIOUSETIOLD. • Against the Rainy Pay, The' newspaper reader oftea eomes across mention of the fact that the children of this and that king of some foreign country are inetrueten hi a trade, whetner the (inject ef the instruction be th bring tbern into oloser sympathy with the people whom they rule, and :many of whom work at trades, or wbether, teingeraft failing, tkey may hava handicraft to fall back upon for support in case of involutionarsr accident, riot being etated. Of lath years also, we have all heard of the bold step teken by the wifi3 of one of tine priacely 'Napoleons, in opening a millinery ahop, the impoverished daugnter. in-law of an English duke being said to have fellowed her example, and most of us think- ing it was yery lucky for them that they knew how te do it; white it wen not at, all an uncommon eurinise in the nays of the Second Empire that the beautiful Eugenie might yet have an oppotunity to tiro her wonderful dthes-making talent to account. But the affairs of life are no more preca- rious for princes than for common people, and if a prince may lose his crown and throne and jewels and civil list, a neercha,nt prince may lose his ships and cargoes and ingots, and those who are less than mer- chant princes can just aa easily come to grief in the matter of their own small bank account. Owing to the character of the laws of entail in this country, a fortune, it hat long been a saying, eeases to exist after the third generation ; so that no matter how wealthy you are, your grandchild is quite capable of " going upon the town," in all the great generality of eases ; and although that is presenting the matter rather strong- • ly, still the grandchild is in some danger of coming to the point of being too proud to do aught but suffer and, starve in silent seclu- tion. For habits of expenditure engender- ed in the children of the rich do net go hand in hand with habits of accumulation, and after the seeondgeneration it is apt to be i all outgo and no ncome, although of course this is not invariable. In Europe, with the thrones and the or- ders of nobility standing nen .a volcano's crust, as their enemies claim, there is no ab- solute security or stability of inheritance, In this country the chances for irregular money -making are so many, the specurative opportunities are so tempting, that the cool- est hand is liable atany time to do the rash thing,and not even the man whose fortune is in tenet is altogetles enrettnn it. ,How amine Jess, then; the vesnuan n tf_Womari, tt s true, are earnnig more and -mote mf the management of business. or book-keeping, banking, buying and .selling, •of bonds, stocks, mortgages, and the rest, and are getting, as a whole, better and bet- ter ableltntake care on theilnown affairs, an, though Ilere will probablytalvfrays be a few, helplessnines who had rather be taken caret of end who do not choose to learn. Women, also, are proverbially more conservative than men, and it is less likely than it used to 1,ti 0 , naliMettlitien Wael'e they have them, Will become lessened When in their own hands. Stiim,accidents and misfortunes cnn- not be kept away from everybody forever; and although the ease of one's homestead being swallowed by.antearniquelee, leaving one landless, is nonantequent onenlosses are not impossible thatniteevery binits absurdly chimerical in idea as that ; ancint is net the part of imprudence to provide against the injury which miglitreault froth them.' However thriving and "well off," tlaen, a man- and his wife may be, they do their children a positive wrong in failing to do them a positive good and providing them with a means of taking care of themselves should thieves break in and steal or moth and rust corrupt their treasures, For the son there are more means at hand of taking this care than for the daughter, more ways marked (out, more trades ; .and there is al- ways the healthy and natural occupation of caring for the land, into which he can [be initiated early and. most unconeciously. But still there arca 'great many clean and whole- some and pleasant trades left for the girl, which she may be taught and with whose practice she may be made familiar, even if she really never had to touch them after- ward in the whole course of her life. Not to speak of stenography and type -writing, which, until the time when they shall be made parts of universal education, will af- ford means of obtaining a livelihood, there are variems house -keeping, flower -raising, seed -raising, bee -raising, and kindred indus- tries, all of which may upon need be found far more profitable than the music lessons and wild flower painting on which so many of our young ladies rely for eking out their incomes, and beyond these there are alwaye the industries of the needle in dress -making and bonnet -making and the like. Every girl who has the least art of trick- ing herself out with ribbons and finery can use her art advantageously in making and trimming hats, and the more ideal she may happen to be in other ways, the more fend. ful and "taking will her bonnets be; and the girl who has an eye for form, and any dexterity of finger, will make of herself a mantua-maker of more or less merit, but equal to a livelihood on necessity, with, moreover, the advantage of being able to instruct and direct her own dress -maker if she never have to use otherwise the art she has learned. However wealthy, however finely educated the young girl may be, she will find it surely accruing to her comfort and good in the future if her friendsnhave seen fit to give her, in addition to all else tiny may have given, a trade, or something answering to a trade, with which she can earn her living in case of need, whether the need ever come or not. Household Fancies. Spanish point or English ourtein , lace painten in water colors unake very pretty valances scarfs and edges for curtains, as well at valances, tidies. A new glass from the manufactory at Nancy is very lovely and He figures in relief on a splash ground have !mem suggestions of cameo glass. Theameled glass is rather,• a pretty idea whioh is carried out in table ware and when gold as well as color is used in its decora- tions it is very attractive. Golden hair pins are the lateet freak and bid fair to be the most popular sort of ad- ornment for those who have fair hair to which attention may be drawn. A feather duster for fina bric•a-brac has a silver or carved ivory handle, and le a thing of beauty to be hung by a pretty rib- bon on the corner of the cabinet The coarse German pottery 13seen tin ery ve candlesticks awl the like Yhich make a 8UitahlP ornamental or useful rtiele for bedrooms or botidoirs. Ihnboesed loather of an antique design is till used in ornamental nerd cases and the ke, and is among the most • durable ma. eriale for any article which has hard wear. The setting of eilver, which is the feshion ow, even With rare jewel; is quite the ost elegant and rare, bat isoino precious tones' are very stylieh when in tine eetting, a young wife once myself." +708EFH C MER1LAINT4 (41..rAltin Provided by Secretary Baneeill at the nos, • Of Anent nendie Eraetua Wiinan's friends in the Cenadia Club were greatly estonisbed when the iliscoyered, at the olose of the dinner tha the club gave at Delmonicon receotly t Hon ,Toseph Qsamberlain„ M. P. and British Fisheries Cominiesiouer, thet a Pinkerton detective had been watching Mr. Chamber lain all threugh the banquet to ace that no body harmed him. Their surpritse wee greater than ever when they found three other deteetivee waiting at the entrattee of Delumencon to guard the English M. P. on his way out to his carriage. • One of the de- tectives, with a revolver in his outside pocket, ant upoo the carriage box where the M. P. started for the isteamehip Umbria, and three others, with more revolvers in their clothes, followed olese in another car- riage and kept up a strict eurveillance ef atotree!,,rm. .p. until the Umbria was out he raid - It was not, until the day after the dinner that the Canadian Club members learned that the detectives were present at the ban- quet by the special order of the American State Department. All four of the detec- tives were engaged by the Government a ftw days before the steamer that brought Mr. Chamberlain over in December arrived, and they were on hand in a cluster when he landed, and never left him during his entire eighteen weeks' flojourn in America, and Canada. • Their work of guarding him was divided. into town, so that at least twe of them could be in personal attendance upon him while the other • two were asleep. • Everywhere he went at least two of the de- tectives were within twenty feet of him, and 011 certain OCCElei0118 all thur were pros- ent as a body guard. • It was stated the day after Mr. Chamber, lain started for home that the Government had engaged this guard and kept it up so steadily because the American Government could not afford to have Mr. Chamberlain even run the risk of being insulted, much less molested, and it was said that Score. tary Bayard had engaged the detectives as a protective measure because he feared that certain citizens who are outspoken in their anti-Ennlish isentiments might engage Mr. Chambetlain in personal delaate in the street upon the Irish question. It is a fact that the detectives were order- ed to keep at a; ,distance from Mr. Chamber. lain anybody who showed a desire to ap- proach him in this spirinsorewho evinced a nesposition to de enythingebilt doff theif hats in deferential salutelinnet n, The detectives watched him when he went to attend the conference of the Fisher. les Commistion with Secretary Bayard, and followed him everywhere in the streets at a distance of a few. feet untoneall occasions. Whei(lie wint to dinner in thin hotel they were right on the threshold, "aid when he received friends in the parlor they walked up and down the corridor, keeping an eye te - • - me YAW vitenorm, They pntrollea the hotel corridor when he was asleep in his room too, and one or more of them invariably slept in an adjoining room to be on hand in- stantly if he called for help. This surveil- lance was maintained with just as muoh strictness in Canada as in Washington and New Yorknfei'Whannie crossed the border the detectives Were informed that there was a feeling 31 internee dislike for Joseph there also On three occasions only in the whole eighteen weeks of his travel did the detec- tives have any chance to make themselves knOWD. One night in the first week of Mr, Chamberlain's sojourn he came out of Del- monico's cafe and entered his catriage. A man followed and *trust his head in the carriage door and spoke to the M. P. The detectiv3s on the carriage box ,instantly or- dered Aim to leave, and the stranger looked up in considerable astonishment and, turned on his heel by the singular courtesy. On another occasion when Mr. Chambelain, was walking on Pennsylvania avenuer and atter he had been pointed out by several Washingtonians who were promenading, a citizen stepped up and spoke to him. The two detectives who were walking behind him instantly rushed to his side and order- ed the man off, Finally, when the NI. P. was in Philadelphia a man stepped up to his carriage and essayed to address him, but waspromptlyordered away by the detective otiebox. CURIOUS FACTS. An engineer says : " When you get a cinder in an eye don't rub it, but rub the other eye as hard as you choons. It will generally remove the cinder." The farmers of Southern Russia employ the Stepanoff primary battery to produce electric light to assist them in threshing their grain. Thus they are enabled to keep the threshing -machines going night and day. The New York Association for the Pro- motion of Burial Reform proposes to do away with the chief argument in favor of cremation by the reduction of funerals, and the doing away with coffins, caskets and sealed boxes of all Linda. In place of these wicker wrapping and papiermache boxes are to be used. The following is given as an efficient mix- ture for cleaning old brass: One ounce of camphor gum, two ounces of alcohol, two ounces of spirits of amonio., thur ounces of spirits of turpentine, one pound of star candles, one pound of tallow and one pound of tripoli. To mix first dissolve the camphor gum in the alcohol, than melt tho other ingredients and mix. It has been stated that soft soap with half its weight in pearlash, one ounce of mixture in about one gallon of boiling water, is found of great prac. tioal value in engineern shops, in the drip. pans used for taming long articles bright in wrought iron aud steei. The effect of this mode of treatment in that the work, though constantly meat, does not rust, and bright nute are immersed in it for days till wanted, retaining their polish. To Tell Fresh Eggs. A fresh egg ie very- clear when held up to a strong light, mid the air cell at the large end ie very small, In fact, the moll. er the air eel!, the fresher the egg, as the cell expands as the egg becomes etale. A fresh egg has anornewhat rough shell, while the shell of a etalo egg is very smooth. NVhen cooked, the contents of e fresh egg stiek to the shell, and. must be removed with the spoon, Mit a stale egg, when boiled hard, permits the shell to be peeled off like the skin of an orange. It takes a longer time to boil a fresh egg hard thatit does a stabs egg, and fresh egge are more easily beaten into a froth than ethic ones. Good News 1011 the Tenant. Landlorel---"Ilve called to tell you, that 13rid- . get, at I'm goleg to l'AlSO your tent. " Bridget a -"Glad to hear it, sor. 1 can't raise it tneself." gLEL AND TfiBli/s. A declaration of sufficient punishment from it defeated wrestler is 8Peeell froM the thrown. The crank is the most obstinate of men, When he tsJne a thing into his head you eau riot turn him, We entrain friends by the qualities we display, and we retain them by the quali- ties which we possess. Joknan &bent her imam a young.lady said: "1 had nothing to do with shaping it, It was A birthday present." An irritable man lies like a hedgehog rolled up the wrong .way, tormenting hien self with his own prickles. The "man who wrote, "Hark, from the • tombs a doleful, souad!" had probably been listening to a gra've's tone. • Are we to suppose that because a man liappons to be absorbed in a hook, it is printed on blotting paper? My son, when a worletnan begins to lean against leis house 'twon't be long before some other man gets a lien upon it. Northern tourists have left $6,000,000 in Florida this winter. In return they have received oranges and malaria. A Howard (Kan.) preacher has attracted some attention by saying from his pulpit that nobody but idiots play progressive euchre. " There is no virtue in vinegar " says a. scientist. None, eh? It does ,what many so,called men do not 4—support3 its aged mother. If you want to see an expression of severe simplicity and childlike innocence in a man's - face watoh him when he gets $2 change out of a $1 bill. Policemen have noticed that the man who sings the loudest, "-We won't go bome till morning,'is very often the man who has 9, wife and doesn't dare to." The summit of a mountain is generally Pterile, while at the foot it is fertile. So a . man may be bald•headed, and yet find that, the corn on his foot thrives. Bobby (listenieg intently)—"Ma, is pn putting up a sieve in the parlor?" Mother --" No, dear; he is writing with his new. fountain pen." --[The Epoch. • The thing to be organized now, opetly and above board, will be a thieves' trust company. it will be a ring, but it will be popular. Trusts are all the go. hie eerfulness is the daughter of employ. meat ; and I have known a man to come lieme in high spirits from a funeral, merely •bebause he had the management of it. "1 charged a battery myself once," ex- elaimed an ex sutler. "You did," replied an old artilleryman who knew leirn—' you charged our battery fifty cents a drink for ludge has decided that a mari !!!!'n tiound to tell his wife where he spends his evenings when he is away nrome home. It would save men/ a man trouble ofaTvCi9a oieuritceenudency to be very long-lived—in tity of native pensioners—who h India is proved by each man, as he makes leis annual appearance before the paymaster, being compelled to impress on the ledger his thumb smeared with lamp -black. This is compared with his former mark, and the ereult determines whether the man who presents himself in any perticular year is the same who reported himself twelve menths previouslynt ef he would do Matt at w thont anteother • • h UNDER THE PrILOW. Things Which Hotel Patrons leave for the Chambermaid to Find. "Founi this under the pillow of No. 55." The chambermaid handed a handsome, gold watch to the clerk of the hotel, who locked it up in the office safe. "The man who slept in 5'5 is on his wily to Hamilton. I wonder I have not had ft telegram from him. "Do you have many things left by trav- elers in this way ?'' "Yes. I have a small mueemn in the safe. • Jennie can tell you something about it. She has been here nine years and han- dled a good many .ost articles. n" "I find a good inany pocketbooks," said the pleasant faced girl. "The owners al- ways send for them and for gold watches. One man—he was from Montreal—left a very handsome watch with his wife's picture painted on the inside of the cover. 1 found the watch when I was making the bed, but I was called away before I could take it to the office. When the man missed it, he came back and acted like an insane perzon. 1 gave it to him, and he hugged and kiss- ed it, and danced all over the room. He said he wouldn't have lost it for a thousand "What did he give you ?" "Nothing. I find some things that star- tle me—a loaded revolver, for instance, or a set of teeth; we often have therm left." " "Do ladies leave articles under the pil- low ?" "Not valuables very often. A woman will leave a Bible, or a bottle of toothache drops or a photograph, and occasionally an emibroidered night-dress, but, as a rale, they pick up very carefully." The girl went away with her broom and pust-pan. "She is thoroughly honest," said the clerk, "and brings in a lot of estrays every week. Some of them have never been call- ed for but we keep them in case they might be. Rre, had an amusing circumstance hap. pen here last week. A young fellow who slept in No. 49 raised a great hue and cry that his clothes had been stolen during the night. As a fact, his pantaloons were mitts- ing with his money in the pockets. We sent out and found a pair for him and had the detectives in to investigate. While they were talking mattera over, the pia went to the room to make up the bed, and she found the missing garmentstbetween the mattresses. He had, noticed the t'night be- fore that they bagged a little at the knees, had put them there to press them, and the next morning had forgotten all about it." The Artist Tells iler His Seeret. Lady—" I like your pictures so much* and I would dearly love to be an artist. Won't you tell me the seoret how to do it?" Artist—" Most wi11inly, madam. You have only to aelect the right colors and putt them on the right place,' "Oh, thanks, ,awfully. I shall go home new and commute° right aevay, Lads a sons is volapuk for ladies end gen. tlemen, a professor says, and the phrase Jipul ledakepik e jeval victik means the red-headed girl and the white horse. Do to -day's duty, fight today's tempta, tions do not weaken and distract yourself by looking forward to things you cannot set and could not understand 11 yott envy theta.