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The Exeter Times, 1888-5-10, Page 34 011ARLOM It017$0. CHAPTER XXVIII.— a Ickl-vrazu ah) Oh, Mr, Dutton, Ian so glad 1 Mark will be delighted." "Is he at home ?" "O1 re0, ttbM affiae, wading through sees of papere with Mr. Greenleaf, but he will come home to eat in a ceuarter of an hour. So come iu ;" Been, cm her boy's merry voice and a gruffer one were heard, "That's thebailiff. He is Willie's devoted slave," "1 hoped to have been in tinie to hey() seyed you that" "Well, Pm convinced that among the much maligned races are bailiff. I wonder what I could get by an article on prejudice against clams! Iwasthinkinghowniuchbeer Ieherild have to ley in for this Doe, and behold he is a teet \taller, andbesides that amateur num- maid,e yarlourmeid, kitchen -maid, etcete, " What bailiff could withetand Mrs, Earemont ? Perhape you have tamed, him ?" Not I. The cook did filet, Indeed I believe there's a Dios little idyll going on in the kitchen' and besidea he wore the blue ribbon, andwas already a devoted follower ef eating Mr. Godfrey "However, if the valuation is ready, I hope you may be relieved from him, if you won't be too much concerned at the part- ing 1' "Mr,Flgremont told up that outdra le are very good to us," mid Annaple • don't mean to send us out with n 1.ut a pat= at our lacks. It is ve in them and in you, Mr. Dutton e the trouble of it No, r11 not wor you with thanks. The great point is, hope for Borne- • thing for Mark to do. That will keepup his spirits best 1 Poor Mr. Greenleaf is so melanolnly that It is all I can do to keep him up to the mark." "1 have been making enquiries, and I have three possible openings, but I hardly like to lay them before you." "Oh, we are not particular about gentility• ! It is work we want, and if it was anything where I could help that would be all the better! l'm auk I only wonder there are so many as three. I think it is somebody's doing. Ab! there's Mark," and she flew out to meet him. " Mark !" she said, on the little path, " here's the good genius, with three chances in his pocket. Keep him to luncheon. rve got plenty. Poor old man, how hot you look! Go and • cool in the drawing -room, while I wash my son's face." And she disappeared into the back re- gions, while Matk, the smile she had called up yanishing from his face, came into the drawing -room, and held out a cordial, thank- ful hand -to lais friend, wl tele chief intelli- gence was soon communicated. "Yes," odd Mark, when he heard the amount en- trusted by the family hair. Dutton, "that wili save all iny wife's poor little household gociarNot that I should call then. so for I ain stfee she does not worship them. I don't kne* what would become of me if she were like poor Mrs. Greenleaf who went into hysterics when the baliff arrived. and has kept her room ever since. I sometimes feel as if notbing could hurt us while Annaple amains what she ia." •-.Air. Dutton did not wonder that he said "vrhen she came in leading her little son, 'th his sunny hair newly brushed and sbiniag, and carrying a little bouquet for the guest of one La Marque rosebud and three lilies of the valley. 111 "Like it to Mr. Dutton, Billy -boy; I think he knows how the flowers came into the rden. You shall have daddy's but- ton -hole to take to him next. There, Mark, it is a pansy of most smiling countenance, such as should beam on you through your accounts. I declare, there's that paragon of a i Mr. Jones helping Beasy to bring n din- ner 1 Isn't it Very kind to provide a man- servant for us V' It might be ratele, and it might be keen - sequoia, but it was muck pleasanter than "hysterics. Billy -boy was email enough to require a good deal of attention at dinner, • especially as he was more disposed • to open big blue eyes at the stranger, than to wtake use of his spoon, and Annaple seemed chiefly engegessed with him, though a quick keen word aTthe right moment showed that ahe was saveire of all that was going on, as Mark and Mr. Dutton discussed the present situation and future measures. It was quite true that m man concerned inaa failure was in great danger of being left out of the race for employment, and. Mr. Dutton did not think it needful to mention the force of th.e arguments he was using to back his recommendation of Mark Egre- 113011t The possibilities he had heard of were tea clerkship at a shipping agent's, anotha at a warehouse in their own line, and a 'desk at an insurance office. This sounded beat, but had the smallest salary to begin with, and locality had to be taken in account, Mr.. Dutton's plan was, that as soon as leiark was no longer necessary for what Annaple was plumed to call the fall of the sere and withered leaf, the pair should come to stay with him, so that Mark could sea his -possible employers, and Annaple consider of the situations. They accepted this gratefully, Mark only propos. ing that she shoulego either to his step- mother or ler own relations to avoid the final crimes. ' "As if I would !" she eaclaimed. "What eort of a little recreant g 6 do you take rae for ?" • I take you fcr a gallant:. ttle wornante • areatly to stand in the breachease'd Mark. Ah, don't flatter yourself i ,here is a thing I have not got courage to -face— without necessity, and that's Janet's trium- phant pity. Mr. Dutton lives rather too near your uncle, but he is a man and he can't be so bad." This of course did not pass till Mr. Dutton • had gone in to greet the ladies next door, to promise to tell them of their child at length when the businein hours of the day should be over. Shall it be told ? There Was something in hie tone—perfectly indefinable, with which he :spoke of "Miss Egreinont," that was like the old wietfully reverential voice in which he used to mention "Mre. Egrentont." lt rimot e &lag Nagent's quiet heart with a pang. Was it that the alteration, from the old kindly fatherliness of regard to a little Nuttie" revettlect that any dim undefined hope of Marys Own must be extinguished for ever; or was it that she grieved that he should again be wasting his hetet upon the impracticable? A little of both, perhapin but Mary *Was as ready as ever to syinpathise, and to re- joice k hearing that the Itopettoes ohild had grown into the forbearrng dutiful ent- ree% CHAPTER XXtX. A enema SUM', "Did you say that Mark eta his wife were come to Springfield 'Home ?" " They come the day after bo -morrow," anewerad Uruela. "Mark could not finis1 zap the bueiness odour." "Well, I auppooareve mud bave them to dinner for once. He has made a fol of himself, but I won't have the Canoness com- plaining that I take no notice of him; and it is caner done while he le here then when he has gob into eeme hole in the City—that in if he ever iNts anythiug to do.' talr, Dutton has ovoid situations in view fer him." In view. That's a large order. Or does it mean living on Dutton and dolug some- thing nominal ? I should think Dutton too old and sharp a hand for that, though he is quartering them on himself." I believe there is nothing Mr. Button would like better, if he thought it right for them, hut I axn ctuite sure Mark and An- naple would not consent." Ha, ha 1" and adr. Earennont laughed. "Their nose is nob broaghe to 'dee grindstone yet 1 Say Saturday, tben, Ursula.' "Am 1 to ask Mr. Dutton ?" "01 cOUrrie ; I'm not going to have a tote -a -tete with Master Mark." • So Ursula had the eatiefactima of writing a more agreeable note to Mr. Dutton than her last, and,her invitation was accepted, but to her vexation Mr. Egremorit further guarded himself from anything confidential by verbally asking Mr, Clarence Vane on that very day, and as that gentleman was a baronet's son, she knew ahe should fall to his to at dinner and though she was glad when thie was the case at their ordinary parties, it was a misfortune on the present occasion. She hid not seen Annaple slime her marriage, exeept at the family gathering on the Canon's death, when she was very much absorbed by the requirementa of the etricken household; and Nuttie ex- pected to see her in the same aubdued condition. All Mr. Dutton had said had said or Mary Nugent had written about Jur courage and cheerfulness had given the impression of "patience smiling at grief," and in a very compassionate mood she start. ed for a forenoon call at Springfield Houee ; but, early as it was, nobedy was at home, unless it might be the little bey, whose voice she thought she heard while waiting at the gate. • She was out driving with her father after- wards in the long summer evening, and only found Mark's card on returning. just in time to dress. It was a bright, glaring day. and she was sittingby the window, rather inattentively listening to Mr. Fane's criti- cism of a new p'ay at one of the theatres, when she heard thee bell, and there entered the slight, bright creature who might still have been taken for a mere girl. The refined though nronouncedfeatures, the transparent complexion, crispy yellow hair and merry eyes, were as sunbeam -like as at the Rec- tory garden party almostfive years ago; and the black dress only marked the contrast, an made the slenderness of the figure more evident. , Mark looked older, andwrung his cousin's hand with a pressure of gratitude and feel- ing, but Annaplett was a light little gay kiss, and there was an entire unconscious- ness about her of the role of poor relation. She made an easy little acknowledgment of the introduction of Mr. Fane, and, as Mr. Egremont appeared the next moment, ex- changed greetiugs with him in a lively or- dinary fashion. This was just what he liked. He only wanted to forget what was uppleasant, and, giggling Scotch girl as she was, he was re- lieved to find that she could not only show well-bred interest in the surface matters • of the time, butputinbright flashes of eagerness andoriginality, wellseconded by Mr. Dutton. Mr. Fans was always a professor of small talk, and Nuttie had learnt to use the cur- rent change of society, so that though Mark was somewhat silent, the dinner was ex- ceeding pleasant and lively.; and, as Mr. Fane remarked afterwards, he had been ask- ed to enliven a doleful feast to ruined kin- dred he coild only say he wished prosper- ity always made people so agreeable. This is all high spirit and self-respect," thought Nuttie. Annaple is talkino as I am, from the teeth outvrards. I shaltahave it one with her when we go upstairs At an rate my father is pleased with her 1" Nuttie made the signal to move as soon as sbe could, and as they went upstairs, put her arm round the slim waist and gave a sympathetic pressure, but the voice that ad- dressed her had still the cheery • ring that she knelled had been °nit assumed. "I'm sorry I missed you, but we set out early and made a day of it; and oh 1 we've been into such funny places as I never dreamt of! You didn't see my boy?" " No. I thought I heard him. I must see him to -morrow." "And I must see yours. May if not be a pleasure to -night? !eve no doubb you go and gloat over him at night." "Well, I do generally run up after din. ner ; but after your day, I can't think of dragging you up all these stairs." "Oh, that'a nothing 1 Oaly you see it ia jollier to have my Billy -boy in the next room." They were mounting all the time, and were received in the day nursery by the old Rectorynurse, mach increased in dig- nity,but inclined to be enehetlic as she inquired after "Mr. Mark," while Annaple, like a little insensible being, answered with provoking complacency as to his perfect health, and begged Mrs. Poole to bring Master Alwyn to play in the garden at Springfield with her Willie. In fact there was a general invitation already to Alwyn to play there, but his attendants so inuch preferred the society of their congeners in the parks that they did not avail them- selvea of it nearly as often as Ursula wished. Little Alwyn asleep was, of course, a beautiful sight, with a precious old head- less rabbit pressed tight to his cheek; 's face grew tender as she looked at the mo " ereature ,• and she admired him to any •Avaapt saying that lee excelled her own. Being more tam a year the elder, there could be no rivairee ea to accomglish- ments ; but as soon as &ay were out in the nursery hush Annaplin laughed her way down egain with tales tef wonder at his first experiences of travelling. They set down among the plants m the bal- cony, as far from the lamps as passible, and talked themselves into intieuttey kiver Mick. lethvsayte. There are two Ede r homes in people's live, one that of later childhood,' the other the firet of wedded happiness, and St. Ambrose Road had the nine halo to both of thee ; -for both had •been uprooted from it against their will; the chief differ- ence being that Ursula could oast longing, lingering leeks behind, while Annaple held, herself resolutely steeled against eentiment and only turn it off by something absurd. Nothing wee absolutely settled yet ; Mark had been promoting hitneelt at offices, and ahe had bon seerng rooms and lodgings, (TO nu 0014TINunn,i —.4.411466—Ir ACCOUnting roil a Dianna Wefe—I stopped at Madame Medium's to- day, and coked to be put in coninnthication with mothorai seirit. Husband—Did you succeed ? Wife—No; after two ok three ineffeetual ranees ahe madame was formed to give it up. Hutband—Perhape, tny dear, ho tried the wrong pitted. HOUSEHOLD. &tee on HOuStl-Cleaning. In commotion with home). cleaning coulee the question, How Shall We destroy the var. ious lands of insects which are so annoying to the house -keeper 1 nes this is the season Mama en ounce of prevention is worth more than a pound of cure later, the following recipes are givon for the purposes mention- ed. Frequently, in spite of every effort it Bee directioa of cleanaing bedeteede end mattresses some rooms will defy he skill and perseverance of the housewife, and it will be noticed that usually these are the paper- ed roouas. To treat such a room the follow- ing ia said. to be highly satisfactory and use- ful : Clean the paint of the oorthorough- ly, then close it up se; effectually that It is next to air-tigat. To do this, stop up all •the cracks and keyholes and crevices about the window& filling the latter with paste if you can do no better. Then set in the cen- ter of the room a dish containing four ounces a brimstone strewed on hot wood coals ; be careful to set the dish on a piece of zinc or on a couple of bricks. Close the door tight and leave the burning brirostone ID the room for three or four hours, then open the windowit and air the room thoroughly. To make assurance doubly sure, especially if therebe any:other intent, auch as flea, in the room, and this onnetirne happens in the beat regulated families, place also a little iron charcoal furnace len the room filled with burning charcoal and stand on e large piece:of eino. It would be well to stand all your cleaned bedsteads in the same room to give them a chance for the benefit of the destructive gases, so that if in any undis- covered crack there remains by chance nits or bugs, they too will be suffocated. During the Summer it will be wise occa- sionally to wash the bedsteads with it- weak solution of the chloride of zinc, which is deadly to these pests. Benzine or gasoline forced into the cracks and crevices by means of one of 'the convenient apring-bottom oilers, such as is used for oiling sewing machines, will also prove effectual, but it must be handled with caution and not allowed to be near a fire or lighted lamp, as it is highly inflammable. After using benzine air the room thoroughly. ' Below theirs are another kind of peek quite asasnnoying in their way, such as red ants and black ones, cockroaches and water - bugs, and the usual rats and mice. To kill cockroaches and water -bugs, , the following may be used: boil ounce of poke -root in one pint of water until the strength is extract- ed; mix the decoction with molasses. and spread it in plates on the kitchen and laun- dry floors and in the closets, or anywhere where the vermin may trouble you. Pow- dered borax is said to be very- effective in driving away cockroaches, but must not be used wish the poke -root remedy, as it will prevent the roaches coming near the latter; it will be useful later to prevent the coming of new relays. To exterminate ants grease plates with lard and aet them where those insects abound, and they will crowd upon the plates to eat it, as they are extravagant- ly fond of lard; they can then be scraped into the fire or into the slop. pail and -drown- ed. After the regular cleaning of the kit- chen, sprinkle leaves of green wormwood among their haunts, as they dislike thistvery much. Coal -oil poured into ant -holes will also destroy these insects. For rata and miceait is said that one drop of oil of rhodium on the ordinary bait used in rat and mouse traps, will attract those creatures, as they have such a liking for it that they will risk anything to obtain it. Powdered tquill spread with lard upon bread will also attract rats, as they are fond of it. Chloride of lime scattered dry around and in their holea will banish rats effectually, and it has thisin its favor, it is a wholesonae disinfectant. To conclude, it is useless to employ many of these recipes, especially for bed -bugs and roachee, if large cracks under the eurbases of rooms are neglected; these should all be stopped up by putty and.painting, the latter being very deadly to Insects. Cracks in flooring should:also be looked after as these furbish a retreat or safe harbor for vermin. Deceiving Children, My attention has recently been called to this subject, and to ask mothers why they do it. A bright little girl of two and one-half years is one of our neighbors. "There , Mamie, you must not go there, dogs are there, they will bite. Ah, you must not do that— cows will come and eat you." • These are the statements little Mamie hears from morning until night, day by day. She used to be frightened, and the sight of a real dog or cow nearly drove her into con. vulaions. One day she stood lookingat me through the window. Her mother wishing her to go away, said: "The lady is gone, she is not there." She knew I was here, but did not know thee Mamie was looking at me. Again, "1 shall whip you if you do not mind." Mamie knows that one half the time she does not receive the promised whipping, and ventures to disobey, anclacatching the spirit of her mother, she will say, "No, mamma, I wilt not run sway," and as soon as her mother's face is turned runs as rapidly as she can. These are daily ocourrences. What will Mamie be fifteen years from now? A true wornan ? A help to society? One who will lead from paths of falsehood a weak friend? Will she be this ?—and yet what mother does not want her daughter to be all thiel A little boy, being carried with his mother to visit a friend, peeps cautiously Under the bed with the remark, "Oh, you don't charm bears under your bed." Motherst all responsible mothers, what are you doing? Where are your thoughts? How can you allow yourselves to tea.ch day by day that which will warp and make narrow those little minds given to you so pure and clean, coming in perfect purity t� receive what you mity give to exaggerate with the growth of years, beyond your control, what, you now, in full control and powers of selec- tion, plane in the tender- minde Oh, I earnestly ask, how earl you be so °melees ? What right have you to expect respect froin the world when you are daily undermining that truth and honor which we have a right to claim from your children ? If phi lining to us a child we have aright to demand a noble, true and perfectman ot woamm to far aa your training and example can train " the young idea to shoot." Sdhie Tested Recipes- Sevenin CnEAM COOtilt8.--0ne cup of sweet cream two oUpe of sugar, two eggs, three pints Of sifted flour, three teaspeoefule of ballet/ powder sifted with the deur, end a lit& silt; flevor to taste, PoTTlin SiXA1VX.—Doi1 a ehietik of beef till tender; chop the meat up, and Season it with salt, pepper and (if liked) half a nut- meg. Reduce the liquor to three pints, add the meat, cool in a mould. It should turn out well When oold, VEAL Stab—Boil a kuuokle of veal in six quarts of Water when tender remove the bones, ohop the pleat and add the juke, which Amulet be meetly absorbed, and two cups of cracker crinahs, cinnamon, peppee and salt; pub in a mould. Serve cold. • IrsoETABLE OrSman CAxgs.—Select 6'00, hirge-eized oyster plant mete, grebe them and add milk and flour Sufficient to Make * atiff better, about a gill of grated oyster plant, two eggs, t ne pent of milk and flour to make a batter, and alt. Dom it bY tablespoonfuls into bot lard. Fry tal brown. QI.4111t SCALLOPS.--Ohop fifty clams fine and drak off in a eolender all the liquor that will come away. Mix this in a bowl with a cupful of crushed cracker, half a cup- ful of milk, two, beaten eggs, a tablespoon- ful of melted butter, half a tabtespoonful of salt, & pinch of mace and the game of isay. onne pepper. Beat into this the chopped elms and fill with the mixture clam shells or the silver or stone chine, shollothaped dishes sold for this purpose. Bake to a light brown in a gal�k oven and serve in the shells, Send arouod sliced lemon with them. en ()MON CAKS.—Yolks of six eggs, two cupfuls of flour, a large teaspoonful of bak- ing powder, one cupful of milk, a cupful of sugar and three pareof a cupful of butter, one cupful of citron finely 'shred, lemon flavoring. Warm the sugar, if the weather is cold, so that it will soften the butter, beat botle together, then add the yolks of eggs, 'when all are like cream sift in flour and leak- ing powder alternately with milk, when well blended put in the eitron well Retiree and warmed, stirring only enough to mix, bake in a good oven one hour. If•ints for the Household. Wetting a stiff hair brush with aromatic; vinegar just before using is equally good for it and its owner. The new wool chenille is a success—and is largelyeused for "laid"work upon cloth, plash or satin. A toy drum, with a plush or satin cushion fitted into its head, makes a pretty and not too troublesome birthday gift. Rubbing the scalp for ten minutes every day with the tops of the fingers is both a preventive and remedy of baldnees. Hair brushee should be Washed at least onoe a week, using for that purpose soda tinhsetebaadoks.ofsoap, and taking care not to wet A slice of raw onion well rubbed over the roots of the hair upon- going to bed is one of the very beat things for any unwhole- some conditiou of it. Lacquer varnish is much better than that to be bought ready for use. Can be suede by dissolving one-half ounce of orange shellac in one-half pint best raethylated spirit. • • f Satin ribbon still has the call for deoora. s eadily, and the girl is Worth several thou- FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN, The Princess of Wake' most valuable veravedding present was a magnificent neck - lece of rubies and diamonds front the Ena peror and Empreea of Russia. A Richmond, Va., sister says :--" I am tired of so much kik about the woman ques- tion. We have heel our way in the past and intend to have it in the future." There is a wornan in Kentucky wire is look- ed up to by every man in the State. She is ein feet seven in hr red stookings, Snow drope, lately all the rage in Paris for dressing dinner tables and decorating feminine garments, have beeo superseded by yellow flowers. Mr, Prygooda--What a lovely color Mies Jones has I declare she looks like a ohromo. Miss Smallwares—A chrome 1 I had the impression she was hand painted. Mary Hodge, an habitue/ smoker for many years, and who admits that her favorite bev- erage was rum, recently died at DttontHants, England, in her 101st year, posseesmg her full faculties. After Frederiole dies the Gerinan Enlistees will receive a fortune, payable by the reign- ing Emperor, of $150,000 a year, and the nee of the Palace of Charlottenburg and another palace at Potsdam. . • A young lady of Fes&asilleimetly pre- sented. bee- layer with an elaborately-con- strodied pen -wiper, and was astonished the following Sunday to see him coming to ohuroh wearing it as a °remit It is quite a mistake to suppose that the Queen really deamds during a drawing room. In reality her -Majesty pits upon a sort of deo' of crimson and gold, which is so arrang- ed that to those who pass before her she ap- pears to be standing. A Concord lady who recently sent fifty cents for a box of ribbons "warranted all silk," in answer to a Maine firm's glowing advertisement, received a smalllot of worth- less cotton ribbons and a printed card, which "added insult to injury" tbe inscription: "Some folks expect the earth for ten cents," —Concord, N.H., Monitor. That advertise- . qui to appears in mute a number ofpreten- tious publications, and should receive the attention such a swindle deserves A young girl who lived eight miles from Springfield, Man., anxious to help herself and with no talent for teaching, and a decid- ed objeotion to sewing, hit upon a plan that has given her a bank aocount of respectable dimeesiona. Her next door neighbor is a dairyman and makes much butter. She made arrangements to take all his err milk at a low figure. This she made into pot cbeese—or Dutch cheese as it is sornetinaes celled. She made it into small and attrac- tive pats, which she took'to town and sold or five cents a pat. Every morning, from April to October, she drove in with the emily horse, her market wagon loaded with hallow pans fall of cheese. Her wares sold tive purposes--maugre its provoking tend- r ency to curl at the ends and the further fact that moire is now of much the same pike. The sun -bath is the latest beautifier, and is recommended as the best means of attaining the Irishman's "middle extreine," lwehan.erein a woman is neither too fat nor too ' ?inking is now the favorite finish for the edge of felt tablecovers, and nothing is handsomer for that purpose than olive fell embroidered in shades of apricot, with ap- plique figures of pink plueh. Brocade is still a favorite material for photograph frames, cushions, chair -sacks and fancy bags of all sorts, and is either height. 1 ened wish tinsel embroidery or has the fig - ores -outlined with chenille or gold thread. • A very new mantel lambrequin is a straight fall of plush, ten inches deep, with an embroidered epray in the centre, and be- yond that, graceful, irregular festoons of aoftest India silk of a harmonious contrast- ing color. • Wickerwork of any sort --chairs, baskets, whatnots—that is soiled or time -stained, can be made resplendent by gilding or sil- vering, and it is much better to use gold size and gold leaf than the liquid gold, so vaunted for that purpose. To stop hair from failing,take five grains salt of tartar, fifteen drops tincture Canthar- ides, fifteen drops spirits camphor and the juioe of two lemons. Perfume and bottle, when affervenence ceases, and rub nightly into the roots, and dollars. At the International Council of Women at Washington last week fifty-three different organizations of women were represented by eighty-seven speakers, and delegates from England, France, Norway, Denmark, Fin - and, India, Canada and the United States. All of these organizations but four are na- tional in their scope. Among the subjects discussed were education, philanthropies, temperance. industries, professions, organi- zations, legal conditions, social purity poli- tical conditions and religion ; and the vault of the discussions was theunanimousdeclara- tion .by the Council that all institutions of earning and of professional instruction, In- cludmg schools of theology, law and medi- cine, should, in the interest:1 of humanity, ID as freely opened to won;en as to men; that opportunities for industrial training should be as generally and as liberally pro- vided for one sex as for the other; that in all occupations in which both men and wo- mon engage equal wages should be paid for equal work; and finally, that an enlighten- ed society should demand, as the only ade- quate expression of high civilization which it is its office to establish and maintain, an identical standard of personal purity and morality for men and women. The leaves of jaborandi macerated in four times their weight of quinquina, then rubbed daily into the roots of the hair, will erase or prevent the streaked appearance, often seen, and is eapecially recommended for all shades of blonde tresses. Stanley and- Emin Pasha. The New York Sun says :—Oar latest ad- vices from Emin Pasha are dated Sept. 24, last year, at which time Stanley had not ar- rived at Wadelai. Three months, leak four days, had elapsed since Stanley strata from Yambu a on his journey of 500 miles overland, Eo did not expect to be quite so long, but the difficulties of his route, much of which was through a dense forest region, were perhaps greater than he anticipated. His force was strong enough to repel sty attack, but possibly bo large to be easily provisioned In a rather sparsely inhabited region, and the difficulty of buying food may have caused delay. Stanley solved the food problem in the famine -stricken region of Stanley Pool with great ability, and though scant supplies may have caused delay and losses, we have no reason as yet to fear for the success of his expedition. Emin. Pasha is making coneiderable stir in Central Africa, and he needs only the muni- tions that Stanley hat; taken k him to en- able him to set on foot his projects for de- veloping his province. He needed ammuni- tion, not for purposes of offence, but for eelf-proteotion if attacked in his work, Capt. Cased, in his last letter, speaks of a formerly hostile King as :seeking a friendly alliance with Emin Pasha, and Air. Gtorden, writing from Uganda on Sept 22, says that King Mwanga, with all his thousands of soldrere, is in great fear of min, and sus- peots that the English will yet come 10avenge the murder of Bishop Hennington. Sollr080 oi,Pope Leo's Revenue. Pope Leo XIII, -derives his revenue from three aohrees—namely, (1) the interest from the money left in the pontificial treasury by his predeceseor, Pies IX, amounte to $625,000 a, year; (2) the Petet's pence con- tribution, which wilt average yearly about $115.000; (3) the apostolic: ehencery, the receipts of which include sumo received for titles, decorations, privileges cif the alba, otc., and which amounts to $520'000 an- nually. The aggregate of these three sources annotate to a Vast Manual ineome of over $1,500,000. &today school teacher -1' Tommy, do you know what the meaning of " Arleen " 18 Tommy—" Yee'm ; it's what the people say when they thielt itti time foe the mirritter to stop." TELEGRAPHIC BRIEPZ. The Earin Bey relief committee are con- fident that Stanley is safe. It is reported that Russis is moving more troops on the Austrian frontier. Bishop Parker and R99. Mr. Blackburn have died of fever at the -Milroy° stetion, Africa. The Legislative Council of Victoria, Australia, has taken decided steps to pre- vent the importation of Chinese. The total debt to be assumed by the Do- minion Government in connection with the Lake St. Peter canal and the Levis Graving dook is $3,767,958. Ibis stated the Queen's visit to l3erlin has worked wonders, her interviews with leading personages in Germany having left a very favourable itnpression. The bill permitting the Canadian Pad& railway to obtain an independent entrance into Toronto has passed through the Rail- way Committee. Commander Boulton, R, N., of the Do- minion Governmeut steamer Hayfield has left Oteawa to continue the hydrographic survey in Georgian Bay. The English police state they have been informed that a group of dynamiter& sent by the Clan-na Gael of the United States are on their way to England. Advices have been received, dated Novem- ber 2, from Rink Bey, stating that he h been recconnoitering for Statiley, but had heard nothing of hira up to that time. Da Clark, Superintendent of tne Rook - wood asylum at Kingston, had a narrow es- cape from dronwing thatother morningebeing dragged off the wharf nom the water by a lunatic. Both were rescued. About 300 journeymen painters in Toron- to are on strike or increased wages and shorter hours. It is likely the strike will not be prolonged, as several employers have already agreed to the men's terms. Hughes Bros., wholesale dry goods rrier- chants Teronto, have suspended payment. The iatac of Commerce holds 4I260,000 of the &mai paper, of which, one-half is noun - ed, and the other liabilities of the firm amount to about $100,000. Plans for the proposed new bridge across: the St. Taewreece from Longuettil to Point Sb. Charles have been forwarded to Ottawa, mid a joint Mock company will be formed to Cennitrttot the bridge, which is estimated to cost two million dollars. The Beitish Goverinneut is advised by militery authorities to lay a cable mums the Pacific from Now Zealand, via the Viji lIs- and et and Saodviich lettered& to Vancouver and through 13titish &aerate. That would ON them two lines of communication with the Etust. ItOGAIT'S AWOL DRuP. UJs A43441) ft0144 a Balloon. hrlien Nearly Two • Inks de way paint the Earth. ccIt is efaimed by the balloonist, Baldwin, that he km dropped 5,000 feet frorn ix bal- 11%70 t00 fhe exe a raancdh ufithe all asthtae ml 1 pdti o pw to, p eneot other balloonist ever did, 1 ahall drop with the etaike olesecl, leaving it entirely to the air to open the chute." So said Edward D. Hogan to a group oe newspaper men, wire had assembled the other morning at Jackson, Mich., on a large vacant lot northweat of the town to eee him make his foolhardy venture. Hogan is a local aereaatzt, and lives with bis family at 421 Van Ekren street, He was for fourteen years employed in a plateing min here, and only during the lot tour yeare has devo`ed himself to ballooning as a profession. He has studied the subject thoroughly, however, for many years, having from childhood taken the keenest iutereet and delight in the science of sailing air ships. He rigged up a workshop at his home and there he spent every epare mornea experimenting in the construe ming of balloon, and on every poesible occeeion had made an asceraelon, frequently going up to conaiderable heig.hts. During the past few months he has gpx_e his attertion k peracatutcs, and oa Feb. 9 last announceelt—thateasesmenaneehlhe frost was oat of the ground he should ascend to an altitude of 10,000 feet and drop from the car. "There is no use," he odd, "of my • att?O er- ng to do anything unleOA ss I beat 05' 49'4ous records, and fall further than 4430, ' g mare. A few hundred. feet leas or dred feet more will count nothing for I mast at least double the distance. To • cribe this particular "chute it. is - only necessary to imagine sextette' globe 20 feet k diameter cut threigh the centre; in this way you have two paraehutes, the professor only having one, lt contained 100 yarde of akut cloth. It is not unlike a. mammoth umbrella without a stick, the braces being flexible cords running down 25 feet, and fastening to an iron ring two feet in diameter. The other cords all rim clear up to the seams of the "chute" so they cannot give way. This pareolnite was fastened to the outside of the bot -air balkon in a perpendicular form by the cord. When. the balloon was at the proper height thee Professor intended to take hold of the iron ring, swing clear from the balloon, depend on the air to inflete the "chute,' and take his chances of reaching terra firma insafety. The balloon was inflated by 60,000 feet of hot air, balloon parachute, and 'apparatua for inflating the balloon all being of Mr. Hogan's oven manufacture. As he stepped in the car and gave ordt re for the ropes holding the balloon to the ground to be cast off, the Pi ofessor said to the correspondent, who took what the latter believed to be final leave of a daring and Ieckless man: "My balloon ought to take me -tip two miles at least. The parachute won't inflate, — mode of 300 feet from the time Igleameatire balloor. This distanee wili—oliamy three seconds, after that 1 expect to come down alt right inside of one minute and thirty seaonds. • Let her go." "The chute' guy bas bruktn " cried Hogan instantly. "1,11 have to come down. and start over.' As soon as possible Hogan deseeiae ed. " rit go up again in an hour," ID said. The second trial was a success. The - balloon shot up almost straight to a distance of fully 10,000 feet. It then settled about 400 feet and hung like a ball in the he:evens. The anxious and exited crowd of people on the ground watched the balloon with bated breath. The reporters were provided with powerful glasses, and sew flogan outke ready to jump. "He'll weaken," said someone. •• "No," cried another, "he is getting out."/ The chute was closed. Hogan drew it jp till he reached the ropes to which he hien himself. Ile did not expect gam echnee- open for the first 200 or 300 feet, and he was afraid he might be shaken oft the bar by the rapidity of the fall utiles he took the precaution to fasten himself. When he stepped on the edge of the car to spring off into space some of the spectators grew pale and sick. Surely this daring man was going to certain death. • A about of terror goes up. Hogan has jumped. Down like a canton ball he feU for 500 feet. The chute has not yet opened. Down it came likes gigantic elongated bird. He was felling like.a meteor, and the spec- tators shut their eyes while still keeping their glasees elevated. • Suddenly a shout goes up. The chute has caught the air. -11 opens like the wings of a monster eagle. Hogan's flight down ward was almost stopped with a jerk. Then the chute settles down to a steady journey earthward with its passenger, and in three minutes from the time the reeklese man left the balloon he landed eafely in an open fieldstone little dis- tance from where the &merit was made The correspondent was almost the first to emasenthe hand of the aeronaut. "1 lost nay breath," said he, "when I shot down so fast, but I caught it again atter a time. It was a great jump, wasn't itT" Prof. Hogan was smeared with smut. He had never seen a man jump with a chute. He was much disappointed at the slow time made, expecting to come down in ninety se- conds. The chute was 20 feet in diameter. Oscillation was guarded against by means of a four -inch hole en the apex. He was over- whelmed with congratulations, and is quite the hero of the hour. Mr. Rogan came to this city eighteen years ago frona Ypsilanti, where, as a boy, ID made his first Recension in the summer of 1866. The man who first put ballooning int e boy's head was W. M. Clayton, who circuses during the crammer, and ips in hot-air balloons. Helloed in the iy with Ed all Winter, and when spring came the future balloonist was as full of vis- tas as a boy who is to see Iris first circus. That summer Clayton canae to Ypsilanti with a CirOUS and. watt to make the astern- sion, but Eci persuaded Clayteu to fellow him to go up instead. The matter was kept secret between the two, and when the leaky old hot-air affair sailed up in the atmosphere, Mr. and Mrs. Hogan sitting on their steep a few rods from the somie, waved their hands at the boy, supposing he was Clayton. The next day the papers told the story, and Ed got a good thrashing, but it didn't cure him, The future ballooniet theti began to study and save, always declaring that so soon as he could get money enough to build and inflate a balloon he would go up. No amount of talk ever had any effect oxt him. He was bound to rig° in the world, even if he came down hard. t te made his first ascension ba May, 1880, leaving the ground hauging by his toes to a piece of gas pipe, which he called a trapeze. The balloon wait up two houre and twenty minutes, landing at Stockbridge, eighteen milenorth of this city. That trip niado "Prof." He has Saved 8 :mug sutra hat aCouple of nice house, has a healthy bank account, and twenty hot-air balloons. He has now fallen bedlam: then any other matt and escaped unhartned.—a .touis pet'.