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The Exeter Times, 1888-6-14, Page 2uark..........auankanwomemamomatwoowswiwooks LIKE AND UNLIKE. By M. E. BRADDON, P "LADY AUDLEY'S SEORET," WYLLIARDIS WEIRD," Eve., E'ree CHAPTER XX.--Dareereiel. Sir Adrian Belfield had been a traveller over the face of the earth for nearly two year before he turned hie face homewarde. he had seen most of elle fairest spots in the old world. He had spent half a year in Greece, and had seen Algiers and Tangiers, Ilg,ypt and the Holy Land, and had devoted the best part ot a pier to a leisurely saunter through Spain and Italy, taking his own time, and living the life of the country, leoughing it a little, now and then, so far as 'his delicate health would allow, and seeing *much more of people and of places than it is -given to the average traveller to see; He -had gone abroad to Imre himself of a wound 'which he had at first thought almost incur. able, and he did not turn hi § face home. 'ward till he felt that he was heart -whole once more, and could meet hie brother's wife without oae pang of regret, one thrill of _poseictuate feeling. ,eYeeeehe was cured. A love which has its -nrigin .the feaeoy or the senses is not diffia ' cult to eradicate. A love that has no more • solid foundation than a beautiful face does not take a very strong hold of an intellecttn ell character. Adrian was too clever a man not to discover, when the glamour of that •'first love had faded a little, that the wo- man he had adored was too shallow and light minded to be worthy of broken hearts. She who could so easily transfer her allegi- ance fron one brother to the other, who eonld break faith at the first teraptiition, was not a woman to die tor. And even that potent charm of beauty began to lose its po wer over his memory after a year's ab- sence. Greece showed him women as beautiful, Italy showed him a, more pictur- esque loveliness in the faces ef peasant girls by the wayside, while in society he met women who, with a little less than Helen's beauty, possessed the charm of intellectual power and brilliant accomplishments. He learnt his lesson in those years of exile, and thanked God that he was able to learn it. "1 have been away from you an uncon- ecionable time, dearest mother," he wrote, knowing how keenly Lady Belfield had felt his absence; "but the purpose of my ban- ishment is fulfilled. I am going home to you cured. No hidden feelings of mine will ever make a difficulty between Valentine and me, or put Valentineswife to the blush. I can be to her henceforward as a brother." This letter relieved Constance Belfield's mind of a heavy burden, the fear of bad blood bet wear those two SOUS who were her all upon this earth. She loved them both too well to have been happy while there was Daly shadow of ill -feeling between them. However she might lean to Valentine, she knew that Adrian was in all things the finer character and the better son; and the sor- . rewesehatetehodelallen -upon him through his ekrother's rivalry had been a source of deep- est pain to her. It was not till he had gone from the Ab- bey that she knew how dear that elder son had been to her, or how essential to the happiness of her life. His wayward broeher had ocenpiedemore of her thoughts, and had been a constanb source of maternal anxiety; but Adrian had been the companion of her days, had sympathised with her in all her pursuits, entered into all her plans for the good of others, joined in her every aspiration and elevating thought. He had been her eecond self, and she only knew it when he ' as gone. The letter announcing, his returnMade her feel ten years younger. It was so delightful to her that he should write in good spirits that he should befell of hopefulness about the future. "I should like to see what the world is doing before I bury anyself at the dear old I Abbey," he wrote; "so I have engaged rooms at the Alexandra or the second and third weeks in June, with the notion that you would not mind joining me there. We can do the round of operas and theatres and 1 seeall the picture galleries in a fortnight, leaving a margin for your dregoomaker and my tailor. Lady Belfield had not been in London since she went up to see her invalid daughter-in.law. Valentine and his wife had visited her at the Abbey twice since their marriage, and Valentine had been there for the hunting and shooting several times, Without his wife; running down to hunt or shoot for a few days, and going back to London at the first unfe vorable change in the weather. He treated the house as if it were his own, telegraphing to announce his arrival, leaving at half an hour's notice, and standing upon no kind of ceremony. Lady Belfield had been pleased that it should be so. She was glad that her son should treat her house as his home. Belfield did not approve inc lady who was I receiving masculine visitors. The visitors were two, Lord St. Austell and Mr. Beeolung. Helen started up from her chair and ran to welcome her mother-in-law. . "Dearest Lady Belfield, what a tremen- dous surprise ! ' she exclaimed. "You did mit say a word about coming to London in your last letter. "1 had no intention of coming •when I wrote," replied Constance, shaking hands with Mos. Baddeley and then with the two gent'.ernen, She told her daughter-in-law of Adrian's return, and of their residence at the Alex- andra. Helen blushed faintly at the men - don of her jilted lover, and a flood of mem- ories rushed across her mind at the SOUUd ot his name. Oh; how long it seemed ago, that old time when she and Adrian were engaged, when her heart was light and glad with a childish pleasure in her conquest, and her lover's devotion, and the sunny future that lay before their feet. All was altered now ; she had loved and suffered ; her pride hasl been crushed, her spirit broken; and then, all at once, like the awakening of Spring, life had seemed to begin again, as if all the world were newly made. Hrs. Baddeley brought forward her most luxurious chair, and established Lady -Bel- field in a shady nook by the oriel window, while Helen stood dreaming. "You find 118 in rather a dishevelled con- dition," said Mrs. Baddeley; "we were late coming home from our ride this morn- ing. Our horses were -very fresh, and we were obliged to give them a little extra work. I think we were the very last people in the Row, weren't we, St. Austell? ' - She called him St. Austell, tout court; a freedom which was very objectionable to Lady Belfield. ' "1 am glad you are riding, Helen," the mother-innaw said, gently. " Yes, it is very nice to ride in the Row when there is no better riding possible. Valentine was so kind to buy me a horse." , "He only did what was right," said Lady Belfield, wondering why the young wife blushed crimson as she mentioned her bus- t band's gift. "Be rides with you, I hope ?"- " Oh no; his hunters are at grass. He says he_hates the Row. Leo and I ride 0- gether." , "Sou have a good groom, I hope." we have no groom. The man comes round from the livery stables to mount us, and we generally have an escort of some kind," concluded Mrs. isaddeley. " We are perfectly safe I assure you." I LadyBelfield was not to be assured upon , this point. I "1 think my son is wrong in allowing his wife to ride without proper attendance," ! she said gravely. 1 St. Austell turned the conversation into j a pleasanter channel. How long did Ledy ; Belfield contemplate remaining in town, ' and what was she going to see.. He ran 1 ofer.the =names of the Tneatres—heetalked r Of Ilarlingharn and Ranerfigh. The picture ' galleries, the latest: conjuring -trick, the 1 newesb thought -reader. "1 am not very rabid about amusements," 'said Lady Belfield. "1 want to see as much as I can of my daughter." - Helen's eyes filled at that word "daugh- ter," spoken with exbrerne tenderness. . "You are too good to me," elle faltered. "1 wish Valentine were in London to help me make much of you; but he has gone over to Parits for the Longchamps races. You know how devoted he is to racing. I suppose he will be back in two or three days." "Von don't know when he is to be back?" "1 never know till within an hour or two. He is so erratic. He says he never likes to forecast his life, to forfeit the privi- lege of changing his mind. He comes back from Newmarket, or York, or Paris, just as unexpectedly as he comes from his club." "He is the best of fellows, but 1 really think he was made for a bachelor," sad St She came to London a day before Adrian was expected, so that she might be at the hotel to receive him, or meet him at the terminus. She had brought books and scent betties, paper -cotters and work - baskets enough to give a home -like aspect -even to an hotel sittingeroom. She had brought a great basket of flowers from the Abbey gardens and hot -houses, and she and her maid were at work nearly alt the morning after her arrival filling vases, ,and building up a bank of bloom in the fire- place. Adrian was not expected till six in the • everiing, whole his train was to arrive at Lady Belfield ordered a carriage and drove to Wilkie Mansions about an hour after luncheon. Mrs. Belfield was not at home. "I think you will find my mistress over the way, my lady," said the maid, when she pow Lady Belfielcles esad and the lady's look of ielittepointmeet. "Or I can fetch her if you "She is at Mrs. Baddeleyto you mean ?" "Yes,my lady." "Thanks, rn go there at once." A, silvery ripple of laughter greeted Con. --tueePeIfield'ss ear as the door was opened °Lee, �t.,,&wiliest individual of the pegs sigSIISalied and the smartest, His "uurun-res in perfect style, his innocent wt'ulr was brushed ae carefully as if ho Pria ee.1 in a creek cavalry regiment, glyelobbes into which this infant admitted ue,rinelfield wan picturesque in its arrange- °Lltsf oriental drapery and tropical palms; e_ was very entail, and only divided -*he drawing -room by a ourtaite, through Veit 'he visitor heard Masculine voices -nd laughter before the page could announce 31 1 11! being lifted she taw the o he "en‘ tieraeditilly in low bartib00 nadWn toCiai emu e,, se it limp toitte iteo the grounds or....v .1Ace betrimmed, dia- I'S heavy plaits of 'own, and were Her cheese had Whicdt Lady Austell airily. "He has such a thorough appreciation of manly liberty. You must have exacted very little train him in his boyhood, Lady Belfield." "1 hope I never exacted anything frorn either of ray sons," arswered Constance, gravely. That light tone of St. Austell's jarred upon her, The man's presence in that room, and his easy familiarity with both sisters, gave her an uncomfortable teeling. She found herself wondering whether he was often there ; and whether he was chief among the "escort' of whom Mrs. Baddeley had spoken so confidently. Can you go to the opera with me to- morrow evening, Helen ?" she &eked. Helen looked at her sister, "I'm afraid not," said Mrs. Baddele "we are booked for a dinner in Park Lan and -a dance in Grosvenor Gardens." "The next night, then." "There is another dance,—two dances, replied Helen; "but I can go with you t the Opera before my dances," No, I will not allow that. You Ion fragile enough as it is. I won't cause yo any extra fatigue. But do you really go_ou every evening ?" "My dear Lady Belfield, just 'think, i is the very height of the sensate 1" said Mrs Baddeley, " If we had not a good many en: gagernento now we should be indeed very little in request. When I cease to be want- ed at three or four different houses every night in June I shall know that I am on the shelf." "It is a wretchedly exhausting life for any young woman " said Lady Belfield. " It is a wretchedly exhausting life, but one must endure it for a mooth or six weeke in the year, unless one wants to fall out of the ranks altogether, Helen moped horribly till Valentine and I took her in hand, and rshook her despondency out of her; and now she is as happy as a bird," Lady Belfield contemplated her sen's wife thoughtfully for a few moments, and she did not think that the expression of that lovely face was one of perfect serenity. There was a troubled look in the large violet eyes, a nervous restlessness about the mouth, Mr. Beaching sat in a low chair, teasing Mrs. leadeleleyee poodle all that tune, and did not committ himself by speech. Ile had aquired altruist a reputation as the most ss - lent man in Leedom The 'matte Was an artificial personage, spoiled by London beers and high living, ticese, Oraical. He Were three tufte oh his thaveit took, and three tato on his aspiring ea,i1, Silver colter, and silver inenelets, and would bite his cictirest friend. He had been over eche:tate:1 and was etippoeed at thee° timers to Miler from presettre cm the beatin Ile played the piathe, milked Upstart' hie faihol leggy and the door, and insulted Gladstone in dumb show whenever a piece of sugar was oftened to him coupled with that etatesinen's name. It may be supposed, as the performance must have been irkeoroo, that he really detested Mr. Gladstone. No doubt there are Liberal poodles in London to whom the saame of Lora Salisbury is equally odious; but the Tory poodle is the more general ornament of 4 lady's bon, doir. "Como to breakfast with mo turnorrow morning, Helen," said Lady Belfield, when she was going away,After half -an -hour of i the shallowest talk, n which Mrs. Baddeley and Lord St. Austell were the chief per- formers. "You can hardly be engaged at breakfast time." "If r were I would give up my engage- ment for you," replied Helen with ber car- oming smile. "1 will give up my dance to- morrow night, if you like." "No, no. You shall make no sacrificeo. Come at ten o'clock toonorrow. Time will not be too early, will ib?" "No. I always wake early. I never sleep more than four or five hours." "Very different from me," said Mrs. Bed - delay. 'I sleep like a dormouse till it is time to put on my habit for the Row." She gave et great yawn and a sigh of re. lief presently wheo the outer door closed upon Loony leelfield. That dear soul is utterly charming in Devonshire," she said, "bub she rather palls unAupbtehnoeityo.n,bey inLn.obnadookingroSuhnde roefeanirmeeedtiobe umoi "She is the most unselfish and;pureemind- ed woman in this world," protested Helen, warmly, and then she turned her back upon the trio—Mr. Beeohing, St. Austell, and Leonora—and walked to an open window at the end of the TOOM, and stood looking out watching Ledy Belfield'e hired Victoria as it turned round the corner of the street, with eyes alined blinded by tears. St. Austell followed her to the window. "What a sensitive nature it in which every chance touch oan move to pain," he said. "You ought not to expose yourself mit of bodily coolness becomes the aim of to this kind of thing, Helen. Yon ought every intelligent.person. The majority of to be far away freM the possibility of jarring • men are vrholly given over to gross delusions influences." 'concerning this matter. There is the delu- • Mr, Ileaching had found speech by this , eion that claret, not to speak of stronger time, and was exchanging muffled remarks 'liquids, is the proper thing to drink in hot with Mrs. Baddeley, as they shared the at- 'Weather. Now, Inasmuch as alcohol hese. tendons and chance en,sips of the Tory ,ent the process of combustion and increase poodle, I the heat of the body, to drink iced °boat • When had Lord St. Austell begun to call 'in order to cool the vstern is about as eon- leIrs. Belfield by her Christian name ? Helen could not remetnber the exact mo- ment of that marked change from conven- tional reaped to privileged familiarity. It 1.141111110/.01.10•4/0181MNIS 1.111i111.0.1.). ki HEALTH. ROW .20M0'. Girls Live. They go to bed at might and fell into a sort of stupor ; why not le thereeme breath et fresh air to, their sleepingbox ? Do they ever, except he the heat of summer, have so much as a smack of the window capon ? If there is a fireplace in their room or a stovepipe hole don.lt they elose it up as tightly as they can No wonder it is so hard to wake •up in the morning. I can hear them groan and moan and yawn and weld now, at the imperative summons to get up. And what do May find on the break. fast table? Sweet fried cakes, tomething in the shape of meat, generally fried, pota- toes, *her fried or stewed, hot coffee, and probably "griddle cakes," fried of course. Now, I am not going on a crusade against the frying -pan, for it has He uses, but when I see a girl sit down at the breakfast table with dull eyes, a sallow hoe a listless manner and proceed to make that early meal of etrong coffee, sweetened cakes, fried pork, and po- tatoes, with a sequence of griddle cakes liberally buttered and drowned in molasses, I feel like shutting her up for week's. starvation on Weed and water. Then there is dinner; tough meat, baked vegetables, pie, any kind of a pie with a OrUSt either tough or sandy ; tasting strong- ly of lard and filled with things most con- venient. A favoitite pie in some country homes is consbmoted of sliced lemon acme and molasses, baked in a MSS as ninfit for the human etemenh as a stewed rubber over- shoe. Tea -time brings stakes of varicose sorts, probably more pie, cheese, fruit preserved, and so ill done it is fermented, or canned fruit whioh is oomperatively harmless, strong tea and hot biscuit. _ Keeping DNA. ' With the advent of hot weather, the pur- eible as it weuld. be „-eto telaca fevr pounds of ice on a hob stove, arm sit by it until the ice should melt away. As a rule, eating and drinking anything whatever has a was in a waltz perhaps, when, lured by ex- tendency to increase the bodily tempera. guisite music, she had held on too long, and ture i'theught of course, there is a great had been almost fainting on his shoulder difference in the heating form of different with the world all melting round her, au if articles of diet. The less one eats or drinks there were no more reality in life, only a the cooler he will be, and it is hardly neces- sary to remark that were this process °era. leiTieees, vgeoflidueeidirigubetses, gtihi me Pmeerrfrg ionf agolpdgre ed to a fatal extreme the co-olness of the h ,ze, and his voice murmuring tenderly, corpses reeelting there from would be ad - "Helen, my Helen." ditional proof of the soundness of the Was it thus, or in some other way, the theory. Not to dwell upon the irrae change came about? She hardly knee tional means by which men who are Nothiug in her life seemed to have had a be. lanxious to become cool only succeed in ren g nningShe had floated along she knew dering their condition warmer than it would . not whithee, lulled in balmy zephyrs, lapped 'otherwise be let us speak of the true source in warm sunshine ; she had drifted down a I by which a rising thermometer may be sue tropical river in an atmosphere of dream. leeeefullY defied. The bath, in its various land. He called her Helen now as a matter ;forms, is the sovereign defense against ex - of course; and he told.her every day and cessive heat. There is the bath taken by many times a day that there was something the sall boy at the river side, the efficacy m ma ki hs ier n ohoebri life.hold uTph Danpropriety t whv rka s wrong of which is shown by the success with which her Rem- the bether subsequently defies the intense tenacious eltnging to her duty as a wife, heat of the suit's rayl as bltny fall arelitld' Her footsteps were faltering just upon the upon the shadelees piers. Better, than th hither side of the line that severs innocence ;river bath is the surf bath, which is usually from guilt. She could still hold up her succeeded by subsequent resting under head and say to herself, "1 may be passion, !shady arbors, by which its cooling effect is ately in love with St. Austell, as hem with madeto last for several hours. The sponge me; but I am true to my hnsband all the lbath is better than no bath at all, but it is same, and nothing could ever tempt me to attended with difficulties which nullify to betray him." Telling herself that she lived some extent its good effects. The strain in daily commune with the tempter, the upon the intellect involved in the effort not man whose name was 'a synonym for seduc- to sprinkle water upon the carpet, and the tient.; and who was so much the more dan- excitement consequent upon the perpetual gerous in her case because this time he was search for the soap, which eventually lose slipperiness, seldom fail to quicken the pulse of the person attempting a sponge bath to such an extent as to render thedbath of but alight efficacy as a cooling process.13ut above and beyond all other baths, antago. nista of summer heat, are those admirable inventions, the Turkish and Bunion baths. Every one knows that in the former hot notbing could be clone for a poor fellow but, air and in the latter hot vapor are the agents to take him to London in the steamer which 'employed to produce the profuse perspire - carried the fish from the smonks to market ton which is the distinguishing feature of For two days or more he had to be tossed these baths. By their action the tannery,- about in agony before he could receive med- ture of the body is rapidly lowered, ana the ice) aid, and many a life might have been subsequent processes of the bath, being saved could the injured man have been treat- wholly devoid of all possible fatigues, tend ed at once. An amusing story, told in an English book, illustrates the rough -and. hand- to keep the body in the cool condition in which the bather emerges form the hands reedy doctoring practised b:y the fishermen : of the shampooer. One of these baths taken at the end of the day insures a cool and com- fortable night, or if taken at midday enables the bather to enure with something like contentment the heat of the hottest July Bill was put on hosed the, steamer, and in afterzr.,on. Like other blessings, however, two days was under the are of a London I they can be indulged in to excess. A too doctor, who gave bim a lags bottle, with a ; frequent repetition of the Turkish or Rua - red label on which was pruned "Por Ex- ' sian bath has a perceptibly wea.kening ef- • ternal Use Only." As Bill didn't know the meaning of ex- ternal, the doctor explained that he must rub the contents of the bottle on the out- side of his in area thigh. Bill rubbed forcib- ly and fre sumtly, and in a few days was ready to return to the fleet on the Dogger %nkf Beore renaming, he called on the doctor, and asked for two more bottles of that ere physic." " You see, sir," said he, "I thought it might be useful among our men. We're all of us tegettin' a bit of a rap now and agits in our rough life, and whether the hurt kills us outright or only lames no like is all aocordin' as 'ow it 'appenee" The doctor gave -Bill two large bottles of liniment, red label and all, thinking than if a mistake should be made, turpentine wouldn't kill a hardy fisherman. On the dew Bill joined his smack, a poor fellow was lying ill in another vessel with "browitchitis," The skipper, hearing that Bill Jenks had returned with two bottles of PhYsic, Font a crew to borrow one "What cheer, Old Bill!" shouted the crew, as they came alongside of Bill's smack. "1,711 yer let's have the loan o' a loottle o, your physic? Ned Price is tuk awful had Of the brownchitie 1" Bill passed over a bottle of liniment, and in a quarter of an hour:the one large iron gravy spoon possessed by the meek wise filled. with the "physic," and, in spite of the red label, poured down Ned's throat. He liked it ; the dose was repeated and repeated until the big bottle was empty. " He's finished that lot, skipper," said one of the crew, "Hadn't we better go arid borrow that 'ere other bottle ?" "VVell, no," simmered the skipper'. "Let's 180 how this un worke first," it worked a wonder, for before the day was over the sick man was 'sitting up, arid and the next doe, he was on deck. not 'ere physic" was after Ward 4 part of the ve eere storese, and wets lased for everything e ternal and ehternel, peeve at twenty-two oabbage and salmon. at twenty; oats at seventeen; eggs and veal et sixteen, and bee t at fifteen. Of the second elametheplioephatee, salmon - stand's first at seven; then eodfish at six beef and eggs at five e beans and veal at four, and eabbage, pease and oats at three. OF the third °hum, the carbonates, butter stands at the heed at one hundred • rice at eighty e cern and rye at seventy-two ; wheat at sixty-nine ; oats at sixty-six ; peas at six- ty; beans at fifty-sevenanci cabbage at forty- six. Ftesh codfish fried in fat or served with - butter gravy about 'opals beef in all respecto, and so do eggs fried in fat. Beef with oale, bage makes a very nutritious diet. But wee REletsSOITAL. }Boulanger was lately Remand of weering * wig, wherenpou a correspondent called apon him,and he submitted to having his thaBirpualrlectrosch;veedf it,hoalpltothveer ss,eggs vover:;ites alander. isrncki oe reoent birthday. Plover& eggs are a favor- - Oise delicany with the Chancellor, and emu year on hie birthday a large number are pent ito him from the country. , A memoriee Mille lateDinah Maria Ckailr is to he erecod in Tevekeshury abbey, AS t Tewkesbury yeas -the laotne of her world- ' fainous hero, John Halifax, Gentleman., The memorial will take the form of a marble• . medallion. The missionatties of the Pacific have lost one of their most devoted friends inerais death of Ponsars, the Queen of Telitgeind Monea, in the Society Islands. For Over fifty years this, woman led a simple Christian life. When she was born, 70 years ago, the missionaries had nonmede a convert in the South Sea Teiande. When she died more than three hundred islands had been wholly evangelized, and civilization is fast spread- ing in all the islands of this part of the Paoific, M. Louis Nobel, who died in France tit other day, was not the inventor -of dynamite, but Milted Nobel, his brothee, who is still living, was. IX. Nobel is a strong advocate of peace, and regards with horror the use to which his invention has been put by assas- sins and political convirators. ' The only time when he shows a warlike spirit is when he reads of the misuses whiesh are made of dynamite. Then he 'feels like putting all these miscreants iota a storehouse of dyueo mite and blowing them up. muse add : B. The mere eating of food monot maize muscle. The muscles must be called into - vigorous daily exorcize, Yet within overt doing. ,Excessive eating isweakening,ancl moat be avoided. It is the amount digested and rulastoine stihleatoetodinthaactht.ells, not the quantity taken 3. All the laws of health must be seedily observed. Misplaced. Energy, Overwork is an American discase, and women are the greatest sufferers from it. Much of this suffering is uncalled for, and wholly unnecessary. Many women have be- come drudges to the prevailing humor of the day, and give their beat energies to fancy work and the over -ornamentation of ' their homes. Hundreds of women cannot- read, or develop themselves mentally, beoauee they "do not have time." Yet it is the houses of whioh these -women are mistresses that are overcrowded wit 1 furniture, and are painfully suggestive of the labor involved .o caring i tfor t Wrinkles used to indicate age, but now they indicate worry. We have our school- girls with wrinkled foreheads and harassed expreesion, already being trained to live un- der the "no time" pressure. One is almost tempted to say, Blessed be they, who have nothing and expect nothing I looking at life from this standpoint, one is led to feel that St. Pahl was the most enviable of men, for he had learned contentment in the pre. sent tense. Discontent is at the bottom of nine -tenths of the overwork and hurry among women; they must me.ke just as good an ap. pearanee as their neigbbor, whose ineome is far more, or whose necessary expenses are iar less, than their own. Unless we are in- dependent enough to make -standards of QUr own, and live up to them, refusieg to give up the liberty of ornamenting and dreesing as best suits our position and tastes, life de- generates readily into a competitive struggle for the first plate@ in enr eet, 10± lt Ise sigh Qr poor, Henry Morton Stanley. Henry. M. Stanley was born in 1840, but his origin is so obsoure that the place of his birth is a matter of diepute. An English - authorzty, which we shall follow, states thet really and desperately in love. itself and evades recapture with ageravating (TO BE CONTINUED.) " External Use Only." Among the twelve thousand Englishman engaged in deep-sea fishing there are many casea of fracture and confusion. Formerly One rough morning Bill Jenks was past- ing up a box of fish ram the yawl boat to the steam carrier. The box slipped, fell, sbrisck Bill on the thigh and disabled him. Sir Morell Mackenzie never accept item a professienel Binger, fect, and there are certain diseased condi- tions in which even the moderate use of either is fraught with danger. A person in ordinary health, however, can find no lux- ury that is to be compared with the cooling and invigorating bath. vrhich he receives in a perfectly.managed bath -house conducted upon either the air or hot -vapor systems; and in the hot weather which we must an- ticipate for the next two months, the secret of almost perpetual coolness will be found only in the intelligent use of the oriental bath. Muscle -Forming food, " What is the best food for producing muscle ?" This question, asked frequently, is a legithnateone. Some foods are par- tioularly mueclenformers ; others produce fat, and still others brain and nerve, while most of the common articles of diet combine them uses in varying degrees. • But the (potion, to cover our emtire phy- sical needs, requires to be broadened into thie : What combination of food will beet nourish the body 1 Even then the answer must he modified to mit individual cases. For the digestive power differs greatly in different persons. Moreover, there is an interdependence between the different bodily organs and thseues, so that the body must be built up as a `whole. If one pub lecke, the whole suffers, and if one part is overfed, the alters will be underfed. Thee a person who becomes unduly fat loses in muscular fibre, either in quantity or quality. One who overfeeds the brain loses in muscular etrength. SO, tOQJ &member development may be castled to such excess as to impoverish the brain, and also to ro- deo the fat of the body below, what ie ne- eeseery both as surplus food laid up for emergencies, and as a protection against sudden changes of temperature. The hese food for producing mimic, must, while being duly appetizing, oontein a huge per cent. (1) of nitrates for the tremolos, of phosphates for the breie and nerves, and, (3) of derbone,tem for the fat, fee Of the font °lake the nitrates, beans tand at the head at twenty-four per cent, ; then Denbigh, in Wales, was his birthplace and that his early clays were Vent in a poor- house. He came to Americe US cabin.boy at the age of fifteen, and for ten years knucked about earning his living as best he could. Turning at last to journalism he was gent out to Abyssinia by the New York Herald to re- port tbe campaign of the British expedition under Sir Charles Napier. His' successful perforthance of thiestaslodisoloaed liesqlboess for the greater work to which he was soon t b appointed. David Livingstone, a Scotch missionary and explorer, had been engaged for thirty years in opening Central Africa to the light. His sumo had made his name among the most famoas in the record Of the present cen- tury. But in 1870 he bad been for two years Varied in the heart of the African continent, and the world had come to think that he was dead. In that year the enterprise of the editor of the New York. Herald suggested a search expedition. Young Stanley—then -thirty years of age—was placed in command, and after nine months of vigorous and per- ilous research came upon the brave explorer on the shores of Lake Tanganyika. This gave him a world-wide celebrity, and Living, stone's death in 1873 left the Herald reporter pre eminent among living African travelers. Stanley acted as war correspondent during the British mar with the King of Ashantee in 1873-4, and in the latter accepted a com- mission from London and New York journals to complete the unfinished work of Dr. Living- stone. Entering 'Africa on the eastern coast he explored the great lakes about the tsource of the Nile and then embarked on the Lua- laba River, determined to follow it to its un- known mouth. The course of the stream took him across the continent to the Atlantic coaste_proving that the Lualabe, ot Central Africa and the Congo of the West constituted one mighty veater-way. In 1879 the African International Association, which has its head - gas rters in Belgium, sent Mr. Stanley to the Congo to establish trading posts at different points on the river. From his labors in this direction grew the Congo Free State, which was founded in 1881. For several months no news has been re- ceived of this intrepid man. In 1887 he re- entered Africa at the head cf an expedition sent to relieve Emin Bey, a Hempen). officer in Egyptian service, who was beleaguered. by Arabs near Lake Victoria.. The relief party steatned up the Congo and then left the river for a long overland trip to the lakes. Three tit= Stanley's death has been reported, but no faith placed in the rumor, and it is confidently expected that within a few months the wer1c1 will leoon that the little band has accomplished its work and is on the homeward road. . Slept with a Bear, It hardly seems credible that a child should meet witla a bear in the woods, nestle close to its warm robe of fur and sleep all night with bruin and not - be harmed at all. The other afternoon last a two -and. a-half-yearold &tighter of Millard Davis, of Boiceville, in the Catskill mountains, disappeared, and no trace of her could be found, elbhough searching patties Were out all night. ;The next day a man who was fishing for trout discovered the little girl standing in the middle of a brook that rens through a deep ravine between two noun - taints. She lied wandered over two miles away from home. The parents were over- joyed in recovering their little one. Aucl now comes the strange part of the incident, The Retie girl hat neer been known to tell stories, and, in fact, is too young and inno- cent to peactisd deceit.. When her father asked her where she had slept all night the little one arieweredds "In the woods with a big beer, papa." She was elosely questioned het the child adhered to her story that she had slept with a boar in the woods, and gpieroiPdliodirtatyitnceeveitilyve ithheliboLortahtadt tithocatioiotvitle, (ng What it Was Walt up to it, and for sonte reeisou the beteg refrained from hurting the wancleter. There ate other people Who believe the bear °thee out a the mountains to the vicinity of Mr. Davis's house, arid the +staid seeing the shaggy brute, ran after It an fo lowed it to the tame. • Come Back Again. A. EITIIELWYN Child -thoughts, child -thoughts, come back again I Faint, fitful as you used to be; The dusty chambers of my brain Have need of your fair company, As when my child -head reached the height Of the wild rose -bush at the deer, And all of heaven and its delight Bloomed in the flowers the old bush bore. Come back, sweet, long -departed year, When sitting in a hollow oak, I heard the sheep -belle far and dear, I heard a own thee eilent spoke, And felt that both were dear and real, And both Were mingled in my dreams, As leav-e that viewless breezes feel, And skies clear mirrored in the streams. child.beert, Ohila-thOgghtS, mom beet; again I y Bring -back the tall grass at mcheeek The grief more swift than summer rai The joy that know no words to epe k, The dandelion's wealth of gold, ' That Strives to reaoh my hands in vain, The love that never mould grow old-- Child-hearb, ohild-thoughts, come bank again 1 Boycotting a Bruiser,' Montreal Witness : The Philadelphia oewse paper reporters, it is said, refused to inter- wove -the Boston pugilist, whose ruffianiein has been the theme of the so-called aporting journals of two continents. Combines, as a rule, are not conimeiadoble, -elf; however the prase of the country united to supprees' all notice of such!" sporting" vagabonds as this man, he would very soon be valued at his own very love merits. Answered. Parson Green was one of the school com- mittee iii the town of Briarfield, and one of his hobbies related to the study of geogra- phy, He contended that very little time should be vent over foreign countries, but that each pupil should leave a common school with a clear and accurate knowledge of his own State's resources and topography. Not only was he devoted to this theory, but he lost no opportunity of promulgating it. "Visiting school" one day, with a collea- gue who ventured to differ with him on this point, the minister undertook to illuatrate his VIOWS by practical example. Selecting a particularly bright little girl in the geo- graphy class which had been reciting about tAhferieNei,lehersaid to her: "What do you know about the source of The little maid thereupon gave a vivid account of explorations and hardships, at which her teacher smiled approvingly. "Do you know where Liberia is?" She answered promptly and correctly. "Can you tell anything about the ancient' city of Alexandria ?" It proved that she could tell a great deal, and when she had distinguished herself, in the eyes of her classmates, by enlarging upon it, the minister suddenly selvaged his tactics. "What town in your State manufactures most cloth ?" he asked. The child hung her head. She aid not know. "How many mountains are ' there (Wake, see ese three thousand feet high ?" She had apparently never been tom. The minister looked triumphantly at his friend, "Now, you see," he went On, "this child doesn't even know enough about her own State to utilize its advantages when she grows up. Tell pm, my little girl, if you wanted to go from your home to New York, what line of railroad you would take, and what bodies of water you would cross. "1 don't know, air,' sorrowfully said the ohild. "Then you see yourself that you don't know anything about your own State," said he determined to drive the question home. " if you wanted to take such a jou', ney, what should you do ?" thaTnheyachwiledukwearsdorreiovteunrettoothheetwuarall; d, like ab bay. Her eyes were full of tears, and her lip quivered, but she replied bravely, "I should just ask my papa, to take me to tho station, and buy my ticket I" She was questioned no more that day, • In Hot Water. Telegraph Editor (to chief)—" This die - patch about the woman who threw a pailful of hot water over her husband is too long, What heel I better do ?" Chief—"13oi1 it down." liacko an Important,Blement, Bishop (dining with the fatoily)—So you wouldn't like to be a Bishop, Bobby, when you grow up ? I3obby—I'd like to well enough, but as everybody says I take after ma's side of the family, 1 don't &pose 111 ever be fat enough for a Bethel). One of the handsomest and richest and most fashionableyoung men in Austria, Herr Stephait von Kegel, haft just committed aut. etch), He was particularly joyous before the sot, and no reason eau bo iotiu4 for it.