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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1888-8-30, Page 6[Now Euler tentusetEtel (Au Ricans ItEsERvED,1 LIKE AND UNII By M. E. BRA,DDON, Author of "LADY Al7DLEY'S SEORETI" " WYLLARD'S WEIRD," ETC., ETC, CHAPTER XXXII1.--LIKE A Romele. Lady Belfield went hack to the Abbe after having spent nearly a week in *Dna= without having obtained any tidings o Valentine. Holed not appeared at Wilki 34.ensions ; he had not written either to h mother or to his wife. That anxious mother had looked throng the newspapers every morning and evening fearing to read of tome accident to her son but the papers had told her nothing. Sh had, questioned Placebo who assured he hat there was nothing unusual in Mr. Bel field's prolonged absence. He would tel them that he was going away for a Week and he would stop for a fortnight, withou writing to his wife of the change in his plans Someeimes he would send a telegram, bu not always. It was his way. ' His mother knew very few of his friends, and these taw were away from Lendon at this season. She had no means of obtain ing information ea to his whereabouts, yet she WWI intensely anxious to see him, to be the firsb to tell him of Helen's flight She went back to her country home deeply despondent, dreading to re-enter the house upon which so dark a shadow had fallen. She had been away only a week, yet the sense of trouble and apprehension had hung so • heavily upon her, that ib seemed a long time since she had crossed that familiar • threshold. She looked at the landscape with a vague wonder as the train drew near home, astonished to find the foliage un- changed, the light and colouring almost ex. actly the same. . She sat in the library with Adrian after dinner, and asked him, to play to her. He chose the organ rather than the piano to- night, and played the greater part of one of Mozart's masses. Those solemn and path- etic strains had a soothing influence upon them both, and seemei to lift them above the region of their own troubles. He was still playing when Lady .Belfield started up at another sound from without, the sound of carriage wheels in the avenue. "It must be Valentine," she said, as Ad- rian left the organ and went towards the door. "Dont be too sure of that, mother. It may be Colonel Deverill, or somehody from him. He has tat en no notioe of my tele. gram so far. They went to the hall together, and the bell rang. just as Adrian opened the door. The carriage was a fig from the station, and the arrival was Valentine. He kissed his mother, and shook hands with Adrian, as easily as if all things were going well with him. "Here I am at last," .he amid "and very tired." e "Where have you come from, 'Valentine ?' asked his mother, looking at him anxiously in the lamplight. He was smiling at her, evidently ignorant of the trouble that had fallen upon him; yet there was a change in him, his mother thought, a change which she could not define. Every feature seemed to have hardened and sharpened in outline. He had•grown thin- ner, perhaps, and was man with travelling and excitement of some kind. ' "I have come from Paris. rwent over there after. the York summer. I was in a furious temper, and I felt that nothing less than a week's rest on the other side of the water would quiet my nerves." " "Things have gone wrong with you at York then?." said his mother. "Damnable wrong. The horse I had back- ed proved a duffer. Where's my wife?" His mother laid her hand upon his shoul- der caressingly, and answered in evoke bro- ken hytears ; . "Come to my room with me, Valentine. I have something very sad to tell you." "Put it into as few words as you can," he said, "Perhaps I can guess it. She has run away frotn me, I suppose." "Yes, Valentine. She has left you. How came you to guess—" "Oh, only because the kind of thing is fachionable—and she liked to be always in the fashion. Don't look at me like that, mother, for God's sake. Whatever I may have to bear, I can bear it beat by myself. Nobody can lighten my burden for me. Come now, I'll make a compact with you. Don't you ever speak to me about Helen, and Pll never plague you about my troubles. If you—and Adrian—like to have me here, I'll come and go aa I used when I was a bachelor, and let the past three etears be wiped off the slate. Forget that I have ever been anything but what I used to be before Colonel Deverill took Morcomb," "Of course we shall like to have you here, Valentine. This is your natural home, and here you are always wekome." "Thank you, mother. I shall sell the furniture, and get rid of my Kensington rooms as eoon as .f can." Re had taken the matter so coolly, had dismissed the subject so briefly, that his another wondered at the ease with which the bad news had been broken, and whim she went back to the library with her two sons, she felt as if the burden of grief had been considerably lightened. Yet, no doubt it was wisest to try to forget; to forbid the utterance ole fatal name. Let life slip back into the old channel, if possible. Valentine would have his old occupations, his old amuse - manta, horses, dogs, guns,. country race meet- ings, occaelonal holidaya in London with old college ohtires. His life need not be empty or purpoeeless, even after thie great sorrow. She did not contemplate the legal consequences of a wife' s infidelity ; the .peesibilities of a divorce and release for the int ured huaband. Her tender nature took only the woman's view of the cirountstancea, ,end to hert such a, loss and such a Borrow were enough to derken a life time. Her younger son, there,. Lore, had a new claim to her love and clove- t title. She gave him Helen's unfinished letter, When they parted that night, without a g word, and he was equally EMMA 'abott it next day, h He never teeenMred the movie he had oo- a eupied with his wife, but resumed posseasion 1 a hig old quarters over the billiard room ; r the rooms that had, been his from the thud v he left the nursety, oebedroom end dressbag t teem adjoinine, with windows lookkg Mee o the debits yard, windows from which he e could watch hie horde° beitag washed of a I a ornintes or taken out' ft r exercise, and from Iv Which he could give his o 'dere to the green*. These reibms were remote, from the library b wing, had another impede ma belonged to a 0 different period of erchitetthre. t In a week, Veleutine had settled dowh to hid old life, end Wee going o It cid 'hunting fi evety other morning. fie was dull and e talent of an evening, tired ',tiler hie early w snotning with the hounds, atiel he twinned to t have lob a good deal of the ellatitioity of his s youth ; but upon the whole hlis mother felt ve very well content that thini;s 'were nta were° * lli,, With him, it was an unspeaka ble contfott o to her to halm hint under her tOef, to tiee D t him resume the old life. She did not see the ✓ sleepless nights—the awful hours when the " house was wrapped in darkne,se, and the sinner paced his room alone with the memory' e f . e, Between Valentine and his brother there had not been one word about that fatal h night, Adrian had felt that ailence—com. plete silence—was alone possible. To live , together in peace, to be even externally as e other brothers, they MUSP atUdiOnely avoid ✓ every reference to that hidden crime they _ must both appear to forget,albeit both' knew that forgetfutness on eitha r Bide was imps- . table. CHAPTEtt XXXIV.—Wiesse HER who could have made her a Duchess in goOd time --but tem °bootees S. Austell—St Aus- tell, whose property is mortgaged up to the hllt, aw3, who has a wife he catt't get rid of." The case was hard and the Colouel spines eank as he dwelt upon his chughter'e davit fate. He wee not a men to edd to his affliotien by takbag to himself blame in the matter. He felt that Providence had dealt hardly with his daughter, that was all. The Abbey was beautiful in itself and it • surroundings, and life wont as smoothly 1 upon velvet, administered by an admire cook and irreproechable servants in eve department, presided over by a Woman w FATHER THOUGHT. Nearly six weeks had passed before there Was any sign from Colonel Deverill. He had s len Scotland before the telegeam readied Glasgow. He had been yachting in the Mediterranean, and the message had been delivered to him finally, after many vicis- situdes, at Mamie. After that he had lost no time in crossing to Nice, and. reeking his way to England. and Belfield Abbey. • There was not much that he had to say when he arrived, and very little that could , be said to him. Valentine was gloomy and reticent. • "Talk cannot do either you or me any good," he said, when the Colonel grasped his hand and threatened to become effusive. "1 am very sorry for you, and I have no doubt you are sorry forme. That is about all that can be said." "But—but---I should like to know all that there is to be known about this devilish business. Poor deluded girl! Surely you must have seen her danger, you must have had some cause for suspicion." "I had none or I should have looked af. ter her better. trusted her implicitly, and thought she was safe with her elder sister." "Leo is a noble creature," said the Colonel, "but she ie frivolous. She ha tt been spoilt, Mr. Beffield. All beautiful women are spoilt, nowadays. There is an open homage paid to beauty whioh must deteriorate character. I don't think you quite realized what a lovely woman you had married, and how inevitable it was she should have admirers." "1 thought my honour was safe in her keeping, Colonel Deverill. That was my only mistake." "Have you heard of her since she left here?" "Not a word." "1 telegraphed Leo to meet me at Water. loo this morning, and we have had half -an - hour's talk before my train started. She thinks St. Austell is the man." I don't suppose anybody has any doubt about that." "Yon will apply for a divorce, I suppose'!" "I suppose so, eventually." ' He answered with a gloomy . indifference which raised him in his father -m law's esti- mation. He was evidently in no eager haste to shake off that dishonoured tie, to free himself for second nuptials. He was not a pleasant young man, but in this matter he aoted generously. He showed Colonel Deverill Helen's un- finished letter, telling him how the house- maid had found it on the morning of her disappearance. "Wretched girl, it was like her to leave an unfinished letter," said the Colonel, "and hall an explanation. God help her, With such a protector. If I had been more among beaten tracks on the Continent, I might have rnet them—or heard of them; but I was not much upon terra -firma after I left Marseilles." Lady Belfield begged the Colonel to r e - main at the Abbey as long as he liked, and he accepted her hospitality for three days, during which time he tried to discover some further particulars of his daughter's flight, but could hear very little, although he had several conversations with Mrs. alarrible, and more than one chatwith the woman at the Lodge, whose husband was employed in the garden. No one had heard her leave the house—of that Mrs. Marrable was certain. No one at the Lodge had seen her go out of the gate; but there was a gate in the fence about hall a mile from the Lodge, a gate which was sometimes looked and sometitnes not, al -1-she might have .gone out that way. No such thing as a carriage had been seen waiting about upon the road near the park gate either late in the evening or inethe ear- ly morning. This fact did not surprise the Colonel, as he had been shown the telegram purporting to be sent by Mr. Belfield, and no doubt despatcheny some agent of St. Austell's. If Helen had known Viet such a summons was to arrive in order to facilitate her flight, she had lost her head at the crisis, and had anticipated the intended hour of departure. She must have walked all the way to the station in the early morning, before any one 'ma about to notice her. Colonel Darnall was tempted to -make further enquiries at the station, where a young and beautiful woman starting alone by an early train, would most likely have attracted somebody's notice, even if she were not recognized as Mete Belfield of the Abbey ; but he shrank from an investigation which would lay Areal upon his daughter's disgrace. What good would it be to him to learn the details of her flight? The evil was done; she was a disgraced and ruined woman; she had eloped with anotorioue profligate, aocljanaar- ried man into the bargain, a man who would not :be free to make her reparation, were her own bonds broken to-morrw. . A divorce would give worldswide publicity to her dis- grace, and would not help her to rehabili- ate herself. ThR Colonel shrugged his shoulders and ay. all his daughter to perdition. He would tiave helped her if he oould ; he would ave taken her hack to his heart as tenderly a the Vicar Of Wakefield received his clo- uded daughter, could he have found her in emorse and abandonment He had been ery fond of hia,chilcIren, after hits own par- qu kular fashion of fonclnees—as beautiful fo realms flitting about his house and bright. to ning it—but he could not move mountains. his daughter had gone wrong, it was not Wain his power tobringher right again, by Re shed a few fatherly team over her fall ; " ut he was inclined terresent the perversity al f Providence which had turned all things Wi o evil in his yottaiger childet destiny. th "SIM might have been miatrese thidca ne old place"' he told himself, ee he smelt- lab d his after.breakfast Cigar in the cypretta 'If elks " but she Must heeds throw herself at he he head of the yetinger brother; and then ha hen eannot keep her silly little head in the an hiripool of a London season and elopes th ith the very ',NOM Man else mild have fo heten, She Might halm gone off with a nite, by jolt°, if she had liked ---a bike do ble Pro was still handsome and whom he had on adored, whom he might still adore had been in his usual spirits. Bat the Colon was weighed down by gloomy thought, ewen those picturesque gardens had- a fun eal air, and the cypress walk suggested place of tombs. Even the cheerful babb of the river had lost its seething. powe The Colonel flung his half smoked. cigar in thestream with a groan, and stood id watching the movements of a heron on t opposite bank, until it spread its wide gr wings, stretched its long neck, and skhrun away seaward. He was not interested the bird, but watched its MOyernelltS in dull lassitude of mind and body. He made up his mind to start tor Loud next day, but before he went, a morb curiosity prompted him to ask Lady Be field's permission to see hitt daughter's room —the rooms from which she had stolen awe unseen. by anyone, like a thief in t night. " I suppose they have not been mu° altered since she left," he said. "No, there has been nothing change No one has occupied that wing since th sad day. I'll show you her room myself, you like," replied Lady Belfield, feeling f him deeply in his affliction. Mrs. Marrsble brought the key of th outer room, the door of which had been kap looked., and Lady Belfield and the Colon went into the room together. There ha been no changes made, except the use covering of furniture and pinning up o draperies which mark the careful hous keeper. "On one side of the room stood Inv large basket trunks, covered with Mao leather, on which Helen's initials were pain ed in large white letters; a smaller box fo bonnets; a travelling desk, and a travelling beg."Strange that she should not have take some means to get these things sent afte her," said the Colonel, contemplating th luggage. " She has been aimed to ask for them perhaps." " Yes that is it, no doubt. But it wa rather a 'feeble proceeding to pack everythin so carefully, end then to make no effort t get the things away. Poor Helen It is s like her." He took up the travelling bag, which wa large and heavy, made of crocodile leather clamped with instate and provided with al the latest improvements. ,He had reason t know the bag, for it was his own, and only wedding gift to his daughter, and it was no yet paid for; he received dunning letters about it every three months, and he fel that there must eventually be a settlement somehow. And to think that she had left it behind her, not valuing it any more for all the trouble it had cost, and was likely to cost him. He felt more injured at the thought of this ingratitude than if he had paid for the object with solid sovereigns. He opened the bag, and lookecl dreamily a the silver gilt stoppers, the ivory brushes and glove stretchers., and shining cutlery. All her little luxuries of the toilet had been packed in this great silk -lined receptacle. White•rose and eau-de.00logne, Lavender A7nbree, attar of roses. Aolond of perfume cute out of the bag as he opened it. "There may be letters or papers of some kind that may help us to find out a little more about her plans," he said. " Don't," pleaded Lady Belfield, stretch- ing out her hand entreatmgly, as if to stay the violation of a secret. "What good can it do to know any details. She is gone—we cannot hope to get her back yet a while." • "My dear friend, it is my duty to know all I can," replied the Colonel, sterely, and thereupon he proceeded to ransack the bag. He turned out all the treasures, the bottels, and caskets; and thimble cases, and house-wifes, and brooches and bracelets in their morocco boxes, treasures of ivory, crystal, and gold, of agate and silver. Those he flung out ruthlessly upon the empty dressingtable and then with cruel hand he searched the silkeo pockets, until he found what he wanted, a letter, the last hat Lord St. Austell had written to her. It had been written after their long talk by the river. It recapitulated hie imbrue - ions as to her flight, explained the trick of he telegram which was to summon her to London in her husband's name, told her how e should be waiting for her on the up -plat. orre—SOuth-Western -- at Exeter, advised er to take her luggage with her, and then fter being strictly practical, the man of usiness vanished, and the passion xte lover epeated his assurance of an undying love, a evotion which should know no change— rged her for his sake to be bold and firm, o hew nothing, think of no danger, remem• ering that in a few hours she would be safe his arm. "For God's sake, do not falber "he wrote. I think I have proved roped worthy of our trusting love, by a devotion which has urviveti all rebuffs, and has stood firm gaited every discouragement. You have wen me your promise my darling, the eared pledge of responseve love. It would e as diehonorable as it would be cruel to reek that promise and to break my heart b the same time. I cannot live withoue ou." " I may as well keep that letter " said olonel Devote'', when he had read' it and iv= it to Lady Belfield to read after him. There would be no good in showing it to alentine." "No, there would be no good. Pray eep it from him. There is nothing I dread much as a meeting between him and otd St. Austell." "Oh, thOdaysof duelling are past. There nothing to be feared nowadays, except e divorce beat and the newspapera. ublioity is the fiery dragon that hos in nit for the sinner." ' "With a man of my son's temperament, ere is always reation for fear," said Lady Bel- ld, gravely. "Hehas taken'his troublevery a in a a tt is th 1' th fie Idly, too quietly, perhaps. I Should or the ',very worst consequences if he were meet Lord &Austell.' The Colonel shrugged his shoulders. "1 fancy you measure your son a teeling.s an old-fashioned standard," he said. The young men of the present day take 1 taings lightly,. A man gets rid Of one fe and marries another within two or ree seasons. The change is made so oily that one lalf of tiociety kzioWs nothing Mit it, and the other half, takes no notice. your SOri meant tnifiehiefthe wouldn't be re hunting and shooting, iite would be If Way to Ceylon in pursuit of his wile d Iter tieduCer. Ho wonld he hunting em, Lay ;Weld, indeed Of Devoiltillite Colonel Deverill left the Abbey in a very spondelit date of mind. , "1 am a broke% man Lady Beefield," he said. "1 have been ;ottering for good many years; weak in health, weak finale, oially, and in low spirits; but thie last blow has annihilated me. Leonora is a splendid creature ; but she is the eseeeoe of Pelfitb. hese. She lives her own life, ahd (wee about as muoh for her old father as she does for the gatekeeper ih the Park. Helen was alsveys fond of me. Her disgrace will bring my grey hairs with sorrow to the grave. I don't feel as if I could ever hold my head up again among my old pals. I have boasted of that gtrl—I have been so proud of leer. I ahall go and hide myself at Karnali. The cottagers and squireens will point the finger of scorn at me—but that won't count" "Von might almost as well stay in Dev- onshire as bury yourself at Kilrush," eaid Lady Belfield, pitying him in hie desolation, feeling that she would like to comfort, him if it were possible. "Oh, but I have ties in Kilrush—ties of some kind. I have a stake in the country_ The soil is mine and though it pays me no rent it belongs mine, me. There is something in the sense of possession. Otherwise, for choice), 1 should infinitely prefer Chaclford. There is a furnishe& cottage a quarter of a mile from your gates, which would suit me admirably.' "You mean the white cottage with a thatched rbof and a verandah all sound 2" "Yell, this is the place. Has it been long to let V "Only since June. It belongs to two maiden sisters. One of them was ordered to Germany for a rheumatic affection, and she and her sister went off last Midaummer, leaving their cottage in the bands of our local agent, who never had been known to find a 'tenant for anybody. The house is to be let for a twelvemonth, and for very little mpeovneeryi.a. „You had better take it, Colonel "My dear Lady Belfield, there is nothing T should like so much as to be near you, but you must consider that this neighborhood would be full of painful assooktione for me, and Cyst my presence in this neighborhood would be full of painful associations for your sort Valentine. Therefore my best course is to bid you good-bye and take my poor old bones off to Ireland." (in BE CONTINUED.) Virgin Soil. There is some of it left on the continent, though not muoh in the domain of the United States. A committee of the Dominion senate, which has been accumulating evidences as to the material resources of the basin of the Mackenzie river, has just reported that the distriot which lies north of the Saskatche- wan watershed, east of the Rocky Moun- tains, and west of Hudson's Bay, offers great advantages to explorers, traders and settlers. It is said that out of st. total area of 1,260,- 900 square miles coming within the scope of the committee's inquiry, but about 400,000 square miles are useless for the pasturage of domestic animals or for cultivatien. There are 656,000 square miles fittted for the growth of potatoes, 407,000 suitable for barley, and 316,000 for wheat. There is a pastoral area of 860,000 square miles, 26,000 miles of which are open prairie, with oc- casional groves the remainder being more or less wooded; 274,000 Square miles, in• eluding the prairie, may be considered as arable land. • This region is not going to remain long inaccessible. It must soon be tapped by railway. Besides there are some 4,000 miles of navigable eoe,st line in lakes. Then there is a river navigation of 2,750 miles, half of which is suited for light -draught sea- going steamers, and the remainder for stern wheel steamers. It is plain to the com- mittee that the region la rich enough in fresh lake fish to supply the North Ameri. can continent. Salmon have been found in four of the rivers emptying into Hudson's bay, west shore, and in all those- emptying into the Arctic sea except the Mackenzie, which however, posseeses the salmo Mack- enzie, a different but valuable sea -fish, lo- cally called l'nconnu. The recourses in timber are vast. Many of the trees are of the giant kind, found on our Pacific coast. 'In minerals the com- mittee claims equal riches while as a matter of fact this region is to -day the great fur preserve of the world. If our Canadian friends can convince man- kind that the climate is hospitable there is no reason why this still unoccupied region may not yet teem with a great and indus- trious population. --(American Paper. Victimized Emigtants. It was a spectacle without precedent in the history of immigration to America that was witnessed. in our harbour on Wed- nesday, when a ship load of Italians, 300 in number, who had come here this summer, went back to their native land disheartened and disappointed. Their experience among us had been totally different from the anti- cipations in which they indulged when they left Date They had been told that they could proonre plenty of work at six franca per day, which is about three times as much S8 they could earn in Italy, and that they could get here an abundance of food they had never enjoyed in their lives; but these happy dreams were quickly dispelled by the stern realities of life in the New World. Few of the passengers who made up the re- turning ship load had ever been outside of New York during their brief stay here, and all of America that ever beeame known to most of them was Mulberry street; but their experiences were sufficient for them, and even the hardships which they had al- ways auffered in Italy seemed less than those to • which they were here subjected. They had been the victims of fake promises made to them by unprinoipled speculators in labour who abandoned them in a foreign country, after robbing them of their little all. Humming Birds as Pete. A young Itedy Of New York amuses her- self with humming birds as pets. They build their nests m the laoe curtains and have raised little familia in the parlor. There are plants for them to fly about in, and every day the florist sends a basket of flowers for them to extract the honey from. They are like little rairibews flying about the room, and they light on the head of their dainty mistress with perfect freedom. She has an especial affinity for the feathered race, mid pigeone, canaries and bullfinches are included among her household favorites. True Reason, "1 see," toed Mr. Barking, "that thet arti a million mere wdinen then men in Ger many." "Yes" Maid Mr. &natty ; "they de that to evade the military tequiretheitt of the German government" . 'White like and Ottelder rodeo, With loy and thaldon,hati tern, are the feethionable ettifloiel dowers of the telemeter season. Finding the limey. One of the judioial onetoms in RUSefot in the first part ef our century, was according to Alexander Vereatchagues " At Home and in war, 'a system of corporal punishment legally administered. For example ; If a landed proprietor found it necessary to punieh his servents or peaSonts, he sent the culprit with a note to the district jiidge, and the matter was attended to forthwith. A serf having arrived from a &Memo° to pay the yearly sutn of money due from him and hie fellows, deolaree that they can pey only a small prbportion of it. The judge speedily appears. Who are you? The Olkhoff overseer ?' he asks, threateningly, when left alone with theserf "Exactly so, my benefactor," replies the latter, dolefully, and bows to the judge'i beit'' "You will be pleased to pay the money at once, or you will be thrashed on the spot." - "Dear sir, have mercy 2," howls the peas- ant, and falls at his feet. " As syou please, dear sir, but there is no more money.' "Hey there, policeman !" shouts the judge, opening a door. The policeman makes his appearance. "Where's the porter? Drag him upstairs !" and he points to the overseer, who is still wallowing about at his feet, "Dear sir, hate mercy 1 A little OM be found."hat ? Now you sing another song I" The overseer draws from his breast a rag knotted into a parcel, unties it, and hands forth one banksbill. "Well this is little indeed! Why are you trying to impose on me? Take hint off up- etairs I" "My own father, my henefaotor, dear sir, if you were to kill me, I haven't a kopeck more !" • The porter appears, to assist the pope. man. ' 'Haul him upstairs, children, and r11 be there directly I" 'shouts the judge. They • drag the overseer out, and lead him upstairs while he cries'Dear sirs, benefactors, 11 you were to hill me, I haven't another kopeck 1" After a few blows from the switches, he be- gins to shout. Stay, Orthodox believers, there is a trifle more I" "Well, stop, my brave fellows. Shew us what more you have," orders the jadeite The overseer takes off one of his shoes, and extracts from it another trifle. "What, that's nonsense! Throw him down again, children." This process is repeated five or six times. The same mode of extracting the rent every- where prevailed. All day long overseers were brought to the judge, and shrieks re- sounded. "Stop, my own fathers, stop I There is still a trifle more I" Thunder Proverbs. If the birds be silent expect thunder. If the cattle run' around and collect to- gether in the meadows expect thunder. • If the clouds grow rapidly larger expect muoh rain, and also thunder. Two currents in Summer indicate thun- der. If there be any falling stars during a clear evening in Summer expect thunder. Increaaing atmospheric electricity oxidizes a nmonia in the air and forms nitric acid, which affects milk, thus amounting for the souring of railk.by thunder. Thunder in the evening indicates much rain. When it thunders in the morning it will rain before night. Thunder in the north indicates cold, dry weather. Thunder from the south or southeast in- dicates font weather; from the north or northwest, fair weather. With a north wind it seldom thundera. Much thunder in July injures wheat and barley. Thunder in the Fall indicates a mild open Winter. • Distant thunder speaks of coming rain. •11111. Got the Big Head. "Good mornin' to ye, Mrs. O'Raherty. An' 'ave ye got any more news from Mary Ann an' the, Ethel count at Chitauky 2" - "Not a wurrud, Mrs. O'Flaherty, since the last coime I heard from her." " Is the Frinoh count, as ye do call him, wid her yit, I do wonder 2" 4' Indade an' I don't know for sure, an' I don't oars, for I don't feel very well this mornin' ; I have a head as big as a bushel, an' I know Mary Annie good looks an' boost and qaanely walk will carry her through twhenver she may be ; an' 'pon me soul, I belave it's to the liquor shtore I must be going' an' bring: home at laist a quart of the critter, as this is wash day an the colonel himser isn't well at all at all' neither." Brnerson's Theory, Emerson's theory is that of the "sovereign- ty of the individual." To discover what a i • young man s good for, and to equip him for the path he is to strike out in life, regard- less of any other consideration, is the great duty to which he calls attention. Emerson's essays are written with reference to this aim. He makes men self-reliant. He reveals to the eyes of the idealist the magnificent results of practical activity, and unfolds be- fore the realist the grandeur of the ideal world of thought. No man is tn allow him- self, through prejudice, to make a mistake in choosing the task to whichhe will. devote his life. Emerson's essays are, as it were, printed sermons, all having thits same text. Profitless itemembralioe, Bishop (on his eemi.annual. round)—So You don't remenabet me, Bobby? Bobby—N-no, sir. Bishop—I remember you very well in- deed, Bobby—That sit? Well, why didn't you bring me something? Old Friends, Magistrate (to prisoner)—Is this the fin:it time you have been before name, ole .Ras. tus 2 Uncle Rastus--itert, sah ; but yo' poo' ole father, who was jege fo' fo'ty years I was offen up bete'. HO and inc was ole &tea, ye' honah ; 'deed we was. Have you Neuralgia! If you are suffering the agonies of heural- gia, and have failed to get a remedy that will afford relief, We Want you to try Poison's NOrviline. No remedy in the market hae given any thing like the sante degree of sat- isfaction, Its Action on nerve pale is simply mareelitese, and art it id vitt !up in 10 cent sample bottles no great expense le involved in giving it a trial. Peleone Norville° itt the merit plearient, powerful, and certain pain remedy in the world. Seld by all dealere in medicine, 16 and 25 ciente a bottle. Novet imaghie a bad motive if a gooci one it eteloeivable. • The Bighti:of Women. believe in wonteu. I believe they are the sweetest, purest, meat inntelfieh, best part of the human rase. 1 have no cleubt on this subject, whatever. They do sin the melody in all human life, as well as the melody in MUSIC, They earey the leading part, at lewd in the sense that they aro a step in advance of us, ell the way 'teethe journey heavenward. believe that they cannot move very widely out of the sphere which they now 000upy and remain as good as they now are ;.and I deny that my belief rests upon any sentimentality; or • jealousy, or any other weak or unworthy baste. A man who has experienced a ,mother's dev,otion, a wife's self.sacrifioing love and a daughter's affection, and ie grate- ful for all, may be 'weakly sentifuental about Bete° things, but not about Women. ,He would help every woman. he 'eves to the exercise of all the rights which hold dignity and happiness for her. He would fight that she might have those rights, if necessary ; but he would rather have her lose her voice entirely than to hear her sound a base note as long as a demesemiquiver.— [J. G. Hol- land, Nasal Catarrh is a dengereus disease, From its tendency to extend to the throat, bronchial tubes, and finally to involve the lungs in oonsuinp- tive disease, it should be promptly oured, that these grave dangers may be averted. So confident are the manufactures of Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy of their ability to oope successfully with this very prevalent disease, that they have for years offered, in good faith, $500 reward for a case of catarrh, no matter how bad or of how many years' standing, which they cannot cure. Remedy only 50 oents, by druggists. If quilts are folded or rolled tightly after weshing, then beaten with a rolling pin or potato masher, it lightens up the cotton and makee them seem soft and new. • "The tetter•board of life goes up The tette-board of life goes down." Up and down up and down—one day a millionaire, next day gloomy as a fog—one day in seeming perfeot health, next day "laid out'3 with a bilious attack or your stomach " on a strike." This is,- the way the world wags nowadays. If you are bilious, melancholic, dizzy headed, dyspeptic want appetite or have torpid action of liver, kidneystor bowek, take Dr. Piereele Pleasant Pelleta—purely vegetable, perfectly harm - leas; one a dose. White feathers, either alone or combined with ribbon," are by far the most elegant trimmings for Leghorn hats. Tell the good news to the suffering— At la4 in a remedy found, • Which might have saved, had they known it, Many who're under th s ground. Tell of the "Favorite rresoription,"----e Bid hopeless women be g'ad— Bear the good news to poor (ventures, $ Heart•siok, discouraged and sad. "Female diseases " so terrible in their effects, and, so prevalent among all classes, oan be cured by the use of Die Pierce's Favorite Prescription. ' The English Government has paid £20,000 for the loss of life and property occaeired by the Sultan running down a French hip in Spanish waters. Ahna Ladies' College, ST. THOMAS, ONTARIO. This institution, which had last year the largest enrolment of all the °media' xi Col- leges for women, is offeringtsuperior advanteee -- ages to young women in Literary Course, Fine Arts, Commercial Science and Music at the very lowest rates. Address Principal Austin, B. D. The Directoire styles have extended even to morning dresses, which even for summer are ooraposecl of rich, heavy rnatedals. thecteress Hera Emma restores grey and faded hair to its natural color and prevents falling out. Belts to wear with dressy blouses are of silk belt ribbon'with buckles! of Rhine- stones and other brilliants. •A. Cure for Drunkenness. The opium habit, depsomania, the morphine habit nervous prostration caused by the use of tobacco, wakefulness, mental depression, softening of the brain, etc., premature old age, load of vitality mused by over•exertion of the brain, and loss of natural strength, • from any cause whatever. Men—young, or middle aged—who are brolon down from any of the above causes, or any oause noementianed above send your address and 10 cents in stamps fcir Lubon's Treatise, in book form of Diseased of Man, Books sent sealed and secure'from observation, Addreee i. V. Limos. 47 Wellington street East Toronto, Ont. Bows of light green ribbon are sometimes combined with white artificial flowers in lieu of foliage. ITCHING PILES. Smirgors—Moisture : intense itohing and stinging ; most at night ; worse by scratching If allowed to continue tumors form, which often bleed and ulcer. ate, becoming very sore. SWAM% ourresse stops the itching and bleeding, heals ulceration, and in many cases removat the tumours. It is equally al - melons in curing all skin diseases. DR. SWAYNE EON, Proprietors, Philadelphia, SWAYNH'S OINTDONT eon be obtained of druggftts. Sent by mail for 50 cents. . The president of the Dover N H horse railroad is Mrs. E. A. G. Dow, a woman of great business and financial abibity. People who are subject to bad breath, fon! teak! gOngue, or any disorder of the stonsaoh, oan at ono be relieved by using Dr. Carson's Stomach Bitters 10 old and tried remedy. &Elk your Druggist. Black and yellow, black and pink and beige and red are favorite color combina- tions in millinery. Hos 1 GOUGH CUREcures in one minute. Polonaises may be draped alike on both sides, or long on one side and short on the other. Whenever your Stomaoh or Bowels set out of or der, claiming Biliousness. Dyspepsia, or indigeatten and their attendant evils, take at once a dose of Dr. Oarson'e Stomach Bitters. Best family medicine. All Brandeis, 60 cents. A plain loop of Silver cable cotd makes an odd brooch. A. P. 412. _ CANOES. WM. ATITglatak4ue. _ , eterborot t PATENTS procured, PatentAttomere and expd . ale(' 1807. Dollaid C Ridout dt Co., Toren 0. , KNI1TINearinan B"s.' MACHINES getown, Ont. AGENTS WANTED—" EAGLE " Stearn Washer. Addrees GEO. 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