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The Exeter Times, 1888-9-13, Page 6LIKE AND UNLIKE, By M. EL BRADD ON, OI 14DT ANDLEX'S SECRET," "WI's WEIRD," Ewe Era. Weitren CHAPTER XXXWIL-0orentee De yenum Id= Hewes. Colonel Deverill loitered, in London for a week or so &fen he left the Abbey, He put up et sportiug ebib ta Piccadilly, where there were menus for birds.) of passage, and he spent hie life in a variety of smoking , rooms and billiard rooms, card rooms and reading rooms, Ile was a member of sew= West-enel dubs, and heda choice of placea in whit% to awoke and saunter: but the clubs wore nearly empty et this Wine of the mum, and, the few men whom he knew were vomum stud going—lull of their =tenoned eugagements, unsettled and somewise dim traded; not a military wenderer like the Colenet, who hed made no plans for autumn or winter, and who was begineing to feel old and desolate. • The mea he knew were civil, and some of them hada sympathetic air, which compered= for .hiai in his affliction as a father, but be felta sting evert in aympethy, and dreaseedlest some offielous friend. should offer to condole with him. He wondered whether his daughter's flight had become town -talk. There heel been no stir made -- no row, no open scandal, and it was possible) that her disgrace was only guessed at by the few who vshereteehind the scenes of society, There was oete man, however, Sr 'Rends.' Grisvsold, of the County Clare Rangers, with whom Colonel. Deverill -was on terms of al- most brotherly confidence, and from him he withheld nothing. "Have you heard anything sheet that scoundrel, St. Austell," he asked. "Do people know that he has gone off with my 'daughter ?" "Upon my word, Deverill, I don't think anybody knows as ranch as that, but I be- lieve there's a general idea that Mrs Bel - Weld has gone wrong somehow. Onenevercan tall howthese things get known. Theyneern 'to be in the air. St. A.uetell vs= alwaya about with here you see. There was 40 mistaking the nature of his attentions. The fellow is all the more daugerotts because there is a vein of sincerity hi him; he is desperately in eerneat for the time being. People saw that he was over head. and ears In love with your daughter—and when he aola his altare in the rating stable and an- nounced his intention of going to Ceylou, everyone knew what it meant. He was gape off with Mrs. Defied." "De you know—if anyone has seen them together?" faltered the Colonel. "Re WU seen in Paris—with a lady ; he wee heard of at Genoa—with a lady ; and he was heard. of 'gain at Venice—with a lady -- only a week ago." "1 have a good mind to go after them and try to bring her back with me," seld:Colonel Dawdle . DCYL't attempt it, my dear fellow. A father's influence ancl a father's authority go for nothing against an infatuation of that hour he began to care for her. You don t kind. A little later, perhaps, when they know whet he is when he pretends to be in another win* ter on the Riviera," he wrote. are both tired of each other you may do love with a woman I God knows what he is • ' I spent two winters =Nice with my two eomething--but noe 110W. 'Besides, they when he is really in love. and I. suppose he girls, when life was brighter with me them WW1 real y ove • ered for a life of exeitement, found the eteenelaunch dull, and insisted epon yacht. Mra. Baddeley had made this worthy couple's aoquaintanoe at Marlow, where thew villa was used ae. water-side'hotel by a etanewbat rowdy °Mole, and where the luncheoe table was openly talked of as the table d'hote. Leo and her chosen friends ueed the table delete freely, made um:itemised fun of the Smitherses, and found fault with their ooh:'but mobbing bad been forgiven in a lady who had two or three tanee eobletnen in her train, first among all, Lord St. Austell, whose repute. tiou as * man of fashion seemed all the better bemuse of OS gaTOar of inkaitY. No virtuou.s nobleman had ever echieved mon World-wide renown es the erring St. Ans- talt. Colonel Deverill went over to °stew, to confer with his elder elaa,ghter, and was re- ceived on board the Clotho with almost op- pressive cordiality. " You will stay, ef course, Colonel," said Digby Smitleers, who was a ahort stout mare pink of complexion, and sandy of hair, "you than have one a our best cebins—the one we saved for St. Auatell. He promtsed us a, week in September, but those tireseome doctors have sent him off to the' east." The enlonel spent a couple of nights on beard, in the cabin that was to have been St. Austell's. He only stayed those two nights in order to have a quiet talk with his daughter. Mrs. Baddeley was looking RI, and was obviously out of spirits, though she pat on. an air of forced gaiety now and . then out of ooroplimeitt to her hostess, Even Tory's blandishments seemed to have lost thew charm, and she allowed that sagacious animal's somewhat fickle fancy to be won by Mrs. Digby Smithers, who had conceived an ardent affection for hien and who min- istered to his appetite with a reckless dis- regard of coneequences. "You look dread- fully cut up, Leo," said tier father, when they were sitting together under an awning, at a comfortable distance from Mrs. Digby Smithers and a brace of frisky matrons, all absorbed by the fascinations of Tore, and all diversifying the inanity of thew conversation by still more inane gigglings. "1 am dreadfully out up," she ansveered curtly. "Well, I don't wonder at it The girt was in your charge, and von must heve felt responsible for her, in some meanie% I suppose there's no doubt she went off with St. Austell—and not with any other man. "Doubt? If you had seen them together, you would not ask such a question ?" "But if you saw how things were tending why didn't you atop her—you are ever so much older—and a woman of experience." "Stop her ! Could you stop the Ganges? She went headlong to destruction from the "Lady St. Auetell has left her villa at Positive, for the Isiated of Capee where she will he the guest of the Marquis et Lugar= ei Melilla, whose eicturesque cheteeti end otange grove e ere known, to Italian tourist& We ewe of cholere has been heard of on the uslettal," "$o ehe has out and run After all," said the Colonel. " Whet nervous Mole some womee are—aud yet they are of the same ()ley at Illorcuoa Nightbage.10 and her slater - hood." After this, the Colonel glanced at the cholera wive with a oerelese eye. Tee one women weose death might have gemmed, a Especiel favor of providence, was out °treacle o danger—se on her seaegirt isle. Colonel Daman unfolded his Gatignant one wintry morniug in Paris, isome weeks after he had forgotten all about Naples and the cholera, and this time he was startled inuoh more eeriously then by the Neapolitau news of September. " We regret to announce the death of Issdy S t. Austell, who expired at Lee Grangers, Capri, after a long Ulnae% Her leder:elm watt among the English residents who lied from Naplee, at the first outbreak of the cholera; and, front the time of her flight, she had been sufeering from =terve= fever wheel ended Wally Saturday morning. Lady St. Austell was the third daughter of the Feel eif Swatlaling. " Gone," cried Colosael. "Then there will bo & chance for my girl efter To rehabilitate his daughter, to raise her frontdisgraceand seclution to a'better pleat in ,the world thau that which she had ocoapied before her fall, was the most fervent desire of Colonel Deverilln mipd. He hardly stopped to ask himself whether society would accept such a marriage as a rehabilitation; whether the world would ever consent to condone the past, whether the divorced Mrs. Belfield would be for- gotten in the second Lady St, Austell, The one point in his mind was that re- paration could now be made to his daughter, and that it was his business to bring her aeducer to book. The firat thing to be managed, however, would be the divorce;. and that must needs be a work of time and of unpleasant - nem. It must be brought about with the least possible publicity, and it would, be the Coolners duty to use all the influence he could command, in order to shorten those hideous reports which form the delight of the newspaper reader, and the chief terror of those W13088 names figure therein. Colonel Deverill had been daily expecting to hear that his son-in-law had eaia your divorce, melting. the matter, =sit were, a forogoint conelusion, aud in Valentine% esponal interest. ee em not going to petition t" answered Velentipe, The Colonel tried sui impossible cannon off tee red in sheer confueion ot mind. 44 Not going to petition' 1" he fettered. "No. Why sheuld I? I don't want to matey again—C eever !should marry again— whatever might °eon , I heve made one mistake, end had ;ether abide by it. e " My dear Valentine, that is one way of looking et the matter, but foreiye me if I sey Res not the right way." Where's the wrong V' sammesemeemeen, •• its yourself firet—to my evretethed daughter in the eeoond place. You don't want to merry again, _you say—of course you don't—not now. Your woued is too rew yet; evevt. touch is agony, 'Welt till your wound is healed, my dear boy—and fancy yourself then thrown into the society of a pretty and sympethetic woman—who pities you, and is quite ready to give you a happier experience of married life. Get your divorce—and you may let the coming years do what they like for you—find you a wife or not, es heaven may order, But keep yourself bound to a woman who has been fsaae to you, and you shut yourself out from all hope of future coasolation." " am not tbe kind of man to be !toweled —in that way," anewered Velentine, dog- gedly, goine on playing, and making a shot betvveen met =roma. ' "1 eveuld rather bear nty burden in my own 'manner, if you please, Colonel Deverill. I don't complain of anybody, and dont ask enybody for consolation—that's game, 1 think—or for advice." "o be it Then we'll leave you out of the question," said the Colonel, putting Me one in ehe rack, with an air of imperturb- able good temper. "Bat now we have to think of my elaughter, I have her interests very nunth at heart, Mr. %Meld, although I grant you she has behaved d000ed badly; and her interests demand divorce without loos of time," LATE CABLE NEWS. Bearinq the Wheat Yarlset—Additiona to the German Navy, S6o. As the stook nuaket 1,onclon was dull laet week the wheat operators induleed in an attempt to SCAr the pu,blic and rainy weather aided their plaits. Reports were scattered world-wiie thatithe crops in Bag - land were ruined andithet they would have to buy up ell the vilmat in America, In elite of the poise prices remained firm. The "Economist' shows thee it is yet far too early to form a definite ommon aps to the who= crop, The harvest prospects in Bri- tain and France are nothing like so bad as tile,- were in 1879, when they were a rer . markable failure. There es great interest in the quickness with which the German navy is being mid. ed to. One firm, for instance, has an order for sixteen torpedo boat% "What. 'You really want to see your daughter in the divorce court, to have her name bandied about in every newspaper in the kingdom I" "I want to see her righted by the man who has led her wrong," answered the Col- onel. "1 want tasee her Lord St, Anstell'a wife before these grey liairs so down in sor- row to the grave." "lord St. Austell's wife 1"" cried, Valen- tine, with a hysterical laugh. "Oh, I see your game, Colonel. Lady St. us i petitioned for a divorce ; but he had as yet ed a, week or two ago, and St. Austell is free received no notice to that effect. The to marry again—and you would like him to young man Was evidently in no haste to marry your daughter. You are a far-seeing free himself ; but now he would have to be gently stimulated to the effort. nyiet a mau, upon my send." man of St. Austell's temperament, there He buret out laughing—laughed long and was no time to be lost. He must not be loud this time, but it was the laugh of ley. allowed to tire ot his last victim before he sterie and. not of mirth. His facetted whit - wee free to espouse her. ened graduelly dile° the) beginning of this hi whim oonverettion, and he now looked ghastly as He felt that the matter was one he stood leaning against the billiard to,* he could not afford to be precipitate. He in the glare of the lamps. Presently the must approach the question delicately, in the laugh changed to a choking cough, and he character of a distnterested 'friend, and nut his hendkerchief suddenly to his lips. broken hearted. father. With this view, he hen be sook it away a minute afterwards wrote to Lady Belfield, asking her to hire Colonel noticed crimson steins upon the the furnished cottage) on the bank of the the Chad for him, if it were still in the market. white cambric. * "1 am tired of Peas, end 1 doli't care for "Do you spit blood ?" he asked. " Occasionally. It is nothing of any con- sequence." There is some arausihnent at the discovery that the economical German adminiatration has just begun to cut the French marks off the border monuments between Switzerland and the annexed provinces. Apparently economy prompted the delay ot this worle until ell ola'ance of its being wasted labor should be past, In Munich they basee had a narrow escape from a frightful catastrophe at the Residence Theatre, but fortunately the fire was noticed in time to put it out. 1Jenden SoPiety Trade. Ladies of the highest birth and breedings says Clement Scott in Lone= letter to America, women admitted everywhere in impiety, are not above treding in millinery mei female knick-knacasis, nee beeause they ere in anyneeesaity, buts for the mere seete tit doing something fest ancl eonte ue bonnet shops, °there Mart millinemt establishments, old curiosity stores have attraotions for others, and, under fancy ewes such es Mme. Isabel or Mme, Medeleine or Mme. they buy apd sell and tout end,barter withoet the alight- oompunctioe or lese of 8°014 wet% In some cases it is even wore° then that. The lady of fashion opene a bounet or millinery establishment on the first floor ; her hus- band eoeupieis the ground flat as a betting placeewith telephones and telegraph wires laid on to the, first riming 'Webs ; BO the . . woinen =nee to feast on the millifeey and to .get MN debt, and the men, 'spend the afternooe smokingnigers, drinking brandies and Bodes and gambling to their heart's content. Ladies of title and fashion, vsho, have 'good /DOOMS of their own, whose daughters are well married to men of wealth and, position, who have no pressing necessity to take up trade, except to provide themselvee with luxuries, take to boying and selling -merely to paws away the time. They avoid the shop difficulty by netting up their stores awl exhibiting their geode in tee little back drawing -room, to which they invites as customers all their friends and relatives, who look in for afternoon tea. They employ their male friends as agents, in. the bonnet buainess, giving them an underatood oommiezion, a,nd they do not hesitate to tout for customers at all the dinner parties, end deuces and "at homes" to which they may be invited. Only the other day I was lunohing with a very old friend. of mine, and the servant interrupted' us while chatting afterwaed, and announced the arrival of & pile of milliners' boxes con- taining wimples of goods of every deeorip- tion. My friend had met the fashionable milliner out themven,ing before at a party, and Weakly prombied her custom, and, be- hold on tlae next dew she was asked to redeem her pledge and to give a helping hand to the tradeswoman. This is no end to the touting andbegging and cadging that goes on. Women who do not mind. boring their friends for orders for bonnets and mantles, and. who,. having a certain knack of their own, or a half-starved milliner up in ime of the back attics theme two or three guineas for a boneetedape stuck over tvith. artificial ilowers ani. ribbon that cost them a few ektillings or make 60 or 70 per cent. profit out of a child's hat, are quickly followed by men who,. over the social dinner talk, try to push cigars or wine, either on their own account or on commission for friends in the oity, in fact "shop" is the order of the day and it is difficult te.paaa et quiet, social hour without being victimized. Diplomacy, according to the German defi- nition, consists in stirrtng up France when- ever a good cover is needed to conceal im- portant negotiations elsewhere. aence, many Weermaes are watching curiously for the cause of all the rctetal conferences and journeys which have been apparently overshadowed by Crispin convemeht French note and,visit to Bismarok. Further reports from Khartoum are to the effect that the Mahal had emit three ex- peditions against the white man in the Bahr- el-Gazel province and that all had been re- pulsed. would be Ott board a P. and 0. before yen, . • IC I " could get to Venice—or they would be hid- ing somewhere in the Apennines or the Au% trian Tyrol." The Galonel felt the wisdom of this advice. He was not the kind of man to wander all over Earope search of an erring daughter, though he we's assuredly the kind of man ta shoot his daughter's seducer, could they two be brought face to face without too much trouble on the colonel's part. Laissez fain had been the guiding peinciple of his exist- tence. le had left hint in very low water in this later stage of life ,• 'but he did not mur- mur against fate. This last blow hit him harder than any loss oi fortune. He went to Wilkie Mansions, in elearch of sympathy -with any WODIaleg affecttone and not fear from his elder daughter s but Mrs, Baddeley to be called to account, don't you see. And was at Ostend, veith some friends who had a a Mall utterly without principle, the big yacht; certain Mr. mid Mrs. Digby to position has its advantages." Smithers, stock exchange people, newly rich, and very glad to cultivate the friend- "1 wish he had been free to make an ship of a lady who went everywhere—or honest woman of your mister," said the nearly everywhere—and who knew nearly Colonel glotettily. everybody. That there were some people "You. mean free to make her Lady whom Mrs. Baddeley had never mew ed St. Austell," sneered Leo. "If she had in knowing, gave her Just that touch of poor run away with a Jones or a Smith, humanity which brought her in sympathy you would not care half so much about it. with Mrs. Digby Smithers, who found it I know your Irish pride." hard work to force her way in society, even "Can I help having a long line of awes - by foe aid of Gunter and, Dan Godfrey. tore. A feeling of that kind is in & man's Under these circumstances, Mrs. Digby Smithere houses in Eton -place and at Mar- low, and Mr. Digby Smithers' yacht, the Clotho, were very much at Mrs. Bacideley's service, and. still more at the service of Mrs. Baddeiey's fashionable 'hangers on. The Colonel listened, with a thoughtful brow. "Its a bad business," he said, "and I don't see any remedy for it, If he were only free —but I suppose there's no hope that his wife will take it into her head to divorce She can't do it, if she would. Her own position won't bear scrutiny. He might have divorced her five years ago if he lead chosen: bat he didn't choose. There were money interests at stake, and think he preferred his own position as a married man without the incumbrance of a wife, to the idea of absolute freedom. He might trifle "Ask as many nice fellows as you like," said Sniithers. "There are tight good cabins in the Clotho, and she's pretty well found, se I think you know." "The Clotho is fairy land," cried Leo, "The Clotho ought to be called For- tenatus, or the Wishing Cap. One has only to ask and to have. When I had one of my bad headaches the other day, and Mrs. Dig- by Sraithers wrung from me that there was only one brand of champagne that ever did my headaches the least good, there was a bottle of that very brand open beside my berth in two inimites. The Clotho is a yaoht of miracles. If it were only big enough to carry a roe's egg, I should not ecruple to ask for one. I know it wouldem there. Per- haps you hese some patent compreesible roc's egg in the hold, all this thee." Digby Smithers laughed. He liked Mrs. Baddeley to chaff him about his yacht, though he did not alwaya follow her mean- ing. Ile was not a man of profound read- ing. Ito had, in feet, never read anything except the newspapers, and there his studies were confined to such information as effect- ed his men interests. For thirty years of Itis life—from seveuteen to forty -even, he had given himeell up to the business of mon- ey making—and tsow at forty -Bevan he bad at last brought hitaself to believe that he bad made enough money, and could af- ford to spend some. Hitherto tie wife and he bad been coraent to Iwo their jogtrot lives in Bloomsbury, at an expenditure of eiteen hundred a yea ei takiag their ohief pleasure fttati. the iniewledge that they -----0 Meanin "That is a question for your doctor to de - itis now. Those scenes would only awaken cide. I don% like to hear a powerfully - painful association% Your Devonshire elim- built young,rnan hysterical, or to see him ate is mild enough for a tough old soldier spit blood.' like me—HO if you eau get the cottagefor me There was a silence for some minutes, on reasoeable terms, I will engage it for six while each man took out his cue and light - months, and telegraph to my old butler and ed a cigarette, his wife to take possession. ' "Has mydaughter sent for her luggage Lady Belfield replied by telegram. "Cot- yet ?" "N° " tae taken.Feel sure you wuhl approve s‘ St;ange." terms." Mrs. Gladstone. Being quite domestic in her testae Mrs. Gladstone is highly delighted to find this talent among her friends. In. the selection of these this lady is never influenced by the accident of birth, wealth, or social position. Her two requirements are moral worth and brains. Thus the proudest home in England is always. open to professional people. In. 1862, during the cotton famine, Mrs. Glad- stone worked night and day to alleviate the misery. She established an orphans' home at Clapham in 1866. This afterwards be- came a hot= for incurables. Mrs. Gladstone's social, educational, and charitable projects have always been vearmly !seconded by her husband, who is more proud of his wife than of anything else in mild, not excepting his own honourable and brilliant career. The following shoes tvill illuatrate this lovely woinan's great heart: "Oh, if I could only do something !foe you," a singer wlaona Mrs. Gladstone bad been able to render a great service onoe, ex- claimed-: "That is easy, my dear," the lady re- sponded. "Easy for me to be of service to you?" the lady exclaimed, the grateful tears flowing down her cheeks, "Yee,by doing something for somebody else. Akind word, a bit of practical advice, a helping hand, even. if there isn't much in it," Mrs. Gladstone replied with a smile "will always be doing something •for me. And more than that, my child, it will be do, ing something for yourself and something for God." imeniessiemwes The Name "Blanket." • " he Coery strange. Will you come to the Admit:able woman " replied tlonel ; If my drawing.roont and have a chat with my " OA businesselike as ale is charming. poor girl had merried the right brother in- mother?" stead of the wrong one, how happy we might "1 think not. Iee getting late, so I won't disturb her. I'm going to walk home." have been." They vvent into the hall together and Val. He made all his arrangetnents, and was entine helped the Colonel on with" his over - established 'in Myrtle Cottage within ten ear of that announcement la Gaiigneet. coat ViThen they shook hands, Colonel Deverill noticed that the youug man's hand The slovenly old Irish butler and the un- tidy Irish cook -housekeeper had the art of was oold and clammy. "There is something wrong with my son - able. A red -elbowed drudge, hired. in the making their master thoroughly comfort in-law," he said to himself as he walked p neighborhood, and a boy to clean boots, run =roes the ark, on hie way ton small oot- *Pi "8.00 it's deuced awkward that he errands, and. work in the garden, complet. should put up his baok against a divorce. ed the household, and the Colonel was more I believe it is sheer malevolence towards my carefully ministered to than some noblemen with thirty or forby servants. unhappy deughter. There are some men who desist know how to be generous." The cottage'was picturesque without be- Although. the Colonel was very fond of a ing damp, an adtnirable motility 'ha cottages. good run with the hounds, he did not take It stood. well above the river, with about an acre of garden sprawling in an =eget ar blood. Do you know where Lady Si. Aus- figure on the bill-side—good old garden tell is mei what she is doing 2" ground, teeming with old-fashioned peren- " She is at Nantes, I believe—she has a nig% and rich in olasfashiond shrubs, gueld- villa somewhere in the suburbs,. and lives sr roses, golden bloomlilac , arbutus, ac and in a certain style. She has a rush Italian leburnuen. The rooms were small, cosy— Marquis for her banker, and is said to spend furnished with substantial old-fashioned money rather recklessly. I am told- she furniture of the Reform Bill era—clumsy, takes chloral, so there might be a chance ponderous, comfortable. Lady Beldeld far Helen, if SteAustell doesn't get tired of had taken a basket of hot house fiewers to e her too soon. fill all the bevies and vases, and had seen "How heartlessly you talk of your siater." cherry wood fires lighted in all the roomo, " She has ceased to be my slater, I have awl had spread. new megaemea wee peefoei. done with her forever. cede on a table,in the drawing -room, Bo that "Otto would think you had been in love the Coloners'first exclamation on entering with St. Austell, or you. would hardly be so the room was : "This looks like home," bitter." There was a note from Lady Belfield on " Suppose 1 was in love witla him t At the chimney -piece, asking him to diener that any rate, I did. not compromises myself on evening, which he hastened to accept by his adopt:mt. Why mould not Helen take means of e hurried scrawl and the handy boy. Care of herself as I have done ? Could Obe 'there wee no one ab the Abbey but the not like a. man—without throwiiig herself family, and the dinner :was not lively, al - into his arms." though Constance Belfield did all in her "She was less a woman of the world than power to maintain the interest of the con you Leonora. Itris riot every woman who versation. 'There was a dogged gloom in can take care of herself, as you have done, Valentine's manner which repelled confi- end yet amuse herself as well as you do." deuce, aud there was a subdued melancholy • . • . . • • upon Adrian's countenance, which was only A month later, Colonel Deverill opened brightened when he addressed his mother. , , his Titus, on board his Scotch friends' "Val has had one of his Moe days with yacht in the Orkneys, eta started at seeing the foxithunda," said Leidy Belfield, apologe- a line in large type, among the telegraphic fleetly, "so you must not take any notice news, "Cholera at Naples, seventeen of hitt if he is dull," deaths." Colonel Dave:rill was bent upon °omitted- " By Jove," mettered the Colonel, with a ing his Bonen-law', and wad careful to talk thrill of guilty pleatare, "Lady St. Austell of the things Valentine loved, Theyplayed will' vee te ent and run from her Neapolie a couple of games at billiards after dinner, tan V LI." - and talked of the bunting. Valentine was Woe el elm out and tuft? Hardly, unless gloomy, but not illetatured. she were a very foolish. woman. Dire dim " V you care about hunting, we can mount (saws which ravage the narrow streets of a you for two dana a week ell through the city, the Vines and alleys and crowded, seaeou," he said. 'There are plenty of good quarters -where the hard working poor con. 'hunters. My mother ha's beet' very generout re ate—are rarely ;Known to visit subethen to me lately and we have increased the sited. et is the only thing a men can do in this gloomy hole." lees, and eeeing her charms on the wane, " You. find Cloridtord gloomy." told herself and told her husbazul that it "1 alvsays aid, nave tolerated the was now or never, V they were ever to see place because it le my home—it has been life and enjoy the fruita of prosperity, there neeas meat, don't you know—but I believe was not an hour to lotie. I lave alwayis hated it. I'm *ery sure I terged by his "site, therefore, Mr Smith- eould poesibly meets to ady St. A.ustell, hate it nete." ets Dammed the pretomen Digby, bestowed Colima Deverill read the cholera column This seemed teetotal in a meat Who had on hint iti Imptifint be. an. impeetudena halt- with a keerset botereet than other parts of been badly treated. The Colones). patzeed 1 pey capeain, with where Smithiste the elaer the paper, and lied a partleularly sharp eye epee his strike to sigh, ana then meats hie had claimed cottainship. With an almoet forneesa froin Naplee, Cholera was report. cannon neatly) With a subdued air, fcivetieh haste he exchanged BleomeburY for ad all through Southern Italy, as well as at "You have had reason to be set a,eainst gtori-place, and the ow upholstery et Eine- Toulori mid Marseilles; and eery day the place—eately," he odd, deseondemtlye laity Paveittent, for tite ertietie eel:duet work thawed a eew'list of viotima. All the Eng- ana then he dawdlea for & little while as he and Ingle -art arises of Druce. nb bought liah visiters were leaving Naples and its ohalked Ms one, trying to find the beet se river -add ville at Iteartow, atta. a steam vicinity, weirdo itt which to appmech a difficult bah - Rittman Which speedily became a horror to iit last appeared the name for Witicet jeCit. 4‘ You—you , bay° net 'petitioned, ler a,dvantage of Valentine's offer of a mount. He went the round of the stables with Sir Adrian one non -bunting morning, and ex. mined all the horses, and prised some of them; but he would not put himself under an obligation to hie somita-law. "1 don't feel like hunting this winter, for I've had some ugly twitches of gout," he sad; "1 shall wait for le little fishing in the spring, or I may have a shot at the birds on the marches—with your permiesion, Sir Adrian. I think your land runs down as far as the basket maker's cottage." "And for nearly a mile beyond," replied Adrian. LadyBelfield. begged Colonel Demean to drop in at the Abbey whenever he liked. She felt very sorry for him in his solitude : and she felt also that Valentine owed him sorae amends for the evil end that Mid come to his daughter's married life. It bad not been all Helen's fault, The Misband'a ne- glect had to be counted an well as the wife's thatuande yam after year ut ateat the villas pershed high up on the orest of a time had Some when Mts. bmithere, child- flower-scetted hill, with their baoke to the orange groves, and their faces to the sea, leo cholera tools= would pellote the air that blew In at Lady St, Auetell'e Windows. She vvould be safe enough. Notwithstauding this onion that no harm folly. "If Gould, but rem her Lady Sb. Austell before I die, I might go down to the grave itt peace," he said to himself. He had dreams about her in his cottage bed nhataber, billed by the plish-plash of the flowing tide. His sleep was haunted by those distorted visions, in which a vague refieotion of our Bedew waking thoughts is interwoven with the nomonse-pictures o New everthum is lovely and the goose When Edward. III. ascended the throne of England he almost immediately declared war against France, and shortly after pee- p.ared to invade ker territory. But the sinews of war were wanting, and so the monaroh appealed to his loving subjects. English money -bags, however, were not then so plethoric as they have been since, and little coin comparatively was in emula- tion. The people loved their young and valiant king, and the war was a popular Day and nIght, day and night, r live in the dark. wool, which they sent t,o Flanders for see it' Where All The Beggars, Are Rioh. Perhaps the most curious of all guilds in an Oriental town, and one which flourishes exceediugly in Gayeties, is thebeggars' guild. Like other guilds, they have their own lews, their President, and their Coriemile ' this Council, gives a diploma to those whet wish to beg, and without perraiesion one.durst seek alms at the churches', mosques, or steet door* all the legitimate beggars would rise up in arms against him, and hie life would not be worth much. Friday is the reesognized beggars' day, on which day they go round from door to door and get thetre wallets filled with bread and beans ; these are divided by the community' ; nothing is private property ; it is against their creed., The beggars' brotherhood is rick; they possess house property, the income of which is spent for the beeefit of the com- munity, and once a year—on the day of Ms. John the Charitable—they have a feast. They all go to church on this day; it would be diffioult to recognize the tidily dressed members of this honorable community in their beat clothes; rags and tatters are only de riguewr for them wnen they are on their rounds. Beggary pays very well. If a beggar's daughter maxwies she is dower- ed by the comtaunity, the president sees to the betrothal, and his consent is essen; Wel, AtSalonicaBlindDemetriusisthePresi. dent ; he is easily reconized as he parades the streets singing his everlasting wail: Wretch that I am 1 here the world, but I cannot one. The English raised large quantities of manufacture. It was determuaed to devote the wool crop of thatyear towards defray- ing the expenees of the expedition. After the more valuable portion had been used there WO a quentity quite unfit for the I'lemish looms. This was bought up by one Sir Thomas Blanquette, who had it woven into come bat werm material, and patrio- tically presented it to the king as a con- tribution to the comfort of the soldiers and as a covering for the horses of the nobles and knights. This material was maned Blauquette, or ellanquet, for the name of the donor, and we now spell it blanket Female' Tun. The editor said to his wife: "My dear, if you only had a little gumption yea could sit down and help me out by writing a feW funny paragraphs of a miscellaneous charm - ter of afternoons when your housework is off yam' hands. "1 don't suppose I have much of what ed to them prosperous homes, enabling them 1 you call 'gumption,' but there would be no tobehappyand independent, Between Qwe- harip in trying." bee and the lake , lies a Mountainous cowl - Seating herself she dashed off the follow- try full of lakes and rivers, where hunters ing and pained it over to her lord and and fushere and campers -out can be as happy master : 1 as the day is long, if beautiful scenery, fresh "She decorated her room with brio -a -brae cool air, healthy eweroise and good sport Can and pictures and surmounted the whole with make a man happy. It is the region a the her lousbandes photo; then, sitting.down ottittaniceh or landlocked fresh water salmon bi admiration of her work, she exclaimed : and of the big speckled Waite. Through this country the Quebec) and Lake St. John Rail oy has been built, and id now running At the lake are twb Inaimi teeerves, the inhebitante of which, owinglto that hitherto isolated position have °peeped the ("home and vides Whieli moult from in- timate relations with certain ammo of white people. It is to be hoped that the (estate° Selotternment will take steps to peevent these India= being supplied with intoxicating , liquors, or being made vicime of in any way by the whites. The Rev. Father Armand is, it will be seen, very appreshenaive of evil to hie eharge at a result of the opeeing ripe:4th° regiosi by railway, and the eetablithing of tourists' hotel. At present they are a heal- thy, !Mettle, devout people, but, as Father Amnesia Mile, dritelt will undo everything and "mane sure death to the whole rata." And though you know him to be a rtc man, that his wife is well drowsed, and that his daughter will receive& handsome dower, his plea for alms is almost irresistible. The Adirondaoks of Canada. "The Adirondacks of Canada," is the name given byAdirondack Murray, who made the Adirondacka of New York famous, to the Lake St John region. Lake St, John lies about one hundred and forty miles back of the city of Quebec or about ope hundred and twenty nailessupth'eSaguens,y. The region in the vioinity of the lake forms a sort of basin among the mountains which shelter it, and make it possible to grow grain and roots in its rather ecanty soil with moms% Perhaps no clam but the frugal and industrious French-Canadian would regard it as a desirable farming country, while tnillions of acres of fertile land are lying idle in the North-West. To the emigrants from thes surburbs of Quebec it has furnish ed vshat seems rotving inea—but Mee, Smothers wbo heekt Celeste lDenerill Vita bti the witteh. ' Wine ateerco yet, euppoee. 'sleep. He saw her standing at the altar With SeAuetell by her side; but there was always some diecordanb image, something to stop the ceremony before the vows were epoken —or St Austell changed into some bitongruous stranger—or the church Wag not a church—or the parson was not a parson. NO such dream ever Same to a happy ending —ana he bad gush dreams by the sear% "I ghat' go off my head if lead this lonely life Mule longer," he told himself, waking in the dead Of night After one of thole trou- bled visions. "I =tat get Leonora to come and stay with me." eite telegraphed to Mrs. Baddeley next mottling. deepondent aud ill. Vor God's sake aberle atid take ear) of Me." Airs, Baadeley etas far from being perfect, but elle was not a Goneril, and she arrived by the exetress nett day, with iter Russian poo die. (to nit eeettlener),) Never Closed. t‘ Is that 1dr, emithes piece of buelemis ?" " Yea, siv ; but it it <Missed new," "Will it be open ite the morning ?" "No ; but Ida vsife's mouth will." hangs $1, " Ahem, my dear," said the " bOSS ;" "WO do not maul do therm things up exactly in thatstyle. atter 6tic1r to your houses work,' ilia photo hung too high to euit him. • Strmieers Inside the Gates. " glla nay heart with joy," said a country minister, as the last note el the otgett diea a.Wow, "10 tee so many strangers amone us on thie beautiful Sabbath morn- ing. The gool book says ' He was a stran- ger, toia 1 took him in.' The oolleotion will tioW be teken up." The experiment's of tor, leoelater, of, the Remit Society of England, peeve that me - net() gradually depreciates by keepine,eseen =dot very best otanagemeht. It gams in Water wed logos in Maw:Joie organic Matter which is spent la the lerresutation. 11. Mande bo teasone if this be sue, that the otelfeehiened method of turning atid Working Oster Manure far tit menthe befoee tieing is wasteful and to be !molded, unlesse tn tendea for ettnmeset. 'Phen it should be car4. folly packed and sheltered. Nothing to Show But ElOaXih Prod (to churn)—What :luck, Charley ? (loogratultitious in °tiler 1 Charley (faintly) --Fred, she told me that she loved =other. Fred emnpetliziegly) — That's tough, Charley, Atte* fillyour devotion. Charley—Teugh ?Why, Precl, itt the'reist three Meotite hot father's dog has ;bitten me tio leee them Ow= tines.